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Men of Progress 



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Biographical Sketches and Portraits 



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COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF 

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EDITED BY^ 

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BOSTON 

NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE 

1896 



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Copyright, 1893 

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RICHARD HERNDON 



PRESS OF CEO. H ELIIS, 141 FRANKLIN STI 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



PART I. 



ABBOTT, Samuel Appletox Browne, presi- 
dent of the Trustees of the PubHc Library of 
the City of Boston, was born in Lowell, March 6, 
1846, son of Josiah Gardner and Caroline (Liver- 
more) Abbott. On both sides he is of early New 




S. A. B. ABBOTT. 

England ancestry. He is a descendant in the 
eighth generation of George Abbott, an English 
Puritan, who came from Yorkshire in 1640, and 
was one of the settlers of Andover in 1643; 
and, through his paternal grandmother, of the 
Fletchers, also English Puritans, who came from 
Devonshire and settled in Concord, and in 1653 
in Chelmsford. Both of his paternal great-grand- 
fathers were in the battle of Bunker Hill, and 
held commissions in the Continental army. On 
the maternal side he descends from John Liver- 
more, who came from England in 1634, settled 



first in Watertown, thirty years later removed to 
Connecticut, and was one of the signers of the 
fundamental agreement of the colony of New 
Haven, and, returning to Watertown, died there 
in 1685. His maternal great-grandfather, Samuel 
Livermore, was attorney-general for the province 
of New Hampshire, after the Revolution chief 
justice of the State (appointed in 1782), a mem- 
ber of the convocation for the adoption of the 
Federal Constitution, a representative in the first 
Congress, and later a senator and president 
of the Senate pro tan. for nine years ; and his 
maternal grandfather, Edward St. Loe Liver- 
more, was United States district attorney (ap- 
pointed by Washington), a justice of the Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire (appointed in 1798), 
and a member of Congress for three terms. 
His father. Judge Josiah G. Abbott, one of the 
foremost members of the Massachusetts bar, 
served in the General Court, was a member of 
the Constitutional Convention of 1853, justice of 
the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk from 
1S55 to 1858, when he resigned (and two years 
later declined a place on the bench of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court), a representative in Con- 
gress in 1876-77, and a member of the Electoral 
Commission of 1877, the leader of the minority of 
that commission, preparing the address of the 
minority to the people of the LTnited States, 
which, though approved, was not issued. Samuel 
A. B. Abbott was educated in the public schools 
and at Harvard. His early education was ac- 
quired in the Lowell public schools and in the 
Boston Latin School ; and he was fitted for col- 
lege by Professor Lane, of Harvard. He entered 
Harvard as a sophomore, and graduated in 1866, 
in 1869 receiving the degree of A.M. In college 
he was president of the Hasty Pudding Club 
and of the Med. Fac, also a member of the 
Porcellian Club, the D. K. E. and the A. D. 
clubs; and he rowed in the university crews in 
1864. After graduating he studied law in the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



office of his father, and was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1868. Subsequently, in 1876, he 
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of 
the United States. He has practised in Boston 
since his admission to the bar, and also in the 
United States courts, circuit, district, and su- 
preme. He has twice conducted successfully con- 
tested election cases before Congress, — that of 
Josiah G. Abbott in 1867 and that of Benjamin 
Dean against the present Chief Justice Field in 
1878. He is president of the Hill Manufacturing 
Company of Lewiston, Me., succeeding his father 
in that position, and a director of the Atlantic 
Cotton Mills at Lawrence, of the Franklin Com- 
pany of Lewiston, of the Union Water Power 
Ctjmpany of Lewiston, of which his father was 
the principal promoter, and of the Peterborough 
Railroad. His public service, with the exception 
of a term on the Board of License Commissioners 
in Boston in 1877, has been as a trustee of the 
Boston Public Library, which position he has 
held since 1879, president of the board since 
May, 1888. For several years he was acting 
librarian of the library. He is identified with the 
construction and embellishment of the new Public 
Library Building on Copley Square, the whole 
control of the erection of this monumental edifice 
having been placed, at the beginning of the work 
in 1887, in the hands of the trustees. In politics 
Mr. Abbott is a Democrat. In 1883, when Gen- 
eral Butler was nominated by the Democratic 
party the second time for governor of the State, 
he was nominated for lieutenant governor ; but he 
declined to run on the same ticket with Butler. 
In 1862 he was a member of the New England 
Guards. He is a member of the Suffolk Bar 
Association, of the Somerset, St. Botolph, and 
Athletic clubs of Boston, and of the Century, 
University, and Players' clubs of New York. He 
was married first, April 21, 1869, to Miss Mary 
Goddard, of Boston, of which union there were 
no children; and second, October 15, 1873, to 
Miss Abby Frances Woods, of Providence. R.I. 
They have four children : Helen Francis, Mad- 
eleine Livermore, Ann Francis and Caroline 
Livermore Abbott. Mr. Abbott's country resi- 
dence is at Wellesley Hills, and his town house 
on the Back Bay, Boston. 



boys, under the long familiar iiom df pliimt of 
" Oliver Optic," is a native of Medway, born July 
30, 1822, son of Laban and Catharine (Johnson) 
Adams. His father was also a native of Medway ; 
and his mother was a Vermonter, born in Chester. 
His pedigree is traced back to Thomas Ap Adam, 
who came out of " The Marches of Wales " in 
the eighth century : from him descended Henry 




ADAMS, William T.avlor, author and editor, 
the most prolific writer of the age of stories for 



W. T. ADAMS. 

Adams, who, escaping from the "Green Dragon 
Persecution," came from Devonshire, England, 
to this country in 1630, with several sons, from 
one of whom, settled in that part of Braintree 
now Quincy, came the two Presidents, Samuel 
Adams, and other worthies, and from another, 
settled in Medfield (part of which became Med- 
way), came Laban, " Oliver Optic's " father. 
Laban Adams was first a farmer, then an inn- 
keeper, and again a farmer. He was some time 
landlord of the " \'illage Hotel " in Medway and 
of the "Washington Coffee House" in Boston, 
near where the Transcript newspaper office now 
stands, and the year of the birth of William T. 
he kept the famous old '• Lamb Tavern '' of Bos- 
ton, dating from 1745, which stood on the site 
of the present Adams House. Here the boy 
lived until well into his teens, helping his father 
about the tavern and attending school, part of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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time the Adams Grammar School,-- tlie school- 
house then on Mason Street, where the lioston 
School Board's building now is, — and later the 
private school of Amos Baker, at the head of Har- 
vard Place, famous in its da)-. In 183S the elder 
Adams leased the " Lamb," which he had pur- 
chased about the year 1834, and moved his fam- 
ily to a farm in West Roxbury. \^■illialn '['. went 
to work on the farm and to public school in the 
winter, applying himself to both occupations with 
such enthusiasm and zeal that he soon became 
an e.xcellent farmer and a fine scholar. In school 
he led his class in various studies, but especially 
excelled in composition. His first effort covered 
eight letter pages, and the schoolmaster pro- 
nounced it the best composition he had ever 
looked over ; the second covered twenty-five 
pages ; the third, eighty. He frequently sat up 
all night in his room, when his parents supposed 
he was a-bed, with his overcoat and gloves on, 
writing compositions. In this same school, when 
he was about eighteen years of age, he was made 
an assistant teacher, without pay. Subsequently 
he continued his studies under a private in- 
structor till he reached twenty. Then he taught 
a month as a substitute in the school in Dorches- 
ter now known as the Harris Grammar School, 
and the following year, 1843, was appointed prin- 
cipal of the school. In this capacity he served 
for three years with marked success, the commit- 
tee in its report commending his school as " one 
of the best, if not the very best, at present in 
town." From school-teaching, after a somewhat 
extensive trip in Northern and Southern States, 
he re-entered the hotel business, Joining his father, 
under the firm name of L. & W. T. Adams, in the 
conduct of the first Adams House, which I^aban 
Adams had built in 1844-46 in place of the old 
Lamb Tavern. But as a hotel-keeper he was not 
successful, and two years later found him again 
a school-teacher, — usher in the Boylston Gram- 
mar School, Fort Hill, Boston. Subsequently he 
became submaster and in i860 master of this 
school. Then he was transferred to the Bowditch 
School for Girls, and continued at its head till 
1865, when he resigned, at the urgent request of 
Messrs. Lee &: Shepard, his publishers, to devote 
his time entirely to story-writing. Mr. Adams 
published his first article at nineteen, — an extract 
from one of his school compositions, printed in 
the Social Monitor; and before he retired from 
school-teaching he had written and published 



over eight hundred stories, varying in length from 
one newspaper column to a serial of seventy col- 
umns. His first story, a temperance tale, was 
written while he was a teacher in Dorchester, and 
quickly followed by a second, both of which ap- 
peared in the \Vashiii«;toniiui in 1845. His first 
"pay-matter" was a story entitled "The Marriage 
Contract," written in six hours, and published in 
the True Flag in 1852, for which he received $6. 
His first book was a story called " Hatchie, the 
Guardian Slave," its scenes laid in New Orleans 
and on the Mississippi from notes taken during 
a trip South in 1848, published in 1854, for which 
he was paid $37.50; and the first of his series of 
books for boys was written in 1854, when he was 
teaching in the Fort Hill school. His earlier 
stories, most of which were published in the 
True Flag, appeared over a variety of signatures, 
— "Irving Brown," appended to the love stories, 
"Clingman Hunter, M.D.," to sketches of travel, 
" Oliver Optic " to domestic stories, and " Old 
Stager," "A Retired Attorney." "Man of the 
World," and others used indiscriminately, never 
using his real name. The nom dc pliiDtc of 
"Oliver Optic" first appeared in 185 1 with an 
M.D. and "Member of the Mutual .Admiration 
Society" attached, signed to a doggerel poem 
which he wrote for the Bromfield Lyceum, and 
subsequently published in the Flag of Our Union. 
It was suggested by a character under the name 
of "Dr. Optic," in a new play, "written by a 
gentleman of Boston," then running at the Boston 
Museum, which took Mr. Adams's fancy. He 
added to it the alliterative prefix of "Oliver," and 
appended it to his short domestic stories, which 
were produced with great rapidity, and were 
copied by story papers all over the country. It 
soon became too popular to drop. The " Oliver 
Optic " juvenile works, from which Mr. Adams's 
wide reputation has come, were indirectly the 
result of the success of his first book, " Hatchie." 
In 1852 F. Ormond O. J. Bazin, who had been 
a clerk in the bookstore of B. B. Muzzy & Co., 
the publishers of " Hatchie," having become a 
member of the firm of Brown, Bazin & Co., sent 
a mutual friend to him to say that the writer of 
that book could furnish the book with which the 
new firm would be willing to begin business. He 
suggested a collection of his "Optic" domestic 
stories, with a few new ones added ; and, this 
being accepted, in due time " In Doors and Out " 
appeared, and was a success. Then the firm 



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MEN OP' PROGRESS. 



called for a juvenile Ixxik. Mr. Adams at first 
declared that he could not produce it, hn\ing 
never attempted such work ; but he finally yielded 
to the pressure of the publishers, and "The Boat 
Club " was the result. The first half of the story 
went to the type-setters before the last half had 
been begun by the author, but -copy" was fur- 
nished as rapidly as it was required. The book 
was an emphatic success. The next year " All 
Abroad," the sequel to it, appeared ; and others 
followed in rapid succession. Frequently Mr. 
Adams had several series under way at the same 
time; and during the ten years following the 
publication of his first juvenile, when he was 
engaged in his regular duties as a school-teacher 
and doing his share as a public-spirited citizen, 
he produced from two to six volumes a year. 
From the firm of Brown, Bazin & Co., which was 
not successful, Mr. .\dams's books passed to the 
house of Phillips, Sampson & Co.; and soon after 
the foundation of the house of Lee & .Shepard, 
in 1S62, the latter became his publishers, its first 
publishing investment being the purchase of the 
stereotype plates of the " Boat Club " stories 
(six volumes of them) and the " Riverdale " 
series, which it reissued in new editions. From 
that time to the present Lee & Shepard have 
been the sole publishers of Mr. Adams's volumes. 
They were also the projectors of OUtci- Optic's 
Magazine, Our Boys and Girls, started in 1867, 
and continued for nine years under the editorial 
supervision of Mr. Adams, — his second experi- 
ence as an editor, having previously, for nearly 
ten years, had charge of the Student and Sclund- 
matc. In 1880 he became editor of Oar Little 
Ones, that year started, now Our Little Ones and 
the Nursery : and since the establishment of the 
JVkole Family, in 1893, he has been juvenile 
editor of that periodical. Including the bound 
volumes of the magazines which he has edited, 
the name of "Oliver Optic" now stands (1894) 
on the title-pages of one hundred and twenty-five 
books, and more are under way. The list em- 
braces the following : 1852, Hatchie and In Doors 
and Out, domestic stories for adult readers; 1855- 
60, The Boat Club Stories, 6 vols.; 1854-66, 
Student and ScJuwl mate (magazine), 9 vols.; i86o. 
The Riverdale Stories, 12 vols.; 1865, A Spell- 
ing-book for Advanced Classes; 1863-66, The 
Woodville Stories, 6 vols.; 1864-66, The Army 
and Navy Stories, 6 vols. ; 1866, The Way of the 
World, a novel for adults; 1866-69, Young 



America Abroad, first series, 6 vols.; 1867-75, 
Oliver Optic's Magazine, 9 vols.; 1867-68, The 
Starry Flag Series, 6 vols.; 1869, Our Standard 
Bearer, i vol. ; 1869-70, The Lake Shore Series, 
6 vols.; 1870-72, The Onward and Upward 
Series, 6 vols.; 1871-77, Young America Abroad, 
second series, 6 vols.; 1872-75, The Yacht Club 
Series, 6 vols.; 1875-81, The Great Western 
Series, 6 vols. ; 1876, Living Too Fast (for adult 
readers), i vol.; 1877, History of Union Lodge, 
Dorchester, i vol.; 1880-92, Our Utile Ones, 13 
vols.; 1882-85, The Boat Builder Series, 6 vols.; 
1889-93, The Blue and Gray Series, Navy; new 
series. The Blue and Gray, Army, begun 1893, 
2 vols, written, but not published ; The All-over- 
the-World Series, 8 vols., 2 not yet published. 
For all of his books Mr. Adams's preparation 
has been most thorough. The voyage of the 
" Young America " in the " Young America 
Abroad " series, for instance, was properly drawn 
out in red ink on the chart of the North .\tlantic 
before the writing of the story was begun ; and, 
to insure accuracy of description in the twelve 
books of this series, he made two trips to Europe, 
visiting every country, and sailing the seas and 
rivers within its boundaries. Before he wrote 
the " Lake Shore " series he made a special trip 
to the lake and surrounding country. For the 
" Army and Navy " series he consulted old sailors 
and soldiers. He has been to Evirope nine times, 
twice to Nassau and the south side of Cuba, has 
visited nearly every State in the United States 
and the British Provinces, and sailed on the large 
rivers and great lakes. In the library of his 
house in the Dorchester District of Boston he 
has, besides about three thousand books, mostly 
consulted in his work, large numbers of maps, 
charts, diagrams, and plans ; and, adjoining his 
house, he has a workshop well stocked with tools 
and machinery, in which he has himself worked 
out many of the things described in the " Boat 
Builder " series and other books. Mr. Adams 
served one year (1868) in the General Court as a 
representative for Dorchester, declining a re-elec- 
tion, and for fourteen years was a member of the 
school committees, four years of that of Dorches- 
ter immediately preceding the annexation of the 
town to Boston (1870), and ten years immediately 
following, of the Boston board. For about twenty 
years he was either teacher or superintendent of 
the Sunday-school of the Dorchester First Church. 
He belongs to the Masonic order, and for three 



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years was master of the Union Lodge ; and he 
is a member of the ( )ld Dorchester Club, of the 
Massachusetts Yacht Club (honorary member, an 
original member of the Dorchester Yacht Club, 
which became the Massachusetts Yacht Club), 
and of the Boston Press Club. In politics he has 
been a Republican from the origin of the party, 
with Independent tendencies. His first vote was 
for Henry Clay, and he was a Whig as long as 
the party existed. In 1884 he was a "Mug- 
wump," and supported Cleveland's first term ; 
but in 1892 he voted the national Republican 
ticket, and also the Republican ticket in State 
elections. Mr. Adams was married in October, 
1846, to Miss Sarah Jenkins, of Dorchester. She 
died March 7, 1885. Their children were : Ellen 
Frances (died at the age of eighteen months), 
Alice (now the wife of Sol Smith Russell, the 
comedian), and Emma (wife of George W. White, 
of the Suffolk bar, died May 25, 1884). With 
the exception of about six months in Minneapolis 
(1887 ), where his daughter, Mrs. Sol Smith Russell, 
made her home, he has resided in Dorchester 
since 1843. 



he was a leader, and served on the important 
committees on tiie judiciary, on public service, 
mercantile affairs (chairman), liquor laws, rules, 
and bills in the third reading ; and as mayor of 
Cambridge he was re-elected for his second term 
unanimously, on the record of his first. From 
1884 to 1892 he was a member of the Democratic 
State Committee, its secretary for four years, 
and on the finance and executive committees ; he 
served also for some time on the Democratic Con- 
gressional and county committees: and in 188S 
he was a delegate to the National Democratic 




.'XLGER, Alpheus Brown, member of the bar, 
mayor of the city of Cambridge for two years, 
was born in Lowell, October 8, 1854, son of 
Edwin A. and Amanda (Busw-ell) Alger. On the 
paternal side he is descended from Thomas .\lger 
who settled in Bridgewater in 1665. He attended 
the public schools of Lowell, and was there 
prepared for college, entering Harvard in 187 1, 
from which he graduated in 1875. The same 
year he entered the Harvard Law School, and a 
year later continued his law studies in the office 
of Judge Josiah G. Abbott, of Boston. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1877, and began practice 
in Boston, in association with his father's firm. 
Brown & Alger, continuing his residence in Cam- 
bridge, to which city the family had moved during 
his first year in college. He early took an in- 
terest in politics. In 1878 he became a member 
of the Democratic city committee of Cambridge, 
was made its secretary, and subsequently its 
chairman ; and his connection with the organiza- 
tion was continued unbroken until 1891, his first 
year in the maj'oralty. In 1884 he was a member 
of the Cambridge Board of .Vldermen ; in 1886 
and 1887 a State senator; and in 1S91 and 1892 
mayor of the city of Cambridge. In the Senate 




A. B. ALGER. 

Convention at St. Louis. He belongs to a num- 
ber of fraternal orders, — is a member of the Ami- 
cable Lodge, Free Masons, Boston Commandery ; 
of the Ponemah Tribe Improved Order of Red 
Men (of which order he was a great sachem in 
1891, and a great representative to the council 
held in Atlanta, Ga., in 1892); of St. Omer 
Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; of Aleppo Temple, 
Order of Mystic Shrine ; and of the Haymakers. 
Among the social organizations with which he is 
connected are the Central Club, of Somerville, the 
Arlington Boat Club, and the Bay State of Mas- 
sachusetts (Democratic dining club), of which he 
is secretary and treasurer. From 189 1 to 1892 
he was chairman of the Board of Harvard Bridge 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Commissioners, and was a member of the Charles 
River Improvement Commission, estabhshed by 
act of the Legishiture of 1891. He is unmarried. 



AMES, Frederick Lothrop, capitaHst, dis- 
tinguished especially in American railroad enter- 
prises, was born in Easton, June 8, 1835, son of 
Oliver, 2d, and Sarah (Lothrop) Ames; died Sep- 
tember 16, 1893. He was a lineal descendant of 
William Ames, who came to Massachusetts from 
Bruton, in the shire of Somerset, England, about 
the year 1635, and settled in Braintree ; was 
great-grandson of Captain John Ames, who began 
the making of shovels in West Bridgewater about 
1773 ; and grandson of Captain John's son Oliver, 
who learned his trade at his father's forge, and in 
1803 established in North Easton the works and 
firm which in later years attained wide reputation 
under the name of Oliver Ames & Sons. Of 
these sons, Oliver, 2d, the father of Frederick L., 
and Oakes Ames were the best known from their 
prominence in railroad development and in the 
building of the Union Pacific. The mother of 
Frederick L. was the daughter of Hon. Howard 
Lothrop, of Easton, who had served in the Massa- 
chusetts Senate, and in various other official posi- 
tions, and sister of the Hon. George Van Ness 
Lothrop, United States minister to Russia during 
the first administration of President Cleveland. 
Frederick L. Ames received his early education 
at Concord, was fitted for college at Phillips 
(Exeter) Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 
the class of 1854. In his youth he had a strong 
inclination towards the law, but, in accordance 
with his father's wishes, soon after graduation he 
entered the family business at North Easton. 
Beginning as a clerk in the office, he secured pro- 
motions from grade to grade, according to the 
rules which prevailed in the establishment, and 
after several years' service as a subordinate was 
placed in charge of the accountant's department, 
where he displayed marked business ability. In 
his twenty-eighth year, by the death of his grand- 
father ( 1863), he became a member of the firm. 
In 1876, when the firm was reorganized under the 
title of the Oliver Ames & Sons Corporation, he 
was made treasurer, and soon after succeeded his 
father as the official and actual head of that great 
manufacturing concern. Before the death of his 
father, which occurred in 1877, he had invested 
extensively in Western railroads; and, while he 



was still comparatively a young man. he was 
a director in the Union Pacific, the Chicago & 
Northwestern, the Missouri Pacific, and the 
Texas Pacific, and had gradually diverted his in- 
terest from manufacturing to railroads. Subse- 
quently, while retaining his interest in the factory 
of his ancestors and continuing as treasurer of the 
corporation, he extended and enlarged his rail- 




FRED. L. AMES. 

road operations, and became conspicuous among 
the foremost men of the railroad world. He was 
universally conceded to be one of the best in- 
formed men in .\merican railroad business, and 
one of the best judges of the value, quality, re- 
sources, and possibilities of railway property. At 
the time of his death he was vice-president of the 
Old Colony Railroad, a director in the Old Col- 
ony Steamboat Company, and director in a great 
number of other railroad companies in various 
parts of the country, including the following : the 
Atchison, Colorado &: Pacific; Atchison, Jewell 
County & \\'estern ; Boulder Valley & Central 
City \\'agon Road ; Carbon Cut-off Company ; 
Central Branch Union Pacific ; Chicago & North- 
western ; Colorado Western ; Denver, Leadville 
& Gunnison ; Denver Union & Terminal ; Echo & 
Park City; Fall River, \\'arren & Providence ; the 
Fitchburg system ; Fort Worth &: Denver City ; 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Gray's Peak, Snake River .S; Leadvillc ; Golden, 
Boulder & Caribou ; Junction City eS: Fort Kear- 
ney ; Kansas Central ; Kansas City iS; Omaha ; 
Laramie, North Park & Pacific Railroad & Tele- 
graph Company; Lawrence & Emporia ; Leaven- 
worth, Topeka & Southwestern ; Loveland Pass 
Mining &: Railroad Tunnel Company ; Manhattan, 
Alma & Burlingame ; Montana Union ; Montana 
Railway ; North Park & Grand River Valley Rail- 
road & Telegraph ; Omaha & Elkhorn Valley ; 
Omaha & Republican Valley ; Oregon Railway & 
Navigation Company; Oregon Railway Extensions 
Company ; Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern ; 
Providence, Warren & Bristol ; St. Joseph & 
Grand Island ; Salina & Southwestern ; Solomon ; 
Union Pacific ; Union Pacific, Lincoln & Colo- 
rado ; Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf ; Washington 
& Idaho ; Walla Walla & Columbia River. He 
was also largely interested in other important en- 
terprises and in numerous financial institutions. 
He was a director of the Western Union Tele- 
graph Company, the General Electric Company, 
the New England Trust Company, the Old Colony 
Trust Company, the Bay State Trust Company, 
the American Loan & Trust Company, and the 
Mercantile Trust Company of New York; and 
president of the Hoosac Tunnel Dock & Elevator 
Company, of the First National Bank of North 
Easton, and of the North Easton Savings Bank. 
He was the largest owner of real estate in Boston, 
and as a client of the late H. H. Richardson exer- 
cised a marked influence for improvement upon 
the business architecture of the city. The most 
substantial monument of his work in this direc- 
tion is the lofty tower-like Ames Building, on 
the corner of Court and Washington Streets, de- 
signed by Richardson's successors, a rich and 
original example of the great office structures that 
now characterize the leading American cities. In 
his various business operations and great under- 
takings he neglected no details which ought to 
occupy his attention, his business habits were 
most methodical, his judgment was clear, cool, 
and sound, and his probity unquestioned. Mr. 
Ames was a liberal patron of the arts as well as 
an eminent business man, and possessed decided 
literary and intellectual tastes. In his winter 
home in Boston he had a superb collection of 
paintings, including two fine portraits by Rem- 
brandt, dated 1632, and valuable examples of 
Millet, Rousseau, Troyon, Diaz, Daubigny, Corot, 
and others ; rich tapestries, jades, and crystals, 



among the latter the largest known. From early 
life he was deeply interested in horticulture, and 
for nearly thirty years was an active member of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, long one 
of its vice-presidents and a member of its finance 
committee. His collection of orchids, at his 
country home in North Easton, one of the most 
e-xtensive and beautiful estates in New England, 
surpasses all other collections of these plants in 
the country, and in number, variety, and condition 
has no superior. His love of nature was real and 
profound ; and his exact and comprehensive knowl- 
edge of the plants in which he was particularly 
interested gave him an international reputation 
among orchidologists, and many rare orchids have 
been named for him. His large greenhouses, 
with their wealth of horticultural beauty, were 
freely opened by him, not only to the residents of 
North Easton, but to visitors from far and near. 
His interest in rural economy was active, and for 
many years he was a trustee of the Massachusetts 
Society for Promoting Agriculture. In politics 
Mr. Ames was originally a Whig, but later be- 
came a Republican. He never cherished polit- 
ical aspirations, and was disinclined to enter 
public life. In 1872, during his absence from the 
State and without his knowledge, he was nomi- 
nated for the State Senate, and much against his 
will was elected. During his term he served on 
the committees on manufactures and on agricult- 
ure, and was influential in legislation. In relig- 
ion he was a LInitarian, taking an active part in 
the affairs of the church at North Easton and of 
the First Church in Boston ; and he was one 
of the most generous givers to denominational 
work and institutions. He was, too, a liberal con- 
tributor to charitable enterprises, and personally 
devoted much time and money to benevolent 
undertakings. He was president of the Home 
for Incurables, and a trustee of the New England 
Children's Hospital, of the Massachusetts General 
Hospital, and of the McLean Insane Asylum. 
He was also much concerned in the work of the 
Kindergarten for the Blind, connected with the 
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for 
the Blind. He was warmly devoted to the wel- 
fare of Harvard University, especially interested 
in the Arnold Arboretum and the Botanical De- 
partment, the usefulness of which was greatly ex- 
tended through his liberality. At the time of his 
death he was one of the Fellows and trustee 
of Harvard College. His devotion to his native 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



town is displaced in the beautiful arcliitectural 
additions wliich lie made to it. With his ni'ither 
and sister he largely increased the bequest left by 
his father to build, equip, and endow a public 
library there, and, employing Richardson as archi- 
tect, built the present structure, one of the most 
beautiful library buildings in the country; and the 
railroad station, also of Richardson's design, was 
erected at his expense for the adornment of the 
village. Mr. Ames was married June 7, i860, 
to Miss Rebecca Caroline Jilair, only child of 
James Blair, of St. Louis, Mo. They had si.x 
children, of whom five are now living : Helen 
.\ngier (now the wife of Robert C. Hooper, of 
Boston), Oliver (married to Elise A. West, of 
Boston), Mary Shreve, Lothrop, and John Stanley 
Ames. 



financially and otherwise to its support and suc- 
cess. In his fourteenth j-ear, the one in which 
he w'as to be graduated from the grammar school, 
he was obliged, by the severe illness of his father, 






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ARMSTRONG, George Washington, founder 
of the Armstrong Transfer Company, Boston, and 
proprietor of the consolidated news and restau- 
rant business on New England railroad systems, 
is a native of Boston, born August 11, 1836, son 
of David and Mahalia (Lovering) Armstrong. 
He is of Scotch and Pilgrim blood. On the pa- 
ternal side he is an offshoot of the Scotch clan of 
Armstrong, who dwelt near Gilnockie, Cannobie, 
Castleton, and adjacent parishes in the Lowlands 
of Scotland known as the " Debateable Country," 
and near the English border. His ancestors emi- 
grated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and 
from thence to the Londonderry Settlement in 
New Hampshire. He is a direct descendant of 
Charter Robert Armstrong, one of the original 
settlers in the Londonderry Settlement, and one 
of its proprietors June 21, 1722. On the maternal 
side he is a descendant of a brother of the Puri- 
tan, Governor Edward Winslow. The home of 
his paternal ancestors has been for several gen- 
erations in that portion of the original township 
of Londonderry, N.H., known as Windham since 
1742 ; and of that place his father was a native. 
His father came to Boston in 1825, and worked at 
ship-building. In 1S50 he fell seriously ill, and 
died in the autumn of 1851, leaving a small es- 
tate. George W. Armstrong was educated in the 
public schools of Boston, and was one of the boys 
of the "Old Hawes Grammar School." Of this 
school he entertains many pleasant recollections ; 
and in the deliberations and proceedings of its 
"Association," of which he is a member, he has 
always taken an active part, and has contributed 




GEO. W. ARMSTRONG. 

to leave his studies, and was thrown largely upon 
his own resources. He first began his work as a 
"penny postman," the forerunner of the letter 
carrier of to-day, his district being the whole of 
South Boston. Next he was office boy for the 
South Boston Gazette and the Sunday News, local 
journals then existing; and then he was newsboy 
on State Street. In March of 1852 he became 
a newsboy on the old Boston & Worcester Rail- 
road, now of the Boston & Albany line, where he 
continued about nine years. The last year and a 
half of that time he was in the employ of the com- 
pany in various capacities, principally as baggage 
master, sleeping-car conductor, and as conductor 
on the regular trains. Then he became manager 
of the news business on the line. In 1863 he 
had become half-owner of the news-room in the 
Boston station of the Boston & Albany Railroad, 
and also of the restaurant there. In eight years 
he was sole proprietor, and was extending his 
interest in this branch along the line of the road ; 
and his newsboys were upon every train. In 
1869 he purchased the news business of the 



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Fitchburg Railroad. His work broadened out, 
and enlarged so that in 1875 his operations ex- 
tended over the old Eastern Railroad, and he 
had become proprietor of the restaurants and 
news-rooms in the Boston station, at Portsmouth, 
Wolfeboro, N.H., and Portland, Me. His busi- 
ness on the lioston & Albany Road then included 
the restaurants and news-rooms of the stations at 
South Franiingham, Palmer, and Pittsfield. Sub- 
sequently his control was extended over the entire 
restaurant and news business of the Boston & 
Albany, of the Eastern Division of the Boston & 
Maine, and of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, 
part of the dining business on the Old Colony, 
and all of the news business on the Fitchburg 
Railroad ; and to his system has recently been 
added the news business on the Western Division 
of the Boston & Maine Railroad. While the 
business interests of Mr. Armstrong have been 
large and widely extended, as has been shown, 
they have not been confnied to one department. 
Indeed, his life has been full of activities. He 
developed the enterprise now represented by the 
well-known "Armstrong Transfer Company'' of 
Boston, which dates from iiS65, when he pur- 
chased " icing's Baggage F>xpress," and organ- 
ized the business on a systematic and substan- 
tial basis. The plan of checking baggage from 
one station to another to accommodate railway 
passengers was introduced with other features, 
and a line of passenger carriages and transfer 
coaches was added as part of the system. This 
company was incorporated in 1882, with Mr. 
Armstrong as its president, and Charles W. Sher- 
burne treasurer. He is also a member of the 
Board of Directors of the Worcester, Nashua & 
Rochester Railroad, and of that of the Manches- 
ter & Lawrence Railroad ; and he is a large 
shareholder in each. Though he cannot be 
called a club man, Mr. Armstrong is a member of 
several associations, among them being the Bos- 
tonian Society, of which he is a life member, the 
Scotch-Irish Society of America, the Beacon So- 
ciety of Boston, and other associations. He mar- 
ried December 10, 1868, Miss Louise Marston, of 
Bridgewater, N.H., who died February 17, 1880. 
Their children were Mabelle, born February 21, 
1870, and Louise, born October 22, 187 1, died 
December 22, 1876. He married secondly, De- 
cember 12, 1882, Miss Flora E., daughter of Dr. 
Reuben Greene, of Boston. Their children are : 
Ethel, born June 7, 1884, and George Robert. 



born December 10, 1888. His home was in 
Boston from his birth until 1875. when he pur- 
chased an attractive estate in lirookline, where he 
has since lived. 



B.\ILEY, Andrew Jackson, city solicitor of 
Boston, is a native of Charlestown, born July 18, 
1840, son of Barker and Alice (.Ayers) Bailey. 
He was educated in the Charlestown public 
schools, and at Harvard in the class of 1863. 
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he en- 
listed, April 16, 1 86 1, in the Charlestown City 
Guards, then Company K, Fifth Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, and was in the first battle of 
Bull Run. At the close of this term of service 
he returned to college. Enlisting again in 1864, 
he was commissioned second lieutenant, Com- 
pany H, Fifth Regiment. At the close of the 
war he studied law with Hutchins & Wheeler of 
Boston, and afterwards with John W. Pettingill 
of Charlestown ; and was admitted to the bar in 
1867. From 1866 to 1871 he was clerk of the 




A. J. BAILEY. 



police court in Charlestown; in 1868 and 1869 
a member of the Charlestown Connnon Council, 
president of that body the latter year ; from 1869 
to 1872 a member of the Charlestown School 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Board: in 1871-72-73 a representative from 
Charlestown in the lower house of the Legislat- 
ure; in 1874 a member of the Senate ; after the 
annexation of Charlestown to Boston a member 
of the Boston Common Council nearly two terms 
(1880-81), its president the second term until 
November, 1881, when he resigned and was 
elected city solicitor, which office he has since 
held continuously by election or appointment. 
When a member of the House of Representatives, 
he served on the committees on probate and 
chancery, elections, and mercantile affairs (chair- 
man of the last two) ; and, when in the Senate, 
he was a member of the committees on Hoosac 
Tunnel, prominently identified in the legislation 
which resulted in the acquisition of the tunnel 
by the Fitchburg Railroad, and chairman of the 
committee on labor matters, reporting the first 
bill passed by the Legislature regulating the em- 
ployment of women and children in manufactur- 
ing establishments. He is the author of a large 
amount of important Massachusetts statute law. 
Mr. Bailey is prominently connected with the 
Masonic order and a number of associations and 
clubs. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Commandery of the Loyal Legion ; a member of 
the Grand Army, for two years judge advocate 
of the department of Massachusetts ; a charter 
member of Faith Lodge of Free Masons, a mem- 
ber of the Hugh de Payen Commandery; a mem- 
ber of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; 
and of the Art, Athletic, and Suffolk clubs of 
Boston. He was one of the promoters of the 
Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, and has been 
on the Board of Trustees since its incorpora- 
tion. Mr. Bailey married in January iS6g, 
Miss Abby V. Getchell, daughter of John and 
Hannah Getchell, of Charlestown. 



the brokerage business in Boston, establishing the 
firm of Ballou tV- Mifflin, which, during the Civil 
War period and subsequently, did a large and 
profitable trade. In i86g he was elected vice- 



BALLOU, MuRR.^v Rdukkts, chairman of 
the Boston Stock Exchange, was born in Boston, 
July 21, 1840, only son of Maturin M. and Mary 
Ann (Robert.s) Ballou. He comes of Huguenot 
stock. His grandfather was the eminent Univer- 
salist minister, Hosea Ballou, who was called the 
"father of modern Universalism " ; and his father 
is the well-known author of numerous books of 
travel, and founder of several successful periodi- 
cals. He was educated in Boston, in the iJixwell 
schools, and at Harvard College, graduating from 
the latter in 1862. After graduation he entered 




M. R. BALLOU. 

president of the Stock Exchange, and the next 
year president ; and since that time he has been 
the presiding officer, having been annually re- 
elected president until 188S, when that office was 
made honorar}-, as it is in New \ork, and there- 
after chairman, the office at the same time created. 
Mr. Ballou was married December, 1863, to Miss 
Lucretia B. Howland, daughter of James How- 
land, of New Bedford. They have four children : 
Maturin Howland, Elise Murray, Franklin Bur- 
gess, and Mabel Ballou. 



BARRE'lT, William Emerson, manager of 
the Boston Daily Advertiser and the ETeiiiiii^ 
Reeon/, and for five consecutive years speaker of 
the House of Representatives, is a native of Mel- 
rose, born December 29, 1858, son of .\ugustus 
and Sarah (P^merson) Barrett. He was educated 
in Melrose public schools, the High School of 
Claremont, N.H., where his father was engaged in 
manufacturing and the family lived for some 
years, and at Dartmouth College, graduating from 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the latter in 1880. Choosing as his profession 
journalism, at which he had tried his hand on the 
college paper and in other directions while an 
undergraduate, he found a place in the editorial 
office of the Alesscngcr of St. .Mbans, \'t., soon 
after graduation, and there worked in various ca- 
pacities for two years, occasionally contributing 
news-letters, and despatches to New York papers. 
In r882 he was given a position as correspond- 
ent on the staff of the Daily Advertiser in Bos- 
ton, and, after a preliminary trial as the Ad- 
vertiser " special " in the early autumn campaign 
in Maine, was assigned to the Washington office of 
the paper, where he was established as its regular 
correspondent. In this line of journalistic work 
he rapidly developed, early taking rank among 
the most active men of " Newspaper Row." As 
a news-gatherer, he was alert, prompt, enterpris- 
ing; and his frequent note and comment on men 
and things in and about Congress were always 
bright and often brilliant. During the national 
campaign of 1884, when the Advertiser had be- 
come an independent journal, and was opposing 
the election of Mr. Blaine, he was assigned to 
special service in certain " doubtful " States in 
the West ; and his letters and despatches then 
published were among the most important and 
interesting contributions to the literature of that 
memorable canvass. Although himself a stanch 
Republican, he was given a free hand, his instruc- 
tions being to state the situation as he found it, 
regardless of the editorial attitude of the paper ; 
and this he did with remarkable frankness and 
accuracy. .At another time, while holding his 
position at Washington, he served as clerk of the 
special congressional committee to investigate the 
so-called Copiah, Mississippi, outrages. In Jan- 
uary, 1886, the ownership of the Advertiser 
changed, and it again became a Republican party 
paper, the managers who had conducted it as 
an independent journal withdrawing ; and in June 
of that year, the paper then being without a head, 
Mr. Barrett was recalled from Washington to the 
home office, and placed in editorial charge. 
Within a year he became the publisher as well as 
the editor of the paper, and the leading owner of 
the property. Subsequently he was made presi- 
dent of the " Advertiser Newspaper Company," 
which succeeded the '• Boston Advertiser Corpora- 
tion," and publisher of the Advertiser and Evening 
Record, the latter a penny paper, established in 
September, 18S4. In 1887 Mr. Barrett was first 



elected to the lower house of the Legislature 
from his native town of Melrose, and with his 
service in the session of 1888 began a remarkable 
political career. Returned the next year, he was 
made speaker of the House by a vote of two hun- 
dred and thirteen to one scattering ; and by re- 
peated re-election he held this position through the 
sessions of 1890-91-92-93, in every case receiving 
a practically unanimous vote after his renomina- 
tion in caucus, and in 1892 being complimented, 
without preliminary caucus of either party, by an 
absolutely unanimous vote of the whole House. 
In the preliminary canvass of 1891 for the Repub- 
lican nomination for governor he was conspicuous 
among several mentioned for that position; and 
in 1893 he was the Republican candidate for Con- 
gress in the Seventh District, in the by-election 
of .\pril, to fill the vacancy caused by the election 
of its representative, Henry Cabot Lodge, to be 
senator. In this contest, after a spirited canvass, 
he met his first defeat, his Democratic competitor. 
Dr. William Everett, carrying the district by the 
narrow margin of thirty-four votes. Declining to 




WM. E. BARRETT. 



stand for a sixth term in the Legislature, he 
closed his career as speaker with the session of 
1893. Mr. Barrett is a member of many social 
and fraternal organizations. He was married on 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



December 28, 1887, in Claremont, N.H., to Miss 
Annie L. Bailey, daughter of Herbert and Alice 
(Sulloway) Bailey. They have three children: 
William E., Jr.. Florence, and Ruth Barrett. 



BARTOL, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, upwards of 
fifty years minister of the West Church of Boston 
(Unitarian), quarter of a century colleague of the 
Rev. Charles Lowell, is a native of Maine, born 
in the little seaport town of Freeport, April 30, 
1813, son of George and Ann (Given) Bartol. 
He is of English, Irish, and Italian descent. 





CYRUS A. BARTOL. 

Bartolo, Bartolozzi, IJarthokli, and BerthoUet are 
Italian and French synonymes of his father's 
name. His mother's grandsire left the Romish 
Church to marry a wife : he had been a priest. 
Attaining his early education in the common 
schools, Cyrus A. was fitted for college in the 
High School of Portland, where his father was 
at that time a merchant, and entered Bowdoin 
in the class of 1828. At the close of his junior 
)'ear he was elected president of his college lit- 
erary society, having, as one of his classmates in 
after years testified, '• no peer that could for a 
moment contest that honor, bestowed by the 
votes of students upon character and scholarship, 



with him at that time." After graduation from 
the college he came to the Harvard Divinity 
School, and took the regular three years' course, 
graduating in 1835. He had been preaching but 
a little over a year, first in Cincinnati, Ohio, where 
he was settled in 1835-36, and six months as 
minister-at-large in Boston, when he was called to 
the West Church as Dr. Lowell's colleague, or- 
dained on the first day of March, 1837. This re- 
lation " in all love and harmony " held till the 
death of Dr. Lowell in 1861, when he became sole 
pastor. On the first of March, 1887, the fiftieth 
anniversary of his ministry here, and the one hun- 
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of 
the West Church, were observed by a memorable 
service in the old meeting-house on Cambridge 
and Lynde Streets, in which the minister. Rev. 
Drs. Frederic H. Hedge, George E. Ellis, Alonzo 
A. Miner, George A. Gordon of the Old South 
Church, Robert Colh'er, Cyrus Hamlin, president 
of Roberts College, Constantinople (a college 
mate of Dr. Bartol), and Phillips Brooks, the 
Brahmin Babu Mohini M. Chatterji, then visiting 
Boston, James Russell Lowell, and Governor 
Ames took part. He retired in 1889, resigning 
the office of pastor September 30, that year; and 
on May 5 the last service in the church was held. 
He has been identified with many progressive 
clubs ; was frequently host of the celebrated Rad- 
ical Club which flourished in Boston in the late 
sixties and seventies ; and he has been called the 
last of the Transcendentalists. His church, al- 
though classed as Unitarian, has steadfastly held 
an independent attitude from Dr. Lowell's pastor- 
ate through his own, known as the " Independent 
Congregational Society." He has been described 
as a " reverent radical, an acute and way- 
ward conservative, standing aloof with his church 
from all ecclesiastical entanglements,'' and " by 
the flag of individual freedom in matters of re- 
ligion." The degree of doctor of divinity was con- 
ferred upon him by Harvard Llniversity in 1859. 
Dr. Bartol's publications constitute a notable list, 
including many sermons in pamphlet form and sev- 
eral volumes of sermons and essays. The latter 
embrace " Discourses on the Christian Spirit and 
Life" (first published in 1850, second edition re- 
vised 1854); "Discourses on the Christian Body 
and Form" (1854); " Pictures of Europe framed 
in Ideas," essays suggested by a European tour 
(185s); "History of the West Church and its 
Ministers" (1858) ; "Church and Congregation " 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



21 



(1858): "Word of the Spirit to the Church" 
(1859); "Radical Problems" (1872); "The 
Rising Faith " (1874) ; and "Principles and Por- 
traits" (1880). He has also published a number 
of occasional essays, portrait eulogies on William 
Ellery Channing, John Weiss, \\'illiam Lloyd Gar- 
rison, " Father "' Taylor, and William M. Hunt, 
the artist, and some poetry ; and a miniature book 
of selections from his writings, under the title 
of "Grains of Gold," was brought out by the Uni- 
tarian Association in 1854. Dr. Partol was mar- 
ried in Boston, February 7, 1838, to Elizabeth 
Howard, daughter of Dr. John Clarke and Hepzi- 
bah (Swan) Howard. They had one child. Eliza- 
beth Howard Bartol, who has become well known 
as a painter. He has lived during most of his 
life in Boston, at No. 17 Chestnut Street, West 
End, one of the quaintest and oldest houses in the 
street ; and his sunnner residence has been for 
many years at Manchester-by-the-sea. 



BENNETT, Joseph, member of the Suffolk 
bar, long identified with the interests of the 
Brighton District of Boston, is a native of Maine, 
born in Piridgton, May 26, 1840, son of William 
and Charlotte Bennett. His early education was 
attained at the district school in Sweden, Me., 
and at the Bridgton Academy. Then, moving 
with his parents to Massachusetts, he completed 
his preparation for college in the lioston Latin 
School, and entered Bowdoin College with the 
class of 1864. He was obliged to withdraw in 
the Junior year, but subsequently he received 
from the college the degree of A.B. out of course. 
He began the study of law soon after leaving col- 
lege in the office of Asa Cottrell, Boston, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1866. Two 
years later he was admitted to the bar of the 
United States Circuit Court, and in 1882 to prac- 
tice before the United States Supreme Court. 
He was trial justice in Middlesex County at the 
time of the annexation of Brighton to Boston (in 
1874), and for some years after annexation was 
special justice of the Municipal Court of the 
Brighton District. He has served in both 
branches of the Legislature, — member of the 
House of Representatives in 1880, and of the 
Senate in 1881-82, and again in 1891. In the 
latter body he was a leader, the first two terms 
chairman of the committee on taxation and of 
that on election laws, and twice chairman of the 



committee on redistricting the State into Congres- 
sional districts, — in 1882 and in 1891, — the only 
instance of the kind. In the Senate of 1891 
also he was chairman of the committee on rail- 
roads, on rules and orders, and on constitution 
amendments. Other committees on which he 
served when a senator were those on the judi- 
ciary and on probate and chancery. For several 
years before annexation he was a member of the 
Brighton School Committee, and was one of the 
early trustees of the Holton Library, now ab- 
sorbed in the Brighton Branch of the Boston Pub- 
lic Library, .\fter annexation he served some 




JOSEPH BENNETT. 

time on the Boston School Committee. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and has been active with 
the leaders of his party in his section of the State. 
In the campaign of 1893 he was prominent 
among those mentioned for the Republican nomi- 
nation for attorney-general. Mr. Bennett was 
married in Boston, April 26, 1866, to Miss Eliza- 
beth R. Lafavour, daughter of John and Mary 
(Harding) Lafavour. They have three children: 
Joseph I., F"rederick S., and Mary E. Bennett. 



BIGELOW, JoN.ATHAN, ex-president of the 
Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, is a native 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of Conway, born January i, 1825, son of Jona B. 
and Relief (Newhall) Bigelow, the eldest of a 
family of ten children. He traces his lineage 
from John Bigelow, who settled in Watertown in 
1632, and now lives in the town of his ancestors. 
He left home when a lad of nine years to live 
with an uncle, then a butcher in Charlestown ; and. 




JONATHAN BIGELOW. 

the latter soon moving to a farm in Brighton, he 
worked there at farming, attending school during 
the winter months. He took advantage of every 
opportunity for the acquisition of knowledge, and 
at nineteen was well equipped for school-teaching. 
He found a position in the South, as teacher in 
the town school, in Screven County, Georgia, 
sixty miles from Savannah ; and here he remained 
about a year, obtaining a good idea of the man- 
ners and customs of the South before the war. 
Returning North some time in 1846, he estab- 
lished himself in a general boot and shoe busi- 
ness in Roxbury. This was continued success- 
fully for ten years ; and then he entered the 
produce commission trade, to which he had al- 
ready given much practical study. He first 
formed a partnership with Z. C. Perry, under the 
firm name of Perry \: Bigelow, and was estab- 
lished at No. 3 North Market Street. They re- 
mained there in company about a year, when he 



bought his partner's interest. Soon after he moved 
to No. 25 North Market Street, and in 1859 to 
No. 23, the site he has since occupied. In 1859 
the firm name first became Jonathan Bigelow & 
Co. Subsequently it was changed to Bigelow, 
Maynard & Magee, then to Bigelow & Magee, and 
then, in 1865, again to Jonathan Bigelow & Co., by 
which it has since been known. It is one of the 
oldest produce commission houses in Boston, re- 
ceiving consignments from more than thirty of the 
difterent States and Territories, besides the Brit- 
ish Provinces. Since 1888 Mr. Bigelow has been 
president of the National Butter, Cheese, and Egg 
Association. In 1887 he was a member of the 
lower house of the Legislature from the Sixteenth 
Middlesex representative district, and in that 
session was earnest in support of various reform 
measures, and took a pronounced position on the 
butterine and oleomargarine question. He in- 
troduced a bill for registration in dentistry, 
another giving women who are entitled to vote 
on candidates for school committee the right to 
vote on the liquor license question, and a third 
for tlie removal of obstructions to the entrances 
of gambling-rooms. The first and last of these 
bills became laws : the second was carried in the 
Mouse, but defeated in the Senate. Mr. ISigelow 
was one of the earliest members of the Boston 
Produce Exchange, and president of the Fruit 
and Produce Exchange. He is also a member 
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, of the 
Boston Associated Board of Trade, of the Boston 
Merchants' Association, of "The Market Men's 
Republican Club," of the Massachusetts Republi- 
can Club, and of the Middlesex (political dining) 
Club, of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, of the 
South Middlesex Unitarian Club, and of the 
" Old School Boys' Association of Boston." He 
belongs to the Masonic order, a member of 
Mount Olivet Lodge, of Cambridge Royal Arch 
Chapter, and of the DeMolay Commandery 
Knights Templar; is a past district deputy 
grand master, and a member of the Past District 
Deputy Grand Masters' Association. In religion 
he is a Unitarian, and has been active in the 
Unitarian church and Sunday-schools where he has 
resided. He was married in 1847 to Miss Sarah 
Brooks, of Brighton. Their children are : Sam- 
uel Brooks, Lizzie Jane, Henry J., and Louis 
H. Bigelow. The daughter Lizzie died when 
three and one-half years old. His two eldest 
sons are in business with him. 



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RIGELOW, Melville Madison, author and 
lecturer on law in the Boston University and other 
institutions, is a native of Michigan, born near 
Eaton Rapids, August 2, 1846, son of the Rev. 
William Enos and Daphne (Mattison) Bigelow. 
He is a grandson of J. Gardner and Thankful 
(Enos) Higelow, great-grandson of Jabez, Jr., and 
.'Mmy (CJardner) Bigelow, great-great-grandson of 
Jabez and Susanna (Elderkin) Bigelow, great- 
great - great - grandson of Gershom and Rachel 
(Gale) Bigelow, great -great -great -great -grandson 
of Joshua and Elizabeth (Flagg) Bigelow, great- 
great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Mary 
(Warren) Bigelow, or, rather, Begeley or Bageley, 
the form of the name until about the middle of 
the 17th century, when at Watertown, Mass., an- 
cestral home of all the Bigelows, it gradually 
began to take its present form. Mr. Bigelow is 
of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 
Vermont, and New York, but in the main of Mas- 
sachusetts ancestry. John, first of the foregoing 
line, served in the war against the Pequots and 
also in King Philip's War ; Joshua, second of the 
line, served in King Philip's War; Jabez, Jr., 
fifth of the line, served as a private soldier in 
the Revolution ; the father, Joseph Enos, of 
Thankful (Enos), si.xth of the line, served as a 
lieutenant in the Revolution ; while through Su- 
sanna (Elderkin), fourth of the line, Mr. Bigelow 
is descended from John Elderkin (1616-87), 'he 
famous church-builder, millwright, and shipwright 
of Massachusetts and Connecticut, who built the 
first churches and the first mills in New London 
and Norwich, Conn., and in other places, and also 
the first merchant vessel ever owned or built in 
New London, the " New London Trj-all,'' in 
1 66 1. His early education was attained in the 
public schools, ending with the high school, in 
Michigan. Then he entered the University of 
Michigan, and, graduating in 1866, was admitted 
to the bar two years afterwards. Some years 
later he came to Harvard University, where he 
received the degree of Ph.D. in 1879. After 
leaving college he devoted himself to unremit- 
ting work in legal and historical pursuits, in 
connection with professional duties, giving much 
time to historical studies relating to law. He 
has been mainly engaged in legal authorship, 
and in lecturing in the law schools of Boston 
University, the University of Michigan, and the 
Northwestern University. His law books have 
been fax'orably received in England as well as in 



this country. One of them (on Torts) has been 
published by the I'niversity of Cambridge, Eng- 
land, and is used in its Law School as a te,xt- 
book. Besides this work (English ed. 1889 ; 4th 
American ed. 1891), the following are Mr. Bige- 
low's more important works: I, aw of Estoppel, 
(1872 ; 5th. ed. i8go); Law of Fraud on its Civil 
Side, two volumes (vol. i, 1888; vol. 2, 1890); 
Elements of the Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques 
(1893) ; History of Procedure in England, Nor- 
man Period (London, 1880). He has also edited 
the last editions of Story on Conflict of Laws, 
Story on Equity Jurisprudence, Story on the Con- 
stitution, and Jarman on Wills. He has a large 
acquaintance among people of distinction through- 
out the LTnited States and in England, and is a 
member of a number of learned societies at home 
and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Society of 
Science, Letters, and Arts, London ; member of 
the Council, Selden Society, London ; associate. 




MELVILLE M. BIGELOW. 

Victoria Society, London ; was made an honorary 
member of the Athenaeum Club, London, in and 
for the summer of 1889 ; is a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Society of Sons of American Revolu- 
tion, and of the American Historical Association ; 
honorary member of the Texas Historical Society ; 
and honorary member of the New Vork State Bar 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Association. In politics he is an Independent 
witli Republican proclivities, favoring low tariff. 
Mr. Bigelow was first married, in i86g, to Miss 
Elizabeth Bragg. By this union were three chil- 
dren : Ada Hawthorne and Charlotte Gray, both of 
whom died in 1876, and Leslie Melville Bigelow. 
His first wife died in 1881. His second wife, to 
whom he was married in 1883, was Miss Cornelia 
Frothingham Read. She died in 1892, leaving no 
children. 



BRACKETT, Jt)HN Quincv Adams, governor 
of Massachusetts in 1890, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Bradford, June 8, 1842, son 



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J. Q. A. BRACKETT. 

of Ambrose S. and Nancy Brackett. There his 
boyhood was spent, and his early education at- 
tained ; but since his college days he has been a 
resident of Massachusetts. He was fitted for col- 
lege at Colby Academy, New London, N.H., and 
entered Harvard in the class of 1865. He ranked 
well with his classmates, and was class orator ; 
and his graduation was with honors. Then he 
took the Harvard Law School course, graduating 
in 1868. The same year he was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar, and early entered upon a lucrative 
practice. He subsequently formed a partnership 
with the late Hon. Levi C. \\'ade, and is now the 



senior member of the law firm of Brackett & Rob- 
erts. He began his public career as a member 
of the Boston Common Council, where he served 
four terms (1873-76), the last one as president. 
Then he was elected to the lower house of the 
Legislature ; and here, through repeated re-elec- 
tions, his service covered eight years (1877-81 
and 1884-86). During this period he served on 
many important committees, among others those 
on taxation, labor, and the judiciary, being chair- 
man of each, and the special committee of 1881 
on the revision of the Statutes ; and was identi- 
fied with much important legislation. The last 
two terms he occupied the Speaker's chair, each 
time elected to the speakership by a large ma- 
jority. In 1886 he was nominated by his party 
for lieutenant governor, with Oliver Ames at the 
head of the ticket, and was elected in the Novem- 
ber election. This position he held for three 
years (1887-88-89), and then, nominated for the 
governorship to succeed Governor Ames, was 
elected for the term of 1890. Renominated for a 
second term, he was defeated, after a close can- 
vass, by William E. Russell, the Democratic can- 
didate. While serving as lieutenant governor, 
Mr. Brackett performed the duties of governor 
on several occasions, and always with credit to 
the Commonwealth. In the capacity of acting 
governor he represented Massachusetts at Co- 
lumbus on the occasion of the celebration of the 
centennial of the settlement of Ohio, in the sum- 
mer of 1888 ; and a year later he repre.sented the 
State at the dedication of the Pilgrim Monument 
at Plymouth. He was one of the delegates at 
large from Massachusetts to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention at Minneapolis in 1892. Since 
his retirement from public station he has devoted 
himself sedulously to the practice of his profes- 
sion, and has been concerned in noteworthy 
causes. During his long association with Boston 
interests he has been connected with a number 
of local institutions. He was for many years a 
member of the Mercantile Library Association, 
its president in 1871, and again in 1882, and is 
now one of its life members. He is a member 
of the University Club, of the Boston Art Club, 
of the Arlington Boat Club, of the Massachusetts 
and Middlesex dinner clubs, of the Republican 
Club of Massachusetts, and of other organizations. 
He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
From 1874 to 1876 he was judge advocate on the 
staff of General I. S. Burrell, of the First Brig- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Governor 
Krackett was married June 20, 1878, to Miss 
Angle M. Peck, daughter of .Abel G. I'eck, of 
Arlington, where he now resides. They have had 
four children, of whom two are living : John 
Gaylord and Beatrice Krackett. 



BRAGG, Henry \\'ili..\rii, member of the Suf- 
ff)lk bar, is a native of Holliston, born December 
II, 1841, son of VMllard and Mary Matilda 
(Claflin) Bragg. His paternal grandfather was 
Colonel Arial Bragg, of Milford, and his mater- 
nal grandfather, Martin Claflin, also of Milford. 




HENRY W. BRAGG. 

His early education was acquired in the Milford 
High and the Pittsfield High schools ; and his 
collegiate training was in the llniversity of the 
City of New York and in Tufts College, this 
State, the freshman and sophomore years at the 
former, and the junior and senior years at the 
latter, from which he was graduated in 1861. He 
studied law in Natick in the office of the Hon. 
John W. Bacon (afterwards Judge Bacon, of the 
Superior Court) and the Hon. George L. Sawin, 
from January. 1863 to November, 1864, when he 
was admitted to the bar in Middlesex County. 
He began practice in Charlestown in January, 



1865, and in November, 1868, also opened an 
office in Boston, where he has practised since in 
State and United States courts. For the last ten 
years he has acted as master in equity cases, and 
as auditor and referee in a large number of cases 
arising in Suffolk, Middlesex, and Norfolk coun- 
ties. He has quite an extensive practice, also, 
in the probate courts in Suffolk and Middlesex 
counties, and is trustee of several estates and 
trust funds. He was city solicitor of Charles- 
town in 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870; special justice 
of the municipal court of Charlestown from 1870 
to 1886 ; master in chancery, Middlesex County, 
from i86g to 1874; and has been master in 
chancery, Suffolk County, from 1874 to the pres- 
ent time ; justice of the municipal court of the 
Charlestown District from the first of December, 
1886, to the present time ; and solicitor of the 
Warren Institution of Savings of Charlestown 
since 1867. He has long been connected with 
the Masonic order : member of the Meridian 
Lodge of Natick, in 1863 ; a charter member of 
Faith Lodge, Charlestown, and master of the 
same ; and a member of Signet Chapter. He is 
a member also of numerous clubs, — of the Uni- 
versity, Curtis, Taylor, and Abstract clubs of 
Boston, of the 99gth Artillery of Charlestown, 
and of the college societies Zeta Psi and the 
Order of the Coffee Pot. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Judge Bragg was married January 11, 

1866, in Milford, to Miss Fallen Francis Haven. 
They have no children living. 



BROOKS, Fr.ancis Au(;ustus, member of the 
Suft'olk bar since 1848, prominent for twenty 
years in corporation and railroad cases, was born 
in Petersham, May 23, 1824. His father, Aaron 
Brooks, was a graduate of Brown University in 
18 1 7, a leading lawyer in Worcester County, and 
a representative in the General Court in 1834-35. 
He received his early training at Leicester Acad- 
emy, and was there fitted for college. He entered 
Harvard in 1838, the youngest member of his 
class, and graduated in 1842. After graduation 
he studied at the Harvard Law School and in 
the law offices of his father in Petersham and 
of Aylwin & Paine in Boston, and in 1845 w^as 
admitted to the bar in Worcester County. He 
began the practice of his profession in Petersham, 
but in 1848 removed to Boston, where he has 
since been established. Until 1875 his practice 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



was chiefly in patent cases ; but since that time tions to the literature of the suljjects treated, 
he has devoted himself to corporation and raih'oad For some time Mr. BrooVis was president of the 
cases, in the conduct of which he has gained Vermont & Canada Railroad, and he is now 

president of the old Nashua & Lowell. Mr. 
Brooks was married at Groton, September 1 4, 
1847, to Miss Frances Butler, daughter of Caleb 
and Clarissa (Varnum) Butler. Mr. Butler, his 
wife's father, was a graduate of Dartmouth in 
1800, a lawyer by profession, principal of the 
^^■. Groton Academy eleven years, postmaster thir- 

teen years, and the author of a History of Gro- 
ton. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks 
there are now living three sons : F'rederick and 
Charles Butler, of Boston, and Morgan Brooks, 
of Minneapolis. 




FRANCIS A. BROOKS. 

distinction. One of these most notable cases was 
between the Vermont Central and the Vermont 
& Canada railroads, two corporations of Ver- 
mont. This was one of the early cases in which 
the courts of this country assumed the exercise of 
powers of legislation by authorizing receivers, 
placed by them in the possession and manage- 
ment of railroad property, to incur debts having 
precedence of right over prior existing mortgages. 
While pursuing his profession, Mr. Brooks has 
given much study to public questions, notably the 
Force bill and currency problems, and has pub- 
lished his views in numerous contributions to the 
press and in pamphlet form. In 1891 and 1893 
he published pamphlets relating to the legislation 
of Congress in the acts known as the National 
Currency Act of 1864, the Bland-.Allison Act of 
1878, and the Sherman Act of 1890, in which he 
took ground that, as measures for furnishing a 
currency or circulating medium in times of peace, 
these acts of legislation were not within the legiti- 
mate power of Congress under the Constitution. 
These publications have attracted much atten- 
tion, and are recognized as valuable contribu- 



BUNTING, William Morton, of Plymp- 
ton ..V Bunting, general managers of the Penn 
.Mutual Life Insurance Company for New Eng- 
land, was born in Philadelphia. Penna., March 
24, 1855, son of John and Elvira (Andrews) 
Hunting. His father was a native of England, 




WM. M. BUNTING. 



born in Manchester ; and his mother was of 
Rhode Island, born in Providence. He was 
educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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and in that city began business life as clerk in 
a broker's office. Subsequently he went to New 
York, and there was engaged for many years in 
the fire-arms business. He entered the insurance 
business in 1882, when he was made general 
agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany for Massachusetts, with headquarters in 
Boston. Two years later he formed a copart- 
nersliip with Noah A. Plympton, under the firm 
name of Plympton & Punting ; and they then 
became the general managers of the New Eng- 
land department of the same company. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and in 1894 served 
on the military staff of Governor Greenhalge, an 
aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel. He 
is a member of the Algonquin, Art, Athletic, 
Suffolk, Country, and New England clubs of 
Boston, and president of the Bunting Club. He 
is also a thirty-second degree Mason. He was 
married December 19, 1881, to Miss Mary 
Alexander, of Philadelphia. They have two 
children : Morton Ale.xander and Florence Bunt- 
ing. Colonel Bunting resides in the Back Bay 
District of Boston. 



BUTTERWORTH, Hezekiah, author, and an 
assistant editor of the Youth's Companion, Boston, 
is a native of Rhode Island, born in Warren, 
December 22, 1839, son of Gardner and Susan 
(Ritchie) Butterworth. His ancestry is traced 
to the first settlers of Rhode Island and to 
founders of the first Baptist ciiurch in Massa- 
chusetts. He was educated in the local schools, 
fitted for college in the Warren High School, and 
pursued a private course in Brown University. 
Subsequently he received the degree of B.A. from 
Madison l^niversity. He lived on the farm in 
Warren until he was twenty-eight years of age, 
early engaging in literary work, — editing a local 
paper, and contributing to the New \'ork In- 
dcpiiiiliut, the then existing Appliton's Jonrnal, 
the Boston Congrcgationalist, the Yont/i' s Com- 
panion, and other periodical publications. He 
became an assistant editor of the Youth's Com- 
panion, taking a desk in the Boston office, early 
in 1870 ; and he has continued in this position 
ever since. He has written thirty books. "The 
Story of the Hymns," w-hich he wrote for the 
American Tract Society, received the " George 
Wood" gold medal in 1875. ^"f' '''•''s passed 
through many editions. His "Zigzag Journey- 



ings " (Boston : Estes iS: Lauriat) number sixteen 
volumes, of which nearly four hundred thousand 
copies have been sold. .Among his other books 
are four volumes of historical tales, published by 
the Appletons, New \"ork ; and two volumes of 
poems, — " Poems for Christmas, Easter, and 
: Estes & Lauriat), and 
(Boston : New England 
He has also been a con- 
tributor of late years to the Atlantic Monthly, 
Harper's, and the Century. He wrote the poem 
for the opening of the Peace and Arbitration 
Congress at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, 



New Year's " (Boston 
" Songs of History " 
Publishing Company). 




HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH. 

which gave a picture of the march of the Arvan 
race and of the white-bordered fiag as the new 
emblem and leader of that race ; and it was sub- 
sequently issued in pamphlet form by the Peace 
Society. He is now (18941 preparing a series of 
books to be called " New England Wonder Tales," 
and is about to issue a volume of poems on 
Florida. Mr. Butterworth has visited Europe, 
Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, and most places 
in the United States and Canada. In politics 
he is a " Mugwump." He belongs to the Re- 
ality Club, Boston, the Authors' Guild, New 
York, and other literary societies. He is un- 
married. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



CLEMENT, Edward Henry, editor-in-chief of 
the Boston Evening Transcript, is a native of 
Chelsea, born April 19, 1843, son of Cyrus and 
Rebecca Fiske (Shortridge) Clement. He is a 
descendant of Robert Clement who came to 
Massachusetts Bay Colony from Coventry, Eng- 
land, in 1643, was chosen to buy and survey the 
territory of Haverhill, set up the first mill in tiie 
town, represented Haverhill in the General Court, 
and whose son's marriage was the first marriage 
in the town; and on the maternal side he de- 
scends from Alnjaii Gage, an Essex County 




E. H. CLEMENT. 

worthy. His mother was a graduate of Bradford 
Academy. He was educated in the Chelsea pub- 
lic schools and at Tufts College, where he was 
graduated in 1864 at the head of his class. He 
began his professional life as a reporter and as- 
sistant editor of an army post newspaper, started 
in 1865, with the deserted plant of the Savannah 
Netc's, by Oscar G. Sawyer and Samuel W. Mason, 
army correspondents of the New York Herald, 
stationed at Hilton Head, S.C. The dislike of 
the Southern community for a Northern editor 
necessitated his retirement from this paper soon 
after the close of the war. Returning to Boston 
in 1867, he was for a few weeks chief proof-reader 



on the Daily Aihrrtiser. Resigning this position, 
he went to New York to take a place in the 
proof-room of the Tribune, but instead of that he 
was assigned by John Russell Young, at that time 
the managing editor of the paper, to the city 
editor's department as a reporter. He was soon 
after promoted to the position of " exchange edi- 
tor," then advanced to the telegraph editor's desk, 
and then was made night editor. Leaving the 
Tribune in 1869, he was for a short time manag- 
ing editor of the Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, 
and in 187 1 became one of the editors and 
proprietors of the Elizabeth (N.J.) Journal. His 
connection with the Boston Transcript began in 
1875, when he was called to the position of as- 
sistant editor by William A. Hovey, at that time 
its chief editor. After an active service as leader 
writer, and critic of art, music, and the drama, he 
became chief editor upon Mr. Hovey's retirement 
in 1 88 I. Under his management the high stand- 
ard established by his distinguished predecessors 
in the editorial chair of the Transcript has been 
sustained, and its reputation and business success 
as a favorite Boston mstitution strengthened. 
Mr. Clement is in its columns generous in his 
hospitality to all charitable enterprises, and, in 
general, befriends liberal and progressive social 
ideas and political independence. The close at- 
tention paid to the details of his newspaper work 
has prevented his cultivation of general literature, 
but he has written at odd times a number of short 
stories for Harper's Weekly and other periodicals, 
occasional letters of art criticism to the Art Ama- 
teur of New York, poetry for the Century and the 
Atlantic Monthly : and at the Norumbega celebra- 
tion at Watertown, November 21, 1889, he deliv- 
ered a long poem on Vinland, which has been 
commented upon in the New York Critic and else- 
where as an important contribution to literature. 
Mr. Clement has been a member of the Papyrus 
Club and of several benevolent societies of Boston. 
He was one of the founders of the St. Botolph Club, 
and proposed the name it adopted, since which 
American revival of the name of the old English 
Boston's patron saint it has been attached to a 
street here, and been perpetuated in many other 
connections. In 1870 he received the honorary 
degree of A.M. from Tufts. He was married 
December 23, 1869, in New York City, to Miss 
Gertrude Pound, daughter of the church organist, 
John Pound. They have three children : two 
sons, educated at Harvard, and a daughter. In 



MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 



1893 jNIr. Clement establiblied his home at Corey 
Hill, Brookline. 



CODMAN, Colonel Charles Russell, eldest 
son of Charles Russell and Anne (Macmaster) 
Codman, was born in Paris, France, October 28, 
1829, while his parents were passing a season 
abroad. On his father's side he is of early New 
England stock, the Codman family having been 
identified with Charlestown and Boston since 1640, 
and descended from Edward and Mary Winslow of 
the ''Mayflower" company; and, on his mother's 
side, he is of Scotch origin through her father, and 
of New York Dutch descent through her mother, 
from the Dey and Van Buskirk families. His 
father was a Boston merchant; and his grand- 
father, the Hon. John Codman, laid the founda- 
tion of the family fortune. His paternal grand- 
mother was a daughter of the Hon. James Russell, 
of Charlestown. He was educated in Boston pri- 
vate schools, in the late Rev. William A. Muhlen- 
berg's school near Flushing, L.I., where he spent 
three years, and at Harvard College, graduating 
from the latter in the class of 1849. Subse- 
quently he studied law in the Boston oflfice of the 
late Charles G. Loring, and in 1852 was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar. He practised, however, but 
a short time, early engaging in general business. 
During the Civil War he served as colonel of the 
Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, having previ- 
ously been lieutenant and captain in the Boston 
Cadets. He served in North Carolina with the 
Eighteenth Army Corps, and was in several 
battles, including those of Kinston and White 
Hall, N.C., December 14 and 16, 1862, and in a 
number of skirmishes. He began public life as 
a member of the Boston School Committee in 
1861 and 1862. Then in 1864, after his return 
from service in the field, he was sent to the State 
Senate from a Boston district, and the following 
year returned ; and later on he served four terms 
(from 1872 to 1875) in the lower house of the 
Legislature, taking a leading hand in legislation, 
and acting on important committees, the last two 
terms as chairman of the committee on the judi- 
ciary. In 1878 he was the Republican candidate 
for mayor of Boston, and, although defeated, gave 
his Democratic competitor (Mayor Prince) a close 
run. In 1890 he stood for Congress as an Inde- 
pendent Democrat in the First District, a Repub- 
lican stronghold, making a spirited and earnest 



canvass on tariff and other reform issues, which 
resulted in a marked decrease in the Republican 
plurality. In his political convictions he has 
always been independent. Beginning active life 
as a \\'hig, he gave his support to the Republican 
party in its early days, joining it in 1856, when 
resistance to the slave power seemed to him a 
duty. In 1884, in common with others who had 
been conspicuous as Republican leaders, he re- 
fused to support Mr. Blaine for the presidency, 
and, withdrawing from the organization, took a 
leading part in the Independent, or so-called 




CHARLES R. CODMAN. 

" Mugwump," movement in support of Mr. Cleve- 
land. Subsequently, when the Democratic party 
took position for liberal tariff legislation, and the 
Republican party adopted the high protection 
policy, he entered into full fellowship with the 
former organization, advocating its principles with 
his able pen and eloquent voice. He has also 
long been identified with the cause of civil service 
reform, and was among its earliest advocates. In 
1880 and 1881, and again from 1887 to 1890, 
Colonel Codman was president of the Board of 
Overseers of Harvard University, to which he was 
first elected in 1S78. He is president of the 
Massachusetts State Homoeopathic Hospital and 
of the Boston Provident Association, and trustee 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of the State Insane Asylum in Westborough. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
ciety and of the Union and Massachusetts Reform 
clubs, president of the latter. He was married 
at Walton-on-Thames, England, February 28, 
1856, to Miss Lucy Lyman Paine Sturgis, daugh- 
ter of the late Russell Sturgis of Boston, and 
afterwards of the firm of Baring Brothers & Co., 
London. They have three sons and two daugh- 
ters living : Russell Sturgis, Anne Macmaster, 
Susan NN'elles, John Sturgis, and Julian Codman. 
Since 1855 Colonel Codman's principal residence 
has been in Cotuit, Barnstable ; his winter resi- 
dence, in Boston. 



CORCORAN, John William, member of the 
Suffolk bar and ex-justice of the Superior Court, 
is a native of New York State, born in Batavia, 
June 14, 1853,' son of James and Catherine (Don- 
nelly) Corcoran. His parents had moved to 
Batavia from Clinton, this State, not long before 
his birth ; but, when he was a child three months 
old, the family returned to Clinton, and that town 




JOHN W. CORCORAN. 

has since been his home. He attended the Clin- 
ton public schools and pursued his collegiate 
studies at Holy Cross College, Worcester, and at 
St. John University, Fordham, N.Y., which con- 



ferred the degree of LL.D. upon him June 21, 
1893. Subsequently he entered the Boston U^ni- 
versity Law School, and, graduating therefrom in 
187^, was at once admitted to the bar. He began 
practice in Clinton at first alone, but soon formed 
a copartnership with Herbert Parker, under the 
firm name of Corcoran &: Parker, which relation 
continued a number of years. In 1883 he was 
made town solicitor, the office that year created, 
which he occupied until June, 1892, then resigning 
it to go upon the bench. The same year (1883) 
and again in 1884 he was candidate for district 
attorney of ^^'orcester County, but failed of elec- 
tion. In 1 886 he was nominated for attorney- 
general on the Democratic State ticket, and re- 
nominated in 1887 ; in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 
1 89 1 was Democratic candidate for lieutenant 
governor, in the three years last named running 
ahead of all the other candidates except the head 
of the ticket ; in 1891 and part of 1892 was judge 
advocate-general on Governor Russell's staff; 
and in May, 1892, was made associate justice of 
the Superior Court by appointment of Governor 
Russell. The latter position he occupied, alily 
meeting its requirements, until November 22, 
1893, when he resigned to return to practice, re- 
tiring with the esteem of his associates on the 
bench and a heightened reputation. Since 1889 
he has had an office in Boston as well as in Clin- 
ton, and upon his retirement from the bench he 
took up the business left by the Hon. P. A. Col- 
lins, made consul-general at London by President 
Cleveland in the spring of 1893. In his practice 
he has given especial attention to corporation and 
business matters. In January, 1886, he was ap- 
pointed by the Comptroller of the United States 
receiver of the Lancaster National Bank in Clin- 
ton, whose president had absconded, leaving the 
concern burdened with worthless paper ; and he 
so managed the trust that the creditors received 
one hundred and nine per cent., in full of their 
claims, including interest, the first dividend, of 
fifty per cent., being declared si.x months after 
it came into his hands. Mr. Corcoran became 
active in State politics early in his career. In 
1880 he was a candidate for State senator from 
his district ; he was a member of the Democratic 
State Committee from 1883 until his appointment 
to the bench in 1892, when he resigned; in 
1891-92 was chairman of that body : and he was 
delegate to the National Democratic conventions 
of 1884, 1888, and 1892, in that of 1888 acting 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



as chairman of the Massachusetts delegation, and that successful and useful institution. In 1873 
in that of 1892 a delegate at large for Massachu- and 1874 he was a member of the Massachusetts 
setts, receiving the largest vote. In his town of House of Representatives, serving both years as 
Clinton he has been for eighteen years a mem- chairman of the connnittee on bills in the third 
ber of the School Board, for the last ten years its 
chairman ; a member of the Board of Water Com- 
missioners since its organization in 1881, some 
time its secretary and treasurer and chairman ; 
and president of the Board of Trade two terms 
(1886-87). He is a member of the Algonquin. 
Papyrus, and Clover clubs of Boston (president 
of the latter) ; a member and vice-president of the 
Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts: 
and he was chairman of the Massachusetts Board 
of Managers of the ^\'ork^s Columbian Exposi- 
tion in 1893. Judge Corcoran was married in 
Boston, April 28, 1881, to Miss Margaret J. 
McDonald, daughter of Patrick and Mary Mc- 
Donald. They have two daughters and one son : 
Mary Gertrude, Alice, and John Corcoran. 



CROCKKR, Georoe Glover, president of the 
State Senate in 1883, and subsequently chairman 
of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, is a na- 
tive of Boston, born December 15, 1843, son of 
Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker. On 
the paternal side his direct ancestor in the seventh 
generation was William Crocker, who about the 
year 1634 came to this country from Devonshire, 
England, and who married in Scituate in 1636, 
and with his wife, Alice, moved to Barnstable in 
1639. His father's mother's mother was daugh- 
ter of Colonel Jonathan Glover of Marblehead, of 
Revolutionary fame, the brother of General John 
Glover, whose statue is in Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston. On his mother's side his ancestry is 
traced also in the seventh generation to \\'illiam 
Haskell, who came from England to Beverly in 
1632. G. G. Crocker was educated in Boston 
private schools, the public Latin School, where 
he took a Franklin medal, and at Harvard, gradu- 
ating therefrom in the class of 1864. He studied 
law in the Harvard Law School, receiving the 
degree of LL.B. in 1866. In 1867 he received 
the degree of A.M. Admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in July of that year, he began the practice of his 
profession in association with his brother, Uriel 
H. Crocker, devoting his attention principally to 
conveyancing. In 1868 he joined with others in 
re-establishing the Boston Young Men's Christian 
Union, and for nine years served as a director of 




GEO. G. CROCKER. 

reading. In 1S74 he was also chairman on the 
part of the House of the joint committee on the 
liquor law, and a member of the committee on 
rules and orders. In the autumn of 1874 he 
was the Republican candidate for senator in the 
Third Suffolk District, but was defeated by his 
Democratic competitor. In the summer of 1877 
he was chosen secretary of the Republican State 
Committee ; and this position he held two years, 
in the second of which was carried on one of 
the hottest of Massachusett's campaigns. General 
Butler, as the candidate of the Democrats and 
Greenbackers, made a most determined and confi- 
dent fight for the governorship ; but the Repub- 
lican candidate, Thomas Talbot, was elected by a 
plurality of over twenty-five thousand. In 1877, 
Mr. Crocker helped to promote the organization 
of the "Young Republicans," and two years later 
was made its chairman. In 1879 he was elected 
to the Senate. His service there, through re- 
peated elections, covered four terms (1880-83). 
The first year he was chairman of the committee 
on railroads and a member of the committees on 
the judiciary and on rules and orders. The 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



second year he was chairman of the committees 
on railroads and on rules and orders ; and he 
was a member of the committee on the judiciarj-, 
and of the joint special committee on the revi- 
sion of the Statutes. He prepared the rules 
which the latter committee adopted to govern its 
sessions. The third year he was chairman of 
the committees on the judiciary and on rules 
and orders, and a member of the bills in the 
third reading and State House committees. 
The fourth year he was president of the Senate. 
During his third term he prepared a " Digest of 
the Rulings of the Presiding Officers of the 
Senate and House," covering a period of fifty 
years, which has since formed a part of the " An- 
nual Manual for the General Court." The ses- 
sion of 1883, when he was president, was the 
longest on record, the Legislature sitting two hun- 
dred and six days. It was the year when General 
Butler was governor, and the Tewksbury Alms- 
house investigation was the chief cause of the 
length of the session. In 1887 Mr. Crocker was 
appointed by Governor .Ames a member of the 
Board of Railroad Commissioners, to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Thomas 
Russell ; and his associates elected him chairman 
of the board. In 1888 he was reappointed for 
the term of three years. At the expiration of this 
term, in July, 189 1, the Hon. Chauncey Smith 
was nominated for the position by Governor Rus- 
sell; but the Executive Council, by a vote of 
seven to one (seven Republicans to one Demo- 
crat), refused to confirm the nomination, and, as 
the governor made no other, Mr. Crocker contin- 
ued in office until January, 1892, when, the an- 
nual report of the board for the previous year 
having been completed, he resigned. In 1889 he 
was appointed by Mayor Hart chairman of a 
commission of three to examine the tax system 
in force in Boston, and report a more equitable 
one, if such could be devised. In March, 1891, 
this commission reported at length, recommend- 
ing, among other changes, that municipal bonds 
should be released from taxation, and that the 
many forms of double taxation should be abol- 
ished. Mr. Crocker published in 1889 (New- 
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons) a parliamentary 
manual, entitled "Principles of Procedure in De- 
liberative Bodies." In conjunction with his 
brother, I'riel H. Crocker, he also prepared the 
"Notes on the General Statutes," the first edition 
of which was published in 1869. A second edi- 



tion was published in 1875, and an enlarged edi- 
tion, " Notes on the Public Statutes," was brought 
out simultaneously with the publication of the 
revision of the Statutes in 1882. He is an 
officer of various business corporations, and is 
connected with a number of philanthropic organ- 
izations, — a life member of the Boston Young 
Men's Christian Union, of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Fire Society (president 1890, 1891), 
of the Massachusetts Charitable Society (treas- 
urer 188 1-), trustee of the Boston Lying-in Hos- 
pital (1881-), and a member of the Young 
Men's Benevolent Society. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Republican Club of Massachusetts 
(president 1894), of the Citizens' Association of 
Boston, the Boston Civil Service Reform Associa- 
tion, the Society for Political Education, the Bos- 
ton Memorial Association, the Bostonian Society, 
the Bar Association of Boston, the Harvard Law- 
School Association, the Boston Athletic Associa- 
tion, the Beacon Society; and of the LTnion, St. 
Botolph, Algonquin, Country, New Riding, Union 
Boat, and Papyrus clubs. Mr. Crocker was mar- 
ried on June 19, 1875, in Boston, to Miss Annie 
Bliss Keep, daughter of Dr. Nathan Cooley and 
Susan Prentiss (Haskell) Keep. They have five 
children : (leorge Glover, Jr., Margaret, Courte- 
nay, Muriel, and Lyneham Crocker. 



CROCKER, Uriel, was the head of the old 
established Boston printing and publishing house 
of Crocker & Brewster during its long and honor- 
able career, covering a period of fifty-eight years 
(1818-1876); and he was prominent in early rail- 
road and other enterprises. He was born in 
Marblehead, September 13, 1796, and died at 
Cohasset, at the summer residence of his son 
George G., on July 19, 1887, in his ninety-first 
year. His partner, Osmyn Brewster, died about 
two years later, at the age of nearly ninety-two. 
In 1868 the firm celebrated the fiftieth anniversary 
of the formation of their partnership, and in 1886 
the seventy-fifth anniversary of their first meeting 
as apprentices in 181 1. Mr. Crocker's father, 
also Uriel (born in 1768;, his grandfather, Josiah 
Crocker (born 1744), and his great-grandfather, 
Cornelius Crocker (born 1704), were all natives of 
Barnstable, the latter being the great-grandson of 
William and .Mice Crocker, who were married in 
Scituate in 1636, and moved to Barnstable in 
1639, and were the ancestors of the numerous 



MEN OF I'KOGRESS. 



C'rockers who, originating on Cape Cod, have 
scattered throughout the country. Cornelius 
Crocker was a man of importance, and the 
owner of considerable property in Barnstable. 
Josiah, his son, was a graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege (1765) and a schoolmaster in liarnstable. 
Uriel, Josiah"s son, came up to Boston, when a 
young man, to learn the trade of a hatter, and 
went to Marblehead to live, where he married his 
first wife, who died within a year after marriage. 
The subject of this sketch was one of eight chil- 




URIEL CROCKER. 

dren by Uriel Crocker's second wife, Mary James, 
daughter and only child of Captain Richard James 
of Marblehead, and Mary, his wife, daughter of 
Colonel Jonathan Glover, a colonel in the State 
militia, and brother of General John Glover. 
Uriel Crocker, 2d, graduated from the academy at 
Marblehead in August, 181 1, as first scholar: and 
in the month following, on the day after he was 
fifteen years old. he began work in Boston as an 
apprentice in the printing-office of Samuel T. 
Armstrong (afterwards mayor of Boston and act- 
ing governor of the Commonwealth), who also 
carried on a bookselling business. At nineteen 
he was made foreman of the printing-office, and 
at twenty-two was, with his fellow-apprentice. 



O.smyn Brewster, taken into partnership, the agree- 
ment being that the bookstore was to be con- 
dut:ted in the name of Mr. .\rmstrong, and the 
printing-office in that of Crocker & Brewster. 
After 1825 the entire business was carried on 
under the name of Crocker iS: Brewster ( Mr. .Arm- 
strong, however, continuing a member of the firm 
until 1840), the printing-oftice being in Mr. 
Crocker's especial charge, and the bookstore in 
that of Mr. Brewster. In 182 1 a branch of the 
business was established in New York, which five 
and a half years later, being sold to Daniel Apple- 
ton and Jonathan Leavitt, became the foundation 
of the present house of I). Appleton & Sons. The 
business of Crocker & Brewster in Boston was for 
nearly half a century established in the building 
to which Mr. Crocker first went as an apprentice 
(the estate now numbered 173 and 175 Washing- 
ton Street). In 1864 it was moved to the adjoining 
building, where it remained until 1876, when the 
firm relinquished active business, selling their 
stereotype plates, copyrights, and book stock to 
H. O. Houghton iV' Co. The partnership, how- 
ever, continued until it was dissolved by the 
death of Mr. Crocker. The books published 
by the firm were many and important, largely 
standard and educational works. One of the 
principal of them was Scott's Family Bible in si,x 
royal octavo volumes, which was the first large 
work that was stereotyped in this country, and of 
which from twenty to thirty thousand copies — 
a large number for those days — were sold. In 
speaking of the publications of the firm at the 
fiftieth anniversary of its formation, Mr. Crocker 
said. "It is pleasant for an old printer, when 
thinking of the many millions of pages which have 
issued from his press, to know that there is 

' Not one immoral, one corrupting tliouglit, 
No line which, dying, he would wish to blot ! '" 

The firm introduced in Boston the first iron lever 
printing-press, and they printed from the first 
power press in Boston. Mr. Crocker was one of 
the organizers of the Old Colony Railroad Com- 
pany, a director from 1844 to 1850, and again 
from 1863 till his death. He was a director of the 
Northern (N.H.) Railroad Company from 1854 till 
his death ; director of the Concord Railroad from 
1S46 to 1866; director of the Atlantic & Pacific 
Railroad from 1868 to 1874, vice-president from 
1870 to 1873, and president in 1874; director of 
the South Pacific Railroad in 1870; and director 



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MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



of the St. Louis iS: San Francisco Railroad in 
1877. He was president and director of the 
" Proprietors of the Revere House," Boston, from 
1855 till his death; director of the United States 
Hotel Company from 1848 till his death, and 
president from 1863 till his death; director of the 
South Cove Corporation from 1840, and president 
from 1849 till his death ; president and director 
of the South Hay Improvement Company from 
1877 till his death; and director of the Tremont 
Nail Company from 1858 to 1879, and president 
from 1872 to 1879. He was a leader in the 
movement for the erection of the Bunker Hill 
Monument, and throui;h his efforts the sum of 
forty thousand dollars was raised for the fund. 
He was director of the Monument Association 
from 1833 till 1869, and vice-president from 1869 
till his death, declining to accept the position of 
president. He was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Charitable Mechanic Association for sixty- 
three years, having been treasurer from 1S33 to 
1841 ; a member of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Fire Society for thirtj'-seven years, having been 
vice-president in 1874 and 1S75. and president in 
1876 and 1877 ; of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Society for sixty-three years, having been presi- 
dent in 1858 and treasurer from 1859 to 188 1 ; of 
a "Republican Institution" for thirty-nine years, 
having been director, vice-president, and presi- 
dent; of the Board of Managers of the Boston 
Dispensary from 1838 till his death; a trustee of 
Mount Auburn Cemetery from 1856 to 1S65; a 
member of the standing committee of the Old 
South Society from 1836 to 1857, and chairman 
of the committee from 1848 to 1856. He was 
also one of the original corporators of the Frank- 
lin Savings Bank of the City of Boston ; an over- 
seer of the Boston House of Correction; a trustee 
of the Boston Lying-in Hospital; and a member 
of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society, and 
of the Bostonian Society. The honorary degree 
of A.M. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth 
College in 1866. He was married in 1829 to 
Miss Sarah Kidder Haskell, a daughter of Elias 
Haskell of Boston, known during the later years 
of his life as " Deacon Haskell," having been for 
nearly forty years a deacon of the West Church. 
Mrs. Crocker died January 16, 1856, at the age 
of fifty years. Their children were Uriel Haskell 
Crocker, Sarah Haskell Crocker, and George 
Glover Crocker. 



CROCKER, L'kiKL Haskell, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, December 24. 
1832, son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskellj 
Crocker. [For ancestry, see Crocker, George G., 




URIEL H. CROCKER. 

and Crocker, Uriel.] His early education was 
acquired in the private schools of Miss Jennison 
and of Thompson Kidder. Then he attended the 
Boston Public Latin School, where he was fitted 
for college, and, entering Harvard, graduated in 
the class of 1853. After graduation he studied 
law in the Dane (Harvard) Law School for two 
years, then for one year in the office of Sidney 
Bartlett in Boston. He was admitted to the bar 
of Suffolk County in 1856, and since then has 
been engaged in practice as a lawyer, chiefly as 
a conveyancer. He is the author of two legal 
books, "Notes on Common F'orms " and "Notes 
on the Public Statutes of Massachusetts." He 
has also published several pamphlets on subjects 
connected with political economy, their chief 
object having been to refute the doctrine of 
the impossibility of general overproduction, as 
taught by John Stuart Mill, and maintained by 
economists since his time, and to show that 
saving, though it has in the past been productive 
of great benefit to mankind, may, when carried 
to an extreme, be productive of disastrous re- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



35 



suits. The principal of these pamphlets are 
entitled " Excessive Saving a Cause of Commer- 
cial Distress," published in 1884, and "Overpro- 
duction and Commercial Distress," published in 
1887. In the early years of the agitation for the 
establishment of a public park for Boston (1869 
to 1875) Mr. Crocker was very active and prom- 
inent in advocating that measure. He was a mem- 
ber of the Boston Common Council in 1874-75- 
76-77 and 78, and was one of the commissioners 
to revise the Statutes of Massachusetts in 188 1. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society, the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 
the Massachusetts Charitable Society, the Massa- 
chusetts Charitable Fire Society, " A Republican 
Institution," and of the Union, St. Botolph, 
Country, New Riding, and L'nitarian clubs. He 
has been clerk, treasurer, and director of the 
South Cove Company, director and president of 
the United States Hotel Company, clerk, treas- 
urer, and director of the " Proprietors of the 
Revere House," director of the Northern (N.H.) 
Railroad, chairman of the standing committee of 
the West Church, treasurer of the Boston Civil 
Service Reform Association, member of the gen- 
eral committee of the Citizens' Association of 
Boston, president of the Boston I.ying-In Hos- 
pital, and member of the board of managers of 
the Home for Aged Women. He was first mar- 
ried, January 15, 1861, to Miss Clara G. Ballard, 
daughter of Joseph Ballard of Boston, by whom 
were three sons : George Uriel, Joseph Ballard, 
and Edgar. She died May 14, 1891. On 
April 29, T893, he was married to Miss Annie J. 
Fitz, his present wife. 



made the first clearing in Sunnier, Me., taking 
up bounty lands assigned to him and his father. 
Prentiss Cummings's early education was acquired 
in the common schools, and he fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips (Exeter) Academy. He entered 
Harvard in the class of 1864. Immediately after 
graduation he became master of the High School 
of Portland, Me. Here he remained but a few 
months, however, soon entering the oflice of 
Nathan Webb, afterward Judge Webb of the 
United States District Court, and beginning the 
study of law. The next year he attended the 
Harvard Law School, holding also, after Thanks- 
giving, the ofiice of proctor in the college. In 
October, 18G6, he received the appointment of 
tutor in Latin in Harvard Lhiiversity ; and this 
position he held until March, 1870. Then, re- 
signing, he resumed his law studies ; and on the 
3d of May, the following year, he was admitted 
to the bar. He established himself in Boston, 
and began at once the practice of his profession. 
In September, 1874, he was appointed first as- 
sistant LTnited States attorney, which post he 



CIM. MINGS, Prkn'tiss, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Sumner, 
September 10, 1840, son of Whitney and Mary 
Hart (Prentiss) Cummings. This branch of the 
Cummings family was of Scotch origin, and de- 
scended from Isaac Cummings, who settled in 
Topsfield about 1632. Captain Oliver Cummings, 
of Dunstable, Mass., was grandfather, and his 
son Oliver, the father of Whitney. Mary Hart 
Prentiss was grand-daughter of the Rev. Caleb 
Prentiss and of Dr. John Hart, of South Read- 
ing (now Wakefield). Every male ancestor of occupied seven years, finally resigning it to 
the subject of this sketch, of such age as to ren- resume general practice. In 1881, 1882, and 
der it possible, took an active part in the war of 18S3 he was member of the Boston Common 
the Revolution; and Prentiss's grandfather Oliver Council, and in 18S4 and 1885 he represented a 




PRENTISS CUMMINGS. 



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MEN OF I'KOGRESS. 



Eoston district in tlic lower iiouse of tiie Legisla- 
ture, being a member of the committees on the 
judiciary, on taxation, and on woman suffrage. 
In 1885 he became president of the Cambridge 
Railroad Company, and held that position until 
all the Boston street railways were consolidated 
under the name of the \\'est End Company in 
November, 1887, when he was made vice-presi- 
dent of the latter company, which position he still 
holds. He is a member of the Society of the 
Cincinnati, succeeding his great-grandfather. Dr. 
John Hart, who was surgeon (rank lieutenant 
colonel) of Prescott's regiment, and afterwards of 
the Second Massachusetts ; is president of the 
fioston Chess Club, and has been a member of 
the Union and other clubs. Mr. Cummings was 
married February 25, 1880, at ISuckfiekl, Me., 
to Miss Annie Delena Snow, daughter of Alonzo 
and Priscilla (Weeks) Snow, of Cambridge. They 
have no children. 



1).\MRELL, John Sianhope. inspector of 
buildings of tlie citv of Boston, was liorn in the 




JOHN S. DAMRELL. 



North End of Boston, June 29, 1828, son of 
Samuel and Ann (Stanhope) Damrell. He was 
educated in Boston and Cambridge public 



schools, working during the summers on a farm 
in Haverhill. Obliged to leave school early, he 
was apprenticed at fourteen years of age to Isaac 
Melvin, of Cambridge, to learn the carpenter's 
trade. After serving four years as a "prentice, he 
came to Boston, and hired out as a journeyman, 
but was soon made foreman for U. P. Gross, car- 
penter and builder in the city. In 1S56 he began 
work as a master-builder. Ten years later he 
formed a partnership with James Long, under the 
tirm name of Damrell Ov Long, which continued 
until 1874. For twenty-eight years he was con- 
nected with the Boston fire department, follow- 
ing in the footsteps of his father, first as a mem- 
ber of " Hero Engine Company No. 6," then 
established on Derne Street, at the corner of Tem- 
ple .Street. When, upon the demolition of the 
engine-house to make way for the great granite 
Beacon Hill Reservoir in 1849 (which occupied 
the site now covered by the State House Ex- 
tension till 1885) the company disbanded, he be- 
came a member of " City Hose," then on Treniont 
Street. In i860 he joined "Cataract Engine 
Company No. 4," at that time housed on River 
Street, passing in this company through all tlie 
grades of official position. When serving in the 
capacity of foreman, he was elected to the Com- 
mon Council from Ward 6. The following year 
he was chosen assistant engineer. He served in 
this position until 1866, when he became chief 
engineer : and he continued at the head from that 
time to 1874, when the department was reorgan- 
ized, and placed under a commission. He has 
held his present position as chief of the city de- 
partment of inspection of buildings since 1877. 
During his long and conspicuous service as an en- 
gineer in the fire department he was connected 
officially with numerous organizations. He w'as 
the first president of the Massachusetts State 
Firemen's Association ; has served long terms as 
president of the Firemen's Charitable Associa- 
tion, of the Boston Firemen's Mutual Relief Asso- 
ciation, of the Boston Veteran Firemen's Associa- 
tion, and of the Boston Firemen's Cemetery Asso- 
ciation ; and is to-day actively connected with 
these and kindred organizations. While at the 
head of the Boston fire department, he was a close 
student of the science of the e.xtinguishment of 
fires, and was an earnest advocate of advanced 
theories and methods, which the city was slow to 
adopt until after the experience of the " Great 
Fire" of 1872. At the convention of chief engi- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



37 



neers in Baltimore in 1874, called in consequence 
of the sweeping and disastrous conflagrations in 
the cities of Portland, Chicago, and lioston, he 
was unanimously elected president of that body, 
and took a leading part in its proceedings. Mr. 
Damrell was also for many years connected with 
the State militia, serving as lieutenant of the old 
Mechanic RiHes of Boston. He has been a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company for more than twenty years, and is now 
an honorary member of tlie National Lancers. 
He was also a member of the Fusiliers. During 
the Civil War he performed substantial service, 
under Governor Andrew and Mayor Lincoln, in 
tilling the quota of men allotted to Boston. At 
that time he was chairman of the committee of 
twenty of Ward Six. He is a Mason of the thirty- 
second degree, a member of the Knights of 
Honor, member of the Royal Arcanum, of the 
( )dd Fellows, and of the Good Templars ; and 
he has been president of the supreme parliament 
of the Golden Rule Alliance since its organiza- 
tion. For the past seventeen years he has been 
trustee of the Massachusetts School for the 
Feeble-Minded. His church connections are with 
the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and he has 
served for twenty-five consecutive years as super- 
intendent of a Sunday-school. In 1891 he was 
elected president of the National Association of 
Commissioners and Inspectors of Public Build- 
ings, and re-elected at the convention of the asso- 
ciation held in Boston in 1894. Mr. Damrell 
was married April 11, 1850, at Cambridge, to Miss 
.Susan Emily Hill, daughter of John and .Susan 
(^Snelling) Hill. They ha\e had fi\e children : 
Eliza Ann, John E. S., Carrie M., Charles S., and 
Susan Emily Damrell, of whom only the two sons 
are now living. 



two years on probation at l''rederick City, Md. 
Thereafter he devoted some time to a further 
study of the classics; and from 1863 to 1869 he 



DEVll T, Rkv. Edward I(;N..\Trtrs, S. J., presi- 
dent of Boston College, is a native of Boston, 
born December 13, 1841, son of George Devitt, 
of County Tipperary, Ireland, who emigrated to 
America in 1830. His education was begun in 
Boston public schools, and completed in Catholic 
colleges. He was a Franklin medal scholar of 
the Eliot Grammar School in 1854, and graduated 
from the English High in 1857. After a course 
of Latin and Greek in the College of the Holy 
Cross at Worcester, he entered the Society- of 
Jesus early in 1859, and then spent tiie customary 




E. I. DEVITT. 

taught in Gonzaga College, Washington, D.C. 
Tile following seven years were spent at the Col- 
lege of the Sacred Heart, Woodstock, Md., three 
of which he gave to the study of philosophy and 
four to theology. He was ordained in 1875 by 
the Most Rev. James R. Bayley, archbishop of 
Baltimore. Having completed the regular course 
of studies required by the Institute of the Society, 
he returned to Holy Cross, Worcester, as pro- 
fessor of rhetoric. The following year he was 
also a lecturer on philosophy in the same institu- 
tion. In 1879 he was appointed to the chair of 
philosophy in the College of the Sacred Heart, 
where he had made his principal study (jf this 
branch. After four years in this professorship 
he went to Georgetown University, and there also 
lectured on philosophy. Two years later he re- 
turned to Woodstock College, being appointed to 
the chair of theology, which had been held by 
Father Camillus Mazzella, afterward elevated to 
the rank of cardinal. In 1888 he again returned 
to Holy Cross, this time as professor of jihiloso- 
phy ; and in 1891 he was appointed to his present 
position at the head of Boston College. The 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



president of Boston College is also, by virtue of 
his office, rector of the adjoining Church of the 
Immaculate Conception and president of the 
Young; Men's Catholic Association. 



DICKINSON, M.XKi^iuis Favette, Jr., member 
of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Amherst, born 
January i6, 1840, son of Marquis F. and Hannah 
(\Mlliams) Dickinson. His paternal ancestor in 
the eighth generation was Nathaniel Dickinson, 
one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., 
who twenty-three years later became one of the 
original " adventurers " who settled the town of 




M. F. DICKINSON. Jr. 

Hadley in 1658. Two of his sons were killed in 
King Philip's War, and a third was carried into 
captivity. The great-grandfather of Mr. Dickin- 
son was Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., of Amherst, 
who was graduated from Harvard in 177 1, being 
the first boy from Amherst who went to college. 
He studied law at Northampton under Major 
Joseph Hawley, the distinguished Revolutionary 
leader, was admitted to the bar in 1774, and prac- 
tised at Amherst until his death in iSoo. He 
was prominent in Revolutionary politics, chairman 
of the Amherst Committee of Correspondence, 
and a member of several of the Provincial Con- 



gresses. Three of Mr. Dickinson's ancestors 
served in the Revolutionary army. His early 
education was obtained in the common schools of 
his native town and in Amherst and Monson 
academies. He was fitted for college in the 
famous \\'illiston Seminary at Easthampton. 
Craduating from Williston in the class of 1858, 
he entered Amherst College the same year, and 
graduated therefrom in 1862, having one of the 
three highest of the Commencement appoint- 
ments. Three years were next spent as a teacher 
of classics at Williston .(1862-65) ; and then he 
took up the study of law, first in the office of 
Wells & Soule in Springfield, and afterwards at 
the Harvard Law School (1866-67) and with the 
late Ceorge S. Hillard, of Boston. Admitted to 
the bar in 186S, he began practice in Boston. In 
1869 he was appointed assistant United States 
attorney, which position he held for two years. 
In 1S71 he formed a law partnership with Mr. 
Hillard and Henry D. Hyde, his college mate, 
under the firm name of Hillard, Hyde & Dick- 
inson, whicii continued till the death of Mr. Hil- 
lard, when it became Hyde, Dickinson & Howe 
(Mr. Howe having been admitted in 1879). In 
1871 he became a lecturer on law as applied to 
rural affairs, in the State Agricultural College at 
Amherst, puljlished a pamphlet on "Legislation 
cm the Hours of Labor," became a member of 
the lioston Common Council, and by appoint- 
ment of Mayor Ciaston a trustee of the Boston 
I'ulilic Lil)rary. The ne.xt year, returned to the 
Common Council, he was made president of that 
body. Then he retired from public service, and, 
with the exception of his law lectures at the Am- 
lierst Agricultural, which continued until 1877, he 
has devoted himself exclusively to his profession, 
early entering upon an important and lucrative 
practice. He has had charge of an unusually 
large number of important assignments made by 
merchants for the benefit of creditors, and in this 
line of practice is recognized as one of the most 
successful men at the Boston bar. .\t present he 
is almost constantly engaged in the trial of tort 
cases, particularly for the West End Street Rail- 
way Company. Since 1872 Mr. Dickinson has 
been a trustee of \\'illiston Seminary, and since 
1877 one of the overseers of the charity fund of 
.Amherst College. In 1876, by invitation of the 
town of Amherst, he delivered the " Amherst 
Centennial Address," which was afterwards pub- 
lished in pamphlet form. Mr. Dickinson was 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



39 



married November 23, 1864, at Easthampton. to 
Miss Cecilia R. Williston, adopted daughter of 
Samuel and Emily (Graves) Williston. They 
have had three children : Williston, Charles, and 
Florence Dickinson, — but one of whom, Charles, 
is now living. They have an adopted daughter, 
Jennie Couden Dickinson, daughter of a deceased 
sister of Mr. Dickinson. Mr. Dickinson's winter 
residence is Brookline. In summer he lives on 
the Jerusalem Road, North Cohasset. 



DODGE, James H.-^le, city auditor, Boston, 
was born in South Boston, September 22, 1845. 




JAMES H. DODGE. 

son of the late William Bradford and Mary Smith 
(Leavitt) Dodge. He was educated in the public 
schools, graduating from the Latin School in 
1862. He entered the service of the city, in the 
department of which he is now the head, at the 
age of twenty-two, after an experience of three or 
four years in general business, most of that time 
in the house of Hodges & Silsbee, manufacturers 
of chemicals, and has remained in that depart- 
ment ever since. Beginning in 1867 as junior 
clerk to the city auditor, in 1873 he was made 
chief clerk of the office, and in 18S1 became audi- 
tor, succeeding Alfred T. Turner, tiial \ear made 



city treasurer. Since 1881, also, he has been 
secretary of the board of commissioners of the 
sinking funds for the payment or redemption of 
the city debt. It is the lot of but few in public 
life to witness the growth of public business and 
at the same time to be intimately connected with 
it for so long a period as he has served. The 
census of 1865 of the city of Boston, comprising 
only what was known as the city proper. East Bos- 
ton, and South Boston, showed a population of 
only 192,318: in 1890 the Boston of 1865, with 
its additions of Roxbury, Dorchester, West Rox- 
bury, Brighton, and Charlestown, showed a popu- 
lation of 448,477, of which 59r'o per cent, were in 
the city of 1865. In the financial year of 1866-67 
the payments through the auditor's office were 
$4,660,533.62: in 1893-94 they were $34,712,- 
018.23. The valuation of 1865 was $415,362,- 
345 : the valuation of 1893, $924,093,751. Mr. 
Dodge is a member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, and of the American So- 
ciety of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. For 
several years he has been clerk of the Central 
Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, West 
Roxbury District. He was married October 8, 
1867, to Julia M. Read, daughter of the late 
Nelson S. and Hannah (Heals) Read. There 
have been born to them se\-en children, of whom 
but three boys survive : \\'illiam B., J. Herbert, 
and Edgar R. Dodge. 



DODGE, Colonel Theodore Avrault, of the 
United States army, was born in Pittsfield, 
May 28, 1842, of old New England stock, tracing 
his descent to several ancestors who came over 
with the first settlers. His father was N. S. 
Dodge, the well-known writer, and his mother 
Emily Pomeroy. Sent abroad at ten years old, 
he was at school in Belgium, received a thorough 
military education in Berlin, studied at Heidel- 
berg, and was graduated at the University of 
London in i860. He is also an LL.B. of Colum- 
bian University. On the outbreak of the Ci\il 
War young Dodge returned home, enlisted, and 
served in every rank from private to the command 
of a regiment. \\"ith the Third and Eleventh 
Corps he went through all the battles of the Army 
of the Potomac from Fair Oaks on, and was 
wounded at Manassas and at Chantilly, and lost a 
leg at Gettysburg. At Manassas his regiment, 
the One Hundred and First New York Volun- 



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teers, lost the third highest percentage in killed, 
wounded, and missing in one engagement of any 
regiment during the war, — seventy-four per cent. 
Being ordered to duty in the war department on 
recovery from his last wound, t'olonel Dodge was 
given a commission in the regular army, received 
four brevets for gallant service, and was finally 
placed on the retired list for wounds received in 
the line of duty. Colonel Dodge has devoted the 
leisure thus earned to literature. He has lectured 
at the Lowell Institute, Boston, and at Harvard. 
He has been a constant contributor to magazine 
literature for many years, and has, up to 1894, pub- 
lished the following eleven volumes, not counting 
parts of several others, all of which have been 
received at home and abroad with e.xceptional 
fa\-or, namely : " The Campaign of Chancellors- 
ville," '"A Bird's-eye Mew of Our Civil War," 
" I'atroclus and Penelope : a Chat in the Saddle," 
"Creat Captains," '-Alexander" (two volumes), 
"Hannibal" (two volumes), " Ca-sar " (two vol- 
umes, and " Riders of Many Lands." It has 
fallen to Colonel Dodge's lot to travel extensively. 



the Great Captains, it has been his haljit to pass 
over the ground covered bv their campaigns, and 
to make his own sketches of battlefields. In 
writing " Hannibal," he crossed and recrossed the 
.\lps a score of times, with Polybius in hand, to 
determine the route of the great Carthaginian : 
in writing "C.x-sar," he journeyed around the 
entire basin of the Mediterranean ; and he has 
been able to correct many errors which, from 
unfamiliarity with the topography, have crept into 
history. Colonel Dodge is now occupied with 
Gustavus, Frederick, and Napoleon, whose biogra- 
phies will complete his "History of the .Art of 
\\'ar." He is a member of many military and 
historical societies, of the St. Botolph, Country, 
and Papyrus clubs of Boston, and has been presi- 
dent of the last. He has been a noted expert in 
horsemanship, but is perhaps better known as a 
military critic and historian. Colonel Dodge mar- 
ried in 1865 Miss Jane Marshall Neil, who died in 
1 88 1, and by whom he had five children. Three 
now survive : Robert Elkin Neil, Theodora, and 
Jane Marshall Dodge. In 1892 he married Miss 
Clara Isabel Bow'den, who has been his collabora- 
tor in most of his books. He resided for many 
years in lirookline. 




ELDER, S-AMUEL James, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Rhode Island and a gradu- 
ate of Yale ; but his early education and prepara- 
tion for college were obtained in Massachusetts, 
and here he has practised his profession. He 
was born in the village of Hope, R.I., January 4, 
1850, son of James and Deborah Dunbar (Keene) 
Elder. He is a lineal descendant of Robert Elder, 
eldest son of Robert Elder, of Cameronian de- 
scent, who emigrated from Scotland, and settled at 
Pa.xtang (now Harrisburg, Penna.,) in 1730, and 
brother of the Rev. John Elder, minister at Pa.x- 
tang for fift\'-six years, who in the French and 
Indian War commanded the defences from the 
Easton to the Susquehanna, with rank of colonel 
from the Provincial authorities, and, when up- 
wards of seventy years of age, raised a company 
one Sunday morning in church which joined 
Washington during the disastrous retreat through 
New Jersey. On his mother's side he is de- 
He has crossed the .Atlantic over thirty times, is scended from Jacob Keene, who settled at Thom- 
familiar with every part of Europe, has repeatedly aston, Me., about 1780. His father was a native 
gone through the ( )rient, and has once circum- of Baltimore, Md. He attended the pulilic 
navigated the globe. In wri'ting his histories of schools of Lawrence, Mass., and there fitted for 



THEO. A. DODGE. 



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collet^e. He ijraduatL'd from Vale in the class of tions), Papyrus, ("urtis (prcsiduut), Middlesex, 
1873, and afterwards studied law in ISoston with and Taylor clubs of Boston, and Calumet of 
fohn H. Hardy, now associate justice of the \\'inchester (vice-president); and of the William 
municipal court of Boston. Admitted to the Suf- Parkman Lodge. Free Masons, of Winchester. 

He has done much after-dinner speaking, and has 
the reputation of being always ready and graceful 
in these efforts. His interest in college ath- 
letics is unflagging. Mr. Klder was married at 
Hastings-upon- Hudson, N.N'., May 10, 1876, to 
Miss Lilla Thomas, daughter of Cornelius W. and 
Margaret J. ( WyckolT) Thomas. They have two 
children: Margaret Munroe and Fanny Adele 
<>^,- .- - ^ ^^^ Elder. He has resided in Winchester since 1877. 




SAMUEL J. ELDER. 

folk bar in 1S75, he at once engaged actively in 
professional work. He is now associated with 
William C. Wait and Edmund A. \\'hitnian. under 
the Arm name of Elder, Wait, iv: \\'hitman. in the 
.Ames I'luilding. To copyriglit law he has given 
special attention, and he was selected to act with 
the International Copyright League before the 
United States Senate on the international copy- 
riglit bill. His principal work, however, is in jury 
trials in Suffolk and Middlesex Counties. In poli- 
tics Mr. Elder is Republican. He served one term 
in the lower house of the Legislature (1885), de- 
clining a re-election, as a representative of the 
Fourteenth Middlese.x; District (Winchester and 
.\rlington), being chairman of the committee on 
bills in the third reading and member of the com- 
mittee on ta.xation. He also declined a position 
on the Superior Court bench. Since 1891 he has 
been State commissioner on portraits of governors. 
He is a member of the Boston Bar Association 
(member of the council): of the \'ale Alumni 
Association (president in 1893); of the I'nion. 
University (member of the committee on elec- 



ERNST, George Alexander Otis, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
November 8, 1850. His father, Andrew H. 
Ernst, was a native of (Jermany; and his mother, 
Sarah (Otis) Ernst, was daughter of George Alex- 
ander Otis, well known in the early literary world 
of Boston. His education was begun in the 
Cincinnati private schools, and continued in the 
Mount Pleasant Military Academy. Sing-Sing. 
N.Y., and the Eliot High School in Jamaica 
Plain, where he was fitted for college. He en- 
tered Harvard, and graduated w'ith the class of 
187 I. His law studies were pursued in the office 
of Ropes & Gray, Boston, for two years, then in 
the Harvard Law School, and later in the office of 
lames 1!. Richardson, now a justice of the Supe- 
rior Court. In his practice he has given much 
attention to corporation matters and to the laws 
relating to women. He was prominently men- 
tioned for the new judgeship of the Probate Court 
established by the Legislature in 1893. In this 
connection the Boston Transcript in an editorial 
note spoke of him as follows : '' Mr. Ernst is a 
man of high legal attainments, conservative, yet 
kindly, honorable, high-minded, and independent. 
He has made a special study of Massachusetts 
law in its bearing on the property rights of 
women, and his appointment would give great 
satisfaction both to the profession and the public. 
No nomination could be made which would cause 
more general satisfaction than that of Mr. Ernst, 
or confer more credit on the executive of the 
Commonwealth. It would be an ideal appoint- 
ment." In 1883 and 1884 he was a member of 
the lower house of the Legislature, serving on im- 
portant committees, — as those on elections (of 
which he was chairman), street raihvaxs and rail- 



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roads, — and having an influential part in the 
legislation of the sessions, helping to frame the 
first civil service law passed in Massacluisetts. 
In 1880 he was at the Republican Xational Con- 
vention in Chicago as one of the committee repre- 
senting the Massachusetts \'oung Republicans to 
secure a civil service reform plank in the party 
platform. An ardent Republican, but with an 
independent spirit, he has been active in various 
reforms, notably that of woman suffrage, in which 
he is a warm belie\er. \\hile devoted to his pro- 




GEO. A. 0. ERNST. 

fession, he has given some time to literature, con- 
tributing to periodical publications and translating 
from the French. In 1879 he wrote for and won 
the first prize offered by the Boston Christian 
Union for an essay upon the "True Political In- 
terests of the Laboring Classes." He has pub- 
lished translations of two novels "The Widow 
Lerouge " (Boston, James R. Osgood & Co.) and 
"The Clique of Gold" (published as a serial in 
the Boston Courier). Three plays, " A Christmas 
Supper," "The Double \^'edding," and "Our 
Friends," have been produced at the Boston Mu- 
seum, in all of which the great comedian, William 
Warren, had leading parts. Mr. Ernst was mar- 
ried in Brooklyn, N.Y., on December 11, 1879, to 
Miss Jeanie C. Bvnner, sister of the late Edwin 



Lassetter Bynner, the novelist. They have two 
children : Roger and Sarah Otis Ernst. Their 
home is in Jamaica Plain, where Mr, Ernst has 
been for several years chairman of the standing 
committee of the l^nitarian church of which Rev. 
Charles F. Dole is pastor. 



FAXON, Henrv H.ardwick, of <,)uincy. emi- 
nent as an independent leader in the cause of 
Prohibition, is a native of Quincy, born Septem- 
ber 28, 1823, son of Job and Judith B. (Hardwick) 
Faxon. He is of an old New England family, a 
descendant in the eighth generation of 'i'homas 
Faxon, a man of substance, who came from Eng- 
land, with his wife, daughter, and two sons, some 
time previous to 1647, and settled in that part of 
Braintree now (,)uincy, where the familv has ever 
since lived. His father. Job Faxon, was an exten- 
sive farmer, and for many years owned and man- 
aged a stall in (Quincy Market, Boston, in connec- 
tion with his farm in (Quincy. He lived ninet)-- 
two years and ten months ; and it is related that 
ten days before he died he was in the field haying. 
Henry H. P'axon was the fourth of a family of 
seven children, six of whom reached adult estate. 
His boyhood was spent on the farm and in the 
country school ; and at sixteen he was appren- 
ticed to learn the shoemaker's trade. After five 
3'ears as an apprentice he engaged in the manu- 
facture of boots and shoes on his own account, 
with his brother John as a partner. The goods 
of the firm found market in Boston and Baltimore 
principally, and he prospered ; but in less than 
three years he withdrew from this enterprise, and 
opened a retail grocery and provision store in 
Quincy, subsequently adding a bakery. In this 
business he continued about seven years, the 
latter part of the time engaging also in that of a 
real estate and merchandise auctioneer. Then 
he transferred his operations to Boston, where he 
opened a retail grocery store at the corner of 
South and Beach Streets, with two partners, under 
the firm name of P'axon, Wood, & Co. Two j'ears 
later, reorganizing the firm under the name of 
Faxon Brothers, & Co., and changing the business 
from retail to wholesale, he moved into Commer- 
cial Street, where he remained till 1S61, when he 
retired from the partnership with a modest fortune 
made in these enterprises and also in real estate 
operations, which he had begun while keeping 
store in (Juincy. l^pon his witlidrawal from the 



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grocery trade he began a system of shrewd specu- 
lation, from which his profits were quick and 
large. First he went to \ew Orleans, just before 
the outbreak of the Civil War, and there made 
hirge purchases of molasses, which he shipped to 
his former partners in Boston, profiting by the 
transaction. Then the following year returning to 
Jioston and establishing himself in Chatham Street, 
but soon after moving to India Wharf, he engaged 
during the remainder of the war period in specu- 
lation in merchandise, operating extensively in 
chiccory, raisins, and various spices, in sago, kero- 
sene oil, and fire-crackers, thereby clearing nearly 
$50,000. At one time, anticipating a rise in the 
price of liquors from the increased customs duty 
about to be laid, he purchased several hundred 
barrels of whiskey and rum, which he finally dis- 
posed of at a handsome profit. It was upon this 
transaction that, when he became an ardent Pro- 
hibitionist, his opponents based their assertion 
that he had "made his money out of rum." His 
next field of operation was the stock market, where 
he was not successful ; and before his losses had 
become heavy he drew out, and turned his atten- 
tion again to real estate dealings, through which 
he made the larger part of his fortune. He is 
now the largest real estate owner in ()uincy, and 
owns much property also in lioston and Chelsea. 
He has in all more than two hundred tenants ; 
and among his holdings is the estate in (,>uincy 
on which his early grocery store and bakery stood. 
Mr. Faxon's public life began in 1864, when he 
represented his native town in the lower house of 
the Legislature : and his active temperance work 
dates from his second term in the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1871. As a rule, Mr. Faxon has af- 
filiated with the Republican party ; but he always 
exercised the right of bolting bad nominations, 
and in consequence received the severe censure 
of the party leaders. In 1884 he was induced to 
run for lieutenant governor on the Prohibitory 
ticket, and has often contributed generously to the 
party treasury. He has prepared and circulated 
many campaign documents, and for three years 
he issued ingenious "ratings " of the Legislature, 
showing the position of each member on the ques- 
tion of Prohibition as disclosed by yea and nay 
votes on anti-liquor measures, the trustworthy 
Prohibitionists being indicated by three stars, the 
unreliable by one star, and the enemies of temper- 
ance by a dash (-); and this record was used 
with effect in the legislative canvasses. For more 



than twenty years he has maintained an inde- 
pendent political bureau, known as the "Temper- 
ance Republican Headquarters," at No. 36 Hrom- 
field Street, Boston, the active management of 
which now devolves upon Miss F.va M. Brown, who 
has been his private secretary for fourteen years. 
His office is a perfect arsenal of information for 
opponents of the saloon, being fully supplied with 
facts and figures with which to demolish the rum 
power. In his anti-liquor labors Mr. F'a.xon has 
expended upwards of $100,000. In his own city 



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HENRY H. FAXON. 

of Quincy he has served as constable since 1881, 
with the exception of three years (1886-89). ap- 
pointed at his own request, in order that he might 
personally conduct the crusade against violations 
of the liquor law. He has faithfully performed all 
the duties of the office, declining the salary appro- 
priated, and turning over to his brother officers all 
the fees attending the service of warrants. Up- 
wards of five hundred cases of prosecution of 
illegal liquor sales brought about by his vigorous 
constabulary work are on record. In several in- 
stances he has suppressed the liquor traffic in 
Quincy through the purchase of property devoted 
to it. He bought the Hancock House, leased it 
for a term of years as a boarding-house for Adams 
Academy students, and has recently built a block 



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of stores around it ; purchased the building now 
known as the Quincy Hotel, and, the deed being 
withheld, sued the owner for a violation of tlie 
agreement. He also secured an estate locally 
known as the " Sax'ille Place," where it was in- 
tended to sell liquor. Faxon Hall, erected in 1S76 
for the Reform Club of Quinc)', is a permanent 
memorial to his name. Toward its cost, $11,000, 
he contributed four-fifths. He is a member of 
the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, of 
the Norfolk Republican Club, of the Norfolk Uni- 
tarian Club, and of the New England Tariff 
Reform League. Mr. Faxon was married Novem- 
ber 18, 1852, to Miss Mary B. Munroe, daughter 
of Israel W. and Priscilla L. (Burbank) Munroe. 
She died September 6, 1885, leaving one son, 
Henry Munroe Faxon, born May 22, 1864. 



FESSENDRN, Fr.anklin Guodridcr, of 
Greenfield, justice of the .Superior Court of the 
Commonwealth, is a native of Fitchburtj. born 




FRANKLIN G. FESSENDEN. 

June 20, 1849, son of Charles and Martha E. 
(Newton) Fessenden. He is a descendant of the 
Lexington branch of the Fessenden family, whose 
first ancestor in this country settled in Cam- 
bridge about the middle of the seventeenth cen- 



tury. His great-grandfather, Nathan Fessenden, 
of Lexington, was in Captain Parker's company at 
Lexington, April 19, 1775. His early education 
was acquired in the Fitchburg grammar and high 
schools, and subsequently he studied abroad in 
Paris. He entered the Harvard Law Schnol in 
-September, 1S70, received the degree of LL. li. 
therefrom in 1872, and remained in the school, 
taking a post-graduate course, during the follow- 
ing year. He was admitted to the bar of Massa- 
chusetts in June, 1873, and ten years later (in 
December, 1883) to practice in the L'nited States 
courts. After practising a year in Fitchburg, he 
established himself in Greenfield, where he con- 
tinued until his elevation to the Superior bench 
in .Vugust, 1 89 1, by appointment of Governor 
Russell. \\'hile engaged in general practice, he 
was especially concerned in corporation matters, 
as counsel for various railroads as well as for pri- 
vate corporations. He was also some time coun- 
sel for the first National Bank of Greenfield and 
for the town of Greenfield. He was twice (in 
1884 and 1889) district attorney //v Icinporc for 
the north-western district of Massachusetts, and 
for many years was a master in chancery. For 
a year after his graduation from the Law School 
( 1872-73) he was an instructor in Harvard Col- 
lege, and later, also for a year (1882-83), "^ 
lecturer in the Law School. Since 188 1 he has 
been a trustee of the Prospect Hill School, Green- 
field, and clerk of the board. He has served in 
the State militia as captain of Company L, Sec- 
ond Regiment, and as assistant inspector-gen- 
eral. Since 1884 he has been a trustee of the 
Franklin Savings Institution of Greenfield. In 
politics Judge Fessenden is a Democrat. He is 
a member of the Greenfield Club of Greenfield ; 
of the University Club, Boston ; and of the Co- 
lonial Club of Cambridge. He was married 
( )etober 3, 1878, to Miss Mary J. Rowley, daugh- 
ter of James \\ . and Anne Rowley. 



FIELD, W'Ai.nuini-.E Ah.n'er, chief justice of 
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, is 
a native of Vermont, born in Springfield, Windsor 
County, April 26, 1833, son of Abner and Louisa 
(Griswold) Field. He is of old New England 
stock, — on his father's side a descendant of the 
Fields of Rhode Island, and on his mother's 
side of the Griswolds of Connecticut. He was 
educated in |3rivate schools and academies and 



MEN OF rKO(;RESS. 



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at Dartmouth College, whcie he graduated in Long, in February, 1881. He became chief jus- 
the class of 1855. Immediately after graduating tice in 1890, appointed by Covernor I'.rackett 

upon the resignation of Chief Justice Morton. 



he spent two years in the college as tutor, and 
then began the study of law, in I'.oston, with 
the late Harvey Jewell. In the spring of 1S59 




WALBRIDGE A. FIELD. 

he took charge of the professorship of mathe- 
matics at Dartmouth for the spring and summer 
terms, and then entered the Harvard Law School. 
In i860 he was admitted to the bar. He began 
practice at once with Mr. Jewell. Five years 
after (in 1865) he was appointed assistant United 
States attorney for Massachusetts, under Richard 
H. Dana ; and he remained with Mr. Dana and 
George S. Hillard until 1869, when he was ap- 
pointed by President Grant assistant attorne)'- 
general of the United States, under E. Rockwood 
Hoar. In the latter relation he continued until 
August, 1870, and then, returning to IJoston, 
formed a law partnership with Mr. Jewell and 
\\'illiam Gaston, under the firm name of Jewell, 
Gaston & Field. When Mr. Gaston became gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts, in 1S75, he retired from 
the firm, and Edward ( ). Shepard was admitted 
into the partnership and the firm name changed 
to Jewell, Field &• Shepard. And so it remained 
until the appointment of Mr. I'ield to the Su- 
preme liench, as associate justice, by Governor 



In 1876 Mr. Field was a Republican candidate 
for Congress in the Third District, and was de- 
clared elected. l!ut the election was contested, 
and after about a year's service he was unseated. 
In the next election he was again a candidate 
from the same district, and, being elected, took 
his seat, and served his term without a contest. 
During the early years of his residence in Bos- 
ton he served two terms on the School Board 
(1863-64); and subsequently he was a member 
of the Common Council three terms, from 186:; 
to 1867. He received the degree of LL.D. from 
Harvard College in 1886, and from Dartmouth 
College in 1888. Mr. Field was first married in 
1869 to Miss Eliza E. McLoon, of Rockland, 
Me. She died in March, 1877, leaving two 
daughters : Eleanor Louise and Elizabeth Len- 
thal Field. He was again married in October, 
1882, to Miss Frances E. Farwell, daughter of the 
Hon. Nathan A. Farwell, of Rockland, Me. 



FITCH, RiiiiERT Ger.sikim, chairman of the 
Board of Fire Commissioners, Boston, is a native 
of Sheffield, a Berkshire hill town, born May 19, 
1846, son of Gershom M. and Almeda L. (Rood) 
Fitch. Lentil nearly twenty years of age he 
worked on his father's farm, getting what educa- 
tion he could through instruction at home during 
the winter months. Then he went to the South 
Berkshire Institute, New Marlborough, and fitted 
for college, and, entering Williams, graduated 
therefrom, in due course, with the class of 1870, 
taking an honorary oration at commencement. 
His bent was early toward journalism, and while 
at college he was editor of the W'illiatns Qmir- 
h-iiy, the college magazine. After graduation he 
at once found employment in the editorial depart- 
ment of the Springfield Rt-piihlicati, where he re- 
mained about two years, serving in various capaci- 
ties. From that office he went to the Boston 
Post, becoming a member of the staff of the latter 
paper early in 1872, under Nathaniel G. Greene, 
then the managing editor. Here he rose through 
the different editorial departments to the position 
of editor-in-chief, which he ably filled from 1881 
to 1885. Then, retiring upon the incoming of a 
new business management, he engaged in general 
journalistic work as a contributor to several jour- 



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nals till his appointment by Mayor O'Brien to the 
Fire Commission in May. 1886, for the term of 
three years. In this position he has continued 




ROBERT G. FITCH. 

since through successive reappointments by 
Mayors Hart and Matthews. He has been chair- 
man of the board since August, 1886. He is a 
member of the Papyrus, Press, and University 
clubs of Boston ; of the Chief Engineers' Club ; 
and of the Young Men's Democratic Club of 
Massachusetts. Mr. Fitch was married in Detroit, 
Mich., September 26, 1878, to Miss Emma H. 
Emmons, daughter of Burton and Minerva Emmons 
of that city. She died in 1888, leaving two chil- 
dren, Helen M. and Emma M. Fitch. 



F(3WLE, Arthur Adams, managing editor of 
the Boston Globe, is a native of Woburn, born 
December 3, 1847, son of James Leonard and 
Luthera (Tay) Fowle. ( )n his father's side he is 
of English stock, and on his mother's of Scotch. 
He was educated in the public schools of Wo- 
burn ; and his training for active life was in actual 
work in store and shop, begun at the age of nine. 
He first learned the trade of a currier, and worked 
at this for several years. His first newspaper 
work was as a "district reporter" for the Globe, 



covering his town. This was in 1873, when he 
was twenty-si.x years old. The next year he was 
taken on to the city staff, and assigned to the 
work of a general reporter. In this capacity he 
developed rapidly, displaying such ability as a 
quick, intelligent, and enterprising news-gatherer 
that he early won a leading place in this depart- 
ment of the paper. In 1878 he was made city 
editor, and since that time he has successfully 
occupied every position on the editorial floor 
with the exception of those of musical critic and 
financial editor. He became managing editor 
in September, 1884, holding the position during 
the period of the greatest development of the 
Globe, when it grew from a small undertaking 
to a great journal of many departments and 
metropolitan size. Jn politics he is Democratic, 
fie is a member of the Boston Press Club and 
of several other newspaper organizations, and 
of the Corinthian \'acht Club. He has never 
lield public office, devoting himself entirely to 
his professional work. Mr. Fowle was married 
on June 12, 1877, to Miss Kate Wallace Munn, 
of Woburn, daughter of Charles Munn and Eliza- 




A. A, FOWLE. 



beth Minerva (Kane) Munn. They have two 
children: Leonard Munn and Donald Adams 
Fowle. 



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FC^XCROFT, Frank, associate editor of tiie 
Boston Joiinuil, is a native of Boston, born Janu- 
ary 2 1, 1850, son of George A. and Harriet Eliza- 
beth (Goodrich) Foxcroft. His father was well 
known as a newspaper writer, and especially as 
the originator of "Job Sass," whose phonetic 
hiiinor antedated " Artemas Ward," "Josh Bill- 
ings," and the rest. His mother was a daughter 
of Levi Goodrich, a prosperous farmer and con- 
tractor of Pittsfield. He was educated first in the 
public schools of Boston and Pittsfield, and after- 
wards at Williams ("ollegc. where he was gradu- 




FRANK FOXCROFT. 

ated in the class of 187 1. His inherited liking 
for newspaper work showed itself early : when a 
boy he spent much of his vacation time in news- 
paper offices, and was editor of the Vidcttc xwA the 
QuarttT/y at college. In his Freshman year, also, 
he collected certain bits of verse which he had 
contributed to the Boston Transcript and other 
journals, and published them under the title of 
"Transcript Pieces." In September, 187 1, two 
months after his graduation from college, he be- 
came connected with the Boston Journal, and has 
been identified with that paper since, at first as 
literary editor, then as leading editorial writer, 
and more recently as associate editor. He has 
been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, the 



A/iiloTcr A'cTic7C'. and to the weekly literary and 
religious press, and he edited a collection of 
Easter poems which was published by Lee & 
Shepard (1879) under the title of " Resurgit," 
with an introduction by the late Andrew P. Pea- 
body, D.I).; but his writing has been mainly for 
the columns of ihe /or/rnal. Since 187 1 his home 
has been in Cambridge, which has rarely been 
without a Fo.xcroft among its citizens for the past 
two hundred years. He has held no political 
office, unless two terms of service upon the School 
Board of Cambridge (1875-78) are to be thus de- 
scribed. He is a member of the Cambridge, 
Congregational, and Appalachian clubs. Mr. 
Foxcroft was first married in September, 1872, 
to Miss PLlizabeth True Howard, of Columbus, 
Ohio. She died in October, 1888. In Septem- 
ber, i8gi, he married Miss Lily Sherman Rice, 
daughter of the Rev. Charles B. Rice, of Dan- 
vers. He has four daughters living : Faith, Ruth 
Darling, Esther Margaret, and Mary Goodrich 
Foxcroft, the last-named by the second marriage. 



G.VUGENGKiL, Icnaz MARCK.t,, painter of 
Xcnrc pictures, is a native of Bavaria, born in 
Passau, January 16, 1855, son of Ignaz Marcel 
and Barbara V. Minuzy (Hauser) Gaugengigl. 
His father was professor of Oriental languages in 
the Bavarian capital. He was educated in Mu- 
nich, graduating from the gymnasium in 1873, and 
afterwards bec.ime a student in the Academy of 
Fine .\rts under Professor Raab and Professor 
William Diez. After leaving the Acadeni)', he 
studied the old masters, and received orders from 
the King of Bavaria, painting for him "The 
Hanging Gardens of Semiranius." Subsequently 
he went to Italy, and there further pursued his 
studies, and in 1879 travelled in France, sketch- 
ing by the way, and visiting the Paris Exhibition. 
The next year he came to the United States to 
visit his sister, intending to remain a few months ; 
but he soon concluded to establish himself here. 
Since that time he has followed his profession in 
Boston, early achieving a reputation for the deli- 
cacy and finish of his work, its richness of color 
and refinement of technique. Among his best 
known paintings are : " An .Affair of Honor," a 
duel on the seashore, the victim lying on the sand 
with two men bending anxiously over iiiin, the 
victor standing apart, sheathing his blade, all the 
characters attired in rich old Spanish costumes ; 



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MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 



"The Duel," the scene in a paved court-yard, en- 
closed by high stone walls and lofty buildiuiis, 
the victor in the act of delivering a fatal sword- 
thrust ; '-rhe Refugee," a young Huguenot, just 
escaped the violence of a mob, knocking for shel- 
ter at a friend's door, an expression of anxious 
suspense in the listening attitude ; " Adagio," 
representing a monk clad in a pale brown robe, 
playing on a violoncello ; " After the Storm," the 
prostrate form of a man in evening dress, who has 
evidently shot himself with the revolver still held 
in his hand, lying on the ground at daw-n, under a 




1. M. CAUGENGIGL. 

tempestuous sky ; " The Revenge " ; " The First 
Hearing"; "The Amateur"; " Incredulity," two 
stubborn men in the high-colored costume of 
the time of the Directory, engaged in a debate; 
and " The Surprise." Mr. Gaugengigl is a mem- 
ber of the St. Botolph, Tavern, and Paint and 
Clay clubs, of various art societies, and of the 
permanent art committee of the Boston Museum 
of Fine Arts. 



GASTO.X, Wii.i.iAM, goxernor of the Common- 
wealth in 1875, was liorn in Killingly, Conn., 
October 3, 1820; died in Boston, January 19, 
1894. The family moving to Roxbury in 1838, 
he was a resident of Massachusetts during his 



active life, identified with Roxbury and Boston 
interests, and for upwards of a quarter of a cen- 
turv was a leading member of the Suffolk bar. 
He was of French and English ancestry, — on the 
paternal side from Jean (iaston, a Huguenot, and 
on the maternal side from Thomas Arnold, who, 
with a brother William, came to New England in 
1636, and joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island 
in 1654. His father and grandfather both served 
in the Connecticut Legislature, and the former was 
a merchant well known in his day. William Ga.s- 
ton was educated in the Brooklyn (Conn.) and 
I'laintield academies, and at Brown I'niversity, 
entering at the a^e of sixteen and srraduating with 
high honors. He began the study of law in Ro.\- 
hurv. in the office of Judge Francis Hilliard, sub- 
sequently reading with Charles P. and Benjamin 
R. Curtis in lioston ; and he was admitted to the 
bar in 1.S44. Two years later he opened an office 
in Roxbury. and there practised for nineteen 
vears. earlv ranking among the leaders of the 
.Norfolk bar. I'or many years he was city solici- 
tor of Roxbury. In 1865 he extended his prac- 
tice, forming with the late Harvey Jewell and 
Walhridge A. Field, now chief justice of the Su- 
preme judicial Court, the law firm of Jewell, Gas- 
Ion \' field, with olifices in Boston. This relation 
continued till his election to the governorship, 
when he withdrew from the firm and relinquished 
his practice. Upon his return to private life and 
resumption of business he practised a few years 
alone, and then, in 1879, formed a partnership 
with ('. I.. B. Whitney, subsequently admitting his 
son William .\. (iaston to the firm. His distin- 
guished professional record, both as a jury law- 
yer, skilful in the examination of witnesses and 
convincing in argument, and as a counsellor, 
possessed of a profound knowledge of the law 
and extreme conservatism, closed with his retire- 
ment from active practice in 1S91. Mr, Gaston's 
public career began with his election in 1853 
to the Massachusetts Legislature as a Whig. He 
was returned the next year, and in 1856 was re- 
elected by a fusion of Whigs and Democrats in 
opposititm to the Know-Nothing candidate. In 
1861 and 1862 he was mayor of Roxbury. and 
during his service w-as active in raising troops for 
the war and earnest in the support of war meas- 
ures. In 1 868 he was elected to the State Senate 
as a Democrat. In 1870 he was a candidate for 
Congress, but failed of an election. In 1S71 and 
1872, after the annexation of Roxbury to Boston 



MliN OF PROGRESS. 



49 



(1868), he was mayor of lioston. He was candi- by this union were one daughter and two sons: 
date for a third term, l)ut in one of the most Sarah Howard, William Alexander, and Theodore 
closely contested elections ever held in P.oston, lieecher (iaston. (Theodore, born February, 186 1, 

died July, 1869.) 




(iASTON, William Alexandek, member of 
the Suftolk bar, is a native of Roxbury, born May 
I, 1859, son of William and Louisa Augusta 
(lieecher) (laston. On the paternal side he is of 
Huguenot descent, from Jean (Jaston, born in 
France about the year 1600, who, banished late 
in life, settled in Scotland, and whose descend- 
ants were early in America, settling in Connecti- 
cut ; and on the maternal side he is connected 
with the distinguished Beecher family. His pa- 
ternal grandfather was a leading merchant in 
Connecticut, for many years in the Legislature ; 
and his father, William (iaston, was a foremost 
member of the Massachusetts bar, and served as 
mayor of Ro.xbury, mayor of Boston, member of 
the General Court, and governor of the Common- 
wealth. [See Gaston, William.] William .\. 
(iaston was educated in private schools, in the 



WILLIAM GASTON. 

was defeated by Henry L. Tierce, the Republican 
candidate on a ncm-partisan platfonn, by seventy- 
nine votes. 'I'wo years later he was elected to 
the governorship for the term of 1875 as the Dem- 
ocratic candidate, over 'i'homas Talbot, the regu- 
lar Republican candidate, by a plurality of up- 
wards of seven thousand votes, running many 
thousand votes ahead of his ticket. His admin- 
istration was conservative and dignified ; and he 
well represented the State on public occasions, 
notably at the centennial celebrations of Lexing- 
ton and Hunker Hill. .Vmong his appointments 
while governor were those of Otis P. Lord to the 
Supreme liench, and of Waldo Colbuni and Will- 
iam S. Gardner to the Superior Jiench. He was 
not again a candidate, but gave his heartv support 
to Charles Francis Adams, who was nominated 
by his party for the term of 1876, and was de- 
feated at the election by .Alexander H. Rice. 
While occu|)ving the governor's chair, Mr. (ias- 
ton received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 

Harvard and from P.rown. He was married May Roxbury Latin School, and at Harvard College, 
27. 1852, to Miss Louisa A. Beecher, daughter of graduating in the class of 1880. His law studies 
Laban S. and iM'ances A. (Lines) Beecher, and were pursued in the Harvard Law School and in 




WILLIAM A. GASTON, 



5° 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the PSoston office of his father. Admitted to the 
bar in 1883, he began practice as a member of 
the firm of Gaston & Whitney, the senior partners 
of which were his father and Charles L. B. \\'hit- 
ne}-. Subsequently Mr. Whitney retired, and 
Frederick E. Snow was taken into partnership, 
the firm name being changed to that of Gaston & 
Snow. In 1S91 William Gaston, senior, retired 
from active practice ; and since that time the firm 
has been making a specialty of corporation law, 
and has acted as corporation counsel for several 
of the largest corporations having headquarters in 
Boston. Mr. Gaston is a director of the Manu- 
facturers' National Bank of Boston, a trustee of 
the Proprietors of Forest Hills Cemetery, and a 
director in several large Massachusetts corpora- 
tions. He is a member of the Boston Bar Asso- 
ciation (of the council), of the Somerset, Univer- 
sity, and Curtis clubs of Boston, the Country 
Club of Brookline, and the Commodore Club of 
Maine. During the three terms of Governor 
Russell (1891-92-93) he was assistant adjutant- 
general on the governor's stafi^. He was married 
in April, 1892, to Miss May I). Lockwood, daugh- 
ter of the late Hamilton D. and Annie L. Lock- 
wood. 



GEIGER, Albert, extensive operator in real 
estate in Boston, is a native of Switzerland, born 
in Ziirich, October 23, 1850, son of Jaques and 
Elizabeth (Zimmer) Geiger. His father was a 
shoe manufacturer in Zurich. His early educa- 
tion was attained in the schools of his native city ; 
and, after his graduation from the high school 
in 1865, he received a thorough business training 
in Marseilles, France, where he spent the years 
1866-67-68. Early in 1869 he came to Boston, 
and entered the services of Naylor & Co., long 
prominent iron and steel merchants. Subse- 
quently, when this firm was succeeded by the Nor- 
way Steel and Iron Company, he was made sec- 
retary and treasurer of that corporation, which 
position he held for many years. It was after the 
iron industry had ceased to be profitable in New 
P'.ngland that he entered the real estate business. 
In this his transactions have been large from the 
beginning, and his investments have been of an 
important character. He has built a number of 
apartment houses in the Back Bay district of 
Boston, which are prominent among the finer 
structures of that quarter, such as the "Ilkley," 



the "Windermere," the " Chesterfield," on the 
corner of Exeter and Marlboro Streets, and the 
houses Nos. 290 and 293-295 Commonwealth 
Avenue ; and the building of the Copley Square 
Hotel was his enterprise. He is a member of the 
.•\lgonquin, the Athletic, and the Megantic Fish 
and Game clubs, of the DeMolay Commandery, 
and other fraternal organizations. Mr. Geiger 




ALBERT GEIGER. 



was married September 8, 1872, to Miss Emma 
PfeitTer, of Boston. They have three children : 
Albert, Emily, and Arthur Geiger. 



GEORGE, Elijah, register of probate and in- 
solvency, Suffolk County, is a native of New York, 
born in New Rochelle, September 6, 1850, son of 
William E. and Elizabeth ( I )eveau) George. He 
was educated in New York City, receiving a high- 
school and academic training, and there began 
the study of law. Then, coming to Boston, he 
continued his studies in the law office of Uriel H. 
and George G. Crocker and in the Boston Univer- 
sity Law .School, graduating therefrom in 1873. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1874 and 
to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
States in 1889. In 1875 he was appointed assist- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



51 



ant register of probate and insolvency for the 
county of Suffolk, and two years later was elected 
to the position of register for the term of five 




Illinois Supreme Court. His grandfather, Allen 
Oilman, a lawyer, w'as the first mayor of Bangor, 
Me. He belongs to the Exeter branch of the 
family, descended from Edward Oilman, who came 
from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 
1638. (Nicholas Oilman — it is a favorite name in 
the family — was a signer of the United States Con- 
stitution from New Hampshire. ) He was educated 
in the East, at academies in Parsonsfield, Me., and 
Effingham, N.H. ; and here he has spent the most 
of his active life. He was prepared for the minis- 
try at the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 
187 I, and the following year was settled over the 
Unitarian church in Scituate. Three years later 
he took charge of the First Parish in Bolton. In 
1878 he was appointed professor of English 
literature and Oerman in Antioch College, Yel- 
low Springs, Ohio, and remained there three 
years, preaching Sundays in the college chapel. 
Returning in 1881 to New England, he took 
charge of the Unitarian churches in Waj-land and 
Sudbury. In 1884, after a tour in England, he 
established his residence in West Newton, and 
engaged in literary pursuits. His connection 



ELIJAH GEORGE. 

years, which he has since held by repeated re- 
elections. He has been for a number of years 
prominent in military affairs, and was for some 
time a member of the First Corps of Cadets. In 
1881-82 he was judge advocate, with the rank of 
captain, of the First Brigade, State militia ; and 
since 1882 he has been judge advocate of the 
Second Brigade. He is a member of the Boston 
Bar Association, of the Curtis Law, the Union, 
the Algonquin, the Athletic, the Massachusetts 
Yacht, the Roxbury, and the Abstract clubs ; 
and of the Beacon Society of Boston. Mr. 
Oeorge was married May 25, 1876, to Miss Susan 
Virginia Howard, of Baltimore, Md. They have 
three sons : Elijah Howard, William Leigh, and 
Ernest Oeorge. 




NICHOLAS p. OILMAN. 



OILMAN, Nicholas Paine, editor of the 
I.ihTary IVorld and managing editor of the Ne2U 
H'lir/i/, Boston, is a native of Illinois, born in 

Quincy, December 21, 1849, son of Charles and with the Literaiy World as a regular contributor 
Annette Maria (Dearborn) Oilman. His father to its columns began in 1878, during the editor- 
was a member of the bar and reporter to the ship of the Rev. Edward .\bbott. He became the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



editor in October, 1888, on Mr. Abbott's retire- 
ment. From 1885 to 1891 he was an assistant 
editor of the Unitarian Rei'iew. With the N^nv 
World, the Uberal quarterly review of religion, 
ethics, and theology, the publication of which was 
begun in March, 1892, he has been connected 
from its inception. He has given much study 
to social questions, and is the author of publica- 
tions which are counted among the most impor- 
tant contributions of the day to economic litera- 
ture, and have been widely circulated. In i88g 
he brought out '■ Profit Sharing between Em- 
ployer and Employee" (Boston, Houghton, Mif- 
flin & Co. ; London, Macmillan & Co.), recording 
and discussing the various experiments in profit 
sharing made in Europe and America. The work 
has passed through several editions, and been 
translated into German. Four years later his 
"Socialism and the American Spirit" (same pub- 
lishers), a volume on the present standing and 
probable future of socialism and social reform in 
the United States, appeared, and speedily reached 
a second edition. Another publication is a small 
book published in 1891, "The Laws of Daily Con- 
duct," designed to aid public school teachers in 
teaching morals without inculcating religious doc- 
trine. He has also contributed papers to the 
Fornni, the Arena, the A'lVi' England Magazine, 
the Christian Register, and other periodicals. In 
1892, as secretary and treasurer of the Association 
for the Promotion of Profit Sharing, Mr. Gilman 
established a little quarterly periodical called Em- 
ployer and Employed as a medium for the prac- 
tical discussion of profit sharing. He is chairman 
of the executive committee of the Boston Brown- 
ing Society, a member of the executive commit- 
tee of the Massachusetts Reform Club, in politics 
an Independent, and unmarried. 



GREENHALGE, Frederic Thomas, governor 
of the Commonwealth 1894, is a native of Eng- 
land, born in Clitheroe, a parliamentary borough 
in the county of Lancaster, July 19, 1842, only 
son of William and Jane (Slater) Greenhalge. 
His father was for some years an engraver in the 
Primrose Print Works of Clitheroe, and in 1855 
brought the family to this country, and, settling 
in Lowell, was employed in the Merrimack Print 
Works, in charge of the copper roller engraving. 
His education, begun in Clitheroe, was contmued 
in the Lowell public schools, and finished at Har- 



vard College. Upon graduation from the High 
School, where he ranked as the first scholar in 
his class, he received the first Carney medal ever 
given. He entered Harvard in the class of 1863 ; 
but, his father dying, he w'as obliged to leave col- 
lege in his junior year, and earn his support. He 
soon found a position as a teacher ; and, while 
pursuing this vocation, he began the study of law. 
Subsequently he entered the law office of Brown 
& Alger. In October, 1863, he joined the Union 
army, and was connected with the commissary 
department at Newbern, N.C. While engaged in 
this service, in April, 1864, he was seized with 
malarial fever, and after several weeks of sick- 
ness was sent home. Upon his recovery he re- 
sumed his legal studies, and in 1865 was admitted 
to the Middlesex bar. From that time until 1870 
he was associated with Charles F. Howe, and 
since the latter date has practised law alone. In 
1874 he was made a special justice of the police 
court of Lowell, and served ten years. In 1888 
he was made city solicitor. His public life began 
with service in the Lowell Common Council in 




F. T. GREENHALGE. 
(From a copyrighteil photo^'raph by Kliner Cliickering.) 

1868 and 1869. From 187 1 to 1873 he was a 
member of the School Board; in 1880 and 1881 
mayor of the city; in 1885 a representative of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



OJ 



Lowell in the lower house of the Legislature ; and 
in 1889-90 a member of the Fifty-first Congress, 
representing the Eighth Massachusetts District. 
At Washmgton he ranked with the leaders in the 
New England delegation, and, a ready debater, 
was frequently heard on the floor of the House. 
In 1890 he was renominated by the Kepublicans 
of his district, but, after a hot canvass, lost the 
election by about four hundred and fifty votes. 
He was delegate to the National Republican Con- 
vention of 1884, and in 1890 was chairman of the 
Republican State Convention. In the autumn 
campaign of 1893, which ended with his election 
to the governorship as the successor of William E. 
Russell, the successful Democratic candidate in 
three elections, he was constantly on the stump 
from the day of his nomination, visiting all parts 
of the State. In Lowell he is a member of a 
nvunber of societies and clubs, is president of the 
Humane Society, past president of the Unitarian 
and the History clubs, and is now president of 
the People's Club; and he belongs to several po- 
litical dining clubs meeting in Boston. He has 
been a trustee of the City Institution for Savings 
of Lowell since 1876, and is now president of the 
Institution. He was married in Lowell, October 
I, 1872, to Miss Isabel Nesmith, daughter of 
John Nesmith, lieutenant governor of the State in 
1862 with Governor Andrew. They have had 
four children: Nesmith (deceased), Frederic 
Hrandlesome, Harriet Nesmith, and Richard 
Spalding Greenhalge. 



GREENLEAF, Lvmax KLANCH.-\kr), vice-presi- 
dent of the PSoston Stock Exchange 1891-93, is a 
native of Boston, born September 19. 185 1. young- 
est son of the late Gardner Greenleaf, 3d, and Re- 
becca J. (Caldwell) Greenleaf. He was educated 
in Boston public schools, — the Phillips Grammar 
and the English High, graduating from the latter 
in July, 1869. He began his business career in 
i86g as a boy in the Boston banking house of 
Tower, Giddings & Co. ; and seven years after 
(on January i, 1876) he was made a partner in 
the firm. The same year (January 31 he became 
a member of the Stock Exchange. In January, 
1884, he withdrew from the house of Tower, Gid- 
dings i& Co., and since that time has been in 
business alone. He was made a member of the 
first governing committee of the Exchange April 
I, 1886, and held this position for two years, when 



he resigned. He was first elected vice-president in 
1891 ; and upon the establishment of the clearing 
house, in January, 1892, he w^as made chairman 




LYMAN B. GREENLEAF. 

of the clearing-house committee, from both of 
which offices he resigned in 1893. Mr. Green- 
leaf is a member of the Somerset, Athletic, and 
Country clubs of Boston. He was married April 
20, 1892, to Miss Ellen M. Browning, daughter of 
Charles A. Browning, of Boston, head of the well- 
known wholesale millinery house of Charles A. 
Browning &: Co. They have one son : Browning 
Greenleaf. 

HAM, Albtdx Paris, of Sargent & Ham, car- 
riage-builders, Boston, is a native of Maine, born 
in Shapleigh, York County, April 7, 1828, eldest 
son of John M. and Mary (Abbott) Ham. He is 
of Scotch ancestry. His education was acquired 
in the public schools of Limerick, Me. Until 
nineteen years of age he worked on his father's 
farm, and then apprenticed himself to the car- 
riage-making trade. His father desiring that, as 
the eldest son, he should succeed to the farm, and 
refusing to consent to his leaving home before 
he was twenty-one, he offered to pay for his free- 
dom one hundred dollars from the first money 
earned after he had finished his apprenticeship. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Through the influence of his niotiier, his fatlier 
finally yielded ; and the young man faithfully 
kept his part of the bargain. At twenty-one he 
came to Boston, and obtained employment in 
John Rayner's carriage manufactory, Nos. 57 to 
63 Sudbury Street, at that time the largest works 




ALBION P. HAM. 

of the kind in New England, manufacturing a 
high grade of vehicles. In 1854 Mr. Rayner 
being ready to retire, Mr. Ham, with a plenty of 
ambition and a large supply of courage, but very 
little money, formed a copartnership with Haydn 
Sargent, under the firm name of Sargent & Ham, 
and bought out his employer's extensive busi- 
ness. The new firm continued the manufacture 
of fine custom carriages at the old stand for six- 
teen years, and was fairly prosperous. Then, in 
1870, Mr. Ham bought of the city of Boston a 
lot of land, Nos. 26, 28, and 30 Bowker Street, 
just around the corner from the Sudbury Street 
factory, and erected thereon a substantial brick 
and stone, six- story- and -basement building, 
equipped with all the modern improvements, into 
which the business was moved early in the spring 
of 187 1. In July, 1S91, the concern was incor- 
porated, with a capital of $150,000, under the 
name of the Sargent & Ham Company, Mr. Ham 
being the president and managing director. Mr. 



Ham was one of the original members of the Na- 
tional Carriage Builders' Association, and was 
elected its first vice-president. In politics he is 
a steadfast Republican ; but he has never allowed 
his name to be used for any office, preferring to 
attend strictly to his own business affairs. He 
attends the Park Street Congregational Church, 
Boston, where he owns a pev; ; and he has been 
a member of the prudential committee of the so- 
ciety for many years. He has travelled exten- 
sively in this country and in Europe. He was 
married, in 1854, to Miss Augusta C. Blenn, of 
Dresden, Me. They have no children. 



HART, Tho.mas Norton, president of the 
Mount Vernon National Bank, mayor of Boston 
1889 and 1890, is a native of North Reading, 
born January 20. 1829, son of Daniel and Mar- 
garet (Norton) Hart. His father's ancestors 
settled in Lynnfield, and his maternal grandfather 
was of Royalston. The latter was Major John 
Norton, a soldier of the Revolution. Thomas N. 
obtained his education in the schools of his native 
town, and, when a lad of thirteen, made his way 
to Boston to earn his living. Here he first found 
employment in a dry-goods store conducted by 
W'heelock, Pratt &: Co. Two years later, in 1844, 
he entered a hat store; and in this business his 
progress was steady and substantial. In course 
of time he became a partner in the firm of Philip 
A. Locke i\: Co., and subsequently founded the 
prosperous house of Hart, Taylor & Co. About 
the year 1879 he retired from this business with 
a competency, and soon after was made president 
of the Mount Vernon National Bank, of which he 
is still the head. From the beginning an earnest 
Republican, he early took an infiuential part in 
local politics as a citizen. At length he was in- 
duced to serve in the city council, and he was first 
elected to the Common Council for the term of 
1S79. In this body he at once ranked among the 
leaders. He was twice returned, serving in 1S80 
and 1 88 1, and then was made a member of the 
Board of Aldermen. Here he served three terms 
(1882, 1885, and 1886), prominent on important 
committees and influential on the floor. In 1886 
he was first nominated for the mayoralty, but was 
defeated in the election by Mayor O'Brien, the 
Democratic candidate. The following year, again 
a candidate, and again against Mayor O'Brien, he 
succeeded in cutting the latter's majority to a 



MEN OF PROGRKSS. 



55 



slender margin ; and the next year, for the third 
time in nomination and against Mayor O'Brien, 
he carried the election by a majority over his 
competitor of nearly two thousand. Returned the 
next year, he served the two terms of 1SS9 and 
1890. In 1 89 1 he was appointed by President 
Harrison postmaster of Boston, which position he 
held through the remainder of Mr. Harrison's 
administration, and after the incoming of Presi- 
dent Cleveland until June, 1893. In the State 
campaign of the latter year he was prominently 
mentioned for the Republican nomination for gov- 
ernor ; and in the municipal campaign following 
he was for the fifth time a candidate for mayor, 
nominated by the Republican convention, but was 
unsuccessful, Mayor Matthews being returned. 
Mr. Hart is identified with a number of local 
societies and organizations ; is treasurer of the 
American Unitarian Association, an officer of the 
Church of the Unity, and a member of the Uni- 
tarian, the Algonquin, and the Hull \'acht clubs. 



<~r 



^' 








THOMAS N. HART. 

He was married in 1850, in Boston, to Miss Eliza- 
beth Snow, of Bowdoin, Me. They have one 
child, a daughter (now Mrs. C. W. Ernst). Mr. 
Hart's town house is on Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston, and his country place at Galloupe's Point, 
Swampscott. 



HOLMES, Oliver Wkntikll, Jr., justice of 
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, son 
of Dr. Oliver Wendell and Amelia Lee (Jackson) 
Holmes, was born in Boston, March 8, 1841. 
He attended V. R. Sullivan's, afterward E. S. 
Dixwell's school, and was graduated from Har- 
vard College in the class of 1861. In April that 
year he joined the Fourth Battalion of Infantry, 
Major Thomas G. Stevenson, then at Fort Inde- 
pendence, Boston Harbor, where he wrote the 
poem which he delivered on Class Day. July 10 
he was commissioned first lieutenant, Company 
A, Tw-entieth Massachusetts. In the battle of 
Ball's Bluft'. October 21, he was wounded in the 
breast, and was also struck in the abdomen by a 
spent ball. March 23, 1862, he was commissioned 
captain, Company G. He received a wound in the 
neck at Antietani, September 17. In Februar)-, 
1863, he was provost-marshal of Falmouth, Va. 
At Marye's Hill, near Fredericksburg, on May 3, 
he received a third wound, this time in the heel. 
On July s following he was commissioned lieuten- 
ant - colonel. Twentieth Massachusetts, but was 
not mustered in, the regiment being too much re- 
duced. January 29, 1864, he was appointed 
aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier -General 
H. G. Wright, commanding the First Division, 
Sixth Corps, afterward major-general commanding 
the Sixth Corps, and served with General Wright 
during General Grant's campaign, down to 
Petersburg, returning to Washington with the 
Sixth Corps when the capital was threatened, 
Jul)-, 1S64. On the 17th of that month he was 
mustered out of service, it being the end of his 
term of enlistment. Returning to Boston, in 
September he entered the Harvard Law School, 
and in 1866 received his LL.B. In December, 
1865, he entered the law office of Robert M. 
Morse, Barristers' Hall, Boston. Spending the 
summer of 1866 in Europe, he became a member 
of the English Alpine Club. On his return he 
entered the law office of Chandler, Shattuck & 
Thayer. Then, on March 4, 1867, he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar, and subsequently was 
admitted to practice before the United States 
Supreme Court. He practised his profession first 
in partnership with his brother, and afterward in 
the firm of Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, formed 
in 1873. In 1870-71 he taught constitutional 
law in Harvard College, and in 1871-72 w-as uni- 
versity lecturer on jurisprudence. In 1873 he 



pub 



ished in four volumes the twelfth edition of 



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Kent's Commentaries, adding elaborate notes. 
From 1870 to 1873 he liad editorial charge of the 
American Laic Jii'Ticiv, volumes V., VI., \'II., 
and wrote for this review a number of articles. 
An essay by him on "Early English Equity" may 
be foiMid in the Eiii^lish Law Quarterly RevieTO, 
April, 1885, and two articles on "Agency" in the 
Harvard Law Revieiv, March and April, 1891. 
In 1 89 1, also, a volume of his speeches was pub- 
lished by Little, Brown, & Co. In the winter of 
1880 he delivered a series of lectures on the 
Common Law, in Boston, — one of the Lowell 




■ow liPBR* 




O. W. HOLMES, Jr. 

Institute courses, — and the following year pub- 
lished a volume on the same subject (" The Com- 
mon Law," by O. W. Holmes, Jr., Boston: Little, 
Brown & Co.), which greatly widened his reputa- 
tion. The work was highly commended by the 
reviewers at home and abroad, and it was subse- 
quently translated into Italian by Sig. Francesco 
Lambertenghi, now the Italian consul-general at 
Zurich. In 1882 Mr. Holmes was appointed to a 
new professorship in the Harvard Law School; 
but he had hardly entered upon his duties there 
when ( December 8 ) Governor Long appointed 
him an associate justice of the Supreme Court, in 
place of Judge Otis P. Lord, resigned. Justice 
Holmes is a member of the Massachusetts Histor- 



ical Society, and was a fellow of the American 
Academy, but resigned : and at the same time 
that his father was receiving the degree of LL.I). 
from O.xford (in 1886) he was receiving it from 
Yale. He married, June 17, 1872, Miss Fannie 
Dixwell, daughter of E. S. Di.xwell, of Cambridge. 
Thev have no children. 



HORTON, Rev. Edward Auou.stus (Unita- 
rian), president of the Benevolent Fraternity of 
Churches in Boston, and of the Unitarian Sunday- 
School Society covering the whole country, is a 
native of Springfield, born September 28, 1843, 
son of William Marshall and Ann (Leonard) Hor- 
ton. The branch of the Horton family to which 
he belongs have had their home for many years 
in picturesque Ponkapoag, a part of Canton ; 
ills father and mother lie buried there. His 
early education was begun in the public schools 
of Springfield, and continued in Chicago, whither 
his parents moved when he was a lad of thirteen, 
and where he lived six years. During that period 
the' Ci\il War broke out ; and soon after its out- 
break, when scarcely eighteen, he abandoned his 
books, and, going to Brooklyn, N.Y., enlisted in 
the navy. He served as landsman in the South 
Atlantic squadron, under Commodores Dupont 
and Dahlgren, a little more than a year, and was 
in several sharp engagements. His sliip, tiie 
steam gunboat "Seneca," assisted in X\\i blockade 
of Charleston, and had a part in the attacks on 
Forts Wagner and Sumter, and in the destruc- 
tion of the Confederate pri\-ateer "Nashville." 
I'pon his return to civil life he hurried prepara- 
tions for college, and so crowded studies that 
he was enabled to enter the University of Michi- 
gan without conditions in the class of 1869. 
After a short time in college, however, he con- 
cluded that, with his slender resources, he could 
not afford to give the necessary time to com- 
plete the course and properly to fit himself for 
the ministry, the profession of his choice. Ac- 
cordingly, he withdrew, and went at once to the 
Theological School at Meadville. Penna. There 
he took the regular three years' course, and pur- 
sued other studies, graduating in 1868. Upon 
graduation having two calls, one from Flint, 
Mich., and one from a larger parish in Leomin- 
ster, this State, he accepted the latter. This pas- 
torate he held for seven years, during that period, 
in 187 1, visiting England, Switzerland, and Ger- 



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many, and spending a year in study at lirunswick 
and at Heidelberg, his ciiurch generously grant- 
ing him leave of absence for this purpose. In 
the summer of 1875 he accepted a call from the 
First Unitarian Church of New Orleans ; but a 
severe illness, largely the result of overwork, fell 
upon him. and he was unable to take the charge. 
His physician ordering rest for two years, on 
the ist of December, his wedding-day, he started 
South on a vacation trip. A year later, improved 
in healtii, but not yet fully recovered, he was 
again at work, ii.wing accepted a call to Hingham 
as minister of the Old Church, famous for its 
quaint meeting-house, then upwards of two hun- 
dred years old. Here he remained, enjoying the 
pleasantest of relations witii his parish and the 
town, for three years, when he resigned to take 
the pastorate of the Second Church in Boston, 
Copley Square, founded in 1649, and distin- 
guished as the pulpit of the three Mathers, — In- 
crease, Cotton, and Samuel, — John Lathrop. 
Henry Ware, Jr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, and 
Chandler Robbins. This charge he entered 
upon in May, 1880; and, under his leadership, 
the parish was brought to a high degree of pros- 
perity, and into connection with many good works 
in the community. During his ministry a debt of 
$45,000 was removed, and he made the church 
emphatically a working organization. In the 
spring of 1892, his health again impaired, he was 
compelled to resign, and relinquish for a time 
parish work. He had his choice between a long 
vacation abroad or some new work. Choosing the 
latter, he undertook the direction and development 
of the two organizations of which he is presi- 
dent. He is now at the head of tlie missionary 
work of the Unitarian denomination and of 
church extension in the city of Boston, as pres- 
ident of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches 
having the oversight of some si.x churches in the 
city, which stand for the ministry at large of the 
Unitarian body in Boston. As president of the 
Unitarian Sunday-School Society, he edits a paper 
for the young people, Ei-crv Other Sum/ay, super- 
vises the publication of te.\t-books, confers with 
Sunday-school workers, makes addresses in be- 
half of this cause, and directs all the affairs 
which relate to the Unitarian Sunday-school work. 
The extent of this supervision is measured only 
by the breadth of the land from Boston to San 
Francisco. Mr. Horton is also chairman of tiie 
Committee on Settlement of .Ministers and N'acant 



Pastorates for the Unitarian denomination ; is 
superintendent of the Westford Academy in West- 
ford, this State ; a trustee of Derby .Academy, 
Hingham; visitor to the Howard Collegiate In- 
stitute ; and a manager of the Home for Int^i- 
perate Women, of the Washington Home, of the 
North End Mission, and of other philanthropic 
institutions. He is closely connected with the 
Grand .■\rmy of the Republic, having served as 
chaplain of the State, is chaplain of E. W. Kinsley 
Post 113 of Boston, and past chaplain of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He 




EDWARD A. HORTON. 

is also grand chaplain of the State for the Masons. 
He has been a frequent contributor of literary 
reviews of books to the denominational periodi- 
cals and the Boston press, and has published 
in pamphlet form discourses on Emerson and 
Garfield, delivered at the time of their death: 
three sermons on Unitarianism ; an historical dis- 
course commemorative of the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of tiic building of the old 
meeting-house in Hingham ; an address to the 
graduating class of 1888 at the Boston College of 
Pharmacy ; and a book, " Noble Lives and 
Noble Deeds." In 1880 the University of 
Michigan conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of .A.M. Mr. Morton was married at 



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Lancaster, December :, 1875, to Miss Josephine 
Adelaide Rand, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth 
(Miles) Rand. They have one child: Kuth 
Horton, born February 24, 1877. 




H. O. HOUGHTON. 

HOUGHTON, Henry Oscar, head of the 
publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 
and projector of the Riverside Press in Cam- 
bridge, is a native of Vermont, born in the little 
town of Sutton, April 30. 1823, son of William 
and Morilla (Clay) Houghton. His ancestors 
were among the early New England colonists, 
the Houghtons first coming to the country about 
the year 1630, and settling in Lancaster. His 
mother was a daughter of Captain James Clay, 
who took an important part in the controversy be- 
tween New Ham]ishire and New York over the 
question of jurisdiction in tlie region now em- 
braced in the State of Vermont, prior to the out- 
break of the Revolution. When he was about 
ten years old, the family moved from Sutton to 
the town of Bradford, on the Connecticut River. 
After a few terms in the Bradford Academy, at 
the age of thirteen he became an apprentice in 
the office of the Burlington Free Press, and there 
took his first lessons in the printer's trade. Sub- 
sequently he worked at the trade awhile in 



Nunda, N.Y. Determined to acquire a thorough 
education, his evenings and other spare moments 
were devoted to study. At the age of nineteen 
he was prepared for college, and entered the Uni- 
versity of Vermont with twelve and a half cents 
in his pocket, but with dauntless resolution. Soon 
after his graduation, in 1846, he came to Boston, 
and here spent a year or two in the work of proof- 
reading and reporting for the Evening Tra'eeller 
before he found his life-work as a master printer. 
This was begun in Cambridge, where in January, 
1849, he joined Mr. Bolles, of the firm of Free- 
man &: Bolles, in establishing a printing-office. 
Its first location w'as on Remington Street, near 
Harvard College. Three years later the business 
was removed to the site on the banks of the 
Charles, when the name of the Riverside Press 
was assumed. And from the modest establish- 
ment first set up here has grown the present 
imposing group of buildings, with extensive com- 
position, electrotyping, printing, binding, and lith- 
ographic departments, in which the work of fine 
book-making is carried through the several stages 
from the manuscript to the bound volume. The 
original Riverside Press, which was sixty by forty 
feet in size, forms the nucleus of the present 
buildings, and still contains a part of the compos- 
ing and press rooms. In 1864 Mr. Houghton en- 
tered the publishing business, forming a partner- 
ship with Melancthon M. Hurd, of New \'ork, 
under the firm name of Hurd & Houghton, to 
provide an outlet for the publication of the works 
of Dickens, Bacon, and other writers, stereotype 
plates of which he had become the owner. Ele- 
gant library editions of Bacon, Carlyle, Macaulay, 
and Cooper, were issued ; and the catalogue of 
the house showed a large proportion of standard 
works. This firm existed under the same name, 
but with additions to the membership, until 1878, 
when it was succeeded by that of Houghton, 
Osgood, & Co., which came into possession of 
literary franchises, privileges covering the works 
of Emerson, Lowell, Hawthorne, Longfellow, 
Holmes, Whittier, and other leaders in Ameri- 
can literature, collected during a long period by 
the firms of Allen & Ticknor ; Ticknor, Reed, & 
Fields ; Ticknor & Fields ; Fields, Osgood, & 
Co. ; and James R. Osgood, & Co. In 1880, 
when Mr. ( )sgood retired, and was succeeded by 
Lawson Valentine, of New York, the house took 
its present title of Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. (Mr. 
Mifllin first admitted to partnership in 1872, when 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the firm was Hurd & Houghton). Referring to 
the date of birth of the oldest of the concerns 
to which the present partnership is successor, the 
house of Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. is traced back 
to 1811, through its successorship to the business 
of Crocker & Brewster. Besides the merging 
of the business of the several houses above enu- 
merated into that of the present house, important 
accessories to its plant and franchises have been 
attained through successorship to the busmess 
of J. Ci. Ciregory, &: Co., and of Albert Mason, of 
New \'ork, and of Brown, Taggart, & Chase, of 
Boston. IJesides the manufacture and publica- 
tion of valuable books, Mr. Houghton's firm pub- 
lishes the Atlantic Monthly, which was purchased 
by Hurd & Houghton in 1873, the Aiiil<>','ci- 
RcTicKi, the Journal of American Folk-Lore (quar- 
terly), and the A'cw World (cjuarterly). The 
firm as now composed consists of Henry (). 
Houghton, L. H. Valentine, George H. Mifflin, 
James Murray Kay, Henry O. Houghton, Jr., 
Oscar R. Houghton, and Albert F. Houghton, 
the last two nephews of Mr. Houghton. The 
premises of the Riverside Press at present occupy 
a piece of ground about 450 feet in length by 360 
feet in breadth, attractively laid out, a well-kept 
lawn spreading over the north-east corner, with a 
handsome fountain in the middle, which was ded- 
icated on Mr. Houghton's fiftieth birthday, April 
30, 1873. The main building, four stories high, 
with a tower, has a frontage on the east of 170 
feet, and on the north by nearly as much, with 
an extensive wing. That devoted to lithographic 
work is 200 feet long by 75 feet in width for half 
its length, and 45 feet for the remainder, with a 
high basement and one lofty story lighted by mon- 
itor roof. The employees of the Press number 
about six hundred. The old-time custom of ap- 
prenticeship is still in vogue here, with some mod- 
ifications ; and long service is the rule. Some of 
the members of the force were with Mr. Hough- 
ton when the Press was founded. Those con- 
nected with the establishment enjoy the use of 
the Riverside library, which contains a large num- 
ber of excellent books. As printers, binders, and 
electrotypers, Houghton, Mifflin, &: Co. conduct 
business under the title of H. (). Houghton, & 
Co. From the first Mr. Houghton has been the 
controlling spirit of the Press. His purpose 
in its development, as has been shown by re- 
sults, was to do here the very best work in book- 
makins;, — to make books that should satisfv the 



artistic feeling as well as the literary sense. Many 
warm tributes to the excellence of Riverside work- 
manship have been received from those most 
competent to pass judgment, and it has won high 
compliment abroad as well as at home. Since 
the establishment of his printing business, Mr. 
Houghton has made his residence in Cambridge : 
and in 1872 he was mayor of the university city. 
The Boston office of the house is at No. 4 Park 
Street, in the old-time mansion house of Josiah 
Quincy, Jr., mayor of Boston from 1845 to 1849 : 
and in Mr. Houghton's office here the regular 
weekly consultations of the members of the firm 
and heads of departments are held. Mr. Hough- 
ton was married in 1854 to Miss Nanna W. Man- 
ing, daughter of William Maning, of Cambridge. 
They had four children: Henry ().. Elizabeth H., 
Alberta M., and lusline F. Houghton. 



JACKSON, ^^'ILLIA^I, city engineer of Boston, 
is a native of Brighton (now the Brighton District 
of Boston), born March 13, 1848, son of Samuel 




WM. JACKSON. 



and Mary Wright ( Field) Jackson. His father 
was of Brighton, and his mother of Conway. His 
first ancestor in this country was Edward Jackson, 
who settled in Newton in 1639. His early educa- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tion was obtained in the public schools; and he 
was fitted for his profession as a civil engineer 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
which he entered in 1865. From the Institute 
he went directly to a position at the Chestnut 
Hill Reservoir, where he was employed from 
1868 to 1870. Then he was assigned to the 
Water- Works survey and the extension of the sys- 
tem in Brighton and West Roxbury. With this 
work, and with the private practice of engineer- 
ing, he was occupied until 1876, when he was 
appointed assistant engineer on the Boston Main 
Drainage Works, the most formidable piece of 
engineering construction ever undertaken in the 
city. He continued in this department until 
April, 1885, and then was elected city engineer 
in place of Henry M. ^^'ightman, deceased, which 
position he has held since. During the construc- 
tion of the Harvard Bridge over the Charles 
River, from 1887 to iSgi, he was engineer for 
the bridge commissioners ; and he was a member 
of the Boston Rapid Transit Commission in 
1891-92. He is a member of the American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers, of the Boston Society 
of Civil Engineers, of the New England Water 
Works .Association, and of the Union, Exchange, 
and .\rt clubs of ISoston. Mr. Jackson was mar- 
ried .\pril 27, 1886, to Miss Mary Stuart Mac- 
Corry, of Boston. They have one child : William 
Stuart Jackson. 



JEFFERSON, Joseph, of Buzzard's Bay, 
player, the third Joseph Jefferson known to the 
American stage, was born in Philadelphia, Penna., 
February 20, 1829, son of Joseph and Cornelia 
Francis (Burke) Jefferson. He comes of sterling 
dramatic stock. His great-grandfather, Thomas 
Jefferson, was an eminent English actor, long con- 
nected as comedian with Drury Lane, London, 
and sometime manager of the playhouse at Rich- 
mond. His grandfather, the first Joseph Jeffer- 
son (born in Plymouth, England, in 1774, died 
in Harrisburg, Penna., in 1832), was also a distin- 
guished comedian, called in his day " one of the 
brightest ornaments of the stage," who made his 
American debut in Boston at the Federal Street 
Theatre in 1795, was afterwards a favorite player 
in New York, and for twenty-seven years was 
permanently engaged in Philadelphia ; and his 
father, the second Joseph (born in New \'ork, 
1814, died in Mobile in 1842), trained for a 



scene painter, early became an actor, especially 
excellent in "old men" parts, and manager of 
playhouses. His mother was a native of New 
York, of French descent, in the twenties a popu- 
lar comic actress and stage vocalist, with an ex- 
quisite voice, "which," savs Ireland, in his 
"Records of the New York Stage," "in power, 
purity, and sweetness was unapproached by any 
contemporary." His earliest recollections are 
of the theatre, and " behind the scenes " was 
his first playhouse. "The door from our back 
entry," he says in his Autobiographv, "opened 
upon the stage, and, as a toddling little chap 




JOSEPH JEFFERSON 

in a short frock, I was allowed full run of 
the place." This was in the theatre in Washing- 
ton, which his father took soon after his birth ; 
and here he made his first appearance, taken on 
to do duty in long clothes, a babe in arms. .\t 
the age of three he appeared as the child in 
" Pizarro, or the Death of Rolla," and the same 
season in " Living Statues," a series of tableaux. 
From Washiiogton the family moved to Baltimore, 
and thence to New York, where during the 
years 1S35-37 the father was connected with the 
Franklin and Niblo's Theatres. In that city he 
attended the public schools ; and there, also, 
he made his first appearance out of the juvenile 



MEN OF PKO(;kESS. 



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supernuinerary i;inks (at the Franklin Theatre in 
1837), taking part in a "celebrated eonibat " 
witii " Master Titus," dressed to represent a 
(ireek pirate, '■ Master Titus " representing an 
American sailor. In 1839 his father took the 
management of the theatre in Chicago, then a 
bustling village, and thither the family went with 
a little company, acting along the way. After a 
short season here, with varying success, the com- 
pany, under his father's lead, went •' on the 
road," going first to Galena, travelling in open 
wagon over the jjrairie. Thence they jonrneyed 
on the frozen river in sleighs to Dubuque ; and, 
after taking in several of the towns then spring- 
ing up along the river, they tarried a full season in 
Springfield, 111., the management building a tem- 
porary theatre there. Had business closed the 
house, and the Jeffersons next found themselves 
in Memphis in straitened circumstances. For a 
while the father •■ turned from scene-painter to 
sign-painter " for a livelihood. Then they moved 
on to Mobile, where an engagement had been se- 
cured at the local theatre, taking a steerage pas- 
sage by one of the river steamboats. Upon their 
arrival, October, 1842, the yellow fever was raging 
in the town ; and two weeks later the elder Jef- 
ferson was stricken with the malady, and died, 
leaving the family without resources. Voung 
Jefferson and his sister found employment at the 
theatre in children's parts, appearing in fancy 
dances and comic duets; and he also worked in 
the paint-room, grinding colors. After a time he 
was given subordinate parts, and during his en- 
gagement here acted with Macready and the 
elder Booth. .\t about the age of si.xteen he left 
Mobile and travelled in various parts of tlie 
South with companies of strolling players. Tlie 
ne.xt year or so he was "barn-storming" in Mis- 
sissippi, playing small parts in Galveston and 
Houston ; in a band of comedians, following up 
the American army in the war with Mexico ; and 
stranded in Matamoras with his mother and sis- 
ter, the manager having disappeared with the 
cash and back salaries, running a pie and coffee 
stand in the "Grand Spanish Saloon." catering 
to the gamblers and camp-followers, who then 
largely constituted the population of the place. 
Subsequently getting back to civilization, he came 
North, and for several seasons was in W. E. 
liurton's company at the Arch Street, Philadel- 
phia, acting second and then first comedy. In 
1847 he had a brief experience as a country man- 



ager, and that year also played his first "star" en- 
gagement in Cumberland, I'enna. The next sea- 
son he was low comedian of a melodramatic 
theatre in Philadelphia, the .Amphitheatre. In 
1849 he was a member of the Chatham Theatre 
(New York) company. Part of 1850 he managed 
a company in the South, playing in Macon, Savan- 
nah, and Wilmington, N.C. : and again the ne.xt 
season in Wilmington and Charleston, S.C. In 
1852 he was first comedy, under the stage man- 
agement of John Gilbert, at the Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia. In 1853 he was stage manager 
at the Baltimore Museum for Henry C. Jar- 
rett ; the next year manager of the Richmond 
Theatre for John T. Ford : and the next at 
Ford's Washington Theatre. In 1856 he made 
his first trip to Europe, visiting London and 
Paris. In 1857 he was installed as comedian of 
Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, opening in 
September as Dr. Pangloss in "The Heir-at-law." 
On October 8, 1858, "Our .American Cousin" 
was first produced, and its success, he writes in 
his Autobiography, "proved the turning-point 
in the career of three persons, — Laura Keene, 
Sothern, and myself."' In the character of Asa 
Trciichaici he won wide fame, and became a 
star performer. .After a season at the Winter 
Garden Theatre, New A'ork, in 1859, ■^^'lieii he 
acted A'civman Noggs, Caleb Plummcr, and Salem 
Scicddcr, he appeared in his first version of " Rip 
Van \A'inkle," playing a short season in Wash- 
ington. Then in 1861 he struck across the con- 
tinent, and, after a short and unsatisfactory 
engagement in San Francisco, sailed in Septem- 
ber for .Australia. There he spent four profit- 
able years, presenting "Rip \'an Winkle," "Our 
.American Cousin,'' and "The Octoroon." Pro- 
ceeding next to England by way of South .Amer- 
ica, he made his first appearance before a 
London audience in September, 1865, bringing 
out " Rip A'an \\'inkle," reconstructed and re- 
written by Boucicault ; and the success of the 
play with his matchless delineation of the hero 
secured for it a brilliant run of one hundred and 
seventy nights. From London he took it to 
Manchester and to Liverpool, playing successful 
engagements in both cities. Then he returned to 
-America by clipper ship. For nearly a quarter of 
a century " Rip Van Winkle " only was produced 
by him, played throughout the country, and again 
abroad (in 1875) in London, Glasgow, Dublin, 
and Belfast, never losing its freshness or its charm. 



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Later in the eighties he revised "The Rivals," 
reconstructed by himself, — condensed from five 
acts into three, several characters cut out, and 
an epilogue added, — making of Boh Acres his 
star part, which had a brilliant run through sev- 
eral seasons. In private life he is distinguished 
as a devoted angler and as a painter of notable 
landscapes in oil. He was one of the original 
members of the Plaj-ers' Club, New York, of 
which he is now the president. For many 
seasons he spent the mid-winters on his sugar 
plantation on the Bayou Teche, La., and the mid- 
summers on his farm in New Jersey ; but his 
principal residence is now his country place at 
Marion on Buzzard's Bay, a near neighbor of 
President Cleveland's summer home. Mr. Jeffer- 
son was first married in 1849 ^'^ Miss Margret 
Lockyer, an actress. She died in March, 1861. 
His second wife was Miss Sarah Warren, whom 
he married in Chicago, December 20, 1S67. Mr. 
Jefferson has seven children living : Charles, 
Margret, Thomas, Josephine, Joseph, William, 
and Frank Jefferson. 



Boston and of the Massachusetts Loan & Trust 
Company, and vice-president of the Home Sav- 
ings Bank. He has long been prominent in num- 



JONES, Jerome, merchant, Boston, is a native 
of Athol, Worcester County, born October 13, 
1837, youngest son of Theodore and Marcia (Es- 
tabrook) Jones. His maternal grandfather, the 
Rev. Joseph Estabrook, was the second minister 
of Athol, a graduate of Harvard College, and 
a noted clergyman there for forty years. He was 
educated in the common schools of Athol, and 
when yet a boy was at work as a clerk in a coun- 
try store and post-office in the adjoining town 
of Orange. At sixteen he came to Boston, and 
entered the establishment of Otis Norcross, & 
Co., then the leading importers of crockery 
in the United States, as an apprentice, and there 
received a thorough commercial training, and 
early rose to positions of responsibility. At 
twenty-four he was admitted to partnership in 
the firm, and at twenty-seven he became its Eu- 
ropean buyer. His name first appeared in the 
firm of Otis Norcross, & Co., in 1861, then in 
1868 in the firm of Howland & Jones, Mr. Nor- 
cross (that year elected mayor of Boston) retiring 
from the business ; and it was placed at the head, 
after the death of Ichabod Howland, in 187 1, the 
firm name then becoming Jones, McDuffee, & 
Stratton, as it has been known since. Mr. Jones 
is also a director of the Third National Bank of 




JEROME JONES. 

erous local commercial organizations of influence 
in the community, — president of the Boston 
Earthenware Association, president of the Boston 
Associated Board of Trade, a member of the Bos- 
ton Merchants' Association, and of the Commer- 
cial Club. In politics he is a Democrat, influen- 
tial in his party. He was one of the original 
members of the New England Tariff Reform 
League, and has served on its executive commit- 
tee since its organization. Among other posi- 
tions which he has held is that of president of 
the \\'orcester North-west Agricultural Society at 
Athol. He is a trustee of Mount Auburn Ceme- 
tery, and commissioner of the sinking fund of 
the town of Brookline wliere he resides ; and is 
a member of the National Association of Whole- 
salers in Crockery and Glass Ware. He belongs 
to the Union and the Unitarian clubs of Boston, 
and the Thursday Club of Brookline. Mr. Jones 
was first married February 11, 1864, to Miss Eliza- 
beth R. Wait, by whom were four children : 
Theodore, Elizabeth W., Marcia E., and Helen 
R. Jones. His first wife died July 10, 1878. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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He was married again Februar)- 16, 1881, to 
Mrs. Maria E. Dutton, of Boston. 



KEMBLE, Edward, president of the Boston 
Chamber of Commerce, is a native of Wenham, 
born October 12, 1S36, son of Edmund and Mary 
W. (Beckford) Kimball. It having been found by 
his father that tlie true spelling of the family 
name was Kemble, he and his brothers and sis- 
ters were brought up to spell it that way. He 
is descended from the Campbells of Scotland. 
Early and well prepared for college, he entered 
Amherst at si.xteen, and was graduated there 
at the age of twenty. His father, a graduate 
of Harvard and a lawyer, — who studied law with 
Daniel Webster, was afterwards junior counsel 
with Webster in some cases, and prominent also 
in public life, at one time a State senator, — in- 
tended him for the legal profession, and accord- 
ingly he read law for a short time, but very soon 
he determined upon a mercantile life, and en- 
tered a counting-room to learn business. In 1862 




EDWARD KEMBLE. 



The firm made business connections in Europe 
in 187 1, and in the fall of that year loaded the 
first grain ever loaded in bulk at the port of Bos- 
ton for Europe. This was shipped by the Cu- 
nard steamship " Samaria." The firm also loaded 
the first sailing vessel ever loaded at this port 
with grain in bulk, — a bark with a full cargo of 
w-heat which was cleared for St. .Malo, France ; 
and about that time it loaded the largest cargo 
of grain in bulk ever loaded at this port even to 
this day, — a full cargo of Indian corn cleared 
hence for London. Mr. Kemble was vice-presi- 
dent of the Boston Board of Trade in 1877, a 
director of the old Boston Insurance Company 
which was carried down by the great Boston fire 
of 1872, a vice-president of the old Boston Corn 
Exchange, and president of the Boston Commer- 
cial Exchange ; and he was made president of 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce (in which the 
Commercial Exchange was merged) in 1892. He 
is now a director of the Cape Cod and Interior 
Canal Company, which was chartered by the Leg- 
islature of 1892, and is concerned in other im- 
portant interests. He has been connected with 
several clubs, but is now a member only of the 
Boston Commercial and the Eastern Yacht clubs. 
For two terms (1878-79 and 1879-80) he served 
in the Board of Aldermen of the city of Salem, 
and was then nominated for mayor by a citizens' 
caucus by about six hundred voters, called with- 
out distinction of party ; but he declined to stand 
for the office. Mr. Kemble was married Septem- 
ber 5, i860, to Elizabeth Tilton .Abbott, only 
daughter of the Rev. Dr. Abbott and Margaret, 
his wife, of Beverly. They had three children : 
Laurence Grafton (now a physician in Salem), 
Abbott Spraston (deceased), and Margaret Kem- 
ble. Mrs. Kemble died in 1878. 



he established in Boston the firm of Kemble & 
Hastings, for the purpose of carrying on a com- 
mission business in the products of the country. 



KIMBALL, GENER.^iL John \\'hitk. State 
auditor, is a native of Fitchburg, born Februar\- 
27, 1828, son of Alpheus and Harriet (Stonej 
Kimball. He is a lineal descendant, on the pater- 
nal side, of Peregrine White, the first child born 
in New England of English parents, born on board 
the " Mayrtower " about December 10 (O. S.), 
1620. He was educated in the Fitchburg public 
schools, and learned his trade of scythe-making 
in his father's shop. He began business life in 
1857 as a partner with his father and brother 
in the manufacture of agricultural implements. 



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and he was engaged in this occupation until the 
outbreak of the Civil War. At that time he was 
captain of the Fitchljurg FusiHers, having been a 
member of the State miHtia since his eighteenth 
year. He was adjutant of the Ninth Regiment 
from 1858 to i860, when he was for the second 
time elected captain of the Fusiliers (Company B) 
of this regiment. His com]3any volunteered, and 
went into camp at Worcester on the 28th of June, 
1 86 1. The Ninth Regiment being broken up. 
Companies A, B, and C became the nucleus of the 
Fifteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
of which General, then Major, Charles Devens 




JOHN W. KIMBALL. 

was made colonel, and Captain Kimball major, 
commissioned on the ist of August. After ser- 
vice a part of 1861-62 in the Corps of Observa- 
tion at Poolesville, Md., the regiment became a 
part of the Army of the Potomac ; and on April 
29, 1862, Major Kimball was promoted to the 
rank of lieutenant colonel. His colonel being 
absent, having been wounded in the battle of 
Ball's Bluff, he commanded the Fifteenth in all 
of the battles of the Peninsula Campaign, Second 
Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, and down 
to Fredericksburg. In November, 1862, he was 
commissioned colonel of the Fifty-third Regiment, 
Massachusetts \'olunteers, and ordered to Massa- 



chusetts to take the command. Attached to the 
Department of the Gulf, the Fifty-third was in 
the siege of Port Hudson in 1863 ; and during 
the assault, on June 14, Colonel Kimball was 
dangerously wounded in the left thigh. The term 
of enlistment of this regiment e.xpiring September 
2, that year, it returned to Massachusetts. Sub- 
sequently, on May :3. 1865, Colonel Kimball was 
brevetted brigadier-general for " gallant and dis- 
tinguished services in the field during the war." 
Before his assignment to the command of the 
Fifty-third, while with the Fifteenth in the Penin- 
sula Campaign, he was appointed by Governor 
Andrew colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regiment ; 
but the request for his return to the State to take 
that command was denied in accordance with a 
general order to the effect that no officer should 
be permitted to leave the Army of the Potomac 
for purpose of promotion. After the close of the 
war he reorganized the Fitchliurg Fusiliers, and 
again became its captain; and ten years later (in 
.Vugust, 1876) he was commissioned colonel of 
the Tenth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia. In 
1 878 he retired, being honorably discharged on 
September 21, having had thirty - two years 
of almost continual military service. General 
Kimball's record in the civil service has also 
covered an exceptionally long period. From 1865 
to 1873 he was tax collector of the city of F'itch- 
burg, and at the same time a member of the State 
police force, three years one of the State police 
commissioners. In 1873 he was appointed United 
States pension agent for the western district of 
Massachusetts, and held this position until the 1st 
of Tuly, 1877, when the office was merged into 
that at Boston. Later that year he was custodian 
at the United States Treasury Department in 
Washington of the rolls, dies, and plates of the 
bureau of engraving and printing. This place he 
held until 1879, when he was appointed post- 
master at Fitchburg. Here he remained through 
two administrations, until March 12, 1887. He 
was first elected to the State auditorship in 1891 
for the term of 1892, and was returned in the 
elections of 1892 and 1893. He has also served 
seven terms in the lower house of the Legislature 
(1864-65, 1872, 1888-91), there acting on leading 
committees, in 1890-91 chairman of the railroad 
committee. He is a member of the Loyal 
Legion, Grand Armv of the Republic (in 1874 
department commander of .Massachusetts), and 
of the Masonic order, with which he has been 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



65 



connected since 1861, during 1877-78 eminent 
commander of Jerusalem Commandery Knights 
Templar of Fitchburg. He has also been long 
connected with the Fitchburg Board of Trade, 
and a trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank. 
General Kimball was married July 15, 185 1. to 
Miss Almira M. Lesure, daughter of Newell Mer- 
rifield and Almira Lesure. They have three chil- 
dren : Fmnia Frances, Mary Flizabeth, and Kd- 
ward Franklin Kimball. 



LANE, Jonathan' Arp.ott, merchant, I'.oston, 



was born in Bedford, May 



1 82 2. son of 



Jonathan and Ruhamah (Page) Lane. His father 
was a descendant of the sixth generation, in 
direct line, from Job Lane, who came to this 
country in 1635 ; ^"'^' '^'^ mother was one of the 
large Page family descended from Nathaniel 
Page, who came over in 1680. His father, who 
was a farmer and fish merchant in comfortable 
circumstances, moved from Bedford to Boston in 
1824, which enabled the son, Jonathan A., to 
attend the old Boylston Grammar .School, from 
which he graduated in 1834 at the age of twelve, 
and the English High, where he graduated in 
1837. Entering the employ of the dry-goods job- 
bing house of Calvin, Washburn, ilv: Co. as boy, on 
fifty dollars a year, he slowly worked his way up. 
and in 1849 obtained control of the business, with 
Charles .\. Whiting as special partner, and con- 
ducted it in his own name. The firm has since 
been through several changes of membership and 
title, having been known as Lane & Washburn, 
then Allen, Lane, & Washburn, then for forty 
years, from 1854 to 1S94, as Allen. Lane, & ("0., 
and now incorporated as the Allen-Lane Com- 
pany, but is still carrying on a drj'-goods busi- 
ness, and is said to be the oldest woollen commis- 
sion house in Boston. Although not a member 
of any secret societies, Afr. Lane has been active 
in many social and philanthropic organizations. 
In war times he was president of the old \\'ard 
Two branch of the Union League and a private 
in the Home Guards. In 1S75 he was induced 
to accept the presidency of the old Mercantile 
Library .\ssociation, founded originally to afford 
educational facilities for young business men, and 
which had done good work in that direction until 
the growth of the Boston Public Library had 
caused it largely to outlive its usefulness. Dur- 
ing the four years of Mr. Lane's management 



the library was transferred to the Boston I'ublic 
Library, forming the nucleus of the present South 
End Branch, and the institution reorganized and 
put on its present firm footing as the leading 
social club of the South End. Mr. Lane is a life 
member, and keeps up his interest in the organ- 
ization, and is also an active member of the Bos- 
ton Art Club ; but he is too fond of home life to 
be much of a club man. Since 1887 he has been 
president of the Boston Merchants' Association 
for the longest term yet served, and his adminis- 
tration has made the annual dinners of that body 
notable for the character of their discussions and 



A 




JONA. A. LANE. 

their array of eminent speakers from all parts of 
the country. In politics Mr. Lane was originally 
a Whig, but joined the Republican party in its 
infancy, and has found no cause to leave it. He 
served as member of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives in 1863 and 1864, and in the 
Senate in 1874 and 1S75, being elected the 
former year as an independent over a competitor 
who had the regular nominations of both parties. 
In 1878 he was appointed by Governor Rice to 
serve in the Executive Council for the remainder 
of the term of a member who resigned, and in 
1892 he represented the Ninth Congressional Dis- 
trict as one of the .Massachusetts presidential 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



electors. Of late years Mr. Lane has especially 
identified himself with the cause of tax reform, 
strongly advocating the total abandonment of the 
present methods of attempting to tax personal 
property and the substitution of a system whereby 
the local assessor shall be limited in his jurisdic- 
tion to real estate, and personal property be 
taxed in its corporate form, or through inheri- 
tance or succession taxes, by the State alone. .Vs 
chairman of various committees on the matter, he 
has prepared reports which rank among the lit- 
erature of the subject. In religion Mr. Lane 
walks in the footsteps of his fathers. From boy- 
iiood he has been a member of the I'uion Con- 
gregational Church of P.oston. He is president 
of the Congregational Club and a life member of 
the Boston Young Men's Christian Association 
and of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union. 
He is also one of the advisory board of the Bos- 
ton Children's Friend Society, a director of the 
Old Men's Home, a State trustee of the Baldwin- 
ville Cottage Hospital, and is interested oflicially 
or otherwise in many other benevolent organiza- 
tions. Mr. Lane married on November 13, 185 1, 
Miss Sarah Delia Clarke, the second child of the 
Rev. Benjamin F. Clarke, and a graduate of Mt. 
Holyoke Seminary in 1845. The first few years 
of their married life were spent in a little house 
on Tyler Street, Boston; but in 1S56 they moved 
to their present residence on Tremont Street, 
where they have now lived thirty-seven years. 
Of six children born to them, a daughter died in 
infancy, and five sons — John C, Frederic H., 
Alfred C, Benjamin C, and Lucius P. — are liv- 
ing. The eldest. Judge John C. Lane, is a lawyer 
and politician of prominence in the town of Nor- 
wood. 



LATH ROB, John, justice of the Supreme Ju- 
dicial Court of Massachusetts, was born in Bos- 
ton, February 8, 1835, son of the Rev. John P. 
and Maria Margaretta (Long) Lathrop. He is a 
lineal descendant in the eighth generation of the 
Rev. John Lothrop who came out in the " Grif- 
fin " in 1634, and was the first minister at Scitu- 
ate and at Barnstable. His father was a clerg)-- 
man of the Episcopal church, and at the time of 
his death, in 1843, was chaplain in the Lhiited 
States Navy, attached to the " Princeton " ; his 
grandfather, John, graduate of Harvard in 1789, 
was a man of letters ; and his great-grandfather. 



the Rev. John, graduate of Princeton, 1763, was 
minister of the Second Ciiurch in P.oston from 
1768 to 1816, and was a Fellow of Harvard Col- 
lege from 1778 to 1816. His early education 
was attained in the Boston public schools ; and 
his advanced studies were pursued in New Jersey, 




JOHN LATHROP. 

where he entered Burlington College in the class 
of 1853, and graduated in due course. Three 
years after graduation he received the honorary 
degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater. From Bur- 
lington he came directly to the Harvard Law 
School. Graduating therefrom in 1855, he com- 
pleted his preparation for the legal profession in 
the office of Francis C. Loring. In 1856 he was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar, and at once opened 
an office in Boston. His practice, although in all 
branches of the law, was largely in admiralty ; 
and in 1872 he was admitted to the bar of the 
United States Supreme Court, where he practised 
extensively. From 1874 to 1888 he was reporter 
of decisions in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, 
and from this position was first raised to the 
bench by Governor Ames, who in 1888 appointed 
him a justice of the Superior Court. He was 
promoted to his present position on the bench of 
the higher court by Governor Russell in 1891, 
upon the death of Judge Charles Devens. Judge 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Lathrop was a lecturer at the Harvard Law 
School in 187 1 and 1873, and at the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School in the years 1873-80-83. 
During the Civil War he served a year in the field, 
going out in 1862 as first lieutenant in the Thirty- 
fifth Regiment, and subsequently promoted to a 
captaincy, when he was obliged to resign on ac- 
count of disability, the result of illness contracted 
in the service. He is a member of the Union 
and St. Botolph clubs of Boston, and of the Co- 
lonial Society of Massachusetts. He was married 
in Boston, June 24, 1875, to Miss Eliza D., daugh- 
ter of Richard G. and Mary Ann (Davis) Parker. 



LEE, William, senior partner of the book pub- 
lishing firm of Lee &: Shepard, from its earliest 
days to the present, was born in the North End 
district of Boston, April 17, 1826, eldest son of 
John and Laura (Jones) Lee. He claims from 
his ancestry sturdy independence and an honest 
strain through English, Scotch, and \^'elsh com- 
minglings. His father died in 1837, leaving the 
mother and her si.x children in such poor circum- 
stances as to necessitate William's removal from 
school, and apprenticeship to Samuel G. Drake, 
anticpiarian and bookseller of Cornhill. Two 
years later he was enabled to resume his school 
work, and in two more he had prepared for col- 
lege ; but at this time he made a final decision 
in favor of the book trade, and found employment 
with a bookseller. At eighteen he secured a po- 
sition in the prosperous house of Phillips tS: Samp- 
son, where ability and attention to business pro- 
cured him rapid promotion. He became expert 
as a salesman, both at the evening auctions, then 
a marked feature of the business, and in dealing 
with " the trade." He received a share in the 
profits of the house from his twenty-first birthday, 
and at twenty-four he was made an equal partner. 
In 1857, having acquired what he regarded as a 
competencv, he sold his interest back to the firm, 
taking their notes therefor to the amount of 
$66,000 with the intention of indulging himself 
in five years of rest and travel. He spent some 
months visiting points of interest in his own coun- 
try, and in June, 1S58, sailed for Europe in com- 
pany with Willard Small, the accomplished scholar 
and publisher. Naturally a quick and acute ob- 
server of men and things and broadly interested 
in all social questions affecting the destiny of 



peoples, it was in this kind of study that he pro- 
posed to find amusement and rest. He journeyed 
therefore in a very leisurely way through Great 
Britain, Germany, France, and Spain. Unsatis- 
fied with his first tour in the latter country, he 
was just on the point of taking a second, when 
he received news of the death of both I'hillips 
and Sampson, and of the financial embarrassment 
of the concern, which made it imperative for him 
to be in Boston at the earliest possible moment. 
He reached Liverpool short of funds after the 
steamer he wished to catch had hauled into the 
stream, but managed by stratagem and "bluff" 
to have his belongings and himself put on board 
by the mail tug. He arrived in Boston to find 
his claim against the new firm of Phillips, Samp- 
son, & Co. disallowed by the assignees, and to 
be advised by the lawyers that his remedy was 
against the private property of his dead partners, 
the sole support and dependence of their families. 
His claims were allowed by the widows, but Mr. 




WILLIAM LEE, 

Lee promptly gave them a release, antl instituted 
legal proceedings against the assignees, under 
which, through his intimate knowledge of ever)'- 
thing in the late business, he was able to force a 
compromise with tiiem. and to secure about half 
his due under the notes. With this sum, and cash 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



already in hand, he purchased an interest with 
Crosby, Nichols, lV' Co., and the style of this firm 
was changed to Crosby, Nichols, Lee, & Co. -\r- 
rangements were immediately made to enlarge 
the business, and large ventures were pushed 
West and South. But secession and war caused 
so heavy losses and such depression in the book- 
trade that this move proved unsuccessful ; and in 
the autumn of 1861 Mr. Lee chose to go out of 
the concern rather than pursue the effort, and did 
so to the loss of his entire investment. Literally 
without a dollar in the world, he now for some 
months passed through e.xperiences of which he 
relates little, even to his best friends. But he 
had not lost courage, and he watched attentively 
the signs of the times. One day he met Charles 
,\. B. Shepard, for some years manager for 
lohn P. Jewett. the publisher of " Uncle Tom's 
Cabin," and later head of the firm of Shepard, 
Clark, iV Brown. Like \\illiam Lee, he had lost 
his last dollar in the crash of 1861. .^11 that 
these two now had to go upon was brains, experi- 
ence, and the confidence and sympathy of the 
trade. On that they decided to launch the new- 
firm of Lee & Shepard. And, whatever has ac- 
crued to it, that original capital yet remains a 
distinct asset of the firm. At first they thought 
only of bookselling. They secured at a low 
rental half of an ancient, two-story wooden build- 
ing, nearly opposite the Old South Meeting-house, 
known as the "Chelsea Dye House," shrewdly 
replacing that sign with one reading " The Oldest 
House in Boston." This name created the de- 
sired comment, and, being true in one sense, no 
little amusement. Trade came their way. At 
first they had no bank account, no clerks, no 
porter. Each was everybody, from office boy 
to book-keeper, salesman, buyer, proprietor, and 
packer. But in time all these individualized. 
.\nd then, one day, the owner of some of the 
Phillips, Sampson, &: Co. stereotype plates offered 
to sell them and take notes in payment. The 
new firm took the oft'er. These plates included 
the earliest juveniles of \V. T. .-Vdams (Oliver 
Optic), then a Boston schoolmaster, — the " Boat 
Series " in six volumes, and the " Riverdale 
Stories," twelve volumes. New editions of these 
were the first books issued bearing the imprint 
of Lee & Shepard. Returns from this venture 
were so satisfactory that Mr. Adams was immedi- 
ately commissioned to write some stories for 
girls ; and then followed the long series of Oliver 



( )ptic books, already over a hundred in number, 
so well known wherever the English language is 
spoken. After occupying the quarters in "the 
old dye house" for three years, Lee & Shepard 
transferred their business to No. 307 Washing- 
ton Street, where increasing trade, sales reaching 
some years to upwards of a million dollars, com- 
pelled extensive improvements and enlargements 
in the rear until 1873. Then, after losing nearly 
$200,000 by the "Great Fire" of 1872, they 
moved into a new building on Franklin Street, 
w'here they remained till 1885, when they changed 
to their present quarters. No. 10 Milk Street. 
The concern now owns over two thousand sets 
of valuable plates and copyrights, including high 
school, grammar school, and kindergarten books, 
juveniles, art books, travels, poetry, fiction, history, 
and philosophy, by popular writers. The house 
originated and still continues the issue of illus- 
trated editions of popular songs and poems. 
Even a partial list of authors whose works it 
has given to the public would be impracticable 
within the limits of this article. But the names 
of " Oliver Optic," " Sophie May," Curtis Guild, 
Mary A. Denison, Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward 
Howe, Julia C. R. Dorr, Irene Jerome, Ednah 
D. Cheney, James Freeman Clarke, Amanda M. 
Douglas, Virginia F. Townsend, the Rev. Elijah 
Kellogg, J. T. Trowbridge, "Petroleum V. 
Nasby," Charles Sumner, Francis H. Underwood, 
T. W. Higginson, Wendell Phillips, Robert CoU- 
yer, Samuel Adams Drake, and Horace Mann, 
will be sufficient to indicate the estimation of 
the firm with authors and the enterprise which 
has characterized its business. Mr. Shepard died 
in January, 1889 ; and since that time Mr. Lee 
has, single-handed, directed the affairs of the 
concern, attending personally to every important 
detail, and directing every interest of the busi- 
ness, but is rarely too busy for a social chat with 
his authors or colaborers who may drop in upon 
him. Mr. Lee is also a charter member of the 
Boston Art Club : a member of the Algonquin 
and Twentieth Century clubs of Boston, and of 
the Aldine Club, New York. Politically, he is an 
Independent, with Republican proclivities. Ex- 
cept as a justice of the peace and notary public 
he has never aspired to, or filled, any public 
office. He has been twice married. His first 
wife was Miss Anna Leavitt, daughter of Thomas 
Leavitt, of Hampton, N.H. She died in 1883. 
He married second, in 1888, Miss Sarah Louise 



MEN OF PK0C;RESS. 



69 



White, daughter of J. Welles White, of New York 
City. He has one daughter, Alice Lee. 



1,()RI), Eliot, editor-in-chief of the lioslon 
Evening TravelliT, tiiough a native of the West, is 
of sterling New England stock, descended from 
two of the oldest New England families. He was 
born in Milwaukee, Wis., November g, 1852, son 
of the Rev. William Henry Lord and Persis 
(Kendall) Lord. ( 'n his father's side his ances- 
tors were among the first settlers of Maine, while 
from his mother he inherited the blood of the 




ELIOT LORD. 

earliest Massachusetts colonists. His great-uncle 
was Nathan Lord, long president of Dartmouth 
College (from 1828 to 1863); and one of the 
brothers of his father is Dr. John Lord, of Stam- 
ford, Conn,, the historian and lecturer. His ma- 
ternal grandfather was the Rev. James Kendall, 
who for more than fifty years was pastor of the 
old First Church in Plymouth. Eliot Lord was 
educated in the East, in the public schools of 
Plymouth and at Harvard ('ollege. which he en- 
tered in the class of 1873. During his college 
course he won the Lee, Boylston, and Bowdoin 
prizes ; and he graduated with high lienors, de- 
livering one of the eight commencement parts. 



Upon leaving college, he was made instructor in 
Latin and mathematics at the Adams .Xcademy 
of Quincy, Here lie remained until the close of 
the academic year, when he resigned to accept an 
assistant professorship of history and English 
at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, 
under Professor James Russell Soley, afterwards 
assistant secretary of state in the Harrison ad- 
ministration. His services here covered a period 
of three years, during which time he also pursued 
a special course in modern history and interna- 
tional law, and received from Harvard (in 1876) 
the degree of A.M. for proficiency in these de- 
partments. Resigning from the Naval Academy, 
he entered the profession of journalism, for which 
his studies and training had well prepared him, 
beginning on the staff of the New York Ifcrald. 
An offer from the World, then under the editorial 
direction of \\'illiam Henry Hurlbert, early drew 
him to that paper ; and here he was employed 
until 1879, when he accepted an offer from Clar- 
ence King, director of the United States Geolog- 
ical Survey, to write the history of the develop- 
ment of the mining industry of the L'nited States. 
The preparation of this work, published in 1882, 
by the Geological Survey, under the title of " The 
Comstock Lode," occupied the ne.xt few years, 
which Mr. Lord spent in large part in the Western 
mining districts ; and upon its completion he was 
selected by Mr. King to assist in collecting the 
social statistics of the mining districts west of the 
Rocky Mountains for the Tenth Census. Remov- 
ing to Washington, in 1885-86 he edited the 
Washington Weekly Post during the Congressional 
session ; and in the autumn of 1886 he came to 
Boston, joining the editorial staff" of the Daily 
Advertiser. Two years later he resigned this posi- 
tion to take the editorship of the Duluth (Minn.) 
Herald. Returning to Boston in 1891, he was 
engaged upon the Boston Herald as political news 
writer during the State campaign of that year. 
Subsequently he was some time Boston corre- 
spondent of the Springfield Union. Worcester Tele- 
gram, and other newspapers, and in the spring of 
1893 was appointed to his present position. He 
is a member of the Ihiiversity, Papyrus, and Press 
clubs of Boston. 



LOWELL, John, ex United States circuit 
judge, son of John .\mory and Susan Cabot 
(Lowell) Lowell, was born in Boston, October 18, 



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1824. His father was a prominent ISoston nicr- 
chant, connected as treasurer and director with 
several of the mills at Lowell; and his mother was 
a daughter of Francis C Lowell, for whom the 
city of Lowell was named. His paternal grand- 
father was an eminent lawyer ; and his great- 
grandfather was the first Judge John Lowell, — the 
first judge of the District Court for the Massachu- 
setts district, appointed by President Washington 
September 26, 1789, and then in 1801 made by 
President John Adams chief judge of the Circuit 
Court as then existing for the first circuit (estab- 
lished under act of Congress in 1801, repealed in 




JOHN LOWELL. 

1802). This first Judge Lowell was a member of 
the convention which framed the constitution of 
Massachusetts in 17S0, and procured the inser- 
tion of the first article of the Bill of Rights, for 
the purpose, as he declared, "of preventing slavery 
from being thereafter possible in the State." 
John Lowell, the present, was educated in the 
private school of Daniel G. Ingraham, a noted 
Boston school in its day, and at Harvard College, 
from which he graduated in the class of 1843. 
He studied law in the Harvard Law School, grad- 
uating therefrom in 1845, and in the office of 
Charles (i., F. C., and C. VV. Loring, and in 1846 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He began the 



practice of his profession in P.oston, and for a 
number of years was associated with William 
Sohier. In March, 1865, he was made judge of 
the District Court of the United States by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, in place of Judge Sprague, re- 
signed; and thirteen years later (December 16, 
1878) he was appointed by President Hayes jus- 
tice of the Circuit Court for the first circuit, to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Shep- 
ley. In May, 1884, he resigned, and returned to 
general practice, with ofiices in Boston. ()n the 
bench he was eminent as a jurist, especially dis- 
tinguished in the department of law relating to 
bankruptcy. Since his retirement and return to 
practice his services have been much sought as 
referee and special master in important cases, his 
judicial impartiality and ability being widely 
recognized. Judge Lowell married May 19, 
1853, Miss Lucy IS. Fmerson, daughter of George 
B. Emerson, LL.D., and Olivia ( Buckniinster) Em- 
erson. They have two sons and two daugiiters : 
John Lowell, Jr., now a member of the Suffolk 
bar, and associated with his father in practice ; 
James Arnold (graduate of H. C. 1S94); Lucy 
Buckniinster ; and Susan (^now Mrs. William H. 
Aspinwall ) Lowell. 



MASON, Albert, chief justice of the Superior 
Court, is a native of Middleborough, born Novem- 
ber 7, 1836, son of Albert T. and Arlina (Orcutt) 
Mason. He was educated in the common 
schools, and in Pierce Academy, Middleborough, 
and studied law in the office of Edward L. Sher- 
man in Plymouth. There, admitted to the bar in 
i860, he began practice. Two years later he 
entered the Union army as second lieutenant of 
the Thirty-eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers ; and he remained in the service until the 
close of the Civil War. Early in his career as a 
soldier he was detailed for staff duty, and served 
as regimental and brigade quartermaster ; and 
subsequently, he was commissioned captain and 
assistant quartermaster. Returning to Plymouth 
in 1865, he resumed the practice of his profes- 
sion. The next year he was made chairman of 
the board of selectmen of the town, which posi- 
tion he retained eight years: and in 1873 and 
1S74 he was a member of the lower house of the 
Legislature, ranking with the leading members, 
and serving on numerous important committees. 
In January, 1874, he opened an office in Boston 



MEN OF FROGRKSS. 



71 



with Charles H. Drew, still retainintj his Plym- 
outh office, and a few months later formed a part- 
nership with Arthur Lord, of I'lxinouth, now 



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public schools of Wilbraham and of Springfield, 
to which city his father early removed : and he 
was prepared for college by the Hon. Marcus 
P. Knowlton, now of the Supreme Judicial Court 
of Massachusetts. P^ntering Dartmouth, he grad- 
uated therefrom in the class of 1867 with honors. 
He read law at Springfield in the office of the Hon. 
George M. Stearns and Hon. Marcus P. Knowl- 
ton, then constituting the law firm of Stearns & 
Knowlton, and was admitted to the Hampden 
county bar in 1868. He spent a year in travel 
in his own country, and then began practice in 
Springfield, where he remained till his appoint- 
ment to the bench. In 1S71, 1872, 1875, and 
1882, he was city solicitor of Springfield. Dur- 
ing that period, and later, he was also promi- 
nent in municipal affairs, serving two terms 
(1872-73) as a member of the Common Council; 
as mayor of the city in 1887 and 1888; and 
as member at large of the School Committee in 
1892-93-94. In 1879 he was a member of the 
General Court from Springfield ; and in 1889 and 
1890 he was the Democratic candidate for attor- 
ney-general of the State. He was appointed 



ALBERT MASON. 



member of the State Civil Service Commission. 
The same year, in Jul)', he removed from Plym- 
outh to Brookline, where he has since resided ; 
and in December was appointed by acting Gov- 
ernor Talbot to the Board of Harbor Commis- 
sioners. He continued practice in Boston and 
Plymouth, and as a harbor commissioner until his 
elevation to the bench in February, 1882, by Gov- 
ernor Long, as a justice of the Superior Court. 
He became chief justice by appointment of Gov- 
ernor Brackett in September, 1890, succeeding 
Judge Brigham, resigned. Judge Mason was 
married November 25, 1S57, to Miss Lydia F. 
Whiting, daughter of Nathan and Experience 
(Finney) Whiting. They have six children: 
John \\'„ ^Llry A., Alice, Charles N., Martha, 
and Grace W. Mason. 




I 



MAYNARD, Elisha Burr, of Springfield, elisha b. maynard. 
justice of the Superior Court of the Common- 
wealth, is a native of Wilbraham, born November associate justice of the Superior Court by Gov- 
21, 1842, .son of Walter and Hannah (Burr) May- ernor Russell in June, 1S91. Judge Maynard has 
nard. His earlv education was acquired in the served in the militia of the State, having been at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



one lime a member of the City Guards, Company 
B of the Second Regiment. He has long been 
connected with the Springfield Commandery 
Knights Templar, and is a member of the Win- 
throp Club of Springfield, of the Mayors" Club of 
Massachusetts, and of the University and Dart- 
mouth clubs of Boston. He was a corporate 
member of the Springfield Hospital, of the ITnion 
Relief Association, and of the Christian Indus- 
trial and Technical School of Springfield. He 
married August 25, 1870, Miss Kate Doty, of 
Springfield. Penna., who died April 4, 1889; and 
second, July 19, 1893, Miss Luella E. Fay, of 
Springfield, Mass. His children living are : 
Robert Doty, Ruth, and \\'illiam Doty Maynard. 



M'GLENEN, Henry Aloysius, late business 
manager of the Boston Theatre, was born in Bal- 
timore, Md., November 28, 1826, son of Patrick 
and Sarali (Carrigan) M'Clenen; died in Boston, 




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H. A. M'GLENEN. 

March 24, 1S94. His early education was at- 
tained in the Baltimore public schools ; and at 
twelve years of age he began work, entering a 
printing-office as an apprentice. Subsequently he 
attended St. Mary"s College, Baltimore, and there 
also worked in a printing-oftice established by the 



faculty. At the age of nineteen (in 1S54) he 
started for Boston by way of Philadelphia and 
Norfolk, and arrived in the city with scanty bag- 
gage and a cash capital of si.x cents. He immedi- 
ately sought work at his trade, and the first job 
secured was in the composition-room of the Daily 
Bee. Then he worked at odd times as a composi- 
tor in the offices of the Times and the Journal, 
and later on obtained a regular position on the 
Aih'crtiscr. In 1846 he resigned this position to 
enlist as a private in the army, off for the con- 
quest of Me.xico. He joined the company which 
was commanded by Captain Edward Webster, son 
of Daniel Webster, and remained in the service 
until 1S48, when he returned to Boston, and re- 
sumed work at his trade in newspaper otfices. 
In 1850 he became a reporter for the Ilcrahl. and 
subsequently went to the Daily Mail. A \-ear or 
two later he was given charge of the TIiiils job- 
office, where he formed the acquaintance of a 
number of railroad men and theatrical folk. 
\Miile in this position, he took charge of Dan 
Rice's circus in Boston, and several other enter- 
prises, in all of which he was most successful. 
For two years he managed the business of the 
Marsh children at the Howard Athenajum, after 
which he was connected with several companies. 
When Wyzeman Marshall had leases of the 
Howard and the Boston Theatre, he looked after 
Mr. Marshall's interests : and for the two years 
during which Harry C. Jarrett managed the Bos- 
ton Theatre he gave much of his time in behalf of 
that manager. In 1866 he relinquished the print- 
ing business entirely, and took charge of the con- 
cert tour of Parepa Rosa, the great cantatrice. 
The following year he took the Mendelssohn 
(Quintette Club on an e.xtended tour West ; and in 
the spring of 1868 the Hanlons secured his ser- 
vices as manager for their season at Selwyn's 
Theatre, and the three following years he was re- 
tained in a similar capacity by John .Selwyn and 
Arthur Cheney. In 1871 he became business 
agent of the Boston Theatre ; and this position he 
held until his death. He was one of the best 
known theatrical men in the country, of wide ac- 
quaintance and many strong friendships, possess- 
ing the confidence and respect of all with whom 
he was brought into business relations. Mr. 
M'Glenen was also identified with many matters 
of public concern. He was president of the Mas- 
sachusetts N'olunteers in Mexico, vice-president 
of the National Association of Mexico Veterans, 



MKN OF PROGRKSS. 



73 



and a member of the Boston Press and Athletic ple"s " candidate for mayor. He was one of the 
cUibs. He was married in Boston, November 29, special committee which framed the new city 
1849, to Miss Caroline M. Bruce, daughter of Cyrus charter of Cambridge in 189 1, and, after the new 
and Matilda (Cashing) Bruce. 'I'hey had two charter was granted, revised the city ordinances 
children: Edward W. and Harry J. M"Glenen. to conform thereto. In 1869 and 1870 he was 

a Cambridge representative in the lower house 



iMclXriRE, Charlks Jhhn, of Camliridge. 
judge of the Probate Court of Middlesex County, 
was born in Cambridge, March 26, 1842, son of 
P'.benezer and Amelia Augustine (I,andais) Mc- 
Intire. His ancestors on the paternal side came 
to Salem from Argyll, Scotland, about 1650. and 
those of a later generation, nio\ing to ( ).\ford 
(now Charlton), Worcester County, in 1733, were 
among the first officers of the latter town when 
it was incorporated in 1755 : and on the maternal 
side he is a lineal descendant of John Read, a 
distinguished lawyer of Boston in Provincial days, 
and of the latter's son-in-law, Charles Morris, a 
native of Boston, who was for many years chief 
justice of Nova Scotia. His mother's father was 
an e.xiled French officer of engineers commis- 
sioned in the United States army ; and she was 
born in Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C., when 
her father was in command there. Charles J. 
entered the Harvard Law School, and also read in 
the law office of ex-Mayor Dana, of Charlestown ; 
but before he had completed his student course 
the Civil War bioke out, and in 1862 he enlisted 
as a private in the Fort)--fourth Massachusetts 
Regiment. He served with his regiment in all 
its engagements, including the famous defence 
of the besieged town of Washington, N.C., and. 
when his term of service expired, returned to his 
studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1865, 
and began practice in Boston. From 187 1 to 
1874 he was assistant district attorney of Middle- 
sex County ; and he was city solicitor of Cam- 
bridge continuously from March, 1886, till October 
26, 1893, when he was appointed by Governor 
Russell judge of probate and insolvency for 
Middlesex County, to fill the vacancy caused by 
the death of Judge George M. Brooks. In 1893, 
also, he was a member of the State commission, 
appointed by Governor Russell under an act of 
the Legislature, to revise and codify the election 
laws. He was early prominent in Cambridge 
municipal affairs, serving in 1866 and 1867 in 
the Common Council, in 1877 on the Board of 
Aldermen, and was three years (1868-70) on the 
School Board: and in 1883 he was the " Peo- 




CHARLES J. McINTlRE. 

of the Legislature, where he served as chairman 
of the committee on insurance and secretary of 
the committee on the judiciary. Mr. Mclntire is 
vice-president of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, 
of which President Eliot, of Harvard University, 
is the president, a member of the Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts Regiment Association (elected 
president in 1883), and a member of the Cam- 
bridge Club. At the time of his elevation to the 
bench, through his legal ability and by diligent de- 
votion to his profession, he had become one of the 
leading members of the justly celebrated Middle- 
sex bar, and a most successful practitioner and 
advocate in the courts of the Commonwealth. 
His appointment as successor to Judge Brooks 
was almost universally urged by the bar of his 
county and by leading members of the bar of 
Suffolk. He was married in 1865 to Miss Maria 
Therese Finegan. They have five children : 
Mary Amelia (Cornell University), Henrietta 
Elizabeth (Harvard Annex), Charles Ebenezer, 
Frederic, and Blanche Eugenie Mclntire. 



74 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



MINER, Rkv. Alonvo Ames, senior pastor of 
the Second [Iniversalist Society of Boston (Co- 
lumbus Avenue), and distinguished in reform and 
educational work, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Lempster, August 17, 181 4, son of Bena- 
jah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. He is a 
descendant of Thomas Miner, who came to Bos- 
ton with the elder \\'inthrop in 1630, and who 
was a descendant of Henry Bullman, Somerset- 
shire, England, distinguished by Edward HI. for 
loyal service, who changed his name in honor of 
his profession as a miner. On the maternal side 
his ancestry is traced to English stock, which lo- 




A. A. MINER. 



cated in this country a century and a half ago. 
He was educated in public schools and acade- 
mies, and prepared for active life by private study 
and school-teaching. From his sixteenth to his 
twentieth year he taught in public schools, and 
the following four years in academies, from 1834 
to 1835 being associated with James Garvin, a 
graduate of Dartmouth College, in the conduct of 
the Cavendish (Vt.) Academy, and from 1S35 to 
1839 at the head of the Unity (N.H.) Scientific 
and Military Academy. In 1838 he was received 
into the fellowship of the Universalist church, and 
the following year ordained to its ministry. He 
was first settled in Methuen, where he remained 



three years. Thereafter he was for six years pas- 
tor of a Universalist church in Lowell, and then 
(in 1848) came to Boston, called to the Second 
Universalist Society as colleague of the eminent 
Hosea Ballou, one of the fathers of Universal- 
ism, succeeding in this position the Rev. Edwin 
H. Chapin, who afterwards became famous as 
preacher and lecturer. Upon the death of 
"Father" Ballou in 1852, Dr. Miner became sole 
pastor of the society: and he so remained till 
1867, when, on account of his college connection, 
he was given a colleague who was continued but 
a few months. Since that time he has had but 
two other colleagues ; and between the withdrawal 
of the second and the coming of the third, a pe- 
riod of seventeen years, he performed without 
assistance all the duties of the pastorate, while 
engaged in much educational work and a leader 
in numerous reform movements. From 1862 to 
1875 hs ^^'^s president of Tufts College, preach- 
ing regularly during that time to his Boston parish 
at each Sunday morning service, and in the col- 
lege chapel on College Hill in the afternoon. 
From 1869 to 1893 he was a member of the 
Massachusetts State Board of Education, and for 
nearly twenty years chairman of the Board of Vis- 
itors of the State Normal Art School in Boston, 
which he was largely influential in establishing. 
In 1863 he was elected by the Legislature an over- 
seer of Harvard College. He has had long expe- 
rience on school committees, having served on 
the boards of Methuen, Lowell, and Boston. In 
1864 he was chaplain of the State Senate; in 
1855 he was the Fourth of July municipal orator; 
and in 1884 he was the preacher of the last elec- 
tion sermon before the governor and the General 
Court, the custom which had prevailed since 
17 I 2, broken only by the Revolution, being abol- 
ished by the next Legislature. He has been pres- 
ident of the Universalist Publishing House in 
Boston since its foundation, of which he was the 
originator ; is president of the Board of Trus- 
tees of Dean Academy at Franklin and of tlie 
Bromfield School at Harvard; chairman of the 
executive committee of Tufts College ; member of 
the executive committee of the American Peace 
Society; and chairman of the Connnittee of One 
Hundred of Boston. He is also a member of the 
American .Academy of Political and Social Sci- 
ence, of the National Reform Association, and 
of the Universalist Club of Boston. Dr. Miner's 
work as a temperance reformer and his advocacy 



MEN OF l^ROGKESS. 



75 



of I'lohibition have brought him into national 
prominence. I'o this cause he lias devoted a 
large share of his active life, speaking, writing, 
and working for it with great vigor and persist- 
ence. He was the Prohibition candidate for gov- 
ernor of the State in 1878, and for mayor of Bos- 
ton in 1893 ; and he has been long the most 
conspicuous leader of his party in New England. 
For twenty years he was president of the Massa- 
chusetts Temperance Alliance. He has been a 
frequent contributor to the denominational and 
secular press, and was at one time editor of The 
Stiv of Bcthlcliciii, a weekly paper published in 
tlie cit\' of Lowell. His publications in book 
and pamphlet form include "Old Forts Taken,'" 
" Bible Exercises," election, baccalaureate, con- 
vention, dedication, and various occasional ser- 
mons, " Right and Duty of Prohibition," and nu- 
merous others. Dr. Miner received the degree 
of A.M. from Tufts in 1861, that of S.T.D. from 
Harvard in 1863, and that of LL.D. from Tufts 
in 1875. His interest in Tufts College began 
with the beginning of the institution in 1854. He 
delivered the address at the laying of the corner- 
stone of the first college building. He has been 
a generous contributor to its funds, giving among 
other gifts forty thousand dollars for a theological 
hall. Dr. Miner married, August 24, 1836, Miss 
Maria S. Perley, daughter of Captain Edmund and 
Sarah Perley. They have no children. 



MORSE, Robert McNeil, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Boston, born .August 11, 
1837, son of the late Robert M. Morse, for many 
years a respected merchant in that city, and of 
his wife, Sarah M. (Clark). He was educated in 
private schools, at the Eliot High School, Jamaica 
Plain, and at Har\ard. where he graduated in the 
class of 1857. This class, though small, was dis- 
tinguished for the number of men who afterwards 
attained prominence in various walks, among 
them bemg John C. Ropes, John I). Long, J. 
Lewis Stackpole, Robert D. Smith, General 
Charles F. W'olcott. and the Rev. Joseph May, of 
Philadelphia. Mr. Morse studied law in the Har- 
vard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 
i860. Since that time he has been in practice in 
Boston, and has long held a foremost position as 
a general counsellor and advocate. He has been 
engaged in many notable causes before the courts 
of the State, and also in the United States courts. 



such as the famous Moen case, and the Arm- 
strong and Codman will contests, and has been 
retained in much important litigation relating to 
the water-supply of cities and towns, insurance, 
and other contracts, and in a great variety of tort 
cases, including actions of libel and claims for 
personal injury. His pul)lic service has been 
confined to two terms in the State Senate 
(1866-67), ^"cl on*^ in the lower house of the Leg- 
islature (1880). \\'hen in the Senate, he drafted 
and introduced the bill for the repeal of the usury 
laws, and passed it through in the face of strong 
opposition ; served on important standing commit- 




ROBERT M. MORSE. 

tees : was chairman of the special committee on 
the subject of the proiiibitory law then on the 
statute book, before which John A. Andrew, then 
e.x-governor. made his famous argument in behalf 
of the license system : and subsequently he drew 
the report of the committee in favor of the repeal 
of the prohibitory law. In tlie House he was 
chairman of the committee on the judiciary, and 
was prominent in securing the enactment of the 
laws authorizing the last revision of the general 
laws known as the Public Statutes, the grant to 
the city of Boston of the land on which the Pub- 
lic Library is now in process of erection, and the 
capitalization of the .American P.ell Telephone 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Company. Mr. Xforse is a member of the lioard of office more official defalcation.s were broiu'ht to 
of Overseers of Harvard College, of the Union, light than in the united terms of all the other 
University, and Country clubs, and of other social. national bank e.xaminers for the Commonwealth. 



professional, and business organizations. He was 
married in 1863 to Miss Anna E. Gorham, daugh- 
ter of James L. Gorham, and has had seven chil- 
dren, of whom five are living, the eldest, Mabel, 
being the wife of Dr. Daniel D. Lee. 



Colonel .\eedham has long been devoted to agri- 
culture, and connected with organizations to pro- 



NEEDHAM, D.^^niel, of Groton, member of 
the bar for nearly half a century, and long active 
in various public interests, was born in Salem, 
May 24, 1822, son of James and Lydia (Breed) 
Xeedham. The branch of the Needham family 
to which he belongs settled in Lynn, in 1836. and 
adhered to the doctrine and usages of the Society 
of Friends. In this atmosphere his bovhood 
developed. After a few years spent in local 
schools and graduating from the Salem High 
School, he entered the Friends' Boarding-school 
of Providence, R.L. and there his academic edu- 
cation was acquired. He studied law in Salem 
with David Roberts, and was admitted to the 
Middlese.x bar in 1847. Forming a law partner- 
ship with Mr. Roberts and Edmund Burke, under 
the firm name of Burke, Needham & Roberts, he 
began practice in Boston. Early taking an active 
part in politics, he had an inlfuential hand in 
shaping political moves. He organized the coali- 
tion movement which resulted in the election of 
(ieorge S. Boutwell to the governorship in 185 i, and 
in 1853-54 was chairman of the Massachusetts 
Democratic State Committee. During Governor 
I'.outwell's two terms he was a member of the 
governor's staff. Removing to Vermont in the 
fifties, he was elected to the Legislature of that 
State, first to the lower house, where he served 
two terms (1857-58), and then to the Senate, 
serving in the latter body five terms (1859-63); 
and in 1863 was Vermont commissioner to the 
Hamburg International E.\position. Returning to 
Massachusetts, and re-establishing his home in 
Groton, he was elected to tlie lower house of the 
Legislature of this State in 1867 and to the Sen- 
ate in 1868-69. ^" '871 he was appointed na- 
tional bank e.xaminer for Massachusetts, and held 
that office until 1876, performing its important 
and often arduous duties with thoroughness and 
promptitude. There were in his charge one hun- 
dred and eighty-five banks, all of them, with few 
exceptions, in Massachusetts ; and during his term 




DANIEL NEEDHAM, 

mote farming interests. He was secretary of the 
Xew England Agricultural Society for twenty- 
seven years, and is now its president ; and his 
zeal and abilities have been among the principal 
factors of its success. It has held agricultural 
fairs in all of the New England States, with full 
share of public patronage and e.xceptional pecun- 
iary success : and, at times responsible for the 
expenses incurred, Mr. Needham has so skill- 
fully conducted afl:"airs as to escape financial loss. 
He has been president of many county and town 
organizations, and trustee of the Massachusetts 
.Agricultural College from its organization. In the 
early railroad days he was some time managing 
director of the Peterborough & Shirley Railroad, 
and in 1847, in connection with the associate 
directors, made himself liable for the debts of the 
corporation, turning over all his property to the 
banks holding the indorsed paper. Ultimately, 
he paid every obligation, and perfected arrange- 
ments whereby he was in time reimbursed by the 
corporation. At a later period he was for ten 



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77 



years owner and manager of the Monlello Woollen 
and drain Mills, Montello, Wis., the woollen mill 
having been built originally by him. He has been 
for eleven years a director of the Boston Safe 
Deposit and Trust Company and of the John 
Hancock Life Insurance Company. ( )ther organi- 
zations in which he holds official positions are : the 
Institute of Heredit)' (president since its organi- 
zation), the Middlese.x ( North ) L'nitarian Associa- 
tion (president), the Middlese.x political dining 
tlub ( president and founder), and the Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to .Animals (trustee). 
( )f his town of Groton he has been town treasurer 
for many years, and a member of the School 
iioard. He has been a Republican since soon 
after the formation of that party. Colonel Need- 
ham was commissioned by Governor Russell to 
represent the State of Massachusetts at the Na- 
tional Agricultural Congress at Sedalia, Mo., in 
1S91, also at Lincohi, Neb., in 1892, and at 
Savannah, Ga., in 1893. At each of these con- 
gresses he delivered addresses which were exten- 
sively published, and received much attention at 
home and elsewhere. His reports are published 
in the volumes of the State Board of Agri- 
culture of the years 1S92-93-94. By invita- 
tion of the Legislature of Ohio he delivered an 
address in the Senate Chamber, at Columbus, 
upon his Hamburg mission in January, 1864; by 
invitation of the Legislature of Wisconsin he de- 
livered an address upon deepening and improv- 
ing the navigation of the Mississippi River at 
Madison, U'is., in 1865 ; and by invitation of the 
Board of Agriculture of the State of Kansas, an 
address on the " Relation of the East to the West 
in its Trade Connections,'' in the Senate Cham- 
ber at Topeka in January, 1894. These addresses 
were published by the several State governments. 
He was sent a commissioner to Mexico by the 
New England Society, and in 1890 was received 
by President Diaz with great hospitality. A 
large number of Colonel Needham's addresses 
have been published in pamphlet form ; and the 
one delivered at Saratoga, before the National 
Bankers' Association, in the early days of the 
national banks, was regarded as a text-book upon 
the subject, and had a wide-.spread circulation, 
more than twenty-five thousand copies having 
been sent out. Colonel Needham was first mar- 
ried in Groton, July 15, 1842, to Miss Caroline A. 
Hall, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline Hall, 
of Boston ; and bv this union were four children : 



Eleanor M., William C. II., James Ernest, and 
Effie Marion Needham. His first wife died June 
30, 1878. His second marriage was on Octo- 
ber 6, 1880, w-ith Miss Ellen M. Brigham, daughter 
of George D. and Mary J. Brigham, of Groton. 
l!y this union have been three children : .ALarion 
Brigham, .Mice Emily, and Daniel Needham, Jr. 
The son William C. H. died while a member of 
the Senate of Ohio in 1881. 



O'ME-ARA, Stephen, editor and general man- 
ager of the Boston Journal, was born in Charlotte- 
town. Prince Edward Island, July 26, 1854. His 
parents moved to the United States when he was 
about ten years old ; and, after a short residence 
in Ijraintree. the home was established in Charles- 
town. Here he obtained his general education in 
the local schools, graduating from the Harvard 
Granunar School in 1868 and from the Charles- 
town High School in 1872. The day after his 
graduation from the High School he became the 




STEPHEN O'MEARA. 

Charlestown reporter for the Boston Globe, that 
year started ; and in October following he was 
given a position as reporter on the regular staff. 
He was an expert shorthand writer, a quick news- 
gatherer, and early distinguished himself by the 



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excellence of his work. In. December, :874, he 
resigned his position on the Globe to take that 
of shorthand reporter for the Joiinial. This was 
the beginning of his service on that paper, and 
his advance to the chief place has been through 
various grades of service. In May, 1879, after 
an experience of five years in legislative, city hall, 
news, law, and political reporting, he was pro- 
moted to the office of city editor : two years later, 
upon the death of the veteran journalist, .Stephen 
N. Stockwell, he became news editor, — a position 
corresponding to that of managing editor in most 
newspaper offices ; and in June, iSgi, upon the 
retirement of the late William W. Clapp, who had 
been long the manager and responsible head of 
the paper, the chief direction of afifairs was placed 
in his hands, his title being editor and general 
manager. Under Mr. O'Meara's management 
the Journal has been transformed from the folio 
to the quarto form, and its facilities have been 
extended and improved. Mr. O'Meara was long 
the auditor of the New England Associated Press, 
and is now its treasurer and a member of the ex- 
ecutive committee. He is also secretary and 
treasurer of the Boston Daily Newspaper Asso- 
ciation, a business organization of the Boston 
daily newspapers. He is a member of the .St. 
Botolph, Algonciuin, and Press clubs of Boston 
(president of the latter from 1886 to 1888, his 
election each year being unanimous.) He was 
the first instructor in phonography in the Boston 
Evening High School, occupying that position 
for four years from 1880. Since 1890 he has 
served as trustee of the Massachusetts State Li- 
brary. In 1888 the honorary degree of Master of 
Arts was conferred upon him by Dartmouth Col- 
lege. Mr. O'Meara was married August 5, 1878, 
to Miss Isabella M. Squire, of Charlestown. They 
have three children : Frances Isabel, Alice, and 
Lucy O'Meara. 

PAINE, General Charles Jackson, yachts- 
man, projector of the "Puritan," the " Mayflower," 
and the " Volunteer," is a native of Boston, born 
August 26, 1833, son of Charles Cushing and 
Fannie Cabot (Jackson) Paine, and great-grand- 
son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence. His mother, Fanny Cabot 
Jackson, was a daughter of Judge Charles Jack- 
son, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He 
was educated in the Boston Latin School and at 
Harvard with Charles W. Eliot, Justin Winsor, 



Robert S. Rantoul. and others whose names have 
become widely known, as classmates, graduating 
in 1853. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1856. He 
practised, how-ever, but a comparatively short time, 
becoming interested in large railroad enterprises. 




CHARLES J. PAINE. 

He has been a director at different times of the 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Mexican Cen- 
tral, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- 
roads. He served in the Union army during 
nearly the entire period of the Civil War, entering 
the service on October 8, 1861, as captain of 
Company I, Twenty-second Regiment, Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. On January 14, 1862, he was 
commissioned major of the Thirtieth Massachu- 
setts. On the 2d of October of the same year he 
was promoted to the colonelcy of the Second 
Louisiana (white) Regiment and in the summer 
of 1863, during the siege of Port Hudson, com- 
manded a brigade. On March 4, 1864, he re- 
signed the latter command, and joined General 
Butler in Virginia, the following month taking 
part in the battle of Drury's Bluff. Three months 
later, on July 4, he was appointed brigadier-gen- 
eral of volunteers, and in September, on the 29th, 
led a division of colored troops in the attack of 
New Market, Va. In January, 1865, he partici- 



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pated in the capture of Fort Fisher, and for his 
service here was subsequently brevetted major- 
n;eneral of volunteers. In the early part of 1864 
he served under .Sherman in North Carolina, and 
after the surrender of Lee commanded the dis- 
trict of Newbern until November, 1865. On 
Januarv i S. 1S66, he was mustered out of the 
service. General Paine's interest in yachting 
began with his boyhood, and long before the ap- 
pearance of the famous "crack" boats he had 
become a master in yacht designing and sailing. 
In 1877 he purchased the "Halcyon," and so 
improved her that she ranked among the fastest 
vachts then on the water. The " Puritan " was 
built in 1885 by a syndicate formed by him, and 
he was at the head of the committee which had 
charge of her during the races of that season. 
Later he became sole owner, but soon sold her to 
Commodore Forbes. The next year he brought 
out the " Mayflower," which defeated the '• Gala- 
tea " ; and the ne.xt, 1887, the " Volunteer," which 
outsailed the " Thistle." These yachts were all 
designed by the late Edward fUirgess, General 
Paine following their construction with great care. 
He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, 
which in February, 1888, presented him a silver 
cup in recognition of his triple successful defence 
of the America's cup, member of the Eastern 
Yacht Club, the Somerset, Union, and Country 
clubs. General Paine was married on March 26, 
1867, to Miss Julia Bryant, daughter of John, Jr., 
and Mary Anna Lee Bryant. They have seven 
children : Sumner, John Bryant, Mary Anna Lee, 
Charles Jackson, Helen, Georgina, and Frank 
Cabot Paine. Their town house is an old colonial 
mansion house on Beacon Hill, Boston, and their 
country place is in Weston. Their midsummer 
residence is at Nahant. 



PAINE. Ror.KRT Treat, distinguished as a 
philanthropist, was born in Boston, October 28, 
1835, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot 
(Jackson) Paine, and grandson of the Robert Treat 
Paine whose signature was among those appended 
to the Declaration of Independence. His educa- 
tion was acquired in Boston private and public 
schools, and at Harvard. He entered the Latin 
School at ten years of age, and graduated at 
fifteen : and at twenty he graduated from the col- 
lege with honors. Among his college classmates 
(class of 1855) were Phillips Brooks, Alexander 



.Xgassiz, Francis C. Barlow, Theodore Lyman, 
and Frank 15. Sanborn. After a year's study 
in the Harvard Law School he devoted two years 
to travel in Europe. Then, returning to Boston, 
he further pursued his law studies in the offices 
of Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker, and 
in 1859 was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Eleven 
years after (in 1870), having invested his earnings 
from the practice of his profession in profitable 
real estate, railroad, and mining enterprises, he 
retired with a competence, and since that time he 
has devoted himself mainly to humanitarian work. 
From 1872 to 1876 much of his time was given 
to the building of Trinity Church, he being one 
of the sub-committee of three who had charge 
of the work. In 1878 he was prominent in the or- 
ganization of the .\ssociated Charities of Boston, 
and was made its president, which position he 
still holds. The next year he organized the 
Wells Memorial Institute (in memory of the Rev. 
E. M. P. Wells, who served for thirty years. 




ROBERT TREAT PAINE. 

till his death in 1875, at the age of eighty- 
five, as the missionary of the Episcopal City 
Mission), the largest workingmen's club in the 
country, embracing a loan association, two co-oper- 
ative banks, and a building association ; and sub- 
sequentlv he raised the various subscriptions. 



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amnuntinL; to S90.000, for tlie iiieiiiorial building 
of the Institute, completed in 1883. In 1887 he 
gave $10,000 to Harvard College to endow a 
fellowship for " the study of the ethical problems 
of society, the effects of legislation, governmental 
administration, and private philanthropy, to ameli- 
orate the lot of the mass of mankind " ; and in 
1890, in connection with Mrs. Paine, he created 
and endowed a trust of about $200,000, called 
the Robert Treat Paine Association, the trust 
deeds providing that the charities established are 
always to be carried on by the founders and their 
children. He is a member of the vestry of Trin- 
itv Church, of the e.vecutive committee of the 
Episcopal City Mission, and of the Watch and 
Ward Society; is one of the trustees of donations 
to the Protestant Episcopal Church ; is vice-presi- 
dent of the Children's Aid Society, of which his 
mother was one of the founders and a director 
as long as she lived ; president of the Wells Me- 
morial Institute, the Workingmen's Co-operative 
Bank, the \\'orkingmen's Pudding Association, 
and the Congress of Workingmen's Clubs. He 
has built two hundred or more small houses for 
workingmen, which are sold to them on easy 
terms ; published many pamphlets and addresses 
dealing with social problems ; and striven in vari- 
ous ways to raise the unfortunate, and especially 
to improve the condition of the working classes. 
In 1884 Mr. Paine represented W'altham. where 
his country seat is, in the lower house of the 
Legislature; and the same ^ear w'as Democratic 
and Independent candidate for Congress in the 
old Eifth District. He had been a Republican 
(and Eree Soiler) until the nomination of Mr. 
PJlaine for the Presidency. Mr. Paine was mar- 
ried in Boston, April 24, 1862, to Lydia Will- 
iams Lyman, daughter of George Williams and 
Anne (Pratt) Lyman. Her father was the son 
of Theodore Lyman, a distinguished Boston mer- 
chant at the beginning of this century. They 
have five children: Edith (now Mrs. John H. 
Storer), Robert Treat, ]t., Ethel Lyman, George 
Lyman, and Lydia Lyman Paine. Mr. Paine's 
town house is at No. 6 |ov Street, Beacon Hill. 



PHILLIPS, Henry Moses, of Springfield, 
treasurer and receiver-general of the Common- 
wealth, 1894, was born in Athol, August 11, 1845, 
son of Alonzo D. and Mary A. ( Robinson) Phil- 
lips. He is descended from the Rev. George 



l-'hillips, who c;ime to America in 1630, at the 
same time with Governor Winthrop and Sir Rich- 
ard Saltonstall. 'I'he Rev. George Phillips was 
a graduate of Cambridge College, England, and 
became the first minister at Watertown, Mass. 
Among his numerous descendants were John Phil- 
lips, the first mayor of P5oston, \\'endell Phillips, 
and the Rev. Phillips Brooks. Henry M. Phillips 
was educated in the public schools of Athol and 
Fitchburg, at the Deerfield Academy, and at the 
Military University of Xorwich. \'t. At the age 
of sixteen, when at Norwich, he enlisted in the 
volunteer service, joining the Seventh Squadron, 



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H. M. PHILLlPS^ 

Rhode Island Cavalry, and later the Fourth Mas- 
sachusetts Cavalry, and served through the Civil 
War till the spring of 1865, when he was mu.s- 
tered out. As lieutenant of the Fourth Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry, he served on the Tenth Army 
Corps staff, under Generals (lilmore, Birney, and 
Terry, also on the Twenty-fifth Army Corps staff, 
under General Weitzel, — principally in the Army 
of the James, in its operations south of Richmond. 
He began business life as private secretary to the 
Hon. Henry Alexander, Jr.. then mayor of Spring- 
field, taking his position immediately after his 
discharge from the army. In 1.S71 he was ap- 
pointed deputy collector in the L nited States in- 



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ternal revenue service, and assistant assessor of 
the Tenth Massachusetts District. The same 
year he organized the firm of PhilHps, Mowry, & 
Co., for the manufacture of steam-heating appa- 
ratus, in which he has been engaged since, his 
firm being succeeded in 1876 by a corporation 
under the title of the Phillips Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of which he is the president. He is also a 
director of the Second National IJank of Spring- 
field, of the Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank, 
and of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, — on the finance committee of each of 
the three institutions. He has also been a direc- 
tor of the Springfield Board of Trade since its 
organization. His public career began as a mem- 
ber of the Springfield City Council, in which he 
served for two years. In 1880 and 1881 he was 
a representative of Springfield in the lower house 
of the Legislature; in 1883-84-85 was maj-or of 
Springfield; in 1886-87 ^ member of the State 
Senate for the First Hampden District; and in 
1894, as treasurer and receiver-general elected to 
that ofiice by a large vote, he became a member 
of the executive department of the State. In the 
Legislature he served, when a representative, on 
the committee on railroads in 188 1, and again 
when a senator, in 1886-87; '" 1886 he was 
also chairman of the committee on towns, and in 
1887 chairman of the committees on insurance 
and on the treasury. From 1890 to 1894 he was 
postmaster of Springfield (appointed January 23, 
1890), resigning the position November 30, 1893, 
(resignation not accepted till January 6, 1894), to 
assume the duties of State treasurer. Mr. Phil- 
lips is a member of the Massachusetts Comman- 
dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, a 
member of the Grand Army, — for two years com- 
mander of Wilcox Post, Springfield, and one year 
senior vice-department commander, — a Knight 
Templar, and a Mason of the thirty-second de- 
gree. He was married in Springfield, December 
29, 1S74, to Miss Julia (Bowles) Alexander. They 
have one son: Henry Alexander Phillips, a mem- 
ber of the class of 1897, Harvard. 



PLYMPTON, Noah Allen, of the firm of 
Plympton & Bunting, general managers of the 
New England department of the I'enn Mutual 
Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is a native 
of Massachusetts, born in Shrewsbury, September 
7, 1841, son of John B. and Hannah E. (Allen) 



Plympton. He is of .American descent in the 
ninth generation on both sides. .Vt si.xteen, 
having already worked some time in his father's 
shoe factory, he was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of watchmaker and jeweller, and served 
till he reached his majority. Thereafter he fol- 
lowed this trade, the greater part of the time en- 
gaged in the watch and jewelry business for 
himself, in Worcester, until 1878, when he en- 
tered the insurance business. He first became 
associated with the Penn Mutual Life in 1880, 
acting as local agent at Worcester. Two years 
later he was made general agent of the company 




NOAH A. PLYMPTON. 

at Boston. This position he held until May, 
1883, when he resigned to take the office of ex- 
aminer for the State Insurance Department, to 
which he was appointed by Insurance Commis- 
sioner Tarbox. After a year's service here he 
resigned (_May, 1884), and returned to the Bos- 
ton office of the Penn Mutual Life as general 
agent; and shortly after he was appointed to his 
present position of general manager of the com- 
pany's New England department. In 18S5 he 
was elected to the Board of Trustees of the com- 
pany, and has since been re-elected from year to 
year; and he is chairman of the committees on 
medical department and on accounts, in poll- 



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tics he was a Democrat, voting the "straight" 
Democratic ticket up to 1884, when he differed 
with the Democratic party on the tariff question, 
and since that time he has voted for protection 
whenever and wherever he could find a candidate 
who was for it. He was a member of the Demo- 
cratic State Committee from 1880 until June, 
1884, when he resigned, during the "Butler 
years " of 1882 and 1883 being chairman of the 
executive committee and having entire charge of 
the campaigns of those years. In 1883 he was 
nominated for insurance commissioner of the 
Commonwealth by Governor Butler, but was not 
confirmed by the Republican Executive Council. 
He was never an applicant for public office nor a 
candidate except when nominated for insurance 
commissioner, and his candidacy then was only 
at the request of Governor Butler. He is presi- 
dent of the Boston Life Underwriters' Associa- 
tion, a member of the Algonquin Club, of the 
Butler Club (president since its organization in 
May, 1887), and of the New England Club (vice- 
president) ; and he is connected with the Masonic 
order, member of the Athelstan Lodge of Worces- 
ter, and the Worcester Chapter R. A. M. He 
was married at Kewanee, 111., September 17, 
1862, to Miss Helen M. Flint. They have five 
children : Herbert F. (now in business with his 
father), Harry A. (now a student of law), Alice 
L., Lucy A., and Frederick K. Flympton. He 
resides at Wellesley Hills. 



POPE, Albert Augustus, founder of the bi- 
cycle industries in the LTnited States, was born in 
Boston, May 20, 1843, son of Charles and Eliza- 
beth (Bogman) Pope. He received his education 
in the public schools of Brookline, to which town 
the family moved early in his childhood. \Mien 
he was nine years of age, his father met with busi- 
ness reverses ; and young Albert at once began 
to earn something towards his support. At the 
early age of twelve he started as a successful 
trader in fruits and vegetables among his neigh- 
bors. At fifteen he was employed in the Quincy 
Market, Boston, and later became a clerk in a 
shoe-finding store on Blackstone Street. At nine- 
teen he joined the volunteer forces of the Union 
army, going to the front as second lieutenant 
in the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He 
was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, 
March 23, 1863; to captain, April i, 1864: was 



brevetted major for "gallant conduct at the battle 
of Fredericksburg, Va.," and then lieutenant 
colonel for " gallant conduct in the battles of 
Knoxville, Poplar Springs Church, and front of 
Petersburg." He served in the principal Vir- 
ginia campaigns, was with Burnside in Tennessee, 
with Grant at Vicksburg, and with Sherman at 
Jackson, Miss. He commanded Fort Nell before 
Petersburg, and in the last attack led his regi- 
ment into the city. After the war he entered 
business for himself, dealing in shoe manufact- 
urers" supplies. In 1877, having already founded 
the Pope Manufacturing Company and become 
an enthusiastic bicyclist, he started out in the 
industry which has grown to such extraordinary 
proportions. At that time the demand for the 
wheel was limited, and in many quarters there 
was marked opposition to its use in the public 
thoroughfares. Accordingly, it was Colonel Pope's 
mission, at the outset, to overcome the prejudice 
against it. and to foster a popular interest in hi- 



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ALBERT A. POPE. 

cycling. These ends were accomplished in vari- 
ous ways, and with them sundry public benefits 
were secured. Opposition, wherever it showed 
itself, was promptly met and ably checked and 
dispelled ; the amendment or repeal of adverse 
city ordinances was secured, and the rights of 



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wheelmen in the public ways were defended and 
established in the courts; trained tongues and 
pens were brought to champion the bicycle and to 
promote the public good will towards it ; the liter- 
ature of the subject was widely distributed, and 
the best foreign publications were imported and 
circulated gratuitously ; local periodical publica- 
tions were encouraged and sustained ; Colonel 
Pope's company published " The American iJi- 
cycler," which did much to awaken popular inter- 
est in intelligent bicycling, and to correct popu- 
lar misconception regarding it. The first journal 
devoted exclusively to bicycling, the BiixcHiig 

Worlds started in the autumn of 1879, was sub- 
stantially advanced by the patronage of the com- 
pany ; and it founded, at an expense of several 
thousand dollars, the illustrated magazine, The 

Wheelman, which subsequently became the Oitt- 
iii,i^. Colonel Pope is also pioneer in the move- 
ment for highway improvement in town and coun- 
try. Besides his interest in the bicycle industry, 
he is concerned in several other lines of business. 
He is a director of the American Loan iV Trust 
Company and of the W'inthrop Bank, and is con- 
nected with a number of other corporations and 
companies. He is a member of the Algonquin, 
Country, Athletic, and Art clubs of PSoston ; is 
president of the Beacon Society : commander of 
the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion ; prominent in the 
Grand Army, and a life member of several chari- 
table organizations. For two years he was a 
member of the Newton city government. Colonel 
Pope was married September 20, 187 1, to Miss 
Abby Linder. They have five children : Albert 
Linder, Margaret Roberts, Harold Linder, 
Charles Linder, and Ralph Linder Pope. 



PRATT, Isaac, Jr., president of the Atlantic 
National Bank of Boston, is a native of North 
Middleborough, born June 27, 18 14, son of Isaac 
and Naomi (Keith) Pratt. He is a descendant 
in the eighth generation of Phineas Pratt, who 
came from England to Massachusetts Bay in the 
third ship, " Ann," and died in Charlestown, April 
9, 1680, at the age of eighty-six years. He was 
educated ip the town school of North Middle- 
borough and at Bridgewater Academy. At the 
age of sixteen he entered his father's counting- 
room in Wareham, where he remained till 1834. 
Then he came to Boston ; and after a year with 



Warren Murdock, in the commission hardware 
business, he joined B. L. Thompson on Long 
Wharf, becoming a partner in the lirm in 1836, 
the business being chiefly the manufacture of cut 
nails and dealing in hops. He continued in this 
business till 1843, when he connected himself with 




ISAAC PRATT, Jr. 

the Weymoutli Iron Company. Here he was 
engaged for forty-three years, for a considerable 
part of the time president of the company. He 
was also some time president of the Bridgewater 
Iron Company. His official connection with the 
Atlantic National Bank began in 1866, when he 
was elected a director ; and he has held the office 
of president since 1869. He is also a director of 
the National Bank of Wareham. In 1875 he was 
a member of the lower house of the Legislature, 
representing the Brighton District of Boston. In 
politics Mr. Pratt is a Republican, always voting 
the regular ticket of the party ; but he has not 
had much time to give to the organization as a 
member. He is active in local enterprises, and 
has served as president of the Charles River 
Embankment Company, and as treasurer of the 
East Boston Company. He was married June g, 
1840, to Miss Hannah Thompson, daughter of 
B. L. Thompson, his early partner in business. 
They have had five children : Ellen Jane Oakes, 



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Isaac Lowell, David Gurney, Edmund Thompson, 
and Marland Langdon Pratt. 



PRINCE, Frederick Octavius, mayor of Bos- 
ton 1877, 79-81, was born in Boston, January 18, 
1818, son of Thomas and Caroline (Prince) Prince. 
He comes of English stock on one side and Scotch 
on the other, and his ancestors were among the 
earliest settlers in New England. The first to 
come to this country was Elder John Prince, son 
of John Prince who was rector of East Sheffield 
as far back as 1584, when the Prince family was 
living in Shrewsbury upon their estate known as 
" Abbey P"oregate." Elder John Prince came here 
in 1633, and settled in Hull. His grandson, 
Thomas Prince, graduated from Harvard in 1707, 
and in 1718 was ordained as colleague of Dr. 
Samuel Sewall (minister of the Old South Church 
of Boston for fifty-six years), which position he 




F. O. PRINCE. 

held for forty years, until his death. J.ames 
Prince, the grandfather of Frederick O., was well 
known in his day and generation as a prominent 
merchant in Boston. He was appointed by Presi- 
dent Jefferson as naval officer at the port of Bos- 
ton, and afterward United States marshal for the 



district of Massachusetts. He held the latter 
office under the administrations of Madison and 
Monroe. Frederick O. Prince was educated at 
the Boston Latin School and Harvard College, 
entering the former in 1827 and graduating in 
1832 (receiving the Franklin medal and two other 
medals for scholarship), and graduating from the 
college in 1836. He was the secretary of his col- 
lege class, and the class poet. A year after his 
graduation he began the study of law in the office 
of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, and 
in 1840 was admitted to the Suffolk bar, when he 
began the practice of his profession in Boston. 
He was an ardent Whig, and early in his career 
took an active part in politics. Maintaining his 
law office in Boston, in 1848 he made his resi- 
dence in Winchester, Middlesex County, and rep- 
resented that town in the lower house of the State 
Legislature in 1851, 1852, and 1853. The latter 
year he was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention, taking a leading part in its proceedings. 
In 1855 he was elected to the State Senate, and 
in this body at once became prominent and influ- 
ential. In i860, upon the disruption of the Whig 
party, he allied himself with the Democratic party ; 
and he has since been a conspicuous member of 
that organization. He w-as a delegate from Mas- 
sachusetts to the memorable National Democratic 
Convention at Charleston, S.C., in i860, and, ad- 
hering to the Douglas wing of the party, was 
made secretary of the National Democratic Com- 
mittee for the presidential campaign of that year. 
This position he held through the succeeding 
campaigns until 1888, being unanimously elected 
each time. That j-ear, although again elected 
unanimously, he resigned the office ; and upon his 
retirement he received from the National Dem- 
ocratic Convention a resolution of thanks for the 
" unflagging zeal and distinguished ability " which 
had characterized his twenty-eight years of ser- 
vice. Meanwhile Mr. Prince had become again a 
citizen of Boston; and in 1877 he entered upon 
his first term as mayor of the city, having been 
elected by a large vote in the December election 
of 1876, although his party was at the time of his 
nomination in the minority. Renominated for a 
second term, he was defeated after one of the 
most hotly contested elections in the city, his 
competitor being Henry L. Pierce. The next 
year, however, when he was again put in the field, 
he was returned by a handsome majority, and 
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1880 and 188 1). For 1882, though earnestly 
pressed, he declined renomination. His adminis- 
tration was especially marked by the adoption of 
the scheme of public parks embraced in the 
"public parks system," the development of 
which is seen in the chain of beautiful pleas- 
ure grounds now almost encircling the city ; and 
by the measure providing for the " improved 
sewerage system," — that fine piece of engineering 
known as the great intercepting sewer, which 
takes to Moon Island, outside the harbor of Bos- 
ton, the sewage of the city proper and the district 
lying south of Charles River. The great building 
for the Latin and English High schools, the 
largest structure in the country for the use of pub- 
lic schools, was also erected during his administra- 
tion, and largely through his efforts. In 1885 Mr. 
Prince was named as the Democratic candidate 
for governor of the State, and was defeated upon 
a strictly party vote. In 1888 he was made a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Boston 
Public Library, under whose supervision the 
classic and richly embellished new Library Build- 
ing in Copley Square has been constructed ; and 
in 1893 he was reappointed for a second term of 
five years. During his mayoralty Mr. Prince was 
often called to make orations and addresses on 
occasions of municipal interest, which were highly 
commended by the press and the citizens gener- 
ally. Among these may be mentioned the ora- 
tions on the dedication of the statue of Josiah 
Quincy in front of City Hall ; on the dedication of 
the statue of President Lincoln in Park Square : 
and on the celebration on the 17th of September, 
1880, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the settlement of Boston. He made also 
eloquent addresses at the dedication of the public 
Latin and English High school-house, at the dedi- 
cation of the Soldiers' Monument on Boston Com- 
mon, and at the laying of the corner-stone of the 
new Public Library Building on Copley Square. 
Mr. Prince was first married, in 1848, to Miss 
Helen Henry, daughter of Barnard Henry, of 
Philadelphia, for many years United States consul 
at Gibraltar, where Mrs. Prince was born. Their 
children were: Gordon and Bernard (deceased), 
twins, Charles Albert, Morton Prince (M.D.), 
Helen Susan (deceased), and Frederick Henry 
I'rince. Mrs. Prince died in 1885; and in 1889 
Mr. Prince married again, his second wife being 
the widow of Mr. Samuel P. Blanc, a distin- 
guished member of the bar of New Orleans. 



PROCTOR, Tuo.MAS William, city solicitor 
of Boston 1891-94, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Hollis, November 20, 1858, son of Thomas 
and Susan R. (Pool) Proctor. He is a direct de- 
scendant of Robert Proctor, who came from Eng- 
land and settled in Concord in 1635. He was 





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T. W. PROCTOR. 



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educated in the public schools of his native town, 
in the Lawrence Academy of Groton, Mass., 
where he was fitted for college and graduated 
in 1875, and at Dartmouth, graduating therefrom 
in the class of 1879. The next year he came to 
Boston, and began the study of law, reading in 
the office of the Hon. John H. Hardy and attend- 
ing the Boston tfniversity Law School one year 
(1882-83); and in October, 1883, was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar. In 1S84 he was clerk to the 
district attorney for Suffolk from July to October, 
and then entered general practice as a member 
of the law firm of Hardy, Elder, & Proctor, which 
was soon after changed, Mr. Hardy being ap- 
pointed to the municipal bench, to Elder & Proc- 
tor. In this relation he continued till 1886, when 
he was appointed second assistant district attor- 
ney for the Suffolk District. In December of the 
following year he was promoted to the first assist- 
ant district attorneyship ; and this position he 
held until May, 1891, when he was appointed 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



assistant solicitor in the law department of the 
city of Boston. On the first of February, 1894, he 
resigned from the city law department to take the 
law practice of the old Boston firm of Blackmar 
& Sheldon, upon the appointment of Mr. Sheldon 
to the Superior Bench. Mr. Proctor is a member 
of the Boston Bar Association, and of the Uni- 
versity and Curtis clubs. He is unmarried. 



RANNEY, Ambrose Arnold, member of the 
Suffolk bar since 1848, and representative in 
Congress three terms, is a native of Vermont. 




A. A. RANNEY. 

He was born in Townshend, Windham County, 
April 16, 1821, son of Waitstill R. and Phttbe 
(.\twood) Ranney. His father was the leading 
physician of the town, and for two terms the 
lieutenant governor of the State. He attended 
the Townshend Academy, where he was fitted for 
college, and, entering Dartmouth, was graduated 
in the class of 1844. Then he took up the study 
of law in the office of Andrew Tracy in Wood- 
stock, Vt., and in 1847 was admitted to the Ver- 
mont bar. He immediately removed to Boston, 
where the following year he was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar ; and there he has since practised with 
marked success. Seven years after he opened 



his Boston office he was made city solicitor, which 
position he held for two terms. In 1857 he 
was member of the lower house of the Legis- 
lature, and again in 1863 and 1864; and in 1880 
he was first elected to Congress. He served in 
the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth 
Congresses, and was one of the most prominent 
members of the Massachusetts delegation. Dur- 
ing his first two terms he was a member of the 
committee on elections ; and his third, of the 
committee on the judiciary and of the special 
committee to investigate the Pan Electric scheme. 
He has been a Republican since the organization 
of that party. In his professional work Mr. 
Ranney has been eminently successful as a jury 
lawyer. He was married in Cavendish, Vt., De- 
cember 4, 1850, to Miss Maria D. Fletcher, 
daughter of Addison and Maria (Ingals) Fletcher. 
They have had one son and three daughters : 
Fletcher (now a partner in the law firm of Clark 
& Ranney), Maria F., Helen M., and .Vlice Ran- 
ney (now Mrs. Thomas Allen). 



R.'WMOND, Walter, of the firm of Ray- 
mond & Whitcomb, continental excursion pro- 
jectors and managers, is a native of Boston, born 
October 13, 185 1. son of Emmons and Mehitable 
Converse (Munroe) Raymond. His paternal 
grandparents, Asa and Hulda (Rice) Raymond, 
were long residents of the town of Shutesbury, 
I'ranklin County, and celebrated that rare occa- 
sion, a diamond wedding, in .April, 1862. His 
education was begun in the old Phillips School in 
Boston, and, the family removing to Cambridge, 
continued in the Harvard Grammar and the Cam- 
bridge High and Latin schools, where he was 
fitted for college. He entered Harvard, and grad- 
uated in the class of 1873. In college he was a 
member of the Pierian Sodality, the Signet, and 
the .Alpha Chapter, Psi Upsilon Fraternity ; and 
among his classmates were Robert Grant, now 
probate judge, J. M. Laughlin, Charles T. Rus- 
sell, Jr., J. Cheever Goodwin, and Eliot Lord, 
editor of the Boston Traveller. He began busi- 
ness life as a book-keeper for his brother, Charles 
.\. Raymond, then established on Hanover Street, 
Boston. In June, 1875, he entered the railroad 
business as cashier in the Boston office of the 
Montreal & Boston .\ir Line & Passumpsic 
Railroad, and two years later became the general 
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England agencies. In 1879 he formed the part- 
nership with I. A. Whitcomb, of Somerville, now 
so widely known under the firm name of Raymond 
& Whitcomb; and their first vacation excursion, 
organized that year, was from Manchester, N.H.. 
to Montreal. Their system was rapidly devel- 
oped, and within a few years covered a wide terri- 
tory. They were the first railroad men to send 
a vestibuled train to California, to establish the 
system of transcontinental dining cars, and to 
despatch dining cars to Mexico. Within a single 
year (1892) Mr. Raymond, as manager, personally 
planned and managed one hundred trips through 
the New England and Middle States, to California, 
Mexico, Alaska, the Sandwich Islands, and to 
various points in Europe. He owns or leases a 
number of hotels in various parts of the country, 
among them 'Ihe Raymond, at East Pasadena, 
Cal., and The Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Col. : 
and he has held the position of postmaster at 
East Pasadena (the post-office of the Raymond 
Hotel) since 1887, appointed by President Cleve- 
land. He is much interested in music, and from 
1870 to 1S78 was leader of the Cambridge Ania- 



bridge. Mr. Raymond was married April 5, 1893, 
to Miss Hattie Sisson Lewis, of Denver, Col. 





WALTER RAYMOND. 



teur Orchestra, a band of twelve members. In 
politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a Uni- 
tarian, attending the First Parish Cliurch of Cam- 



S. H. RHODES. 

RHODES, Stephen Holiirouk, president of 
the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany, is a native of Franklin, born November 7, 
1825, son of Stephen and ISetsey (Bird) Rhodes. 
He was educated in the public schools and in the 
Bristol Academy, Taunton. He began business 
life in Taunton in manufacturing and mercantile 
branches, and subsequently engaged in life in- 
surance. He was deputy insurance commissioner 
of the State from 1872 to 1874, and for five years 
thereafter, first by appointment of acting Governor 
Talbot, was chief of the department as insurance 
commissioner. This position he resigned in the 
spring of 1879 to accept the presidency of the 
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company 
(chartered in 1861), at the head of which he has 
remained since. During the latter part of liis 
residence in Taunton he was identified with nu- 
merous local interests, and for two and a half years 
(1867-68-69) was mayor of the city. Previous 
to his election to the mayoralty he served half a 
term on the Board of Aldermen (1867). In 1870- 
7 1 he was a member of the State Senate, repre- 
senting the First Bristol District, where he served 



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on important committees and was instrumental in 
shaping legislation bearing on insurance matters. 
Since 1873 he has resided in Boston. He is a 
member of the Exchange Club, of the Boston 
Society of Natural History, and of the Roxbury 
Charitable Society. He was married in Taunton, 
November 27, 1847. ^° Miss Elizabeth M. God- 
frey, daughter of Charles and Hannah (Shaw) 
Godfrey. They have had two children : Henry 
Holbrook, born November 6, 1848, died Septem- 
ber 20, 1854; and Annie Elizabeth, born April 
30, 185 1, now wife of Lieutenant James M. 
Grimes, of the United States Navv. 



RICE, Alexander Hamilton, mayor of Bos- 
ton 1856-57, Congressman 1859-67, and gover- 
nor of the Commonwealth 1876-78, is a native of 
Newton, born August 30, 1818, son of 'I'homas 
and I.ydia (Smith) Rice. His father was a paper 
manufacturer, having mills at Newton Lower 
Falls. He was educated in public and private 
schools in and near Newton, finishing at Union 
College, Schenectady, N.Y., then under the presi- 
dency of the celebrated Dr. Nott, where he grad- 
uated in 1844, commencement orator of his class. 
Three years later he received from his (7/»in mater 
the degree of A.M. ; and in 1876, the first year of 
his service in the governorship. Harvard College 
conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. 
He began business life the year of his graduation, 
entering the Boston house of \Mlkins & Carter, 
paper dealers and manufacturers ; and he has con- 
tinued in the paper trade ever since. Joining with 
him some years later Mr. Charles S. Kendall, he 
established the house of Rice, Kendall & Co., 
paper dealers and manufacturers, with warehouse 
in Boston and mills in Newton and elsewhere, 
which firm early took rank among the foremost con- 
cerns in the business. In i88g, after a prosperous 
career of nearly half a century, this firm was suc- 
ceeded by the present corporation under the style 
of the Rice-Kendall Company, with Mr. Rice as 
president. He is also president of the Keith 
Paper Company at Turner's Falls, Mass. He has 
been a director of the American Loan & Trust 
Company since its organization; since about 1870 
a director of the Massachusetts National Bank; 
and since 187 i a trustee of the Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company of New York, the largest financial 
institution in the world. His public life began as a 
member of the Boston School Committee early in 



the fifties, and as a member of the lioard of Public 
Institutions, and afterwards of the Common Coun- 
cil, becoming president of the latter body in 1854. 
During his first term in the mayoralty (1856), to 
which he was elected as a " Citizens '" candidate, 
defeating the " Know Nothing party," the " tripar- 




ALEXANDER H. RICE- 

tite agreement " between the city, the Common- 
wealth, and the Boston Water Power Company, 
was consummated, under which the dexelopment 
of the territory now known as the Back Bay Dis- 
trict was begun; and in his second term the ex- 
tension of Devonshire Street from Milk Street to 
Franklin Street, through the narrow foot-path 
called Theatre Alley, and the opening of Win- 
throp Square from Franklin Street to Summer 
.Street were begun. This improvement first 
brought Franklin Street, Hawley, Arch. Summer, 
and neighboring streets into business localities, 
they having been previously purely residential 
quarters. During the same term the movement 
for the establishment of the City Hospital was 
started, and the Public Library Building on Boyl- 
ston Street was finished. On the occasion of the 
dedication of the latter, January i, 1858, Mr. 
Rice delivered a dedicatory address, the other 
addresses being delivered by Robert C. Winthrop 
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he was a leading member on the Republican side 
from the beginning of his long service, and for 
the greater part of the war period he was chair- 
man of the committee on naval affairs. As gov- 
ernor, he represented the State on numerous pub- 
lic occasions beyond its borders : and his admin- 
istrations were marked by the enactment and 
administration of liquor laws which greatly abated 
drunkenness and assuaged the bitterness of dis- 
cussion. Also during his gubernatorial terms the 
settlement of the controversy about the State 
administration of the Hoosac Tunnel was ad- 
vanced, the militia was reorganized and invig- 
orated, and an efficient and aspiring tone was 
given to all departments of the government, es- 
pecially to the schools and the humane institu- 
tions. Among his many formal addresses, besides 
those above mentioned, a few only of which have 
been preserved in pamphlet form, are : an address 
at the opening of the great Peace Jubilee in 
i86g; address as chancellor of Union Univer- 
sity in 1 881; address on the occasion of the un- 
veiling of the equestrian statue of Washington 
in the Boston Public Garden, July 3, 1869; at the 
unveiling of the Sumner statue, Public Garden. 
December 2t,, 1878; one of the course of the 
Butterfield lectures at Ihiion College in 1892; 
and the address at the inauguration of the Farra- 
gut statue, Marine Park, South Boston, June 28, 
1893. He has several times been abroad, and in 
England enjoyed an intimate friendship with the 
late Dean Stanley and with other eminent men 
there and on the continent. Mr. Rice is a mem- 
ber of the American Archa;ological Society ; a 
fellow of the American Geographical Society (New- 
York) ; member of the American Historical Asso- 
ciation ; of the ^^'ebster Historical Association 
(vice-president): of the Bunker Hill Monument 
Association (a director) ; and of the Massachusetts 
Commandery of the Loyal Legion : honorary life 
member of the Farragut Naval Veteran Associa- 
tion ; a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 
and of the Episcopal Theological School at Cam- 
bridge ; president of the National Soldiers' Home; 
and past honorary chancellor of Union Univer- 
sity. He also belongs to the St. Botolph, the 
Algonquin, the Art (president of the latter in 
1880), the Commercial, and the Thursday clubs 
of Boston. He was first married in 1S44 to 
Miss Augusta E. McKim, a sister of Judge 
McKim. of the Suffolk Countv Probate Court ; 



and a second marriage was to Mrs. iVngie Erick- 
son Powell, of Rochester, N.Y. 



RICKER, James Wii.i.iam, collector of the 
city of Boston, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Portsmouth, January 31, 1829, son of 
Charles and Eliza B. (Perkins) Ricker. On the 
paternal side he is a direct descendant of George 
Ricker, who came from England in 1760, and 
settled in Somersworth, then a part of Dover, 
N.H. He was educated in the Portsmouth public 
schools, and began active life when yet a lad, as 
an apprentice in a printing-office in (Jreat Falls, 
N.H., where he learned the printer's trade. 
Then, coming to Boston, he was for several years 
engaged in newspaper work, and in 1859 was one 
of the publishers of the Boston Liu^^er, an even- 
ing paper published that year. In 1862 he 
entered the service of the city, and has remained 
in it without break ever since. For the first thir- 





^^^ 




JAMES W. RICKER. 

teen years he was in the office of the city treas- 
urer, from the second year a deputy collector, the 
collection of taxes then being one of the duties of 
the treasurer. When in 1875 the separate office 
of collector was established, he was a candidate 
for the new position : and being defeated by his 



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competitor. General Thomas Sherwin, he was im- 
mediately appointed by the latter chief clerk. 
This position he held until 1883, when, General 
Sherwin resigning, he was placed at the head of 
the department, where he has been retained since 
by repeated reappointments, through both Dem- 
ocratic and Republican administrations. JMr. 
Ricker was married December 28, 1852, in Chel- 
sea, to Miss Sarah F. Fenno, daughter of Henry 
W. and Rebecca H. Fenno. They have two 
children: Julia Marland (now Mrs. Frederick 
M. Stearns) and Everett \\'ilder Ricker. 



ROBINSON, Albert Alonzo, of Boston, pres- 
ident of the Mexican Central Railway, is a native 
of Vermont, born in South Reading, Windsor 




A. A. ROBINSON. 

County, October 21, 1844, son of Ebenezer, Jr., 
and Adaline (Williams) Robinson. He is a lineal 
descendant of Jonathan Robinson, born in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., in 1682, a son of \\'illiam Rob- 
inson, one of the early settlers there. His 
grandfather, Ebenezer Robinson, Sr., born in 
Lexington in February, 1765, and died October 
31, 1857, at the ripe age of ninety-two, served in 
the Revolutionary War for two years, part of the 
time in the navy as privateer and part as a soldier 



in the land forces, and for about six months was 
a prisoner on the prison ship " Old Jersey." His 
father, Ebenezer, Jr., was also a native of South 
Reading, Vt., born September 30, 1S09, died July 
5, 1848. Albert A. was educated in the public 
schools, in Milton (Wis.) Academy, and in the 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., where 
he graduated in i86g, taking the degree of C.E. 
and B.S., and in 1871 M.S. From childhood until 
he reached his majority he was engaged at farm 
labor out of school hours, excepting during the 
years 1856-59, when he worked as a clerk in dry- 
goods or grocery stores. From 1866 to 1868 he 
was employed for about five months each year as 
assistant on the United States lake surveys in 
astronomical field work and on triangulation of 
the great lakes. His work on railroads began in 
1869, when on May 27 he entered the service 
of the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad as 
axeman in the engineering corps, and thereafter 
served successively as chain-man, level-man, tran- 
sit-man, office engineer, locating engineer, and as- 
sistant engineer until the first of .Kpril, 187 1. 
Then he became assistant engineer of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, in charge 
of location and construction, and two years later, 
on the first of April, 1873, was made chief engi- 
neer, which position he held till August, 1890. 
From June i, 1883, to September i, 1883, he also 
served as assistant general superintendent of the 
Santa Fe system ; from September i, 18S3, to 
March i, 1884, he was general superintendent; 
from March i, 1884, to February i, 1886, he was 
general manager; from February i, 1886, to May, 
1888, second vice-president; and second vice- 
president and general manager from May, 1888, 
till April 3, 1893, when he left this system to ac- 
cept the presidency of the Mexican Central Rail- 
way Company. During his engineering expe- 
rience he has had direct charge of the construction 
of over forty-five hundred miles of railroad, in- 
cluding the building of the Pueblo and Denver 
line, one hundred and sixteen miles in seven 
months, and the extending of the company's line 
from Kansas City to Chicago, four hundred and 
fifty-eight miles, from April to December 3 1 of the 
same year. As president of the Mexican Central, 
he is in charge of the general business and affairs 
of the road, with headquarters in Boston. Mr. 
Robinson is a member of the .American Societ)- 
of Civil Engineers. In politics he is Republican. 
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Caroline Uurdick, of Edgerton, Wis. She died 
August 3, 188 1, leaving a daughter, Metta Burdick 
Robinson, born July 17, 1876. He married sec- 
ond, September 3, 1885, Mrs. Ellen Francis 
Williams, a sister of his first wife. 



ROCHE, James Jeffrey, editor of the Pilot, 
Boston, is a native of Queen's County, Ireland, 
born at Mountmellick, May 31, 1847. That same 




J. J ROCHE. 

year his parents emigrated to Prince Edward Isl- 
and, and there he spent his boyhood and youth. 
His education was acquired from his father, Ed- 
ward Roche, an accomplished scholar, and at St. 
Dunstan's College, Charlottetown. Among his 
college classmates were the present Chief Justice 
Sullivan, of Prince Edward Island, and Arch- 
bishop O'Brien, of Halifa.x, N.S. In May, 1866, 
soon after leaving college, he came to the United 
States, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. These 
he followed for seventeen years, at the same time 
dipping into literature, contributing to various 
newspapers and magazines, notably the Pilot, 
when under the editorial direction of his brilliant 
friend, the late John Boyle O'Reilly. In June, 
1883, he joined the regular staff of the Pilot. Mr. 
O'Reilly offering him the position of assistant 



editor. This he held until the death of his chief, 
in August, 1890, when he was advanced to the 
first place. Early in his professional career he 
made a reputation as a poet, and as a writer of 
picturesque and virile prose. His published 
works are the "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly," pub- 
lished in 1891; "The Story of the Filibusters," 
published in London the same year; and a vol- 
ume of poems, " Songs and Satires," issued in 
Boston in 1886. He was the poet of the occasion 
when the " high-water mark monument " was un- 
veiled at _the national dedication on the held of 
Gettysburg, June 2, 1892, and also at the celebra- 
tion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the founding of the town of Woburn, October 6, 
the same year. That year the University of 
Notre Dame, Indiana, conferred upon him the 
honorary degree of LL.I). In 1893 he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Russell a member of the 
Metropolitan Park Commission, that year created, 
but soon after resigned on account of the pressure 
of editorial and literary work. He is a member of 
the St. Botolph and Papyrus clubs, and of other 
organizations. For five consecutive years (from 
1884) he was secretary of the Papyrus, and its 
president in 1890. He is a brother of the late 
John Roche, pay-clerk in the United States Navy, 
who perished heroically in the Samoan disaster of 
March, 1889. 



RUSSELL, William Eustis, governor of Mas- 
sachusetts three terms, 1891-92-93, and the 
youngest candidate but one ever elected to the 
office, is a native of Cambridge, of sterling stock. 
He was born January 6, 1857, youngest son of 
Charles Theodore and Sarah Elizabeth (Ballister) 
Russell. Of his ancestors, those on the paternal 
side were among the Puritan immigrants to Bos- 
ton about the year 1640, and one of them, a Will- 
iam Russell, was living in Cambridge in 1645; 
and his paternal grandmother, a Hastings, de- 
scended through both her parents from the earliest 
settlers in Princeton. His mother's father was 
Joseph Ballister, an old-time Boston merchant. 
His early education was attained in the public 
schools of Cambridge, and there he was prepared 
for college. At si.\teen he entered Harvard, 
where he made a good record as a student, and 
displayed a hearty interest in athletics. Graduat- 
ing in 1877, he entered the Boston University 
Law School with three ambitions, — to graduate at 
the head of his class, to win the William Beach 



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Lawrence prize for the best essay, and to deliver 
the class oration at commencement. All three he 
attained, and he received the first siimma ciim 
hunk ever given by this school. His successful 
essay for the Lawrence prize was on " Foreign 
Judgments : Their Hxtra-territorial Force and 
Effect." After a year's additional study under 
the direction of his father, he was admitted to the 
-Suffolk bar (1880), and began practice in Boston 
in his father's law firm, — that of C. T. and T. H. 
Russell. The following year he was elected to 
the Cambridge city council on an independent 
ticket by a majority of two votes, one of which 




WM. E. RUSSELL. 
(From 11 copyri^'hteil photograph by KImer (_'hickering.l 

was lost in a recount ; and, with his work in this 
body, his remarkable career in the public service 
began. The next year he was sent to the Cam- 
bridge Board of Aldermen, nominated by both the 
regular parties, with a practically united constit- 
uency behind him. Here, as in the council, he 
took a leading part, displaying ability as a ready 
and skilful debater, and boldness in the advocacy 
of local reforms. After two terms in this board 
he was nominated to the mayoralty at the head of 
a municipal reform ticket, and in the hot cam- 
paign following he spoke on the stump in every 
section of the city. His ticket was elected by an 
emphatic majority, and he entered the office the 



youngest man ever chosen to it. This was in 
1884, when he was but twenty-seven. He was 
mayor of Cambridge, through repeated elections, 
for four successive terms : and his administration 
was marked by important financial and other re- 
forms, and the successful accomplishment of a 
number of great public improvements. Early in 
this service his fame was spread beyond the limits 
of his city, and he was frequently "mentioned" for 
higher offices. During his first term as mayor he 
was seriously considered for the second place on 
the Democratic State ticket, and the next year for 
the first place. He, however, withdrew in favor 
of John Y. Andrew, and in the convention made 
the nominating speech, which was followed by the 
nomination of the war governor's son by acclama- 
tion. The same year he was pressed to stand for 
Congress in his district, but he declined. In 
1888, when closing his fourth term as mayor, he 
was again named for the head of the Democratic 
.State ticket, and in the convention of that year 
was nominated by acclamation. -Soon after his 
nomination he began a stumping tour of the State, 
and spoke night after night for seven weeks, dis- 
cussing tariff reform and other questions involved 
in the presidential campaign, with State issues. 
,\lthough failing of election, he polled a greatly 
increased Democratic vote. In October, 1889, he 
was renominated, and, as before, made a tour of 
the State, discussing on the stump .State issues, 
with tariff reform as the leading national one. 
The result of this canvass was a decrease in the 
Republican plurality to a narrow margin, .\gain, 
in 1890, renominated, and making a third tour of 
the State, this time he carried the election by 
a strong plurality, although the Republican can- 
didates for the other ofiices were, with one ex- 
ception (that of auditor), elected. In the two 
succeeding elections he was re-elected, with Re- 
publicans on the remainder of the ticket, each 
year, after a spirited canvass, in which his 
speeches on the stump were among the most 
notable features. Then, declining to stand for a 
fourth term, he retired at the close of his third 
with a brilliant record and a national reputation. 
Returning to the practice of his profession, he be- 
came a member of the law firm of Russell & Rus- 
sell, in association with Charles Theodore Russell, 
Jr., and Arthur H. Russell, the senior partners 
of the old firm of C. T. and T. H. Russell 
occupying adjoining offices, giving their attention 
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delivered a number of orations and occasional 
addresses besides his many campaign speeches 
within and without the State, the most notable of 
which were published in a volume issued in 1894 
(Speeches and Addresses of William E. Russell, 
selected and edited b)- Charles Theodore Russell, 
Jr., with an introduction by Thomas Wentworth 
Higginson, Boston, Little, Brown & Co.). On 
the 4th of July, 1888, the year of his first nomina- 
tion to the governorship, Mr. Russell was the 
presiding officer at the national Convention of 
Democratic clubs held in Baltimore. In June, 
1884, he was chosen president of the Alumni of 
the Law School of Boston University, which posi- 
tion he has since held. In 189 1 he received the 
honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams College. 
He is a member of the Union Club of Boston 
and of the Colonial Club of Cambridge. He was 
married June 3, 1885, to Miss Margaret Manning 
Swan, daughter of the late Rev. Joshua and Sarah 
A. (Hodges) Swan, of Cambridge. They have two 
children : \Mlliam Eustis and Richard Manning 
Russell. 

RUSSELL, WiLLi.^M Goodwin, member of 
the SufTolk bar for nearly half a century, and the 
successor of Sidney Bartlett as its leader, is a 
native of Plymouth, born November 18, 182 i, son 
of Thomas and Mary Ann (Goodwin) Russell. 
He is of English and Scotch ancestry, a descend- 
ant of Miles Standish, John Alden, and Richard 
Warren of the "Mayflower" passengers. His 
great-grandfather on the paternal side, John Rus- 
sell, was a merchant of Greenock, Scotland, who 
came to New England about the year 1745, and 
settled in Plymouth ; and his great-grandfather, 
Samuel Jackson, of Plymouth, was the grandfather 
of Sidney Bartlett. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Plymouth and at Harvard, for which 
he was fitted under the tuition of the Hon. John 
Angier Shaw, of Bridgewater, graduating in the 
class of 1840. After leaving college, he taught a 
young ladies' private school in Plymouth for some 
months, and for a year was preceptor of the 
academy at Dracut, succeeding General Benjamin 
F. Butler in that position. His law studies were 
begun in the office of his brother-in-law, W'illiani 
Whiting, of Boston, and completed at the Harvard 
Law School, from which he graduated in 1845. 
Admitted to the Suffolk bar on the 25th of July 
that year, he became at once associated with Mr. 
Whiting under the firm name of Whiting & Rus- 



sell. This partnership held until the death of 
Mr. Whiting in 1873, the firm occupying for a 
quarter of a century a leading position at the 
bar. From 1862 to 1865, while Mr. Whiting was 
serving as solicitor of the War Department at 
Washington, Mr. Russell conducted the business 
of the firm alone with brilliant success, and at 
that early period in his career was classed with 
the leaders in his profession. After the death of 
Mr. Whiting he formed a partnership with George 
Putnam, son of the late Rev. Dr. George Putnam 
(minister of the First Church of Ro-xbury for 
nearly fifty years), under the firm name of Russell 




WM. C. RUSSELL. 

& Putnam, which association still e.\ists. Al- 
though repeatedly importuned to accept appoint- 
ment to the Supreme Bench, he has steadfastly 
declined ; and he has unhesitatingly refused to 
stand for any elective office, preferring to devote 
himself exclusively to the practice of his profes- 
sion. He has, however, performed all the duties 
of a public-spirited private citizen, and lent his aid 
and influence to movements for the public welfare. 
From 1882 to 1884 he was president of the Bar 
Association of the city of Boston: and he has 
been for several years president of the Social Law- 
Library. He is a member of the Pilgrim Society 
(vice-president'), of the l^nion Club (president 



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1882-84), of the St. Botolph Club, and of the 
University Ckib, Boston; an overseer of Harvard 
College, a director of the Massachusetts Hospital 
Life Insurance Company and of the Mt. Vernon 
National Bank of Boston. He received the de- 
gree of LL.I). from Harvard in 1878. Mr. Rus- 
sell was married October 6, 1847, to Miss Mary 
Ellen Hedge, daughter of Thomas and Lydia (Cof- 
fin) Hedge of Plymouth. They have one son and 
two daughters: Thomas (H. C. 1879, a member 
of the -Suffolk bar, and at present (1894) a repre- 
sentative in the Massachusetts Legislature for 
Ward Two, Boston), Lydia G. Ellen (wife of 
Roger N. Allen, of Boston), and Marion Russell. 
Mr. Russell's summer residence is in Plvmouth. 



SHEPARD, John, senior partner of the Boston 
dry-goods house of Shepard, Norwell & Co., is a 
native of Canton, son of Joim and Lucy (Hunt) 
Shepard, born March 26, 1834. He was edu- 




JOHN SHEPARD. 

cated in the public schools of Pawtucket, R.L, 
finishing in an evening school in Boston. When 
a lad of eleven, he began work here. His first 
place was in a drug store kept by J. W. Snow. 
Two years later he was employed in the dry- 
goods store of J. .'\. Jones, and at nineteen years 



of age was in business for himself. He first es- 
tablished the firm of John Shepard & Co. (in 
1853). Then in 1861, having bought out Bell, 
Thing & Co., at that time established on Tre- 
mont Row, the firm name was changed to Farley 
& Shepard. Under this title the business was 
continued until 1865, when the house of Shepard, 
Norwell & Co., on Winter Street, was founded. 
Its business rapidly developed and extended until 
it became one of the largest and most important 
of the retail dry-goods houses of the city. Mr. 
Shepard is also a director of the Lincoln Bank, of 
the Lamson Store Service Company, and of the 
Connecticut River Paper Company, and president 
of the Burnstein Electric Company. He is a 
member of the Boston Merchants' Association. 
He is an ardent lover of fast trotting horses, and 
has owned some of the most valuable equine 
stock in the country, in raising and driving fine 
horses finding relaxation from the exacting de- 
mands of the business of his house which he has 
brought to such a high standard of honorable 
prosperity. He was married in Boston on the 
ist of January, 1856, to Miss Susan A. Bagley, 
daughter of Perkins H. and Charlotte (White) 
Bagley. They have had a son and a daughter : 
John, Jr. (married Flora E., daughter of General 
A. P. Martin, mayor of Boston in 1884), and 
Jessie Watson (now the wife of William G. Tit- 
comb, son of ex-Mayor Titcomb, of Newburyportj. 
Mr. Shepard's winter residence is on Beacon 
Street, Boston ; and his summer seat is a pictur- 
esque estate known as " Edgewater," on Phillips 
Beach, Swampscott. 



STEVENS, Benj.amin Fr.^nklin, president of 
the New England Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany of Boston, is a native of Boston, born 
March 6, 1824, son of Benjamin and Matilda 
(Sprague) Stevens. He is a descendant on the 
maternal side of Samuel Sprague, one of the 
" Boston Tea Party," and through Joanna Thayer 
Sprague is directly descended from Peregrine 
White, the first white child born in the Massachu- 
setts Bay Colony. He was educated in the Bos- 
ton public schools, graduating from the English 
High School in 1838. From school he at once 
entered business life, and received a thorough 
mercantile training, covering a period of five 
years. Then he became attached to the United 
States frigate "Constitution," the famous "Old 



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Ironsides," as clerk to her commander. Captain 
John Percival, well known in the old navy as 
"Mad lack," — a most fearless seaman and a 




old Boston At/(jx, when that paper was under 
the control of William Schouler and Thomas M. 
Brewer. Mr. Stevens was married in 1850 to 
Miss Catherine, daughter of Ezra Lincoln, sister 
of the late Colonel Ezra Lincoln. He has one 
daughter (now Mrs. H. L. Jordan). 



SWIFT, HE>fRY Walton, chairman of the 
.State Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 
was born in New Bedford, December 17, 1849, son 
of William C. N. and Eliza N. (Perry) Swift. He 
is descended from William Swift, who came over 
from England in 1630, was in Watertown in 1634, 
and in 1637 moved to Sandwich; and, on his 
mother's side, from Edward Perry, of Sandwich, 
who married Mary Freeman, and died in 1695. 
r)ther ancestors on his mother's side were William 
Spooner, who died in 1684, and Walter Spooner, 
who was appointed chief justice of the Court of 
Common Pleas by Governor Hancock in 1781; 
Francis Sprague, who came over in the " Ann " 
in 1623; Samuel Sprague, who was born in 1665, 
and married Ruth Alden, grand-daughter of John 



BENJ. F. STEVENS. 



brave officer, — in which he made a cruise around 
the world from 1S43 to 1846. Retiring from this 
service and returning to Boston in April, 1847, 
he was elected secretary of the New England 
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston. 
Subsequently, in June, 1864, he was made vice- 
president of the company ; and upon the resigna- 
tion of the Hon. \\'illard Phillips, its president, 
in November, 1S65, was elected to that office, 
which position he has since held. His connec- 
tion with the insurance business has extended 
through forty-seven years ; and he is probably the 
oldest person holding office in that business 
to-day. He is a member of numerous local busi- 
ness organizations, and also of the Algonquin, the 
Union, the Boston Art, and the Athletic clubs. 
In politics he is Republican. He has served 
three terms in the Common Council of Boston, 
and has twice been unanimously elected president 
of the Merchants' Club. He has always taken 
great interest in colonial matters, and has wTitten 
much on old Boston topics for the Saturday Even- 
ing Gazette. In 1847, and for a long time after, 
he was the literary and dramatic writer for the 




H. W. SWIFT. 



Alden and Priscilla Mullens; and Arthur Hath- 
away, who was born in 1627, and married Sarah 
Cooke, grand-daughter of Francis Cooke, who came 



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over in the " Mayflower." Henry W. attained his 
education at the Friends' Academy in New Bed- 
ford, Phillips E.xeter Academy, and Harvard Col- 
lege. He was at Exeter two years, graduating in 
1867; and he graduated from Harvard in 187 1. 
Then he took the Harvard Law School course, 
graduating in 1874, and was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar the same year. He has since practised 
his profession in Boston, his principal practice 
dealing with the law of corporations. He has 
been associated in a portion of his practice with 
Mr. Russell Gray. In politics Mr. Swift is a 
Democrat, and has taken a leading part in the 
Young Men's Democratic movements in the State. 
In 1882 he served in the lower house of the Leg- 
islature, and before that (in 1879 and i88o) was 
a member of the Boston Common Council, elected 
as a Democrat from the Republican Ward 9 ; and 
he has also been a member of the Boston School 
Board. He was appointed to the Board of Har- 
bor and Land Commissioners by Governor Rus- 
sell in 1 89 1, and was soon after elected its chair- 
man. He is a member of the Union, Somerset, 
and Country clubs, and of the Young Men's 
Democratic Club of Massachusetts. Mr. Swift is 
unmarried. 

TAYLOR, Charles Henry, general manager 
and editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe, was born 
in Charlestown, July 14, 1846, son of John I. and 
Abigail R. (Hapgood) Taylor. He was edu- 
cated in Charlestown public schools, and at the 
age of fifteen went to work, beginning in a Bos- 
ton general printing-oflnce, where he -learned the 
trade of a compositor on the Massachusetts 
Ploughman and the Christian Register, at that 
time "set up"' in the establishment. A year 
later, when employed in the Traveller office, making 
himself useful in the press and mailing rooms, as 
well as the composition-room, he joined the Union 
army for the Civil War, enlisting in the Thirty- 
eighth Massachusetts Regiment, one of the young- 
est recruits in the army. He served in the field 
about a year and a half with General Banks's com- 
mand, until severely wounded in the memorable 
assault on Port Hudson, June 14, 1863. After 
three months in the army hospital at New Orleans, 
he was honorably discharged, and sent home ; and, 
as soon as able, he returned to work. Re-enter- 
ing the Traveller office, after some time spent in 
the composition-room, he was given a position as 
reporter for the paper ; and this was the starting- 



point of his journalistic career. He soon made 
his mark as a quick and intelligent news-gatherer, 
and, mastering the art of shorthand writing, did 
much notable work as a stenographer. While 
connected with the Traveller, he also earned con- 
siderable reputation as a correspondent for out- 
of-town papers, his letters to the New York 
Tribune and the Cincinnati Times especially at- 
tracting attention. He remained with the Trav- 
eller till the opening of 1869, when he was made 
private secretary to Governor William Claflin and 
a member of the governor's military staff with 
the rank of colonel, by which title he has since 
been popularly called, although he is properly 
" general " by virtue of appointment to the 
military staff of Governor William E. Russell in 
i8gi. The position of governor's secretary he 
held for three years, and during this time he con- 
tinued work as a newspaper correspondent. In 
1 87 2 he made a little excursion into politics, and 
was that year elected to the lower house of the 




CHARLES H. TAYLOR. 

Legislature as a representative from Somerville, 
where he had established his residence. The 
following year he was re-elected, receiving, as on 
the first occasion, the unusual honor of being the 
unanimous choice of his fellow-citizens, regard- 
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of 1873 he was made clerk of the house, elected 
by a large majority over William S. Robinson, 
then the widely known IJoston correspondent of 
the Springfield Rcpiihliian over the signature of 
" Warrington," who had held the position for 
many years. In August the same year he was 
offered the position of manager of the Globe, then 
about seventeen months old, and struggling to 
obtain a foothold among the established ISoston 
dailies. Accepting the offer, he relinquished his 
place at the State House, and devoted all his 
energies to the upbuilding of the enterprise. For 
some time it was conducted as a high-class inde- 
pendent paper, with a limited circulation : but, 
upon the reorganization of the enterprise, in the 
spring of 1878, Colonel Taylor, then in full con- 
trol, took a bold new departure, bringing out the 
paper as a two-cent Democratic daily, with the 
higher priced Sunday issue, conducted on popular 
lines, appealing to the many instead of the few. 
Before very long prosperity came to the under- 
taking; and its development in many directions, 
under General Taylor's skilful conduct, was rapid. 
Among the novelties in IJoston journalism which 
General Taylor has grafted to some extent upon 
it, through his paper, are to be reckoned the reg- 
ular illustration of news articles, political cartoons, 
serial stories, and "signed editorials." General 
Taylor belongs to a number of social organizations, 
among them the Algonquin and Press clubs of 
Boston. He 'was married February 7, 1866, to 
Miss Georgiana O. Davis, daughter of George W. 
Davis, of Charlestown. They have five children : 
Charles H., Jr. (now business manager of the 
Globe), William O., John I., Elizabeth, and Grace 
Lincoln Taylor. Since 1880 General Taylor has 
resided in Boston. 



THORNDIKE, Samuel Lothrop, member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in Beverly, December 
28, 1829, son of .Vlbert and Joanna Batchelder 
(Lovett) Thorndike. His earliest ancestor in 
America was John Thorndike, of a Lincolnshire 
family, who came to New England in 1633, and 
in 1636 settled in that part of Salem which is 
now Beverly. His early education was ac- 
quired in the Beverly Academy and the Boston 
Latin School, where he was fitted for college. 
He entered Harvard in the class of 1852, gradu- 
ating in due course, and then attended the Har- 
vard Law School, from which he graduated in 



1854. His law study was completed in the Bos- 
ton office of the late Sidney Bartlett, and he was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1855. For a while 
he was an assistant in the office of Rufus t'hoate ; 
and later, in 1861, he became a business associ- 
ate of William II. Gardiner, which relation con- 



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S. LOTHROP THORNDIKE. 

tinned until Mr. Gardiner's death, in 1882. He 
has been engaged mainly in trust and probate 
business, and the management of estates and 
corporations. He was register in bankruptcy 
under the United States law of 1867. He has 
been a director in many railroad and manufactur- 
ing companies and other corporations. He has 
always been much interested in musical matters, 
and has at various times been an officer of the 
Handel and Haydn Society, the Harvard Musi- 
cal Association, the Boston Music Hall, the New 
England Conservatory of Music, and the Cecilia. 
He is one of the vice-presidents of the L'nion 
Club, a member also of the St. Botolph, Tavern, 
and Examiner clubs, a member of the Colonial 
Society of Massachusetts, president of the Old 
Cambridge Shakspere Association, trustee of the 
Perkins Institution for the Blind, and is connected 
with various Masonic bodies. In politics he is 
a Republican. His first vote was for the Whig 
partv. but since 1856 he has regularly voted the 



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Republican ticket. Mr. Thorndike was manied 
November 2, i<S59, to Miss Anna Lamb Wells, 
daughter of Chief Justice Daniel Wells, of the old 
Court of Common Pleas. They have two sons 
and one daughter: Albert (H.U. 1881), Sturgis 
Hooper (H.U. 1890), and Mary Duncan I'horn- 
dike. 



TOPPAN, Roland Wor rumcruN-, president 
of the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, was born in Newburyport, November 9, 
1 84 1, son of Edward and Susin L. (.Smith) 'I'op- 
pan. He is a lineal descendant of Abraham Top- 




R. W. TOPPAN. 

pan, the first of the name in America, who came 
from England, and settled in Newburyport in 
1638. The Smiths from whom his mother de- 
scended settled ni West Newbury about the same 
time. His education was acquired in the public 
schools of Newburyport. With the exception of 
about a year spent in the ice business in Havana, 
Cuba, his active business life has been devoted 
to the insurance business, both stock and mutual. 
He spent about six years in two of the largest 
agencies of stock insurance companies, and later 
was connected with the lioston Manufactures 
Mutual Eire Insurance Company for about fifteen 
years. In 1S89 he was elected president of the 



Mill Owners' Mutual Eire Insurance Company, 
and president of the .Arkwright Mutual Eire In- 
surance Company in June, i8gi, when the busi- 
ness of the Mill Owners' Company was consoli- 
dated with that of the Arkwright, the name of the 
latter being retained. The Mill Owners' Com- 
pany ceased to do business, and was dissolved by 
the court. He has also been president of the 
Paper Mill Insurance Company since June. 1889. 
In politics he is an Independent. He has held no 
offices, civil, political, or social, and is not con- 
nected with any society or club, preferring to 
devote himself entirely to his business pursuits. 
He was married in October, 1870, to Miss Eliza- 
beth Lesley, daughter of Edward and Sarah 
( Frothingham) Lesley. They have one child : 
Roland Lesley Toppan. Mr. Toppan's present 
residence is in Maiden. 



UNDERWOOD, Herbert Shapleigh, manag- 
ing editor of the Boston Evening Record and the 
Daily Advertiser, is a native of New York, born 
in Eort Edward, June 5, 1861, son of Jarvis A. 
and Eunice K. (Shapleigh) Underwood. He is 
of the New York branch of Underwoods, which 
reach back to the second of the three brothers 
who came to America from England about the 
year 1650. On his mother's side he is also of 
English stock, both through the Shapleighs and 
Wentworths. He was prepared for college in the 
academy at Glens Falls, N.Y., to which place his 
father removed when he was ten years old, and 
was graduated from Williams in the class of 1883 
with Phi Beta Kappa honors. In college he was 
first associate editor, then editor-in-chief, of the 
Argo, a bi-weekly, which stood in the first rank of 
college journalism when this form of literary 
effort was in what is generally termed its most 
brilliant period, writing much light verse and a 
number of satires on college life for that paper. 
Immediately after graduation, in July, 1883, he 
began work for the Amsterdam (N.\'.) Demoeraf 
(Republican) in all the various directions that 
occupy a subordinate on a small local paper, and 
later became city editor. In December, 1884, he 
joined the staff of the Springfield Republican, and 
in that o.lice did successively New England news 
editing, writing of special articles and of minor 
editorial comment. In January, 1886, he was sent 
to Boston, where he wrote the Republican's legisla- 
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until tlic end of that year's session of tlie Legis- 
lature in July. At that time lie was selected by 
Hon. William E. Barrett, who had become the 
managing editor of the Boston Ailvcrtiser and the 
Record, to cover the political news for those 
papers ; and with this work his service on them 
began. In December of the same year he was 
made Washington correspondent of the two 
papers ; and at the capital he was admitted to 
confidential relations by many leading men, espe- 
cially the New England senators and representa- 
tives. During the recess of Congress in 1887 
he did a large range of special writing for both 



March 



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HERBERT S. UNDERWOOD. 

papers, in the home office originating and carry- 
ing out for several months the ''Seen and Heard'' 
column, which became a leading feature of the 
Record. In August, 1888, just after his return 
from the two national conventions, he was recalled 
to Boston (Mr. Barrett having become publisher), 
and was made managing editor of both papers, 
which position he has held since. He is a mem- 
ber of the Republican, Episcopalian, and Univer- 
sity clubs, and was one of the " committee of 
eighteen " which organized the last named. 



WARREN, \\'iLLi.Aii Fairfield, president of 
Boston University, Boston, born in Williamsburg 



and .\nne Miller (Fairfield) Warren. As a direct 
descendant of the original immigrant, William 
Warren, of Ro.xbury, whose son married Su- 
sannah Mather, his genealogical line goes back 
to the beginning of New England history. 
Through his father's mother he is directly de- 
scended from Elder John White, the associate 
of Hooker, and through his own mother from 
Captain Samuel Fairfield, of Connecticut. His 
father's father was Cotton Mather Warren. 
Bishop Henry White Warren is an older brother. 
William F. was graduated from Wesleyan Univer- 
sity in 1853. In 1855 '^"'^' ■''^5''' 'i^-' ^^■'^■'* i" charge 
of a church in Andover. and from 1856 to 1858 
studied in Berlin, Halle, and Rome. He trav- 
elled in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and other parts, 
residing in all over seven years abroad. In 
1859-60 he was pastor of the Bromfieid Street 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston: from 1861 
to 1866 was professor of syste)iiatic theology in 
the Missions-anstalt, Bremen, Cermany ; from 
186G to 1873 professor of systematic theology 
in the Boston Theological Seminary, and acting 
president of the institution; and in 1873, upon 
the foundation of Boston University, he was made 
its president, and professor of comparative his- 
tory of religion, comparative theology, and the 
philosophy of religion, which positions he has 
held from that time to the present. Among the 
more significant features of Dr. Warren's life- 
work thus far may be named : a new presentation 
of confessional theology to the theologians of 
Germany ; the reorganization of the oldest theo- 
logical seminary of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church ; the organization of Boston University ; 
a reconstruction of ancient cosmology and mythi- 
cal geography, particularly the Homeric ; the dis- 
covery, as many believe, of the cradle of the 
human race; and the promotion of international 
university co-operation in advancing the highest 
as well as the broadest educational ideals. Presi- 
dent \^■arren has been a copious writer, the titles 
of his publications filling nearly four octavo pages 
of the •' .Vlumni Record " of his Alma Mater. In 
his earlier years he published miscellaneous trans- 
lations, poetic and other, from the Spanish, (Ger- 
man, Dutch, and Latin languages. The last 
twenty-five years he has annually published one 
or more educational reports, in wiiicli the living 
issues of the day are more or less fully discussed. 
In the successive volumes of the " Boston Uni- 



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versity ^'ear ]!ook" he h;^s also printed not a few 
educational, scientific, and professional essays. 
At the same time he has contributed annually, 
more or less freely, to the scholarly periodical 
press. Six of his publications were written and 
printed in the German language. Of these the 
more important were : Anfangsgrundc der I.ogik 
(1863); Ein/citiiiig in die sysfemafisc/ic Tlicidogic 
(1865); and Vcrsiic/i ciner iwticn cncyklopaedisiiicn 
Einrichtiing mid Darstcllimg dcr thcidogischcn IVis- 
scnschaftcn (1867). The followmg are some of 
his essays and addresses, with the year of their 
issue: " De Reprobatione " (1867); "Systems of 




WM. F. WARREN. 

Ministerial Education" (1872); '• 'I'he Christian 
Consciousness" (1872); "American Infidelity" 
(1874); "The Taxation of Colleges, Churches, and 
Hospitals : Tax Exemption the Road to Tax Abo- 
lition " (1876); "The Gateways to the Learned 
Professions" (1877); "Review of Twenty Argu- 
ments employed in Opposition to the Opening of 
the Boston Latin School to Girls " (1877); "The 
Liberation of Learning in England" (1878); 
"Joint and Disjoint Education in the Public 
Schools" (1879); "Hopeful Symptoms in Medical 
Education" (1880); "New England Theology" 
(188 1); "True Key to Ancient Cosmology and 
Mythical Geography" (1882); "Homer's Abode 



of the Dead" (1883); "All Roads lead to 
Thule" (1886); "The Quest of the Perfect Re- 
ligion" (1887): "The True Celebration of the 
Four Hundredtli Anniversary of the Discovery of 
America by Columbus" (1888); "The Cry of 
the Soul: a Baccalaureate Address" (1888); "The 
Gates of Sunrise in Babylonian and P^gyptian 
Mythology" (1889); "Phillips Brooks and Edu- 
cation" (1893); "Origin and Progress of Bo.s- 
ton L'niversity" (1893). His elaborate study of 
the pre-historic world, entitled " Paradise Found : 
the Cradle of the Human Race at the North 
Pole," published in 18S5, quickly reached its 
eighth edition. A smaller book, entitled " In the 
Footsteps of Arminius, — a Delightsome Pilgrim- 
age," was issued in 1888 ; another, "The Story of 
Gottlieb," a study of ideals, in 1891. President 
\\'arren married Miss Harriet C. Merrick, daughter 
of John M. and Mary J. Merrick, .\pril 14, 1861. 
Their children are four: Mary Christine, Will- 
iam Marshall, Annie Merrick, and Winifred War- 
ren. For twenty years, until her widely lamented 
death, January 7, 1893, Mrs. Warren edited the 
Heathen JVcnieii't Friend, a missionary magazine 
for women, which had a wider circulation than 
any other of its class in the world. A part of the 
time she edited a German issue under the same 
name. In the founding and management of the 
Massachusetts Society for the L^niversity Educa- 
tion of Women she also bore a prominent part. 



WELLS, Samuel, member of the Suffolk bar, 
and connected with scientific and philanthropic 
societies, is a native of Hallowell, Me., born Sep- 
tember 9, 1836. His father, Samuel Wells, was 
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine 
from 1848 to 1852, and governor of that State in 
1855 ; and his mother, Louisa Ann (Appleton) 
Wells, was a daughter of Dr, Moses Appleton, of 
Waterville, Me. He received his early education 
and training for college in a private school in Port- 
land, Me., kept by Mr. Forbush, and entered Har- 
vard College in the class of 1857, which included 
a number of young men who in after years became 
leading members of the bar. After graduating he 
studied law in his father's office in Boston, and on 
the i8th of December, 1858, was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar. For about ten years he was associ- 
ated with his father in the practice of his profes- 
sion ; and then in 187 1 he formed a partnership 
with the late Edward Bangs, under the name of 



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Bangs & Wells, for tiic transaction of general law 
business. In liis professional work in later years 
Mr. Wells has given more attention to the man- 
agement of trusts and corporations and office 
practice than to litigation. For many years also 
he has been connected as director and officer 
with various corporations, and is now second vice- 
president, counsel, and a director of the John 
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, presi- 
dent of the State Street Exchange, and one of the 
trustees of the Boston Real Estate Trust. He 
has long been concerned in philanthropic work, 
and interested in reform movements, social and 




SAMUEL WELLS. 

political. He is a member of the general com- 
mittee of the Citizens' Association of Boston, a 
member of the Civil Service Reform Associa- 
tion and of the Tariff Reform League ; a vice- 
president of the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory ; one of the trustees of the Boston Young 
Men's Christian Union, and of the Women's 
Educational and Industrial Union : member of 
the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, of the Bunker Hill Monument Asso- 
ciation, of the Boston Memorial Association, 
of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, 
of the New England Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety, of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 



and of the Bostonian Society. Among otiier or- 
ganizations to which he belongs are the Union, St. 
Botolph, Boston An, E.\change, L'nitarian, and 
Papyrus clubs of lioston, and the University Club 
of New York. He is prominent also in the Ma- 
sonic order, and from 1889 to 1892 was grand 
master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. 
He has made a special study of the use of the mi- 
croscope, and was one of the first in tiiis country 
to use that instrument in photography. He has 
made a large collection of the Diatomacea; and 
the literature concerning that interesting grou|) to 
which he has contributed occasional papers. Mr. 
Wells was married on June 11, 1863, to .Miss 
Catherine Boott (iannett, daughter of Ezra Stiles 
Gannett, D.D., long pastor of the .Arlington Street 
Church, formerly the Federal Street Church. 
They have three children : Stiles Gannett, now 
associated with his father in law practice ; Sam- 
uel, Jr., now with the John Hancock Mutual Life 
Insurance Company; and Louisa .\ppleton Wells. 



WHITING, Fred Erwin, assistant business 
manager of the Boston Herald, is a native of 
Brookline, born December 21, 1857, son of 
George Frederick and Harriet Louisa (Learned) 
Whiting. He is a lineal descendant of Nathan- 
iel Whiting, of Dedham, who married Hannah 
White, daughter of John White, in 1643. Na- 
thaniel and Hannah Whiting had twelve chil- 
dren. The youngest, Jonathan, married Rachel 
Thorp in 1689; and they had ten children. One 
of the sons, Ithamar, married Mary Day in 1765. 
Their son, Ezek, married Lydia Goodridge in 
1797; Ezek and Lydia's son, Charles Horace, 
married Plooma S. Barnard in 1825 ; and their 
son, George F., one of seven children, was the 
father of Fred E. Mr. Whiting received his 
early educational training in private schools and 
the Cambridge High School, and, entering Har- 
vard, graduated in the class of 1880. For a 
year after graduation he was connected with the 
Boston Knob Company, of which his father was 
president. He then became the private secretary 
of the late R. M. Pulsifer, at that time the busi- 
ness manager of the Herald. \\'hile serving in 
this capacity he was called to the oversight of a 
number of outside interests in which Mr. Pulsifer 
was concerned, especially when the latter was 
abroad, in which he displayed marked ability. 
Subsequently, in .March, 1888, he was admitted- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to a partnership in the lirm of R. M. Pulsifer & (Andrews) \MUard. His father was some time 
Co., which then owned and published the Herald : librarian, and professor of Oriental languages and 
and in May the same year, when the Herald prop- Latin in Harvard College ; his grandfather, Jo- 
seph W'illard, was president of the college from 
1 78 1 to 1804; and his great-great-grandfather, 
Samuel Willard, was "vice-president," acting as 
president from 1701 to 1707, at the same time 
minister of the Old South Church in Boston. On 
the maternal side his great-great-grandmother was 
Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, wife of (Governor 
Simcin Bradstreet. His early education was ac- 
quired in the \\'estford Academy and tiie Cam- 
bridge Latin School, and he was prepared for 
college under the tuition at different times of 
James Freeman Clarke and Ralph Waldo Emer- 
son. He did not, however, enter college, but 
instead went to sea. Returning in 1S38, after 
eight years' absence, he resumed his studies under 
his father, who had resigned his professorship at 
Harvard. In 1846 he entered the office of the 
clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas, then exist- 
ing; and two years later to his duties as an assist- 
ant to the clerk here were added those of a 
deputy sheriti: under Sheriff Joseph Eveleth. 




FRED E. WHITING. 



erty was transferred to the Boston Herald Com- 
pany, he became a member of the new organiza- 
tion. He was made clerk of the corporation and 
a director, and also assistant business manager 
of the paper, which position he has since held. 
He is also a director of the Hotel & Railroad 
News Company and of the 'I'uxpan Oil Company. 
He is a life member of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Union ; a member of the order of Free 
Masons ; member of the Press Club (president 
1893-94), the University Club, and the Athletic 
Club of Boston, of the Newton Club of Newton, 
and of several of the leading yacht clubs. Mr. 
Whiting was married in Cambridge, October lo, 
1883, to Miss Amy Estelle Ferguson, daughter of 
Thomas T. and Clara ( )phelia ( Rolfe) Ferguson, 
a lineal descendant of Captain Rolfe who married 
Pocahontas. They have two children : Royal 
Goodridge and Philip l''.rwin \\'hiting. 




JOSEPH A. WILLARD. 



WILL.ARD, Joseph Augustu.s, clerk of the In 1854 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and 
Superior Court, was born in Cambridge, Septem- the following year was made assistant clerk of the 
ber 29, 1816, son of Sidney and Elizabeth court then known as the Superior Court of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



lO' 



County of Suffolk, the Court of Common Pleas 
for Suffolk being abolished. Four jx-ars later, 
upon the establishment of the present Superior 
Court of the Commonwealth, he was appointed 
assistant clerk of that court; and in 1865 he was 
appointed clerk by the court to fill a vacancy 
caused by the death of the clerk. At the next 
regular election he was elected to the position 
for tlie full term of five years, and has been re- 
elected every term since. Mr. W'illard is a promi- 
nent member of the Masonic order, and of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He 
was married .September 5. 1841, in Cambridge, to 
Miss Penelope Cochran, a great-grand-daughter of 
Mary Faneuil, a sister of Peter Faneuil. They 
have had six children : Flizabeth Anne, Kdward 
Augustus, Mary Mitchell, Penelope Frances, Sid- 
ney Faneuil, and Fdith (iertrude W'illard. His 
term expires in January, 1S97 ; and, should he live 
until March, 1896, he will then have been con- 
nected with the courts in his several capacities 
for fifty years. 



WOLCOTT, Roger, lieutenant governor of the 
State, 1893-94, was born in Boston, July 13, 1847, 
son of J. Huntington and Cornelia (Frothingham) 
Wolcott. He is a descendant of the Roger Wol- 
cott who was second in conunand in the expedi- 
tion of Sir William Pepperrell against Cape Bre- 
ton in 1745, which resulted in the capture of 
Loui.sburg. Another ancestor was Oliver Wolcott, 
one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, who fought in the Revolutionary army 
against Burgoyne, and was brigadier-general on 
the battlefield of Saratoga. Both of these W'ol- 
cotts were governors of Connecticut. One of 
his ancestors, on his mother's side, was active 
and prominent during the Revolutionary period 
as a member of the Charlestown Committee of 
Safety, and another took part in the Boston Tea 
Party. Roger Wolcott was educated in Boston 
private schools and at Harvard College, from 
which he graduated in the class of 1870. In col- 
lege he ranked well, and was the choice of his 
classmates for class orator. During 1871-72 he 
was a tutor at Harvard, while taking the course 
of the Law School. (Graduating therefrom in 
1874, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the 
same year. He has, however, practised his pro- 
fession but little, his time having been largely 
occupied by his duties as trustee of \-arious es- 



tates and in the management of financial matters. 
Mr. Wolcott's public career began as a member 
of the Boston Common Council, in which he 
served three terms ( 1877-78-79). Then in 1882 
he was elected to the lower house of the Legisla- 
liu'e. Here also, througii repeated re-elections, he 
serx'ed three terms (1882-83-84), early taking a 
position among the leaders and w'inning distinc- 
tion as a hard and trustworthy worker. In 189 1 
he was made president of the Young Men's Re- 
publican ('lub, that year organized. The following 
year he was nominated to the lieutenant governor- 
ship on the Re]3ublican State ticket, and in the 




ROGER WOLCOTT. 

November election was elected with the Demo- 
cratic candidate for the governorship, William F. 
Russell. In 1893 he was renominated, and this 
time returned with the election of the entire Re- 
publican ticket. Mr. Wolcott has always been a 
Republican ; but in the campaign of 1884 he 
opposed his party's candidate for the presidency, 
and voted for Grover Cleveland. On other occa- 
sions he has displayed an independent spirit, both 
in public speech and action. He belongs to a 
number of reform organizations, among others the 
Boston Citizens' .Association and the Civil Ser- 
vice Reform Association : is a trustee of the Mas- 
sachusetts General Hospital, and an overseer of 



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Harvard University. He is also a member of the 
St. Botolph, Somerset, Union, Athletic, and New 
Riding clubs of Boston. Mr. Wolcott was married 
in Boston, September 2, 1874,10 Miss Edith Pres- 
cott, grand-daughter of William H. Prescott, the 
historian, and great-grand-daughter of Colonel 
William Prescott, who commanded the provin- 
cials at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The)' have 
foiu' sons and one daughter now living. 



WOODBURY, Charles Levi, member of the 
Suffolk bar for nearl}- half a century, is a native 
of Portsmouth, N.H., descendant of the earliest 




y^*^^- 



CHARLES LEVI WOODBURY. 

settlers of Cape Ann. He was born on May 22, 
1820, son of Levi and Elizabeth Williams (Clapp) 
Woodbury. His father was an eminent practi- 
tioner at the New Hampshire bar, contemporary 
of Mason, Webster, Bartlett, and Fletcher, also 
judge, governor, senator, Secretary of the Navy, 
Secretary of the Treasury, and justice of the Su- 
preme Court ; and his mother was daughter of the 
Hon. Asa and Eliza Wendell iQuincy) Clapp, of 
Portland, Me. In the direct line Mr. Woodbury 
traces to John Woodbury, an old planter who set- 
tled at Cape Ann 1623-24, and at Nahunikeik, 
now Salem, 1626-27. His other ancestral lines 
all trace to settlers of Massachusetts, Plymouth, 



and New York before 1650. He was educated in 
Washington, D.C., the family moving to that city 
when he was a lad of eleven, and studied law 
there in the offices of the Attorney-General of the 
United States, the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, of 
New York, and in that of Richard S. Coxe. He 
was admitted to the bar in the District, and there 
began practice. Moving in 1840 to Alabama, he 
practised in that State for about four years from 
the following May, 184T, and came to Boston in 
1845, where he has ever since been established. 
For years his practice has chiefly been in the 
Circuit Courts of the United States and the Su- 
preme Court at Washington, where, as in Boston, 
he has long been a familiar figure. He is recog- 
nized as one of the ablest expounders of constitu- 
tional law and an authorit\' on international law, 
and his contributions to legal literature have been 
important. He was one of the compilers of 
"Woodbury and Minot's Reports," three volumes, 
editor of the second and third volumes of " Ijcvi 
Woodbury's Writings." and author of pamphlets 
on the fisheries question, and treating other ques- 
tions involving the diplomatic relations between 
the United States and (jreat Britain. He also 
has delivered several orations on subjects of 
Masonic liistory. In politics he has been a life- 
long Democrat, devoted to the principles of Jeffer- 
son and Jackson, with the latter of whom he was 
personally acquainted, from early manhood a 
leader in his party, holding foremost positions in 
Democratic organizations, national and State. 
But he has never aspired to office, and has held 
few public stations. In 1853 the mission to 
Bolivia was tendered to him by President Pierce 
(who had been a law student in his father's office), 
but this he declined. In 1857 he was elected to 
the lower house of the New Hampshire Legislat- 
ure, as a member from Portsmouth. The same 
year he was appointed I'nited States district attor- 
ney for Massachusetts; and in 1870 and 1871 he 
was a member of the lower house of the Legislat- 
ure of this State, from Boston. Mr. Woodbury is 
an authority on antiquarian, historical, and Ma- 
sonic, as well as legal subjects. He is a member 
of the New England Historic Genealogical So- 
ciety, an honorary member of the Historical 
societies of New Hampshire and Maine, and 
prominent in Masonic organizations. He has 
held high office in the York and Scottish Rites, 
and is now second officer in the Supreme Coun- 
cil of the latter body. He is also a member of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the Board of Trustees for the Grand Lod<;e of 
Massachusetts, and of the board for the Supreme 
Council. Mr. \\'oodl)ur\- never married. 



WOODS, Edwin Hutton, business manager 
of the lioston Hcfahi and president of the corpo- 
ration, is a native of Boston, born October 6, 
1843, son of John and Aliby Ann (Fessenden) 
Woods. He received a common-school educa- 
tion, supplemented by a course in Comer's Com- 
mercial College, and at fourteen was at work. He 
began active life as clerk in a hardware store, — 
that of Allen & Noble, then well known in Boston ; 
and here he remained until 1862, when he enlisted 
in the Fortieth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, and, as sergeant of Company B, went to the 
front. On September 11, the same year, while on 
the march to Miner's Hill, Va., he received a se- 
vere sun-stroke, which caused a partial paralysis 
of the lower limbs, and so disabled him that in the 
following spring of 1863 he was discharged from 
the army. Then, returning to Boston in Septem- 
ber of that year, he found a place in the count- 
ing-room of the Herald as book-keeper in the 
circulating department ; and since that time he 
has been closely identified with the business in- 
terests of the paper. To his energy and genius 
the development and expansion of the Hcrahl's 
circulation are in no small degree due. When he 
began his work in this department, it was the cus- 
tom of the office to sell the Sunday edition of the 
Herald to three wholesale dealers m Boston, who 
supplied the retail dealers. This, at his sugges- 
tion, was soon changed, and the retailers served 
direct from the office for cash over the counter, to 
the profit and advantage of all concerned. Sub- 
sequently he introduced the ticket plan, under 
which dealers are sold tickets in small or large 
quantities, which they exchange for papers in the 
delivery room, no cash there being received. Mr. 
Woods was the first in Boston to adopt this sys- 
tem : and it worked so well in the Herald office, 
effecting a saving of time, trouble, and expense, 
that its use soon became general in lioston news- 
paper offices. He was also the first to estab- 
lish the system of running special Sunday trains 
throughout New England for the prompt and thor- 
ough distribution of the Sunday Herald. In 1888 
Mr. Woods became a partner of the firm of R. M. 
I'ulsifer & Co., then proprietors of the Herald. 
admitted on tlie ist of March; and on Mav ist, 



the same year, when the firm was changed to a 
corporation, under the title of the " Boston Herald 
Company," he became one of tlie principal holders 
of stock, and was elected vice-president and liusi- 
ness manager. Four months later he was made 
president and business manager, the position he 
still holds. He is now president of the Boston 
Publishers' Association, vice-president of the 
American Newspaper Publishers' Association, and 
director of the Boston Hotel and Railroad News 
Company, of which he was vice-president for sev- 
eral years, and one of the original promoters. He 
is a member of Joseph Warren Lodge of Free 
Masons ; is a charter member of Post 7, Grand 




E. H. WOODS. 

Armv, in which he has held all the offices in suc- 
cession to that of commander ; and a member of 
the Algonquin and Press clubs in Boston, and of 
the Hull Yacht Club. For three years he was 
first lieutenant of Company E. Seventh Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; and in 1889 he 
was appointed assistant adjutant-general, with the 
rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor Ames. 
For three terms (1873-75) he represented \\'ard 
8 in the lioston Common Council. Colonel 
Woods was married in Boston, August 20, 1868, 
to Miss Mary Francis Smith, daughter of Pardon 
and Mary (Parkinson I Smitli, They have two 
children : Walter Hutton and Fred Lester Woods. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



WOOLF, Benjamin Edward, editor of the 
Boston Scititn/ay Evening Gazette, was born in 
London, England, February i6, 1836. He is of 
Jewisli ancestry. His father, Edward Woolf, was 
a musician, artist, and litte'rateur of repute in Lon- 
don before his removal to this country in 1839, 
when the son was but three years old, and here 
became one of the best known orchestra leaders 
of his time, conductor for many years of the or- 
chestra at Barton's theatres and Mitchell's ( )lym- 
pic in New York, and the author of a large num- 
ber of musical compositions. The elder Woolf 
was also one of the founders of Jud\\ which was 




BENJ^ E. WOOLF. 

among the earliest of the comic weeklies in New 
\'ork, making most of the sketches for it himself, 
and writing a large portion of the letter-press. It 
was a clever venture, but ahead of the times, and 
unprofitable. Benjamin E). was the eldest of a re- 
markable family of brothers, among them M. A. 
Woolf, the widely known caricaturist and painter, 
Professor Solomon Woolf, instructor of mathe- 
matics in the College of the City of New York, 
also an artist and critic, and .Albert Woolf, an ar- 
tist and a well-known electrician. He was edu- 
cated in the New York public schools, and early 
trained in music, especially orchestral, by his 
father. He was also well instructed in the art of 



wood engraving. Coming to Boston as a young 
man in 1S59, he shortly after joined the orchestra 
at the Boston Museum under the late Julius Eich- 
berg, and while here made his first notable venture 
in dramatic writing in the te.xt of the operetta 
"The Doctor of Alcantara," the music of which 
was composed by Mr. Eichberg. This was suc- 
cessfully produced on the Museum stage, and sub- 
sequently became a favorite feature in the reper- 
tories of travelling companies. A long series of 
plays and adaptations from Mr. Woolf's pen fol- 
lowed this first production, the most popular 
among the number being "The Mighty Dollar," 
for many seasons the leading card of the Flor- 
ences, through whom "the Honorable Bradwell 
Slote " and " Mrs. Gilfiory " became intimate 
friends of countless theatre-goers. His operetta 
of " Pounce & Co.," of which he wrote both te.xt 
and music, was another notable composition ; and 
its first production at the Bijou Theatre, during 
the season of 1882-83, o" which occasion the au- 
thor led the orchestra, was a brilliant afTair. Al- 
together he has written over sixty plays and six 
operas. In 1864 Mr. Woolf left Boston to 
assume the leadership of the orchestra of the 
Chestnut .Street Theatre, Philadelphia. After 
two seasons there he went to New Orleans to 
lead the Gravier Street Theatre. He returned 
North in 1871, and received a call from the late 
Colonel Henry J. Parker, then the conductor of 
the Satiinhiy Evoiiiig Gazette, to join its staff. 
Accepting, he returned to Boston, and then began 
his long service as a leading critical writer, deal- 
ing especially with music and the drama. With 
tile exception of a brief connection with the Bos- 
ton Globe, covering its first eighteen months 
(1872-73), as musical and dramatic critic, Mr. 
Woolf's entire journalistic career has been spent 
in the service of the Gazette : and his critical work 
early gave that paper a high standing in this par- 
ticular field. He became the chief editor upon 
the death of Colonel Parker, which occurred on 
May 13, 1892. Besides his work as a playwright 
and musical composer, he has published a series 
of parodies of leading poets, under the name of 
" Our Prize Album,'' written numerous sketches, 
and has been a frequent contributor to various 
magazines. Mr. Woolf was married .April 15, 
1867, to Miss Josephine Orton, a favorite mem- 
ber of the Museum stock company from i860 to 
the time of her marriage, when she retired from 
the stage. They have no children. 



PART II. 



ABBO'l'T, JosiAH ("jArdner, lawyer, jurist, ;ind 
statesman, was born in Chelmsford, November i, 
1814, son of Caleb and Mercy (Fletcher) Abbott; 
died at his country seat, Wellesley Hills, June 2, 
189 [. He was a descendant on both sides of 
English Puritans : in the seventh generation from 
George Abbott, of Yorkshire, who migrated to 
Massachusetts in 1640. and was a first settler of 
Andover ; and from \\'il!iam Fletcher, of Devon- 
shire, a first settler of Chelmsford in 1653, who 
owned a large part of the territory which in 1826 
was incorporated as the town of Lowell. Both of 
his grandfathers fought under Prescott at Bunker 
Hill, and were in the War of Independence. His 
father was a country merchant at Chelmsford 
Centre. He attended a classical school at 
Chelmsford, where lie was fitted for college, his 
excellent teachers being Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
the Rev. Abiel Abbott, D.I)., and Cranmore Wal- 
lace successively. He entered Harvard in 1828, 
and graduated with distinction in 1832, the young- 
est of his class. For a time thereafter he taught 
the Fitchburg Academy. He studied law first 
with Joel Adams of Chelmsford, and then under 
Nathaniel Wright of Lowell, and, admitted to the 
bar in January, 1837, began practice at Lowell in 
partnership with Amos Spaulding. The same 
year he served in the House of Representatives, 
the youngest member of that body. In 1840 he 
edited the Lowell Aih'crtiscr, a Democratic tri- 
weekly journal, with ability and vigor, giving it 
a decided literary as well as political fiavor ; and 
at the same time delivered occasional lyceum 
lectures. In 1842, having some time previously 
dissolved the connection with Mr. Spaulding, he 
formed a copartnership with Samuel A. Brown, 
which continued till his elevation to the bench in 
1855. In 1842 and 1843 he was a State senator 
for Middlesex, in his second term serving as chair- 
man of the committees on the judiciary and on rail- 
roads. In 1843, also, he was attached to Governor 
Morton's staff as senior aide-de-camp. In 1850 



he was aiipoinled master in chancery, and served 
as such for five years. In 1853 he was a delegate 
from Lowell in the Constitutional Convention, in 
which he advocated an elective judiciary, and 
making the jury judges of law as well as of fact 
in criminal cases. In 1855 he was appointed a 
justice of the Superior Court for the county of 
Suffolk, that year established. This position he- 
held till the first of January, 1858, when he re- 
signed to re-enter practice and enjoy its profits. 
In 1859 he was chosen one of the overseers of 
Harvard College, and in this office continued six 
years, when he was dropped from the board be- 
cause of being a Democrat. In i860 he was 
offered a place on the Supreme Bench, but de- 
clined it, unwilling to relinquish his profitable and 
important practice. In 186 1 he removed from 
Lowell to Boston, and from that time till his death 
he was among the leaders of the Suftolk bar. 
During the Civil War, from the first shot to the 
last, he gave his voice, purse, and pen to the Union 
cause. Three of his sons rendered distinguished 
services as officers in the Union army, and two 
of them perished in the struggle. Captain and 
Brevet-major Edward G. Abbott, the eldest son. fell 
at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862; Major and 
Brevet-brigadier General Henry L. Abbott, in the 
Wilderness, while gallantly leading his regiment. 
In 1874 Judge Abbott was elected a representa- 
tive in Congress ; but, his seat being contested, he 
was not admitted till near the close of the first 
session in the early part of 1877. He was made 
a member of the special committee sent to South 
Carolina to inquire into the alleged irregularities 
attending the presidential election of 1876 in that 
State, and prepared the committee's report. He 
opposed the bill creating the Electoral Commission, 
which was introduced during his absence from 
Washington and without his knowledge : but 
after it had been proposed by the Democrats, 
accepted by the Republicans, and enacted, he felt 
it to be his duty to see that its provisions were 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



carried out. As originally planned, one place on 
the commission was to be filled by one of the 
Democratic representatives from New York who 
had been longest in Congressional life. But New 
York had two candidates for this place, Fernando 
Wood and Samuel S. Cox ; and, neither being 
altogether satisfactory, friends of Judge Abbott, 
without his knowledge, resolved to propose his 
name to the Democratic Congressional caucus. 
This was done with the warm approval of Speaker 
Randall, and he was selected. He was accorded 
the leadership of the Democratic minority of the 
commission, and opposed the decisions of the 




J. G. ABBOTT. 

majority in the four contested States, — Florida, 
Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina. He wrote 
by request the address to the country on behalf of 
the minority, protesting against the decisions of the 
majority, which was approved, put in type, and 
one copy printed for signatures, but never signed, 
some of the members doubting the wisdom of its 
publication .at the time. The original manuscript 
of this address was destroyed; but the proof- 
sheets, with Judge Abbott's corrections, were pre- 
served, and were subsequently placed on private 
deposit in the Boston Public Library. Judge 
Abbott was a delegate to seven national Demo- 
cratic conventions, and in six of them was chair- 



man of the Massachusetts delegation. Outside 
of the law and politics Judge Abbott participated 
in many large enterprises, and was president or 
director of numerous manufacturing, railroad, 
water-power, and other companies. He was for 
fifteen years president of the Atlantic Cotton Mills 
at Lawrence ; for thirty-five years a director of 
the Hill Manufacturing Company of Lewiston, 
Me., and from 1874 till his death its president ; 
for three years president of the Hamilton Manu- 
facturing Company at Lowell ; for twenty-eight 
years a director of the Boston & Lowell Rail- 
road, and president for five years ; a director of 
the North American Insurance Company of 
Boston from its organization in 1872 till his 
death ; and president of the Water Power Com- 
pany at Lewiston, of which he was the principal 
promoter, from 1870 till his death. In 1862 
Williams College conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of LL.D. Judge Abbott was married, July 
21, 1838, to Miss Caroline Livermore, daughter of 
Judge Fdward St. Loe Livermore, of Lowell. She 
died in 18S7. Five sons and one daughter of their 
family of eight children survive them : Fletcher 
Morton, Samuel A. B., Franklin P., Grafton St. 
L., Holker \\'. Abbott, and Mrs. Sarah Abbott 
Fa)', widow uf William P. Fay. 



ALDRICH, Samuel Nelson, president of the 
State National Bank, Boston, and member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Upton, born I'"ebruary 
3, 1838, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucv Jane 
(Stoddard) Aldrich. He was educated in the 
Worcester and Southington (Conn.) academies 
and at Brown University. After teaching school 
for a while in his native town and in Holliston 
and Worcester, he took up the study of law in the 
latter city, in the offices of Isaac Davis and E. B. 
Stoddard, finishing at the Harvard Law School. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and at once 
began practice, opening an office in Marlborough. 
There he remained for eleven years, becoming 
prominently identified with local and other in- 
terests, and then removed his business to Boston, 
retaining, however, his legal residence in Marl- 
borough and his connection with its affairs. He 
was chairman of the Marlborough School Commit- 
tee for nine years, chairman of the Board of Se- 
lectmen four years, and several years president of 
the Marlborough Board of Trade and director 
of the People's National Bank. He represented 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



109 



his district, the Fourth Middlesex, in the State daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. Macfarland. They 
Senate m 1879 and 18S0, serving on the commit- have one child, Harry M. Aldrich, a graduate of 
tees on taxation (chairman), on the judiciary, on Harvard University and of the Harvard Law 

School, now a lawyer in Boston. Mr. Aldrich's 
winter residence has been in lioston since he es- 
talilisiied his law office there. 




APPLETON, Samuel, of Boston, general 
agent of the Emplo)-ers' Liability Assurance Cor- 
poration of London, Eng., was born in New York 
City in 1846, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Gard- 
ner Smith) Appleton. He was educated in Bos- 
ton, in the public schools. His training for active 
life was as clerk in a prominent commercial house 
in Boston, begun immediately after leaving school, 
when a youth of sixteen years. Here he re- 
mained till 1868, when he entered the tire insur- 
ance business, with which he has ever since been 
connected. Beginning as a clerk in the insurance 
agency of Burge & Lane, he was early advanced 
to positions of responsibility. In 1870 he was 
made secretary of the Exchange Insurance Com- 
pany of Boston; in 1875 h*^ became secretary 



S. N. ALDRICH. 



constitutional amendments, and on bills m the 
third reading; and, three years later (in 1883), 
was a member of the lower house of the Legislat- 
ure, where he served on the judiciary, and sev- 
eral other committees, and was instrumental in 
shaping important legislation. In the campaign 
of 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for 
Congress in what was then the Seventh District, 
a Republican stronghold, making an earnest 
though unsuccessful canvass. In March, 1887, 
he became assistant treasurer of the United 
States in Boston, by appointment of President 
Cleveland, which position he held until January, 
i8gi, when his successor was appointed by Presi- 
dent Harrison, having the month before filed his 
resignation to accept the presidency of the State 
National Bank to which he was then elected. He 
was president of the Eramingham & Lowell Rail- 
road for several years before its absorption by the 
Old Colony, and is now president of the Central 
Massachusetts Railroad. His club associations 
are with the Algonquin, Athletic, and Art clubs 
of Boston. Mr. Aldrich was married September 
15, 1865, at Upton, to Miss Mary J. Macfarland, 




SAMUEL APPLETON. 



of the Commonwealth Insurance Company of 
Boston ; three years later president of the latter 
com]5any ; and in 1882 president of the Manu- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



facturers' Fire and Marine Insurance Company of 
Boston. He was established in liis present po- 
sition as general agent of the Employers' Liabil- 
ity Assurance Corporation, Limited, of London, 
the leading liability insurance company in the 
world, in iS86. His field covers Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont : 
and his office in Boston is the chief office of the 
company this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Appleton 
is also a general broker in lire, life, marine, and 
accident insurance. He is a member of the Al- 
gonquin, Suffolk, Athletic, and Kxchange clubs 
of Boston. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
was married June 14, 1S69, to Miss Julia H. 
Kimball. They have one daughter : Maud Eliza- 
beth Appleton. 



I'.ABCOCK, John Brazer, merchant, senior 
member of the house of John B. Babcock & Co., 
Boston, is a native of Milton, born June 10, 1827, 
son of Samuel H. and Eliza (Brazer) Babcock. 
His father was a large woollen manufacturer and 
a well-known Boston merchant ; and his mother 
w-as a daughter of John Brazer, for whom the 
Brazer Building on State Street was named. His 
education was acquired in Boston public schools, — 
the old Boylston Grammar and the English High, 
from which he graduated in 1842 : and he was 
well trained for business life. Soon after gradua- 
tion from school he entered the commission house 
of Read & Chadwick ; and under the tuition of 
their gifted book-keeper, the late Captain Joseph 
Murdock, he received a thorough knowledge of 
accounts and of ofifice w'ork in general. After- 
wards he engaged himself to the importing house 
of Smith, Sumner, & Co., with which he remained 
as partner, and of which he became successor, 
until 1S60, when he founded the house of John 
B. Babcock & Co., commission merchants and 
manufacturers of ladies' straw and felt hats. (.)f 
this house his two sons, Samuel H. and John H 
Babcock, Jr., who entered the business after grad- 
uating from the English High School, are now the 
junior partners. Mr. Babcock has also been for 
many years a director of the Mount Vernon 
National Bank of Boston ; was formerly a trustee 
of the Penny Savings Bank ; is now a trustee of 
several private estates ; and is a justice of the 
peace and notary public. He has had the settle- 
ment of many estates, — few other than profes- 
sional e.xperts have had more, — both insolvent 
and deceased, and at present is administrator of 



several, and holds a number of assigneeships. 
He was at one time president of the Mercantile 
Library Association, but the only local organiza- 
tion with which he is now connected is the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company. He is not a 




J, B. BABCOCK. 

member of any of the numerous Boston clubs. 
In politics he is a conservative Democrat; and, 
never having had any desire for office, he takes a 
deeper interest in the general welfare of the 
country than in party affiliations. Mr. Babcock 
was married July 26, 1849, to Miss Jane E. PJrock- 
way. They have two daughters and two sons : 
Eliza, Samuel Howe, Ellen Sumner, and John 
Brazer Babcock, |r. 



BABSON, Thom.\s McCr.^te, corporation 
counsel for the city of Boston, is a native of 
Maine, born in W'iscasset, Maj' 28, 1847, son of 
John and Sarah (McCrate) Babson. His pater- 
nal grandfather, John Babson, was a native of 
Gloucester, Mass., from which place he moved to 
^^'iscasset about the year 1800, where he estab- 
lished a newspaper and a bookstore, afterwards 
engaging largely in building and owning vessels. 
His maternal grandfather, Thomas McCrate, emi- 
grated from Ireland some time in the latter part 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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of the eighteenth century, was a weaUhy merchant 
in W'iscasset prior to the war of 1812, serv-ed as 
colonel of militia, guarding the coast of Maine in 
that war, and was collector of the port of Wis- 
casset under Andrew Jackson : Thomas Mc- 
C'rate's son, John 1)., was a leading lawyer and a 
member of Congress from Maine. His father, 
[ohn liahson, was prominent in business and 
politics, both in Maine and Massachusetts, having 
been collector of the jjort of Wiscasset, United 
States treasury agent on the frontier of the 
United .States and Canada, and I'nited States 
shipping commissioner for the port of Boston 
from 1872 to his death in 1887. Thomas M. 
Babson was educated in the public schools of 
Wiscasset, at the Highland Military School of 
Worcester, Mass., and at Chauncy Hall, Boston ; 
and prepared for the law at the Harvard Law- 
School, from w-hich he graduated in 1868. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1870, and began 
practice in Boston. Soon after he went to St. 
Louis, Mo., where he was engaged two years in 




T. M. BABSON. 

the practice of his profession. Returning to 
Boston, he resumed practice here, devoting him- 
self especially to the trial of causes. He had at 
this time considerable practice in the admiralty 
branch of the I'nited Slates courts, having been 



admitted to the United States Circuit Court in 
1S73. He first became connected with the law 
department of the city of Boston in 1S79, when 
he was appointed by Mayor Prince fourth assist- 
ant city solicitor under the late John 1*. Healy, 
then city solicitor. Two years later he was made 
second assistant, in 1885 first assistant, and in 
189 1 corporation counsel by appointment of 
Mayor Matthews. In 1876 and 1S77 he was 
a member of the lower house of the Legislature, 
representing Ward i6 of Boston. As a member 
of the committee on elections in the session 
of 1877, he prepared many of the reports of that 
committee wiiich have been published in Russell's 
Election Cases. He has also compiled the 
statutes affecting the city of Bo.ston. Mr. Bab.son 
has probably tried more jury cases than any 
lawyer of his age at the Suffolk bar. He 
belongs to the Curtis and University clubs of 
Boston. He married June 30, 1890, Miss Helen 
Stevens, daughter of Joseph L. Stevens, of 
Gloucester. They have one child : a daughter, 
lilenor Babson, born September 4, 189 1. 



BIGELOW, S.\MUEL AuousTus, merchant, pres- 
ident of the Bigelow- & Dowse Company, Boston, 
is a native of Boston, born November 26, 1838, 
son of Samuel and .Anne Jane (Brooks) Bigelow. 
He is a descendant in direct line of John Biglo, 
one of the early settlers of Watertown, whose mar- 
riage, in the year 1642, was the first recorded in 
that town : and on the maternal side a descend- 
ant of Joshua Brooks, of Concord, the ancestor of 
I'eter C. Brooks and Governor John Brooks ; con- 
nected also with the Lawrence and I'rescott fami- 
lies of Groton. He was educated in the Boston 
public schools. He entered business when a lad 
of seventeen (in 1855), beginning with Eaton & 
I'almer, an old-time lioston firm in the hardware 
trade, and has remained in this trade ever since. 
In 1864 he became a member of the firm of 
Homer. Bishop, & Co., which continued until after 
the '-Great Fire" of 1872, and was the nucleus 
of the present concern, of which he is the 
head. In 1873 the firm name was changed to 
Macomber, Bigelow, & Dowse, and so remained 
till the retirement of Mr. Macomber in 1886, 
when it became Bigelow & Dow.se. The present 
corporation, under the name of the Bigelow & 
Dowse Company, was formed in 1.S94. Mr. I'.ige- 
low is president of the New l-'.ngland iron and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Hardware Association (first elected in 1S93); a 
delegate to the Boston Associated Board of Trade 
(1894); and past president of the An\il Club, an 






:^^^fci. o^ 



^ 



187 I. While in college, he made a special study 
of chemistry. He also did much journalistic 
work, and immediately after graduation engaged 
in journalism as a reporter on city and coun- 
try press. Subsequently he taught school for 
a while, and then entered the employ of his 
brother, of the firm of H. L. Bowker iX: Co. of 
Boston, manufacturers of drugs and medicines. 
In January, 1873, he formed a partnership with 
L. A. Sparrow, a college classmate, under the 
firm name of Bowker & Sparrow, and engaged in 
the manufacture and sale of chemical manures. 
This was the fotnidation of the present business. 
J'he firm afterwards became W. H. Bowker & C'o., 
and in 1879 ^^'''■* succeeded by the Bowker Fer- 
tilizer Company, incorporated under the laws of 
Massachusetts with a capital of $125,000. It now 
has a capital of S6oo,ooo, and two factories with 
a capacity of fifty thousand tons annually, the 
business haying grown from an output of one 
hundred tons a year to an output of one hun- 
dred tons a day. His success he attributes to 
the thorough and practical training which he re- 
ceiyed at the State College, especially in chem- 



S. A. BIGELOW. 

association representing the leading hardware 
merchants of the principal cities in the United 
States. He is connected with the Masonic fra- 
ternity, master of the Lodge of Elusis (having 
passed through all the dilTerent offices in the 
lodge); is a member of the IJostonian Society, 
and of the Algonquin, Art, Athletic, Exchange, 
and Massachusetts Reform clubs of Boston. He 
was married Noyember 7, 1867, to Miss Ella Har- 
riet Brown, daughter of Seth E. and Harriet 
(Eyans) Brown. They haye one child: Samuel 
Lawrence Bigelow. 



BOWKER, Wii, 1,1AM Henry, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Bowker Fertilizer Company, was born 
in Natick, July 3, 1850, son of Horace and Anna 
Maynard (Smith) Bowker. His ancestors on the 
father's side were farmers, and on the mother's 
side sea-captains. His early education was at- 
tained in the district and high schools of Phillip- 
ston and Templeton. and his collegiate training 
at the Massachusetts .\gricultural College, Am- 
herst, where he was graduated in the class of 




WM. H. BOWKER. 

istry, and also to his training in journalism, which 
has been a great assistance to him in presenting 
intelligently and concisely the need and yalue of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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chemical manures. His house was the pioneer 
in placing the fertilizer business on a scientific 
basis ; the first to introduce in this country fer- 
tilizers adapted to different crops or classes of 
crops known as special manures ; the first to urge 
the use of potash in mi.xed fertilizers ; the first to 
publish an agricultural chemical price list which 
listed many chemicals new to agriculture; and 
first among the manufacturers to urge the adop- 
tion of the fertilizer inspection law as a protection 
to farmers and a safeguard to reputable manu- 
facturers. The Massachusetts law has since been 
made the basis of similar legislation throughout 
the United States. Mr. Whitaker, editor of the 
New England Farmer, in writing of the advance- 
ment of the fertilizer business and of the men 
who have been instrumental in bringing it about, 
said of Mr. Bowker that " he can claim the honor 
of having been one of the prime factors in the 
great change that has taken place both in public 
sentiment and in the uniformity and reliability of 
chemical fertilizer." And Herbert Myrick, edi- 
tor of the New England Homestead, wrote of him, 
" He has been a power in elevating the fertilizer 
liusiness to the high plane of respectability and 
reliability that it now enjoys." He is much con- 
sulted by experiment stations, and supplies many 
chemicals for experimental purposes. Mr. Bow- 
ker is a trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, appointed in 1885 by Governor Robin- 
son, and reappointed in 1893 by Governor Rus- 
sell ; has been a member of the Massachusetts 
Board of Agriculture since 1890; member of the 
Board of Control Massachusetts Experiment Sta- 
tion since 1891 ; and member of the Gypsy Moth 
Commission since 1893. He is a frequent writer 
and speaker on agricultural topics. He has held 
no political or military offices. In politics he is 
Republican. He is a member of the University, 
the Exchange, and the Commercial clubs of Bos- 
ton. He was married September 7, 1875, to Char- 
lotte J. Ryder, of Barre. They have two children : 
Horace and Alice Bowker. 



BRADSTREET, Charles William, of Bos- 
ton, manager of the Ferd F. French & Co. 
(Limited), carriage-builders, is a native of New- 
buryport, born June 9, 1833, son of Charles 
and Sarah A. (Noyes) Bradstreet. His paternal 
grandfather was William Bradstreet, of Glouces- 
ter, sliip-huikler, and his maternal grandfather. 



Samuel Noyes, of Newburyport, also a ship- 
builder. He was educated in the public schools 
of Newburyport, and began business life there, 
being first employed by C. W. Davenport, dry- 
goods merchant, in 1849, when a lad of sixteen. 
In September, 1850, he came to Boston, with 
E. T. Hardy, w'ho opened a dry-goods store on 
Hanover Street. Here he remained till May, 
185 1, when he entered the employ of Sargent, 
Gunnison & Co., carriage-builders. No. 14 Sud- 
l)ury Street, with which concern and its suc- 
cessors he has since been identified. In January, 




CHARLES W. BRADSTREET. 

1862, he formed a copartnership with the late 
William P. Sargent, which succeeded Sargent, 
Gunnison & Co., and held for nearly a quarter 
of a century. Then, in July, 1885, Mr. Sargent 
retiring, and being succeeded by the Ferd F. 
French & Co. (Limited), he continued with that 
company, subsequently becoming its manager. 
He has long been prominent in the trade. He is 
connected with the Masonic order, a member of 
the Joseph Warren Lodge, St. Andrew's Chapter, 
and of the De Molay Commandery of Knights 
Templar, Boston. He is a member of the Cal- 
umet Club of Winchester, where he now resides. 
In politics he is classed as Independent. He 
was married March 6, 1S67, to Miss Alprusia \. 



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Walker, daughter of Colonel Benjamin 1'. Walker, 
of Claremont, N.H. 



BRYANT, Ralph Waldo, business manager 
of the Boston Post, is a native of Lowell, born 
February 29, 1852, son of Daniel and Ruth 
Levering (Gale) Bryant. His father was of 
Maine, and his mother of the (jale family of New 
Hampshire. He was educated in the Lowell 
public schools, graduating from the High .School 
and McCoy's Business College. His parents in- 
tended him for the legal profession : Init, after 




W. BRYANT. 



reading law two years, he entered the field of 
journalism in 1873. In 1877 he took up his resi- 
dence in New York, and for thirteen years was 
an active and successful metropolitan newspaper 
man. For several years he was on the staff of 
the New York World, and in the capacity of a 
special correspondent for that paper he visited 
nearly every State and Territory in the Union. 
During the late eighties, in an extensive Western 
trip, he described in his letters the commercial 
and industrial development of Western cities, as 
well as the picturesque features of the country 
through which he journeyed, including the entire 
Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island to Mexico. 
In several instances his attractive descriptions 



diverted the tide of Eastern travel to the places 
and sections described, and his matter was fre- 
quently reproduced in .\merican and foreign 
papers. One of his Western trips, originally 
planned to cover six months, was extended over 
two years. Upon his return to New York, after 
a tour of the Southern States, overtures were 
made to him by the controllers of the Philadel- 
phia Daily News, and in 1890 he became the 
proprietor of that paper. The first year of his 
management was that in which Senator ()uay ran 
Delamater for governor in opposition to Pattison, 
and he placed his paper squarely in opposition to 
this movement, fighting it day by day with the 
publication of a series of articles on the career 
and policy of Senator Quay in Pennsylvania poli- 
tics, which attracted wide attention. In the 
autumn of 1891, when the controlling interest of 
the Boston Post was purchased by Edwin A. 
Grozier, he came to Boston as business manager 
of that paper, and has since been identified with 
its conduct. He was married in October, 1S74, 
to Miss Callie E. Simpson, of Lowell. They 
have one child: Fred K. Bryant. 



BURDETT, Everett Watson, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in northern Mississippi, 
April 5, 1854, son of Augustus P. and Mariann 
(Newman) Burdett. His parents were both 
Massachusetts folk who went South in 1852, 
and returned to Massachusetts in 1873. He was 
educated in private schools, and for a short time 
at Washington University, -St. Louis, Mo. As 
boy and man, he has been a resident of Massa- 
chusetts almost continuously since 1867. He en- 
tered the Law School of Boston University in 
1875, and was graduated in the class of 1877. 
The following year he was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, and has since been actively engaged in 
business in Boston. He began practice with the 
Hon. Charles Allen, now senior associate justice 
of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in 
whose office he had studied. Soon after, however, 
he was appointed assistant United States attorney 
for the district of Massachusetts, and served with 
success in that capacity for nearly three years, 
trying substantially all of the cases for the govern- 
ment during the latter part of his incumbency. 
He then resigned, and entered upon tlie general 
practice of the law, to which he has since devoted 
himself exclusively. He is now (1894) a member 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



I'5 



of the law firm of Burdett &: Snow, with offices in 
the Ames Building. Though he has tried a large 
variety of cases, his present practice relates 



Miss Maud Warner, of Boston. They 
children: Marion and Paul Burdett. 



lave two 



i 




BURDETT, Joseph Oi.ivek, of Hingham, for 
three years chairman of the Republican State 
Committee, is a native of Middlesex County, and 
there began his professional career. He was 
born in Wakefield (then South Reading), October 
30, 1848, son of Joseph and Sally (Mansfield) 
Burdett. He was educated in the public schools 
of his native town and at Tufts College, where he 
was graduated (in 187 1) second in his class, not- 
withstanding that he was absent nearly half of his 
senior year, earning money to meet his college 
expenses. Immediately after his graduation he 
took up the study of law in the office of Judge 
John W. Hammond, then city solicitor of Cam- 
bridge, and the same year entered the Harvard 
Law School. Admitted to the bar .\pril 19, 
1873, he began practice in association with Judge 
Hammond. In 1875 he opened an office in Bos- 
ton, where he has since practised. The year be- 
fore he established iiis residence in Hintrham, 



E. W. BURDETT. 

chiefiy to corporation matters. He became coun- 
sel for electric lighting interests almost as soon as 
the industry was established in this State, and has 
been the attorney of various lighting companies 
since that time. He has also been the general 
attorney of the Massachusetts association of elec- 
tric lighting companies, composed of more than 
thirty of the leading gas and electric light com- 
panies of the State, since its establishment in 
1889. He is the lecturer on medical jurispru- 
dence in the Medical School of Boston University; 
and is a joint author of the Massachusetts section 
of an elaborate work on the " Law of Incorpo- 
rated Companies operating under Municipal Fran- 
chises." He was for two years president of the 
Mercantile Library Association. He is now a 
trustee of the Massachusetts Homceopathic Hos- 
pital, and a director in several business corpora- 
tions. In politics he is Republican. For the 
year 1893 he was president of the Republican 
City Committee of Boston, declining re-election 
for 1894. He is a member of the Exchange, 
Curtis, and Athletic clubs of Boston. Mr. Bur- 
dett was married in Boston, April 15, 1885, to 




J. O. BURDETT. 

and there early became prominent in local mat- 
ters. He has been a member of the Hingham 
School Board for more than eighteen years, its 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



chairman fifteen years, and for some time con- 
cerned in a number of town improvements. He 
is now a director of the Rockland Hotel Com- 
pany, which owns the Nantasket and Rockland 
Houses at Nantasket Iteach, and of the Wey- 
mouth Light and Power Company, which fur- 
nishes light to the towns of Weymouth and Hing- 
ham ; and is also a large owner in and president 
of the Hull Electric Light and Power Com- 
pany, and the Hull and Nantasket Street Railway 
Company. In 1S84 and 1885 he represented 
Hingham and Hull in the lower house of the 
Legislature, serving both sessions as chairman of 
the committee on public service, from which came 
the civil service bill now in the statutes, and tak- 
ing a leading part in the important debates on 
the floor of the house. In his second term he 
was also a member of the committee on the judi- 
ciary. He was first elected chairman of the Re- 
publican State Committee in 1889, after having 
served three years in the body, and was con- 
tinued in office the two succeeding years. Mr. 
Burdett was married in 1874, upon his removal to 
Hingham, to Miss Ella, daughter of John K. 
Corthell, of that town. They have three children : 
Harold Corthell, Edith Mansfield, and Helen 
Ripley Burdett. 



BUTLF^R, John Ha.sk.ell, member of the bar 
for a quarter of a century, is a native of Essex 
County, born in Middleton, August 31, 1841, son 
of John and Mary J. (Barker) Butler. His early 
training was in the district schools, and he fitted 
for college in the Shirley High School and the 
Lawrence Academy of Groton. Entering Yale, 
he graduated therefrom in the class of 1863 with 
honors. After service in the United States Navy, 
he entered the law office of the late John Q. A. 
Griffin and William S. Stearns, of Charlestown, 
and in October, 1868, was admitted to the 
Middlese.x bar. The same year and month he 
formed a copartnership with Mr. Stearns under 
the firm name of Stearns & Butler, which associa- 
tion continued to the first day of January, 1892, 
when Mr. Stearns retired from practice. In 1870 
he established his residence in Somerville, and 
early became identified with the interest of that 
city. For twelve years (1876-88) he served on 
the Somerville School Board, in 1880 and 1881 
represented his city in the lower house of the 
Legislature, and in 1884-85-86 was a member of 



the executive council for tlie Third Councillor 
District, first elected to fill a vacancy caused by 
the death of the Hon. Charles R. McLean. He 
has been prominent in charitable and fraternal 
organizations, and high in their councils. From 
1883 to 1885 he held the post of supreme regent 
of the Royal Arcanum, and is now (1894) chair- 
man of the committee on laws of that order. 
In 1887-88 he filled the office of supreme repre- 
sentative of the Knights of Honor. He was 
president of the National Fraternal Congress for 




JOHN HASKELL BUTLER. 

two 3'ears, and three years the executive officer of 
the Eastern Association, and is now the supreme 
treasurer of the Home Circle, and chairnran of 
the committee on laws and advisory counsel 
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Ancient 
Order of United Workmen. He also holds mem- 
bership in the following organizations : the Soley 
Lodge, Masons; Boston Lodge, Odd Fellows; 
Bay State Council, American Legion of Honor; 
Excelsior Council, Royal Arcanum ; Mt. Benedict 
Lodge, Knights of Honor; Beacon Lodge, An- 
cient Order of United Workmen ; and Somerville 
Council, Home Circle. He is a member of the 
University Club of Boston and of the New Eng- 
land Commercial Travellers' Association, and is 
general counsel of the latter, Mr, Butler was 



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117 



marriud in I'iltston, I'enii., on tlic llrst of lanuary, 
1S70, to Miss Laura L. Hull, dauy;lUcr of Jahez li. 
and Mary (Ford) Bull. They have one child : 
John Lawton Butler. 



CHARLES, SALE^r Dakius, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Brimfield, born March 
19, 1850, son of Abraham and Esther Lorene 
(Wallis) Charles. His ancestors were among the 
early settlers of New England. His early life 




SALEM D. CHARLES. 

was spent on his father's farm, and his education 
was begun in the district school. Subsequently 
he attended the Hitchcock Free High School in 
Brimfield, where he was fitted for college, and, en- 
tering Amherst, was graduated therefrom in the 
class of 1874. The first si.x months after his 
graduation were occupied in travelling in Europe. 
Then he devoted a year to teaching, as principal 
of the Shelburne Falls High School, and towards 
the close of that term began the study of law. 
He spent the next year in the Boston University 
Law School, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. 
He has since practised in Boston. In politics he 
is a Democrat, and for some years has taken a 
prominent part in State campaigns, speaking in 
nearly every large place in the Coinmonwealth. 



He was a member of the lower house of the 
Legislature in 1891-92-93, the first and only 
Democrat elected from Ward 23 of Boston 
(Jamaica Plain), a strong Republican quarter. 
In the Legislature he served on the committees 
on the judiciary, rules, rapid transit, and consti- 
tutional amendments, and was chairman of the 
Democratic side of the House. He has also 
served as trustee of Mount Hope Cemetery 
(which belongs to the city of Boston) for three 
years. He is a member of the Jamaica Club, of 
the Eliot Club, and of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts. In college he be- 
longed to the Delta L'psilon. .Mr. Charles is 
unmarried. 

CLARKE, Colonel .Vlukui', of JSoston, secre- 
tary of the Home Market Club, is a native of 
Vermont, born in Granville, October 13, 1840, 
son of Jedediah and Mary (Woodbury) Clarke. 
He is of an old Connecticut family on his father's 
side, and a Beverly, Mass., family on his mother's 
side. Both were of English descent. His ances- 
tors participated in the .American Revolution, also 
in Cromwell's. He was educated in the public 
schools and at West Randolph and Barre acad- 
emies ; and his training for active life consisted of 
hard work on a farm, school teaching, law studies, 
and military discipline. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1S61, but the Civil War interrupted his 
practice. Enlisting as a private in the Thirteenth 
\'ermont Infantry, his twin-brother also joining 
the army as assistant surgeon of the Tenth \'er- 
mont, he served the term of his enlistment, which 
expired in 1863. He was soon promoted to a 
first lieutenancy, and at Gettysburg commanded 
his company in the fierce assaults upon the 
enemy's lines. I^pon his return to civil life he re- 
sumed the practice of his profession, and early 
entered public life. He was colonel on Governor 
Paul Dillingham's staft", first assistant clerk of the 
Vermont House of Representatives four years, 
member of the Vermont Senate in 1874, commis- 
sioner of the State to build a house of correction 
in 1878, and commissioner of the State to build 
monuments at Gettysburg, 1887 89. He was 
president of the Vermont & Canada Railroad 
Company at the time of its consolidation with the 
Central Vermont. In 186S he entered journal- 
ism. He published the St. .\lbans Messenger 
until 1880; then for five years was connected 
with Boston papers, the latter part of that period 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



with the Advertiser: and. returning to Vermont, 
was for about three years editor and manager of 
the Rutland Herald. When in Rutland, he was 




ALBERT CLARKE. 

president of the Rutland ISoard of Trade. He 
was chosen secretar)* of the Home Market Club 
in July, 1889, and has been annually re-elected 
since. In politics he is a steadfast Republican. 
He has been a frequent delegate to conventions, 
among them the Republican National Convention 
at Minneapolis in 1892, where he earnestly sup- 
ported Rresident Harrison ; has spoken in cam- 
paigns in several States, and has been manager 
for several candidates, but has never sought office 
for himself. In 1888, when editor of the Rut- 
land Herald, he was prominently mentioned for 
lieutenant governor of Vermont, but declined 
to be a candidate, e.xpecting to return to Massa- 
chusetts the next year. In Vermont he made 
much mark in opposition to railroad politics, and 
in later years he has been recognized as an au- 
thority among those who advocate protection in 
this country. He belongs to the Grand Army, 
and has held the positions of commander of the 
post at St. Albans, junior vice-commander of the 
department of Vermont, and judge advocate of 
the department of Massachusetts (1894); and he 
is a member of the Massachusetts Comniandery, 



Military CJrder of Loyal Legion of the L'nited 
States. He resides at Wellesley Hills, where he 
takes an interest in town affairs. He is fre- 
quently moderator at Wellesley town meetings, as 
he was earlier in his career of St. Albans meet- 
ings ; is chairman of the standing committee of 
the LTnitarian Society at Wellesley Hills, and is 
now (1894) serving his fifth year as president 
of the Wellesley Club. Colonel Clarke was mar- 
ried January 21, 1864, to Miss Josephine Briggs, 
youngest daughter of the Hon. E. D. Briggs, of 
Rochester, Vt. They have had three children : 
.\lbert Briggs (died in infancy), Josie Caroline 
(died at ten), and Mary Elizabeth Clarke. 



COBB, John Storer, member of the Suffolk 
bar, is a native of England, born in the city of 
Rochester, county of Kent, January 7, 1842, son 
of John Sa.xelby and Harriott (Winch) Cobb. 
His early education was acquired in the Cathe- 
dral Grammar School, Rochester, and King's 
College School, London ; also in Paris and Ber- 
lin schools. His collegiate training was in Lon- 




J. STORER COBB. 

don, Cambridge, and Heidelberg universities. 
He was educated for the Church of England, but 
afterwards turned to the law, as he found that he 



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119 



could not engage in the duties of the clerical pro- 
fession. \\'hen a student in college, he wrote 
"Eason" and " pAelyn," two historical novelettes, 
which were published in London in 1865 and 
1866, and subse(|uently the " History of Hun- 
stanton, Norfolk: with which is Incorporated the 
Life of St. Kdnunul, King and Martyr," pub- 
lished in London in 1868. He came to tiie 
United States in 1869, but has returned to Ku- 
rope several times, and spent altogether about 
ten years there since his first arrival in this coun- 
try. He was first settled in New \'ork, where lie 
was some time editor of the New Era (beginning 
this work in :873), and for two years a student 
in the Columbia College Law School, graduating 
in 1875. That year he was naturalized, and ad- 
mitted to the bar. He came to Boston in 1882, 
and returned to Europe early in 1886, remain- 
ing there nearly four years. While here he has 
devoted much of his time to literary pursuits 
and lecturing, and in 1S91 he began the active 
practice of his profession. He has written much 
for the periodical press upon the English lan- 
guage and literature, and has delivered lectures 
on this and other subjects in Boston, New York, 
and Brooklyn, London, Berlin, Paris, Heidelberg, 
and Geneva. In 1886-87 '""^ edited the National- 
ist, the monthly magazine some time published in 
Boston by the Nationalist Educational Associa- 
tion. For several years he was engaged on a 
volume upon "The History and Structure of the 
English Language," the completed manuscript of 
which was unfortunately lost in the mails, and 
never recovered ; and he has now in preparation 
"The Elements of Social Economy." He has 
been long an advocate of the incineration of the 
dead, has written many magazine and newspaper 
articles on the subject, was one of the founders of 
the New York and the New England cremation 
societies, of the latter of which he is president. 
He is also a director of tlie ^L^ssachusetts Cre- 
mation Society, a life member of the New York 
society, and an honorary member of the Berlin 
and Milan societies. He is a life member of the 
American Institute, a fellow and one of the 
founders of the Theosophical Society, and a 
member of the International Hygienic Commis- 
sion. In .\merican politics he is a "Mugwump"; 
in English politics, a Liberal, an advocate and sup- 
porter of Home Rule for Ireland, a member of 
the parent branch of the Irish National League 
and of the Home Rule I'nion of London. He 



was married June 20, 1893, to Miss Mary S. 
Fuller, a daughter of the Hon. Benjamin \. (i. 
Fuller and a cousin of the present chief justice 
of the L^nited States. 



COE, Henry Fr.\ncis, of Boston, treasurer of 
the liowker Fertilizer ("ompany, is a native of 
Rhode Island, born in fJttle Compton, July 27, 
1835, SO" of Joseph and Julia .Ann TFaylor) Coe. 
He is a descendant, on the paternal side, of 
.Matthew Coe, who came from Suffolk, England, 




HENRY F. COE. 

in 1645, ^"'l '^'^0 of John Alden and Priscilla of 
" Mayflower" fame, Matthew Coe's son John hav- 
ing married Sarah Pabodie, daughter of their eld- 
est daughter Elizabeth and her husband William 
Pabodie. He was educated in the country dis- 
trict school. As a boy, from 1849 to 1856, he 
was with Richmond & Wood of New Bedford, 
who were engaged in the whaling and outfitting 
business. Then he entered the employ of Law- 
rence Stone & Co. and the Bay State Mills, and 
upon the reorganization of that company as the 
Washington Mills, in 1859, he took charge of 
the accounts. Subsequently, in 1870, he be- 
came treasurer of the company, and remained 
in that position for si.\teen years. He became 
treasurer of the Bowker Fertilizer Company in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1886, and has held this position ever since. Mr. 
Coe has served prominently in the Boston City 
Council, five terms (1877-80 and 1885) member 
of the Common Council, and one (1886) of the 
Board of Aldermen. He has also served as a 
trustee of the Public Library (1879), and is now 
(1894) one of the trustees of the Eliot School 
funds. For several years he has been a trustee 
of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank. He is a 
member of the Arkwright Club and was some time 
its secretary, of the Eliot Club of Jamaica Plain, 
and of the Bostonian Society. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married March 14, 1865, to 
Miss P'anny W. Holmes, of Boston. They have 
four children. 



COFFIN, ARR.-iH.^M BuRBANK, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Gilead, 




A. B. COFFIN. 

March 31, 1831, son of Warren and Hannah 
(liurbank) Coffin. His early education was ac- 
quired in academies at Bedford and Nashua, 
N.H. He was fitted for college at Phillips (An- 
dover) Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth 
in 1856. Subsequently he studied law in \'ir- 
ginia, and in 1858 was admitted to the bar in 
Richmond. Then coming to Boston, after an- 
other year's study in the office of the late John 



P. Healy, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
From that time he has been engaged in the gen- 
eral practice of the law in the building now num- 
bered 27 School Street. He has also for many 
years been prominent in State affairs. He was 
a member of the lower house of the Legislature 
in 1875, when he held the chairmanship of the 
committee on elections; a State senator in 1S77 
and 1878, serving each year as chairman of the 
committee on taxation and on the committee on 
the judiciary ; a member of Governor Robinson's 
council in 1885 and 1886: and chairman of the 
board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners 
from 1887 to 1891. In the town of Winchester, 
where he resides, he was for several terms a mem- 
ber of the School Committee and on the town 
Board of Health. In politics he is Republican. 
He is a member of the William Parkman Lodge 
of Masons, of the Calumet Club of Winchester, 
and of the Middlesex (political dining) Club of 
Boston. He was married .\ugust 16, 1888, to 
Miss Mary E. Stevens. 



CORDLEY, Frank Rogers, head of the 
banking house of F. R. Cordley & Co., Boston, 
was born in Randolph, March 19, 1854, son of 
Christopher Minta and Lydia (Bailey) Cordley, 
of English descent. He was educated in the 
public schools ; and his training for active life, 
begun in general business, was mostly acquired 
in railroading and banking. In 1869 he went 
West, where he spent about ten years in Kansas, 
Colorado, and Minnesota, much of the time on 
the frontier. P'or a number of years he was as- 
sistant cashier of the National Exchange Bank of 
Boston ; and he has been engaged in private bank- 
ing and stock brokerage since 1885, having been 
connected with the firms of Cordley & Young, 
Cordley, Young, & Fuller, Cordley & Co., and the 
present house. The different partners of the 
present firm are members of the Boston, New 
York, and Chicago Stock exchanges ; and the 
house has private wires between Boston, New 
York, and Chicago, and New England connec- 
tions, with branch offices in Lowell and Spring- 
field, and in Hartford, Conn. Its market letter, 
issued weekly, the regular publication of which 
was begun in 1886, is recognized in financial 
circles as one of the best and most carefully pre- 
pared prints of its class. Mr. Cordley is a mem- 
ber of the Art and of the Massachusetts Reform 



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clubs in Boston, and of the New \'ork and the 
Reform clubs in New York. In politics he is 
an Independent of the "Mugwump" order, a 




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F. R. CORDLEY. 

Steadfast supporter of the principles for which 
the Reform clubs to which he belongs stand. He 
was married April i8, 1874, to Miss Jenny Dean 
Clark. They have one child, a daughter: Agnes 
Minta Cordley. 



COTTER, James Edward, member of the 
Norfolk and Suffolk County Bar Associations and 
the American Bar Association, was born in Ire- 
land in 1848. Left motherless in childhood, at 
the age of seven years he came to Marlborough, 
where his father became the owner of a small 
farm, upon which, and other farms, the boy worked 
during the summer months, attending school in 
the winter. Having received his education in the 
public schools of that town and at the Normal 
School at Bridgewater, he studied law in the office 
of William B. Gale, of Marlborough, and in Jan- 
uary, 1874, was admitted to the bar in Middlesex 
County. Removing to Hyde Park immediately 
thereafter, he has since practised in the State and 
Federal courts, his Boston office for years being 
in the Sears Building. In 1892 he was admitted 
to the Supreme Judicial Court of the United 



States. During the last ten years he has taken 
part in the trial of many important cases, being 
counsel in suits over the water supply of cities 
and towns, involving the value of franchise, and 
the property and rights of water companies ; al.so 
in land damage suits, in a variety of actions of 
tort for personal injuries, in several noted will 
cases, and in suits against insurance companies. 
He was senior counsel for, and successfully de- 
fended, the section-master of the Old Colony Rail- 
road who was charged with the immediate respon- 
siljility for the railroad accident of August 19, 
1890, known as the Quincy disaster; was assigned 
by the court as leading counsel in defence of 
Anna M. Makepeace, who was indicted for shoot- 
ing and killing her husband at Avon in Septem- 
ber, i8gi, and after two trials was finally dis- 
charged ; and he was senior counsel for the city of 
Quincy in the controversy between that city and 
Dartmouth College decided by the Supreme Court 
of Massachusetts in 1892, to determine whether 
the $300,000 involved in the suit should be held 
by the city or forfeited to Dartmouth College, 
under the provisions of the will of Dr. Ebenezer 




JAMES E. COTTER. 



Woodward. Mr. Cotter has held numerous public 
positions in Hyde Park. He was chairman of the 
Registrars of Voters two years, member of the 



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School Committee for three years, the last year 
(1888) chairman; has been town counsel since 
1878 with the exception of 1888; was chairman 
of the general committee in charge of the celebra- 
tion of the twentieth anniversary of the incorpora- 
tion of Hyde Park ; is vice-president of the Histor- 
ical Society, and charter member and director of 
the Hyde Park Social Club. In 1874 and in 
1877 he was the Democratic candidate for district 
attorney for the district comprising Norfolk and 
Plymouth counties, and was the candidate of that 
party for presidential elector in 1884. He has 
declined nominations to other political offices, and 
is now devoting his whole attention to the practice 
of his profession. In March, 1892, he was unan- 
imously elected president of the Charitable Irish 
Society of Massachusetts. Mr. Cotter was mar- 
ried October 29, 1874, to Miss Mary .\. Walsh. 
They have had si.\ children, five of whom are liv- 
ing. His residence is in Sunnyside, Hyde Park. 



CUNNINGHAM, Colonel John Henrv, 
president and treasurer of the J. H. Cunningham 
Company of Boston, is a native of Boston, born 
March 9, 1851, son of Thomas and Sarah W. 
(Millerj Cunningham. He was educated in the 
public schools of Boston and Charlestown, finisli- 
ing at a commercial college in Boston in 187 1. 
Immediately after graduation he entered his 
father's iron works, founded in 1852, and three 
years later became superintendent of the works. 
In 1876 he was admitted to partnership, the firm 
name becoming Thomas Cunningham & Son. 
Upon the death of his father, July g, 1882, the 
firm name was changed to J. H. & T. Cunning- 
ham, his brother having joined it ; and it so re- 
mained till the business was incorporated under 
the title of the Cunningham Iron Works Company, 
with Colonel Cunningham as treasurer. Colonel 
Cunningham continued in this position till Feb- 
ruary, 1887, when he moved to No. 109 Milk 
Street, Boston, and established the J. H. Cunning- 
ham Company, wholesale dealers in wrought-iron 
pipe and fittings for steam, gas, and water, which 
he has since conducted as president and treas- 
urer. While developing his iron business, he be- 
came concerned in numerous other important in- 
terests. In Chelsea, to which city he moved from 
Charlestown in 1874, he founded the Winnisim- 
met National Bank, of which he is now president ; 
was one of the incorporators of the County Sav- 



ings Bank, now a member of its committee on 
investments ; and he is a large owner in and a 
director of the Winnisimmet Ferry Company. He 
is also largely interested in New England street 
railways. He is president of the Plymouth & 
Kingston Street Railway Company, Plymouth ; 
vice-president of the Gloucester Street Railway 
Company, Gloucester ; and a large owner in and 
director of the following street railway companies : 
the Worcester, Leicester & Spencer, the Worcester 
& Millbury, the Lynn & Boston, and the Haver- 
hill & Amesbury. He is president of the Massa- 
chusetts Street Railway Association, and of the 
Boston Construction Company. In Boston he is a 
director of the Beacon Trust Company. Colonel 
Cunningham's military career extends over twelve 
years, nine years of this period in the Fifth Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and three 
years on the staff of Governor William E. Russell, 
as assistant adjutant-general with the rank of 
colonel. He is prominent in the Masonic order, 
past master of Robert Lash Lodge of Chelsea, a 
Knight Templar, a thirty^second degree Mason, 
and a life member of the Massachusetts Consis- 




J. H. CUNNINGHAM. 

tory. In politics lie is a Democrat, president of 
the Chelsea Democratic Club, and member of the 
Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Other clubs to which he belongs are the Review 
Club of Chelsea and the Boston Athletic Associa- 
tion. He has served in the city government of 
Chelsea, and has long been inlluential in its 
afifairs. He was married April lo, 1873. to Miss 
Frances E. Prouty, of Cohasset. They have had 
three children, two of whom. John H., Jr., and 
Sara M. Cunningham, are now living. 



CUSHlNCr, SinNKV. merchant, iioston, head 
of the firm of Cushing, t )hn>trd, & Snow, was 
born in Hingham, March 2, iHjy, son of David 




SIDNEY GUSHING. 

and Mary (Laphami Cushing. He is a descend- 
ant in the eighth generation of Matthew Cushing, 
who came from Hingham, P^ngland, and settled in 
Hingham on this side in 163S. He was educated 
in the village school and at the famous Derby 
Academy of Hingham, where he graduated in 
May, 1855. The same year and month he began 
mercantile life in a grocery store on Commercial 
Street, Boston. The liquor feature of the busi- 
ness being distasteful to him, he determined to 
quit it at the first opportunity, and accordingly on 
the 1 8th of March, 1856, he entered the employ 
of Whiting, Kehoe, & Galloupe, then the largest 
wholesale clothing firm in Boston. Beginning at 



the bottom round of the ladder, he steadily ad- 
vanced through his own exertions — for he had no 
moneyed or influential friends to assist him — 
until he reached the highest position. Since 1879 
he has been at the head of one of the leading and 
most influential houses in the clothing trade. He 
was largely instrumental in the formation of the 
'■ Clothing Manufacturers' Association," and was 
its first president (1893, and re-elected in 1894). 
Mr. Cushing was a member of the Boston Com- 
mon Council in 1888-89, and of the Board of 
Aldermen in 1890 ; and his efforts in exposing 
jobbery in certain contracts were the means of his 
defeat for renomination. In politics he has 
always been a Republican, and of late years has 
been active in the party organization. He was a 
delegate to the National Republican Convention 
at Minneapolis in 1892. He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity, of the Royal Arcanum, and 
of the Eliot Club, Jamaica Plain, Boston. He 
was married September 26, 1861, to Miss Sarah 
E. Corbett, of Hingham. They have two .sons : 
Albert Lewis and Waldo Cushing. 



D,\RLIN(i, EnwiN Hakkis, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Calais, Me., born Jan- 
uary 28, 1838, son of Timothy and Lucy (Sargent) 
Darling, both also of Calais. On the maternal 
side he is a descendant of (rovernors John Dudley 
and John Winthrop. His mother's grandfather, 
Paul Dudley Sargent, whose mother was Governor 
[ohn Dudley's grand-daughter, was a colonel in 
the Revolution, head of a regiment raised by him- 
self, served throughout the war, and was an inti- 
mate friend of Washington and of Lafayette. 
His father, the late Hon. Timothy Darling, was 
for many years the United States consul at Nas- 
sau, N.P., Bahama Islands, and subsequently for 
forty years a banker in that place. His grand- 
father, having large landed interests in New Bruns- 
wick, just prior to the war of 18 12 crossed the 
river to St. Stephens, N.B., in order to protect his 
interests, and Timothy Darling was born there in 
181 1. L'nder the old English law one born upon 
]5ritish soil remains an Englishman. Immediately 
after the close of the war the elder Darling re- 
turned to Calais. Timothy Darling after retiring 
from the consulship, declining a renomination, be- 
came the leading .\merican merchant in the Baha- 
mas; and during his long residence there he was 
an elder in the Presbyterian church, and superin- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tcndent of its Sunday-school. After twenty-five 
years' service as a member of the governor's 
council in the Bahamas, the Queen of England 
made him a knight of the order of St. Michael 
and St. George, — an honor rarely conferred upon 
any one residing in a British colony. During the 
Civil War his services and unselfish patriotism 
were most notable. He had a large and extensive 
business with all of the Southern cities. Nassau 
was the great depot for blockade runners, and 
there were but two merchants, he being one of 
them, who had facilities for shipping and storing 




EDWIN H. DARLING. 

cotton. The first steamers which ran the block- 
ade were consigned to him ; but he resolutely re- 
fused to have anything to do with them. He was 
with one exception tile only Union man at Nassau 
of any prominence, and had occasion several 
times to aid the United States gun-boats in pro- 
curing coal and to assist them in various ways. 
Almost any one else would have found it difficult, 
if not impossible, to do this, so strong was the feel- 
ing tliere. At his death Secretary Evarts wrote 
a most complimentary letter to his widow, acknowl- 
edging his patriotic service during the struggle. 
He was a man of the strictest integrity, great be- 
nevolence, and throughout the English West In- 
dies was respected and beloved. Edwin Harris 



Darling was fitted for college at Nassau, and at 
Hudson, N.Y., and attended \\'illiams College, 
where he was graduated in the class of 1859. He 
studied law with the late Hon. George F. Shepley, 
who at his death was judge of the L'nited States 
Circuit Court for this District, and also with Doo- 
little, Davis, & Crittenden, of New York. He was 
admitted to the bar in New York City in April, 
1 86 1. He has practised in ]3oston for twenty-five 
years. He has been bail commissioner for Suffolk 
County for twenty years, and master in chancery 
for the same county eleven years. He has been 
repeatedly nominated for the Common Council 
and for the Legislature ; but, being a Democrat in 
a strong Republican ward, he has failed of elec- 
tion. He has, however, been elected to the 
School Committee, in which body he served 
twelve years through repeated elections, resigning 
in December, 1893, having still a year to serve. 
The only societies to which he belongs are the 
Kappa Alpha and the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. 
Darling was married February 2, 1882, to Miss 
Georgie A. Smith, of Newmarket, N.H. They 
have had three children: Lucy, (born September 
10, 1883, died May 24, 1889), Edwin A\'oodbridge, 
(born September 7, 1887), and Amy Elizabeth 
Darling (born March 9, 1889). 



DEAN, JosiAH Stevens, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, was born in Boston, May 11, i860, son 
of Benjamin and Mary .\nn (French) Dean. His 
father is a prominent Boston lawyer, and was 
a member of the State Senate for three terms, 
and representative in the Forty-fifth Congress 
from a Boston district ; and his mother was a 
daughter of the late Josiah B. French, mayor of 
Lowell, and president of the old Northern Rail- 
road of New Hampshire. He was educated in 
the Boston public schools and at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology ; and his legal 
studies were pursued at the Boston University 
Law School, the Harvard Law School, and in his 
father's office. He was admitted to the bar in 
1885, and has since been engaged in general and 
nfiscellaneous practice in Boston. He was coun- 
sel with L. S. Dabney for the South Boston Rail- 
way Company previous to its consolidation with 
the West End Company. In 1893 he was nomi- 
nated by Democrats for register of probate and 
insolvency for Suffolk County, and carried Bos- 
ton, which has never been done before in a 



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county contest against the incumbent, his defeat 
resulting through the votes of Chelsea, Revere, 
and W'inthrop. The previous year, and in i8gi, 
he was a nieiul)er of the Boston Common C'ouncil. 
He is no\v('icS94) associate justice of the South 
Boston municipal court, appointed by (governor 
Russell in 1S93. He is connected with a number 
of Soutli lioston institutions, among them the 
South Boston Savings Bank, of which he was an 
incorporator, and the South Boston Citizen's As- 
sociation ; is a director of the Kastern Electric 
Light and Storage Battery Company, and of the 





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JOSIAH S. DEAN. 

D. S. Quirk Company ; and a member of the Bos- 
ton Athletic Association, the Puritan Canoe Club, 
the Boston Bicycle Club (secretary of the latter), 
and of various other organizations. He was the 
first president of the Associated Cycling Clubs of 
Boston and vicinity. Mr. Dean was married 
August 2, 1888, at Bradford, England, to Miss 
May Lillian Smith, daughter of the late Professor 
Walter Smith, some time director of drawing in 
the Boston public schools, and the first director of 
the State Normal Art School. They have one 
child : Benjamin Dean. 



DONAHOE, P.A.TRICK, of Boston, founder and 
present owner of T/u- Pilot, the earliest permanent 



Catiiolic organ in New England, and founder of 
Donahoc's Magazine, is a native of Ireland, born 
in Munnery, parish of Kilmore, County Cavan, 
March 17, 1815. His father, Terence Donahoe, 
was a linen hand-weaver and farmer. His mother, 
Jane (Christy) Donahoe, was a native of the same 
place. He came to Boston in 1825, and after at- 
tending the old Adams School two or three years, 
supplementing the little schooling he had had in 
Ireland, at the age of fourteen was at work for 
himself, having obtained employment in the print- 
ing-office of the Coliimbiiin Ccntiiicl. He was the 
only Irish boy in a band of six in the office, — in 
fact, there were at that time but two Irish boys in 
all the printing-offices of the town; and he had a 
hard struggle and some battles, the feeling against 
his religion and race being strong in those days. 
Ikit he managed thoroughly to learn the printer's 
trade, and to acquire much general knowledge. 
When the Cciiti?icl was united with another paper 
and issued daily, he left it, disliking night and 
Sunday work, and obtained work in the office of 
The Jesuit, a little publication which had been 
started by PUshop Fen wick in 1832. The Jesuit 
was not a paying enterprise, and finally the bishop 
gave it to Mr. Donahoe and H. L. Devereux, a 
fellow-workman. They changed the name to The 
Literary ami Catholic Sentinel, and worked dili- 
gently to advance it, but without profit. Then, in 
1836, they began the publication of The Pilot in a 
small way, with a force, in addition to themselves, 
of two girls and a boy, Mr. Donahoe taking the 
entire responsibility. Mr. Devereux soon with- 
drew, and Mr. Donahoe bent all his energies to 
establish the paper on a firm foundation. He 
made a personal canvass, not only of the New 
England and the Middle States, but of the then 
Far West and the South. Before very long he had 
secured a national circulation, and had expanded 
his paper from a small four-page aft'air to a large 
and handsomely printed eight-page weekly. For 
many years it had the field almost to itself; and it 
became not only a household word in the Irisii 
Catholic homes scattered over the country, but an 
influential institution, being almost the only me- 
dium of Catholic news and instruction in the hun- 
dreds of new settlements where the visits of 
priests were necessarily infrequent. One of its 
most effective features was the department of 
new-s from Ireland, each week covering many 
columns. With 'The Pilot Mr. Donahoe prospered, 
and became the foremost man of his race in New 



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England. About the year 1850 he established, in 
addition to his newspaper, a large bookselling and 
publishing house, whence the works of many no- 
table Irish and Irish-American authors were is- 
sued. Later he added a great emporium of church 
furniture, organs, etc., and still further enlarged 
his business with the establishment of a bank and 
a passenger and foreign exchange agency. From 
the wealth which he acquired he gave generously 
to Catholic charities, advanced Catholic institu. 
tions, aided Catholic churches, and helped many 
causes abroad as well as in his adopted country. 




PATRICK DONAHOE. 

In Boston he was one of the most efficient promo- 
ters of the House of the Angel Guardian and of 
the Working Boy's Home, was the founder of the 
Home for Destitute Catholic Children on Harri- 
son Avenue, and its first president; was one of 
the most prompt and generous of the contributors 
to the fund for the erection of the Cathedral of 
the Holy Cross, and a liberal benefactor of the 
Carney Hospital; and among the foreign institu- 
tions which he generously aided were the Amer- 
ican College at Rome, and the Seminary at Mill 
Hill, England, for the training of priests for the col- 
ored missions. During the Civil \\'ar. he actively 
interested himself in the organization of the Irish 
regiments ; was treasurer of the fund for the 



equipment of the Irish Ninth, and when the regi- 
ment was starting for the front gave Colonel Cass 
$1,000 in gold pieces, one for each man in the 
ranks ; he assisted in the formation of the Twenty- 
eighth Massachusetts Regiment called the Fag-an- 
Bealagh (clear the way) ; in numerous practical 
ways aided the soldiers at Camp Cameron, Cam- 
bridge, during the early days of the war; contrib- 
uted liberally to sending supplies and voluntary 
nurses to the field hospitals of the Union army ; 
and gave one of his sons, Benedict J. Donahoe, to 
the naval service under Commodore Porter in the 
Mississippi fleet. A son-in-law and two nephews 
also joined the army, all of whom were killed in 
the struggle. He was also a member of a com- 
pany of fifty gentlemen who met on the Common 
to aid in supplying means to assist the Massachu- 
setts men in the field ; and at another tune he 
presided at a great mass meeting of many thou- 
sands on the Common to receive General Cor- 
coran of the New York Sixty-ninth Regiment. 
Early in life he had a short military career as a 
member of the "Mechanics' Rifle Company," and 
was in the ranks when his company with others 
performed guard and escort duty on the occasion 
of President Jackson's visit to Boston in June, 
1833. I" 1S72, before the "Great Fire" in Bos- 
ton, Mr. Donahoe was counted the riciiest Cath- 
olic in New England, and in the first rank, both in 
means and influence, among the Catholics in 
.\merica. The granite block on Franklin Street, 
in which T//i' Pilot and his great publishing and 
other business were housed, was one of the fine 
business buildings of Boston. This went down in 
the "Great Fire " ; and with it were destroyed The 
Pilot plant, stereotype plates, book stock, and 
other property, causing a total loss of $350,000. 
Owing to the failure of insurance companies as 
the result of the heavy losses by this fire, he lost 
the greater part of his insurance. He at once, 
however, resumed business, establishing himself 
on U'ashington Street, near Essex. Here he was 
burned out again in the destructive fire of May 
30, 1873, in that neighborhood. After this fire he 
went to Cornhill to get out his paper, and here 
was for the third time burned out. 'i'hen he built 
a large building on Boylston Street, at a cost of 
over Sioo,ooo, In addition to these losses he 
lost fully $250,000 through indorsements for 
friends. The panic and depression following, the 
friends who had advanced money to him to sus- 
tain his business felt constrained to withdraw their 



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assistance ; and then, in 1876, the climax was 
reached when his banlc was obliged to suspend 
|)a\inent, the indebtedness to depositors being 
573,000. '{'hereupon he placed everything he 
possessed at the disposal of his creditors ; but 
property having teniporarih' shrunk in \alue, and 
liiat which he held having been heavily mortgaged 
in the interest of his business, the estate could 
not be made to realize its real value. .\t this 
juncture Archbishop Williams came to his relief, 
purchasing three-fourths interest in The Pilot. 
John Boyle O'Reilly, whom Mr. Donahoe had 
some time before placed in editorial charge, pur- 
chased the remaining fourth, and took charge also 
of the entire business management of the paper ; 
and the bank depositors were ultimately paid off 
in yearly dividends. Mr. Donahoe, at the time of 
his embarrassment, sixty-three years of age, cheer- 
fully and hopefully took up the only part of his 
great business left to him, — the passenger and 
foreign exchange agency, — and set about rebuild- 
ing his fortunes. In 1878 he began the publication 
of his monthly periodical, under the name of Don- 
ahoe' s Magazine, and with his old-time energy per- 
sonally established its circulation, going over the 
same ground that he traversed in his young man- 
hood for The J'i/oi forty years before. Gradually 
his business developed, his magazine attained 
wide circulation and popularity, and within a com- 
paratively few years he found himself again in the 
enjoyment of a competence. In 1891, a few 
months after the death of Mr. O'Reilly, he was 
enabled to repurchase The Pilot, and at the age 
of seventy-six he resumed its conduct with all the 
ardor of youth. He at once enlarged the sheet, 
mtroduced new features, and his card to his pa- 
trons announced his policy to be " to keep The 
Ti/ot equal to the demands of its readers, and to 
maintain in the future the place which it has held 
for over half a century as the leading Irish-.Vmer- 
ican Catholic publication." Soon after his return 
to The Pilot he sold his magazine to a new com- 
pany. In 1893 Mr. Donahoe received from the 
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, the distin- 
guished honor of the La_-tare medal of solid gold, 
conferred annually upon a layman who has ren- 
dered signal service to the American Catholic 
public, and it was formally presented to him on 
St. Patrick's Day, that year, immediately after the 
meeting of the Charitable Irish Society in Boston, 
in the presence of a notable company. On this 
occasion the Very Rev. William liyrne, D.D., 



V.G., who had been deputed by Archbishop Will- 
iams to confer the medal, and the Rev. J. .\. 
Zahm, C.S.C., vice-president of the L'niversity of 
Notre Dame, made highly complimentary ad- 
dresses, recalling Mr. Donahoe's conspicuous ser- 
vices in many fields, his liberal acts and charitable 
deeds, and pronouncing the honor most worthily 
bestowed, the vicar-general characterizing it as 
"the crowning honor of a well-spent life." Mr. 
Donahoe is the oldest living member of the Ciiari- 
table Irish Society, with which he has been identi- 
fied for upwards of half a century, and is con- 
nected with other benevolent organizations. For 
nine years he served as a member of the board of 
directors of city institutions, and was instrumental 
in securing the admittance of Catholic clergymen 
to these institutions, only Protestant chaplains 
before his appointment to the board being ap- 
pointed. Mr. Donahoe was first married Novem- 
ber 23, 1836, to Kate Griffin. By this union were 
four children: Mary E., Benedict J., Jerome, and 
Chrysostom P. The last-named only is now liv- 
ing. The eldest, Mary E., married Patrick 
Hughes, of Toronto, and had six children, one of 
whom is now married, living in Seattle, Wash., 
and has one child, making Mr. Donahoe a great- 
grandfather. His first wife died November 15, 
1852, aged thirty-six years. He married secondly 
at Littlestown, Penna., April 17, 1853, Annie E. 
Davis, daughter of Dr. and Mary E. Davis, of that 
town. Of this marriage were also four children: 
John Francis, Patrick M., Joseph V., and Gene- 
vieve E. Donahoe. All are still living ; and all are 
married except the first, and have families. Three 
of his sons are with him in The Pi/ot office and in 
his other enterprises: and the other, J. Frank Don- 
ahoe, is organist of the Cathedral of the Holy 
Cross, and prominent in Boston music circles. 



DONOVAN, Edward Jamks, collector of inter- 
nal revenue for the district of Massachusetts, 
1894, is a native of Boston, born March 15, 1864, 
son of Lawrence and Nancy Donovan. His 
father was for a quarter of a century one of the 
leading tobacconists of the city. He was edu- 
cated in the Boston public schools, graduating 
from the Phillips Grammar School in 1878, and 
afterwards attending the English High School. 
He began business life immediately after leaving 
school as a clerk in the wholesale millinery house 
of William H. Horton i\: Co., and afterwards was 



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with the house of iJrown, Durrell, >\: Co., with 
whom he remained till 1889. Political life early 
attracted him, and before he had reached his ma- 
jority he had become active in local politics. 
When twenty-two years of age, he was elected to 
the lower house of the Legislature, and the follow- 
ing year re-elected ; and then twice sent to the 
Senate (for 18S9 and i8go) for the Third Suffolk 
District. In the years of his service in the House 
(1887 and 1888) he was the youngest member of 
that body ; and he has the distinction of being the 
youngest man ever elected to the Senate, being 




EDWARD J. DONOVAN. 

but twenty-four years of age when he entered it. 
In both branches he took a prominent part, serv- 
ing on important committees, among the number 
those on street railways, water supply, cities, mili- 
tary affairs, and liquor law, and had no superior 
as a ready debater. In 1892 he was appointed to 
the Boston Board of Health by Mayor Matthews 
for the term of three years, and was occupying 
this position when he received the appointment of 
internal revenue collector from President Cleve- 
land in January, 1894. Before he became a city 
official, he served on the Democratic State and 
City Committees, for three years first vice-presi- 
dent of the latter. At the State Democratic con- 
ventions of 1890 and 1891 he was selected for- 



mally to second the nomination of (iovernor Rus- 
sell; and at the municipal convention in 1891 he 
placed Nathan Matthews, Jr., in nomination for 
mayor of Boston ; and in every campaign since 
1888 he has been one of the Democratic party's 
most effective speakers on the stump. In the 
National Democratic Convention at Chicago, in 
1892, he was delegate from Massachusetts. He 
is a member of the Young Men's Democratic Club 
of Massachusetts, and of the Hendricks Club of 
Boston, the presidency of which he has held since 
its formation in 1S85. From the time of leaving 
the house of Brown, Durrell, & Co. till his ap- 
pointment to the Board of Health he was in the 
newspaper business, being manager and half- 
owner of the Boston Democrat. He was married 
June I, 1 89 1, to Miss Margaret McGivney. They 
have two children : Frances and Edward J. Dono- 
van, Jr. 

DYER, MiCAH, Jr., member of the Suffolk bar, 
is a native of Boston, born September 27, 1829, 
son of Micah and Sally (Holbrook) Dyer. He is 
of English descent. He was educated in the 
Eliot School in Boston, where he received the 
Franklin medal, at Wilbraham Academy and 
Tilton Seminary, and graduated from the Harvard 
Law School in 1850. He entered the law office 
of Stephen G. Nash, judge of the Superior Court 
of Suffolk County, and soon after was admitted to 
the bar, and began practice. He early won a 
large clientage. In 1861 he was admitted to 
[iractice in the Supreme Court of the United 
States. He has had the management or been 
executor and trustee of a large number of estates, 
and the integrity of his administration has gained 
him high esteem. He was elected from Boston 
to the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
in 1854, and served two terms (1855 and 1856), 
the youngest member of the body. He was for 
several years a member of the Boston School 
Board and chairman of the Eliot School commit- 
tee. During the latter service he was hastily 
summoned one morning to quell a disturbance in 
the school occasioned by the refusal of four hun- 
dred Catholic boys to obey the rule which re- 
quired the recitation of the Lord's Prayer and the 
Decalogue. Not considering what church they 
might represent, but taking his stand on the ques- 
tion, " Is it a rule, and have they refused to obey 
it.'" and finding the charge true, he promptly ex- 
pelled the whole four hundred. He left the de- 



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cision as to the injustice of the law or rule to 
those who had the power to annul it ; yet he was 
severely criticised, and was made to suffer for this 




MICAH DYER, Jr. 

performance of his duty. The parents of the 
children, however, soon understood the situation ; 
and within two weeks almost every boy had ap- 
plied for readmission, promised to obey the rules, 
and had been received. Mr. Uyer was the first 
president of the Female Medical College in Bos- 
ton (established in 1855). That was in the days 
when the medical faculty did not approve of 
" women doctors," and explains why the di- 
plomas of the early graduates bore the signature 
of an LL.K. instead of an M.l). fie is a member 
of the Boston Women's Charity Club, and one of 
the advisory board of the organization in the care 
of the Gifford fund donation to its hospital. 
Other organizations to which he belongs are the 
American Bible Society, of which he is a life 
member, the Massachusetts Temperance .\lliance, 
the New England Conference Missionary .Society, 
the Bostonian Society, Post 68 of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, the Eliot School Association 
(president), and the Old School Boys' .Associa- 
tion (president); and he was a member of the 
old Mercantile Library Association of Boston 
from 1849. He has been a Free Mason for forty 



years, now belonging to the Boston Commandery, 
and has taken thirty-two degrees. He was also 
for many years an Odd Fellow in good standing. 
In politics he is a liberal Republican. He has 
done much benevolent work in a quiet way, and 
unostentatiously has expended thousands of dol- 
lars in rendering life easier to the poor, the sick, 
and the unfortunate. Mr. Dyer was married in 
May, 1851, to Miss Julia A. Knowlton, of Man- 
chester, N.H. They have had two sons and one 
daughter. The daughter died in infancy. The 
sons are both residents of Boston: Dr. Willard 
K. Dyer, of P)oylston Street, and Walter R. Dyer, 
who is associated with his father in business. 



EMERY, Thom.^s Jefferson, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in i'oland, 
December 26, 1845, son of Hiram and Margaret 
(Young) Emery. He is of English ancestry, a 
direct descendant on the paternal side of An- 
thony and Frances Emery, who came to Boston 
June 3, 1635, from Romsey, England, and subse- 
quently settled in Kittery, Me. His early educa- 




THOMAS J. EMERY. 



tion was acquired in the public schools of North 
Falmouth, Me., and at Westbrook Seminary, 
Deering, Me., where he was fitted for college ; 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and his collegiate training was at Bowdoin, from 
which he was graduated in the class of 1868. 
For the first six or eight years after graduation 
he was engaged in school-teaching, beginning in 
public schools in Maine, and then becoming the 
first principal of the Greely Institute of Cumber- 
land, Me. From 1870-71 he was principal of 
the famous Derby Academy of Hingham, Mass., 
and later taught several years in the English 
High School of Boston. He studied law in the 
Boston University Law School, and upon his 
graduation therefrom, in 1877, was admitted to 
the bar of Suffolk County. He has since prac- 
tised in Boston, giving attention especially to 
probate and commercial law. In politics he is 
Republican. He has served three terms in the 
Boston Common Council (1881-82-83) ^s a repre- 
sentative of Ward Eighteen, and four years in 
the School Committee (1889-90-91 and 1893). 
During his service in the latter board he was 
chairman of the committees on high schools, rules 
and regulations, and evening schools, besides 
serving on other committees. He was especially 
interested in the high and evening school work. 
He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, of 
the Boston Commandery, of Knights Templar, 
and of Massachusetts Consistory. He is un- 
married. 

FALLON, Joseph Daniel, justice of the Mu- 
nicipal Court, South Boston District, is a native 
of Ireland, born in the village of Doniry, County 
Galway, December 25, 1837, son of Daniel and 
Julia (Coen) Fallon. He was reared on a farm, 
and attended the national and private schools in 
the neighborhood of his home. At the age of 
fourteen he came to this country, most of the 
family having preceded him ; and shortly after his 
arrival (in 1852) he entered the college of the 
Holy Cross at Worcester. He was graduated 
with distinction in the class of 1858, and received 
his degree of A.B. from Georgetown College, 
Holy Cross not then being a chartered institu- 
tion. After leaving college he taught school for 
awhile, first in Woonsocket, R.I., and subse- 
quently in Salem and in Boston. While in Salem 
he began the study of law in the office of the late 
Judge Perkins, and in 1865 was admitted to the 
bar. Opening his office in Boston, in course of 
time he entered upon a large and lucrative prac- 
tice, and, as e-xecutor and trustee, undertook the 
care of numerous important interests. For many 



years he has been the legal adviser of clerg^-men 
and corporations in various parts of the Common- 
wealth. When the South Boston court was es- 




JOSEPH D. FALLON. 

tablished, in 1874. he was appointed by Governor 
Talbot the first special justice ; and upon the 
death of Judge Burbank, in 1893, he was made 
justice of the court. While serving as special 
justice, he held court for long periods during the 
absences of Judge Burbank, occasioned, in large 
part, by failing health, and upon him, in fact, de- 
volved the most difficult part of the work of the 
court since its establishment ; for every important 
new law went into operation when he was occupy- 
ing the bench. F'or nearly twenty years he was 
a member of the Boston School Committee, first 
elected to the board in 1864. During this long 
service he was in accord with the broadest men 
among his associates, supporting and advocating 
every advance made or proposed in the adminis- 
tration of the schools and for the improvement of 
the system, notably prominent in the movements 
for the addition, to the system, of manual training, 
sewing, and the kindergarten. Judge Fallon has 
for several years been one of the examiners for 
the State Civil Service Commission. Since 1877 
he has been vice-president of the Union .Savings 
Bank, and its counsel for the past four years. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



In politics he is a Democrat. He was married 
August 9, 1S72, to Miss Sarah E. Daley. They 
have four children : Euphemia M., Catherine M., 
Josephine S., and Joseph D. Fallon. 



FLOWER, Benjamin Orange, of Boston, ed- 
itor of the Arena, is a native of Illinois, born in 
Albion, October 19, 1859, son of Alfred and 
Elizabeth (Orange) Flower. He was educated by 
private tutors at his home, in the public schools 
of Evansville, Ind., the family having moved to 
this place when he was a boy, and at the Ken- 
tucky University. It was his first intention to fol- 
low the profession of his father and eldest brother, 
the Rev. George E. Flower, and enter the minis- 
try: but, experiencing a change of religious views, 
he resolved to pursue the profession of journal- 
ism. Thereupon he undertook the editorship of 
the American Sentinel, a weekly society and liter- 
ary journal published in his native town. In this 
work, however, he was engaged but a short time, 
in 188 1 removing to Philadelphia, where he be- 
came associated with his brother. Dr. Richard (_'. 




B. 0. FLOWER. 



a monthly literary journal, under the name of the 
American Spectator. In 1889 this journal, which 
had reached a circulation of over ten thousand, 
was merged in the Arena, the first number of 
which appeared in the December issue that year. 
Subsequently the Arena Publishing Company, for 
the publication of the magazine and of books, 
was established, with Mr. Flower as treasurer. 
His idea in founding the Arena was to provide 
a popular tribune for a fair hearing to radical and 
progressive thinkers. While conducting his mag- 
azine, Mr. Flower has also contributed frequently 
to other periodicals and to the newspaper press; 
and he has published a number of volumes. 
Most notable among the latter are " Civilization's 
Inferno," " Lessons Learned from Other Lives," 
and "The New Time," published June, 1894. 
The first-mentioned work is a critical study of 
life in the social cellar, and has proved very popu- 
lar, three editions having been exhausted within 
twelve months from the date of its publication. 
Mr. Flower's religious views are pronounced and 
liberal, in accord with those of the so-called evolu- 
tionary school of Unitarians. He is a firm be- 
liever in a future life, and is greatly interested in 
psychical research, being vice-president of the 
American Psychical Society. He believes that 
through critical and scientific investigations of 
psychical phenomena immortality or, at least, the 
reality of a future life will some day be demon- 
strated to the satisfaction of the thinking world. 
He has for several years occupied a pew in Rev. 
M. J. Savage's church. He was married Septem- 
ber 10, 1886, to Miss Hattie Cloud, of Evansville, 
Ind. They have no children. 



Flower, taking charge of the latter's extensive 
professional correspondence. A few years later 
he came to Boston, and began the publication of 



GAGE, RoscoE Witherlie, president of the 
Boston Loan Company, is a native of Maine, born 
in Castine, September 3, 1835, son of Charles C. 
and Eliza (Harriman) Gage. His education was 
acquired in the Bangor public schools. He 
began business life in 1850, as a clerk with 
David Bugbee & Co., booksellers and stationers 
of Bangor. In 1857 he removed to Portland, and 
engaged in the Hour and grain business on his 
own account. In i860 he was admitted to the 
old established firm of Blake & Jones, as a part- 
ner, under the style of Blake, Jones, & Co., 
which was subsequently changed to Blake, Jones, 
& Gage, and became the largest and most promi- 
nent concern in that trade in the State. Ten 



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years later he retired from this firm and went to 
Chicago, 111., where he entered the grain commis- 
sion business in partnership with Charles F. 




Harbor (the houses of industry and reformation), 
was born in Chelsea, March 25, 1841, son of 
Richard and Sarah Ann (Ellison) Gerrish, of Exe- 
ter, N.H. He is a descendant of Captain Will- 
iam Gerrish, born in England, August 17, 1620, 
who came to this country in 1638, and died in 
Boston, November 9, 1687. His great-great-great 
grand uncle, Richard Gerrish, was one of the 
council of Governor \\"entworth before the Revo- 
lution ; and Colonel Timothy, Richard's brother, 
settled Gerrish Island, Portsmouth Harbor. His 
father was born in 1807 at Lebanon, Me., one of 
thirteen children, twelve boys and a girl, and died 
of consumption in 1843 at Nashua, N.H., where 
he went from Chelsea for his health ; and his 
mother, born in Exeter, N.H., died at eighty-four, 
of old age. He was the youngest of four children. 
He was educated in the Chelsea public schools. 
Early apprenticed to a carpenter and builder, he 
began work at that trade when in his teens, and 
pursued it till the outbreak of the Civil War. 
Then he enlisted in the First Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, and served in the field for twenty 
months, when he was discharged for disability. 
After his recovery he became a clerk in a Boston 



R. W. GAGE. 

Davis, under the firm name of Gage & Davis. In 
1875 he removed to Washington, having accepted 
a position in the United States Treasury Depart- 
ment. This office he held for nearly eight years, 
and resigned in 1883 to take the position of 
cashier in the Boston Loan Company, incor- 
porated in 1878, with a capital of one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars, and now having among its 
directors N. B. Bryant and Charles W. Bartlett. 
well-known members of the Suffolk bar, and Hor- 
ace E. Bartlett, of Haverhill, attorney at law. He 
has since remained with this corporation, becom- 
ing its president on the first of January, i8go. 
Mr. Gage was married in 1855, at Portland, Me., 
to Miss Mary J. Blake, daughter of Charles Blake, 
with whom he subsequently became associated in 
business, as above stated. He married secondly, 
in 1874, Miss Nancy M. Howe, of Boston, daugh- 
ter of Leonard Howe. He has three sons : 
Edwin, Clinton, and William A. Gage. He re- 
sides in the suburb of AUston. 




JAMES R. GERRISH. 



dry-goods store, where he remained seven years. 

GERRISH, James Richard, superintendent Next he engaged in the real estate and building 

of the city institutions at Deer Island, Boston business for himself, and from this entered the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



employment of the city as receiver at the Deer 
Island institutions. Three years after, in i88i, 
he was appointed superintendent of the Charles- 
town District almshouse. His services covered 
eight years. Then, in 1889, he was appointed to 
the superintendency of the Deer Island institu- 
tions, which he has held from that date. He is 
connected with the Masonic order and the Grand 
Army of the Republic: a member of the Blue 
Lodge, Chapter, Council, and Knights Templar, 
and of Abraham Lincoln Post 1 1 . He is also a 
member of the Union Veterans' Union, Camp No. 
I, General Hancock, and of the United Order of 
Workmen. He was married in Chelsea, Septem- 
ber 23, 1863, to Miss Amelia M. Getchell, of Wis- 
casset. Me. They have had four children : Emma 
Louise, Fred Leander, Amelia Annette, and Mabel 
Florence Gerrish, the last-mentioned the only one 
now livinsr. 



GINN, Edwin, publisher of school and college 
te.xt-books, Boston, is a native of Maine, born in 
Orland, February 14, 1838, son of James and 
Sarah (Blood) Ginn. His early boyhood was 
spent on the farm, with plenty of outdoor life, 
picking up rocks, milking cows, and doing the or- 
dinary work of a farmer's boy, attending the dis- 
trict school four months in the year. At the age 
of twelve he was in a logging swamp, and cook- 
ing for a crew of men. At fourteen he was fishing 
on the Grand Banks. From the Grand Banks he 
went to the seminary at Westbrook, Me. At this 
period he walked back and forth four miles from 
the farm to the seminary daily, and did all the 
farm "chores." At seventeen he began teaching 
the district school to obtain funds to continue his 
education at Westbrook. At twenty he graduated 
from the seminary (1858), and entered Tufts Col- 
lege. While in college, his eyes failed him, and 
he was obliged thereafter to depend upon class- 
mates for reading his lessons to him. He gradu- 
ated in regular course in 1862. During his col- 
lege life he taught winters, and part of the time 
boarded himself because of lack of funds. His 
business career has been wholly in the book trade. 
Six months after leaving college he went upon the 
road, tra\-elling as a commission agent, and about 
the year 1867 engaged in publishing on his own 
account. A little later Fred B. Ginn was ad- 
mitted to the business, and the firm became Ginn 
Brothers. In 1876 D. C. Heath, now of D. C. 
Heath & Co., entered the house ; and in 1881 the 



firm name was made Ginn, Heath, & Co. This 
partnership was dissolved in 1885, when Mr. 
Heath went into business for himself ; and since 
that time the firm has been Ginn & Co. Among 
the earlier publications of the house are the Rev. 
Henry N. Hudson's editions of Shakspere, Good- 
win's Greek Grammar, and the National Music 
Course by Luther Whiting Mason, which have 
been followed by a series of mathematics by Pro- 
fessor G. A. Wentworth, for many years professor 
of mathematics at Phillips (Exeter) Academy ; 
Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar, Cx-sar 




EDWIN GINN. 

and Cicero ; Greenough"s Virgil ; " Essentials of 
English," by Professor W. D. Whitney, of Yale 
College ; college series of " Latin and Greek Au- 
thors," edited, respectively, by Clement L. Smith, 
professor of Latin in Harvard University, and 
Tracy Peck, professor of the Latin language and 
literature in Yale L^niversity, and Professor John 
Williams White, professor of Greek in Harvard 
University, and Thomas D. Seymour, Hillhouse 
professor of the Greek language and literature in 
Yale University; Goodwin and White's .\nabasis 
and White's " Beginner's Greek Book " ; Mont- 
gomery's English, French, and American His- 
tories; General and Mediaeval and Modern His- 
tories, by P. V. N. Meyers, professor of history, 



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University of Cincinnati ; " Elements of Pliysics," 
by Professor A. P. Gage, of the English High 
School, Boston ; " P>eginner's Latin Book," by 
W. C Collar, head-master of the Roxbury Latin 
School, and M. Grant Daniell, of Chauncy Hall 
School ; Eysenbach's German Lessons edited by 
W. C. Collar ; Lessons in Astronomy, " Elements 
of Astronomy and College Astronomy," by Pro- 
fessor C. A. Voimg, of Princeton College : a 
full line of Sanskrit and Old English books ; 
the Athena-um Press Series of English Litera- 
ture ; Political Science Quarterly, Classical Review, 
Journal of Morphology, Philosopltical Revic70, etc. 
In politics Mr. Ginn is Independent. He is a 
member of the University, Twentieth Century, 
and Unitarian clubs, and of the Municipal 
League, all of Boston ; and of the Calumet Club, 
of Winchester, where he resides. He was mar- 
ried in 1869 to Miss Clara Glover, who died in 
1890, leaving three children: Jessie, Maurice, 
and Clara Ginn. He married in 1893 Miss 
Francesca Grebe. 



mittee from 1862 to 1865, and in the latter served 
several terms on the School Board, chairman of 
the board in 1868 and 1869. He also repre- 



GOODRICH, John Benton, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Fitchburg. January 7, 
1836, son of John and Mary Ann (Blake) Good- 
rich. His ancestry is traced to \Mlliam Goodrich, 
settled in Watertown in 1634, a member of Sir 
Richard Saltonstall's colony, whose descendants 
were the earliest settlers in Fitchburg and Lunen- 
burg. One of them, Deacon David Goodrich, was 
a member of the Provincial Congress at Water- 
town, and commanded a company in the battle of 
Bunker Hill. His son John was engaged in the 
same battle, and from him the name of John con- 
tinued in direct line to the present. John B. was 
educated in the public schools of Fitchburg, fitting 
for college in the High School, and at Dartmouth, 
from which he was graduated in the class of 1857. 
He studied law, beginning immediately after his 
graduation from college, with Norcross & Snow, of 
Fitchburg, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. 
That year he opened his office in Boston, and has 
been engaged there since in general practice. 
He has met with peculiar success in jury trials, 
and has gained distinction in several notable 
capital cases. From the time of his admission to 
the bar to 1865 he was a resident of Watertown, 
and since then he has resided in Newton, in both 
places taking an active part in local afl^airs. In 
the former he was a member of the School Com- 




JOHN B. GOODRICH. 

sented Newton in the lower house of the Legis- 
lature two terms (1869-70), serving both years 
on the committee on the judiciary. From 1872 
to 1875 he was district attorney for Middlesex 
County. In politics he is a strong Republican ; 
has always taken an active part in political mat- 
ters, and is an effective political speaker. He 
is a past master of Pequossette Lodge, Masons, 
of Watertown, and prominent in various Masonic 
organizations. Mr. Goodrich was married April 
25, 1865, to Miss Anna Louisa Woodward, daugh- 
ter of Ebenezer Woodward, of Newton. They 
have one son, their only child : John A\'allace 
Goodrich, well known in musical circles as an 
accomplished organist and musical scholar. 



GOODSPEED, Joseph Horace, treasurer of 
the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, 
is a native of Connecticut, born in East Haddam, 
January 14, 1845, son of George E. and Nancy 
Green (Hayden) Goodspeed. He is a direct de- 
scendant of Roger Goodspeed, who came to Barn- 
stable in 1639 ; and on his mother's side of fames 
Green, of Barnstable (died in 1731, aged ninety), 



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135 



who was the son of James Green of Charlestown. 
The families of Nathaniel Goodspeed and James 
Green, son of James Green of Harnstable, moved 
from the Cape to East Haddam, Conn., about the 
year 1758. His early education was acquired in 
the Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., the Chesh- 
ire Academy, Cheshire, Conn., and the Hartford 
High School, and in 1862 he entered Trinity Col- 
lege, Hartford. He was obliged, however, to leave 
college before graduating on account of the death 
of his father, and turn his attention directly to busi- 
ness matters. His father's business was that of 
ship-building and country store, and having as a 
youth, when not in school, acted as clerk and 
assistant in the store, he had already acquired 
a knowledge of business methods. .After closing 
up the estate of his father, he went to Denver, 
Col., in 1865, to take a position in a banking 
house there of Kountze Brothers ; and for eleven 
years he lived west of the Mississippi River. In 
1866 he was vice-president of the Colorado Na- 
tional Bank of Denver, in 1867-68 cashier of the 
Rocky Mountain National Bank of Central City ; 
and in 1869-70 treasurer of Gilpin County, Colo- 




the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs 
Railroad Company. This position he held until 
1874, when he wms appointed general auditor of 
the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, 
the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston the 
Atchison & Nebraska, Kansas City, Fort Scott 
& Gulf, Chicago & West Michigan, and De- 
troit, Lansing & Michigan Railroad companies, 
which companies were then known as the "Joy 
Roads of the West," and was established at Kan- 
sas City, Mo. Two years later, in 1876, he re- 
turned to the East, having received, through 
Charles P'rancis Adams, then chairman of the 
Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners, the ap- 
pointment of " supervisor of railroad accounts '' 
for the State of Massachusetts. He was con- 
nected with the board in that position until i88i, 
and then retired to take the position of general 
auditor of the Mexican Central, Atlantic & Paci- 
fic, and California Southern railroads, under Mr. 
Thomas Nickerson. Here he remained until No- 
vember, 1887, when he was appointed treasurer of 
the West End Street Railroad Company, which 
position he has held since. Mr. Goodspeed is a 
member of the A. *. Fraternity (college society) , 
also a Knights Templar Mason ; and he belongs 
to the following societies and clubs of Boston : 
the Algonquin, Suffolk, and Boston Whist clubs, 
the Society of .\rts, and the Beacon Society, of 
which he is secretary. In politics he is Repub- 
lican. He was married January 27, 1S87, to Miss 
Arabel Morton, daughter of John 1). .Morton. 
They have no children. 



J. H. GOODSPEED. 

rado. Then in 1870 he went to St. Joseph, Mo., 
to engage in the railroad business, having ac- 
cepted the position of cashier and paymaster of 



(iR.\Y, Orin Tinkham, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Norridgwock, Me., born 
June 2, 1839, SO" o^ Robert D. and Lurana (Tink- 
ham) Gray. He comes of Puritan stock. His 
paternal grandfather. Captain Joshua Gray, was a 
prominent and influential citizen of his town and 
county; and his maternal grandfather. Deacon 
Orin Tinkliam, after whom he was named, e.xer- 
cised, during a residence of forty years in Nor- 
ridgewock, an influence in town and church affairs 
second to that of no man in the township. Both 
of his grandfathers were officers in the war 
of 1812. His great-grandfather, the Hon. John 
Tinkham, was born and lived in Middleboro, 
this State, in a house which had been consecu- 
tively occupied by four generations of his family. 
He held town and county ofifices for many years. 



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and served in both branches of the General Court. 
Mr. Gray's father was a thrifty farmer and hnnber- 




ORIN T. CRAY. 

man, who managed the farm during the summer 
months, and in the winter conducted an extensive 
lumbering business on the Kennebec and Dead 
Rivers ; and his mother won more than a local 
reputation as a writer. His education was begun 
in private schools and under private instructors, 
and he was fitted for college in the Anson and 
Bloomfield academies. At seventeen he success- 
fully passed his examination for admission to the 
sophomore class. After pursuing his collegiate 
studies for two years, during part of the time 
also engaged in teaching, he was prostrated by 
a serious illness brought on by overwork. Upon 
recovering, he took up the study of law in the 
office of Josiah H. Drummond, of Waterville, then 
the attorney-general of Maine; and, in i860, when 
he had completed his twenty-first year, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Augusta. He began practice 
in Waterville, but in the autumn of 1862 removed 
to Boston, where he has since been established. 
He early took an interest in politics, affiliating 
with the Republican party. He has been a mem- 
ber of several national conventions, and was chair- 
man of the committee on resolutions in that of 
the National League in 1889; and he has fre- 



quently spoken on the stump. He has also ac- 
ceptably delivered many lyceum lectures. Long 
a supporter of the temperance cause, he has made 
many addresses on this topic ; and he has re- 
peatedly served as candidate of the Prohibition 
party for attorney-general. In Hyde Park, where 
he resides, he has held a number of local official 
positions, among them that of chairman of the 
School Committee for several years, and has been 
moderator of nearly all the town meetings for 
more than twenty years. He is connected with 
the management of several corporations, and is the 
president and managing director of one of the 
largest and most successful business enterprises 
in the Southern States. He has been one of the 
trustees of the Hyde Park Savings Bank since its 
incorporation, and its attorney. Mr. Gray was 
married in i860 to Miss Louise Bradford Holmes, 
a direct descendant of Governor Bradford. 



GROZIER, Edwin Atkins, editor and pub- 
lisher of the Boston Post, is a native of California, 
born in San Francisco, September 12, 1859, son 
of Joshua F. and Mary L. (Given) Grozier. On 




E. A. GROZIER. 



both sides he is of New England ancestry, his 
father a native of Provincetown, and his mother 



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137 



of Bovvdoinham, Maine. His education was ac- 
quired in the High School of Provincetown, at 
C'hauncy Hall, Boston, at Brown l^niversity, and 
at Boston University, graduating from the latter 
in 1 88 1. His journalistic work was begun in the 
capacity of " press agent '" for the New England 
1 nstitute Fair held in Boston during the autumn 
of 1 88 1. The next two years he was a general 
reporter, first on the staff of the Boston Globe, and 
then on that of the /Tew/;/. From 1884 to 1885 
he was private secretary to Governor George D. 
Robinson, and resigned that position to take the 
place of private secretary to Joseph Pulitzer of 
the New York World. He remained with the 
World from 1885 to i8gi, occupying numerous 
positions of responsibility, including those of city 
editor of the daily, Sunday editor, managing edi- 
tor of the Evening World, and business manager 
of the Evening World. In October, iSgi, he 
purchased the controlling interest in the Boston 
I'ost, and since that time he has conducted that 
paper as chief editor and publisher. He early in- 
troduced new and novel features, reduced the 
price and increased the circulation. In 1893 he 
added a Sunday edition. In politics he was orig- 
inally a Republican, but since 1886 has been a 
i)L-mocrat. He is a member of the Algonquin 
( 'lub of Boston, the Fellowcraft of New York, the 
Belfry of Lexington, and numerous other organi- 
zations. Mr. Grozier was married November 26, 
1885, to Alice G. Goodell, of an old Salem family. 
They have two children : Richard, born in 1887 ; 
and Helen Grozier, born in 1889. 



HADLOCK, Harvey Dp:ming, of Boston, ju- 
rist and advocate, is a native of Maine, born at 
Cranberry Isles, October 7, 1843, youngest son of 
Kdwin and Mary Ann (Stanwood) Hadlock. He 
is descended in the seventh generation from Na- 
thaniel Hadlock, who came from Wapping, Eng- 
land, in 1638, settled first in Charlestown, Massa- 
chusetts Colony, and subsequently was one of the 
founders of Lancaster, whose son, Nathaniel of 
Gloucester, married a Quakeress, and who is men- 
tioned in Felt's History of Salem as having 
been fined and punished for declaring "that he 
could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's 
preaching, and that in persecuting the Quakers 
the government was guilty of innocent blood " ; 
and through his paternal grandmother he is de- 
scended from Thomas Manchester, one of the 



earliest settlers (1642) of Portsmouth, R.I. On 
his mother's side he is a descendant of I'liilip 
Stanwood, one of the earliest settlers (1653) of 
Gloucester, and, in the fifth generation, of Job 
Stanwood, the soldier mentioned in histor\-, and 
Martha Bradstreet, his second wife ; and, through 
his maternal grandmother, of Captain John Gilley, 
an eminent shipmaster of his time, son of Will- 
iam Gilley, who came to America in 1763. Two 
of the sons of the first Nathaniel Hadlock were in 
King Phillip's War ; three Hadlocks were in the 
battle of Lexington ; others of the family name, 
including the great-grandfaliier of Harvey !).. 




iHiii^ 



HARVEY D. HADLOCK. 

were soldiers of the Revolution ; his uncle. Cap- 
tain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., was in the War of 1812, 
and his brother. Colonel William E. Hadlock, 
was in the Civil War. His grandfather, Captain 
Samuel Hadlock, acquired by purchase the 
greater part of "Little Cranberry Island " early in 
the present century, and, settling there, engaged 
in shipping and merchandise, to which business 
his father, a master mariner in early life, suc- 
ceeded. Harvey D. received his early education 
under the supervision of his mother, a woman of 
superior culture, and in the schools of his native 
town. At thirteen, the family having removed to 
Bucksport, Me., he became a student in the East 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Maine Conference Seminary, in which institution 
and under private instructors, he pursued an ad- 
vanced course of classical studies, which he sup- 
plemented by a partial course in the scientific 
department of Dartmouth. His legal studies 
were pursued in the law office of the Hon. 
Samuel V. Humphrey at Bangor, Me., under the 
friendly supervision of ex-Governor Edward Kent, 
then one of the justices of the Maine Supreme 
Court. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted 
to the bar of that court, and later to the Federal 
courts of the district ; and he began practice in 
Bucksport. Business drawing him to New Or- 
leans, La., he spent the winter of 1865-66 there, 
devoting much of the time to the study of civil 
and maritime law, under the direction of the emi- 
nent jurist. Christian Roselius. Within the next 
three years he was admitted to practice in the 
courts. State and P'ederal, of Nebraska, Massa- 
chusetts, and New York, establishing his main of- 
fice in Boston in the autumn of 1S68. He was 
there engaged largely in criminal cases, in the de- 
fence of which he met with marked success. In 
187 1 he returned to Bucksport to engage in pro- 
moting the railroad from Bangor to eastern points 
by way of Bucksport; and in the spring of 1873, 
the construction of the road being assured, he re- 
sumed general practice at Bucksport. He be- 
came one of the directors of the Bucksport & 
Bangor Railroad, and counsel for the corporation ; 
and his practice extended to nearly every county 
of the State, embracing some of the most impor- 
tant cases tried in Maine, in the conduct of which 
his reputation as an able advocate and jurist was 
firmly established. In 188 1 he removed from 
Bucksport to Portland, and there during a resi- 
dence of six years maintained a leading place 
among the ablest lawyers of the Cumberland bar, 
as a successful practitioner in causes involving 
important interests of railroad corporations, valu- 
able patents, and maritime affairs, besides notable 
criminal cases. It has been said that during this 
period he tried more causes than any other lawyer 
in Portland, and performed a prodigious amount 
of work. Returning to Boston in 1887, he has 
since resided and practised there, maintaining an 
office also in New York City, the range of his 
practice extending beyond the limits of the State 
and Federal courts of New England and New 
York, and embracing cases of great im|3ortance 
before the United States Supreme Court. Among 
the large number of notable cases which he has 



successfully conducted is that of Campbell <>. 
the mayor, aldermen, and commonality of the 
city of New York, involving the validity of the 
steam fire-engine patent, for many years before 
the courts, and of national importance, affecting 
every city which used steam fire-engines from 
1864 to 1 88 1. Other cases of note were the Pe- 
tition of Frederic Spofford for Certiorari t. The 
Railroad Commissioners of Maine and the Bucks- 
port & Bangor Railroad ; the Treat & Co. bank- 
rupt case, pending in the United States District 
Court of Maine from 1868 to 1889 ; that of Cod- 
man T. Brooks, involving the construction of acts 
of Congress in relation to French Spoliation 
Claims now pending in the Supreme Court of the 
United States ; numerous great trade-mark cases ; 
maritime, railroad, consular, conspiracy, and will 
cases, conspicuous among the latter the Jenness 
will case. Concord, N.H., in 1892. He was mar- 
ried January 26, 1865, to Miss Alexene L. Good- 
ell, eldest daughter of Captain Daniel S. Goodell, 
of Searsport, a prominent shipmaster, and later 
in life a successful ship-builder. They have two 
children living; Inez and \\'ebster Hadlock. 
Their eldest son, Harvey D. Hadlock, Jr., born 
December 4, 1870, died January 22, 1886, from 
accidental shooting while handling a revolver. 
Mr. Hadlock's summer residence is in Bucksport, 
occupying a picturesque site on the banks of the 
Penobscot. 

HASS.VM, John Tvi.kk, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, and a contributor to historical literature, 
is a native of Boston, born September 20, 1841, 
son of John and .\bby (Hilton) Hassam. He 
is a lineal descendant of William Hassam who 
settled in Manchester (now Manchester-by-the- 
Sea) about the year 1684, and on the maternal 
side of William Hilton who came from London 
to Plymouth in New England in the " Fortune," 
November ii, 162 1. He was educated in the 
Boston public schools, — fitted for college in the 
Latin School, — and at Harvard, where he was 
graduated in the class of 1863. In December 
following his graduation he joined the Lfnion 
Army as first lieutenant of the Seventy-fifth 
Ignited States Colored Infantry, and served until 
the first of August, 1864, taking part in the Red 
River campaign. He began his legal studies at 
the opening of 1865, reading with the Hon. .Am- 
brose A. Ranney in Boston, and was admitted to 
the bar on the 13th of December, 1867. Since 



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that time he has practised in Boston, devoting 
himself principally to conveyancing. He has 
been concerned in much important and valuable 
work on the records and documents of Suffolk 
County, and their improved condition is largely 
due to his efforts. As one of the commissioners 
appointed by the Superior Court, in 1884, under 
whose authority the indices in the Suffolk Regis- 
try of Deeds are made, he brought about tile rein- 
(le.xing of the entire mass of records there on the 
present plan : and the printing of the early vol- 
umes of the .Suffolk deeds is due to him. He 
also succeeded in rescuing from threatened de- 




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JOHN T. HASSAM. 



struction a large part of the original court files of 
the county, and in securing their proper arrange- 
ment ; and through his exertions the records, files, 
papers, and documents in the State department, at 
one time in great confusion, have been systemati- 
cally arranged and made accessible for reference. 
He was one of the earliest advocates of land 
transfer reform in the newspaper and periodical 
press and before legislative committees, and he 
was the first member of the Suffolk bar to call 
public attention to the Australian or Torrens sys- 
tem of registration of title. He is now (1894) 
cliairmau of the executive committee of the Land 
Transfer Reform League of Boston. His interest 



in historical and genealogical matters dates from 
his college days. He has been a member of the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society since 
February, 1867, of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society since 1881, of the .American Historical 
Association since 1884, and a corresponding 
member of the Weymouth Historical Society for 
many years. He was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Boston .Antiquarian Club organized in 
1879, subsequently, in 1881, merged in the Bos- 
tonian Society, and a corporate member of the 
latter society, for nine years a member of its 
board of directors. In the Historic Genealogical 
Society, of which he was long a director and be- 
came a councillor when the council was substi- 
tuted for the board of directors by a change in 
the by-laws in 1889, he first set on foot the ex- 
haustive researches in England, undertaken by 
the society through Henry F. Waters, and was 
for eight years chairman of the committee under 
whose direction the work has been carried on. 
He has been a frequent contributor to the so- 
ciety's quarterly publication, the A^cw England 
Historical and Genealogical Register^ and among 
his antiquarian and genealogical papers which 
have been printed in pamphlet form are : " 'I'he 
Hassam Family" (1870, and Additional Notes, 
1889); "Some of the Descendants of William 
fiilton " (1877); '• Ezekiel Cheever, and Some of 
his Descendants" (1879, Part Second, 1884, and 
Additional Notes, 1887); "Boston Taverns, with 
Some Suggestions on the l^roper Mode of Index- 
ing the Public Records " (1880) ; " Early Suffolk 
Deeds" {1881I; "The Dover Settlement and the 
Hiltons" (1882); "Bartholomew and Richard 
Cheever, and Some of their Descendants" (1882); 
" The Facilities for Genealogical Research in the 
Registries of Probate in Boston and London " 
(1884); "Land Transfer Reform" (1891 : second 
edition, with additional papers I ; and " Land 
Transfer Reform a Practical Point of View (1893). 
Mr. Hassam is also a member of the Bunker Hill 
Monument Association and of the Boston Bar 
.Association. He was married in Salem, February 
T4, 1878, to Miss Nelly .Alden Batchelder, daugh- 
ter of Dr. John Henry Batchelder, of Salem. 
They have one child : Eleanor Hassam. 



HEMENWAV, Alfred, member of the Suffolk 
bar, is a native of Hopkinton. born .August 17, 
1839, son of Fisher and Elizabeth Jones (Fitch) 



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Hemenway. He was born in the house of his 
great-grandfather, Ehjah Fitch, who was gradu- 
ated at Vale College in 1765, and was the second 




ernor Ames he was offered a seat on the Superior 
Court bench, but declined the honor. Mr. Hem- 
enway was married October 14, 1871, to Miss 
Myra Leland McLanathan. 



HILL, Edwin Newei.i,, member of the .Suffolk 
bar, is a native of Xew Hampshire, born in 
Nashua, March 12, 1849, son of Edwin P. and 
Sophia D. (Newell) Hill. He is of English ances- 
try, and of early New England stock on both 
sides. The Hills — as the family was formerly 
called — settled soon after coming from England 
in Nottingham west, now Hudson, N.H. Elijah 
Hills, his great-great-grandfather, took an active 
part in the Revolutionary struggle, marched to 
Lexington, to Ticonderoga, and was at Saratoga. 
On his mother's side his great-grandparents were 
the Rev. Edmund Foster, of Littleton, and his 
wife, Phebe (Lawrence) Foster. Edmund Foster 
was at Le.xington among the minute men while a 
theological student, and afterwards was actively 
interested in the early history of the State. He 
was known as the "lighting parson." Edwin N. 



ALFRED HEMENWAY. 

pastor of the Congregational church in Hopkin- 
ton : he was descended from the Rev. James 
Fitch, the first minister of Harwich, Conn., who 
was a brother of Thomas Fitch, governor of Con- 
necticut 1754-76. Alfred Hemenway was pre- 
pared for college at the Hopkinton High School, 
and was graduated at Yale in the class of 1861. 
His legal studies were pursued at the Harvard 
Law School, and he was admitted to the bar in 
Boston on July 13, 1863. He has since been 
engaged in general civil practice in Boston, from 
1S79 ''"' partnership with John 1). Long (first 
under the name of Allen, Long, & Hemenway, 
since 1891 Long & Hemenway), and retained in 
many important causes. For some years he was 
one of the bar examiners for Suffolk County. 
He is one of the executive committee of the 
American Bar Association, one of the general 
council of the Boston Bar Association, a member 
of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston (some 
time its president), of the University Club (now a 

vice-president), of the Union Club, and of the Hill was educated in the public schools of Haver- 
Boston Art Club. In politics he is a steadfast hill, Mass., and at Harvard College, graduating in 
Republican. During the administration of Gov- the class of 1872. After graduation he depended 




E. N. HILL. 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



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cntircl)' oil his own efforts. The succeeding year 
was spent in Washington in the pubHc service ; 
and then he entered the office of the late Richard 
H. Dana, Jr., the distinguished lawyer, in Boston, 
where he fitted for the bar. He was admitted to 
practice on the 24th of .Vpril, 1876. With the ex- 
ception of a short time in Haverhill soon after his 
admission, he has practised in Boston. He has 
not followed any special line of business, but has 
had a general and responsible practice. Although 
giving close attention to his professional work, he 
keeps abreast of all public political questions, in 
which he is greatly interested, and has shown 
aptitude in advising and directing political move- 
ments. }Ie was elected to the Legislature from 
Haverhill in 1881-82 and 1882-83, as a Repub- 
lican, and served on the committees on education, 
.Slate Library, and railroads, on the special com- 
mittee for the investigation of the veto of the 
I'nion Safety Deposit Vaults bill by Governor 
I Sutler, and as house chairman on the removal of 
Joseph M. Day, judge of probate and insolvency 
of Barnstable County. Mr. Hill is now in politics 
a Democrat, believing in tariff reform and a per- 
manent civil service. He is a member of the 
University Club of Boston, of the Jamaica Club of 
Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury District, and of the 
Voung Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts. 
For several years he has been an active member 
of the First Corps of Cadets, Boston, in which he 
takes great interest. Mr. Hill was married June 
10, 1880, to Miss Lizzie W. Briggs, of Cambridge. 
They have two children : Walter Newell, born 
September 29, 1881, and Doris Hill, born August 
31, 1S87. 

HILL, Henry Bozvol, long identified with 
East Boston interests, is a native of Salem, born 
November 16, 1823, son of Benjamin and Anstiss 
Pearce (Lane) Hill. His ancestors on both sides 
were English, the Hills coming: to America in 
1727. His father, grandfather, and great-grand- 
father were all ship-masters. He was educated 
in the common schools in Salem. At the age of 
fifteen he made a voyage in the brig " Chili," 
Captain Frederick G. Ward, father of General 
\\'ard of Chinese fame, and upon his return 
learned the cooper's trade in the same building in 
which many years before the great Salem mer- 
chant, William Gray, as a boy, began his mercan- 
tile career. He began business for himself in a 
small way in Salem, but in 1848 moved to East 



Boston, where he has resided since, with the 
exception of eighteen months spent in Cuba. 
While in Cuba, he was offered the position of 





1 



HENRY B. HILL. 

commercial agent, but declined it. as he did not 
intend to remain on the island. In 1853, soon 
after his return from Cuba, he became connected 
in business with John K. Carlton, and later 
founded the firm of Hill & Wright, which thirty 
years afterward became the New England Steam 
Cooperage Company, with Mr. Hill as president. 
He has also been president and director of other 
corporations, was one of the founders of the 
First Ward National Bank, for some time one of 
its directors, and was one of the early presidents 
of the East Boston Trade Association. He has 
served several terms in the Legislature, three 
years in the House of Representatives (1872-73- 
76) and two years in the Senate (1877-78), his 
first term a member of the committee on State 
House, his second chairman of the committee on 
printing, his third chairman of the committee on 
claims ; his first in the Senate, again chairman 
of the committee on claims and member of that 
on harbors, and his second in the Senate chair- 
man of both of these committees. Two years' ex- 
perience on the committee on claims caused him 
to put an order into the Senate requesting the 



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committee of the judiciary to consider the expedi- 
ency of estabHshing some tribunal other than a 
legislative committee before which claims against 
the Commonwealth could be adjusted. Owing to 
the pressure of business, the committee made no 
report, although they gave him a hearing ; but 
Governor Talbot, in his message of 1879, recom- 
mended a change, and, acting on the message, 
the Legislature then passed the act giving the Su- 
perior Court jurisdiction of such claims. Accord- 
ingly, the legislative committee on claims has now 
become a thing of the past. When the subject of 
establishing a municipal court in East Boston 
first came before the Legislature, in 1873, Mr. 
Hill took great interest in it; and, although the 
project was then defeated, it was subsequently 
again brought forward, when all the evidence on 
which the committee on the judiciary acted in re- 
porting it was collected and presented by him, 
and it successfully passed. When he was elected 
to the Legislature, he intended to do his whole 
duty as he understood it, which, he believed, in- 
cluded his presence every second of every session. 
In this respect his record was remarkable. With 
two exceptions, — one occasion in 1873, when he 
was absent a short time on a duty of importance 
to his constituents, and the otiier in 1878, wlien 
he was summoned to court as a witness, and was 
absent an hour or two, — he never lost a minute. 
He was in the House or Senate when they were 
called to order, and remained until adjournment 
was reached. In politics he was an early Repub- 
lican, one of the first to become a member of that 
party on its birth ; but, believing that " loyalty is 
due to the country and its best niterests rather 
than to party," he is now an Independent. He 
was a warm friend of the late Rev. Warren H. 
Cudworth, long pastor of the "Church of Our 
Father" in East Boston (Unitarian), and was for 
many )'ears teacher and superintendent in the 
Sunday-school, taking charge of the school as su- 
perintendent in Mr. Cudworth's absence during 
his journey around the world and at his death ; 
and he is now honorary superintendent of the 
school. He was also for many years moderator 
of the church society, and held other positions 
there. He is at present (1894) a councillor of 
the American Institute of Civics, a director and 
vice-president of the Massachusetts Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and di- 
rector and vice-president also of the American 
Humane Education Society. He practically re- 



tired from active business in 1888; but he still 
retains an interest in business matters, being a 
member of the board of directors of the Standard 
Stave and Cooperage Company and a trustee of 
the East Boston Savings Bank. He was married 
on January i, 1846, to Miss Mary Louise Saul, 
daughter of Captain John and Martha (Foye) 
Saul. They have had three children: Henrietta 
Louise, John Henry (who died in childhood), and 
Benjamin Dudley Hill. 




C. D. HOLMES. 

HOLMES, Charles Denison, of Boston, man- 
ager for Massachusetts of the Covenant Mutual 
Benefit Association of Illinois, is a native of Ver- 
mont, born in Derby, July 15, 1849, only living 
son of Orange Simon and Laura (McGaffee) 
Holmes. He is a descendant of Jeremiah Holmes, 
an officer in the Revolution, also of Colonel 
George Denison and Major-General Daniel Deni- 
son, of English landed nobility. He was educated 
in the common schools, and at Stanstead Academy 
in the Province of Quebec, Canada. His first ex- 
perience in business was with his uncle, George 
R. Holmes, and his father, in a general country 
store, which he entered at the age of fourteen. 
1 )uring the period of his service here he fre- 
quently came to Boston with his uncle to buy 



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goods, and his ambition was to make this city his 
future home. After his uncle died he became in- 
terested in life insurance, and, devotins; himself 
earnestly to this business, was soon prominent 
and successful. He settled in lioston in icScS4, 
making this city his headquarters for a variety of 
efficient work, finally becoming the manager for 
Massachusetts of the Covenant Mutual Benefit 
Association of Illinois, one of the oldest, largest, 
and most successfid natural premium companies 
in the country. In the year 1893 he accomplished 
for Ills company, as the records show, the greatest 
amount of business of any in the State. Mr. 
Holmes was married by Rev. Krooke Herford, 
August 28, 1889, to Miss Carrie Addie Smith, com- 
poser of music, one of her songs, "The Prophet," 
being of twenty years' standing. Mrs. Holmes is 
a native of Boston, and descendant of the families 
of Sir Montague and Sir Montacute of England. 
They reside at the Charlesgate. 



HOPEWELL, John, Jk., treasurer of Sanford 
Mills, with offices in Boston, New York, and Chi- 
cago, and mills at Sanford, Me., is a native of 
Greenfield, born February 2, 1845, son of John 
and Catherine Hopewell. When he was a year 
old, his parents moved to Shelburne Falls ; and 
there his early education was attained. He at- 
tended the public schools till he was fourteen, 
when he went into the establishment of Lamson, 
(loodwin, & Co., to learn the cutlery trade. A 
part of the time while here he attended night 
school at the academy. Subsequently he studied 
sometime in a private school. In 1861 he went 
to Springfield. During the Civil War he was em- 
ployed in the United States Armory there, being 
dropped at the close of the war in accordance with 
an order directing the discharge of all single men. 
Attending night school while at the armory, he 
mastered book-keeping, and then secured a posi- 
tion as an accountant ; but this was not to his liking, 
and he soon relinquished it to engage in a more 
active occupation. For a while he carried on a 
publishing business in Albany, N.Y. Next, as a 
new venture, he engaged in the sale of the prod- 
ucts of L. C. Chase &: Co., manufacturers of 
plushes, robes, and blankets, for Josiah Cum- 
mings, of Springfield. Subsequently he handled 
the Chases' goods on the road, and then in i868 
came to Boston as their representative. At that 
time tlic\- had. in partnership with Thomas Cood- 



all, just erected the Sanford Mills at Sanford, Me. 
After Mr. Hopewell's connection with the concern 
the business rapidly increased; and in 1888 he 
succeeded the Chases, becoming head of the 
house of L. C (^hase iV Co. and treasurer of San- 
ford Mills. Though much interested in public 
matters and often urged to accept political office, 
he took no active part in political aft'airs until 
1887. In 1889 he was elected president of the 
Cambridge Republican Club, which office he held 
until he went abroad in 1892. In 1891 he was 




JOHN HOPEWELL, Jr. 

elected to the Legislature, and in the spring of 
1892 was repeatedly solicited to stand as a candi- 
date for Congress as a representative business 
man ; but, owing to ill-health following a severe 
attack of the grip, he declined the use of his name 
for any public office, and, going abroad, spent a 
year in Europe. Politically he is an ardent Re- 
publican and Protectionist, and has been a direc- 
tor of the Home Market Club since its organiza- 
tion. Through his efforts in 1888 the statutes 
were so changed that old established houses can 
continue the old firm name with special partners, 
with the consent of retiring partners, — a much 
needed reform in this State. He is a director of 
the North National Bank of Boston, and of sev- 
eral other corporations. Of late years he has been 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



largely engaged, in connection with his brothers 
Frank and Alfred, under the firm name of Hope- 
well Brothers, in raising Guernsey cattle on their 
Maple Ranch Stock Farm at Natick. They im- 
ported direct from Guernsey a valuable herd, 
carefully selected with the aid of an expert, for 
their butter-producing qualities ; and they have 
supplied some of the finest farms in the country 
with high-grade stock, among them that of ex- 
Vice-President Morton on the Hudson. Mr. 
Hopewell is a member of the Boston Merchants' 
Association (a director in 1892), of the Colonial, 
Cambridge, and Union clubs of Cambridge, 
and of the Boston Art Club. In .\pril. 1S94, 
his father and mother celebrated their golden 
wedding at his home in Cambridge, upon which 
occasion there were gathered at the anniversary 
dinner the three sons of the venerable couple, 
with their wives, and seven grandchildren. Mr. 
Hopewell was married in 1870 to Miss Sarah \\'. 
Blake, daughter of Charles and Betsey (Pease) 
Blake, of Springfield ; and his family now con- 
sists of three boys and two girls. Mrs. Hope- 
well's great-grandfather was in the Revolutionary 
war, and her grandfather in the War of 1812. 



HORR, Rev. Georce Edwin, Jr., of Boston, 
editor-in-chief of the Watchman, was born in Bos- 
ton, January 19, 1856, son of George E. and Elsie 
Matilda (Ellis) Horr. His father, the son of the 
late Luther Horr, of Wellesley, is a clergyman 
who has held several prominent pastorates in the 
Baptist Church. He was educated at the Newark 
(N.J.) public High School and at Brown Univer- 
sity, where he graduated in the class of 1876, and 
received his theological training at the Union 
Theological Seminary, New York City, 1S76-77, 
and at the Newton Theological Institution, gradu- 
ating therefrom in the class of 1879. His first 
settlement was at Tarrytown, N.Y., as pastor of 
the First Baptist Church, his service here cover- 
ing four and a half years, from October, 1879, to 
April, 1884. Then he became pastor of the 
First Baptist Church in the Charlestown District 
of Boston, where he remained till the summer of 
1 89 1 (from April, 1884, to July, 1891), resigning 
to take the chief editorship of the Watchman. A 
few months later he purchased a controlling inter- 
est in the paper. Before assuming the editorial 
chair (June, 1891), he had done much work for 
denominational papers, both as correspondent and 



as assistant editor. While pastor of the church 
at Tarrytown, he wrote editorially for the Chris- 
tian at Jl'arh, and subsequently for two years was 
a correspondent of the New York Examiner. He 
also served the Watchman as correspondent seven 
years, and as associate editor two and a lialf 
years. While in charge of the parish at Charles- 
town, in addition to his work on the Watchman, 
he contributed to the Baptist Quarterly and the 
Chicago Standard, and wrote a " History of the 
Baptists " and several monographs on historical 
and theological subjects. He has been for five 




GEO. E. HORR. Jr. 

years on the board of examiners of Newton The- 
ological Institution, and is one of its trustees. 
He is also a director of the Massachusetts Bap- 
tist Education Society. He was married March 
16, 1886, to (Mrs.) Evelyn Sacchi, daughter of 
the late Charles ( )lmsted, of Tarrytown, N.Y. 
They have no children. Their home is at Brook- 
line. 



HOWE, El.mer P.^rker, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Westborough, born Novem- 
ber I, 185 1, son of Archelaus M. and H. Janette 
(Brigham) Howe. His education was acquired 
in the Worcester public schools, in tlie Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute from which he graduated in 



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145 



187 1, and at Yale College, graduating therefrom 
in the class of 1876. He studied law in Uoston 
with Hillard, Hyde, & Dickinson, and for one 




ELMER P. HOWE. 

year attended lectures at the law school of 
Boston University. In 1878 he was admitted to 
the bar at Worcester. In January following he 
became a member of the firm of Hillard, Hyde, 
& Dickinson, the firm name becoming Hyde, 
Dickinson, & Howe, after the death of George S. 
Hillard early in 1879. This partnership contin- 
ued until 1889, when it was dissolved by mutual 
consent. Mr. Howe has made a specialty of 
patent and corporation law. He is a member 
of the Union, University, and Country clubs of 
Boston. In politics he is an Independent Re- 
publican. He is unmarried. 



HOWLANl), Wii.LARD, member of the Suffolk 
bar, was born in Pembroke, December 3, 1852, 
son of Jairus and Deborah L. (Fish) Howland. 
He is of the original Howland family of the " May- 
flower" stock, descending from John Howland, 
settled with the earliest in Plymouth. His edu- 
cation was acquired in the public schools of 
Kingston and Woburn, the family moving to the 



school, he spent some years in active business life 
before beginning the study of law. When at 
length able to pursue legal studies, he entered 
the Boston University Law School, and further 
perfected himself by reading in the office of 
Josiah W. Hubbard. Admitted to the bar in 
November, 1878, he began active practice in Bos- 
ton, where he has been established since, occupy- 
ing from the start offices at No. 23 Court Street. 
In politics he is Republican, and early became 
prominent in his party in the State, taking in 
each campaign an influential part and speaking 
on the stump. In 1889-90 he was a member of 
the lower house of the Legislature for the Twenty- 
seventh Suffolk District, where he ranked with 
the leaders. During his first term he was a mem- 
ber of the committee on the judiciary, and the 
second year served again on this committee, and 
was chairman of the committees on street rail- 
ways. He introduced the first bill which became 
a law to allow cities and towns to manufacture 
and sell gas. He has occupied the office of 
judge advocate for the State, in the military order 
of Sons of Veterans, and holds official position in 




WILLARD HOWLAND. 



several secret and benevolent societies. He is a 
mendjer also of the local clubs of Chelsea, where 



latter place when he was a child. After leaving he resides, a vice-president of the Middlesex (po- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



litical diningj Club, and a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Young Men's Republican Club. He was 
married in 1873 to Miss Lottie A. S. Barry, of 
Boston. They have two children : Fred C. (born 
in 1876) and Lizzie A. Rowland (born in 1880). 



HUNT, Freeman, member of the Suffolk and 
Middlese.x bars, is a native of Brooklyn, N.V., 
born September 4, 1855, son of Freeman and 
Elizabeth T. (Parmenter) Hunt. His father was 
the founder and editor of Hiiiif s Mcirhants' Afair- 




FREEMAN HUNT. 



tinned till the close of 1886, when he became as- 
sociated with Charles J. Mclntire, now judge of 
the Probate Court of Middlesex County, the part- 
nership still holding, Mr. Hunt taking charge of 
all the active work. He has been connected with 
a number of important cases involving novel 
points, among them that of the City of Cambridge 
V. The Railroad Commissioners in writ of certio- 
rari, where the commissioners attempted to enforce 
upon the city an overhead crossing at the P'ront 
Street crossing, Cambridge ; and that of the Bos- 
ton & Albany Railroad v. The City of Cambridge, 
where he raised the point that the making a rail- 
road pay for cattle-guards, gates, and other addi- 
tional safeguards when a new crossing was laid 
over the railroad was not such damage as the 
railroad could recover against the city or town 
laying the new crossing, as it was not a taking 
by eminent domain. He has also been prominent 
in the litigation against the Iron Hall, and drafted 
the bill in equity which wound up the order. He 
has served several terms on the School Commit- 
tee of Cambridge (1883-87), and one term in the 
Cambridge Common Council (1888), and in 1890 
he was a member of the State Senate. In the 
latter body he served on the committees on the 
judiciary, elections, contested election cases, and 
bills in the third reading (chairman); and he was 
principally instrumental in getting the Harvard 
bridge project through. He held the seat in the 
Senate which his uncle, the late 1 )r. Ezra Par- 
menter, of Cambridge, and his grandfather had 
occupied before him. Mr. Hunt was married 
on June 8, 1887, in Cambridge, to Miss Abbie 
Brooks, daughter of Sumner J. Brooks. They 
have one child : Edith Brooks Hunt. 



irzi/ic, and his mother was a daughter of the Hon. 
William Parmenter, of Cambridge (son of Ezra 
Parmenter), who represented the Cambridge Dis- 
trict in Congress for four terms, and sister of the 
Hon. W. E. Parmenter, present chief justice of 
the municipal court of Boston. He was edu- 
cated in the Cambridge public schools and at 
Harvard, graduating from the latter in the class 
of 1877. His law studies were pursued in the 
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 

188 1, and in the Boston office of the Hon. George 
S. Hale ; and he was admitted to the bar in 

1882. He began practice in partnership with 
H. Eugene Bowles, but was soon after in associa- 
tion with William C. Tarbell, which relation con- 



HUNTRESS, George Lewi.s, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Lowell, born April 4, 
1848, son of James Lewis and Harriett Stinson 
(Paige) Huntress. He is descended on the pa- 
ternal side from the Huntress and Chesley fami- 
lies of New Hampshire, and on the maternal from 
the Stinson, Stark, and Paige families, also of 
New Hampshire. His early education was at- 
tained in the public schools, and he was fitted for 
college at Phillips (Andover) Academy. Entering 
Yale, he graduated therefrom in the class of 1870 
with honors. He began his law studies in the 
Harvard Law School in 187 1, and subsequently 
read in the Boston law office of Stephen B. Ives, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



14; 



Jr., and Solomon Lincoln, .\dinilted to the Suf- 
folk bur in May, 1872, he joined Messrs. Ives & 

Lincoln, and in 1876 was admitted to partnership, 




GEO. L. HUNTRESS. 

the firm name becoming Ives, Lincoln, \: Hun- 
tress. This relation continued till 18S1, since 
which time he has practised alone. In politics 
he is Republican, and in 1881-82 was an influ- 
ential member of the Hoston Common Council, on 
the Republican side, representing Ward Eleven. 
His present residence is in Winchester. He was 
married September 30, 1875, to Miss Julia .\. 
Poole, of Metuchen, N.J. They have two chil- 
dren : Harold Poole and George L. Huntress, Jr. 



JOHNSON, Bexj.amix Xkwhai.i,, member of 
the Suffolk bar, is a native of Lynn, born June 19, 
1856, son of Rufus and Ellen M. (Xewhall) John- 
son. He is a descendant of Richard Johnson, 
one of the earliest settlers in Lynn, and on the 
maternal side of Thomas Newhall, the first white 
child born in Lynn. His maternal grandfather, 
Benjamin E. Newhall, was for years prominent in 
Esse.x County as county commissioner and other- 
wise. He spent his early boyhood in the town of 
Saugus, was fitted for college in Chauncy Hal! 
School, Boston, and at Phillips (E.xeter) .Vcademy, 



and graduated from Harvard in the class of 187S. 
Subsecjuently he took the full course at the Law 
School of Boston University, and read two years 
in the office of the late eminent lawyer, Stephen 
B. Ives. Admitted to the bar on the 3i.st of 
March, 1880, he opened an office in Boston, where 
he has since continued, engaged in a considerable 
and increasing general practice. His aims and 
ambitions being mostly in the line of his profes- 
sion, the work of which he has followed closely, 
he has held no public office except that of mem- 
licr of the School Committee of Lynn for three 
terms (1890-93). In politics he has always been 
a Republican. He is a member of the University 
and Exchange clubs of Boston, and of the Oxford 
and Park clubs of Lynn. He was president of 
the Oxford, the largest social club in Lynn, in 
1890-93, the years of his service on tlie School 




BENJAMIN N. JOHNSON. 

Board. Mr. Johnson was married June 15, 1881, 
to Miss Ida M. Oliver, of Saugus. They have 
two children : Romilly and Marian Johnson. 



J(WES, LEON.-\Rr) Auia'siLs. member of the 
Sufl'olk bar since 1858, one of the editors of the 
Amcr'u-ait Law Review since 1884, and author of 
a number of important legal works, is a native of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Teinpleton, born January 13, 1832, son of Au- 
gustus Appleton and Mary (Partridge) Jones. 
He is of the seventh generation in descent from 
his earliest ancestor in this country, who came 
from England, and settled in Roxbury about 1640. 
His great-grandfather was one of the original 
proprietors and earliest settlers of Templeton. 
His mother's family was formerly of Walpole and 
Medfield. In the last-named town the earliest of 
the family in America settled about 1650. He 
was educated at the Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
and at Harvard College, graduating from the 




LEONARD A. JONES. 

latter in the class of 1855. In his senior year at 
Harvard he was awarded the prize for the best 
Bowdoin dissertation. Directly after graduation 
he obtained the position of teacher of the classics 
in the High School of St. Louis, Mo. There he 
remained until the summer of 1856, when, after 
declining an appointment as tutor in Washington 
University, he returned to Massachusetts, and 
entered the Harvard Law School. While here, he 
obtained the prize open to resident graduates of 
the university, and a law school prize for an essay. 
Graduating in 1858, he continued his law studies 
for a few months in the Boston law office of 
C. W. Loring, and then was admitted to the bar. 
He began the practice of his profession by him- 



self, occupying an office at No. 5 Court Street 
with Wilder Dwight. Shortly after he moved to 
No. 4, the same street, sharing an office with 
George Putnam. In 1866 he formed a partner- 
ship with his classmate, Edwin Hale Abbot, 
which a year or two later was joined by John 
Lathrop, now Judge Lathrop of the Supreme 
Court of the Commonwealth, the firm name be- 
coming Lathrop, Abbot, & Jones. After an ex- 
istence of several years this firm was dissolved, 
and since 1876 Mr. Jones has practised alone. 
His literary work began early in his career with 
contributions to the literary periodicals, among 
them the Atlaiilii Moiif/ih-, the A'orth Amciiian 
Review, and the Old niid Nnv, — the magazine 
which Edward Everett Hale founded in i86g, 
and conducted for some years. Subsequentlv he 
became a frequent contributor to the law periodi- 
cals. His legal publications in book form in- 
clude " Mortgage of Real Property " (two volumes, 
editions 1878, 1879, 1882, 1889, 1894), "Mort- 
gages of Personal Property" (1881, 1883, 1888, 
1894), "Corporate Bonds and Mortgages" (1879, 
i8go), " Pledges including Collateral Securities " 
(1883), " Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equi- 
table, and Maritime" (two volumes, 1888, 1894), 
"Forms in Conveyancing" (1886, 1891, 1892, 
1894), and •• Index to Legal Periodical Literature" 
( 1 888 ). These works are used everywhere in Amer- 
ica, and many of these have passed through several 
revised editions. In 1891 Mr. Jones was appointed 
by Governor Russell commissioner for Massachu- 
setts for the promotion of uniformity of legislation 
in the United States. He was married December 
14, 1867, to Miss Josephine Lee, daughter of Colo- 
nel A. Lee, of Templeton. Thev have no children 
living. 



KEELER, CoRXELius Peaslev, merchant, Bos- 
ton, head of the furniture house of Keeler & Co., 
is a native of Vermont, born in Hyde Park, Sep- 
tember 20, 1825, son of Anson and Mary Keeler. 
He was educated in the public schools. At the 
age of eighteen he was in business, engaged in 
buying furs in Canada, which he shipped to Bos- 
ton, and for some time was one of the largest sup- 
pliers to the old fur house of Martin L. Bates & 
Co. At the age of twenty-one, he went into the 
retail dry goods and grocery business with his 
brother. Colonel N. P. Keeler. They did the 
buying of butter and cheese for the large house 
of Delano & Co., of Boston, and also the buying 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



'49 



of hops lor l!t;unclt. 'I'his kept him busy till K ITTRED(}K, Charles Franklin, nic-mhcr 

1852, when he sold out. The next year he came of the Suffolk bar, is a native of New Hampshire, 
to Boston, and entered the hotel business, takinji born in Mount Vernon, February 24, 1841, son of 

Franklin Otis and Mary Ann (Button) Kittredge. 
He is of English descent, from the Kittredges of 
Suffolk County, England, the first of the family 
coming to this country in 1632. A long line of 
his ancestors on the paternal side were physi- 
cians, but his father was a merchant. His early 
training was in the common schools and at Apple- 
ton Academy in his native town, where he was 
fitted for college ; and, entering Dartmouth in 
1859, he graduated therefrom with the class of 
1863. During his college course and a part of 
the time at the academy he taught school. From 
August, 1863, the year of his graduation, to 
.August, 1864, he was in the ordnance bureau of the 
War Department in Washington, and at the same 
time served in the regiment of the War Depart- 
ment Rifles as a private. Then, returning East in 
October, 1864, he began his law studies in the 
office of the Hon. John T. Healy, corporation 
counsel (or city solicitor, as the office was then 
known) of Boston. Three vears later, in October, 




C. P. KEELER. 



what was then the Massachusetts House, a well- 
known resort for Vermonters, and terminus of the 
Concord, N.H., stage line, which he carried on 
successfully till i85o, when he started a w-holesale 
grocery and wine business in Blackstone Street. 
In 1872, after closing out the latter business, he 
became a trustee for the Geldowsky Furniture 
Company, and eleven years later purchased the 
entire plant and business, which has since been 
widely known to New Englanders under the firm 
name of Keeler & Co. This concern was the first 
one in America to ship hard wood furniture to 
Great Britain in large quantities. Mr. Keeler has 
always taken a hearty interest in sports ; has been 
a well-known shot; and between 1855 and 1870 
raised and was interested in several of America's 
finest trotters. He is a member of the Suffolk 
Club of Boston. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He was married July 1 1, 1848, to Miss Lucy Jane 
Nye, daughter of Judge George Nye, of Irasburg, 
Vt. She died in 1876. Of their children, two 
daughters died in early youth, and one son is liv- 
ing. Colonel George A. Keeler, the present pro- 
prietor of the American House, Boston. 




CHARLES F. KITTREDGE. 



1867, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
has practised in Boston ever since. I 

1868, he was made second assistant city 



, and he 
n .\pril, 
solicitor 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in the law department of the city of lioston, and 
was soon promoted to first assistant, in which posi- 
tion he continued liy yearly reappointment eleven 
years. Early in his professional career he was 
engaged in the trial of important causes involving 
questions of taxation, public betterments, land 
damages, and municipal powers, rights, and duties ; 
and since his retirement from the law department 
of the city, in pursuing a general practice, he has 
given special attention to municipal, banking, and 
other branches of law. Just previous to his ad- 
mission to the bar, when holding his legal resi- 
dence in New Hampshire, he served a term in the 
Legislature there, being elected to the House of 
Representatives from Mount Vernon in March, 
1867 ; and from June to October, that year, when 
he removed to Boston, he was on the military 
staff of Governor Walter Harriman as aide-de- 
camp with rank of colonel. In national and State 
politics he is Republican, and non-partisan in 
municipal politics. He is interested in all ques- 
tions affecting public improvements, as a citizen 
and an owner of real estate in Boston. He is not 
a club man, and belongs to few societies. He 
was married September 24, 1872, in Groton, to 
Miss Adelaide L. Lee, daughter of George Hunt- 
ington and Mary J. (King) Lee. They have four 
children : INLabel Lee, Florence Parmenter, Louise 
Pierce, and Charles Lee Kittredge. 



LINCOLN, Joseph B.ates, of Boston, sole 
proprietor of the shoe jobbing house of Batch- 
elder & Lincoln, was born in North Cohasset, 
July 3, 1836, son of Ephraim and Betsey (Bates) 
Lincoln. He was reared on a farm, and educated 
in the public schools, graduating from the Cohas- 
set High School at the age of seventeen. After 
leaving school, he spent three months at Comer's 
Commercial College in Boston, and then began 
his business career as a clerk in a Boston retail 
boot and shoe store. After a few years here he 
entered the employ of A. Esterbrook, also a retail 
shoe dealer, on Merchants' Row, and in 1S59, 
forming a partnership with George C. Richards, 
under the firm name of Richards & Lincoln, ac- 
quired Mr. Esterbrook's business. About three 
years later he purchased his partner's interest, 
and conducted the business alone till 1866, when 
he formed a copartnership with George A. Mans- 
field and Edward E. Batchelder, under the name 
of George A. Mansfield & Co., and entered the 



shoe jobbing trade. In 1869, Mr. Mansfield re- 
tiring, the firm name was changed to the present 
style of Batchelder & Lincoln. Messrs. Batch- 
elder and Lincoln continued together till the 
death of the former, in 1878, when his interest 
was purchased from the heirs by Mr. Lincoln. 
Since that time Mr. Lincoln has been the sole 
proprietor and manager of the business, which has 
grown to great proportions, e.xtending to all parts 
of the country. Until 1874 the house was es- 
tablished in Faneuil Hall Square. That year 
removal was made to the present quarters on 
Federal Street, where six floors of one large build- 
ing and two of an adjoining building are occu- 
pied, and a force of nearly one hundred and fifty 
persons is employed. Mr. Lincoln was one of 
the earliest to adopt in the conduct of his busi- 
ness the principle known among shoe jobbers as 
the New England method, and his house has long 
been recognized as a distinctive New England 
house. He personally supervises the several de- 
partments of the business, which are thoroughly 
systematized, and follows every detail. He has 
few outside interests, the only one of magnitude 




J. B. LINCOLN. 



being the Dennison Land and Investment Com- 
pany, of which he has been a director since its 
organization. In politics he has always been a 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



15' 



Democrat, but lins been reluctant to enter public 
life. In 189 1, however, upon the urgent solicita- 
tion of his friends, he accepted the Democratic 
nomination for representative in the Legislature 
for the Fourth Plymouth District, a strong Re- 
publican quarter. Although defeated, he received 
a flattering vote ; and, renominated the next year, 
he was elected, the first Democrat ever sent to 
the house from this district. In the Legislature 
lie served on the important committee on mercan- 
tile affairs. He was one of the founders of the 
Boot and Shoe Club of IJoston, and since its or- 
ganization has served as chairman of the execu- 
tive committee, declining the position of president 
of the club. He is a past president and now 
vice-president of the Narragansett Boot and Shoe 
Club, and is a member of the executive board of 
the New England Shoe and Leather Association. 



time, and is now its president ; and he has been 
most influential in securing legislation in Massa- 
chusetts favorable to natural premium insiuance. 



LITCHFIELD, George Allen, one of the 
founders of the Massachusetts Benefit Life Asso- 
ciation, is a native of Scituate, born August 21, 
1838, son of Richard and Xoa (Clapp) Litchfield. 
His early education was attained in the local pub- 
lic schools, and he was fitted for college in the 
Hanover Academy. He entered Brown Univer- 
sity, but through stress of circumstances was able 
to complete but part of the college course. Upon 
leaving college, he studied for the ministry, and in 
1861 began regular preaching, settled as pastor 
over the Baptist church in Winchendon. Here 
he remained for five years; and then, on account 
of ill health, he was obliged to relinquish his pro- 
fessional work. Subsequently, turning his atten- 
tion to the insurance business, he successfully en- 
gaged in the conduct of a large life insurance 
agency for Western Massachusetts. Then from 
1874 to 1879 he was engaged in the tack and nail 
manufacture under the firm name of Brigham, 
Litchfield &: \'ining, having purchased a half-in- 
terest in the manufactory in South Abington, es- 
tablished by Brigham, Whitman, & Co. Again 
interesting himself in insurance matters, in the 
autumn of 1879 he joined in the organization of 
the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, the 
leading company in New England engaged in the 
natural premium insurance business, having on its 
books the names of thousands of business men in 
Boston and other great cities in the country. He 
has continued in the active management of this 
company from its establishment to the present 



«;^ 




GEORGE A. LITCHFIELD. 

He is also a director of the Lincoln National 
Bank of Boston. During his residence in Win- 
chendon he was chairman of the school board ; 
and in Quincy, where he now resides, he was 
for some time chairman of the Republican city 
committee, and has occupied various other offices. 
Mr. Litchfield was married November 21, 1861, 
in South Abington, to Miss Sarah M. Gurney, 
daughter of David and Eliza (Blanchard) Gurney. 
They have three children : Cannie Zetta, Everett 
Starr, and Frederick Ellsworth Litchfield. 



LIVERMORE, Joseph Perkins, of Boston, 
patent solicitor and expert in patent cases, is a 
native of Clinton, born F'ebruary 19, 1855, son 
of Leonard Jarvis and Mary Ann Catherine (Per- 
kins) Livermore. He is a descendant of Jonathan 
Livermore, of Wilton, N.H., who lived in the 
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (born 1700, 
died 1801); and on the maternal side, descend- 
ant in the third generation, of Joseph Perkins, of 
Essex, Mass. His father, paternal grandfather, 
and great-grandfather were all graduates of Har- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



vard College, — the father in 1S42, the grand- 
father in 1802, and the great-grandfather in 1760. 
He also graduated from Harvard, in the class 




Goodyear Shoe Machinery C'ompan)', General 
Electric Company, Municipal Signal Company, 
and Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company. 
In politics Mr. Livermore is classed as a " Demo- 
cratic Mugwump." He is a member of the New- 
England Tariff Reform League, of the Massachu- 
setts Reform Club, and of the University, Ath- 
letic, and Colonial (Cambridge) clubs. He was 
married in 1880, and has three children. 



LOWELL, John, Jr., member of the Suffolk 
bar, eldest son of John and Lucy B. Lowell [see 
Lowell, John], was born in Boston, May 23, 1856. 
He was fitted for college at William N. Eayr's 
private school, and was graduated from Harvard 
in the class of 1877. His law studies were pur- 
sued at the Harvard Law School two years, and 
afterward in the Boston offices of Thornton K. 
Lothrop and Robert R. Bishop, now a justice of 
the Superior Court of Massachusetts; and he was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar in the spring of 1880. 
He practised alone until 1884. when he went into 
partnership with his father, the Hon. John Lowell. 
For upwards of ten years he has had a large ac- 



JOSEPH P. LIVERMORE. 

of 1875. His early education was acquired in 
the primary and grammar schools of Lexington 
(1860-67) and the High School of Cambridge 
(1867-71), where he was fitted for college. After 
graduation from college he entered the Lawrence 
Scientific School, and graduated as civil engineer 
in 1877. He was employed a few months that 
year, without pay, on the Newton Water-works : 
then during the autumn and winter of 1877-78 
he taught in the Lexington High School ; in 
November and December, 1878, he was in the ex- 
amining corps in the United States Patent Office 
at Washington ; and on the first of January the 
following year he entered the office of Crosby & 
Gregory, Boston, and began practice as a patent 
solicitor. Here he remained until 1885, when 
on the first of March he opened an office of his 
own. Since that time he has been largely em- 
ployed as an expert witness in patent cases. He 
has acted in that capacity in litigation of the 
McKay &: Copeland Lasting Machine Company, 
of the Simonds Counter Machinery Company, 
the Reece Button-hole Machine Company, the 
Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, 




JOHN LOWELL. Jr. 



tive practice in the courts and in connection 
witli business corporations and firms. In politics 
he is an Independent. He is a member of the 



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ITnioii and Tavern clubs of Boston. Mr. Lowell 
was married October 24, 1883, to Miss Mary 
I'liiliii Hale, of Philadelphia. 'I'hey have four 
children : Mary P^nilen, John, Ralph, and James 
Hale Lowell. 



McCLINTOCK, William Edward, Boston, 
civil engineer, who has been engaged in numer- 
ous important engineering works, is a native of 
Maine. He was born in Hallowell, July 29, 1848, 
son of Captain John and Mary liailey (Shaw) 
iMcClintock. On his father's side he is of .Scotch- 
Irish ancestry, his ancestor William McClintock, 
one of the defenders in the memorable siege of 
Londonderry. i68g, coming to this country from 
Londonderry in 1730, and settling in Medford, 
Mass. ; and on his mother's side he is descendant 
of that early Puritan divine, the Rev. John 
Bailey. He inherited his taste for engineering 
from both his father's and mother's family. His 
father was a well-known navigator, familiar with 
every ocean, who crossed the Pacific with a school 
atlas for a chart and a watch for chronometer. 
His grandfather, William .McClintock, after re- 
tiring from the sea, was an e.\pert land surveyor ; 
and some fine samples of his work are now on 
file in the State archives. William K. McClin- 
tock's early education was acquired in the Hallo- 
well graded schools. Afterward he took a four 
years' course at the Hallowell Academy, and 
spent one year at Kent's Hill Seminary. He was 
trained for his profession in office and field work, 
and received instruction under a private tutor. 
While a student, he taught a district school 
for one term. His first field work, as civil engi- 
neer, was with the I'nited States Coast Survey, 
with which department he was engaged, from 
1867 to 1876, on work in Maine, Massachusetts, 
New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In 
1876-79 he was employed in the survey of the 
city of Portland; in 1877-79, '" ^he survey of 
Boston Harbor. From 1880 to 1890 he was city 
engineer of Chelsea. His special engineering 
works have included surveys for the South Pass 
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River, 
sewer systems for Chelsea, Revere, (lardner, 
Westfield, Easthampton, Andover, and Natick, 
Bennington, Vt., Bath, i\Ie., Calais, Me., St. Ste- 
phens, N.B., and Milltown, N.B. He has also 
been in consultation on sewer or water-works with 
the city of Holyoke and tiie towns of Spencer, 



North Brookfield, North Attleborough, and sev- 
eral smaller places. He has been a member of 
the Massachusetts Highway Commission since 

1892, and was the first president of the Massachu- 
setts Highway Association. He is instructor of 
highway engineering in the Lawrence Scientific 
School, to which position he was appointed in 

1893. He is a member of the American Society 
of Civil Engineers, of the Boston .Society of Civil 
Engineers, of the League of .American Wheelmen, 
and of the Chelsea Review Club, and is con- 
nected with the Masonic order, a member of 
Robert Lash Lodge of Chelsea, where he resides. 




WILLIAM E. McCLINTOCK. 

He is associated with the Church of the Re- 
deemer, of which he was treasurer from 1889-93. 
In politics he is a Republican on national ques- 
tions, and an Independent on State and city 
issues. He was married June 17, 1873, to Miss 
Mary Estelle Currier. They have five children : 
William James, Francis Blake, Samuel, Paul, and 
Dorothv McClintock. 



^LVRDEN, Oscar Averv, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Palermo, 
Waldo County, August 20, 1853, son of Stephen 
P. and Julia A. (Avery) Marden. His earliest 



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known ancestors on the paternal side were of 
southern New Hampshire, and on the maternal 
side of Ipswich, Mass. He was educated in dis- 
trict schools, with an occasional term at the Hisrh 




OSCAR A. MARDEN. 

School, and in Westbrook Seminary. Born on 
a farm, he lived the life of a farmer's boy till 
seventeen years of age, beginning at fifteen to 
teach school in the winter months. In 187 1 and 
1872 he had charge of the English department of 
Dirigo Business College at Augusta, Me. In the 
spring of 1872 he came to Boston, and took the 
position of book-keeper for the New England 
office of the Victor Sewing Machine Company of 
Middletown, Conn. Here he remained till the au- 
tumn of 1874, when he entered the law office of 
Samuel K. Hamilton in the old Barristers' Hall, 
Court Square, as a student, and at the same time 
entered the Boston University Law School. He 
received his degree of LL.B. in June, 1876, 
and the following autumn was admitted to the 
bar. He began practice in Boston, and in 
September, 1877, removed to Stoughton, where 
he has since lived. From 1877 to i8gi he held 
a commission as trial justice there. In the latter 
year he was appointed judge of the District 
Court of Southern Norfolk, having jurisdiction 
in Stoughton, Canton, Sharon, and Avon, which 



position he still holds. In 1880 he again estab- 
lished an office in Boston. He has been a lead- 
ing member of the Norfolk County Bar Asso- 
ciation for a number of years, from 1886 to 1892 
holding the position of secretary. In Stoughton 
he was for seven years (1886-89, 92-94) a mem- 
ber of the School Committee, and he has been 
president of the Stoughton Grenadier Association 
since 1880. He is prominent in the order of 
Odd Fellows ; was grand patriarch of the Grand 
Encampment of Massachusetts in 1893, and 
president of the Encampment Deputies Associa- 
tion in 1894. He belongs to but one club, the 
Pine Tree State, composed of natives of Maine 
resident in Boston and vicinity. In politics he is 
a Democrat. Mr. Marden was married October 
19, 1882, at Stoughton, to Miss May Theresa 
Ball, daughter of Francis M. and Rosetta A. 
Ball. She died .\pril 4, 1890, leaving two chil- 
dren, one of whom, Edgar Avery Marden, only 
survives her. 



MARSHALL, Wvzeman, of Boston, player of 
the " old school," manager, dramatic reader, and 
teacher, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
the town of Hudson, September 26, 1816. When 
he was eight years old, his parents came to 
Boston ; and this city has since been his home. 
The family being poor, his schooling was meagre, 
consisting of a few years in public schools ; but 
what he lacked in regular training he more than 
made up by self-teaching and extensive reading, 
becoming a man of much culture. In his early 
youth he embarked in various pursuits, but his 
inclination was decidedly for the stage ; and in 
February, 1836, when but nineteen years of age, 
he succeeded in making a first appearance on the 
boards. This was at the Lion Theatre, Boston, 
then where Keith's Theatre now stands, and 
under the management of William Barrymore, in 
the small part of Vihulanus in " Virginius." For 
the remainder of that season he was a regular 
member of the company, playing in a variety of 
small parts. During the following summer he was 
with a company performing in Providence and 
in Newport, R.I., taking more ambitious parts, 
such as Pizzaro, Angcrstoff in " The Floating 
Beacon," and Duke of Bitikiiigham in Richard 
III.; and in the autumn he became attached to 
the stock company of the old National Theatre, 
Boston, then under the management of William 



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Pelby. Here lie rem;\ined tlirovigh a number of 
seasons, steadily advancing in iiis profession. On 
the 27tli of February, 1838, he was given his first 
benefit, appearing on this occasion as Pizzaro to 
the Elvira of Mrs. Pelby and the Cora of Mrs. 
Anderson (Ophelia Pelby); and also as Litluii 
in the ballet " L'Amour," displaying his talent 
as a dancer. During the next regular season, 
1S38-1839, he had two benefits, at the latter, 
given June 27, 1839, playing Damon with Miss 
Eaton, afterward the popular Mrs. Woodward, as 
Calanthc, her first appearance. On this occasion, 
also, Mr. Marshall's brother Otis made his first 
appearance on the stage. In the summer of 1839 
Mr. Marshall had his first experience as a man- 
ager, taking a small company through country 
towns, and doing a fair business. Again at the 
National for the season 1839-1840, he played 
numerous important parts ; and at his benefit 
that season, when he gave " Virginius," Henry 
Wallack, the eldest of the VVallack family, acted 
Dciitatns. The next summer he opened a theatre 
of his own in Boston, the •■ Vaudeville Saloon," 




WYZEMAN MARSHALL. 



in the old ISoylston Hall over P.oylston .Market, 
which then occupied the south corner of Washing- 
ton and P>oylston Streets. This also was a suc- 
cessful venture. Back to the National for 1840- 



184 1, that season was marked l)y his introduc- 
tion to the stage (on the [8th of June) of the 
tragedian James H. Stark, who afterward be- 
came celebrated, and a great favorite in San 
I'Vancisco. The following sunnner lie took an- 
other company on the road, and as before met 
with success. The next regular season, 184 1- 

1842, he was at the National, cast in the leading 
" heavies," and also the ballet-master. At the 
close of that season he brought his connection 
with this theatre to an entl. and on the 2 7lh of 
June following opened the .\mphithealre, on the 
corner of Haverhill and Travers Streets, which 
had l)een used largely for circus performances, and 
which he liad reconstructed as " Marshall's Eagle 
Theatre." He brought together here a strong 
company, with William If. Sedley Smith as stage 
manager, and gave such e-xcellent performances 
at popular prices that the house soon became a 
serious rival to its near neighbor, the National. 
Mr. Pelby of the latter thereupon conceived a 
ph\n to crush it. l^urchasing a quarter interest 
in the property, he proceeded, under cover of im- 
proving his portion of the building, to render the 
whole useless. On the night of March 22, 1843, 
immediately after the close of the performance, 
he gained the roof with a number of his car- 
penters, and cut out that part of it directly over 
the stage, removing the lumber. This high- 
handed proceeding was effectual, and the Eagle's 
career abruptly closed. But Mr. Marshall, un- 
daunted, took his company to the Providence 
Theatre, which he had leased earlier in the season, 
and opened there on the night of the 3d of April. 
At the close of the Providence season he went to 
New \'ork. where he played a short engagement 
at the Chatham Theatre, then under the manage- 
ment of Charles R. Thorne, the elder. Returning 
to Boston, he became a member of the company 
which supported Macready during his short sea- 
son here in the autumn of 1844. This ended, he 
made a starring tour in Maine and the provinces, 
covering a few months, and then returned to the 
Chatham. New York, where he became a pro- 
nounced favorite, and remained till the close of 
the season of 1847. The summer of that year 
he played '■ Damon on Horseback," a spectacular 
drama, at the Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, then 
a great amphitheatre : and star engagements in 
Utica, Syracuse, and Albany. For the regular 
season of 1847-48 he was at the Bowery Theatre, 
New York; and later in 1848 back in Boston, at 



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the Federal Street Theatre. At the close of the 
latter engagement he starred in the British 
provinces ; played a brief engagement at the 
Beach Street, Boston, then under the manage- 
ment of Joseph Proctor ; was for the next two 
regular seasons at the Arch Street, Philadelphia, 
as acting and stage manager as well as player, 
performing in Baltimore and Providence during 
the summer months ; after the close of his Phila- 
delphia engagement starred in Baltimore, \^'ash- 
ington, Albany, and New York, meeting with great 
success ; then took the Portland (Me.) Theatre 
as manager for a short season ; subsequently went 
South for a few months ; and in the autumn of 
1851 returned to Boston, and assumed the man- 
agement of the Howard Athenajum for the season 
of 1851-52. During this season he introduced 
to the Boston public Mme. Anna Thillon, the 
singer ; Mrs. .A.nna Cora Mowatt, who became a 
great favorite here and all over the country (her 
first appearance as Parthcnia to Mr. Marshall's 
Ingomar) ; Laura Addison, who had been brought 
to this country from England by Charlotte Cush- 
man ; the famous English actress, Mrs. Warner, 
with whom he played such parts as Macbeth, 
Canlitial Wolscy, Lcoiifcs : and Lola Montez. 
This season closed, he starred throughout the 
country, and played in various theatres in Bos- 
ton, up to 1857, when in February he opened 
the new theatre in Worcester, which he managed 
successfully through to October 2, closing brill- 
iantly with a performance of '• ALicbeth." The 
year before, while playing at the Boston Theatre, 
he added to his fame by his successful produc- 
tion of "Zafari," an adaptation of " Ruy Bias" by 
Dr. Joseph H. Jones, of Boston, which was the 
forerunner of Fechter's appearance years after 
as " Ruy Bias," Mr. Marshall himself playing the 
hero, Zafari. After the close of the Worcester 
season Mr. Marshall made another starring tour, 
and in the spring of 1862 again assumed the man- 
agement of the Howard Athenaeum in Boston, con- 
tinuing here through the remainder of that and the 
regular season of 1862-63. ^"^ February, 1863, 
while still conducting the Howard, he took the 
Boston Theatre, then in a bad way financially, and 
carried it through the remainder of that season, 
playing Max Maretzek's Italian Opera, with other 
attractions. His losses were heavy, but, feeling 
sure of ultimate success, he went on with the next 
regular season, devoting himself to this house ex- 
clusively ; and the result fully justified his con- 



fidence. Opening with " Henry IV.." with James 
H. Hackett as the Sir John Falsfaff and himself 
as Harry Hotspur, he followed this with a run 
of brilliant attractions, — among them the great 
Spanish dancer, Isabella Cubas, Edwin Booth, 
Maretzek's Italian Opera, Edwin Forrest, Maggie 
Mitchell, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, playing Lady 
Auiilcy for the first time here, the Hernandez 
troupe, and the Barrow combination. — and at the 
end of the season found his losses of the pre- 
liminary season covered, and a handsome balance 
of several thousand dollars in hand. The season 
closed on the 13th of June, 1S64, with a compli- 
mentary benefit to Mr. Marshall. Then he re- 
tired from the theatre, and his notable career 
as a manager terminated. Since that time he 
has been engaged mainly in teaching elocution 
and fitting pupils for the stage. For several 
years, in conjunction with Miss Lucette Webster, 
he also gave dramatic readings and recitations 
before lyceums of New England. Mr. Marshall 
is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, having 
been connected with it since 1853, a large part 
of the time holding offices of trust and responsi- 
bility. He has been master of his lodge ( St. 
John's), high priest of St. Paul's Royal Arch 
Chapter, and eminent commander of Boston Com- 
mandery, grand warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Massachusetts, deputy high priest of the Grand 
Chapter of Massachusetts, and grand generalis- 
simo of the Grand Encampment of Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island ; and he is a thirty-third degree 
in the ancient and accepted Scottish rite. In 
politics he is a Democrat. On two occasions he 
was nominated for alderman, but failed of elec- 
tion, in one contest lacking but four votes of a 
plurality. At this time he received the distinction 
of a unanimous vote of the ward in which he re- 
sides. He lives on Beacon Hill, in Pinckney 
Street, one of the older ways of the old West End 
of Boston. 



MASON, EnwARD Palmer, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano 
Company, was born in Cambridge, June 13, 1859, 
son of Henry and Helen Augusta (Palmer) 
Mason. His father built the first American cabi- 
net or parlor organ, in 1854 founded the widely 
famed house of Mason & Hamlin which intro- 
duced the cabinet organ in its present general 
form in 1861, and was the first president of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



'57 



Orijan and Piano Company, whicli succeeded the 
firni in 1868. His grandfather, the eminent Dr. 
Lowell ^[ason, distinguished as the "father of 
American church music," introduced musical edu- 
cation into the Boston public schools, was one of 
the original members and one of the early presi- 
dents of the Handel and Haydn Society of ]5os- 
ton (founded in 18 15), and compiled its first col- 
lection of anthems, masses, and choruses ; and 
his uncle, Dr. William Mason, is a well-known 
musician and composer of New York. On the 
maternal side he is descended from Asher Pal- 
mer, whose father was Judge Thomas Palmer, of 




EDW. P. MASON. 

Rhode Island. Edward P. was educated in the 
Brookline public and Chauncy Hall (Boston) pri- 
vate schools, and at Harvard College, graduating 
in the class of 188 1, with honorable mention in 
music and philosophy and the degree of " cum 
/(iii(/c." Among other men of note in his college 
class were the Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon, now 
pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, and 
Charles MacVeagh, son of Wayne MacVeagh. 
After graduating from college, he entered the em- 
ploy of the Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano 
Company, beginning as errand boy and clerk in 
the Boston house, and, working his way through 
the various departments, obtained a thorough ac- 



quaintance with all the details of the great busi- 
ness. In September, 1884, he was placed in a 
responsible position in the New Vork branch, and 
in 1S85 became its manager, which position he 
held till January, 1890, when he was elected 
treasurer of the company, and returned to the 
Boston house. In May following his father died ; 
and he was then elected president, and placed at 
the head of the business. .About the time that 
he entered the establishment, in the early eighties, 
Mason & Hamlin invented and patented a new 
mode of stringing pianofortes, recognized as a 
great improvement in piano construction, and 
began to manufacture these instruments in addi- 
tion to their extensive organ business ; and under 
his management the yearly sales of the Mason & 
Hamlin pianoforte have steadily increased. Mr. 
Mason is also a director of the Central National 
Bank, and trustee of the Home Savings Bank of 
Boston. He is a member of the Union Club, 
Boston. He was married April 26, 1886, to Miss 
Mary Lord Taintor, of South Orange, N.J. They 
have had four children : Henry (died in infancy), 
Gregorv, Lowell, and Ellen Mason. 



MILLER, Henry Fr.anki.in', manufacturer, 
Boston, president of the Henry F. Miller & Sons' 
Piano Company, was born in Providence, R.I., 
September 10, 1848, son of Henry F. and Fran- 
ces V. (Child) Miller. He is descended on both 
sides from the oldest families of Rhode Island. 
On the paternal side he is a lineal descendant of 
Roger Williams ; also a descendant of Joseph 
Jenks, who came from England to this country 
about 1636, settling in Lynn, Mass., and was the 
first founder w'ho worked in brass and iron on 
the Western continent : one of the several sons of 
Josejah Jenks, who settled in Rhode Island, was 
one of its colonial governors. On the maternal 
side his great-grandmother, Margaret Ogden, came 
from England when quite young, marrying George 
Beverl)-, of Providence, R.I., the third of his name 
in succession, and a descendant of the first Bev- 
erlys who came to this country from England, 
and settled in Massachusetts in what is now the 
town of Beverl)-. Margaret Ogden, whose mother 
was an Ingham, w'as the daughter of James Ogden 
of England, who, with a Captain Brooks, went to 
Prosperous, in the county of Kildare, Ireland, and 
established the first cotton manufactory in the 
kingdom. It is noteworthy, also, that, on the 



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paternal side, Kphraini Miller, as a machinist, 
with five others, built for Samuel Slater, in Rhode 
Island, the first cotton mill in this country for 
spinning cotton yarn. Henry F. came with his 
parents from Providence to Boston when he was 
seven years old, and here was educated. Gradu- 
ating from the Brimmer School, he went to the 
Boston Latin School ; and, urged by Francis Gard- 
ner, then head - master, he took the advanced 
course, fitting for college in three years instead of 
the usual six years' course, it being his intention 
to enter Harvard. After two years, however. 




HENRY F. MILLER. 

feeling that his services would early be needed in 
his father's pianoforte business, which was estab- 
lished about that time (1863), he decided to enter 
the English High School, and take the course 
which he deemed more practical for a business 
life. His class was one of the last under Boston's 
great teacher, Thomas Sherwin. He graduated 
in 1867 with high honors, receiving the Franklin 
medal and three Lawrence prizes. A pleasant 
episode of his school-boy life was the military 
drill, he being captain of the company which, at 
the first prize drill ever given by the Boston 
School Regiment, won the prize, a small silk flag 
which is still in his possession. At the celebra- 
tion of the semi-centennial of the school in 187 1 



he was marshal of his class, which turned out fifty 
members in line. Upon leaving school, he en- 
tered his father's business. The senior Henr\" F. 
Miller was not only a musical genius, but also an 
e.xpert mechanician, having had many years' prac- 
tical experience in pianoforte manufacturing be- 
fore establishing the business which has since 
assumed such large proportions. Henry F., Jr., 
however, long before leaving school had become 
more or less interested in the various departments 
of pianoforte manufacturing, and was thoroughly 
conversant with the early traditions of this indus- 
try in Boston and elsewhere. He gradually as- 
sumed the financial management of the business, 
together with correspondence and other depart- 
ments ; and, on the death of his father in 1884, 
he, with his brothers, organized the present cor- 
poration, — the Henry F. Miller iS: Sons' I'iano 
Company. As president of the company, he has 
the general management of its wide-spread inter- 
ests. In the manufacture of the piano he has 
been instrumental in removing the bo.x-like ap- 
pearance of piano cases, and in developing their 
architectural and artistic features. An especially 
important factor has been his interest in concerts 
and in artists who have used the Miller pianos, 
himself managing the different tours of such great 
pianists as William H. Sherwood, Dr. Louis Maas, 
Fdnuind Neupert, Calixa Lavallee, and many 
others. Always deeply interested in the growth of 
music in this country, he took an active part in se- 
curing for the American composers the popular re- 
cognition which they have had in late years. He 
was one of the few active members of the Music 
Teachers' National Association, outside of pro- 
fessional musicians, and gave his heartiest support 
to Calixa Lavallee, with whom he co-operated in 
the production of the first programme entirely of 
.\merican composers at the meeting of the Music 
Teachers' National Association in 1884, at Cleve- 
land, Ohio. He is interested also in art, and 
fond of everything that appertains to it, including 
painting and the drama, as well as music. He is 
much concerned in philanthropic work, and has 
held offices connected with such work rather than 
civil or political positions. For more than twenty 
years he has been a life member of the Young 
Men's Christian Union. He is a director of the 
Boys' Institute of Industry, of which the Rev. 
Edward Everett Hale is president, and under 
w-hose leadership it has done much to awaken a 
favorable public sentiment in regard to giving 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



'59 



l)i)ys better opportunities for obtaining education 
ill mechanical arts. For some years past he has 
been a director of the Industrial Aid Society of 
ISoslon, and is at present one of its executive 
conunittee. He is connected witli various other 
philanthropic and charitable societies, and he has 
been prominent in the movement for tlie introduc- 
tion of manual training into the public school sys- 
tem. In religious faith he is Unitarian, and is a 
lirominent member and worker in the Church of 
the Linity, Boston, of which the Rev. Minot J. Sav- 
age is minister. .\t present (1S94) he is one of 
the standing committee of the church, chairman 
of the Board of Charities, and represents the 
society on several other connnittees. He is a 
member of the Minot J. Savage Club, a life mem- 
ber of the American Unitarian Association, and 
member of the Channing Club of Boston, estab- 
lished in 1887, of which he was one of the 
founders and the first president. In politics he 
has been a Republican up to within a few years, 
])ut is now an Independent. He is a fine mem- 
ber of the First Corps of Cadets. Mr. Miller 
was married ( )ctober 29. 1874, to Miss Mary .\. 
(iavette, of Boston. They have an only daughter: 
Marsraret Ogden Miller. 



MILLETT, JosHU.\ HowARn, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Cherry- 
field, Washington County, March 17, 1842, son of 
the Rev. Joshua and Sophronia (Howard) Millet. 
Mis father was a clergyman of the Baptist denom- 
ination, and author of the "History of the Bap- 
tists of Maine." He is a lineal descendant on 
the paternal side of Thomas Millet, who settled 
in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, and on the mater- 
nal side of John Howard of the Plymouth Colony, 
afterwards one of the original settlers of Bridge- 
water in 1645, '^'^'^ of Mary Chilton, Plymouth, 
1620. \Mien he was two years old, his parents 
removed to Wayne, Me. ; and there he attended 
the public schools. He was fitted for college at 
Hebron Academy, Hebron, .Me., entered Water- 
ville College, now Colby Lfniversity, and gradu- 
ated with the class of 1867. In 1878 he received 
the degree of A.M. He studied law with the 
lion. Isaac F. Redfield, late chief justice of the 
Supreme Court of Vermont, and W. .\. Herrick, 
of Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in 1870. He began practice in partnership with 
Messrs. Redfield and Herrick, under the firm 



name of Redfield, Herrick, iS: Millett, which rela- 
tion continued until the death of Judge Redfield 
in 1876. Thereafter he continued with Mr. Her- 
rick until the latter's death, in 1885. Then he 
formed a partnership with Ralph W. Foster, son 
of ISishop R. S. Foster, of Boston, under the firm 
name of Millett &: Foster, which still exists. He 
was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United 
States in 1884. For a number of years Mr. Mil- 
lett has been associated with several business en- 
terprises outside of his profession, notably as 
counsel and president of the C'rosby .Steam Gauge 




JOSHUA H. MILLETT. 

and \'alve Company since its organization in 
1875. He has resided in Maiden since 1869, 
and has held numerous important oflices there. 
From 1875 to 188 1 he was a member of the 
Maiden School Committee, 1878 79 a trustee of 
the Public Library, in 1880 chairman of the sub- 
committee for framing the city charter, and in 
1892 member of the Board of Park Commis- 
sioners. In 1884 and 1885 he was a member of 
the lower house of the Legislature, and served on 
the house committees on mercantile affairs, the 
judiciary, and metropolitan police. He has been 
president of the Maiden Home for .Aged Persons 
since its organization in 1892. He is a member 
of the following Masonic societies : Converse 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter of the Taljeniacle, 
Melrose Council, and Beauseant Commandery of 
Knights Templars ; is a member of the South Mid- 
dlesex ITnitarian Association, of the Massachu- 
setts Society of Sons of American Revolution, 
of the Middlesex (political dining) Club of Bos- 
ton, and of several Maiden organizations. In 
politics he is Republican. Mr. Millett was mar- 
ried June 19, 1867, to Miss Rosa Maria Tredick, 
daughter of Charles and Hannah (Giles) Tredick. 
They have two children: Charles Howard and 
Mabel Rosa Millett. 



MOODY, William H., Boston, boot and shoe 
manufacturer, head of the house of Moody, Ester- 
brooke, & .Anderson, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Claremont, May 10, 1842, son of 
Jonathan and Mary Moody. He was educated in 
the public schools of Claremont, and at the age 
of sixteen entered the shop of George N. Farewell 
& Co. in that place, where he learned the trade 
of manufacturing all classes of boots and shoes. 




but a short time, however, obtaining a position at 
a better salary and with larger opportunities in 
the boot and shoe house of Tenny, Ballerston, tS: 
Co. At the end of two years' service with this 
concern he became buyer for Sewall, Raddin, & 
Son ; and three years later, when the firm of 
Sewall, Raddin, &: Son was succeeded by Sewall, 
Raddin, & Co., he was admitted to partnership. 
Soon after the firm was reor<ranized, takinir the 
name of McGibbon, Moody, & Raddin. When 
this partnership expired, Mr. Moody formed a co- 
partnership with Messrs. Crane & Leland, under 
the firm name of Crane, Leland, & Moody, which 
subsequently became Crane, Moody. (.V* Rising. 
Not long after, unremitting labor having impaired 
his health, he withdrew, and temporarily retired 
from active business, devoting himself to rest and 
travel. When fully restored, he organized the 
present house of Moody, Esterbrooke, & Ander- 
son. His manufactory is in Nashua, N.H., where 
he has established the largest shoe industry under 
one roof in the world. His only outside business 
connection is with the National .Shoe (Si; Leather 
Bank of Boston, of which he is a director. He is 
a member of the New England Shoe and Leather 
Exchange. In politics he is Republican. His 
winter residence is in Boston, and his country 
seat in Claremont, his native place. The latter, 
fittingly named " Highland View," is one of the 
finest estates in New Hampshire, embracing six 
hundred acres of broken upland, a beautiful 
dwelling, and well-appointed barns. Mr. Moody 
was married in October, 1864, to Miss Marv .A. 
Maynard. Thay have no children. 



MORSE, Georce W.ashincton, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Ohio, whither his par- 
ents, Peter and Mary E. (Randall) Morse, iiad 
emigrated from New Hampshire in 1833. He 
was born in Lodi in the Ohio Valley, August 24, 
1845. He is a descendant on the paternal side 
of Anthony Morse, who came from Marlborough, 
England, and settled in Newbury Old Town, about 
the year 1635, — ''^*^ ^^'^ ^^ ''^^ o'*^' .Morse home- 
stead, adjacent to the farm of Michael Little, still 
called the " Morse Eield." It appears by Coffin's 
History of Newbury that the Morse family fig- 
and mastered every detail of the business. At ured somewhat conspicuously in the " witchcraft " 
nineteen he came to Boston, and fu'st engaged as trials, particularly William, a brother of .Vnthony. 
a salesman in the store of John Wallace, retailer. The Rev. Jedediah Morse, the geographer, and 
then on Washington Street. Here he remained his distinguished son, Professor Samuel Finley 



W. H. MOODY. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



i6i 



Morse, were cousins respectively in the second 
and third degree of Peter Morse, the father of 
Oeorge W. Peter Morse was a native of (Chester, 
N.H., born in the year 1800, and for nearly tiiirty 




GEO. W. MORSE. 

years was a follower of the seas, — captain for a 
long time of a Mediterranean trading-vessel and 
later of an East Indiaman owned by Robert G. 
Shaw of Boston. On the maternal side Mr. Morse 
is a lineal descendant of Nathaniel Page, wlio set- 
tled at Bedford, Mass. ; and the original residence 
known as the " Page Place " is still owned by the 
family. Ensign Page of this family carried tlie 
colors at Lexington and Concord. Later Captain 
Page commanded one of the companies which 
fought at Bunker Hill ; and the Pages, like the 
Morses, were well represented on the Continental 
side in most of the important battles of the Revo- 
lution. George \\'. Morse passed his childhood 
on the paternal farm, and at ten years of age 
was placed under the charge of President Finley 
at the preparatory school of Oberlin College. 
Here he remained something less than two years. 
Then, his parents in the mean time having moved 
to Massachusetts, he came East, and here at- 
tended school in Haverhill, at Andover, and at 
Chester (N.H.) .\cademy, till the spring of 1861. 
On the Tith of May following, in his sixteenth 



year, he enlisted as a private in the Second 
Massachusetts Infantry, a regiment which became 
historic, and which is one of the two especially 
connncmorated in the new Boston Public Library. 
He served till 1865 continuously in this regiment ; 
and, of the original thousand men who left the 
State in it in 1861 (being the lirst three years' 
regiment in the field from Massachusetts), he was 
one of less than one hundred who returned with it 
in 1865. A majority of the regiment, including 
Mr. Morse, re-enlisted upon the field, at the end 
of their three years' term, for the remainder of 
the war. In the Shenandoah campaign of 1862 
the Second covered the celebrated retreat known 
as '• Banks Retreat" ; and what remained of the 
rear-guard or skirmish lines, in which Mr. Morse 
was stationed, was captured. He was prisoner of 
war four months at Belle Isle and other prisons, 
when he was discharged, and was one of the few 
who were able to return immediately to service. 
With the exception of that carried on during his 
absence as prisoner of war, he was in every cam- 
paign and battle participated in by his regiment. 
He early became sergeant and first sergeant of 
his company, and at the close of the war was first 
lieutenant, commanding Company 1 of the regi- 
ment, at the age of nineteen. This was the com- 
pany which General A. B. Underwood went out 
in command of ; and the story of its defence of a 
bridge against Stonewall Jackson's army in the 
Banks Retreat is one of the most thrilling remi- 
niscences of the war. Mr. Morse was the only 
original member of Company H that ever received 
a commission, although the youngest in the ranks 
by some two years. The Second served in all 
the important campaigns with the Army of the 
Potomac till September, 1863. A third of its 
members fell at Cedar Mountain, together with 
more than half of the officers. Again at Antie- 
tam it passed through a severe ordeal. Its losses 
at Chancellorsville were large; and at Gettysburg 
half of a regiment fell in less than ten minutes of 
contest in carrying the Confederate works at the 
base of Gulp's Hill on the right, near Spangler's 
Spring, over which the regiment charged. The 
officers subsequently erected at their own expense 
the first regimental monument on the field of 
(Gettysburg, Mr. Morse being an active member of 
the committee carrying out the work. In Sep- 
tember, 1863, the Second, as a part of the Twelfth 
Corps, sent with the Eleventh Corps, under the 
command of General Hooker, to the South-west 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to relieve Rosecrans, was in the celebrated battle 
of Lookout Mountain ; and, later as part of 
" Hooker's Corps," participated in all the cam- 
paigns of Sherman. At the fall of Atlanta, in the 
battles about which the regiment took a conspicu- 
ous part, it was assigned to be the first to enter 
the city, and to act as the provost-guard during 
the occupation. It had charge of the destruction 
of the public buildings previous to the evacuation 
and the " March to the Sea," and was the last regi- 
ment to leave the city. Mustered out of the ser- 
vice in July, 1865, young Morse resumed his stud- 
ies. He spent nearly a year at Phillips (Andover) 
Academy, and in the autumn of 1866 entered 
the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth 
College in the junior year, where he remained two 
years. Then, leaving college before graduation, 
he began the study of law in the office of Charles 
G. Stevens of Clinton, Mass., and finished in that 
of Chandler, Shattuck, &: Thayer in Boston, from 
which he was admitted to the bar in 1869, not 
long after his class graduated. (Later Dartmouth 
conferred upon him the degrees of Master of 
Science and Master of Arts.) Taking the Boston 
office of George Bemis, who was counsel for the 
government in the matter of the "Alabama " claims, 
and opening an evening office in Ashland, where 
he was then living, he began practice ; but, this 
not being at once remunerative, he started a local 
newspaper, the Ashland Advertiser, and subse- 
quently a printing-office. Both of these enterprises 
were successful, and a year or so later he sold 
them out at a profit. For the first few years of his 
practice the most important part was bankruptcy. 
He took up the Boston, Hartford & Erie litiga- 
tion ; later was the counsel of N. C. Munson, the 
great railroad contractor, whose failure involved 
several millions; and among other important liti- 
gation he had charge of that of F. Shaw & 
Brothers, which with other failures in its wake (in 
all of which he was counsel upon one side or the 
other) involved ten millions of dollars. The years 
1887-88 and 1889 he spent in travel with his 
family, mostly in Europe ; and upon his return 
and resumption of practice he also took much 
corporation work. He organized the several 
street railways now operating in Newton, Wal- 
thani, and Watertown, and reaching out toward 
Boston, of which he was president during the 
legal stages. He is also one of the special coun- 
sel of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. 
In politics he is an acti\'e Republican ; and for 



two terms, 1881 and 1882, represented Newton in 
the lower house of the Legislature. He is a 
member of the Charles Ward Post, G. A. R., of 
Newton ; member of the Massachusetts Com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion ; is a Thirty-second 
degree Mason ; and member of the Newton Club, 
Boston Art Club, several minor clubs organized to 
encourage special work, and the Clover Club of 
New York. He was married October 20, 1870, 
to Miss Clara R. Boit, of Newton Lower Falls. 
They have six children : Harriet C, Gertrude E., 
Rosalind, Henry B., Samuel M. B., and Genevieve 
Morse. 



MORTON, Marcus, member of the Suffolk 
bar, was born in Andover, April 27, 1862, son of 
Marcus and Abby Bowler (Hoppin) Morton. He 
is the third of this distinguished Massachusetts 
name. His grandfather, Marcus Morton, was a 
member of Congress from 1817 to 1821, lieuten- 
ant governor of the State in 1824, associate jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court 1825-39, governor in 
1840 and again in 1843, first elected by one vote 




MARCUS MORTON. 



over Edward Everett, collector of the port of 
Boston 1845-48, and, originally a Democrat, a 
Free Soiler from 1848. His father, Marcus Mor- 



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163 



t(in, 2d, was on the bench of the Superior 
Coinl from 1S59 to 1869, and on the Supreme 
bench from 1S69 to 1890, chief justice from 1882 ; 
and both father and grandfather were members 
of the State Constitutional Convention of 1853. 
He is descended on both paternal and maternal 
sides from early New England colonists, his 
father's first ancestor in America, George Morton, 
having come from England to Plymouth in 1623, 
and his mother's ancestry being traced to Will- 
iam Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony. He 
was educated in private schools, at Phillips (An- 
dover) Academy, and at Vale, where he graduated 
in the class of 1883 ; and his law studies were 
pursued in the Harvard Law School and in the 
office of the Hon. Robert M. Morse, of Boston. 
Admitted to the bar in 1885, he began practice 
in Boston, where he has been established since. 
His business has been largely in filling the duties 
of auditor, receiver, and special administrator of 
estates. He was one of the special administra- 
tors of T. O. H. P. Burnham, the old Boston 
bookseller. He is a member of the Boston Bar 
Association, of the Young Men's Democratic 
Club of Massachusetts (secretary of the elections 
committee), of the Union, the University (on the 
e,Kecutive committee), and the Episcopalian (a 
member of the council) clubs of Boston, and of 
the Reform Club of New York. He was married 
October 26, 1892, to Miss Maria Eldridge Welch, 
daughter of Wilson Jarvis and Elizabeth Fearing 
(Thatcher) Welch. They have one child : Mar- 
cus Morton, Jr. 



Chandler, Shattuck, & Thayer, which had been 
dissolved). Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 
was a partner from 1873 "J"*'' his appointment to 



MUNROE, William Ad.4MS, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Cambridge, born No- 
vember 9, 1843, son of William W. and Hannah F. 
(.\dams) Munroe. His parents were also natives 
of Cambridge, the mother of old West Cambridge, 
now the town of Arlington. He was educated in 
the Cambridge schools and at Harvard College, 
from which he was graduated in the class of 
1864 ; and studied law in the Harvard Law 
School (1866 and 1867), and afterwards in the 
office of Chandler, Shattuck, ^: Thayer, Boston. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1868, and 
subsequently became a member of the bar of the 
Supreme Court of the LInited States. He began 
practice in the autumn of i86g, and in February, 
1870, formed a partnership, still existing, with 
George O. Shattuck (originally of the firm of 




WM. A. MUNROE. 

the bench in 1882, the firm name during this 
period being Shattuck, Holmes, & Munroe. Mr. 
Munroe is a member of the }5oston Bar .\ssocia- 
tion and of the American Bar Association. In 
politics he is Republican. He resides in Cam- 
bridge, and is prominent in its affairs. Since 
1869 he has been five times elected a member of 
its School Committee ; he was one of the commis- 
sioners to revise the Cambridge city charter in 
1890 ; is now (1894) a member of the Cambridge 
Club, and was its president in 1890; a member 
and one of the incorporators of the Colonial Club 
of Cambridge ; and a trustee of the Avon Home 
in Cambridge. In religion he is Baptist, — a mem- 
ber of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, a 
trustee of the Newton Theological Institution, and 
a member of the Boston Baptist Social I'nion, 
president of the latter in 1882. Mr. Munroe was 
married November 22, 187 1, to Miss Sarah 1). 
Whiting, a native of Salem. They have one 
daughter : Helen W. Munroe. 



NOYES, Charles Johnson, speaker of the 
House of Representatives in 1880-81-82 and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1887-88, is a native of Haverliill. He was born 
August 7, 1841, son of Johnson and Sally 
(Brickett) Noyes, who came from Canaan, Grafton 
County, N.H. His ancestors on his father's side 
emigrated from England, and were among the 
earliest settlers of New England, landing in 1634, 
near the site of Newburyport ; and his ancestry 
on his mother's side extends back to the mother 
country in direct line. His early education was 
attained in the public schools of his native town ; 
and he was fitted for college in the old Haverhill 
Academy, the predecessor of the Haverhill High 
School, from which he graduated in i860, the 




CHAS. J. NOYES. 

valedictorian on graduation day. He first en- 
tered Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, 
and there spent the freshman and sophomore 
years. Then, with a large number of his class, 
he entered Union College as a junior, and took 
the regular course, graduating in the class of 
1864. While at Union, he was orator on several 
occasions. He began his legal studies during his 
second year in college in the office of Judge John- 
son, of Schenectady ; and these were so far ad- 
vanced when he graduated that a few months 
after he was practising his profession. He was 
admitted to the bar in Providence, R.I., where he 
completed his studies in the office of John E. 



Risley, Jr. ; but his practice was begun in Haver- 
hill and Boston, in both of which cities he opened 
offices. At the age of twenty-four he entered 
public life, being elected from Haverhill to the 
lower house of the Legislature, session of 1866. 
Here he took rank with older and more experi- 
enced members, and was given place on important 
committees. Declining a re-election, he became 
a successful candidate for the Senate in the Third 
Essex District. In that body he was the youngest 
member ; but, as in the house the year before, he 
took leading parts. He was chairman of the 
committee on library and member of sundry other 
committees, and he was not infrequently heard in 
debate on the floor. Declining to serve a second 
term, the next few years were devoted entirely to 
the pursuit of his profession. Then, in 1876, he 
was again elected to the Legislature, this time 
sent to the lower house from the Fourteenth Suf- 
folk District, having in 1872 removed from 
Haverhill, and become a citizen of South Boston; 
and, through repeated re-elections, he served here 
six consecutive terms (1877--82). L)uring the 
session of 1877 he was on the committees on 
mercantile aftairs (chairman), and the Hoosac 
Tunnel, Troy &: Greenfield Railway ; in that of 
1878 he was chairman of the Hoosac Tunnel 
committee, and prominent in the committee on 
harbors; in that of 1879 he was chairman of 
the committee on constitutional amendment ; and 
in 1880 he was first made speaker, elected on the 
fourth ballot by a vote of one hundred and twenty- 
five. The next year he was unanimously re-elected 
to the speakership, and again in 1882. Also in 
1887 and 1888, returned for the seventh and 
eighth times, he was re-elected to the chair with 
no opposing votes. Mr. Noyes has long been an 
active member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
prominent also in the order of Odd Fellows. He 
is past master of Adelphi Lodge and past com- 
mander of St. Omer Commandery of Knights 
Templars. He has taken all the Scottish rites 
up to the thirty-second degree, and is a member 
of the Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, of the Giles 
F. Yates Council of Princes of Jerusalem, of the 
Mount Olivet Chapter of Rose Croix, and the 
Massachusetts Consistory. In the Odd Fellows 
he has passed all the chairs of the lodge and en- 
campment ; is past grand and past chief patriarch, 
and has served on the grand board of tlie Grand 
Encampment of Massachusetts. He is a mem- 
ber of the New England, Norfolk, and Middlesex 



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165 



(dining) clubs, and a prominent member of tlie 
Zeta Psi, college fraternity. Mr. Noyes was mar- 
ried in Providence, R.I., March 9, 1864, to Miss 
Emily Wells, daughter of Colonel Jacob C. and 
Fannie C. Wells, of Cincinnati, (3hio. They have 
three children: Fannie C., Harry R., and Grace 
L. Noyes. 



OSBORNE, William Henry, member of the 
Plymouth bar. United States pension agent 1890- 
93, is a native of Scituate, born September 16, 
1840, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Woodman) 
Osborne. On the paternal side he is a descend- 
ant of George Osborne, early of that part of 
Pembroke now Hanson, and on the maternal 
side of Richard Mann, of Scituate, who was one 
of the proprietors of the " Conihasset Grant " in 
1633. His great-grandfathers, George Osborne 
and John Mann, were soldiers of the Revolution, 
the former on the alarm-list at Lexington, April 
'9> '775 ; ''"^1 '^^^'o of his great-uncles were on 
board ship with Captain Luther Little in the 
Revolution. He was educated in the public 
schools of Scituate and of East Piridgewater, to 
which his parents moved when he was a lad of 
ten, at the East Bridgewater Academy and the 
Bridgewater State Normal School. Graduating 
from the latter in July, i860, he taught school 
during the autumn of that year and the following 
winter, and was prepared to enter Bowdoin Col- 
lege when the Civil War broke out, and he joined 
the Union army. He enlisted May 18, 1861, at 
East Bridgewater, as a private in Company C 
of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers, which was assigned to the depart- 
ment of South-eastern Virginia. He was in the 
engagement of the 8th and 9th of March, 1862, 
at Newport News, and the e.xpedition at Norfolk 
and Portsmouth ; and in the following June and 
early July, his regiment having joined the Army 
of the Potomac as part of the Irish Brigade 
under General Thomas Francis Meagher, was 
at the front nearly every day for several weeks, 
and constantly under fire. On June 15 he was 
in a sharp skirmish, when his company suffered 
its first loss. On the 27th he was in the battle 
of Gaines' Mill ; on the 29th in that of Peace 
Orchard and Savage Station ; the next day at 
White Oak Swamp Creek and Charles City 
Court-house; and on the ist of July at Malvern 
Hill. In the last-named battle he was struck by 



a musket-ball in the chest, and, rendered uncon- 
scious, was carried by some of his comrades a 
short distance to the rear, and left, as they sup- 
posed, to die. Restored, however, to conscious- 
ness an hour later by the efTorts of the surgeons, 
he took the gun and cartridge box from a dead 
soldier lying near him, and in the darkness found 
his way to the front, and rejoined his brigade. 
He had been in the ranks but a short time when 
an exploding shell shattered his left leg. Crawl- 
ing on his hands and knees to the edge of a forest, 
he there lay, bleeding and unattended, until near 
midnight, when a party of stretcher-bearers dis- 




WILLIAM H. OSBORNE. 

covered him, and carried him to the field hospital 
at the famous old Malvern House. By early 
morning the army had fallen back to Harrison's 
Landing on the James River ; and, with many 
others of the wounded, he fell into the hands 
of the enemy. Three weeks later, released on 
parole of exchange, he was conveyed to St. Luke's 
Hospital, New York City, from which he was 
finallv discharged in Januar)', 1863, unfit for fur- 
ther service. For his bravery and heroism at 
Malvern Hill, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. 
Barnes of his regiment caused his name, with 
others, to be sent to Governor .\ndrew with 
commendatory remarks, and subsequently recom- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



mended him to the Secretary of War as a proper 
person to receive a medal of honor. After his 
return home Mr. Osborne engaged again in 
teaching in the village of Elmwood, East Bridge- 
water, and began the study of law with the Hon. 
B. W. Harris. He was admitted to the Plym- 
outh bar at the October term of the Superior 
Court in 1864, and has been in active practice 
ever since in all the courts of the State, largely 
as a jury lawyer. From 1865 to 1876 he was 
trial justice, and for several years commissioner 
of insolvency for Plymouth County. He is now 
one of the three examiners for Plymouth to 
pass upon tlie qualifications of applicants for 
admission to the bar, appointed by the justices of 
the Supreme and Superior courts. He has held 
the position of town treasurer, town clerk, and 
member of the School Committee of East Bridge- 
water, and was representative in the lower house 
of the Legislature two terms (1872 and 1884), 
serving his first term on the committee on 
probate and chancery, and his second term on 
the judiciary committee. He was appointed 
United States pension agent for the Massachu- 
setts district by President Harrison, May 28, 
1890. He is a member of the Grand Army, for 
many years commander of the post of East 
Bridgewater. He has published a " History of 
the Twenty-ninth Regiment." Mr. Osborne is 
unmarried. 



1 88 1, as clerk in the Norfolk House, Roxbury 
District; and he opened the Langham Hotel, for- 



PAGE, George Herbert, proprietor of the 
Langham Hotel, Boston, was born in Constanti- 
nople, Turkey, June 15, 1863, where his parents, 
William R. and Juliette (Churchill) Page, were at 
the time residing. His father was a native of 
Hallowell, Me., and was engaged in the ice busi- 
ness ; and his mother was born in England. His 
early education was acquired in French schools 
in Constantinople and Port Said, Egypt, and at a 
German school at Jaffa, Palestine. Then, com- 
ing to America with his parents, he attended 
the Wiscasset (Me.) public schools, and finished 
at the Hallowell (Me.) Classical School. He 
began active life in Boston, in the summer of 
1879, as errand boy in the wholesale hardware 
house of B. Callendar & Co. After a short time 
here he went into the employ of Pierce, Tripp, & 
Co., mill supplies, and subsequently became book- 
keeper for the Tucum Manufacturing Company, 
Boston. He first entered the hotel business, in 




GEO. H. PAGE. 



merly the Commonwealth, as proprietor in Decem- 
ber, 1888. Mr. Page is unmarried. 



PAUL, Isaac Farnsworth, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Dedham, born Novem- 
ber 26, 1856, son of Ebenezer and Susan 
(Dresser) Paul. He is of English descent. He 
was educated in the Dedham public schools and 
at Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 
1878. He studied law in Boston in the office of 
Farmer & Williams, and one year in the Boston 
University Law School ; and he was admitted to 



the bar in i5 



The following year he became 



associate editor of the United States Digest, and 
so served through 1885 ; then he was made sole 
editor, serving through 1886, 18S7, and 18S8. 
P"rom 1886 to 1892 he was head-master of the 
Boston Evening High School, and in 1893-94 a 
member of the Boston School Board. In politics 
he is Republican. He has been engaged in gene- 
ral practice in Boston since his admission to the 
bar, and attorney for the Board of Police of the 
city of Boston from 1889 to 1894. He is a mem- 
ber of the Dartmouth Club of Boston (president 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



167 



in 1893 and 1894), of the University and of the 
lioston Art clubs. He was married March 22, 




ISAAC F. PAUL. 

1883, to Miss Ida Louise Batcheller, daughter of 
Philip Batcheller of Fitzwilliam, N.H. They 
have three children : Philip Batcheller, Richard 
{■'arnsworth, and Katherine Paul. 



PERKINS, George Arthur, member of the 
Middlesex bar, is a native of Cambridge, born 
September 4, 1856, son of Levi and Elizabeth 
(Sands) Perkins. His father and mother were 
both natives of Maine, of old families, his 
father's family going from New Hampshire to 
Maine in the eighteenth century. He was edu- 
cated in the Cambridge schools, and fitted for 
his profession at the Boston University Law 
School, entering the latter in the autumn of 
1874 and graduating in May, 1876. After gradu- 
ation he kept books for a large brewery for ten 
months, having charge of the banking and ship- 
ping, till of sufficient age to be admitted to the 
bar. Admitted in 1878, he has been in active 
practice in Boston ever since, having till the au- 
tumn of 1893 been associated with Charles J. 
Mclntire, now judge of Probate Court for Mid- 
dlesex County. He has been connected with 



numerous large and important cases, and has 
practised before all the court.s, both State and 
LTnited States, having for some years been a 
member of bar of the United States Court. He 
has served three terms in the lower house of 
the Legislature (1886-87-89), member of the 
committees on the judiciary and on probate and 
insolvency, acting as clerk of each. He is con- 
nected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows 
orders, member of the Mount Olivet Lodge, the 
Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter, and the Cam- 
bridge Lodge, No. 13, Odd Fellows. He has 
been president of the Alumni Association of the 
Boston University Law School; has held offices 
in a number of clubs of a social nature, and in 
several bicycle clubs ; and has been a member 
of the League of American Wheelmen for ten 
years. He has held the several offices in the 
last-mentioned organization, at present being 
chief consul of the Massachusetts Division, and 
second vice-president of the national body. He 
has been a strong advocate of good roads, and in 
1892 was appointed chairman of the Massachu- 
setts Highway Commission, which position he 
still holds. In politics he is a Democrat. He 




CEO. A. PERKINS. 



has for many years been actively identified with 
his party, and lias been a member of nearly all 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the committees. He is unmarried. He has al- 
ways resided in Cambridge. 



PERRY, Baxter Edward, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Lyme, April 26, 1826, son of the Rev. Baxter E. 
and Lydia (Gray) Perry. On both sides he is 
connected with early Worcester (Mass.) families. 
The Perry family migrated from Watertown to 
Worcester in 1751 ; and the (]ray family settled 
there soon after their arrival in the country, in 
17 18. His great-great-grandfather on the ma- 




BAXTER E. PERRY. 

ternal side, Matthew Gray, and his great-grand- 
father, Matthew Gray, 2d, were Scotch-Irish Pres- 
byterians, of the large company who came out 
that year. His father, a graduate of Harvard in 
1817, and of Andover in 1820, was pastor of the 
church at Lyme from 182 i till his death in 1830 ; 
and his mother previous to her marriage was a 
notable school-teacher in Worcester, later con- 
ducting a select school in Cambridge, under the 
shadow of the college. He was educated in the 
country schools, at Thetford (Vt.) Academy, and 
at Middlebury (Vt.) College, from which he grad- 
uated in 1S49. He began active life as a 
teacher, and was engaged in this occupation for 
several years, mainly as principal of the Chester 



(Vt.) Academy. While teaching, he studied law, 
and later, coming to Boston, read in the law of- 
fice of Ranney & Morse. Admitted to the bar 
on the first of May, 1855, he at once began prac- 
tice in Boston; and he has confined himself exclu- 
sively to his profession since, without interruption 
and with success. Beyond one term in the Gen- 
eral Court (1876) as a representative from Med- 
ford, he has held no public place, having declined 
all offices, positions, and work not in the line of 
professional pursuits. He has, however, occa- 
sionally written for magazines and the newspaper 
press, and delivered a few public addresses on 
literary and educational themes. In politics he is 
a Republican. He is a member of the Boston 
Bar Association, of the Masonic order, and of 
the Medford Club ; and he has been a trustee of 
Middlebury College since 1882. He was married 
August 26, 185 I, to Miss Charlotte H. Hough, of 
Lebanon, N.H. They have had four children : 
P^dward Baxter (now a pianist in Boston), Cora G. 
(now the wife of Charles A. Hamilton, of New 
York), George H. (now partner in the firm with 
his father), and Edith C. Perry. 



PETTENGILL, John Ward, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Salisbury, N.H., Novem- 
ber 12, 1836, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Petten- 
gill) Pettengill. He is of Puritan ancestry, a de- 
scendant of Richard Pettengill who came from 
Staffordshire, England, to Salem, in 162S, and 
there married Joanna, daughter of Richard Inger- 
soll. He was educated in the public schools, and 
in the Franklin, Salisbury, Northfield, and Hop- 
kinton academies. He was fitted for college by 
that eminent teacher. Professor Dyer H. Sanborn, 
and in 1854 was about to enter the sophomore 
class of Dartmouth when he was prevented by a 
severe bronchial trouble, which for a long time 
impaired his voice to such a degree that he was 
unable to speak. For the next two years, how- 
ever, he pursued the college studies at home 
under the direction of his father and a private 
tutor. In 1856 he became connected with the 
editorial department of the Indcpciulcnt Dcmonat 
at Concord, and while there began the study of 
law, reading in the office of Judge Asa Fowler. 
Early in 1858 he came to Massachusetts, and 
entered the office of John Q. A. Griffin and 
Alonzo W. Boardman, in Charlestown, as a stu- 
dent, and in March, 1859, was admitted to the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



l6g 



Middlesex bar, on examination, by the Hon. 
(ieorge P. Sanger, judge. He practised in 
Charlestown till the annexation of that city to 
Boston, in 1S74, when he moved his office to the 
city proper, where he has since been established. 
lie was a special justice of the Police Court of 
Charlestown for several years immediately preced- 
ing annexation, and in August following was ap- 
pointed justice of the Pirst District Court of 
Kastern Middlesex, with jurisdiction in Maiden, 
Melrose, Medford, Everett, Wakefield, Reading, 
and North Reading, which position he still holds. 




JOHN W. PETTENGILL. 

In his practice he has been especially successful 
in criminal cases. During the administration of 
the late Charles R. Train as attorney-general he 
secured verdicts of acquittal for his clients in 
three capital cases ; and in the case of the Com- 
monwealth 7'. Orne, indicted for burning a school- 
house in Charlestown, in which he was counsel for 
the defendant, four trials were necessary before 
the government could secure a conviction. He 
has also been successful in the conduct of civil 
suits involving important questions of law. For 
many years he has resided in Maiden, and has 
been prominent in the affairs of that city. He 
was elected a trustee of the Maiden Public 
Library Fund in 187S for the term of three years, 



and declined a re-election in 1881, after the library 
was established and in satisfactory condition. He 
was a member of the Board of .Mdermen for 1891, 
but declined a re-election in 1892. He was 
elected again in 1893, but positively declined a 
nomination for 1894. in politics he has usually 
been a Republican, and at one time was active in 
party work, frequently speaking on the stump ; but 
of late years he has devoted himself almost wholly 
to his professional work, with occasional addresses 
on some social science topic. He is president of 
the Maiden Board of Trade, an association which 
is interested in matters pertaining to the encour- 
agement of all legitimate business enterprises, and 
organized to collect and disseminate information 
respecting Maiden as a manufacturing city and a 
place of residence. He is also a member of the 
Middlesex, the New Hampshire, and the Kernwood 
clubs, and of the Deliberative Association, a liter- 
ary club of Maiden. Mr. Pettengill was married 
April 25, 1866, in Watertown, by the Rev. John 
Weiss, to Miss Margaret Maria Dennett, daugh- 
ter of John Richard and Mary Dennett, of Lan- 
caster, England. They have one child : Margaret 
Betsey Pettengill, born September 29, 1S67. 



POWERS, Wilbur Howard, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of New Hampshire, born 
in Croydon, January 22, 1849, son of Elias and 
F.meline (White) Powers. He comes of an ancient 
family which bore originally the Norman name of 
Le Poer. The first ancestor known was an officer 
under \\'illiam the Conqueror, whose name appears 
in Battle Abbey as one of the survivors of the 
battle of Hastings ; and the first ancestor in this 
country was Walter Power, who settled on a tract 
of land near Concord, now in the town of Little- 
ton, Mass. His sons added the letter " s " to the 
name. Elias Powers, the father of Wilbur H., w-as 
a farmer, widely known in the conununity for in- 
tegrity and hospitality. ( )n the maternal side he 
is of Saxon descent, from Elder John White, set- 
tled in 1632 in New Towne, now Cambridge, the 
site of whose farm is in part covered by Gore 
Hall, Harvard. His early education was attained 
in the district schools. Then he entered (Mean 
Academy at Olean, N.V., and subsequently Kim- 
ball Union Academy at Meriden, N.H. Graduat- 
ing from the latter in 187 1, he entered Dart- 
mouth, and there was graduated in the class of 
1875, taking prizes in oratory and in English com- 



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position, and liaving as his part for commence- 
ment a philosophical discussion wliich won for 
him the highest commendation of the Faculty. 
His legal studies were pursued in the liioston Ihii- 
versity Law School; and, graduating therefrom in 

1878, he was soon after admitted to the bar. The 
expenses of both his collegiate and law school 
education were defrayed by his own efforts. He 
began professional work in Boston on January 22, 

1879, and has Ijeen established there since, en- 
gaged in an extensive practice. He has been 
counsel in many important cases in the courts and 




WILBUR H. POWERS. 

before committees of the Legislature. He was 
receiver of the Guardian Endowment Society, ap- 
pointed by the court in 1893, and succeeded in 
closing up its affairs promptly and satisfactorily. 
He served three terms in the General Court 
(1890-91-92) as a representative from Hyde 
Park, from the first among the leaders, and dur- 
ing his third term the official and acknowledged 
leader, on the Republican side, upon the floor of 
the House. He was in large measure the author 
of and responsible for the passage of the bill of 
1892, redividing the .State into Congressional Dis- 
tricts, on a plan which he maintained was non- 
partisan. The bill passed a Republican House, a 
Senate equally divided between the two parties, 



and was signed by a Democratic governor. He 
made an effective speech in its defence, which 
gained the commendation of those who were bit- 
terly opposed to him. He was also the author of 
a bill in the interest of education, aiding more 
particularly the poorer municipalities, and endeav- 
oring to make a more equitable distribution of the 
corporation tax. He was elected a member of 
the first Board of Park Commissioners for Hyde 
I'ark for 1893-94, and was active in advocating 
the taking of Stony Brook Reservation for park 
]3urposes, which was accomplished, the board join- 
ing the Metropolitan I-'ark Commission in the 
transaction. He has been for many years a mem- 
ber of the Republican town committee for Hyde 
Park, holding successively the positions of secre- 
tary, treasurer, and chairman; and since 1893 a 
member of the Republican State Committee. He 
is connected with the Masonic order, which he 
joined before graduating from college ; also with 
the Royal Society of Good Fellows ; and has been 
a prominent member of the Golden Cross, and 
counsel for the order at large for twelve years. 
He belongs to both the social clubs of Hyde Park, 
the Waverly and the Hyde Park clubs, — president 
of the Waverly in 1S94. In college he was a mem- 
ber of the D. K. E. Society. He was married May 
I, 1880, to Miss Emily Owen, of Lebanon, N.H. 
They have two children: \\'alter (born August 3, 
1885), and Myra Powers (born May 22, 1889). 



PRRRLE, William Henrv, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Charlestown, born 
August II, 1856, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth 
(Freeman) Preble. His parents were both natives 
of Maine, the father of York and the mother of 
Mt. Desert ; and he is of English descent. His 
education was acquired in the Charlestown public 
schools. After his graduation from the High 
School in 1874 he went to work as a clerk in a law 
office, devoting his evenings to study. He read 
law in the offices of George E. Smith and F. 
Hutchinson, and in 1880 was admitted to the 
I\Lrssachusetts bar. Four years later he was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the United -States Circuit 
Court. He began the practice of his profession 
in Boston, where he has been established since, 
his present offices in the Sears Building. His 
practice has been confined to the ci\il side of the 
court, consisting mainly of commercial litigation 
and probate and insolvency cases. In politics he 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



171 



is a Republican, active in his party. For eight 
years he was prominent on the Republican city 
committee of Boston, and he is now a member of 




tury, is a native of Marlboro, born May 7, 1816, 
son of Nicholson Broughton and Lucy (Bond) 
Proctor. He received his early education in the 
local schools, and graduated from the Gates 
Academy in Marlboro. His parents intended him 
for the ministry, but his bent was strongly towards 
the stage ; and at the early age of seventeen, hav- 
ing found his way to Boston and enlisted the sym- 
pathies of William Pelby, then the manager of the 
Warren Theatre, he made his first bow before a 
theatrical audience. This was on the evening of 
November 29, 1833; and the part he essayed was 
Ba/iion in " Damon and Pythias," the Pythias being 
Edmond Connor, recently deceased (1894). His 
success was so marked that he was called upon to 
repeat the performance three times, one of the 
three at a benefit of Mrs. Anderson (Ophelia 
Pelby). Shortly after he appeared at the Tre- 
mont Theatre as Rolla in " Pizarro," and as Car- 
wiii in John Howard Payne's drama " Therese, 
the Orphan of Geneva," once a great favorite with 
Edwin Forrest ; and his next attempt was as 
Macbeth. This ambitious selection was made to 
meet the wishes of his parents, who had given 



WILLIAM H. PREBLE. 



the Republican State Committee. He was a mem- 
ber of the lower house of the Legislature in 1888 
and 1889, serving both terms on the committees 
on elections (chairman) and on probate and insol- 
vency (clerk) ; and he had a hand in shaping some 
of the most important legislation of the session. 
He is connected with the Masonic and Odd F'el- 
lows orders, — a member of the Henry Price Lodge, 
Masons, of Scottish Rites bodies, and of the Mas- 
sachusetts Consistory ; is a past grand of the 
Bunker Hill Lodge ( )dd Fellows, and member of 
the committee on the judiciary of the Grand 
Lodge. He is also a member of the order of 
Red Men, and of the Nme Hundred and Ninety- 
ninth Artillery Association of Charlestown. He 
was married December 8, 1880, to Miss .Amy 
Bertha Nash, of the Charlestown District. They 
have five children : Florence L., F.lsie May, Grace 
A., Winnifred L., and Gladys Preble. Mr. Preble 
still resides in the Charlestown District. 




JOSEPH PROCTOR. 



their reluctant consent to his adoption of the pro- 

PROCTOR, Joseph, tragedian, whose profes- fession of an actor on condition that he should 

sional career has covered upwards of half a cen- appear in some prominent character, " they, good 



172 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



souls that they were," as he has said, " trusting 
from the bottom of their hearts that failure would 
prove the result, and my aspirations for a stage 
life be fully satisfied." His success was so great 
that he took a stock engagement with Pelby, and 
applied himself to a careful study of the rudiments 
of the profession. At the close of his season in 
Pelby's company he moved westward, and for the 
next three years appeared at various theatres in 
general characters, from "utility" to leading busi- 
ness. His first engagement of this period was at 
Albany, where he spent a year, playing with many 
of the dramatic notables of the time, James Sher- 
idan Knowles and Thomas Apthorpe Cooper 
among the number. Then he joined a company 
which Charles R. Thorne and wife brought to 
Albany on their way West, and went with it to 
Buffalo, Toronto, and a number of Western cities. 
At Columbus, hearing from home that his mother 
was dangerously ill, he left the company and 
started East, travelling by stage over the .Allegha- 
nies, as there were then no railroads. At Phila- 
delphia, having received word of his mother's 
recovery, he rested, and, finding E. S. Connor, (who 
had played J'ythias at his first appearance in Bos- 
ton, ) at the \\'alnut .Street Theatre, he made an 
engagement there for the remainder of the season. 
This was the winter of 1836-37. The season was 
divided between Philadelphia and Pittsburg, in 
both of which cities he became a great favorite. 
After this he starred some time, in the west, and 
then, engaged by Thomas Hamblin for the Bowery 
Theatre, New York, appeared in the " Nick of 
the Woods," presented for the first time on the 
evening of the 6th of May, 1839, playing the 
Jihhenainosay, the part he subsequently made 
famous abroad as well as in his own country. 
This performance was received with great favor, 
and the play had a long and profitable run. The 
following season it was brought out in Boston, at 
the National Theatre, and the New York success 
was repeated. The ne.xt year Mr. Proctor spent 
mostly in starring tours. He travelled South and 
West, visited the Bahamas and other parts of the 
\\'est Indies. Again coming East, he filled engage- 
ments in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Port- 
land, and Bangor, and made repeated successful 
trips in various directions. In 1848 he returned 
to Boston, and took the management of the then 
unprosperous Beach Street Museum, which he 
conducted for about a year with a fair measure of 
success. Thence he went to Portland, opening 



there the new theatre built for him by the Hon. 
F. O. J. Smith, in the early autumn of 1849. 
Here he continued as manager for a couple of 
years, during this time also playing frequent star 
engagements in the more prominent cities of the 
country. In the autumn of 1851 he left for a 
professional tour in California, where he remained 
till March, 1854. His return to Boston was fol- 
lowed by a succession of starring engagements in 
the principal cities. Then in May, 1859, accom- 
panied by his wife, he sailed for Europe, and after 
a summer holiday trip on the continent made his 
first appearance before a London audience at the 
Royal Standard Theatre. This was an immediate 
and pronounced success ; and the prosperous en- 
gagement continued through ten successive weeks, 
terminating only with the holiday season. An ex- 
tended tour of leading cities in the north of Eng- 
land, Ireland, and Scotland followed, with similar 
success, after which he returned to London for 
a series of farewell performances, the opening of 
which was thus announced in the local press : 
" Reappearance of the pre-eminent tragedian, Mr. 
Joseph Proctor, whose great success in his pro- 
longed engagement of seventy nights in London, 
and recent triumphs in the north of England, in 
Scotland, and Ireland, have won for him the 
golden opinion of the press and public. He will 
appear as Macbeth. Locke's celebrated music 
will be sung by the English Opera Company." 
His stay abroad covered about two and a half 
years, during which he played in various roles of 
the Shakspearian and standard range, and fre- 
quently in the Jibbenainosa}\ winning warm praise 
from the English critics. During this period, 
when playing a star engagement at the Theatre 
Royal in Glasgow, he first met Henry Irving, 
then a member of the supporting company, and 
was so impressed by his work and his evident de- 
termination to master every detail of the man- 
ager's as well as the actor's art, that he felt assured 
of the young actor's future, and told him so. 
Years after his words were most agreeably re- 
called by Irving when in Boston, who, at a little 
supper after the play, referred to Proctor as the 
kindest man he ever knew, — " a man enveloped 
in a kind and gentle spirit, whose encouraging 
words spoken to me when many years younger 
than I am to-night were more hopeful than this 
good man supposed they would be when, impelled 
by his inherent goodness of heart, he uttered them 
to a young actor struggling to reach his ideal in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



•73 



his profession." Upon returning to America, Mr. 
Proctor repeated his starring trips over the coun- 
try. While filling an engagement at the Howard 
Athena-um in Boston in 1865, he played Mad)cth 
to Charlotte Cushman's Lady Mmiieth at the P)OS- 
ton Theatre in a performance for the benefit of 
the Sanitary Commission. Late in the seventies 
he played a series of successful engagements in 
Colorado. In 1885 he practically retired from the 
stage, and established a school of dramatic art in 
Boston, which he has since directed during tiie 
winter months, resting summers at his country 
place at Manchester-by-the-sea. He has occa- 
sionally given performances with his pupils in 
New England towns, before lyceums, and once 
since his retirement has appeared at a benefit 
performance in Boston, — at the Globe Theatre, 
April 8, 1890, in aid of the fund for the Mrs. J. R. 
Vincent Hospital, when he played Macbeth. Mr. 
Proctor was first married in 1837, to Miss Hester 
\\'illis ^^'arre^, daughter of William Warren, and 
sister of William Warren, the long-time favorite 
Boston comedian. She died in Boston, IJecember 
7, 1841. He married second Miss Elizabeth R. 
Wakeman, daughter of Bradley Wakeman, of Bal- 
timore, in February, 1851. His wife and daughter. 
Miss Anna E. Proctor, and self are the surviving 
unities of his last alliance. 



RENO, Conrad, member of the Suffolk bar, is 
a native of Alabama, born in Mount Vernon, 
December 28, 1859, son of Jesse Lee and Mary 
B. B. (Cross) Reno. He is of French descent on 
the paternal side, and of English on the maternal 
side. His father, a graduate of West Point in 
1846, served through the Mexican War, and in 
the Civil War was a major-general of United 
States Volunteers, in command of the Ninth 
Army Corps, when he was killed in the battle 
of South Mountain, Md., on the 14th of Sep- 
tember, 1862. Conrad Reno was educated in 
the schools of Baltimore, in Shortlidge"s Media 
Academy of Media-, Penna., and at Lehigh Univer- 
sity, where he spent two years. Then he came 
East, and studied law two years in the Harvard 
Law School and one year in the Boston University 
Law School, graduating in 1883. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in September of that year, and, 
after three or four months in the law office of the 
Hon. Henry W. Paine, began practice on his own 
account in Pioston, where he has since been 



established. Among important cases in which 
he has been engaged was that of Eliot v. McCor- 
mick, Mass. Reports, vols. 141 and 144, now 
regarded as a leading case in Massachusetts and 
in other States, in which it was decided that a 
judgment against a non-resident defendant, with- 
out personal service of process or voluntary 
appearance, was null and void, and that certain 
State statutes which purported to authorize the 
rendition of a judgment upon notice by publica- 
tion were unconstitutional : this decision over- 
ruling a long line of Massachusetts cases and 




CONRAD RENO. 

reversing the practice of the preceding hundred 
years. And another was Eustis v. BoUes, Mass. 
Reports, vol. 146, and United States Supreme 
Court Reports, vol. 150, in which it was decided 
that the Composition Acts of Massachusetts were 
unconstitutional as applied to pre-existing con- 
tracts, and that a creditor waived his right to 
object to their unconstitutionality by accepting a 
dividend under the composition proceedings. The 
Supreme Court of the United States held that it 
had no jurisdiction to review this decision of the 
Massachusetts court. He has spent a large part 
of ten years in the study of constitutional law, 
and of the law of " non-residents and foreign cor- 
porations," and has published a number of w^orks 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



on these subjects. He has also written much 
upon economic and labor questions, ills publica- 
tions include: two papers on "Judgments by 
Default against Non-resident Defendants " {Atiicr- 
iam Laiv Jievicic, 1887 and 1888); papers 
entitled "Ogden ?■. Sanders Reviewed" {.American 
Law Register, 1888), " Impairment of Contracts 
by Change of Judicial Opinion" {Amcricaii Law 
Review, 1889), "Extra Territorial Effect of Limita- 
tion Bar" {American Law Review, 1890), "The 
Wage Contract and Personal Liberty" {Popular 
Science Monthly, 1892), "Arbitration and the Wage 
Contract" (American L^aw Review, 1892), "Pro- 
tective Tariff I-aws and the Commerce Clause " 
{American Law Review, 1893), "Individual Liabil- 
ity of Non-resident Stockholders " {American Law 
Revie7i', 1894): a pamphlet entitled "State Regula- 
tion of Wages" (Boston: B. Wilkins & Co., 1891,): 
and an elaborate work on " Non-residents and 
Eoreign Corporations," treating of the fundamental, 
rights, remedies, and liabilities of such residents 
and corporations, both under State law and Federal 
law, the first and only work covering these sub- 
jects (one volume; Chicago; T. H. Flood & Co., 
1892). Since January, 1893, Mr. Reno has been 
an instructor in the Boston University Law School, 
on the subject of theses. He is a member of the 
Loyal Legion of the United States, in November, 
1892, elected secretary of the committee on his- 
tory of the Massachusetts Conimandery ; a mem- 
ber of the Aztec Club ; of the Sons of Veterans, 
and other military organizations ; and of the An- 
cient Order of United Workmen. In politics he 
is of the People's Party. He attended the first 
national convention of the party in July, 1892, as 
a delegate from Massachusetts, and on September 
6, 1893, was nominated for attorney-general of 
Massachusetts on the People's Party State ticket. 
He was married April 13, 1887, to Miss Susan 
Moore Eustis, daughter of the Rev. William T. 
Eustis, D.D., of Springfield. They have no chil- 
dren. 



1660. His father. James Rollins, was born on 
the memorable July 4, ly?^- James W. was 
fitted for college at the South Berwick (Me.) 
Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1845, 
at the age of eighteen years. His law studies 
were pursued with the Hon. John Hubbard and 



ROLLINS, James Wino.'vte, member of the 
SutTolk bar, is a native of New Hampshire, born 
in Rollinsford (formerly Somersworth), April 19, 
1827, son of James and Sally (Wingate) Rollins. 
He is a descendant in the seventh generation of 
James Rollins, who came from England with the 
Ipswich settlers in 1632, and a few years after 
removed to Dover, N.H. ; and, on the maternal 
side, of John Wingate, w-ho came to Dover in 




JAMES W. ROLLINS. 

William A. Hayes, of South Berwick ; and he was 
admitted to the bar in York County, Maine, 
early in 1850. In May of the same year he was 
admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, and has 
practised his profession in Boston since that time. 
He had a large practice in the courts till about 
1880, when, on account of increasing deafness, he 
was obliged to devote himself almost entirely to 
office practice. The only civil or political offices 
he has ever held were those of chairman of the 
School Committee of the town of West Ro.xbury 
(now part of the city of Boston) from 1868 to 
1870, and member of the Board of Selectmen of 
the town. He has been a director of the Mas- 
sachusetts Central Railroad Company, and was 
for some years president of the Boston, Halifax, 
and Prince Edward Island Steamship Line. In 
politics he has always been a Republican, but he 
has not engaged actively in political work, having 
attended strictly to his professional business. 
He w-as married November 22, 1845, '^ Sophia 



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175 



Atwill (born Sophia Webb Hutchings), and has 
living four children : Mary H. ; James W., Jr., now 
a well-known civil engineer of Boston ; Alice S., 
wife of Edwin T. ISrewster, of Cambridge ; and 
Edward A. Rollins, engaged in manufacture. 



SAUNDERS, Ch.vrles Hicks, of Cambridge, 
largely identified with the progress and develop- 
ment of the university city during the past forty 
years, was born in Old Cambridge, November 10, 
182 1, second son of William and Sarah (Flagg) 
Saunders. His ancestors came to New England 
from ( )ld England as early as 1635, and on his 
maternal side some have always resided in Cam- 
bridge since that date. One of these, John 
Hicks, the great-grandfather of Mr. Saunders, was 
killed in Cambridge by the British troops retreat- 
ing from Lexington on the memorable 19th of 
April, 1775, while he was busily engaged, musket 
in hand, with a company of his friends, in picking 
off the redcoats. The city of Cambridge, in 1870, 
erected a monument to their memory in the old 
burial-ground in Old Cambridge. Charles H. 
Saunders received his education in the public 
schools of Cambridge, and was partially fitted for 
college in the Hopkins Classical School ; but, 
preferring a business career to a professional one, 
he early engaged in mercantile pursuits. After 
occupying a position in the Suffolk Bank of Bos- 
ton for a short time, he entered the hardware 
business in that city, and continued in it until the 
year 1863, when, at the age of forty-two, he re- 
tired. \\'hile in business, he made considerable 
investments in real estate in Cambridge, which he 
developed by the opening of streets and the erec- 
tion of houses ; and, since relinquishing the ac- 
tive care of business, his time has been largely 
occupied in interests of that character. He has 
always stood in the foremost rank of those advo- 
cating the carrying out of all improvements that 
should increase the attractiveness of his native 
city. In politics Mr. Saunders was first a Whig, 
and upon the disintegration of that party allied 
himself with the Republican party, of which he 
has always been an active and zealous adherent. 
He was early called to fill the various offices of the 
city. He was elected a member of the Common 
Council for the years 1853 and 1854, and of the 
Board of Aldermen for 1861 and 1862. In all the 
events of the Civil War he took the deepest inter- 
est, and aided all measures for its active prosecu- 



tion, especially the enlistment of men for the quota 
of the city. As one of the committee of the City 
('ouncil on Soldiers and their Families, he had 
the disbursement of aid to nearly seventy soldiers' 
families intrusted to him. In the years 1864-65- 
66-67 he served as one of the principal assessors 
of the city, and in the fall of 1867 was elected 
mayor for the year 1868, without opposition, hav- 
ing received the nomination of four distinct 
parties; and he was re-elected for the year i86g. 
His administration was remarkably successful, 
giving general satisfaction, and showing a large 
amount of permanent improvements, all carried 
out without the creation of any new debt. 
Among the improvements recommended by him 
and completed during his term of office were the 
establishment of a fire alarm telegraph system, 
the uniforming of the police, the erecting of mar- 
ble tablets to mark the graves of the soldiers in 
the Cambridge Cemetery, the grading and beauti- 
fying of the Broadway l^ark, the widening of Main 




CHAS. H. SAUNDERS. 

Street (now Massachusetts .\venue), the con- 
struction of a brick sidewalk from Harvard 
Square to Boston, and the laying out of walks and 
planting of trees in all the public squares and 
commons of the city. Lfpon his urgent appeal, 
made in both of his inaugural addresses, the City 



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MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



Council decided to erect a monument upon Cam- 
bridge Common, the first camping-ground of the 
Revolution, in honor of the soldiers and sailors of 
Cambridge who fell in the Civil War. The cor- 
ner-stone of the structure was laid on June 17, 
1869, with appropriate ceremonies, the mayor 
making the principal address. In 1876 Mr. 
Saunders was elected one of the commissioners 
of the sinking funds of the city, and has served as 
chairman of the board from that time to the pres- 
ent, during which period more than $2,500,000 of 
the city debt has been paid. He was also se- 
lected, in 1877, one of the commissioners on be- 
half of the city to settle a large number of estates 
which had been surrendered on account of the 
filling of the low districts by the city. He served 
for several years as one of the trustees of the 
Cambridge Savings Bank, and for eleven years as 
a director of the Cambridge Gas Light Company, 
in which corporation, being a large stockholder, 
he was instrumental in effecting important re- 
forms. H e served for many years as president of 
the Cambridge Lyceum Corporation, and is now 
its treasurer. In 1889, at the organization of the 
Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the .Ameri- 
can Revolution, he was unanimously elected its 
first president, and served for 1889 and 1890, 
declining a re-election in 1891. He is also a 
member of the Bunker Hill Monument Associa- 
tion, of the New England Historic Genealogical 
Society, of the Shepard Historical Society, and of 
the Cambridge Club. Mr. Saunders was married 
on September 18, 1849, to Miss Mary B. Ball, of 
Concord, by whom he had four children : Annie B., 
Carrie H., Mary L. (now Mrs. Clapp, of Lexing- 
ton), and Charles R. Saunders (now of Boston). 



for two years to the cost of finishing his education. 
In April, 1846, he came to Boston, working his 
passage on a sailing-vessel, and apprenticed him- 
self to Aaron E. Whittemore, of Ro.\;bury (whose 
shop was on the corner of Warren and Dudley 
Street, where the Hotel Dartmouth now stands), to 
learn the carriage-smith's trade and spring-making. 
Here he remained for two years, employing his 
evenings in the study of book-keeping, arithmetic, 
and writing. His employer failing in business, 
he spent the next two years working as a journey- 
man in Roxbury and Dorchester. Then in C)c- 



SCOTT, John Adams, of John A. Scott & Son, 
carriage builders, Boston, is a native of Nova 
Scotia, born in Windsor, Hauts County, October, 
20, 1827, son of John and Elizabeth (Dill) Scott. 
His father was a native of Halifax, and his mother 
of Windsor ; and his grandparents on both sides 
were of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was reared 
on farms, and educated for the most part in the 
district school. His mother dying when he was 
eight years old, and the family being broken up, 
he lived till his fifteenth year on the farm of his 
father's only sister, attending school during the 
winter months ; and upon her death he went to 
work upon another farm, employing his earnings 




JOHN ADAMS SCOTT. 

tober, 185 1, he entered business for himself in 
the same shop in which he learned his trade ; and 
he has continued on the same street and near the 
site of the old shop ever since. His works have 
been repeatedly enlarged, and he has for some 
time been a leading member of the trade. He 
was president of the National Carriage Builders' 
Association in 1891, and is now (1894) president 
of the National Carriage Exchange. Before the 
annexation of Roxbury to Boston he was for three 
years a member of the Roxbury city government 
(1865-66-67), closing his service in its last Board 
of Aldermen ; and after annexation he was for 
three years a member of the Board of Overseers 
of the Poor of Boston. For a long period he was 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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connected with the mihtia, joining it in 1849. 
He was for seven years in the infantry ; and later, 
during the Civil War, joined the cavalry, in which 
he continued for twelve years, passing through 
all the grades up to captain, which position he 
held for three years. He was active during the 
war in assisting to fill Roxbury's quota. In the 
latter part of the war period he was a member of 
the military committee of the City Council, and he 
was one of the reception committee upon the re- 
turn of the soldiers at the close of the war. In 
politics Captain Scott is an ardent Republican. 
He is president of the Boston Market Men's Re- 
publican Club, and is connected with other organ- 
izations. He was married September 17, 1848, 
to Miss Sarah Sargent Long, of Chester, N.H. 
They have had three daughters and two sons : 
Mary Elizabeth, Mildred Orn, Jessie Fremont, 
John Franklin, and William Jackson Scott. The 
eldest daughter, Mary, died in September, 1S74; 
and Mrs. Scott died December 24, 1889. 



SERGEANT, Charles Spencer, general man- 
ager of the West End Street Railway, Boston, is 
a native of Northampton, born April 30, 1852, 
son of George and Lydia (Clark) Sergeant. His 
father was born in Stockbridge, where the family 
had made its home ever since the Rev. John Ser- 
geant, his direct ancestor, went there as a mis- 
sionary to the Stockbridge Indians in 17,35. 
Other branches settled in New Jersey and Penn- 
sylvania, the first of the family coming to America 
in 1640. On his mother's side he is a descendant 
of an old Northampton family which contributed 
its share to the Revolutionary militia. He was 
educated in the public schools of Northampton, 
graduating from the High School in 1868. His 
business career began that year, when he entered 
the employ of the First National Bank of East- 
hampton as boy. Subsequently he became teller 
of the bank, which position he held for four years. 
Then he went to Lake Superior, and, after spend- 
ing some time in the office of the Hon. S. P. Ely, 
in Marquette, Mich, (who was then secretary and 
treasurer and managing director of the Marquette, 
Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad Company, the 
Lake Superior Iron Company, the Morgan, Re- 
public, Humboldt, and Champion Iron com- 
panies), was made cashier and paymaster of the 
Marc|uette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad 
Company. Later he was engaged in the iron 



smelting business in Morgan, Mich. Returning 
East in 1876 to take the position of chief clerk of 
the old Eastern Railroad ("ompany, he became 
auditor of the company at the time of its reorgan- 
ization. After several years' service here he re- 
signed, to take position w-ith Charles Merriam, 
treasurer of many Western railroads, land com- 
panies, and kindred enterprises. When, in De- 
cember, 1887, the \\'est End Raihvay Company 
came into possession of the several street rail- 
ways centring in Boston, he was offered and ac- 
cepted the position of general auditor of the com- 




CHAS. S. SERGEANT. 

pany. Subsequently he was made second vice- 
president, and in November, 1892, was appointed 
to the position of general manager, which he now 
holds. He is a member of the new Exchange 
Club of Boston, the Calumet Club of Winchester, 
and of the Young Men's Democratic Club of 
Massachusetts. He is fond of canoeing, fishing, 
shooting, and outdoor sports generally ; but, being 
a very busy man in a most responsible position, 
he rarely finds time to devote himself to their pur- 
suit. In politics Mr. Sergeant is classed as an 
Independent Democrat. He was married June 3, 
1880, to Miss Elizabeth Blake Shepley. They have 
three children : Elizabeth Sheplev, Rosamond, 
and Katharine Sergeant. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



SLOCUM, WiNKiELD Scott, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, and city solicitor of Newton, was born 
in Grafton, May i, 1841, son of William F. and 



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and of the Newton Club : and he is a Free 
Mason and Knight Templar. In politics he is 
Republican, and in religion a Congregationalist, 
member of the Central Congregational Church of 
Newtonville. Mr. Slocum was married in 1873 to 
Miss Annie A. Pulsifer, daughter of Charles S. 
I'ulsifer, of Newton. They have iiad four chil- 
dren : Frederick Pulsifer (deceased), .\gnes Eliza- 
beth, Charles Pulsifer, and W'infield Scott Slo- 
cum, Jr. 

SOHIER, William Davies, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, October 22, 1858, 
son of William and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Sohier. 
He is descended on both sides from early Essex 
families — the Higginson, Cabot, Jackson, and 
Lowell families — which were closely connected 
w'ith the early history of the county. His ances- 
tor, Francis Higginson, was one of the founders of 
Salem ; and the Higginsons and Cabots were long 
prominent in Salem and Beverly. Another ances- 
tor, Jonathan Jackson, represented Essex on the 
committee which drafted the Massachusetts Con- 
stitution ; and another, John Lowell, was also a 



WINFIELD S. SLOCUM. 

Margaret (Tinker) Slocum. His paternal grand- 
father was Oliver E. Slocum, of Tolland, and 
grandmother Mary (Mills) Slocum. He was edu- 
cated in the Grafton schools and at Amherst 
College, graduating from the latter in the class 
of 1869; and studied for his profession in Bos- 
ton, in the office of Slocum & Staples, composed 
of his father and the late Judge Hamilton E. 
Staples of the Superior bench. Admitted to the 
bar in 187 1, he became a partner with his father 
in general practice, under the firm name of W. ¥. 
& W. S. Slocum, with offices in Boston and 
Newton. In 1881 he was made city solicitor of 
Newton, which position he has since held. He 
was a member of the first School Board of the city 
of Newton, and served in that body four terms 
(1874-77) ; and in 1888 and 1889 he represented 
his district in the lower house of the Legislature, 
serving both terms on the important committee on 
cities, the second term as its chairman. He is 
a member of the Boston Bar Association, of the 
Boston Congregational Club, of the Newton Con- 
gregational Club, of the Boston Athletic Associa- 
tion, of the Massachusetts (political dining) Club, 




WM. D. SOHIER, 



member on behalf of Suffolk, although a native of 
Essex. An earlier John Lowell was town clerk 
of Newbury, and deputy to the General Court 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



179 



in 1643. Mr. Sohicr's father, grandfather, and 
uncle were each prominent members of the bar ; 
and on his mother's side lie is descended from 
Judge John Lowell, distinguished as the first 
United States district judge of the northern dis- 
trict, appointed by Washington, and is a nephew 
of the present John Lowell, who has recently held 
the same position. His mother was a daughter of 
John Amory Lowell. His early education was at- 
tained in Boston private schools and in the public 
schools of Beverly. Then he attended the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of 
1875, and in 1876 entered the Harvard Law 
School. He completed his legal studies in the 
offices of Henry \V. Paine and Robert 1). Smith 
in Boston, and in 1881 was admitted to the bar. 
He began practice in Boston, and since 1884 has 
been associated with his uncle, ex-Judge John 
Lowell, of the United States Circuit Court. In 
the famous contests in the Legislature over the 
division of the town of Beverly, covering the years 
1S86-90, he represented the opponents of division, 
first as a member of the committee appointed by 
the town to oppose the movement, serving as 
counsel, without pay, for the first two years of the 
struggle, and then as representative from the town 
in the lower house of the Legislatures of 1888, 
1889, 1890, and 1 89 1, where he was again success- 
ful in defeating each attempt for division. In 
189 1 the petitioners were discouraged; and, al- 
though a petition was presented, it was not pressed. 
The danger then being practically over, he de- 
clined to be a candidate for re-election for a fifth 
term. During his four terms he served on a num- 
ber of important committees, and was counted 
among the most influential leaders. He is a 
member of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, 
and at the time of its formation was chairman of 
the e.xecutive committee. He is also a member 
of the Union and Puritan clubs of Boston, of the 
Country Club, and of tire Essex County Club. 
Mr. Sohier was married in Boston, December 13, 
1880, to Miss Edith F. Alden, daughter of Walter 
B. and Julia E. ( White 1 Alden, a lineal descendant 
of John Alden, of Plymouth. They have three 
children : Eleanor, Alice, and William Davies 
Sohier. 



the public schools of Rockland, and at Bowdoin 
College, from which he graduated in the class of 
1870. He was first prepared for the ministry, 
taking the regular course of the Bangor Theologi- 
cal Seminary, and soon after his graduation there- 
from, in 1873, began preaching. For three years 
he was pastor of the Congregational church in 
Dunbarton, N.H. Retiring from the pulpit, he 
spent two years in European travel, and then ap- 
plied himself to the study of law, reading with Al- 
bert P. Gould, of Thomaston, Me. Admitted to 
the bnr in 1878, he has since practised in Boston. 




SPEAR, Wiii.iA.M Edward, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Rock- 
land, January 2, 1849, son of Archibald G. and 
Angelica (Branton) Spear. He was educated in 



WILLIAM E. SPEAR. 

He was assistant counsel for the United States in 
the court of commissioners of Alabama claims 
from 1882 to 1885 inclusive, and subsequently 
assistant counsel for the government in the 
French spoliation claims. In January, 1893, he 
was appointed a L'uited States commissioner to 
take the place made vacant by the death of Henry 
L. Hallett. He has been a member of the board 
of overseers of Bowdoin College since 1888. In 
politics Mr. Spear is a Republican. He is an 
earnest bimetallist, and in the discussion of the 
sil\-er question has taken a prominent part, 
delivering addresses before boards of trade in 
the vicinity of Boston, and publishing numerous 
articles in advocacy of the free coinage of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



whitu nifUil. He was married in October, 1878, 
to Mrs. Marie Josephine (kaiix. 'J'liey have had 
two children, Ma.x Branton and Louis Rene 
Spear, both deceased. He is a brother-in-law of 
Senator Frye and of ex-Governor Garcelon of 
Maine. 



SPENCER, Aaron Warner, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Stock E.xchange 1860-62 and 1888- 
90, is a native of Vermont, born in Springfield, 
Windsor County, son of Guy and Mary (Warner) 
Spencer. His ancestors on the paternal side 




A. W. SPENCER. 

were among the early settlers of this part of 
Vermont, and his mother's family was of Ac- 
worth, N.H. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of his native town, and at Chester 
(Vt.) Academy, from which he was graduated. 
In 1842 he came to Boston, and has since 
resided there, during his active business life oc- 
cupying a conspicuous position among bankers 
and brokers of the city. He began as a clerk 
in the banking and brokerage house of J. W. 
Clark & Co., and in 1850 he was admitted to the 
firm. That year he also became a member of 
the Stock Exchange then known as the Boston 
Brokers' Board, in the transactions of which he 
at once assumed a prominent position. In 1S56 



he retired from the firm of J. W. Clark &: Co., and 
established the banking house of Spencer, Vila, & 
Co., of which he was the head through an eventful 
decade of years. During tlie Civil War the firm 
were for a considerable period the sole agents of 
the Treasury Department for the sale of govern- 
ment securities in the New England States, and 
their sales aggregated hundreds of millions of 
dollars. At that time Mr. Spencer was one of 
the largest operators connected with the Stock 
Exchange, and classed among the shrewdest. 
He was first elected president of the Exchange in 
September, i860, and served through re-elections 
till September, 1862. His second term, for the 
years t 888-90, was twenty years after his retire- 
ment from the firm of Spencer, Vila, & Co. and 
from active business (1867). He was among the 
earliest members of the board to take an active 
interest in the copper mining districts of Lake 
Superior, then undeveloped ; and, when a partner 
in the house of J. W. Clark & Co., he made 
frequent visits to this region, passing over the 
very sections where are now the rich Calumet 
and Hecla, the Tamarack, and the Osceola mines, 
at that period covered by an utterly unexplored 
wilderness. From that time he has been con- 
nected with Lake Superior mining interests, and 
has retained large holdings in the leading produc- 
ing mines. Since his retirement from business 
he has taken no prominent part in the trans- 
actions of the Exchange, although he continues 
his connection with it, and is a daily attendant at 
its sessions. He is a member of the Temple, 
Algonquin, Suffolk, Art, and Country clubs. He 
was married in June, 1853, to Miss Josephine 
Vila, of Roxbury. His only surviving child is 
Josephine (now Mrs. Frederick Lewis Gay). 
His only son, Alfred Warner Spencer, a graduate 
of Harvard College, died in 1887. Mr. Spencer 
has resided since 1853 in Dorchester, now the 
Dorchester District of Boston, owning there, on 
Columbia Street, a large, old-fashioned, most 
attractive rural estate, comprising nearly twenty 
acres, with oaks of more than a century's growth, 
and stone walls built a hundred years ago. 



SPOFFORD, John Calvin, architect, Boston, 
is a native of Maine, born in Webster, Andros- 
coggin County, November 25, 1854, son of 
Phineas M. and Mary E. (Wentworth) Spofford. 
His ancestry is traced to John and Elizabeth 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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(Scott) Spofford, who came from Yorkshire, Eng., 
to this country in 1638, and settled in tiiat part 
of Rowley, Mass., now the town of (Jreorgetown. 
He is a lineal descendant of John Went worth, 
lieutenant governor of the province of New 
Hampshire from 17 17 to T730. His great-great- 
great-grandfather. Captain John Wentworth, 
fought on the " Plains of Abraham " at the battle 
of Quebec, and was one of the men who carried 
\\'olfe to the rock beside which he died. His 
father, IMiineas M. Spofford, was a ship-carpenter 
and farmer in Webster. John C. spent his early 
boyhood on the farm of his grandfather, Foster I). 
Wentwdith, attending the district school during 
the winter months. Later he enjoyed several 
terms at the Monmouth Academy, Monmouth, Me., 
and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's 
Hill. While attending these academies he taught 
some time in his old district school, using the pro- 
ceeds from this service to defray the expenses of 
his education. Subsequently he became principal 
of .Smith's Ilusiness College in Lewiston, where he 
remained for a year or more (1876-77). When a 
pupil in the district school, he excelled in drawing ; 
and he early evinced a liking for architecture, 
which was stimulated by work at the carpenter's 
and mason's trade after leaving the school-room. 
Finally, he determined to adopt architecture as a 
profession, and in 1879 came to Boston to prepare 
for it. He first entered the office of H. J. 
Preston, where he worked and studied for about a 
year. Then in February, 1881, he engaged as a 
draughtsman with Sturgis & Brigham, one of Bos- 
ton's leading firms of architects, and continued 
in their employ until 1886. During this period 
he had charge of the construction of a number of 
noteworthy public and private structures of the 
firm's design, among them the building of the 
Massachusetts Life Insurance Company on State 
Street in Boston, and the residence of H. H. Rogers 
of the Standard Oil Company in New York, hi 
1887 he engaged in professional work on his own 
account, and in March of that year formed a 
copartnership with Willard M. Bacon, under the 
firm name of Spofford & Bacon. At the expira- 
tion of a year this partnership was dissolved, and 
he united with Charles Brigham, formerly of 
Sturgis & Brigham, under the name of Brigham & 
Spofford. He obtained for the new firm, among 
other large and valuable contracts, those for the 
alteration and enlargement of the Maine State 
House and for the construction of the new City 



Hall of Lewiston, Me. The work of designing 
and building the Massachusetts State House 
Flxtension was also begun under the firm of 
lirigham & Spofford, and its other notable work 
included the Asylum for Liebriates and Dipso- 
maniacs in Foxborough ; the Presbyterian church 
in the Roxbury District, Boston ; the passen- 
ger stations on the Old Colony division of the 
New "S'ork, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 
at Roxbury and Stoughton ; the Town Hall and 
Public Library in Fairhaven ; the Memorial Hall 
in Belfast, Me. ; the residence of J. Manchester 




JOHN C. SPOFFORD. 

Haynes in Augusta, Me., pronounced the finest 
residence in the Kennebec Valley (burned in 
1893); and extensive residences in the l-lo.xbury 
and West Roxbury Districts of Boston. Li 
February, 1892, the firm was dissolved; and after 
a trip abroad Mr. Spofford opened his present 
offices in the John Hancock Building, Boston, and 
resumed work upon several important com- 
missions. Of his later designs are the new- City 
Hall of Bangor, Me., the Methodist church 
and the Hapgood Building in Everett, and numer- 
ous residences, among them the elegant house of 
Charles E. Jennings, of Everett. Mr. Spoft'ord 
is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows 
orders ; has been grand protector of Massachusetts 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and is a 
member of a number of other fraternal associa- 
tions. He was elected president of the " Spofford 
Family Association" in 1888, on the occasion of 
the gathering of seven hundred members of the 
family from all parts of the country, to celebrate 
the 250th anniversary of the arrival from England 
in this country of John Spofford and Elizabeth 
Scott, his wife, the founders of the family in 
America. Mr. Spofford was married July 6, 1881, 
to Miss Ella M. Fuller, of Turner, Me. They 
have one child : Mabel Euller Spofford. 



affairs for a number of years. He was a mem- 
ber of the Common Council in 1887-88, and 
he has been an alderman three terms (1892, 
1893-94), serving on the important committees on 
finance, ordinances, claims, and accounts, and 
chairman of the board in 1894. He was for two 
years a member of the Republican ward and city 
committee, and member of the county committee 
for 1893 and 1S94. He belongs to the Masonic 
order and to the Knights of Pythias : chancellor 
commander of the latter in i886. In religion he 
is Unitarian, clerk of the First Unitarian So- 
ciety of Chelsea, and member of the standing 
committee. He was married February 14, 1882, 
to Miss Idella E. Wilkinson. They have two chil- 
dren : Ralph A\'. and Ethel L. Stearns. 




CEO. M. STEARNS. 

STEARNS, Gilorge Mvron, of Chelsea, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Spencer, born 
April 27, 1856, son of Isaac N. and Mary (Wood) 
Stearns. He is descended from Isaac Sterne 
(afterwards spelled Stearns) who came from Eng- 
land in 1630, and was one of the early settlers of 
Watertown, a selectman of the town in 1659, and 
again in 1670 and 167 1. He was educated in the 
common schools and at Wilbraham Academy, and 
fitted for his profession in the Boston University 
Law School, from which he graduated in the class 
of 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, 
and has since practised his profession in Boston. 
In Chelsea he has been prominent in municipal 



SLIGHRUE, Michael Joseph, assistant dis- 
trict attorney for Suffolk, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in NasJiua, August 27, 1857, son 
of John and Julia (Sullivan) Sughrue. He is of 
Irish ancestry. His general education was ac- 
quired in public schools of Boston — the family 
moving to that city when he was a child — and at 



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M. J. SUGHRUE. 

the Crosby Academy of Nashua. Obliged early to 
earn his living, he engaged in various occupations 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



183 



in Boston, some time in the dry-goods business, 
then in tiie post-office, then as assistant in the 
Social Law Liljrary. meanwhile studying law at 
home. At length he entered the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, and, graduating therefrom in 
1888, was admitted to the Suffolk bar. After 
about three years spent in general practice, asso- 
ciated with George L. Huntress, Homer Albers, 
and J. Porter Crosby, having offices in the Sears 
Building, he was appointed (in June, 1891) assist- 
ant district attorney for the Suffolk District by 
the Hon. Oliver Stevens. He is a member of the 
University Club, District Attorneys' Club, the 
Young Men's Catholic Association, the Catholic 
Union, Clover Club, the Young Men's Democratic 
Club, the Charitable Irish Society, Savin Hill 
Yacht Club, and the Knights of Honor. Mr. 
Sughrue was married in Boston on June 22, 1892. 
to Miss Elizabeth Frances Quinn. 



S\\'IFT, GENER.A.L John Linds.-w, some time 
naval officer at the port of Boston, and for eigh- 
teen years a deputy collector of the Boston 
custom-house, is a native of Falmouth, Barn- 
stable County, born May 28, 1828, son of Joseph 
Pease and Priscilla (Dimmock-Chadwick) Swift, 
both also natives of Falmouth. When he was 
nine years of age his parents removed to Utica, 
N.V., where he was educated at the academy of 
that city. At the age of seventeen he came with 
his family to Boston, and here began active life in 
mercantile business. From 1848 to 1852 he was 
a prominent member of the Mercantile Library 
Association, at that time including among its 
members many of the foremost of the younger 
business men of the city. Deciding to become 
a lawyer, he entered the Harvard Law School in 
1854, where he remained two terms, leaving be- 
fore graduation, however, to accept a clerical 
position in the city government of Boston. In 
1855 and 1857 he was a member of the lower 
house of the Legislature, and was an active sup- 
porter of Henry Wilson for his first term 
and of Charles Sumner for his second term as 
United States Senator. He became pilot com- 
missioner in 1858, by appointment of Governor 
Banks. This office he resigned at the opening of 
the Civil War, at which time he was acting 
as lieutenant of the " Boston Tigers," a battal- 
ion of the local militia then occupying Fort War- 
ren under orders of Governor Andrew. In June, 



186 1, he was appointed United States storekeeper 
at the custom-house ; and here he remained 
nearly a year, resigning in .Vugust, 1862, to enlist 
as a private in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers. He was early promoted to 
the rank of sergeant, and in August, 1862, while 
his regiment was embarking on a train for An- 
tietam, was detached as lieutenant to recruit a 
company in Roxbury. Subsequently, as captain 
of Company C, Forty-first Regiment, he joined 
General Banks's expedition to the Department of 
the Gulf. Early in 1863 he was appointed pro- 



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JOHN L. SWIFT. 

vost judge of Baton Rouge, La. He was re- 
lieved from this position at his own request, and 
in 1863 was detached from his regiment, and 
made captain and judge advocate on the staff of 
General Grover, commanding a brigade of the 
Nineteenth Army Corps then under orders for 
active service in the Department of the Gulf. He 
was one of the volunteers of the " Forlorn Hope " 
for the assault on Port Hudson in June, 1S63. In 
1864 he was honorably discharged from the army 
to become adjutant-general of the State of Louisi- 
ana, which position he held till some time in 1865, 
when he resigned, and returned North. In Sep- 
tember, 1866, he became naval officer at the port 
of Boston, appointed to that position by President 
Johnson, and holding it till the following March, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



when he was succeeded by General Francis A. 
Osborn. The next month Collector Thomas 
Russell appointed him deputy collector. This 
was the beginning of his long service in that office, 
broken only by two excursions into business and 
professional undertakings. His first withdrawal 
was in 1869, when he resigned to engage in busi- 
ness in New York City. In 1874 he was again 
appointed deputy collector by Collector Simmons, 
and served from that date through the administra- 
tions of Collectors Simmons, Beard, and Wortli- 
ington. He resigned his office in November, 
1885, when the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall was 
commissioned collector. His next term of ser- 
vice was from March, 1890, to March, 1894, 
under Collector Beard. Early a sympathizer with 
the anti-slavery cause, he became a member of the 
Republican party at its inception. He took a 
somewhat prominent part in the Anthony Burns 
"riot" in 1854. Aside from politics, his natural 
capacities as a public speaker have found practice 
in the cause of religion and temperance. He has 
taken an active part as a speaker on the stump 
in every presidential campaign since 1852. He 
is a member of the Loyal Legion and of the 
Grand Army of the Republic (a comrade of Post 
68) and of the Massachusetts and Congregational 
clubs. His published works are : " Speech on 
the Removal of E. G. Loring from the office of 
Judge of Probate," April, 1855; "About Grant," 
Boston, 1880: the oration at the bicentenni.d 
celebration of Stow, May, 1883 ; the oration at 
the celebration of the two hundredth anniver- 
sary of the incorporation of Falmouth, June 15, 
1886 ; and the "Oration before the City Council 
and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1889." He was 
editor of a weekly paper. After Dinner, during 
1873 and 1874; and of the State, a weekly poHti- 
cal and general newspaper, from 1885 to 1887 ; 
from 1887 to 1890 he served on the editorial stafT 
of the Evening Traveller ; in his earlier years he 
did editorial work on the National Republican in 
Washington, and on the Commercial Advertiser in 
New York. General Swift was married in 1854 
to Miss Sarah E. Allen, of Boston. Three sons 
were born to them, the eldest dying in infancy. 
The two now living are residents of Boston. He 
has been a resident of Roxbury since 1857. 



25, 1838, .son of William F. Temple, a son of 
Samuel Temple, a graduate of Dartmouth College, 
author of many musical works, and of " Temple's 
Arithmetic." His mother was Milla H. (French) 
Temple, daughter of the Hon. Thomas French, 
of Canton, a noted man in Norfolk County from 
1830 to 1850, having been in the Senate and in 
Governor Briggs's Council. When he was a child, 
his parents moved to Dorchester, and he was edu- 
cated there in the public schools. In 1855 he 
entered the service of the Dorchester Insurance 
Company ; and he has held all the positions in the 




TEMPLE, Thomas French, register of deeds, 
Suffolk County, is a native of Canton, born May 



THOMAS F. TEMPLE. 

gift of the company, being now its president. He 
served as town clerk and treasurer of Dorchester 
from 1864 to 1870, when the town was annexed 
to Boston ; was a trial justice for Norfolk County 
previous to annexation, and became the first judge 
of the Dorchester District Municipal Court estab- 
lished with annexation. In 1870, also, he was 
one of the representatives of the new district in 
the Boston Common Council. The next year he 
was first elected to his present position as register 
of deeds, and has held it continuously through 
re-elections from that date. Mr. Temple is con- 
nected with a number of business corporations 
and numerous philanthropic organizations. He 
is a director of the International Trust Company, 



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of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of the Dorchester Hygeia Ice Com- 
pany, and of the Boston Lead Company ; presi- 
dent, as above stated, of the Dorchester Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company: and trustee of the 
Home Savings Bank. He served for twenty 
years on the Board of Overseers of the Poor in 
Boston, several terms as chairman, finally resign- 
ing in 1890; and he has been for a long period 
trustee of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 
trustee of the Boston Farm School on Thomp- 
son's Island, and president of the trustees of 
Cedar Grove Cemetery. He is a leading Mason, 
past master of the Union Lodge, member of 
the Boston Commandery Knights Templars, and 
treasurer of the Massachusetts Consistory; and 
is quite prominent in other fraternal societies, be- 
longing to the United Workmen, the Knights of 
Honor, the Royal Arcanum, and similar orders. 
He has held the position of grand receiver of the 
Grand Lodge of United Workmen of Massachu- 
setts since 1885 ; is also senior grand master 
workman of that body ; has been a member of 
the Supreme Lodge of United Workmen and 
Knights of Honor, and has served on the finance 
committee of both organizations. He has long 
been a member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, commander of the organiza- 
tion in 1886, and now chairman of its finance 
committee; is a member and \ice-president of 
the Old Dorchester and Minot clubs : member 
of the Codman Club, Hale Club, and National 
Lancers. He was formerly connected with the 
Dorchester and Boston fire departments, and was 
fireman of Engine 20 at the time of the Great 
Fire in 1872. Mr. Temple was married in July, 
1863, to Miss S. Emma Spear, a daughter of Cap- 
tain John Spear, of Neponset, Dorchester, form- 
erly of Quincy. He has four daughters and 
a son. 



THOMPSON, Newell Aldrich, of Boston, 
merchant, is a native of Boston, born March 6, 
1853, son of Newell A. and Susan Saunderson 
(Wyman) Thompson. He is a lineal descendant of 
David Thompson, a Scottish gentleman, scholar, 
and traveller, who first came to .America in 1622, 
sent out by Gorges and Mason to superintend their 
settlement in Piscataqua, and for whom Thomp- 
son's Island, in Boston Harbor, which was owned 
and later occupied by him as an Indian trading- 
post in 1623. was named; and on the maternal 



side he descends from I'rancis Wyman, one of 
W'inthrop's company, who settled in 1642 in what 
is now the city of Woburn. His father, Newell 
A., was of the old Boston firm of N. A. Thomp- 
son & Co., real estate auctioneers ; was several 
terms in the city government, served in the State 
Legislature, was a member of the governor's coun- 
cil, and was especially active in the State militia, 
his military career covering many years, including 
service in the Independent Company of Cadets, 
the Boston City (iuards of which he w-as long the 
captain, as lieutenant colonel of the First Kegi- 




N. A. THOMPSON. 

ment, major and inspector-general of the F"irst 
Brigade on the staff of Major-General Edwards, 
and on the military staff of Governor Banks. 
Newell A. Thompson was educated in Boston 
public schools, — spending five years in the Brim- 
mer School and fitting for college in the Latin 
School, where lie graduated in 1872, — and at 
Harvard graduating in the class of 1876. Among 
his college classmates were the Rev. Charles F. 
Thwing, Francis L. W'ellman, now assistant dis- 
trict attorney of New York, William F. Moody, 
assistant district attorney of Massachusetts, Will- 
iam L. Chase, merchant, Fred J. Stimson, lawyer 
and author, John 1". Wheelwright, and Professor 
liarrett Wendell of Harvard College. He engaged 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in the coal business first as a salesman for 
Berwind, White, & Co., Philadelphia, dealers in 
soft coal. Then he became salesman for Coxe 
Brothers & Co., of New York, hard coal, and 
subsequently was New England sales-agent for 
the Lehigh Valley Coal Company till 1S89, when 
he left it to enter business for himself, estab- 
lishing the firm of N. .\. 'I'hompson & Co. in the 
wholesale and retail coal trade. Following in 
the foot.steps of his father, he has been active in 
military affairs all his life, making his first appear- 
ance on Boston Common in July, 1861, as cor- 
poral of Company A, Second Battalion Infantry, 
known as the Boston Light Infantry. He was 
appointed sergeant-major of the First Regiment 
of Infantry, June 27, 1879, under Colonel Wales; 
was next commissioned first lieutenant and ad- 
jutant of the Fifth Regiment, December 29, 1879, 
under Colonel Trull, holding this position till De- 
cember 29, 1881, when he resigned; was ap- 
pointed sergeant-major on the staft" of the Second 
Brigade, June 27, 1885 ; and on May 25, 1886, 
was commissioned aide-de-camp with the rank of 
captain on the staff of the Second ISrigade under 
General Peach, which position he resigned July 8, 
1894. During the administration of Governor 
Ames (three years) he was detailed on the staff 
of the commander-in-chief as acting assistant in- 
spector-general. He joined the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company, May 12, 1879, ^"'^l 
was elected adjutant of the company in 1886-87. 
In politics Mr. Thompson is a Republican, in- 
clined toward Independence. He has never held 
civil or political office, and is not active in polit- 
ical organizations. He is connected with the Ma- 
sonic order, and is a member of the University 
Club of Boston, of the Bostonian Society, and of 
the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 
He has been an extensive traveller in European 
countries, having made several trips abroad, using 
the time allotted to recreation in this manner. He 
was married April 11, i88g, to Miss Florence G. 
Peck. She died January 8, 1891, leaving one 
child : Newell A. I'hompson, Jr., born February 3, 
1890. 

TOWLE, George Henrv, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, was born in Boston, April 9, 185 1, son 
of Henry and Mary Ann (McCrillis) Towle. He 
is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, a descendant of Philip 
Towle, who came to Portsmouth, N.H., in 1635. 
His mother's ancestors were pure Scotch. He 



was educated in Boston public schools, — the 
Dwight Grammar and the Boston Latin, — and at 
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in the 
class of 1873. After graduation from college a 
year before his class, he studied law with Messrs. 
Perry & Creech, and was admitted to the bar of 
Suffolk County in September, 1873. He has 




GEO. H. TOWLE. 

practised since in Boston, devoting particular at- 
tention to corporations. He has also been en- 
gaged in railroad building and mining in the 
South and West. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts lodge. Masons, St. Paul's Chapter, Hugh 
de Payens Commandery; and of the Scottish 
bodies in Boston. In politics he is Republican. 
Mr. Towle was married October 25, 1875, to 
Miss Sarah Dorset Hamblin. They have two 
children : Mary Rutter, born in 1877 ; and Sarah 
Isabel Towle, born in 1879. 



VOSHELL, Samuel Shaw, of Boston, super- 
intendent of the John Hancock Mutual Life In- 
surance Company, is a native of Delaware, born 
near Dover, Kent County, January 14, 1855, son 
of Joseph and Levenia (Hobbs) Voshell. His pa- 
ternal grandparents were Samuel and Elizabeth 
(Shaw) Voshell, and his maternal grandparents, 



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187 



Joliii and Patience (Hinsley) Hobbs, all of Dela- 
ware. He was educated in the country public 
schools. He began business life at seventeen as 
salesman for his uncle, Amos H. Hobbs, in a 
general country store at Odessa, Del., where lie 
remained till April, 1876. Then he started in the 
same business on his own account, establishing 




S. S. VOSHELL. 

himself at Smyrna, and continued here till Decem- 
ber, 1879. About a month later, January 27, 
1880, he entered the employment of the John 
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company at 
Philadelphia as agent, and has since that time 
been engaged with this company. In September, 
1882, he was promoted to the position of superin- 
tendent at New Haven, Conn. ; and on the 5th 
of February, 1884, came to Boston in the same 
capacity. In politics he is a Republican, but is 
not active in political work. He is a member of 
the Old Dorchester Club, of the Dorchester Dis- 
trict, where he resides. He was married on the 
28th of December, 1882, to Miss Christianna L. 
Lentz, of Philadelphia. They have two children : 
Walter L. and S. Howard Voshell. 



WAIT, William Cushing, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, is a native of Charlestown, born Decem- 
ber 18, i860, son of Elijah Smith and Eliza Ann 



Hadley) Wait. He is a descendant of Captain 
John Wayte, who came to Maiden some time 
about 1638 ; and his immediate ancestors were 
residents of Medford. His early instruction was 
received from his mother, who had been at one 
time a school-teacher. Afterward he attended 
school in Charlestown, and after his tenth year 
the public school in Medford, the family moving 
there in 1870. He was prepared for college at 
the Medford High School under L. L. Dame, and 
was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1882, 
being made a member of the Phi Beta Kappa So- 
ciety, receiving the siimma cum laitdc degree, with 
highest honors in history. He studied law in the 
Harvard Law School, graduating in the class of 
18S5, with the degrees of LL.]!. and A.M., and 
was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County July 
21, 1885. Three years later, on May 15, i888, 
he was admitted to the bar of the United States 
Circuit Court, and in 1891 to the bar of the Cir- 
cuit Court of .Appeals. He began practice in the 
office of Nathan Matthews, Jr., later mayor of 
Boston, and in 1886 opened his own office. In 
1890 he formed with Samuel J. Elder the law 
firm of Elder tS: Wait, now, by the admission of 
Edmund A. Whitman, under the name of Elder, 
Wait &: Whitman, with offices in the .Ames Build- 
ing. He has resided in West Medford or Med- 
ford since his boyhood, although, owing to the re- 
moval of his father and family to Chicago in 1877, 
he is registered at Harvard as from Chicago ; and 
in late years has been prominent in municipal 
affairs. He was a member of the special commit- 
tee on securing a charter for the city of Medford 
in 1892 ; an alderman of Medford the following 
year, declining a renomination ; and for three 
years (1892-94) a sinking fund commissioner. 
For several years also he served on the Demo- 
cratic town and city committee. He was twice a 
candidate for the lower house of the Legislature 
from Medford (1890 and 1S91), and twice de- 
feated by the Hon. William B. Lawrence. In 
politics he is a Democrat, with decided Indepen- 
dent leanings. With the Hon. Sherman Hoar he 
was of the original Cleveland men of Harvard, 
and he was early an advocate of tariff reform. 
He is a member of the New England Tariff Re- 
form League, of the Medford Tariff Reform 
League, and the Young Men's Democratic Club 
of Massachusetts. Other organizations to which 
he belongs are the Suft'olk Bar .Association, the 
Royal -Arcanum, the Medford No License League, 



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the Medford Club, the Medford Comedy Club. 
He is also a secretary of the Harvard Law School, 
class of 1885 ; and is a member of the class corn- 




ton, Conn., in 1693, and was the progenitor of 
nearly all of the name in the United States. He 
was educated in the public schools of Canaan, 
and in the academies at Thetford, Vt., and Salis- 
bury, N.H., while a student at the latter teaching 
school during the winter months. At the age of 
twenty he came to Boston, and was engaged for 
ten years in the hardware business, first as ap- 
prentice with Alexander H. Twombly & Co., sub- 
sequently as partner in the firm of Scudder, Park, 
& Co., and later as agent of the Canton Hard- 
ware Manufacturing Company. Then in 1841 
entering into partnership with Joseph Nason, 
under the firm name of Walworth & Nason, he 
organized the business of wanning and ventilating 
buildings by means of steam and hot water appa- 
ratus, upon methods not before in use, thus first 
introducing the system now almost universally 
adopted. The business was started in New York, 
and a plant established in Boston a year later ; 
and, under Mr. Walworth's personal direction, the 
new system was applied to numerous cotton and 
woollen manufactories and other large buildings 
in all the New England States several years be- 



WILLIAM GUSHING WAIT. 

mittee of his college class (1882 ). In 1S82 he was 
at Newport, R.I., in the office of Colonel George 
E. Waring, engaged upon the Social Statistics of 
Cities for the Tenth United States Census, and 
contributed numerous sketches of places to the 
work. He is the author of several articles on law 
topics published in the .American and English 
P^ncyclopa-dia of Law, on Statute of Frauds, Jet- 
tison, Marine Insurance, Representations as to 
Character. Mr. Wait was married January i, 
1889, to Miss Edith Foote \\'right, daughter of 
John S. and Mary Clark (Green) Wright of Med- 
ford, and granddaughter of Klizur Wright and the 
Rev. Beriah Green, two of the anti-slavery leaders. 
'J'hey have no children. 




WALWORTH, Jamks Jones, founder of the 
modern system of steam heating, is a native of 
New Hampshire, born in Canaan, November 18, 
1808, son of George and Philura (Jones) Wal- 
worth ; but his business career was begun in 
Boston. His father was a descendant in the fore any other concern entered the field. The 
sixth generation from William Walworth who firm also introduced into this country the steam 
came from England to Fisher's Island and Gro- "fan-blower" system of ventilating, first applying 



J. J. WALWORTH. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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it in 1846 in ihc Hoslon customhouse. As an 
engineer, in the practice of steam heating and 
ventilating, Mr. Walworth has designed and con- 
structed many important works in hospitals, 
theatres, and public buildings in several of the 
States. In the year 1852 the firm of Walworth 
& Nason was dissolved, Mr. Nason assuming the 
business in New York and Mr. Walworth continu- 
ing in Boston in his own name. At a later pe- 
riod he associated with himself as partners Mar- 
shall S. Scudder and his brother C". Clark A\'al- 
worth, making the firm name James J. Walworth 
& Co., under which the business was conducted 
for nearly twenty years. In 1872 the corporation 
of the "Walworth Manufacturing Company" was 
organized, with Mr. Walworth as president and 
manager of the business department. He con- 
tinued at the head of the great establishment till 
189 1, when he declined a Te-election as president, 
and has since partially withdrawn from active 
duties. During his conduct of the business the 
plant established in the early forties in a small 
building in Devonshire Street had grown to ex- 
tensive manufacturing works, employing upwards 
of eight hundred men, its products finding a 
market in all parts of the Ignited States and in 
several South American and European countries. 
Among other interests with which he has been 
connected are the Malleable Iron Fittings Com- 
pany at Bradford, Conn., of which he has been 
president for twenty-eight years, the Wanalancet 
Iron and Tube Compan}-, the Massachusetts 
Steam Heating Company, the Union Flax Mills 
Company, and the Consolidated Gas Company, 
president of each. In 1870 and 187 1 he repre- 
sented the city of Newton in the lower house of 
the Legislature. He was one of the founders of 
the Lasell Female Seminary at Auburndale, has 
served as president of the Educational Society of 
Auburndale, and been prominent in numerous 
other societies, literary, charitable, and philan- 
thropic. Mr. Walworth was first married in 1837 
to Miss Elizabeth C. Nason, daughter of Leavitt 
Nason, and sister of Joseph Nason, his early 
partner. They had one son : Arthur Clarence 
Walworth. He married secondly, in 1888, Mrs. 
Lydia Sawyer, widow of Stephen L. Sawyer, a 
former partner of his. They have no children. 



ton, is a native of New York, born in New York 
City, December ig, 1846, son of John and Ann 
Warnock. He was educated in the public schools, 
and began business life in 1857. During the 
Civil War he served in the United States Navy. 
He became interested in fraternal societies when 
a youth, at the age of eighteen joining the Sons of 
Temperance and the Good Templars, and at 
twenty-one entering the Masonic order. His as- 
sociation with the American Legion of Honor 
dates from 1879, when he became a member of 
the Stella Council of Krooklvn, N.V., and at once 



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WARNOCK, An.\M, supreme secretary of the 
American Legion of Honor, headquarters in Bos- 



ADAM WARNOCK. 

took an active part in the development of the 
organization. In 1880 he organized Independent 
Council in New York City. Upon the organiza- 
tion of the Grand Council in New York, he was 
elected supreme representative ; and at the ses- 
sion of 1882 he was elected to the supreme secre- 
taryship, which position he has held continuously 
since, making his headquarters in Boston and de- 
voting his entire time to the duties of his office. 
During his administration the society erected its 
main building, No. 200 Huntington Avenue, Back 
Bay, Boston (first occupied in 1892), and estab- 
lished branches in, every State a'nd Territory in the 
Union. Mr. Warnock has also held positions of 
prominence and trust in numerous other organiza- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tions. He was for a luiniber of years representa- 
tive from the State of New York to the Supreme 
Lodge Knights of Honor, president of the Knights 
of Honor \eteran Association, president of the 
National Fraternal Congress, and grand secretary 
of the Royal Arcanum of New York State. In 
the Masonic order he was long a member of the 
Atlas Lodge of New York City, and is now a 
member of the Columbian Lodge of Boston. He 
is also a member of the Corinthian Royal .Vrch 
Chapter, and Ivanhoe Commandery Knights 
Templars, New York ; of the Commonwealth 
Lodge, Odd Fellows, Boston ; of Howard Lodge, 
Knights of Pythias, New York; of the Yononto 
Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, Boston (a 
charter member) ; of the Knights and Ladies of 
Honor; and of the United Workmen, Pilgrim 
Fathers, Home Circle, and Equitable Aid Union. 
He was an early member of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and is now comrade of Post 30, 
Department of Massachusetts. His association 
with clubs is confined to the Union Boat and 
Athletic clubs of Boston, to which he has belonged 
during the greater part of his residence in Massa- 
chusetts, being much interested in athletic sports, 
a good oarsman, and a fine amateur tennis-player. 
Mr. Warnock was married in May, 1872, to Miss 
Elizabeth Atkinson. They have five children. 
His home is in Cambridge. 



of Reading, Penna., and then began his profes- 
sional studies, entering the Yale Law School in 
1882. Here he received his degree of LL.B. 



WHIPPLE, Sherman Leland, of Boston, 
lawyer, member of the bar in Massachusetts, New 
Hampshire, and Connecticut, and admitted in the 
United States courts, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in New London, March 4, 1862, son 
of Dr. Solomon M. and Henrietta Kimball (Her- 
sey) Whipple. His father was a leading physician, 
a man of scholarly attainments. His ancestry 
is traced on the paternal side from Matthew 
Whipple, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635, 
and on the maternal side from the Herseys of 
Hingham and the Sheafes of Portsmouth, N.H. 
He was educated in the district school, the Colby 
Academy of New London, and at Yale, graduat- 
ing in 1881. .At the academy he entered upon 
the regular college preparatory course w'hen a lad 
of eleven ; and he graduated from college at the 
age of nineteen and three months, the youngest 
member of his diss. For a year, beginning in 
the autumn following his graduation, he taught 
mathematics and Latin in tiie Hoys" High School 







SHERMAN L. WHIPPLE. 

in 1884, and on Commencement day was one of 
the Townsend orators. In the autumn of 1884 
he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, and, 
after a brief stay in the office of Train & Teele in 
Boston, began professional work associated with 
Judge David Cross at Manchester, N.H. While 
a student in the law school, he taught for two 
terms special branches in the old Colby Academy, 
where he had been a pupil. Returning to Boston 
in May, 1886, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, 
and immediately began practice here, taking a 
desk in Messrs. Train & Teele's office. In the 
autumn of 1887 he moved into his present offices 
at No. 5 Tremont Street. He has built up a large 
jury and equity practice witliin a few years, and 
has handled especially insolvency cases involving 
large sums. In iSgi he was appointed receiver 
of the Mutual one-year Benefit Association. He 
is a trustee of the County Savings Bank of Chel- 
sea, and a director of the lona Manufacturing 
Company. In politics he is a Democrat, of the 
progressive wing of his party : but he has never 
held office or taken an active part in political 
work, devoting himself entirely to the practice of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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his profession. He is a member of the Historic 
Cienealogical Society, of the University and Whist 
clubs of Boston, of the Country Club, of the 
I.ongwood and the Longwood Cricket clubs, and 
the Tiuirsday Club of Brookline. He also belongs 
t(i the First Corps of Cadets. In 1892 he was 
elected a trustee of Colby Academy. He was 
married December 27, 1893, to Miss Louise 
Clough, daughter of Judge L. B. Clough, of Man- 
chester, N.H. He resides in Brookline, occupy- 
ing the estate of the late George M. Towle, which 
he ]3urc]insed in the autumn of 1893. 



W'lLLl.VMS, Henry Webb, member of the 
Massachusetts and United .States bars and solici- 
tor of patents, was born in Taunton, June 6, 1847, 
son of Benjamin Webb Williams (son of Rev. Na- 
thaniel W. Williams and Priscilla Webb Will- 
iams) and Clarissa W. (Reed) ^\'illiams (daughter 
of Hodges Reed). His paternal ancestors are of 
the Roger Williams stock on the grandfather's 
side, and the Webb family of Salem on the grand- 
mother's side ; and his maternal ancestry is of 
the Reed family of Bristol County, said to be de- 
scendants of the Huguenots. When he was at the 
age of about four 3'ears, his father and mother re- 
moved to Boston ; and he has resided in Boston 
and its suburbs ever since that time. He was 
educated in Boston public schools, graduating from 
the Dwight Grammar School under Master Page, 
and tiien entering the Boston Latin School. As a 
scjiolar, he was quick and intelligent ; and it was 
the intention of his parents to send him to Har- 
\ard ( 'ollege. Much against their desires, how- 
ever, he left the Latin School before graduation, 
and determined to earn his own livelihood. At 
the age of about seventeen, therefore, he entered 
a large wholesale dry- goods establishment to 
"learn the trade," at the salary of seventy-tive 
dollars a year. He remained there a little over 
a year, and then connected himself with a pub- 
lishing house, where his salary quickly rose from 
$3 50 a year to $8 00, and was, at the age of 
twenty, sent out "on the road" as a drummer. 
He made an extensive trip through the Middle 
States and the West, and succeeded in taking the 
largest amount of orders in the history of the 
house. Upon his return he found that he was in 
the future e.xpected to travel six months in the 
year, and seriously considered whether he desired 
to devote himself to such an occupation or not. 



On concluding that the life of a "drummer'' was 
not to his taste, he accepted a position in another 
publishing house where "drumming on the road " 
was not expected of him. Seeing no prospect of 
increasing remuneration here, he entered, at the 
age of twenty-one, into a copartnership with iiis 
father, who was then engaged in promoting some 
business schemes founded on patents for inven- 
tions, his own part of the business relating more 
particularly to the securing of letters patents from 
the Patent Office. This was in January, 1869. 
He studied the law and practice relating to pat- 
ents with great interest, and in January, 1870, 
separated from his father, and devoted himself 
exclusively to patent practice. Feeling the need 
of a thorough legal education, he afterw-ard en- 
gaged a tutor, and without giving up his regular 
business, by dint of hard night work and much 
perseverance, prepared himself for admission to 
the bar, and was admitted successively to the 
Massachusetts and United States bars. Mr. Will- 
iams's specialty has always been patent practice, 
although corporation practice has naturally fol- 
lowed, as his clients have numbered man)' manu- 




HENRY W. WILLIAMS. 

facturing corporations whose business is based 
largely on patent property. His practice, accord- 
ingly, is largely an office practice, except so far 



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MEN OK PROGRESS. 



as it takes him to the I'atL'iU Office and into the 
United States courts, 'i'lic l)ulk of it lias always 
been in the Patent Office, and it is an interesting 
fact that he has made the trip from Boston to 
Washington for the purpose of arguing difficult 
and contested cases in the Patent Office some 
two hundred and fifty times. He has now (1894) 
been in continuous practice in patent cases for 
more than a quarter of a century, and stands with 
the foremost of that portion of the bar making a 
specialty of patent office practice. He has been 
an indefatigable worker, has paid much attention 
to promptness, and probably dislikes nothing more 
than to let his cases get ahead of him. He was 
never known to accept a retainer for a case which 
he did not believe was just, nor to encourage a 
client to believe more in the ultimate success of 
his cause than the facts seemed to warrant. In 
religious matters Mr. Williams was brought up in 
the strict Trinitarian Congregational belief ; but 
after the age of twenty-five or so his views be- 
came liberalized somewhat, although he has never 
formally renounced his allegiance to the ortho- 
dox church. He is a gentleman of quiet tastes, 
has never taken any active part in politics, and 
is inclined to be tenacious of his opinions, 
not, however without being able to defend them 
logically. Although not what is usually termed a 
club man, he is a member of one or two of tlie 
best clubs in Boston and Washington. He is a 
ready writer, and has a strong poetic vein, which 
he indulges only occasionally and very rarely in 
public print. Among his intimates he is known 
as possessing a keen wit and strong sense of 
humor. Mr. Williams was married at the age of 
twenty-two, and three children have been the 
product of the union, one only, a daughter, now 
living;. 



WINSHIP, ALiiKur Edward, lecturer and 
author, and editor of the Journal of Education, 
Boston, is a native of West Bridgewater, born 
February 24, 1845, son of Isaac and Drusilla 
(Lothrop) Winship. He is a descendant of 
Lieutenant Edward Winship, who came from 
England to Cambridge in 1634. After his pre- 
liminary education he prepared for teaching at 
the Bridgewater (Mass.) State Normal School and 
for the ministry at Andover Theological Semi- 
nary. The last year of the Civil War he was a 
private in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Regiment. 
His professional career began as principal of a 



rural school in Maine, from which he became prin- 
cipal of a grammar school in Newton, Mass., 
where he remained three years, going from there 
to the Normal School at Bridgewater where he was 
a teacher for four years. He was for nine years 
pastor of the Prospect Hill Church in Somerville, 
which he left for the secretaryship of the New- 
West Education Commission. His connection 
with the Journal of Education dates from 1885, 
since which time he has been both editor and 
publisher of tlie paper. In 1S90-91 he was also 
editor-in-chief of the Boston Dailx TrarJ/cr. He 




^^ 




A. E. WINSHIP. 

is most widely known as a lecturer in the Red- 
path Lyceum Bureau, having lectured in all the 
States from Maine to California, going to the Pa- 
cific coast regularly every other year. His suc- 
cess in this field, and as a general platform cam- 
paign speaker, has been marked. At the same 
time he has achieved reputation as a many-sided 
writer. Among his publications in book form are 
" Methods and Principles," " Essentials of Ps)'- 
chology," and "The Shop." Mr. Winship is a 
member of many orders, clubs, and associations. 
In politics he is a Republican, a member of the 
executive committee of the Republican State Com- 
mittee. He was married August 24, 1872, to 
Miss Ella R. Parker, daughter of Stillman E. 



MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



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and Lavinia I'arkcr, of Reading. Tliuy havx' six- 
children : George Parker, Editii A., Luella 1'., 
Kdna E., Lawrence L., and Mildred L. W'inship. 
Mr. W'inship has resided in Sonierville for up- 
wards of twenty years, where he is closely identi- 
fied with public affairs. 



\\()()1), Frank, printer, Boston, active in the 
Indian rights movement, is a native of Ireland, 
horn in Cavan, May 3, 1842, son of James and 
])()r()thy ( Rountree) Wood. He is of Scotch and 




FRANK WOOD. 

English ancestry on both sides, descended from 
Scotch Presbyterians and Puritans who went to 
Ireland in the time of Cromwell. He came to 
lioston with his parents when he was four years 
old, and has lived here ever since. He was edu- 
cated in the Boston public schools. At the age of 
fourteen he was apprenticed to Fred Rogers, at 
that time one of the most skilful printers in the 
city, to learn the printer's trade, and served till 
his majority. Then he was foreman of the office 
for seven years, and at the age of twenty-eight 
entered business on his own account. For about 
four years he was a member of the firm of Batch- 
elder &: Wood, and since 1875 he has conducted 
his lariie establishment alone. His methods are 



in some respects unusual, and liave brought him 
gratifying success. He is not confined to any 
special branch of the printer's art, but engages in 
all kinds, — book, job, railroad, illustrated and col- 
ored work. He does a strictly cash business so far 
as buying is concerned, never having given a note 
in his life. He employs no solicitors, yet in 
twenty years he has not seen a dull week. Mr. 
Wood is also connected with several manufacturing 
and business corporations as president, treasurer, 
and director. He has long been actively inter- 
ested in public affairs, church affairs, reform move- 
ments ; and a working member of numerous or- 
ganizations for the advancement of philanthropic 
and benevolent undertakings. He has been con- 
nected with the Boston Indian Citizenship Associa- 
tion since its foundation, and has for some years 
been treasurer of the Lake Mohonk Indian Confer- 
ence which meets annually at Lake Mohonk, N.Y. 
He is treasurer also of the Delft Haven Memorial 
Committee ; is a trustee of the Northfield Semi- 
nary ; a trustee of the New England Conservatory 
of Music ; a director in a number of religious and 
charitable societies ; was president of the Old 
Boston Congregational Ckib in 1893 ; is a mem- 
ber of the Municipal League, of the Pilgrim Asso- 
ciation, and of the Boston Art Club. In poli- 
tics he is Republican, with Independent lean- 
ings. He was married November i, 1870, to 
Miss Annie M. Smith, of Boston. They have no 
children. Mr. Wood resides in the Dorchester 
District of Boston, where he is largely inter- 
ested in real estate. He possesses a fine library 
and a choice collection of paintings and rare 
engravings. 



WOODS, Solomon Adams, president of the 
S. A. Woods Machine Company, Boston, is a 
native of Maine, born in Farmington, October 7, 
1827, son of Colonel Nathaniel and Hannah 
(Adams) Woods. He descends from Samuel 
Woods, an original landed proprietor of Groton, 
Mass., where the family long lived : and on the 
maternal side is in the sixth generation from 
Captain Samuel Adams, magistrate and repre- 
sentative of Chelmsford in the General Court in 
the first half-century of that town. His paternal 
grandfather was a pioneer in Farmington, and his 
father a leading townsman there. Solomon A. 
was reared on a good farm, and was educated in 
the district school and at the Farmington Acad- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



emy. At the age of twenty he went to work with 
a local carpenter to learn the use of tools and the 
trade of house-building. Four years later he de- 
termined to build a mill in Farmington, and in 
partnership with his employer engage in the 
manufacture of doors, sashes, and blinds ; but, 
after a trip to Boston to purchase machinery for 




S. A. WOODS. 

this purpose, he concluded to establish himself in 
that city. Thereupon he entered the employ of 
Solomon S. Gray, door, sash, and blind manu- 
facturer, as a journeyman. Within the first year 
(185 1) of this connection he purchased Mr. 
Gray's plant, and engaged in the manufacture 
on his own account. This he continued until 
1864. In the mean time, 1854, he formed a part- 
nership with Mr. Gray, under the firm name of 
Gray & Woods, for the manufacture and sale of a 



wood-planing machine of Mr. CJray's invention, 
but rendered more practical by iiis own inven- 
tions. This partnership held for five years, 
during which period additional improvements 
were patented. Thereafter the business was con- 
ducted under Mr. Woods's name alone until 1873, 
when the S. A. Woods Machine Company was 
organized, with Mr. Woods as president. In 
1865 the business was considerably enlarged by 
the addition of the manufacture of the \\'oodbury 
planer, with the Woodbury patented improve- 
ments, of which Mr. Woods was the sole licensee; 
and extensive works were then erected in South 
Boston, and branch houses opened in New York 
and Chicago. Since the establishment of the firm 
of Gray & Woods, more than fifty patents for de- 
vices and improvements in machines for planing 
wood and making mouldings have been issued 
to the successive firms ; and they have received 
nearly a hundred gold, silver, and bronze medals 
awarded at industrial exhibitions. Mr. Woods 
has been a trustee of the South Boston Savings 
Bank since 1870, and for many years a member 
of its board of investment. He has served as a 
member of the Boston Common Council three 
terms (1869-70-71), and as a director of the East 
Boston ferries two years (1870-71). In 1878 a 
nomination to the Board of Aldermen on the Re- 
publican and " Citizens " tickets was urged upon 
him, but he declined to stand. He is a member 
of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Asso- 
ciation, of the Boston Art Club, and of St. Omer 
Commandery, Knights Templar. Mr. Woods 
w^as married in Boston, August 21, 1854, to Miss 
Sarah E. \\'eathern, of Vienna, Me. She died in 
1862. He married secondly, in 1867, Miss Sarah 
C. Watts, of Boston. He has two sons and a 
daughter : Frank Forrest (now vice-president and 
general manager of the S. A. Woods Machine 
Company), Florence, and Frederick Adams 
Woods. 



PART III. 



AYERS, George David, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, was born in Boston, August 26, 1857, 
son of David and Martha Elizabeth (Huckins) 
Ayers. He was educated in the public schools of 
Maiden, including the High School, and at Har- 




CEORGE D. AYERS. 

vard, where he graduated in the class of 1879. 
He studied law in the Harvard Law School three 
years, graduating in 1882, and about six months 
(from October, 1882, to March, 1883) in the office 
of Gaston & Whitney, Boston ; and was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar in February, 1883. He began 
practice alone, but two years later formed an as- 
sociation with George Clarendon Hodges, and 
later on with Mr. Hodges and Stanton Day. He 
is now associated with John Storer Cobb. He is 
an ardent supporter of the principles laid down by 
the Nationalist party, and was one of the earliest 



members of the Nationalist Club of Boston, serv- 
ing as its president in 1889-90. He is, outside of 
his practice, mainly interested in the Theosophical 
movement, and has been prominent in several or- 
ganizations for its advancement, — the New Eng- 
land Theosophical Corporation, of which he has 
been president since November, 1893; the Mai- 
den Theosophical Society, its president from 
April, 1890, to October, 189 1 ; and the Boston 
Theosophical Society, its president from October, 
1891 to January, 1894. He is now president 
again of the Maiden Theosophical Society. In 
politics Mr. Ayers is a Democrat, with " Mug- 
wump " tendencies. Theoretically, he is a free 
trader, who believes that it would have been 
better for the United States if it never had had 
a " protective " tariff, and yet recognizes that, as 
a practical matter, a free-trade basis should now 
be reached by gradual legislation. In Maiden he 
has taken an active interest in local affairs, but 
has repeatedly declined political preferment. He 
is a member of the Young Men"s Democratic Club 
of Massachusetts (on its executive committee in 
1888-89), the Maiden Historical Society, and of 
the New England Historic Genealogical Society. 
He belongs to the Masonic order, and is a mem- 
ber of Converse Lodge of Maiden. He was 
married January 7, 1885, to Miss Charlotte Eliza- 
beth Carder, of Milford, Conn., daughter of the 
Rev. James Dixon Carder and Charlotte (Pond) 
Carder. 

BACON, Charles Newcomb, of Winchester 
and Arlington, manufacturer, is a native of Med- 
ford, born December 2, 1838, son of John Hudson 
and Sarah Ann (Tyrell) Bacon. On the paternal 
side he is of Cape Cod stock, his ancestors early 
settled in Barnstable ; and his maternal grand- 
father was of Georgia. He was educated in the 
public schools of Medford, and at Chauncy Hall, 
Boston, where he was a silver medal scholar. At 
the age of eighteen he entered the felting works 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of his fatlicr in thiit part of Medford now Win- 
chester, originally established by his grandfather, 
Robert Bacon, in 1825, for the manufacture of hat 
bodies, wadding, and felting. He passed through 
every grade, becoming thoroughly familiar with all 
the details of the manufacture, and before many 
years was at the head of the works. He also 
early invented new processes, and subsequently 
improvements in the machinery, by which a greater 
variety and higher grade of goods were produced. 
When he was but nineteen, he brought out the first 
heavy fellings manufactured in the country. In 
1876 he patented a solid felt buffer for burnishing 
wheels and for emery wheels, and in 1888, a 
wood-centred felt polishing wheel. Among his 
other inventions are blackboard and dry slate 
erasers, a felt saddle for horses, felt handles 
for bicycles, felt base balls, and numerous small 
articles of utility. In 1875 Mr. Bacon succeeded 
his father in the factory, and the firm name has 
since been Charles N. Bacon. The Boston office 
was for manv vears on the round corner of Union 




CHAS. N. BACON. 

and North Streets, a landmark, where Robert 
Bacon had his hat and cap store in the early 
twenties before he built his factory in the country ; 
and near by on North, then Ann, Street, near the 
present Oak Hall, Ivdward n. 'rvrell. the father of 



Mr. Bacon's mother, was at the same time estab- 
lished in the shoe and leather business. The 
office is now on Federal Street. Mr. Bacon is a 
member of the Charitable Mechanic Association, 
as was his father, and also his father's father, the 
latter a life member, joining the association in 
1824, and serving some time on its board of gov- 
ernment. He was married in Winchester, Octo- 
ber 10, i860, to Miss Florence Louise Holbrook, 
daughter of Ridgeway E. Holbrook, of Dorchester, 
and grand-daughter of Samuel B. Doane, of Boston, 
through whom she is connected with the Shaws, 
Wadsworths, Cunninghams, and other old Boston 
families. They have had seven children : Flor- 
ence Allena, born March 12, 1862 (now Mrs. 
Edward W. Hall); Lillian Louise, born January 
14, 1864 (now Mrs. Frederick S. Smith) ; Charles 
Francis, born August 12, 1866 ; Louis Alfred, born 
July 27, 1868 ; Cyrus Clark, born September 23, 
1870, died July 26, 187 i ; Robert, born March 31, 
1873 ; and Mabel Grace Bacon. The sons, Charles 
Francis and Louis .\., are engaged in the factory 
at Winchester. Robert graduated from Harvard 
College in 1894. Mr. Bacon resides in Arlington. 



BAILEV, DunLEV Perkins, of Everett, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born 
in Cornville, October 24, 1843, son of the Rev. 
I )udley 1'. and Hannah B. (Cushman ) Bailey. 
( )n the paternal side he is descended from John 
.Mden, and on the maternal side from Robert 
Cushman, who came out in the " Fortune," in 
162 1. He was educated in the district school, 
the Monson (Me.) Academy, and at Waterville 
College, now Colby University, in the class of 
1867. He left college at the end of the junior 
year, but subsequently (in 1877) received his de- 
gree in course as a member of his class. For a 
year before entering college he taught school in 
St. Albans, Me. He studied law in Portland, 
Me., in the office of the Hon. William L. I^utnam, 
now Justice Putnam of tlie United States Circuit 
Court, and on April 28, 1870, was admitted to the 
bar. Two years later he removed to Massachu- 
setts, and has practised here since with offices in 
Boston, and in Everett, where he has resided. 
He has an extensive real estate, probate, and 
general practice, and is especially conversant with 
Everett real estate titles, which he has made a 
specialty. He has been identified with the de- 
velopment of Everett, and with its varied inter- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



'97 



ests, being An earnest advocate of local improve- 
ments. He was a member of the School 
Committee for fourteen years, five years (1886- 
91) its chairman : was one of the founders of the 
Everett Public IJbrarv, a director or trustee of 




DUDLEY P. BAILEY. 

that institution from its establishment in 1S78, 
.secretary of the board for fourteen years, and in 
1892-93 its chairman; is a trustee of the Everett 
Savings Bank ; during the last six years of 
the existence of Everett as a town was twelve 
times elected moderator of its town meetings, pre- 
siding at the final meeting, November 10, 1892 ; 
in 1886 and 1887 represented the town in the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving 
in that body on the committees on taxation (house 
chairman), in 1887 also on the committee on 
probate and insolvenc)', and instrumental in se- 
curing the legislation providing for the revision 
and codification of the laws for the collection of 
taxes ; was a member of the committee to frame 
the city charter, and in 1893 of the first Common 
Council of the city of Everett (incorporated June 
II, 1892); was re-elected a member of the Com- 
mon Council for 1894, and became its president. 
Since his college days Mr. Bailey has been a fre- 
quent contributor to various periodicals, and for 
many years was a special writer for the Banker s 



Mag<Tzi>h'. Among his publications in pamphlet 
form are papers on "The Clearing-house Sys- 
tem," embracing much valuable statistical infor- 
mation, " An Historical Sketch of Banking in 
Massachusetts," "Austrian Paper Money in the 
Panic of 1873," and "The Credit In.stitutions of 
Italy." He is the author of the chapters relating 
to clearing houses in the work on •■ Practical 
Banking " by A. S. Bolles, and of the historical 
sketch of the Boston Clearing House for the 
" Commercial History of Boston." He prepared 
the sketches of the town of Everett in Drake's 
"History of Middlesex County" (1879), in 
Lewis's "History of Middlesex County" (1890), 
and in the illustrated history of Everett, known 
as the "Everett Souvenir" (1893). While at col- 
lege, he was especially interested in the study of 
political economy, and in 1886 won a prize offered 
by the American Free Trade League to under- 
graduates in American colleges for the best essay 
on free trade. He is prominent in the Baptist de- 
nomination, — a life member of the Massachusetts 
Baptist Convention, a director since 1887, mem- 
ber of the finance committee since 1889, made 
chairman in 1892, and attorney for the corpora- 
tion in i88g ; has been treasurer of the First Bap- 
tist Church of Everett upwards of fifteen years, 
and was one of the founders of the Glendale Bap- 
tist Church, Everett, in 1890. " He was the first 
president of the Pine Tree State Club of Everett, 
is a member of the American Statistical Society, 
and belongs to the Masonic order, a member of 
the l^alestine Lodge of Everett, and of the Royal 
Arch Chapter of the Tabernacle of Maiden. Mr. 
Bailev is unmarried. 



BANGS, Edward Api'Leton, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in W'atertown, 
June 27, i860, son of Edward and Anne Outram 
(Hodgkinson) Bangs. He is a descendant of 
Edward Bangs, who came from England to Plym- 
outh in the ship " Ann " in 1623, and on the 
maternal side of Governor Thomas Hinckley of 
the Plymouth Colony. He was educated in Bo.s- 
ton private schools (Miss Adams's school, some 
time on Brinnner Street, and George \\". C". Noble's 
school, then on Winter Street) and at Harvard 
College, graduating in the class of 1884. He 
read law in the office of Bangs & Wells (composed 
of his father and Samuel Wells, son of ex-Gov- 
ernor Samuel Wells of ^L^ine), and was admitted 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to the Suffolk bar in January, 1887. Ik- has 
practised since that date in connection with the 
firm of Bangs & Wells, a member of the firm since 




ration of the old family traditions, and the re- 
peated recital of the achievements of a long line 
of noted ancestors. He read law in the offices 
of G. C. Bartlett, of Derry, N.H., and of Moody 
& Bartlett, of Haverhill, and was admitted to the 
bar in September, 1882. He has practised in 
Haverhill ever since. He began practice at a 
time when the field there seemed to be fully oc- 
cupied : but by his zeal and talent he has built 
up a lucrative business by the side of men older 
in the profession. In 1890 and 189 1 he was a 
member of the Haverhill City Council, and in 
1893 represented his city in the State legislature, 
where he served on the committees on roads and 
bridges and on election laws. In politics always 
a Republican, he has for a number of years been 
an active worker for his party. For about a 
dozen years he has served as a member of the 
Republican city committee of Haverhill, its secre- 
tary for two years. He has been a frequent dele- 
gate to State and county conventions, and in 
1892 was an alternate delegate to the Republican 
National Convention at Minneapolis. He is a 
member of the Wachusett Club of Haverhill, and 



E. A. BANGS. 

the first of January, 1893, devoting himself largely 
to the care of property of others. He is a mem- 
ber of the Puritan Club of Boston, of the Eastern. 
Massachusetts, and Beverly Yacht clubs, and of 
the Nuttall Ornithological Club of Cambridge. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He is unmarried. 



BARTLETT, Nath.\niel Cillev, of Haver- 
hill, member of the bar, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Nottingham, June 22, 1858, son of 
Thomas Bradbury and Victoria E. W. (Cilley) 
Bartlett. He is a grandson of the late Hon. 
Joseph Cilley, United States senator and officer 
in the war of 18 12, also a descendant of Gen- 
eral Joseph Cilley, an officer in the war of the 
Revolution ; grandson of the late Judge Brad- 
bury Bartlett of the New Hampshire courts, and 
great-grandson of General Thomas Bartlett, an 
officer in the Revolution and an eminent civil- 
ian. His early education was acquired in the 
primary, grammar, and high schools of Haverhill; 
and he was graduated from Harvard in the class 
of 1880. During school life his vacations were 
spent on a New Hampshire farm under the inspi- 




NATHANIEL C. BARTLETT. 



is connected with numerous secret orders : mem- 
ber of the Odd Fellows, past chancellor of Pales- 
tine Lodge, Knights of Pythias, past sachem of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



199 



I'assaquoi Tribe ut llie Improved Order of Red 
Men, past chief of Winnikenni Castle of tiie 
KniglUs of the (iolden Eagle, and member of the 
Haverhill Lodge of the Benevolent and Protec- 
tive Order of Elks. While a law student at Derry, 
N.H., he founded the Derry A^nos, a weekly paper 
still flourishing, and successfully conducted it for 
a year. Of late years he has given some atten- 
tion to real estate in Haverhill as an investment. 
Mr. Bartlett is unmarried. 



JBEAL, Colonel Melvin, of Lawrence, chief 
engineer of the fire department, was born in Maine, 
in the town of Guilford, October 31, 1832, son of 
Samuel and Esther (Herring) Heal. He is of early 
New England ancestry. He was educated in the 
common schools of his native town. When he 
was thirteen years old, his father died, and he was 
obliged early to get to work. Until he reached 
eighteen, he worked on a farm. Then he went to 
Pelham, N.H., and learned carding and spinning 
in a woollen mill. Two years later, in 1852, he 
came to Lawrence, and was employed in the Bay 
State Mills as a jack-spinner. He was soon 
promoted to second hand in the same department, 
which place he held till 1857, when the mills 
closed, and he was thrown out of employment. 
Then he took up the trade of a painter, and 
followed this till 1861, when, upon the Presi- 
dent's call for troops, he went to Washington 
with the famous Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers, — the regiment which was attacked 
in Baltimore. He had enlisted as a private of 
Company F of this regiment in 1853, and at the 
time of the call was second lieutenant of his 
company. In May he was chosen captain of the 
company. At the close of this service, covering 
one hundred days, he returned to Lawrence, and 
was put in charge of the painting department of 
the Atlantic Mills. In May, 1862, he was made 
lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and in 
September following re-entered the United States 
service for nine months. At the expiration of 
this term he came home, and returned to his old 
occupation; but very soon after, in August, 1863, 
he was again in the army, this time for one 
hundred days. This service completed, he came 
back as before, and resumed his regular work. 
Subsequently he was in the Pennsylvania oil 
region for a while as superintendent of oil wells. 
In June, 1866, he was appointed a member of the 



Massachusetts Stale c(jnslabuhiry force, and in 
this capacity served till March, 1875, ^vhen the 
law was repealed. Then he worked two years for 
the Boston & Lowell Railroad, and for the next 
nine years was again in ciiarge of the painting 




MELVIN BEAL. 

department of the Atlantic Cotton Mills. On 
May I, 1875, he was first made chief engineer of 
the fire department, and served till 1877. He 
became permanent chief on June 22, 1891, 
appointed for the term of three years ; and at its 
close, in 1894, he was reappointed for another 
three years. His service in the department has 
covered thirty-seven years, and he has held nearly 
every position from hoseman to chief. He has 
been foreman of three different companies. 
Colonel Beal has also served in the municipal 
government, — a member of the Common Council 
for 1866, — and has represented Lawrence in the 
Legislature, a member of the lower house in 1878. 
His military service was continued for nearly 
twenty years after the close of the war. He was 
elected colonel of the Sixth in June, 1866, and 
held a colonel's commission in the same regiment 
until January, 1882. He is a member of the Gre- 
cian Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, Law- 
rence Council, and of Bethany Commandery, 
Knights Templar. He is also president of the 
Lawrence Mutual Relief Association of Masons; 



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iMEN OF PROGRESS. 



prcsiclunt of tin- Mutu.il Relief Association of tlic 
Lawrence Fire Department; vice-commander of 
Star Council, American Legion of Honor; member 
of the Tnited Order of American Mechanics; and 
member of the Lawrence RiHe Club. In politics 
he is a Republican. He was married November 
9, 1853. to Miss Emily M. Goodhue of Salem, 
X.ll. They have had two children : Emeretta A. 
(deceased) and Forrest V,. Beal. 




J. C. BENNETT. 

JilvWETT, JosiAH Chase, of Lynn, shoe man- 
ufacturer, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Sandwich, May 6, 1835, ^o" o^ Simon and Mary 
Fogg (Chase) Bennett. He comes of an early 
Lynn family, members of which moved to New 
Hampshire at an early period. It is believed 
that he is a descendant of Samuel Bennett, who 
came to Lynn in 1636, was a substantial and pub- 
lic-spirited citizen, and a member of the Ancient 
and Honorable .Artillery Company. His great- 
grandfather, Stephen llennett, served as drum- 
major throughout the Revolutionary War. On 
the maternal side he is of the New Hampshire 
Chase family, of which were two bishops of the 
Episcopal church. Philander Chase, bishop of 
Ohio, and Carlton Chase, bishop of New Hamp- 
shire, who discharged the episcopal duties of the 



diocese of New York after the fall of Bishop On- 
derdonk, and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. 
His parents were poor, and when yet a boy he 
was thrown upon his own resources for support. 
.\t the age of si.xteen he left the farm, and, coming 
to Massachusetts, went to work at a shoemaker's 
bench in Danvers. From Danvers he made his 
way to Boston, where he engaged in the manufact- 
ure of silk hats. This business and that of pho- 
tography occupied him till 1S65. when he became 
connected with the American Shoe Tip Company 
of Boston. This connection continued about five 
years, during which period he travelled in difTer- 
ent parts of the country, making wide acquaint- 
ance with the shoe trade. Largely by his efforts 
the business of the company, which was in an 
embarrassed condition when he entered it, was 
brought to a prosperous stage. In 1870 he took 
Lip his residence permanently in Lynn, having for 
some years made it his summer home, and form- 
ing a partnership with George F. Barnard, under 
the firm name of J. C. Bennett & Co., began the 
manufacture of shoes of the first grade. Two 
years later the business was moved to a new 
building in Central Square, where it was contin- 
ued under the firm name of J. C. Bennett &: Bar- 
nard till the disastrous fire of November, 1889, 
when this structure, with many others, was burned 
to the ground. He continued in the shoe busi- 
ness for some time after under the firm name of 
]. C. Bennett. At the present time (1894), how- 
ever, he is not manufacturing but is confining 
himself more particularly to his real estate. He 
was a member of the State Senate for one term 
(1884-85), giving his salary for this service to 
the Lynn Hospital. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and in religion an Episcopalian, parish ves- 
tryman of St. Stephen's Church, Lynn. Mr. 
Bennett was married in February, 1865, to Miss 
Nancy Louisa Richardson, of Rochester, N.H. 



BLANC HARD, Samuel Stillman, of Boston, 
merchant and manufacturer, is a native of Cam- 
bridge, born June 23, 1835, son of Simon Tenney 
and Roxanna (Armsby) Blanchard. He is of 
Huguenot ancestry ; and his grandfather Samuel 
Blanchard's farm was at O.xford, Mass., near the 
Huguenot settlement of two hundred years ago. 
Thomas Blanchard, the inventor of the eccentric 
lathe applied to gun-stocks, gun-barrels, lasts, 
etc., was his father's brother. He was educated 



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in the public schools of Boston, notably the May- 
hew and Phillips schools. His training for busi- 
ness life was as a merchant's clerk ; and he early 
became a partner in the boot and shoe manufact- 
uring firm of Chase, Merritt, & Blanchard. Dur- 
ing the year 1882 he opened a wheat farm at 
Blanchard, No. Dak., a town named for him by 
the Great Northern Railroad, situated in the Red 
River valley, the great wheat belt of the North- 
west. Among his other interests is the Mercan- 




S. S. BLANCHARD. 

tile Loan and Trust Company of Boston, of which 
he is a director. He has served in both branches 
of the Massachusetts Legislature, a member of 
the House in 1S91 and 1892, and a senator in 
1S94. For these three terms he was a member of 
the committee on public charitable institutions. 
House chairman of the committee in 1892, for 
which he was exceptionally fitted by experience in 
the administration of charities, having been for 
some years a director of the PJoston Industrial 
Home and auditor of the Children's Friend Soci- 
ety. In 1894, his first term in the Senate, he was 
also chairman of the famous and important joint 
special committee on transit, and chairman of the 
committee on State House. He formulated and 
reported the State House Park bill, providing for 
the taking of land on the east side of the State 



House ; was the author of the bill regulating the 
height of buildings, making the extreme height 
one hundred and twenty-five feet, which has been 
adopted by many other cities in the country; and 
in the beginning he had much to do with the new 
State Medfield Asylum for Chronic Insane, and 
received the thanks of Governor Russell for his 
useful work in connection therewith. He also had 
charge of the bill to prevent " baby farming," 
conferring upon the State Board of Lunacy and 
Charity the sole authority to grant licenses to 
board infants, and was instrumental in securing 
the passage of this important measure. He is a 
life member of the \eteran organization of the 
First Corps of Cadets, believing firmly in the citi- 
zen soldiery, and as an active member of the 
corps served under Governor Andrew, during the 
busy days of the Civil ^^'ar, in the so-called gov- 
ernor's body-guard. Other organizations to which 
he belongs are the Bostonian Society (a life mem- 
ber), the Mercantile Library Association (a trustee 
and ex-president), the Old Boston School Boys' 
Association, the Columbian Lodge, the Massachu- 
setts Republican Club, the Massachusetts Club, 
and the Middlesex Club. Mr. Blanchard was 
married New Year's Eve, 1863, to Miss Susie E. 
Crockett, daughter of the late Colonel Seldon 
Crockett, of the old Bromfield House. Boston. 
They have had three children: one son, Judson, 
who died in 1S73 ; one daughter, Grace, died in 
1868; and a second daughter, Mabel Blanchard, 
now living. 

BOGAN, Colonel Frederick Benedict, 
superintendent of public buildings, Boston, is a 
native of Boston, born February 10, 185 1, son of 
Frederick and Anne (De Voy) Bogan. He was 
educated in the public schools, graduating from 
the old W'inthrop School in Charlestown. After 
leaving school, he entered the employ of Miller 
Brothers, general builders, where he remained, 
serving the greater part of the time as foreman, 
till 1878, when he entered the city architect's 
office. During his service here he superintended 
the construction of several school-houses, the hos- 
pital on Long Island, the pumping station at 
Chestnut Hill Reservoir, the gate-house at Fisher 
Hill, and other structures. In 1885 he became 
assistant superintendent of public buildings, and 
in 1894 was promoted to the head of the depart- 
ment as superintendent by appointment of Mayor 
Matthews. His military career began in 1868 



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with his enlistment, on July 7, in Company D, 
Fifth Infantry, as a private. He was commis- 
sioned second lieutenant on the 30th of March, 




FRED. B. BOGAN. 

187 1, and captain on the 4th of March, 1872. 
Ten years later, on January 19, 1882, he was com- 
missioned major in the Ninth Regiment, which 
position he held till his appointment on the staff 
of Governor Russell, in January, 1892, as an 
assistant inspector-general with the rank of colo- 
nel. After a service on the staff for about two 
years he resigned upon the death of Colonel 
Strachan to accept the colonelcy of his old regi- 
ment. During the reconstruction period in the 
militia Colonel Bogan, as senior captain in the 
Fifth Infantry, was for a time in command of that 
regiment. Later he was on two different oc- 
casions elected major of the regiment, but de- 
clined to accept ; and he was twice elected major 
of the Ninth before he accepted that commission. 
During his long and faithful service he has been 
recognized as an excellent tactician, and held in 
high esteem by his brother officers. He has fre- 
quently officiated as chief marshal of large pro- 
cessions in Boston, and for several years has been 
selected to act as judge at the competitive drills 
of the school regiment and of military organiza- 
tions in Massachusetts and other States. He is 



an active member of the Irish Charitable Society, 
of the Montgomery Light Guards Veteran Asso- 
ciation, of the Franklin Literary Association. 
Colonel Bogan was married May 7, 1878, to Miss 
M. E. Carney. They have two sons : Charles F. 
and Frederick L. Bogan. 



BRIDGHAM, Robert Choate, of Boston, 
manager for the Union Mutual Life Insurance 
Company of Portland, Me., was born in Dor- 
chester, December 4, 1850, son of Prescott C. 
and Lucy A. (Foster) Bridgham. The family re- 
moved two years later to Newton, where they 
still reside. He was educated in the public 
schools, the Mayhew Grammar of Boston, and 
the Newton Grammar and High Schools, finish- 
ing in Allen's Classical and English High School 
of West Newton. He then started in business, at 
the age of seventeen, as a boy with Ewing, Wise, 
lV Fuller, of Boston, importers of linens and white 
goods. The following year he took a position in 
the Boston office of the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company of New York, under Henry H. Hyde, 




ROBT. C. BRIDGHAM. 

general agent, subsequently of Hyde & Smith 
(Amos D. Smith, 3d, of Providence, R.I.). He 
remained here till 1872, when, owing to the ill- 



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health of his father, he resigned his position to be- 
come a member of the firm of Hridgham, Jones 
& C"o., jobbers of foreign and domestic woollens. 
Soon afterward, upon the death of Mr. Jones, the 
name was changed to ]5ridgham & Co., the firm 
composed of his father and himself. This asso- 
ciation continued till 1882. For the succeeding 
three years he was a partner in the firm of Hurt, 
Bridgham, & Snow, of Providence, R. I., impor- 
ters of woollens. In 1885, this partnership having 
been dissolved, he returned to the firm of Bridg- 
ham & Co., remaining four years. From i88g to 
1 89 1 he represented the firm of Hitchcock, Biggs, 
& Willett, of London, England, woollen ware- 
housemen; and in March, T891, he accepted the 
position of manager for the Eastern Massachusetts 
department of the Union Mutual Life Lisurance 
Company of Portland, Me., with offices at No. 4 
Post-office Square, Boston, which position he still 
holds. He is a member of Dalhousie Lodge of 
Freemasons, of Newton Royal Arch Chapter and 
Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar; a 
member of Newton Lodge No. 92, Order of Odd 
Fellows, and present regent of Mount Ida Coun- 
cil No. 1247, Royal Arcanum, of Newtonville. 
He is also a member of the Boston Life Under- 
writers' Association, of the New England Com- 
mercial Travellers' Association, and of the Massa- 
chusetts Poultry Association. He has been 
prominent for many years in the social and politi- 
cal life of Newton. As an active member of the 
Newton Club (serving for three years on the ex- 
ecutive committee), he has been a leading factor 
in connection with the success of this organiza- 
tion ; and his genial disposition and integrity have 
won for him a large circle of friends. He has 
taken an active part in the organization and suc- 
cess of the Republican party in his section, serv- 
ing as chairman of the e-xecutive committee of the 
Republican Club of Ward 2, and for several years 
a member of the Republican ward and city com- 
mittee of Newton. He is a member also of the 
Republican Club of Massachusetts. Mr. Bridg- 
ham was married January 18, 1872, to Miss Ade- 
laide Luella Swallow, of Boston, by the Rev. 
Henry M. Parsons, of Union Church, Columbus 
Avenue. 

BRO\\'NE, Andrew Jackson, of Boston, first 
assistant assessor, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in the town of Brentwood, March 25, 183 1, 
son of Colonel Josiah and Anna (Tuck) Browne. 



His mother was a daughter of Deacon Edward 
Tuck, of Brentwood, long identified with the inter- 
ests of the town. He was educated in the public 




A. J. BROWNE. 

schools, and at the age of eighteen came to Boston 
to begin business life. For fourteen years, from 
1854 to 1868, he was engaged in the hack and 
boarding stable business ; and since 1870 he has 
been in the real estate business, handling city and 
suburban property. He has occupied the posi- 
tion of first assistant assessor since 187 1, with the 
exception of the year 1885. He has served two 
terms in the lower house of the Legislature (1882- 
83) as a representative from the Roxbury District, 
where he has resided since 1849, when he started 
in business. He is a member of the Knights of 
Honor and of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. 
Browne was married in February, 1855, to Miss 
Miranda J. Shaw, daughter of Abram and Fannie 
Shaw, of Kensington, N.H. 



BURNHAM, Albert Stanwood, of Revere, 
superintendent of the Revere Water Company, 
was born in East Boston, September 25, 1850, son 
of Andrew and Anna B. (Duncan) Burnham. He 
is of American ancestry on the paternal side, from 



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about 1700, and Scotch on the maternal side. 
The family moved to Revere in 1853, where his 
father was long active and influential in town 
affairs, for many years a selectinan, moderator of 
town meetings, and prominent in the work of es- 
tablishing the water service which the town now 
enjoys. He was educated in the public schools 
of Revere, which he attended until he reached 
the age of seventeen years. Then he learned the 
house carpenter's trade, and followed this occupa- 
tion till 1874, when he engaged in the retail drug 
business on liroadwav. In 1882 he became one 





ALBERT S. BURNHAM. 

of the incorporators of the Revere Water Com- 
pany, and entered its employ in 1S84 as superin- 
tendent and registrar, and clerk of the corporation, 
which positions he still holds. The system which 
he directs is now about forty-five miles in length, 
and supplies the towns of Revere and Winthrop. 
Following in the footsteps of his father, he has 
held the principal executive positions in the town 
government, — auditor from 1S78 to 1887; col- 
lector of ta.xes in 1881 ; member of the board of 
health, 1881; selectman, chairman of the board 
and clerk, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892; trustee of the 
Public Library, 1884, 1885, 1886; member of the 
School Committee, chairman and clerk, 1886, 
1887, 1888; justice of the peace, 1884 to 1891 ; 



and bail commissioner from 188 1 to the present 
time. Like his father, also, he has been fre- 
quently moderator of the annual town meetings, 
and of very many special meetings. In 1884 and 
1885 he represented the Twenty-sixth Suffolk Dis- 
trict in the lower branch of the Legislature ; and in 
1893 and 1894 he was a member of the Senate 
from the First Suffolk Senatorial District, which 
district embraces Ward One, East Boston (his 
birthplace), the city of Chelsea, and the towns 
of Revere and Winthrop. In the House of 1884 
he was a member of the committee on federal re- 
lations; and in 1885 house chairman of the com- 
mittee on library, and member of the committee 
on water supply. In the Senate of 1893 he was 
chairman of the committee on drainage, and was 
also on the committees on insurance and labor; 
and in 1894 chairman of the committee on manu- 
factures, and on the committees on drainage and 
on constitutional amendments. He advocated 
and voted for municipal suft'rage for women, and 
for the so-called " Norwegian system " of selling 
into.xicating liquors. In the matter of the 
"Meigs Elevated Railway Bill," before the 
Legislature of 1894, he secured amendments to 
the measure, providing for a route to Revere, with 
a terminus at or near the proposed " Metropolitan 
Park" in the Crescent Beach District, and an im- 
portant provision requiring the payment by the 
railroad corporation of an annual franchise tax 
on its gross earnings, the same to be divided be- 
tween the cities and towns wherein its tracks may 
be laid. This legislation is in the nature of an 
inno\ation in respect to Massachusetts railroads. 
He also successfully opposed the repeal of the 
present law compelling cities and towns to pur- 
chase existing " gas or electric light plants " be- 
fore engaging in the business of "municipal or 
commercial lighting." He was the first resident 
of the town of North Chelsea (now Revere) ever 
honored by an election to the Senate, and he was 
the youngest member of the Senate of 1893 and 
1894. In his legislative service he has earned a 
reputation for conservatism and a strict loyalty to 
the Republican party, to which he has been at- 
tached from youth up, always giving unswerving 
support to its platforms and candidates. He has 
been prominent in the party organization for a 
long period, and has held the position of chair- 
man of the Republican town committee of Revere 
for eighteen years. He was also on the State 
committee in 1891. He is a member of the New 



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England Water Works Association, of the Massa- 
chusetts Republican Club, of tiie United Order of 
the Golden Cross, and of the New England Order 
of Protection. He was married April 29, 1874, 
to Miss Eudora M. Phelps. They have five chil- 
dren : Clara Estelle (aged eighteen years), Flor- 
ence Edwina (twelve years), Helen Louise (nine 
years), Marion Augusta (^six years), and Dora 
P.in'nham (born in 1894). 



CAPEN, Samuel Billings, of Boston, mer- 
chant, is a native of Boston, born December 12, 
1842, son of Samuel Childs and Ann (Billings) 
Capen. He is in the eighth generation from Ber- 
nard and Jane Capen, the progenitors of all the 
Capens in New England, who came to Dorchester 
in the ship " Mary and John," May 30, 1630. 
The oldest gravestone in New England bears the 
name of Bernard Capen, died in 1638. He is in 
the eighth generation also from John Alden of 
the Plymouth Colony and of Roger Billings, who 
came to Dorchester in 1640. His grandfather, 
Samuel Capen, of Dorchester, served in seven 
campaigns in the war of the American Revolu- 
tion ; and his only brother, Joseph Henry Capen, 
was in the Forty-fourth Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers, Company F, in the war of the Re- 
bellion. He was educated in the old Quincy 
Grammar and the English High -Schools, both of 
Boston, graduating from the latter in 1858. After 
leaving school, he entered the carpet store of 
Wentworth & Bright, and in 1864 became a part- 
ner in the business, with which he has been con- 
nected ever since under the firm names succes- 
sively of William E. Bright & Co., William E. 
Bright & Capen, and Torrey, Bright, & Capen. 
He has been a director of the Howard National 
Bank for a number of years, and is at present 
vice-president of the institution. He has for 
many years been identified with the public school 
system of Boston, having as a member of the 
School Committee, during a long period (1889- 
93), served on important committees, — chairman 
of the committees on school-houses, on manual 
training schools, on legislative matters, and on 
annual report, and member of that on accounts. 
The last year of his service, 1893, he was president 
of the board. He has also been prominent in va- 
rious reform movements, national and local, and in 
associations of the Congregational denomination. 
He has been a member of the Boston Indian 



Citizenship Committee for more than ten years, 
president of the Congregational Sunday School 
and Publishing Society since 1882, some time 
chairman of the finance committee of the Massa- 
chusetts Home Missionary Society, a director of 
the American Congregational Association, a mem- 
ber of the Pilgrim .Vssociation, of which he is now 
(1894) president, and of the Congregational Club, 
of which he was president in 1882. His most 
notable work of late years has been in connection 
with the establishment of the Boston Municipal 
League in 1893-94, an organization to advance 




SAMUEL B. CAPEN. 

municipal reform in various ways, having its be- 
ginnings in the Pilgrim Association, of which he 
was the chief promoter and is the present presi- 
dent. The objects of the league, as stated in its 
constitution, are " to keep before citizens the ne- 
cessity of their interest in public affairs, to discuss 
and shape public opinion upon all questions which 
relate to the proper government of the city, to 
separate municipal politics from State and na- 
tional politics, to secure the nomination and elec- 
tion of municipal officers solely on account of their 
fitness for the ofiice, to federate for these pur- 
poses the various moral forces of the city," repre- 
sented in the denominational and other clubs, 
and "to encourage every wise project for the pro- 



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motion of the good order, prosperity, and honor 
of Boston."' It is in line with movements in 
other cities in the interest of municipal reform, 
though differing from them in detail. Upon the 
occasion of his election as president at the per- 
manent organization in February, 1894, Mr. 
Capen delivered a practical address, which was 
printed as tract No. i in the Publications of the 
League. Two years before, in April, 1892, the 
project of the Municipal League was outlined 
in a more general manner in his address before 
the Congregaticmal Club, which also has been 
published in part under the title of " A Revival of 
C'lood (Mtizenship." Mr. Capen is second vice- 
president also of the National Municipal League 
organized in the spring of 1894, of which James 
C. Carter, of New York, is president. He is a 
member of the Sons of the Revolution. The de- 
gree of A.M. was given him by Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1893. He was married December 8, 
1869, to Miss Helen Maria Warren, daughter of 
the late Dr. John \V. Warren, of Boston. They 
have two children : Edward Warren and Mary 
Warren Capen. 

CHAMBERLAIN, Loved Ellis, of Brockton, 
justice of the Police Court, was born in Plympton, 
January 30, 1857, son of Robert M. and Eliza A. 
(Wright) Chamberlain. His paternal ancestors 
first settled in Hanson, and subsequently moved 
to Maine, where his father was born, in Auburn. 
His mother was a native of Plympton, and a de- 
scendant, through the Coopers and the Sampsons, 
from the Bradfords who came over in the " May- 
flower." His education was acquired in the com- 
mon and high schools of North Bridgewater, now 
Brockton, from which he graduated in 1875. He 
studied law in the ofiice of White & Sumner, 
Brockton, and in the Boston University Law 
School, graduating in 1879. \\'hile a student 
with White & Sumner, he also pursued general 
studies beyond the High School course for two 
years, and later took the Chautauqua four years' 
course. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and 
began practice in 1881. From 1882 to Novem- 
ber, 1884, he was a member of the law firm of 
Packard & Chamberlain, after which he practised 
alone. He was appointed to the justiceship of 
the Police Court upon its establishment in 1885, 
and he has been city solicitor of Brockton since 
1 89 1 through repeated elections. In politics he 
is a Republican, and performs fully the duties of 



the citizen, believing that politics are to be puri- 
fied at the caucus; but he has had no time to de- 
vote to public life. He is especially interested in 
municipal affairs and in movements for good 
government for cities and towns. He has been 
president of the Brockton High School Alumni 




L. E. CHAMBERLAIN. 



Association for several years, president of the 
Alpha Bicycle Club of Brockton since its organi- 
zation in 1892, some time president of the Young 
Men's Christian Association Congress, president 
of the Young Men's Republican Club for many 
years, and is secretary of the Plymouth County 
Club (a Republican and social organization). He 
is connected also with the Masons, the Odd Fel- 
lows, and the Good Templars. In the latter 
society he has represented Massachusetts at 
sessions in Toronto, Can., Saratoga, Richmond, 
and Fxlinburgh, Scotland (189 1); and he was 
treasurer for four years up to 1894. Judge 
Chamberlain was married August 26, 1890, to 
Miss Mina C. Miller, of Camden, Me. They 
have one child : Leslie C. Chamberlain (born 
July II, 1 891). 



CHOATE, Charles Francis, Jr., of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Cam- 
bridge, born October 23, 1866, youngest son of 



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Charles F. and Elizabeth W. (Carlisle) Choate. 
[For ancestry see Choate, Charles F.] His early 
education was obtained in private schools in Cam- 
bridge ; and in 1879 I't; went to St. Mark's School 
at Southborough, where he was fitted for college. 
Entering Harvard, he was graduated there in due 




CHAS. F. CHOATE, Jr. 

course in the class of 1888. After graduation he 
attended the Harvard Law School for two years, 
and in the spring of 1890 was admitted to the bar 
of Suffolk County. The following autumn he en- 
tered the office of Josiah H. Benton, Jr., and has 
since been there engaged in the practice of his 
profession. He is a member of the Union C'lub. 
He was married June 15, 1892, to Miss Louise 
Burnett, daughter of Joseph Burnett, of Boston. 
They have two children : Joseph ]?. and Charles 
F. Choate, 3d, twins, born May 3, 1893. 



CLIFFORD, Ch.\rles W.\rren, of New Bed- 
ford, member of the Bristol county bar, and iden- 
tified with numerous important interests, was born 
in New Bedford, August 19, 1844. He is the 
eldest son of John H. Clifford and Sarah Parker 
(Allen) Clifford, daughter of William Howland 
Allen. On the paternal side he is a direct de- 
scendant of Governor Mayhew, of Martha's Vine- 



yard, and, on the maternal side, of Captain Myles 
Standish, of Plymouth. His father was one of the 
foremost lawyers of Eastern Massachusetts, from 
1840 to 1849 district attorney for the southern 
district of the State, attorney-general from 1849 ^o 
1853 and 1854 to 1858, and governor of the 
Commonwealth in 1853. Charles Warren Clifford 
was fitted for college at T. Prentiss Allen's pri- 
vate school in New Bedford, — the old Friends' 
Academy, — entered Harvard at the age of seven- 
teen, and graduated with full honors in the class 
of 1865. His law studies, begun immediately 
after his graduation from the college, were pur- 
sued under the Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, of 
Taunton, the Hon. John C. Dodge, of Boston, and 
at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to 
the bar in New Bedford at the June term, 1868, 
and began practice there in the office formerly oc- 
cupied by his father. He was alone until Febru- 
ary, 1869, when he became a member of the firm 
of Marston c.^: Crapo (Hon. George Marston and 
Hon. William W. Crapo). This relation contin- 
ued till the dissolution of the firm of Marston 
iS: Crapo in 1878; and since that time he has 
been associated with Mr. Crapo and his brother, 
the Hon. Walter Clifford, under tlie firm name 
of Crapo, Clift'ord, & Clifford. While in asso- 
ciation with Mr. Marston, he acted as junior 
counsel in many important cases, the prepara- 
tion of which was intrusted to him, and subse- 
quently became largely employed as attorney for 
leading business men and numerous corpora- 
tions. In 1876 he was appointed one of the 
commissioners to revise the judiciary system of 
the Commonwealth. In 1891 he received the 
almost unanimous support of the bar of Massa- 
chusetts for appointment as a justice of the Cir- 
cuit Court of the United States. In 1893 he was 
appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court a com- 
missioner to determine the value of the Quincy 
Water-works, and in 1894 he was appointed by 
the same court a commissioner to distribute the 
expense of the Metropolitan Park Sj'stem. He 
has been a commissioner of the United States 
Circuit Court since 1867, and for many years one 
of the standing examiners of applicants for admis- 
sion to the bar of Bristol County. In politics a 
steadfast Republican, Mr. Clifford has for many 
years been foremost among the active supporters 
and advocates of the principles of that party. He 
has repeatedly served as chairman of the Repub- 
lican city committee of New Bedford ; has served 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



as a member of the State Committee and chair- 
man of its executive committee ; was a delegate to 
the Republican National Convention at Chicago 
in 1880 and assistant secretary of that body; was 
prominent as the manager of the campaign of the 
Hon. William W. Crapo for the gubernatorial nom- 
ination in 1882, which, though unsuccessful, was 
conducted with ability, good judgment, and dig- 
nity : and in later years has rendered his party 
good service in various ways. He was one of the 
original board of civil service commissioners of 
Massachusetts which devised and established the 




CHARLES W. CLIFFORD. 

present system, his term covering about four years, 
from November, 1884, to July, 1888. In New- 
Bedford he holds many positions of trust, and is 
officially connected with numerous financial and 
manufacturing concerns. He is president of the 
Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company, pres- 
ident of the Masonic Building Association, chair- 
man of the Board of Assessors, of the First Con- 
gregational Society; vice-president of St. Luke's 
Hospital and the National Bank of Commerce ; 
trustee of the Swain Free School, of the New 
Bedford Institution for Savings, and of several es- 
tates ; director of the New Bedford Manufacturing 
Company, of the Howland Mills, the New Bedford 
Copper Company, the Rotch Spinning Company, 



the Potomeka Mills, the Oneko Woollen Mills, the 
Davis Coast Wrecking Company; and one of 
the advisory committee of the Association for the 
Relief of Aged Women, and of the Ladies' Branch 
of the New Bedford Port Society. He was in- 
strumental in the establishment of the New Bed- 
ford Opera House, and the first president of the 
Opera House Association. The professional and 
social organizations to which he belongs include 
the American Bar Association, in which he is a 
member of the standing committee on commercial 
law : the New Bedford Bar Association, of which 
he is vice-president ; the Colonial Society of 
Massachusetts ; the \^'amsutta, Dartmouth, Unity, 
Snark, and Harvard clubs of New Bedford (being 
a trustee of the Wamsutta and vice-president of 
the Harvard) ; the Union, University, and Algon- 
quin clubs, Boston, the University Club, New 
York, and the Eastern and New Bedford Yacht 
clubs. He was the orator at New Bedford on 
the occasion of the celebration of the centennial 
of the inauguration of Washington as President 
of the United States, April 30, 1889 ; and among 
other notable discourses which he has delivered 
should be mentioned an eloquent address at the 
meeting of the Bristol County bar on the death 
of the Hon. George Marston, Sept. 7, 1883. He 
has also read papers before the Unity Club of 
New Bedford on the " McKinley Tariff " and on 
" Reciprocity," and before the National Civil Ser- 
vice League on " Registration of Laborers." Mr. 
Clifford married, first. May 5, 1869, Miss Frances 
Lothrop Wood, daughter of Charles L. and Eliza- 
beth T. W'ood, of New Bedford. She died April 
28, 1872. He married, second, March 15, 1876, 
Welhelmina Helena Crapo, daughter of the late 
Governor Crapo, of Michigan, and a sister of 
his partner, the Hon. William W. Crapo. They 
have no children. 



COLLINS, Lewis Peter, of Lawrence, manu- 
facturer, mayor of the city in 1 891, is a native of 
New Brunswick, born in the town of Sheffield, 
June 14, 1850, son of Peter and Sarah (Gallaway) 
Collins. He is of English and Irish ancestry. 
He was educated in the common and grammar 
schools of his native town. After leaving school, 
he served an apprenticeship to a carpenter and 
builder, and, finishing at the age of nineteen, 
then went into a factory to learn the ways of man- 
ufacturing door sashes and blinds, in which busi- 



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ness he has continued from that time to the pres- 
ent. He came to Lawrence in i86g, and entered 
the employ of Briggs & Allyn. makers of all kinds 



Hawes, of Belfast, Me. They have one child liv- 
ing, Fred Lewis Collins, twelve years old. 




COOK, Chari.es Emf.rso.m, editor-in-chief of 
the Boston Budget, is a native of Maine, born in 
Parsonsfield, July 22, 1869, son of James VV. and 
Sarah (Emerson) Cook. His paternal grandpar- 
ents were Nathaniel and Frances (Chamberlain) 
Cook ; and his maternal grandparents, Joseph 
Parsons Emerson and Sarah (Dunfield) Emerson. 
He is descended directly from the F2nglish branch 
of the Kochs of Germany, begun by barons of the 
family driven to England during the Thirty Years' 
War, and is closely connected with the Parsons 
family, of which Thomas Parsons, who settled the 
town of Parsonsfield, was prominent in the early 
history of Maine. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Boston, graduated from the Dwight 
Grammar in 1884, and the English High in 1887, 
and at Harvard, where he was graduated in the 
class of 1893. For a year after graduating from 
the English High and before entering college he 
was in the office of his father, where he received 



LEWIS p. COLLINS. 



of house finish, as general workman. Subse- 
quently he was made foreman ; and in 1885, when 
the corporation known as the Briggs & Allyn 
ALinufacturing Company was formed to carry on 
the business of the old firm, he was elected super- 
intendent of the works. In 1892 he was made 
treasurer and manager, the position he now holds. 
He is also a director of the Lawrence National 
Bank and trustee of the Broadway Savings Bank. 
He has served in both branches of the city gov- 
ernment, member of the Common Council in 
1889, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1890; 
and was mayor in 1891, elected by a majority of 
six hundred and fifty-two over his opponent. He 
is now a member of the Lawrence Water Board, 
which has purified the Merrimac River water by 
filtering. He belongs to a number of fraternal or- 
ganizations, — the Knights of Honor, the Knights 
and Ladies of Honor, and the United Friends, 
and is a member of the Lawrence Canoe Club. 
He is prominent in the Lawrence Board of Trade, 
and is the present vice-president of that organiza- 
tion. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Col- 
lins married December 26, 1869, Miss Lovina E. 




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CHARLES EMERSON COOK. 

a careful business training. While in college, he 
wrote two plays, — a Spanish comedy, " The War- 
path of Love," and "The 'i"ie that Binds" (the 



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latter in collaboration with David D. Wells), 
which were successfully produced by the Harvard 
Delta Upsilon ; and later he wrote a new college 
play, "A Sorry Spectre," which was given in the 
spring of 1894, also by Delta Upsilon. Disliking 
business, Mr. Cook turned toward literature and 
newspaper work while yet an undergraduate, pub- 
lishing several short stories, poems, clever humor- 
ous verse, and serving the Budget as a reporter. 
In f)ctober, 1889, he became the Harvard reporter 
for that paper; in January, 1892, its dramatic 
editor; in June, 1892, president of the reorgan- 
ized Budget Company ; in September following, 
writer of "The Saunterer" humorous paragraphs ; 
and in August, 1893, editor-in-chief of the jour- 
nal. His specialty is dramatic work, notably 
dramatic criticism. He is a member of the Delta 
Upsilon Fraternity and the Pi Eta Society of 
Harvard; of the Gridiron Club (elected a director 
in 1894) and the Press Club of Boston : and of 
the Republican Club of Massachusetts. He was 
married October 17, 1893, to Miss Margaret 
Quincy Greene, daughter of the late James Lloyd 
Greene, of Norwich, Conn. 




(^hio, born in Chillicothe, July 11, 1818, son of 
Leander and Ester (Smith) Cook. He is a de- 
scendant of Captain Joel Cook, of Revolutionary 
fame. His grandfather was the Captain Cook 
who saved the life of General William Henry 
Harrison from the Indians at the battle of Tippe- 
canoe. He was educated in the district school, 
and when a youth came East to begin active life. 
After learning the carriage trimming trade in the 
factory of Isaac Mi.x & Son, New Haven, Conn., 
he established the iirm of G. & D. Cook & Co. 
of New Haven, carriage-makers, and followed this 
business for eighteen years (from 1847 'o 1865). 
Afterwards he was engaged a number of years in 
the manufacture of musical instruments in New 
Haven, and in 1880 became connected with the 
Hallet & Davis Piano Company of Boston. He 
has been president of that corporation since 1880. 
He is connected with the Masonic order, a mem- 
ber of Hiram Lodge, New Haven, and belongs to 
numerous other organizations, business and so- 
cial. He was married January 8, 1837, to Miss 
Phtebe Merwin, of Milford, Conn. They have 
had eight children : George L., Mary E.. Wilber 
D., Emma T., James B., Hattie M., Minnie, and 
Lucy Cook. 



CEO. COOK. 



COOK, George, of Boston, president of the 
Hallet & Davis Piano Company, is a native of 



CRAIG, William Fairfield, of Lynn, phar- 
macist, is a native of Nova Scotia, born September 
15, 1865, son of Leslie M. and Amanda (Aymar) 
Craig. His father's parents, Alexander and Eliz- 
abeth (Harding) Craig, were born in Scotland ; 
and his mother's parents, William and Kaziah 
(Warne) Aymar, were natives of France. He was 
educated in the public schools of Nova Scotia, 
and fitted for his profession at the Massachusetts 
College of Pharmacy, taking the four years' 
course, and graduating in 1890. After leaving 
school, in the spring of 1884, he came to Lynn, 
and entered the employ of F. H. Broad & Co., 
pharmacists, with whom he remained as a clerk 
until 1892. Then he purchased the interest of 
Mr. Broad, and, forming a partnership with the 
junior partner, the Hon. Eugene A. Bessom, con- 
tinued and developed the business under the 
firm name of Wm. Craig & Co. Since 1890 he 
has been instructor in chemistry and pharmacy 
in the Lynn Hospital, and chemist for the Lynn 
Board of Health since 1892. He is an active 
member of various professional organizations, — 
the American Chemical Society, the Massachu- 



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setts State Pliarmaceutical Association, the Lynn 
Druggists' Association (secretary and treasurer of 




WILLIAM F. CRAIG. 

the latter), — a trustee of the College of Pharmacy 
(elected in 1893 for four years), and president of 
the Association of the Alumni of the College of 
Pharmacy (elected in 1894). He belongs also to 
the order of Odd Fellows, a member of Richard 
W. Drawn Lodge and of the Lynn Encampment. 
In politics he is a Republican, and is enrolled as 
a member of the Ward Three Lynn Republican 
Club. He is unmarried. 



CRAPO, William Wallace, of New Bedford, 
member of the Bristol bar, concerned in large 
manufacturing and railroad interests, and long 
prominent in public life, was born in Dartmouth, 
May 16, 1830, son of Henry Howland and Mary A. 
(Slocum) Crapo. His father, also a native of 
Dartmouth, born in 1804, moving to Michigan in 
1857, became one of the largest owners of wood- 
lands and most extensive manufacturers of lumber 
there, served as mayor of the city of Flint in 
1862, as a State senator for two years, and as 
governor of the State four, — 1864-65-66-67. He 
was the only son in a family of ten children. His 
education was acc|uired in the public schools of 
New Bedford, at the Friends' Academy, at PhiUips 



(Andover) Academy, and at Vale College, where 
he graduated in the class of 1852. He began his 
law studies immediately after leaving college in 
the office of the Hon., afterward Covernor John H. 
Clifford, of New Bedford, and subsequently at- 
tended the Harvard Law School ; and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Februar}', 1855. P'.ntering 
upon practice in New Bedford, he almost immedi- 
ately took a position of prominence. In less than 
three months after his admission to the bar — 
in April — he was appointed city solicitor, which 
office he held for ten years. The following year, 
1856, his public career was begun with speeches 
on the stump for John C. Fremont, the first candi- 
date of the Republican party for President, and 
with his election in November to the lower house 
of the Legislature. He was then but twenty-si.x 
years of age, one of the»youngest members of that 
body. The next year he was urged to take the 
Republican nomination for State senator for his 
district ; but he declined, his professional work, 
which had become important and was steadily 
increasing, demanding his undivided attention. 
I >uring the Civil War period he was among the 
most active and zealous supporters of the govern- 
ment, and gave freely from his time and means to 
the cause. Subsequently he was elected to fill a 
vacancy in the Forty-fourth Congress, and then 
began a notable career, which covered the Forty- 
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses, 
to each of which he was returned by large votes. 
From the first his place was with the leading 
members of the House. In the Forty-fifth Con- 
gress he was a member of the committee on 
foreign affairs ; in the Forty-sixth, a member of 
the committee on banking and currency ; in the 
Forty-seventh, chairman of the banking and cur- 
rency committee. Under his admirable leader- 
ship, and against strong opposition, the bill ex- 
tending the charters of the national banks was 
carried through ; and he took an infiuential part 
in advancing to enactment other important legis- 
lation. He early won the reputation of an able 
and trustworthy legislator of high standard and 
purity of motives. With the close of the Forty- 
seventh Congress, having declined a renomination 
for a fifth term, he returned to the practice of his 
profession. Soon, however, his name was brought 
before the Republican party in the State in con- 
nection with the governorship ; but refusing to 
enter a contest, being firm in his belief that the 
office should seek the man, or to allow the em- 



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ploymcnt in behalf of his candidacy of what are 
known in politics as machine methods, he failed 
to receive the nomination. In professional and 
business life Mr. Crapo has long held numerous 
responsible positions. He has been guardian or 
trustee for the management of large estates ; pres- 
ident of the Mechanics' National Bank of New 
Bedford since 1870; president of the Wamsutta 
Mills for many years ; director of the Potomska 
Mills, of the Acushnet Mills, and of a number of 
other industrial corporations; and president of 
the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad since 1883. 




WM. W. CRAPO. 

He is pre-eminently a business lawyer ; and, in 
causes where the exercise of business sagacity 
and good judgment are demanded, he has been 
especially successful. In his practice he was 
long associated with the Hon. George Marston, 
under the firm name of Marston & Crapo ; and 
since 1878 he has been in association with 
Charles W. and Walter Clifford, under the firm 
name of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford. In the affairs 
of his city he has always taken a warm interest, 
and has advanced many local improvements. He 
was actively concerned in the establishment of 
the New Bedford Water Works, and from 1865 to 
1875 held the chairmanship of the Board of Water 
Commissioners. In 1882 the honorarv degree of 



LL.D. was conferred upon him by Yale College. 
Mr. Crapo was married January 22, 1857, to Miss 
Sarah A. Tappan, daughter of George and Serena 
(Davis) Tappan, of New Bedford. They have 
two sons : Henry Howland (now in the office of 
Crapo, Clifford & Clifford) and Stanford Tappan 
Crapo (Y.C., 1886). 



DAME, Charles Chase, of Newburyport, 
member of the bar, was born June 5, 18 19, 
in Kittery, then the district of Maine, Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, son of Joseph and 
Statira (Chase) Dame. He is of English ances- 
try, and descends from first settlers in New Eng- 
land. The Dames settled in what is now Dover, 
N.H., in 1633, and the Chases about the same 
period in Newbury. He is in the eighth genera- 
tion from John Dame, one of the first deacons of 
the First Church of Dover and prominent in pub- 
lic affairs, and on the maternal side from Aquilla 
Chase, master mariner, the first pilot of the '■ Mer- 
rimack." His maternal grandfather, Joshua T. 
Chase, of Kittery Point, was a man of note. For 
seven years before the separation of Maine from 
Massachusetts he was a member of the General 
Court, and nine years ne.xt after the separation, a 
member of the Maine House of Representatives. 
His father, born in Wakefield, N.H., was the first 
man in that town to enlist in the War of 1812, and 
was stationed at Fort McCleary, Kittery Point. 
After this service he settled there, marrying 
Statira Chase. He was a schoolmaster by pro- 
fession, and taught several years at Newcastle, 
N.H. Charles C. first attended the common 
schools, and at the age of eleven began work. 
Before he had reached seventeen, he was teaching 
school at Kittery " Foreside." At eighteen he 
entered the academy at South Newmarket, N.H., 
where he received a good academic training. 
Upon graduation he returned to school-teaching, 
and pursued this profession upwards of twenty 
years. Beginning at Brentwood Hill, in June, 
1839, he was called to Newbury to take charge of 
a school at " Upper Green," where he remained 
two years. Then he became principal of a gram- 
mar school in Lynn, afterward of the South Male 
Grammar School of Newburyport, and next of the 
Brown High School there. In February, 1849, 
he temporarily retired, and made a voyage to the 
Pacific coast, stopping some time in South Amer- 
ica. Returning in 185 1, he took charge of the 



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English department in C'iiauncy Hall School, L!os- 
ton, where he remained nine years, at the same 
time reading law. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar September 8, 1859, and to practice in 
the United States Circuit Court October 17, fol- 
lowing. He retired permanently from school- 
teaching early in i860, and opened a law office 
in Boston. In September, 1868, he was ap- 
pointed by President Johnson collector of internal 
revenue for the Fifth District, Massachusetts, and 
held this position continuously through the ad- 
ministrations of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Gar- 




CHARLES C. DAME. 

field, and Arthur, till August, 1883. That year 
he opened a law office in Newburyport, and has 
since practised there. In March, 1876, he was 
admitted to practice in the United States Su- 
preme Court at Washington. He has lived in 
Newburyport since the late thirties, maintaining 
his residence there while teaching in Lynn and in 
Boston and practising law in the latter city, and 
has held numerous local positions, besides repre- 
senting his district in the State Senate (1868). 
In 1856 he was a member of the School Board, 
in 1859-60 member of the Common Council, in 
1862 an alderman, and in 1886 mayor of the city. 
He has been a director of the Merchants' Na- 
tional Bank of Newburyport since January, 1886, 



ami a trustee of the Institution for Savings in 
Newburyport and its Vicinity since January, 1884. 
He is a prominent Mason, and has held numerous 
high offices in the order. He was for three years 
(1866-67-68) grand master of the Grand Lodge 
of Massachusetts, A. F. & A. M. He was wor- 
shipful master of Revere Lodge, Boston ; high 
priest of St. Andrews R. A. Chapter, Boston ; 
eminent commander of Hugh de Payen Com- 
mandery, Melrose, and of Boston Commandery, 
Boston ; and is an honorary member of the Su- 
preme Council, A. A. S. R. of the Northern 
Masonic Jurisdiction, for the thirty-third, or last, 
degree. He has been a member of the Masonic 
Education and Charity Trust in Massachusetts 
from its commencement, in 1884, and a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Grand Lodge of 
Massachusetts since 1881. Mr. Dame was for 
many years an active member of the Veteran 
.Vrtillery Company of Newburyport and of the 
.Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
Boston, commander of the former in 1870 and 
judge advocate in later years. In politics he was 
originally a ^^'hig, and upon the dissolution of 
that party became a Republican. He was mar- 
ried September i, 1842, to Miss Frances Amelia 
Little, of Newbury. They have had four chil- 
dren : Frances Chase (deceased), Charles Little 
(deceased), P'rances Maria, and Charles W'allis 
Dame. 

DANIELS, John Herbert, of Fitchburg, 
dealer in real estate, was born in Worcester, 
January 27, 1845, son of Thomas E. and Lucy 
(Sherwin) Daniels. His grandfather, Verin Dan- 
iels, was a pioneer builder and contractor of 
Fitchburg: and his father was an inventor of note, 
originator of the Daniels planer, a machine which 
has been in constant use since its invention in 
1834. He was educated in the public schools of 
Fitchburg, and graduated from a business college. 
His active career was begun at nineteen years of 
age as clerk in the provost marshal's office in 
Greenfield. Here he was employed in 1864 
-65. For the ne.xt twenty years, from 1865 to 
1885, he was connected with the Fitchburg Rail- 
road, first as clerk in the freight ofiice, then 
freight cashier, and the latter part of this period 
as ticket and freight agent. In 1884 a fine tract 
of high land, embracing one hundred and fifty 
acres, and including what had been known as the 
Daniels farm, lying by the side of the Fitchburg 



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Railroad, between Fitchburg and West Fitchburg, Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Daniels 
came into his possession; and he proceeded to was married first, in 1872, to Miss Abby F. Lane, 
develop it as a manufacturing centre, subse- She died in 1879, leaving two children : Herbert 

L. and Ernest T. Daniels. He married secondly, 
in 1892, Miss Florence R. Dwinnell. They have 
a daughter, Ellen S. L)aniels. 




JOHN H. DANIELS. 

quently devoting much of his time to this enter- 
prise. He induced manufacturers to build upon 
it by giving them suitable land, opened streets 
through and across it, encouraged the building of 
dwellings, schools, and stores ; and, as a result 
of his efforts and public spirit, w'ithin a few years 
a thriving community was here established. 
Where there was not a single dwelling in 1885, 
there are now (1894) four extensive manufactories, 
employing a large number of hands, many dwell- 
ing-houses, a public and a parochial school, a 
French Catholic church, and a dozen stores. Mr. 
Daniels is especially concerned in the growth and 
welfare of Fitchburg, and in educational and re- 
ligious interests. He has been secretary of the 
Board of Trade from its reorganization in 1891, 
a trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank, vice- 
president of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, and treasurer of the First Baptist Church of 
Fitchburg. He served in the Common Council 
in 1884-85, and has been a member of the 
School Board since 1888. He is a director of 
the Fidelity Co-operative Bank, the Brown Bag- 
filling Machine Company, and of the W'achusett 



DILLON, David Martin, of Fitchburg, man- 
ufacturer, was born in St. John, N.B., April 
15, 1843, son of William and Isabella (Dillon) 
Dillon. He was educated in the public schools 
of his native place. He came to the LTnited 
States when about seventeen years of age ; and 
soon after, the Civil War breaking out, he en- 
listed in the government service, and for two 
years was a most trusted workman in it. At the 
close of the war he settled in Worcester, and 
there started a steam-boiler business. After five 
prosperous years in Worcester he moved his busi- 
ness to Fitchburg, where he has since built up one 
of the most flourishing boiler manufacturing con- 
cerns in New England. To him belongs the 
credit for making the first steel boilers, which 




DAVID M. DILLON. 



placed him among the foremost of those who 
have revolutionized mechanical processes. His 
shops are models of convenience, being amply 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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equipped with the most improved tools ; and his 
manufactured goods find market in all parts of 
the United States, in South and Central America, 
Mexico, Japan, and other countries. Besides his 
extensive boiler business, he is connected with 
various other enterprises, and is concerned as 
a leader in every movement for the growth, im- 
provement, and general well-being of his city. 
He is president of the Fitchburg Real Estate As- 
sociation, which has done much to advance and 
develop suburban property ; is a director of the 
Parkhill Manufacturing Company, a director of 
the Fitchburg Co-operative Bank ; and was presi- 
dent of the Board of Trade during the year 1893. 
In fraternal societies he is prominent as a mem- 
ber of Mount RoUstone Lodge and King David 
Encampment, Order of Odd Fellows, and of Al- 
pine Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is an hon- 
orary member of the Fitchburg Athletic Club. 
In politics he is a Republican, and is frequently 
selected to attend conventions. He has served 
two terms in the Fitchburg Board of Aldermen, 
where he was known, as in private life, as an un- 
flinching supporter of measures wliich he con- 
ceived to be right. Mr. Dillon was married June 
17, i86g, to Miss Margaret Grace Kavener. 
They have seven children : Benjamin H., Freder- 
ick N., D. Frank, Katherine Louise, Isabella 
Mary, Walter Sidney, and Herbert L. Dillon. 



alderman. In 1S94 he represented the city in 
the lower house of the Legislature, serving there 
on the committees on bills in the third readins: 



DOWD, James Joseph, of Brockton, member 
of the bar, is a native of Worcester, born July 4, 
1857, son of Charles and Mary (Reynolds) Dowd. 
His parents were born in Ireland. He attended 
the Worcester public schools, and after graduat- 
ing from the High School, class of 1877, took a 
thorough collegiate course, studying some time at 
the St. Charles College, Elicott City, Md., then 
at Holy Cross, Worcester, and finishing at St. 
Michael's College, Toronto, Can., where he grad- 
uated in the class of 1880. He studied law in 
Worcester, and was admitted to the bar there 
September 20, 1882. While engaged in practice, 
he had a brief experience as an editor of a weekly 
paper, the Saturday Democrat of Worcester, 
which flourished for a few short months, from 
February to May, 1884. He remained in Worces- 
ter until September 25, i886, when he moved 
his law business to Brockton, where he has since 
been established. He early took an interest in 
affairs in Brockton, and in 1893 was made an 




JAMES J. DOWD. 

and on revision of corporation laws. In politics 
he has always been a Democrat. He was chair- 
man of the Brockton Democratic city committee 
in 1889, and member of the Democratic State 
central committee in 1890 and 1891. He was 
married October 14, 1885, to Miss Nellie F. 
Degan. They have one child : Agnes Dowd. 



DRAKE, Luther J., member of the Suffolk 
bar, is a native of Maine, born in the town of 
Union, October 27, 1847, son of Luther H. and 
Abigail (Davis) Drake. He is of English ances- 
try, and his great-great-grandparents were among 
the early settlers of the colonies. He was pre- 
pared for college at the Maine Wesleyan Semi- 
nary, and graduated from Bowdoin College in the 
class of 187 I. After leaving college, he engaged 
in teaching, in which he spent about two years, 
first in the Warren (Me.) .Academy, and after- 
ward in the Bridgewater (Mass.) High School, 
meantime reading law. He was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar at New Bedford, January 12, 
1874, and began the practice of his profession in 



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Fall River, where he continued till 1880, when he 
came to Boston. Since that date he has been 
engaged in general practice at the Suffolk bar. 




L. J. DRAKE. 

During the closing period of the Civil War Mr. 
Drake was first lieutenant Company F, Twelfth 
Maine Volunteers, and served from February, 
1865, to March, 1866, commanding his company 
the last ten months of that time till the mustering 
out of the regiment. He is a Royal Arch Mason. 
In politics he is a Republican. He was married 
in October, 1876, at Fall River to Miss Ellen 
Hibbard. Thev have no children. 



DUDLEY, S.i^NFORD Harrison-, member of 
the Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in 
China, January 14, 1842, son of Harrison and 
Elizabeth (Prentiss) Dudley. He is a lineal de- 
scendant of Thomas Dudley, second governor of 
the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, through his 
eldest son Samuel, who settled at Exeter, N.H. 
He lived with his parents at St. Albans, Auburn, 
and Richmond, Me., and finally came w-ith them 
to Massachusetts at the age of fifteen. He began 
his studies preparatory for college in the High 
School of Fairhaven, and afterward completed 
them under the direction of a well-known classical 



teacher in New Bedford, meanwhile teaching 
school in the country. He graduated from Har- 
vard in 1867, and from the Harvard Law School 
in 187 1, taking the several degrees of A.B., A.M., 
and LL.B. For three years after graduation from 
college he taught the classics and mathematics in 
the New Bedford High School, meanwhile read- 
ing law in the office of Eliot & Stetson, of New- 
Bedford. He was admitted to the bar immedi- 
ately after receiving his degree from the law 
school, and opened an office in Boston, also an 
office in Cambridge, where he has always resided. 
After a few years, however, he confined himself 
wholl)' to his Boston office, where he has been 
engaged in general practice ever since. He has 
never sought political office or preferment, though 
serving a single year in the city government 
where he resides, preferring to give his whole 
attention to his chosen profession. In politics 
he was originally a Republican, and is preferably 
such still, and was for many years a member of 
the local party committees, but lately has acted 
independently. In religion Mr. Dudley is a Uni- 
versalist, a member of the Universalist church at 




SANFORD H. DUDLEY. 



North Cambridge, and active in religious matters, 
both in church and Sunday-school. He has been 
president of the Uni\-ersalist Club, the representa- 



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live lay organization in the State. He is also a 
member of the Cambridge CUii), the [irincipal 
social organization of his city ; is or has been 
president of the Universalist Sunday School 
Union, an organization representing all the Sun- 
day-schools of his denomination in and around 
Boston and vicinity ; has been president of the 
Sons of Maine Association in Cambridge, a social 
organization composed of natives of Maine in his 
city; is a member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, and president of the Gover- 
nor Thomas Dudley Family Association, a cor- 
poration established not only for social purposes, 
but also as one of its objects for the elucidation 
of early New England history, especially as af- 
fected by the life and career of Governor Dudley 
and the lives and careers of his descendants. 
Mr. Dudley has written occasionally for the press, 
and also from time to time has made addresses 
upon historical and other topics. He was married 
April 2, 1869, at Fairhaven, to Miss Laura Nye 
Rowland, daughter of John M. Howland, of Fair- 
haven. They have three children : Laura How- 
land, Howland, and Elizabeth Prentiss Dudley. 
The son, Howland, is destined for his father's pro- 
fession. 



1888. In politics he is a Democrat. He was 
married June 8, 1S64, to Miss Kate R. Adams, 
of ISrighton, daughter of [oel C. and Lucinda O. 



DUNCKLEE, Joshua Sears, of Boston, chair- 
man of the Board of Assessors, is a native of 
Brighton, born September 4, 1840, son of John 
and Harriet (Gilmore) Duncklee. He was edu- 
cated in the Brighton public schools. At the age 
of seventeen he entered the employ of Otis Nor- 
cross & Co., Boston, to learn the crockery ware 
business, and was engaged here till September, 
1 86 1, when he enlisted in the United States 
naval service as paymaster's clerk on board the 
United States ship " Ino," with which he served 
during her first cruise. On retiring from the 
navy, he returned to Boston, and engaged in the 
wholesale grocery business, which he pursued for 
several years. He first became an assessor of 
taxes in Brighton, serving the last two years of 
its existence as an independent town (1872-73). 
After its annexation to Boston (1874) he was 
made an assistant assessor of Boston, in which 
capacity he served two years (1874-75). He was 
appointed a principal assessor in 1877, and has 
served continuously from that time, chairman of 
the board since 1893. Mr. Duncklee is a Free- 
mason, a member of the Bethesda Lodge, of 
which he was worshipful master in 1887 and 





JOSHUA S. DUNCKLEE. 



(Fuller) Adams. They have three children : 
Kate A., Helen L., and Howard S. Duncklee. 



ELDREDGE, Clarence Freeman, member of 
the SufTolk bar, was born in Dennisport, Cape 
Cod, November 14, 1862, son of James F. and 
Susan ( Wixon) Eldredge. His ancestors on both 
the paternal and maternal sides came from Eng- 
land and settled on Cape Cod, at Yarmouth. 
Thence the Eldredges went to Chatham, where 
his father was born. From Chatham his father 
early moved to Dennisport. He was educated in 
the public schools at Dennisport and at the Com- 
mercial College in Providence, R.L, from which 
he graduated in i88i. He studied law in Boston, 
beginning about September, 1881, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar January 10, 1885. He 
began practice with his preceptor, and continued 
with him till November, 1891, when he opened 
his own office. He has since practised alone, en- 
gaged in both civil and criminal business, in 
State and United States courts, having been ad- 
mitted to the latter in May 31, 1893. Although 



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an ardent Republican, he has held no office other Jefferson's cabinet in 1806, but declined, prefer- 
than member of the Republican ward and city ring to remain in Congress, and died suddenly in 
committee of Boston (for Ward Twenty-four) for Washington in 1808. He was educated in the 

Salem Latin School and at Harvard, where he 
was graduated in the class of 1847 ; and his law 
studies were pursued under Nathaniel J. Lord, 
then the leader of the Essex bar, and at the Har- 
vard Law School. Admitted to the bar in 1850, 
he began practice the following year in Salem. 
In 1852 he entered into partnership with J. W. 
Perry under the firm name of Perry & Endicott, 
which association continued till 1873. In 18^7 
he was made city solicitor of Salem, and served 
in this office till 1864, when his practice had be- 
come large and important, and he ranked with 
the leaders at the bar. Li 1870 he was nomi- 
nated for Congress by the Democrats of the 
Essex District, and in the State campaigns of 
1871, 1872, and 1873 he was candidate for attor- 
ney-general on the Democratic ticket. In 1873 
he was appointed to the Supreme Bench by 
(Jovernor William B. Washburn in place of Mr. 
Justice Horace Gray, then elevated to the chief 
justiceship made vacant by the death of Chief 



CLARENCE F. ELDREDGE. 

one year. He declined longer to serve, preferring 
to give his best time and attention to his varied 
and increasing professional work. He is a mem- 
ber of the Royal Arcanum, Dorchester Council, 
and of the Chickatawbut Club. He was married 
September 13, 1885, to Miss Lucie W. Nickerson. 
They have one child : Marian ^^'allace Eldredge, 
born October 29, 1887. 




F.NDICOTT, Wii.i.iAM Crowninshield, of 
Salem, member of the Esse.x bar, some time jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth 
and member of the first cabinet of President 
Cleveland, was born in Salem, November ig, 
1826, son of William Putnam and Mary (Crownin- 
shield) Endicott. On the paternal side he is a 
direct descendant of John Endicott, the first gov- 
ernor of "The Plantation in New England," and 
on the maternal side is of one of the older Mas- 
sachusetts families. His maternal grandfather, 
Jacob C-rowninshield, was a merchant of Salem, Justice Chapman. His services here covered a 
member of Congress from t8o2 to 1808, was ap- period of nearly ten vears, and were highly es- 
pointed and confirmed Secretary of the Navy in teemed. Resigning in 1882, he returned to'-en- 




WM. C. ENDICOTT. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



219 



eral practice. In 1S84 he was the Democratic 
candidate for governor of the State, and the fol- 
lowing vear was named for Secretary of War by 
President Cleveland, in which position he served 
through the four years of Mr. Cleveland's first 
administration. Originally a Whig, he has been 
a Democrat since the dissolution of the Whig 
party. Judge Endicott has been president of the 
I'eabody Academy of Science in Salem since 
1.S67 ; was president of the Esse.x Har A.ssocia- 
lion from i86g to 1873, and president of the 
Salem Bank from 1857 to 1873. In 1852 he was 
a member of the Salem Common Council and its 
president. He was the orator on the occasion of 
the celebration in 1878 of the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John Endi- 
cott ; and he has delivered numerous other occa- 
sional addresses, the list including an address on 
John Hampden and his relation to the Puritan 
movement here and in England, an address be- 
fore the Young Men's Union in Salem on patri- 
otism as bearing on the duties of a citizen, an 
address at Sterling, Mass., on the Relation of 
Agriculture to the Stability and Permanence of 
the State, and a lecture on Chivalry. Judge 
Endicott was married December 13, 1859, to 
Miss Ellen Peabody, daughter of George Pea- 
body, of Salem. They have one son and one 
daughter : William C, Jr., and Mary C. Endicott 
(now Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, of P)irmingham, 
England). 

EVANS, Edmond Amos, of Clinton, special 
justice of the Second District Court of Eastern 
\\'orcester, is a native of Clinton, born March 2, 
1865, eldest son of Amos and Lydia G. (Bab- 
cock) Evans. His paternal grandparents were 
Amos and Catherine (Richardson) Evans, of 
Reading; and his maternal grandparents, David 
and Elizabeth (Walcott) Babcock, of Bolton. 
Amos Evans, senior, was son of Thomas, son of 
Jonathan, son of Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, 
senior, who, with his father, Henry Evans, settled 
in Reading, where he married, previous to 1680. 
The Evans family have been well known in Read- 
ing and vicinity for over two hundred years. The 
Babcock family have lived in and have been 
identified with the history of the old town of 
Bolton for nearly as long. His education was 
attained in the public schools of Clinton, from 
which he graduated in 1882, leader in his class 
and valedictorian. Shortlv after leaving school 



he became book-keeper and confidential clerk for 
large manufacturing corporations in Clinton, and 
was afterward for five years managing clerk for 




EDMOND A. EVANS. 

Corcoran & Parker, of Clinton, one of the fore- 
most law firms of that section. Here he studied 
law, and shortly after the dissolution, by removal 
of the firm, was admitted to the bar (May 12, 
1892), and succeeded to their office and practice. 
While with Messrs. Corcoran & Parker, Mr. 
Evans assisted Judge Corcoran in liis very suc- 
cessful management as receiver of the affairs of 
the wrecked Lancaster National Bank. Subse- 
quently, in 1894, he successfully closed up the 
affairs of the Fraternal Accident Association, Im- 
proved Order of Red Men, formerly numbering 
several thousand members, having been appointed 
receiver by the Supreme Court in 1890. He has 
held and holds numerous positions of trust, while 
conducting the usual and varied practice of a 
busy lawyer. He was appointed a justice of the 
peace in 1888, notary public in 1890, master of 
chancery in 1892, and resigned the latter office to 
accept the appointment as special justice of the 
local district court in 1894. He has found little 
time to devote to politics, and has uniformly de- 
clined public olfice ; but he is interested and 
prominent in various local organizations, and is 



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now treasurer of the Prescott t'lub, tlie leading 
social club of his town. Mr. Evans was married 
August 8, 1888, to Miss May L. Lyons, daughter 
of Edwin and Anne Lyons, of Ellenburgh, N.Y. 
They have three children : Mildred L. (born Jan- 
uary 17, 1890), Ralph A. (born February 16, 
1891), and Marjorie A. Evans (born September 
28, 1893). 




W. D. EWING. 

EWING, William David, of Boston, general 
superintendent of the Fitchburg Railroad system, 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in the town of 
Indiana, January i6, 1846, son of John and Eliza- 
beth (Anthony) Ewing. He is of Scotch-Irish 
ancestry. He was educated in the common 
school and academy, and at the age of fifteen was 
a soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted first in 
the Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Reserve Corps, served for one year, and subse- 
quently re-enlisted in other organizations, serving 
as private and first sergeant in infantry, and also 
as first lieutenant in cavalry, a total service of 
almost three years. After the war he went West, 
soon engaging in railroading in Illinois. He ad- 
vanced gradually through the lower grades on the 
Illinois Central and the Ohio and Mississippi 
Railroads, and to the position of general manager 



on the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. His 
service with the Fitchburg began in 1891, as as- 
sistant general superintendent; and in 1893 he 
succeeded to the position of general superintend- 
ent, which he has since held. For several years, 
and until taking position with the Fitchburg Rail- 
road, he commanded the First Regiment Infantry, 
Indiana Legion (State Militia). He is a member 
of the military orders of the Grand Army of the 
Republic and of the Loyal Legion. Mr. Ewing 
was married March 11, 1866, to Miss Emma 
Watt, of Pennsylvania. They have one son : 
John W. Ewing. 



FRENCH, Alfred Joseph, M.D., of Law- 
rence, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Bedford, January 16, 1823, son of Eben C. and 
Sally (Holbrookj French. Both his paternal and 
maternal grandfathers were also of l!edford. The 
former, Eben C. French, served as selectman of 
the town ; and the latter, Deacon John Holbrook, 
was in the Re\olutionary War. He was educated 
in the public schools and at the Hancock Literary 
Scientific Institution, where he spent two years. 




A. J. FRENCH. 

His medical studies were pursued in the Vermont 
Medical College, from which he graduated in 
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the farm, and from thai time till his twenty-ninth 
year he was engaged in general study. Then he 
began the practice of his profession, first estab- 
lished in the town of Methuen, Mass. After 
seven years there he came to Lawrence, where he 
has practised continuously for thirty-five years. 
He has been interested also for a number of 
years in banking and manufacture. He started 
the Lawrence National Bank in 1873, and was 
its president for five years ; and subsequently he 
organized the Wright Manufacturing Company 
for manufacturing mohair braid, with a capital of 
si.xty thousand dollars, of which lie was president 
eight years, and one of the three owners. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. He was a member of 
the Massachusetts Legislature in 1859, and in 
1864 filled the office of mayor of Lawrence. He 
has been for many years a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Homceopathic Society, and was its presi- 
dent in 1890. He is not a member of any secret 
society. He has been long a trustee of the First 
Baptist Church of Lawrence, and superintendent 
of the Sunday-school. He married in November 
II, 1852, Miss Sarah A. Hardy, of Antrim, N.H. 
They have had one daughter, who died at the age 
of eight. 

FULLER, Granville Austin, of Boston, lum- 
ber merchant, was born in Brighton (now Brighton 
District, Boston), March 13, 1837, son of Gran- 
ville and Rebecca (BuUard) Fuller, both originally 
of W'ellesley. He is a direct descendant of 
Thomas Fuller, who came from England and set- 
tled in Salem in 1633. He was educated in the 
Brighton public schools, and at the age of fifteen 
entered into the lumber business with his father, 
in which lie has ever since been successfully en- 
gaged, from i860 a member of the firm of G. 
Fuller & Son. He was early attached to the 
fire department, at twenty-one entering the old 
Brighton organization. He served as engineer, 
captain and member of the ''board of engineers" 
before the town was annexed to Boston, and after 
annexation as captain of Ladder No. 11, and as 
district chief, holding the latter position till 1890, 
when he resigned, his entire service having cov- 
ered a period of thirty-two years. In Brighton 
District affairs he has long been prominent, and 
he is identified with several of its institutions. 
He is a director of the National Market Bank, of 
the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Company, a trus- 
tee of the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank, and 



member of its investment committee, and a large 
holder of Brighton real estate. He is also presi- 
dent of the New England Investment Company of 
Denver, Col. In'politics he is an earnest Repub- 
lican, always upholding the principles of his 
party; and in State and municipal affairs it is his 
custom to consider questions as they arise from 
a business man's point of view. In the autumn 
campaign of 1892 he was nominated by the Re- 
publicans of the Twenty-fifth Suffolk District for 
the House of Representatives, and was elected 
by a good vote, although the district is strongly 




GRANVILLE A. FULLER. 

Democratic. In his first term (Legislature of 
1893) he served on the committees on finance 
and on expenditures, and won a reputation as a 
working member. Returned to the Legislature 
of 1894 by a largely increased vote, the Speaker 
complimented him with the same assignments 
that he had had the previous year, — on the 
finance and expenditures committees, — and made 
him also a member of the important committee on 
taxation. Not a debater, his service w-as most 
valuable and infiuential in the committee rooms, 
where much of the most important work is done 
and measures are formulated. In the agitation 
for rapid transit between Boston and its surround- 
ing suburbs he has been untiring in his efforts 



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to obtain recognition for the Brighton District in 
the several schemes before the Legislature ; and 
solely through his exertion provision for a line to 
this district was inserted in the so-called Meigs 
Elevated Railroad bill which passed the Legisla- 
ture in 1894. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. 
Fuller is prominent in connection with Kethesda 
Lodge of the Brighton District: and in religious 
matters he is identified with the Brighton Con- 
gregational church. He was married on the ist 
of January, i860, to Miss Roselle S. Henderson, 
of St. George, Me. They have had five children, 
four of whom are now living : Herbert A., Will 
S., Ethel L., and Granville Norton Fuller. 



(iAUSS, John Dennis Hammond, of Salem, 
editor of the Ol>sen<cr, is a native of Salem, born 
January 4, 1S61, son of Stephen and Rebecca 
Gray (Cross) Gauss. He was educated in the 
Salem public schools. When fourteen years of 
age, in November, 1875, he entered tiie ofiice of 
the Salem Ohscnrr (founded in 1823) as boy; 
and he has since spent every day of his working 




J. D. H. GAUSS. 



life there, advancing through the several grades 
to editor and proprietor of the paper. He is now 
a member of the firm of Newcomb & Gauss, pub- 



lishers of the Ohsenri; and conductors of the 
largest job printing-office in Essex County. He 
is president of the Salem Press Club. In politics 
Mr. Gauss is a Republican, treasurer of the Re- 
publican city committee of Salem, and president 
of the Young Men's Republican Club. He was 
a member for Salem in the lower house of the 
Legislature in 1894, and member of the Salem 
School Committee in 1892, 1893, and 1894. He 
is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows 
orders, member of the Starr King Lodge of the 
former, and a past grand of Fraternity Lodge and 
past high priest of Salem Encampment of the 
latter. He is a member also of Naumkeag Tribe, 
Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Gauss has 
been twice married : first, October 28, 1886, to 
Miss Jennie I. Sinclair, of Marblehead ; and 
second, September 3, 1888, to Miss Nellie Grace 
Whitcher, of Bath, N.H. He has four children : 
Stephen S., John W., Katherine F., and Grace J. 
Gauss. 

GODDARD, Warren, of Brockton, member of 
the bar, was born in North Bridgewater (now 
Brockton), October 10. 1849, son of Warren and 
Sarah (Eldridge) Goddard. His father was a 
clergyman settled in Brockton fifty years as pas- 
tor of the New Church (Swedenborgian, so called ) ; 
and his grandfather was Dr. John Goddard, of 
Portsmouth, N.H., who was elected United States 
senator before the nomination was tendered to 
Daniel Webster, but declined the honor. His 
mother's father and brothers were all master 
mariners, and one of them was for many years 
agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line. His 
early education was acquired in the private and 
public schools of his native place, and he gradu- 
ated from the first class ever graduating from its 
High School, as valedictorian. He was in the 
class of 1871 at Darmouth College, but, owing to 
illness, did not there complete his course. In 
consequence of private studies, however, he was 
accorded the degree of A.M. at or soon after the 
time his class graduated. Subsequently he grad- 
uated from the New Church Theological School, 
and preached acceptably in Brookline and in 
Providence, R.I. ; but, having always preferred 
the law as a vocation and being only temporarily 
turned aside therefrom by prejudices of friends, 
he soon took up legal studies with city solicitor 
Nicholas Van Slyck, of Providence, and thereby 
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a student in the law office of Colonel Van Slyck, Brockton, of the Knights Templar in Free 
he prepared the material for a complete Index- Masonry, and of various social and religious 
digest of the Rhode Island Reports, which he clubs. He was married October 9, 1873, in 

Brookline, to Miss Alice Clark Wellington. 

Their children are : Langdon, Edith, Arthur E., 

Mary E., Margaret, Warren, Alice W., and 

Miriam L. Goddard. 




WARREN GODDARD. 

left with Colonel Van Slyck on his removal to 
Massachusetts, which took place on the death of 
his father, he being executor of the latter's will. 
He was admitted to the Rhode Island bar March 
9, 1889, and to the Plymouth County bar in May, 
1890. In the latter year he formed a law copart- 
nership with the Hon. Jonathan White, of Brock- 
ton, and has since enjoyed a good and steadily 
increasing business. For two years and a half he 
served as clerk of the Police Court of Brockton, 
and then resigned the office to devote his whole 
time to his law business. During his term as 
clerk the controller of accounts pronounced his 
office one of the best in the Commonwealth. Mr. 
Goddard was a member of the School Committee 
in Brookline from 1874 to 1882, and during that 
time was secretary of the board and chairman 
of the committees on evening school and on 
teachers. In Brockton he is now a member of the 
School Committee and chairman of its commit- 
tee on salaries. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was the Republican candidate for mayor of 
Brockton in December, 1893, but was defeated. 
He is a member of the Commercial Club of 



GOODRICH, Henry Auc.ustu.s, of Fitch- 
burg, merchant, is a native of Fitchburg, born 
November 22, 1830, son of John and Mary .\. 
(Blake) Goodrich. He is a descendant of Will- 
iam Goodrich, who came from England and 
settled in Watertown in 1634. He was educated 
in the public schools of Fitchburg, including the 
High School, and at the Fitchburg Academy. In 
1855 he started in business for himself, opening 
a men's furnishing store in the Fitchburg Hotel 
Block. Some years after he established a large 
clothing store in Belding & Dickinson's Block, 
and another in Brattleboro, Vt. ; and in 1886 
leased the extensive store in Dickinson's Block 
which he has since occupied, now one of the 
largest and best equipped establishments of the 
kind in New England. He has been interested 
also in numerous other enterprises, and has been 
prominent in movements for the benefit of his 
native city. At one time he owned a half-interest 
in the fine block Nos. 150 to 156 Main Street. 
In 1886 he purchased the American House prop- 
erty, which he owned for about six years, and sub- 
sequently erected two large business blocks on 
Day Street, one of which is known as the •' Good- 
rich Block." He afterwards became interested 
in the Haskins Steam Engine Company, which 
proved an unfortunate investment. He was 
prominent in the establishment of the Fitchburg 
Board of Trade, and is still one of its vice-presi- 
dents ; was at one time president of the Mer- 
chants' Association ; has been president of the 
Wachusett Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 
its incorporation ; was president of the American 
Printing Company ; and is now a trustee of the 
Worcester North Savings Institution. He has 
been president also of the Massachusetts Mutual 
Aid Society, and many years a trustee of the 
P"itchburg Public Library. During the Civil War 
he was treasurer of the Fitchburg bounty fund, 
and was subsequently sent by the town to look 
after the disabled soldiers in the hospitals at 
Washington and Fredericksburg. In 1870 and 



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187 I lie represented Fitchburg in the Legislature, 
an active and influential member in both sessions. 
In politics he is an ardent Republican, but al\va\-s 




HENRY A. GOODRICH. 

courteous to those differing from him politically. 
He was chosen elector for the Fourth District in 
the presidential election of 1892. running largely 
ahead of the party ticket : and was the Republican 
candidate for mayor of Fitchburg at the municipal 
election of 1893, but was defeated through a di- 
vision in the party. In addition to his active 
business career Mr. Goodrich has given consider- 
able attention to literary pursuits. He is a clear 
and forcible writer and an entertaining after- 
dinner speaker. He was married in December, 
1856, to Miss Harriet Stebbins, of Vernon, Vt. 
They have a daughter living, now Mrs. VV. L. 
Humes. Their only son, William Henry, a young 
man of great promise, died on the 24th of March, 
1894. He was in his senior year at Tufts, where 
he was greatly esteemed by his college associates. 
In its notice of his death the college paper, the 
Tufhmian, referred to him as " in the forefront of 
leaders . . . directing the activities of college life " 
at many points, adding that "he held many im- 
portant offices with honor," and "his conduct was 
always true to the highest ideals of college gov- 
ernment." 



GRAY, Robert Smith, of W'alpole, manufact- 
urer, is a native of Walpole, born September 28, 
1847, son of Smith and Eleanor MacKay (Kearns) 
Gray. His father was born in Beverly, Yorkshire, 
England, and his mother in Walpole. He was 
educated in the common schools of Walpole, at 
the West Newton English and Classical School, 
and at the Friends' Academy in New Bedford, 
with a special course in laboratory at the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology in chemistry. 
Soon after leaving school, he entered the bleach- 
ery and dye-works of his father in \N'alpole, then, 
as now, under the firm name of S. Gray & Co. 
Subsequently he became a partner, and is now 
owner of the business, which has been established 
over fifty years. He has for a long period been 
prominent in town affairs, and has served in 
numerous offices. He is the present chairman of 
the School Board, of which he has been an effi- 
cient member for ten years. He has been a trus- 
tee of the Walpole Public Library for ten years, 
identified with its development, and has repre- 
sented the town in the lower house of the Legis- 
lature two terms (1889-90). In 1894 he was a 




ROBT. S. GRAY. 



member of the Senate for the Second Norfolk 
District, which includes U'alpole. When a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives, he served 



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both terms on the committee on ni;Tnuf;ictures: at Branford, in iSSi, he was elected principal of 
and in the Senate of 1894 he was chairman of the the High School in Leavenworth, Kan., but de- 
committee on woman suffrage and member of the clined the place. In September, 1882, he became 
committees on manufactures, taxation, and expen- 
ditures. He was also a member of tiie special 
committee on the unemployed. In politics he 
has always been a Republican. He has served 
for many years as chairman of the Republican 
town committee of Walpole, and was some time 
a member of the executive committee of the 
Home Market L'Uib, of which he has been a 
member from its establishment. He is a Mason, 
member of the Lodge of Eleusis, Boston, and 
belongs to various social clubs : and he has been 
an active member of the .\ncient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, Boston, since 1878, some time 
an officer in that organization. Mr. Gray was 
married June 23, 1880, to Miss Harriet Frances 
Robinson, of Walpole. They have three chil- 
dren : John Merrick, Eleanor, and Barbara Gray. 



HATCH, William Edwin, of New Bedford, 
superintendent of the public schools, is a native 
of Georgia, born in Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, 
June 8, 1852, son of Samuel W. and Melinda M. 
(Decker) Hatch. He is of English-Scotch de- 
scent. On the paternal side he is descended 
from the Hatches of Cape Cod, among the early 
settlers of that region who came from England, 
and on the maternal side from the Maxwells of 
Scotland, a branch of which settled in Maine. 
His father's ancestors emigrated from Cape Cod 
to Maine, purchasing large tracts of land there, 
at a very early period in the history of Maine. 
He was educated until thirteen years of age in 
academies in Georgia. Then, coming North in 
1865, he attended the High School at Brunswick, 
Me., and fitted for college there. He graduated 
from Bowdoin in the class of 1875, and took his 
degree of A.M. at the same institution in 1878. 
Before entering college, he attended a commercial 
school ; and during the whole of his college course 
he was connected with the civil engineering de- 
partment of the Maine Central Railroad. He 
began teaching the year of his graduation. After 
an e.xperience of one term as a teacher in the 
Milton Mills High School, he was made principal 
of the High School at Branford, Conn., and super- 
intendent of the elementary schools. Here he 
remained from 1876 to 1882, two years of this 
time also reading law in New Haven. A\'hile 




WM. E. HATCH. 

superintendent of the public schools of Milford, 
Mass., and served in that office till July, 1885, 
when he was called to Haverhill in the same 
capacity. He was called from Haverhill to New 
Bedford in 1888, beginning his service as super- 
intendent of its public schools in February of that 
year. Mr. Hatch was president of the New Eng- 
land Association of School Superintendents in 
1887 and chairman of the executive committee in 
1894; has been vice-president of the American 
Institute of Instruction since 1885 ; and was as- 
sistant secretary of the Massachusetts Teachers' 
Association in 1894. He is a member of the 
Dartmouth and \\'amsutta clubs of New Bedford, 
of the University Club, Boston, and of numerous 
literary, professional, and charitable organiza- 
tions, in many of which he is also an officer. He 
was married December 28, 1882, to Mrs. Emily 
N. Mabbatt. They have one child : Frank Norton 
Hatch. 

HAYES, Norman Paris, of New Bedford, 
hardware merchant, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Rochester, July 9, 1849, son of 



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Watson and Joanna ( W'inckley) Hayes. His par- 
ents were also natives of New Hampshire, his 
father born in Rochester, and his mother in Bar- 




and addresses, which was described in the local 
press as " the most successful patriotic demon- 
stration of a public character ever made under 
private auspices " in the city. This was the first 
raising in the country of a flag on private property 
for a private citizen by the Grand Army of the 
Republic. In politics Mr. Hayes is an Indepen- 
dent Republican. He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and of the Wamsutta and Dartmouth 
clubs of New Bedford. He was married in 187 i 
to Miss Rebecca I. Thompson, of Boston, and 
their children are: Grenville H., Orrill H., Bessie, 
and Clinton N. Hayes. 



HOLDKN, Joshua Bennett, of Boston, is a 
native of W'oburn, born March 5, 1850, son of 
George and Ellen (Bennett) Holden. He is a 
grandson of Joshua ISennett, formerly an active, 
energetic, and influential business man of Middle- 
sex County, well known in financial and real es- 
tate circles, and an extensive real estate owner in 
Boston and Lowell. He was educated in the 
Chauncy Hall .School, Boston, the Pierce Acad- 



NORMAN p. HAYES. 

rington. His education was acquired in the 
Rochester public schools and at Phillips (An- 
dover) Academy ; and his business training was 
begun in his father's country and general mer- 
chandise store in Rochester. After some time 
spent here as clerk, he was employed in a whole- 
sale house in Boston, and from there went to 
Dover, N.H., where he was for seven years en- 
gaged in the general hardware business. He 
came to New Bedford in 1880, and bought out an 
old established hardware, iron, and cutlery busi- 
ness, which was the foundation of his present ex- 
tensive establislunent, now the leading one of its 
kind in New Bedford, fully occupying the large, 
three-story brick structure known as the .\ndrews 
Building, on the corner of \\'illiam Street and 
.■Vcushnet Avenue, and carrying a large and me- 
thodically arranged stock of general hardware, cut- 
lery, iron, steel, mill supplies, and farm tools. In 
May, 1894, Mr. Hayes caused the United States 
flag formally to be raised as a permanent fixture 
over his building by the local Grand Army posts, emy, Middieborough, and Tufts College ; and 
with fitting ceremonies, including a street parade studied law at the Harvard Law School, from 
of veterans, and public meetings, with an oration which he graduated in 1S70. After graduation 




JOSHUA B. HOLDEN. 



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227 



he was some time in tlie law office of Judge Will- 
iam A. Richardson and Judge George White, and 
subsequently entered the office of his father as an 
associate with him in the care of his real estate 
and that belonging to the estate of Joshua Ben- 
nett. He is now attorney for the estates of 
Joshua Dennett and of George Holden, and a 
member of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has represented 
the Back Bay ward in the Boston Common Coun- 
cil two terms (1893-94). He is a fine member 
of the First Corps of Cadets, a member of the 
Art, Athletic, Middlesex, and Episcopalian clubs 
of lioston, of the Beacon Society, and of the Bos- 
ton Young Men's Christian Union. He was mar- 
ried November 2, 1870, to Miss Ida L. Moulton. 
They have six children : Joshua Bennett, Jr., 
Annie E., Mary B., Natalie F., Gladys E., and 
Gwendolyn M. Holden. Mr. Holden resides on 
the Back Bay, Boston, and has an extensive place 
in Billerica, — the Joshua Bennett homestead, — 
which he has recently improved, remodelling and 
enlarging the house, adding new outbuildings and 
beautifying the grounds. In Billerica he is trus- 
tee of the Bennett Library and of the Unitarian 
church fund. 

HtK)D, Gilbert Edwin, of Lawrence, mem- 
ber of the bar, is a native of Vermont, born in the 
town of Chelsea, November 21, 1824, son of Har- 
vey and Rebecca (Smith) Hood. His education 
was acquired in the district and private schools of 
his native town, at Randolph Academy (one 
term), Thetford Academy (one year), and Dart- 
mouth College, graduating from the latter in the 
class of 1 85 1. From his eighteenth year till his 
graduation from college he taught school winters. 
For three years he was associate principal at 
Thetford Academy, and principal for four years. 
He was admitted to the bar at Boston in 1855, 
and began practice in Lawrence in 1859. From 
that time Lawrence has been his home, and he 
has been identified during his entire residence 
there with its best interests. For twelve years, 
from 1865 to 1877, he was superintendent of the 
public schools. From 188 1 to 1891 he was presi- 
dent of the Lawrence Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation ; and he has been president of the Law- 
rence City Mission since 1866. He is also a 
member of the executive committee of the Massa- 
chusetts Home Missionary Society. He belongs 
to the Congregational church, and has been one 



of the deacons of the church since he first came 
to Lawrence. He has been treasurer of the 
Broadway Savings Bank of Lawrence since 1877. 




G. E. HOOD. 

He has held various other offices for short pe- 
riods, but has never sought place. His object in 
life has been to render service, not to seek ser- 
vice from others. Mr. Hood was married May 
13, 1852, to Miss Frances ElizalDeth Herrick, of 
Peabody. They have no children. 



HUTCHINSON, George, of Boston, boot and 
shoe merchant, is a native of Worcester, born 
September 16, 1852, son of .Andrew and Harriet 
W. (Fales) Hutchinson. He attended the public 
schools of Worcester and Groton only until he was 
thirteen years old ; but he has acquired a liberal 
education through observ'ation, commercial study, 
and hard work. His entrance into business life 
was in September, 1865, as a cash boy in the 
store of Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston. He re- 
mained in that establishment four years, working 
up to the position of salesman. In 1869 he en- 
tered the shoe business, and began travelling on 
the road as a shoe salesman. In this occupation 
he was engaged very successfully for eleven years, 
representing during this period the Boston firms 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of E. L. Spragiie iV Co. and 15. N. Jiradt ^r Co.. (Fuller) Janes. His parents were \\"estern Mas- 
and T:iines I'helan of Lynn. From 1891 to 1892 sachusetts folk, his father born in Hrimfield, and 
he was salesman and l)uyer in the e.xtensive shoe his mother in Wales. The first Janes (as the 

name was originally spelled) known in America 
came in 1647 in the ship "Hector," landing in 
Boston, and afterwards joined the colonists who 
first settled New Haven, Conn. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools, graduatfng from the 
Eaton School, the first public school in New 
Haven. He first entered the drug business in 
New Haven, serving an apprenticeship of two 
years, from i860, with Alfred Daggett, Jr. Then 
he was a year with C. B. Whittlesy, also of New 
Haven, and another year in the wholesale trade 
in New York with James S. .\spinwall. After 
this training in both retail and wholesale 
branches, he took up travelling, and for twenty- 
one years was engaged in selling to the drug 
trade all over the country. For two years previ- 
ous to leaving the road he was also in business 
for himself, having purchased a drug store in 
Boston in 1882, at the corner of Washington and 
Warrenton Streets. After his retirement from 
travelling he increased this business, and pur- 




GEO. HUTCHINSON. 



jobbing house of Batchelder & Lincoln, Boston ; 
and in 1892 he joined in the establishment of the 
new and highly successful wholesale boot, shoe, 
and rubber house of the Clark-Hutchinson Com- 
pany, Nos. Ill to 1 1 s Federal Street, Boston, of 
which he has since been treasurer. At the 
World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago he was the only 
judge in the department of rubber boots and 
shoes. Mr. Hutchinson is a member of the Bos- 
ton Boot and Shoe Club, and is always active in 
movements for the benefit of the trade in which 
he is engaged. In religious faith he is a Unita- 
rian, and is connected with local Unitarian organ- 
izations. He is a director of the Boston Young 
Men's Christian Union, a member and past treas- 
urer of the Channing Club, and member of the 
Unitarian Club. He was married in Boston 
July s, 1881, to Miss Eliza Maynard Clark, of 
Boston. They have one child : Mavnard Clark 
Hutchinson. 




'Cy 



C. p. JAYNES. 



JAYNES, Charle,s Porter, of Boston, drug- chased the store on the corner of Harrison Ave- 
gist, is a native of Connecticut, born Novem- nue and Beach Street. Subsequentlv, in July, 
ber 13, 1845, son of William C. and Adelpha 1S87, he bought out the store on the corner of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



229 



Washington and lianover Streets, and added 
that to his business. In March, 1892, he bought 
out the store of I. Bartlett Patten at the corner of 
Beach Street and Harrison Avenue, and merged it 
into his Beach Street store. He still continues 
his interest in the three establishments, conduct- 
ing one of the most extensive businesses in his 
line in this country. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic and Odd Fellows orders, of the Knights of 
Honor, of the Boston Athletic Club, and of the 
( )ld Dorchester Club, Dorchester District, where 
he resides. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was married November 27, 1867, to Miss Ella F. 
Janes, of Boston. They have had four children, 
of whom two only are now living: H. Amy and 
Charles W. Jaynes. 




E. M. JOHNSON. 

JOHNSON. EucENK Malcom, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, June 4, 1845, 
son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson. 
He was educated in the public schools of Lynn 
and at Harvard, where he graduated in the class 
of i86g. His law studies were pursued in the 
Albany Law School, and in March, 187 1, he was 
admitted to the bar. He began practice in Bos- 
ton in association with Everett C. Bumpus. This 
relation continued until 1885, since which time he 



has been alone, engaged in general law practice. 
In politics he is Independent. He was married 
December 25, 1872, to Miss Norah J. Brown, 
daughter of Dexter and Jane W. (Shaw) Brown. 
She died on the ist of August, 1891. He has 
no children. 



JONES, BRAnroRD Eijot, of Brockton, mer- 
chant, was born in North Bridgewater (now 
Brockton), September 22, 1840, son of Rosseter 
and Hannah (Marshall) Jones. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native town and at the 
North Bridgewater Academy. He entered the 
dry-goods store of Charles Curtis when a lad of 
seventeen, and has been in that business ever 
since. After nearly four years" experience in Mr. 
Curtis's store he started in the business for him- 
self, opening a store in Provincetown in 1864. 
He remained there till 1867, when he returned to 
North Bridgewater, and organized the house of 
Jones, Lovell &: Sanford, buying out the business 
of Brett Brothers, which had been long estab- 
lished. This copartnership held about three 
years, when Mr. Sanford retired, after which the 
remaining partners continued the business under 




BRADFORD E. JONES. 



the firm name of Jones & Lovell till May, 1875. 
I'hen Mr. Jones retired, and purchased the dry- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



goods business of H. H. Packard, which he is 
now operating with Robert Cook, under the firm 
name of li. E. Jones & Co. He is also connected 
with local banking institutions, serving as presi- 
dent of the Security Co-operative Bank, vice- 
president and one of the investment committee of 
the Hrockton Savings Bank, and director of the 
Home National Bank. In 1882 he was elected 
an alderman in the first city government of Brock- 
ton, and he also served in that board in 1890 and 
189 1. He was commissioned a justice of the 
peace by Governor Ames in 1889. Mr. Jones 
has uniformly been a large holder in real estate in 
Brockton, and a firm believer in the future pros- 
perity of the city. He is a member of the Paul 
Revere Lodge of Masons, and has been the treas- 
urer of the lodge since 1875, a member of Sa- 
tucket Royal Arch Chapter, and treasurer of the 
Brockton Masonic Benefit Association. He was 
married in Provincetown, September 21, 1862, to 
Miss Kate Maria Paine, daughter of Dr. Stephen 
Atkins and Catherine M. \V. (Brackett) Paine. 
They have had two children : Kitty Paine and 
Stephen Rosseter Jones. 



England agent in the New York Associated Press 
office. After an experience there of about a year 
and a half, he returned to the Repiiblkan office as 
assistant night editor, which position he retained 
from October, 187 i, to May, 1872. The succeed- 
ing six months he was with the Taunton Gazette, 
and then in February, 1873, he purchased a half- 
interest in the Fitchburg Sentinel, and became the 
editor of the paper, in May, that year, bringing 
out the daily edition, which he has since con- 
ducted. In politics he is Republican. He has 
repeatedly been sought for public place, but until 



KELLOGG, John Edw.^rp, of Fitchburg. edi- 
tor of the Sentinel, daily and weekly, is a native 
of Amherst, born July 2, 1845, son of Eleazer 
and Sally McCloud (Roberts) Kellogg. He is a 
lineal descendant of Joseph Kellogg, of Hadley, 
as early as 1662, who died there in 1707. His 
father, Eleazer, was son of John, who was son of 
Ephraim, who was son of Ephraim, who was son 
of Nathaniel (died in Amherst, October 30, 1750, 
aged eighty), who was son of Joseph. The latter 
had twenty children. John E. was educated in 
the public schools and the academy at Amherst, 
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton (graduated 
there in 1865), and at Amherst College, where 
he was graduated in 1869. In college he was 
devoted to athletics, and was catcher of the col- 
lege base-ball club in every game played during 
his four years' course. He began journalistic 
work while a student as correspondent and re- 
porter for several newspapers ; and the day follow- 
ing his class day, in June, 1869, he entered the 
office of the Springfield Republican, where he re- 
ceived an excellent training for his profession. 
Starting as " copy-holder," he soon became a 
regular reporter, in which capacity he continued 
until May, 1870, when he became assistant New 




J. E. KELLOGG. 

1893 refused to be considered as candidate for 
any office, devoting all his time to his paper. 
That year he accepted a nomination to the Legis- 
lature, — the second offered, the first, which he 
declined, having been oft^ered in 1885, — and 
served in the house of 1894. He was a member 
of the committee on manufactures, and was es- 
pecially interested in the establishment of addi- 
tional State normal schools. He was clerk of 
the Fitchburg Common Council for nine years 
(1880-89) ^f'd a member of the School Commit- 
tee for three years (1887-89). He has been a di- 
rector of the Fidelity Co-operative Bank of Fitch- 
burg since its organization. He is connected with 
the order of Odd I'"ello\vs, belonging to the local 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



23' 



Apollo Lodge, and is a member of the Park and 
Athletic clubs of Fitchburg, of the Middlesex and 
the Home Market clubs of Boston, and of the 
Republican Club of Massachusetts. He is un- 
married. 



KEMPTON, David B.^tchelder, of New Bed- 
ford, merchant, is a native of New Bedford, born 
April 25, i8i8, son of David Kempton, 2d, and 
Joanna (Maxfield) Kempton. He is a direct de- 
scendant of Mannasses Kempton, one of the first 
settlers of the township of Dartmouth. His 
father was a farmer. He attended the New Bed- 
ford public schools until he reached the age of 
twelve years, at which time, his parents having 
died, he went to live with his father's brother, 
Kphraim Kempton, and to learn from him the 
house carpenter's trade. He remained with his 
uncle from that time until he attained his major- 
ity, after which he worked at his trade for 
twelve years, ten years of this time doing busi- 
ness on his own account. He then became 
an agent or managing owner of whaling ves- 
sels, and continued in this business until 1877, 
a period of more than a quarter of a century. 
That year he visited the countries of the Old 
World, travelling extensively over Europe as far 
East as Constantinople, and visiting the Holy 
Land. Previously, he was connected with the 
New Bedford Flour Mill as director and presi- 
dent until the destruction of the mill by fire, 
September 13, 1870. He is now president of the 
Pope's Island Manufacturing Corporation, a di- 
rector of the Citizens' National Bank, a director 
of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Com- 
pany, and active in other business ventures. He 
has served his city in various positions long and 
well. He was a member of the City Council in 
1864-65-66, and the latter year, at the beginning 
of the construction of the New Bedford Water 
Works, was elected to the Water Board, with 
William W. Crapo and Warren Ladd as associate 
members. In this capacity he has served for 
about twenty-one years, and is still a member of 
the board. He was warden of Ward Five, New 
Bedford, in 1875-76-77. In 1889 and 1890 he 
represented the city in the Legislature. Mr. 
Kempton was first married, in 1842, to Miss 
Sarah Bates Lindsey, daughter of the late Benja- 
min Lindsey, senior, editor of the New Bedford 
Mcreiir\\ by whom he had one son, Frank H. 



Kempton, now living. He married again, in 
1879, Miss Susan H. Jennings, daughter of Dr. 
J. H. Jennings. His residence on the corner of 
County and North Streets, New Bedford, is on 
the spot which has been occupied by the Kemp- 
tons for a period of two hundred and forty years. 
The land was originally bought of the Indians, as 
appears by a deed dated New Plymouth, Novem- 
ber 29, 1652, when the whole township of Dart- 
mouth was sold by \\'esamequen and his son, 
\\'amsutta, to John Cook and others. The name 
of Mr. Kempton's ancestor, Mannasses Kempton, 



*#5fe 




DAVID B. KEMPTON. 

there appears as one of the purchasers. It was 
bought in "34 whole parts and no more," in the 
language of the deed ; and parts of this property 
have remained in the family ever since, trans- 
mitted to the heirs by the division of the probate 
courts. There are several pieces of property in 
Mr. Kempton's possession which, up to this time, 
have never been deeded. His grandmother, 
Elizabeth Kempton, lived on the old place which 
he now occupies about eighty years, and died 
there in 1848, at the advanced age of ninety- 
seven. His grandfather, Ephraim Kempton, 2d, 
died January 25, 1802, aged fifty-five. They were 
buried at the old burial-ground near the head of 
the river. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



KIMBALL, Orrin Ahnf.r, of Boston, piano 
manufacturer, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Hanover, March 25, 1844, son of Jere- 




tion witli the Emerson works their output has 
steadily increased. In 1891 the present factory, 
on tiie corner of Harrison Avenue and Waltham 
Street, covering twenty-three thousand square feet, 
and rising six and seven stories, was erected, Mr. 
Kimball having full charge of the building and 
equipping of the entire plant, which is one of the 
finest and most thoroughly equipped in the world. 
It has a capacity of about one hundred and fifty 
pianos a week. In politics Mr. Kimball is a 
steadfast Republican. He was married May 11, 
1864, to Miss Helen M. Butler, of Brattleboro, 
Vt. They have had two children : William S. 
(aged twenty-two years), Mabel .\. Kimball (aged 
twenty), both living. Mr. Kimball has a pretty 
city residence at No. 476 Warren Street, Boston, 
and a farm at North Hinsdale, N.H., where 
his family spend their summers. 



KNOWLES, Morris, of Lawrence, builder of 
famous Lawrence mills, was born in New Hamp- 
shire, in the town of Northwood, Eebruary 6, 
18 10, son of Morris and Polly (C'averlyj Knowles. 



O. A. KIMBALL. 

miah and Elsie (Judkins) Kimball. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Hanover. At 
seventeen he enlisted — October 10, 1861 — in 
Company B, Si.xth Vermont Volunteers, and 
served three years in the old Vermont Brigade. 
He began business life in his native town, in the 
furniture trade, and from 1864 to 1866 was of the 
firm of Nichols & Kimball. Leaving this busi- 
ness the latter year, he went to Brattleboro, Vt., 
to work for the Estey Organ Company. From 
Brattleboro he came to Boston in ICS72, and en- 
gaged with the Emerson Piano Company. Soon 
after he was placed in full charge of the finishing 
department of the works, and this position he 
held until the purchase of the plant in 1879 by 
the present Emerson Piano Company, which con- 
sists of himself, P. H. Powers, and Joseph 
(jramer. Since the reorganization in 1879 he has 
held the position of treasurer and general super- 
intendent of the factor)', purchasing all the mate- 
rials, besides doing much of the travelling, estab- 
lishing, and looking after the agents, etc., of the 
company. He is thoroughly familiar with all the 
details of piamvmaking ; and during his connec- 




MORRIS KNOWLES. 



He is of English ancestry on both sides. His 
maternal grandfather and grandmother came to 
North Hill, now North Hampton, N.H., and 



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233 



from thcrtj went to Xortliwood, wlicrc his mother 
was born. His father was also a native of North- 
wood. Both spent their lives in Northwood, the 
father dying in 1834, at the age of fifty-five, and 
the mother in 1859, at the age of seventy-nine 
vears. His school training was limited to the 
district school. At the age of seventeen he was 
apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, and he 
served until he attained his majority. Then, in 
.\pril, 1 83 1, he came to Lowell, Mass., where he 
engaged himself to Joseph M. Dodge, who had 
just begun the building of the Tremont and Suf- 
folk Mills. In a few years he became foreman, 
and in 1843 a partner in the business. This as- 
sociation continued until 1847, when, in April, he 
went to the " New City," so called, now the city 
of Lawrence, under an engagement with Charles 
S. Storrow. then of the Esse,\ Company, to build 
the Atlantic Mills and Machine Shop, now the 
Everett Mills, by contract. These buildings were 
finished in 1849, and in 1850 he built No. 3 Mill 
for the Atlantic Company. In 1852 he took the 
contract to build the Pacific Mills and Print 
Works and other buildings connected with them. 
These were completed in 1854. From that time 
till 1870 he was engaged in building other mills 
in Lawrence, churches, and various other build- 
ings, and in contracting. In 1870 he was elected 
one of the three commissioners to build the Law- 
rence Water Works for a term of three years, and 
during that period devoted much time to this 
work. In 1875 he began building mills for the 
Arlington Company. He continued in business 
until 1885, when he retired with a competence 
and an honorable record. He has spent most of 
his time since in travelling. Mr. Knowles has 
served his city in the State Legislature, and in 
the municipal government of Lawrence, and has 
long been counted among its influential citizens. 
He was a member of the House of Representa- 
tives in 1850-51, and of the Lawrence Board of 
Aldermen in 1861 and 1863. In politics he is, 
and always has been since the formation of the 
party, a Republican. He was married in January, 
1836, at Pittsfield, N.H., to Miss Sarah Green. 
They have had four children: Emily A. (now 
Mrs. C. W. Hanson), Charles E., George A., and 
Clara B. Knowles (now Mrs. C. H. Smith). 



born in .\lfred, York County, September 19, 1861, 
son of George Henry and Mary Abby (Pilsbury) 
Knowlton. He is of Scotch-English descent. 
His ancestors on the paternal side were early 
shipmasters at Portsmouth, N.H., and ancestors 
on his mother's side figured in the Revolution. 
His father was editor of the Portland Press in 
1870-71. His early education was acquired in 
Biddeford, Me., schools, where he graduated from 
the High School in 1878. He was fitted for col- 
lege at Phillips ( Andover) .\cademy in the class 
of 1879; and his collegiate training was at Yale, 
where he graduated in the class of 1883. He 




KNOWLTON, D.A.NIEL Stimson, president of 
the Boston Times Company, is a native of Maine. 



D. S. KNOWLTON^ 

was engaged in fugitive newspaper work while a 
student in college, and soon after graduation ob- 
tained employment on the New Haven Register, 
where he remained about a year (1884-85), doing 
general editorial and "desk" work. In June, 
1885, he came to Boston, and took charge of the 
Sunday Times, having purchased the property. 
Three years later the Times was made a corpora- 
tion under Massachusetts laws, with Mr. Knowl- 
ton as president ; and he has continued since as 
the head of the " Boston Times Company,'' as well 
as editor and manager of the paper. In March, 
1894, he became private secretary to the Hon. 
Winslow Warren, collector of the port of Boston, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



resigning the editorship of tiie Tiiiirs, but retaining 
the controlling interest in the property. He is 
a member of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity, of 
the Boston Press Club (at one time its treasurer), 
and of the Newspaper Club. He is also con- 
nected with the Masonic order, being a member 
of St. Paul's Royal .'\rch Chapter, Boston. In 
politics he is Independent. Mr. Knowlton was 
married January 19, 1887, to Miss Alice Maria 
Joyce, of New Haven, Conn. They have had 
three children : George Kempton (born October 
21, 1887, died April 2, 1888), Joyce (born Feb- 
ruary 19, 1889), and Hugh Knowlton (born July 
27, 1893). He resides in Brookline. 



ests in Fitchburg^ and elsewhere, among tliem 
being the Champion Card and Paper Company of 
Pepperell. the Fitchburg and Leominster Street 



LOWE, Arthur HotioHTON, of Fitchburg, 
manufacturer, is a native of New Hampshire, born 
in Rindge, .\ugust 20, 1853, son of John and 
Sarah (Mead) Lowe. He is of English ancestry, 
descendant on the paternal side of a family early 
settled in Essex County, Mass. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of Fitchburg, and 
trained for active life by hard work in helping his 
father support a family of seventeen children, all 
of whom are living to-day. At the age of twenty 
he became a partner of the firm of Lowe Brothers 
in the provision business, having previously had 
some e.xperience in trade with his father, who car- 
ried on a wholesale business of the same kind. 
Six years later, in 1879, in conjunction with John 
Parkhill and Thomas R. B. Dole, he established 
the Parkhill Manufacturing Company, of which he 
has since been manager and treasurer. In 1885 
he organized the Cleghorn Mills Company, acting 
as its treasurer till 1889, when it was absorbed 
with the Fitchburg Woollen Mill Company by 
the Parkhill Manufacturing Company, and sub- 
sequently became interested in the Grant Yarn 
Mills, the Fitchburg Steam Engine Company, and 
the Gas and Electric Light Company. The estab- 
lishment and rapid cjevelopment of his mills, the 
Parkhill alone early increasing from thirty looms 
at the start to many hundreds, and now the third 
largest of its kind in the country, added much to 
the prosperity of the city ; and, together with the 
location of the car shops of the Fitchburg Rail- 
road, the Orswell Mills, and the Mitchell Manufac- 
turing Company here, which Mr. Lowe was largely 
instrumental in securing, were the chief causes of 
its marked growth between the years 1880 and 
1893. Mr. Lowe has also numerous other inter- 




ARTHUR H. LOWE. 

Railway Company, and the Fitchburg National 
Bank. Of all of these corporations he is a di- 
rector, and he is a trustee of the Fitchburg Sav- 
ings Bank. He has been prominent and influen- 
tial in municipal affairs for many years, serving as 
an alderman in 1888, and as mayor in 1893, a 
year of great progress and activity. For the two 
years immediately preceding his election to the 
mayoralty, the period during which the growth of 
the city was most rapid, he was president of the 
Board of Trade. His administration as mayor 
was marked by the establishment of a new high 
school, two new fire stations, the building of five 
miles of sewers, the building of the Clarendon 
Btreet school-house, the abolition of railroad cross- 
ing at River Street, one of the main thorough- 
fares, the purchase of a site for a police station, 
and the purchase of about four hundred and fifty 
acres of land (known as the Nichols farm) for the 
Burbank Hospital site. He declined a re-election 
for a second term on account of the pressure of 
his private business. In politics Mr. Lowe is an 
active Republican, and has been a delegate to 
many conventions. He is a member and director 



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of the Park Club, unci member of the Fitchburg 
Athletic Club. He was married December 11, 
1878, to Miss -Annie K. I'arkhill. They have 
three children : Russell B., Margaret, and Rachel 
P. Lowe. 

MONK, HiRA.M Ai.icxANHER, of Canipello, 
manufacturer, was born in .Stoughton, July 16, 
1829, son of Nathan and Sally (Linfield) Monk. 
He descends on both paternal and maternal sides 
from Puritan stock. His father, Nathan Monk, 
was the son of Jacob and Milly (Randall) Monk, 
and was born in Stoughton, April 6, 1797. Jacob 
Monk was the son of George and Sarah (Hixon) 
Monk, born March 9, 1773. George Monk was 
the son of Elias and Susanna (Blackman) Monk, 
born in Stoughton, February 10, 1734. The date 
of the birth of Elias Monk is not known, but he 
was taxed in Roxbury in 17 14. He was doubtless 
the son of Elias Monk, who enlisted as one of the 
quota of Dorchester for the Canada war in 1690, 
and who was contemporary with George Monk 
who was taxed in Boston in 1674, and kept the 
" Blue Anchor Tavern " near where the Traiisiript 




HIRAM A. MONK. 



Monk, the subject of this sketch, was educated in 
the public schools, and at the age of sixteen was 
actively at work in a boot and shoe shop, to 
learn the trade. Early made a foreman, he was 
engaged in this capacity for upwards of thirty. 
years, about two-thirds of this period in shoe-shops 
in Stoughton, and the remainder in Brockton, and 
tiien (in 1882) went into business for himself as a 
manufacturer of shoe heels, in which he has been 
most successful. During the latter part of the 
Civil War, from February, 1864, to July, 1865, he 
served in the Fifty-eighth Regiment, Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. He was for six years connected 
with the Brockton city council, member of the 
Common Council three terms (1882-83-84), and 
an alderman three terms (1885-86-87); and was 
four years in the State Legislature, a member of 
the lower house in 1890-91, and a senator \\\ 
1893-94, in both branches serving on important 
committees. He has also been one of the sewer- 
age commissioners of Brockton for three years. 
He belongs to a number of fraternal organiza- 
tions, and has held official position in nearly all of 
them. He was master of the St. George Lodge of 
Masons, Brockton, in 1879-80, is now commander 
in Council No. 16 American Legion of Honor, 
president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, 
Brockton, and member of the order of Odd Fel- 
lows, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Good 
Templars, and the Brockton Educational League 
(an American order). He was married April 8, 
1853, in Stoughton, to Miss Lucinda F. Cole. 
Their children are : Mary L., Charles H., Jacob F., 
John H., Cora E., Sarah A., Nathan A., George A., 
Hattie A., and Wesley E. Monk. 



Building now stands. George Monk came from 
Essex County, England, as indicated by his will 
in the probate office, Suffolk County. Hiram \. 



MORRISON, Thom.^s Jefferson, member of 
the Suffolk bar, is a native of Connecticut, born 
in Enfield, March 15, 1841, son of John and 
Susan C. (Fowler) Morrison, of Manchester, 
N.H.; and his home was in Manchester until 
1874, when he established himself in practice at 
Boston. He was educated in the Manchester 
schools, and read law in the office of Judge Joseph 
W. Fellows of that city. Subsequently admitted 
to the bar of Hillsborough County at Amherst, 
N.H., he began the practice of his profession at 
Manchester. Soon after he was admitted to the 
United States District and Circuit Court of New 
Hampshire, and later to the Supreme Court of 
Massachusetls, the United States District Court, 



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and Circuit Court of Appeals in M;issiicluisetts. 
His practice is a general one in all the courts, 
State and Federal, both at common law and in 




THOMAS J. MORRISON. 



admiralty; and he has .an extensive clientage. 
He was married in Manchester to Miss Helen E. 
Taylor, of that city. They have no children. 
His home is in Chelsea. 



MUNYAN, Jonathan, of Koston, president of 
the Goodyear Shoe Machinery Company, is a 
native of Connecticut, born in Thompson, Wind- 
ham County, March 4, 1823, son of Ezra and 
Sarah (Knap) Munyan. He is a descendant of 
Edward Munyan, who, with his wife and family 
of sons and daughters, emigrated from Leicester- 
shire, England, to Salem, Mass., in 1721, and. 
after remaining there a short time, moved up 
across the country to Connecticut, where he took 
up a section of land located on the five-mile river 
in the town now called Thompson, and spent his 
life as a farmer. Jonathan Munyan was reared on 
a farm, and educated in the common schools. At 
the age of twelve years he left home, and was 
apprenticed to learn the shoemaker's trade. He 
worked at this trade as a journeyman till he was 
twenty-three years old, and then, in 1847, began 
to manufacture boots and shoes in a small way on 



his own account at Worcester. In 1850 he gave 
up business, and spent 1851 and 1852 in Califor- 
nia. Returning to Worcester in 1853 he re-engaged 
in manufacturing boots and shoes there. In 1855 
he moved his business to Milwaukee, Wis., and 
was there engaged in the manufacturing, job- 
bing, and retailing trade till 1862. He then 
again returned to Worcester, and entered into the 
manufacture of shoes on joint account with C. D. 
and W. B. Bigelow, of New York. In 1863 the 
firm built a large factory in Worcester, into which 
his joint business went; and in 1866 the corpora- 
tion known as the Bay State Shoe & Leather 
Company was formed from this business. Mr. 
Munyan was one of the original stockholders, and 
from its organization till 1890 spent his time in a 
great measure in the management and interest of 
the company as its agent at the Worcester fac- 
tory, and as a director and vice-president. He 
was also a stockholder and director in the Com- 
monwealth Boot &: Shoe Company, established at 
Whitman, from its organization till 1892. He 
began to use the Goodyear sewing-machines at 
the Worcester factory in 1879. ihey were at 
that time far from perfected, but he became satis- 
fied in his own mind that they could be so im- 
proved that boots and shoes in large quantities 
would be made by that process in the near future ; 
and the Bay State Company was the first to make 
a success of them. In 1882 he became a stock- 
holder and a director in the Goodyear Company, 
then the Goodyear & McKay Sewing Machine 
Company, afterwards changed to the present 
name of the Goodyear Shoe Machinery Company ; 
and in 1888 was chosen to the office of president, 
which he still holds. During his connection with 
this company it has made remarkable progress, its 
machines having been brought to a high degree 
of perfection, and now stands at the head of the 
shoe machinery business in the country. In 
1887 patents for the Goodyear machinery having 
been secured in England and on the continent, 
the International Shoe Machinery Company was 
formed, with Mr. Munyan as president, to prose- 
cute the business in those countries. Its intro- 
duction being placed in his hands, he first went 
to Europe on this mission that year, and he has 
since spent from two to four months of each year 
in looking after this business. He found at the 
outset that the successful introduction of the ma- 
chines abroad would require a great change in 
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and that the stroni;' prejudice against royalty ma- 
chines nuist be overcome. These and other ob- 
stacles were in time surmounted, and the nia- 




24, 1.S50, son of Isaac and Sarah ((iraves) New- 
hall. He was educated in the Lynn public 
schools and at Wesleyan .Academy, \\'ilbraham. 
After leaving the academy, he learned the shoe 
business, and from 1871 to 1882 w-as engaged in 
shoe manufacturing. .Subsequently he entered 
the real estate and insurance business, which he 
has since successfully pursued. He was also at 
one time president of the Lynn City Street Rail- 
way Company. In 1886 he became a member 
of the Lynn city government, and from that time 
has been prominent in public affairs. He was 
a member of the Common Council two terms, 
(1886-87), '"id president of the body during his 
second term ; was an alderman in 1889 and 1890 ; 
and a member of the House of Representatives 
for the city of Lynn in 1894, serving on the com- 
mittees on cities and on constitutional amendment. 
He is also prominently connected with numer- 
ous fraternal organizations, — the Odd Fellows, 
Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, and the 
order of Red Men. He is a trustee of the East 
Lynn Lodge of Odd Fellows, and has held other 
offices in the lodge ; a past regent of the Glen 



JONA, MUNYAN. 

chines put in operation to a large e.xtent. By his 
connection with this matter he has become e.\ten- 
sively and favorably known to the trade in Eng- 
land and on the continent. Mr. Munyan is also 
connected with the Worcester Royal Corset Com- 
pany at Worcester ; with the Copeland Rapid 
Lasting Company of Boston, of which he is presi- 
dent; and with the Langwood Park Land & Trust 
Company of Stoneham. He has been identified 
with the leather market of Boston since his return 
from California in the fifties. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He has held no political office, hav- 
ing no desire for public station, and being ab- 
sorbed in his business. He was married in the 
month of November, 1847, at West Millbury, to 
Miss Mary G. Griggs, daughter of Captain Joseph 
Griggs, who for many years carried on the tanning 
and currying business in that town. They have 
had four children, one only now living, Jennie G. 
M. Lothrop. Each of the others, three boys, died 
in infancy. 

NEWHALL, George H., of Lynn, real estate 
and insurance agent, was born in Lynn, October 




GEO. H. NEWHALL. 



Lewis Council of Royal Arcanum, al 
of the Grand Lodge ; a member of 
land Lodge of Knights of Pythias, 



so a member 

Peter Wood- 

and of the 



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W'inneparkit Tribe of Red Men. He is in poli- 
tics a Republican, active in the party organiza- 
tion, at present (1894) president of the Ward 
Three Republican Club. He is interested in 
horticulture, and has been some time a member of 
the Houghton Horticultural Society. For many 
years he has been a justice of the peace. Mr. 
Newhall was married January 17, 1872, to Miss 
Martha L. Nourse, of Cambridge. They have had 
five children, two of whom are now living : Loella 
and Lizzie G. Newhall. 



NEWHALL, John Breed, of Lynn, member 
of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Lynn, born 




JOHN B. NEWHALL. 

October i, 1862, son of Charles and Hester C. 
( Moulton) Newhall. He is descended from first 
settlers of Lynn, chief among them Thomas New- 
hall, the first white child born in the settlement, 
and Allen Breed. He was educated in the Lynn 
grammar and high schools, graduating from the 
latter in 1880, and at Harvard, where he gradu- 
ated in the class of 1885. He studied law in 
the Harvard Law School, graduating therefrom 
in 1888. After a year in a prominent law office 
in Boston he began practice on his own ac- 
count. He early took an interest in politics and 



in municipal and State afiiairs. He was for three 
vears, 1890-92. a member of the Lynn Com- 
mon Council, president of that body the last two 
terms; was also in 1891 and 1892 a member of 
the Lynn School Committee ; and the ne.\t two 
years a representative from Lynn in the lower 
house of the Legislature, serving during his first 
term on the rapid transit committee, and his 
second on the committees on election laws and 
on transit. He is president of the Young Men's 
Republican Club of Ward Four, Lynn, and a 
member of the Republican Club of Massachusetts. 
He is a member also of the leading social club 
of Lynn, the Oxford, of the University Club of 
Boston, and of the Pi Eta Society of Harvard. 
He was secretary of the Lynn Board of Trade 
in 1 89 1, and a trustee of the Lynn Public Library 
in 1 89 1 and 1892. He was married December 6, 
1893, to Miss Gertrude J. Cutter, of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 



NILES, William Henry, of Lynn, member of 
the Essex bar, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Orford, December 22. 1839, son of 
Samuel W. and Eunice C. (Newell) Niles. His 
paternal grandparents, John and Olive (Wales) 
Niles, and his maternal grandparents, John and 
Eunice (^Collis) Newell, were all four also natives 
of New Hampshire, and spent their lives on New 
Hampshire farms. His early education was ob- 
tained in the common schools, after which he 
was for three years a private pupil of the Rev. 
Richard W. Smith, of East Bridgewater, Mass., 
and three years in the Providence Conference 
Seminary, East Greenwich, R.L He read law 
under the direction of Caleb Blodgett, now jus- 
tice of the Superior Court, and was admitted to 
the bar in 1870, in the March term of the Supe- 
rior Court, at Lowell. He immediately began 
practice in Lynn, where he has remained ever 
since, from March, 1878 associated with George 
J. Carr, under the firm name of Niles & Carr. 
Though in former years he was retained in sev- 
eral important criminal cases, of late years he has 
applied his energies exclusively to civil practice, 
and has established an extensive legal business, 
becoming widely and favorably known in his pro- 
fession. For three years he was a member of the 
Lynn Board of Education. With this exception 
he has never held nor sought public place, giving 
his undivided attention to his professional work. 
He is now a director of the ^h^nufacturers' Na- 



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239 



lican. Mr. Niles was married September ig, 
1865. to Miss Harriet A. Day, daughter of 




tional liank of L)nn. In politics he is a Repiib- \- Hamilton, No. iSo West Street. Then he en- 
tered the insurance business, in which he has since 
continued, established in Boston. From 1869 to 
1874 he was agent of the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company of New York, under general agent 
Henry H. Hyde, of the Boston office; from 1874 
to 1879, general agent of the Mutual Benefit Life 
Insurance Company of Newark, N.J., with office at 
No. 15 State Street; from 1879 to 1882, general 
agent of the New York Life, in the Rialto Build- 
ing; and since 1882 he has been connected with 
the Equitable Life, Equitable Building, as agent, 
general agent, and manager. Mr. Niver has for 
years been prominent among the field workers in 
life insurance in this country, and is known as 
one of the most active and successful agents in 
the business. He has been a warm advocate of 
local underwriters' associations, and has been a 
delegate to the National Life Underwriters' Asso- 
ciation at several of its annual conventions. He 
is a studious man and interested in books ; and 
his wide reading is not limited to subjects relat- 
ing to insurance, but his taste has been cultivated 
hv his acquaintance with the best authors. He is 



W. H. NILES. 

Lorenzo D. Day, of Bristol, N.H. They have 
three children: Florence N. (wife of George \V. 
Moulton, a young lawyer associated with the law 
firm of Niles & Carr ), Grace, and Mary Ethel 
Niles. 

NIVER, James B.\rton, general agent and 
manager of the Boston office of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society of New York, is a native 
of New York, born in Kinderliook, Columbia 
County, April 7, 1840, son of John M. and 
Hannah (Barton) Niver. His father was of 
Dutch ancestry, and his mother of English, a 
(Quaker. He was educated in the Troy Academy 
of Poultney, Vt., the Hudson River Institute of 
Claverack, N.Y., and the Bryant & Stratton Com- 
mercial College in Albany. He was reared on 
his father's farm, where he remained until the 
age of nineteen. His first business engagement 
was as cashier of the National Hotel in Wash- 
ington, D.C., which position he held from i860, 
through the war, to 1865. From 1865 to 1869 
he was in New York City as cashier in the import- 
ing and wholesale grocery house of Quackenbush 




JAS. B. NIVER. 

a member of the Boston Life I'nderwriters' .Asso- 
ciation, of the Home Market Club, of the Mid- 
dlese.v Club, of the Republican Club of Massa- 



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chusetls, and of the Lawyers" Club of New York. 
In politics he has always been a Republican. 
He was married October 12, 1870, to Miss Caro- 
line Smith Turner, of Providence, R.I. They 
have six children: Helen T., Edwin T., Isabelle. 
James B., Jr., Francis S.. and Miriam Niver. 



NORTHEND, William Dummer, of Salem, 
member of the Esse.x bar for nearly half a cen- 




WM. D. NORTHEND. 

tury, is a native of Newbury, born February 26, 
1823, son of John and Anna (Titcomb) Northend. 
He is a lineal descendant of John Northend, Lord 
of the Manor of Hunsley in Yorkshire, England, 
who died October, 1625 ; also of the Sewalls, 
Dunimers, and Longfellows of Colony days. He 
was educated at Dummer Academy and at Bowdoin 
College, graduating in 1843 ; studied law with the 
Hon. Asahel Huntington in Salem, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in September, 1845. He was for 
many years in partnership with the Hon. George F. 
Choate, who was afterwards judge of probate and 
insolvency for the county of Essex. He was 
assigned by the Supreme Court as counsel for 
the defendant in every capital case but one in the 
county for more than twenty-five vears, and tried 



eight. He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 
1 86 1 and 1862. In politics he was conservative, 
and was largely instrumental in procuring the 
substantial repeal of the Personal Liberty bill, so 
called. He was chairman of the committee on 
the Rhode Island boundary, which was settled 
in accordance with the report of the committee. 
He took great interest in public matters at the 
breaking out of the Civil War, and prepared the 
Camp Bill, and other bills which were adopted 
by the Legislature. He has published elaborate 
papers on the Essex Bar and the Puritans, and is 
the author also of " Speeches and Essays on Polit- 
ical Subjects," of various printed addresses, and 
numerous magazine articles. He has been an 
overseer of Bowdoin College, and is vice-presi- 
dent of the trustees of Dummer Academy, and 
w'as for many years president of the Essex Bar 
Association. Mr. Northend was married Novem- 
ber 2, 1845, to Miss Susan Stedman Harrod. 



NOYES, David William, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of Maine, born in Norway, April 18, 
1848, son of Claudius A. Noyes. He was edu- 
cated in the town school. Leaving his home in 
1866 with his brother, Charles C, and coming 
to Boston, both entered the wholesale house of 
Jordan, Marsh, & Co., where they spent seven 
years, and gained a thorough knowledge of the 
wholesale, retail, and importing business. In 
March, 1873, they entered partnership under the 
firm name of Noyes Brothers, and opened a small 
retail gentlemen's outfitting store at No. 51 West 
Street, Boston. This soon becoming too small for 
their rapidly increasing business, they established 
a branch in Cambridge, another in Providence, 
R. I., and in Boston secured the entire buildnig at 
the corner of ^^'ashington and Summer Streets, 
their present quarters. They manufacture their 
own goods largely ; and each season the principal 
foreign markets are visited for novelties in their 
line, for ladies", men"s, and children's wear. In 
February, 1883, Mr. Noyes's brother, Charles C, 
died, and since that time he has been alone in the 
management of the extensive business. In 1891 he 
completed a new factory in Watertown, where one 
hundred hands are employed in the different 
branches of the manufacturing and laundry works 
of the house. He has for some time owned a con- 
trolling interest in the Elm City Shirt Company 
of New Haven, t?onn.. and has been its president 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



241 



for eight years. He is also president of the country store of Hector Orr in East Bridgewater. 
Elm City Manufacturing C'omp.my of W'atertown. Later the business was purchased by his father, 
The name of Noyes Brothers is prominent among Isaac Nutter. In 1863 he succeeded his father, 

and carried on the store successfully until 1884, 
when he sold it to a younger brother. He then 
took charge of the East Bridgewater Savings 
Bank, of which he had been treasurer since its 
organization in 187 1. He took a leading part 
in organizing the Plymouth County Safe Deposit 
and Trust Company, and assumed the position of 
treasurer upon its establishment in 1893 ; and he. 
has since devoted himself mainly to the interests 
of this latest financial institution of Brockton. 
Mr. Nutter has held numerous positions of trust 
and responsibility in his town. He is a trustee 
of the Public Library ; was for six years town 
clerk of East Bridgewater (1860-66); town treas- 
urer for a quarter of a century, — from 1865 to 
1S93, with the e.xception of tw-o years; a mem- 
ber of the lower house of the Legislature for the 
district composed of North Bridgewater and East 
Bridgewater two years (1875-76) ; and senator for 
the Second District of Plymouth County two 
years (1891-92), serving both years as chairman 



DAVID W. NOYES^ 




those who contribute to the interests and charities 
of Boston. 



NUTTER, Isaac Newton, of East Bridge- 
water, treasurer of the Plymouth County Safe 
Deposit and Trust Company of Brockton, was 
born in East Bridgewater. June 23, 1836, son of 
Isaac and Margaret Orr (Keen) Nutter. His 
paternal ancestors were of the early New Hamp- 
shire colonists, one of whom, Hatevil Nutter, was 
the first elder of the first church founded in New 
Hampshire, at Dover. His father was born 
in Rochester, N.H. His mother was the eld- 
est daughter of Deacon Samuel Keen, and a 
descendant of the Winslows, one of whom married 
a daughter of John Alden. He is a great-grand- 
son of Lieutenant Adna Winslow Clift, who served 
in the Continental Army, and whose wife was a 
daughter of the Hon. Hugh Orr. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, 
and at the East Bridgewater Academy when 
William .Mien was principal. His business career 
was begun at the age of si.xteen, as clerk in the 




ISAAC NEWTON NUTTER. 



of the committee on banks and banking. He 
was selected by the donor, Cyrus \\'ashburn, of 
W'ellesley, as one of the four gentlemen to be 



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associated with tlie Hon. B. \V. Harris in the care 
of the fund for the erection of the " Washburn 
Memorial Library," and is at present secretary 
and treasurer of the board. In politics he is an 
earnest Republican, active in the party organiza- 
tion. He served for a number of years as a 
member of the Republican town committee of 
East Uridgewater, has been a frequent delegate 
to party conventions, and is now a member of 
the Massachusetts Republican and Plymouth 
County Republican clubs. He is connected 
with the Odd Fellows' order, a member of Colfax 
Lodge of East Bridgewater ; is a past noble com- 
mander of the Old Colony Commandery of the 
Golden Cross ; vice-president of the Plymouth 
County Agricultural Society ; and member of the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society. He 
was married July 5, 1865, to Miss Anna Maria 
Latham, daughter of Charles A. Latham, of East 
Bridgewater. They have had three children : 
Maria Latham (born in 1866), Richard Winslow 
(born i86g), and Charles Latham Nutter (born 
1871). 

OSGOOD, Ch.^rles Edw.ard, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Roxbury, May 21, 1855, son 
of Freeman and Annah F. (Perry) Osgood. He 
is of early New England ancestry. His first 
paternal ancestor in the Massachusetts Colony was 
David S. Osgood, one of four brothers who came 
from England, three — Christopher, John, and 
James — preceding David ; and his maternal 
grand-father was Colonel Elbridge Gerry Perry, of 
Ro.\bury, a popular citizen, who died prematurely 
at the early age of thirty-six. He was educated 
in the Roxbury public schools, finishing in the 
Roxbury Latin School, and prepared for Harvard 
College. Instead of entering college, however, 
he entered business, starting with his father in 
the furniture auction and commission trade, then 
at No. 176 Tremont Street. He was here en- 
gaged from 1874 to 1880, when removal was 
made to the building Nos. 198-200 'Fremont 
Street. Two years later, the business having 
considerably expanded, the firm moved into the 
old Pine Street Church building on Washington, 
corner of Pine Street. In 1888, the elder Os- 
good that year retiring, the present quarters in 
the building Nos. 744 to 756 Washington Street 
were occupied, and the business further enlarged, 
embracing complete house furnishings as well as 
furniture, carpets, and draperies. In January, 



1894, the firm was succeeded by the C. E. Osgood 
Company, a Massachusetts corporation, with Mr. 
Osgood as president and general manager. It 
now employs about one hundred and fifty hands. 
Mr. Osgood is also president of the Boston Couch 
Bed Company. He is a member of the Roxbury 
.\rtillery Veteran Association, and of the Mt. 
Sinai Encampment, Odd Fellows : and associate 
member of Post 26, Grand Army. In politics he 
is a Republican. He was married July 10, 1876, 
to Miss Sarah W. Dole, of Newburyport. They 




C. E. OSGOOD. 



have two children : Kate M. and Lillian M. 
Osgood. He resides at Elm Hill, Roxbury Dis- 
trict, Boston. 



OSGOOD, Ch.\rles Stuart, of Salem, was 
born in Salem, March 13, 1839. He is closely 
identified with Salem, as his ancestors on both 
sides have lived there for considerably more than 
a hundred years. His grandfather, Nathaniel 
Osgood, was a shipmaster of Salem ; and his 
father, Charles Osgood, was an artist, having great 
success as a portrait painter, whose portraits now 
hang upon the walls of the Memorial Hall at 
Cambridge, the historical societies of Boston and 
Worcester, and the local societies of Salem. His 
mother, Susan (Ward) Osgood, was the grand- 



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243 



daughter of Dr. Edward A. Holyoke, the cele- 
brated physician and centenarian of Salem, whose 
father, the Rev. Edward Holyoke, was the presi- 




CHAS. S. 6SG00D. 

dent of Harvard College for thirty years. Mr. 
Osgood was educated in the public schools, and 
studied law in the oflfice of the Hon. J. C. Perkins. 
He was admitted to the bar at Salem in 1863. 
In 1863-64 he was attached to the Commissary 
Department, and was stationed in Virginia. He 
was appointed deputy collector of customs for the 
District of Salem and Beverly in 1864, and held 
that otifice until 1873. He was elected a member 
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
for si.\ consecutive years, from 1874 to 1879 inclu- 
sive, serving as chairman of the committee on 
railroads, and on the committee on rules. While a 
member of the House, he was appointed in April, 
1879, to be register of deeds for the Southern 
District of Essex County, which oflfice he has held 
by successive elections ever since that date. Mr. 
Osgood has taken an active part in the city gov- 
ernment of Salem, serving seven years in the 
Common Council, and being president of that 
body from 1866 to 1869, covering the period of 
the introduction of Wenham water. He was a 
member of the Board of Aldermen in 1870 and 
187 I, and a member of the School Committee for 



six years. He has always been interested in 
literary work, and on the establishment of a Pub- 
lic Library in Salem, in 1888, was chosen by the 
city council a trustee for life of that institution. 
He is also one of the trustees of the Salem Athe- 
nx'um, and of the Salem Lyceum, and has for a 
number of years been the librarian of the Essex 
Institute. He is the author of the commercial 
history of Salem as published in Hurd's Essex 
County History, and one of the authors of the 
Historical Sketch of Salem published by the 
Essex Institute in 1879. He married May 23, 
1867, Miss Elizabeth White Batchelder, daughter 
of Dr. John H. and Jane R. (Smith) Batchelder, 
and has had six children : Elizabeth Stuart, Robert 
Ward, Charles Stuart, Henry, Philip Holyoke, 
and Edward Holyoke Osgood. 



PARKER, James O., of Methuen, real es- 
tate and insurance broker, was born in New 
Hampshire, in the town of Pembroke, November 
22, 1827, son of Asa and Relief (Brown) Parker. 
He was educated in the common schools and an 




JAMES O. PARKER. 



academy at Concord, N.H. His business life was 
begun as clerk in the Concord post-office, where he 
spent four years. Afterwards he was for a similar 



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period mail agent on the Nortliern Railroad be- 
tween Boston and Burlington, Vt., and for twenty 
years thereafter railroad station agent at Alethuen. 
Then he entered the real estate and insurance 
business, which he has since pursued, now en- 
gaged in both Methuen and Lawrence. He has 
long been prominent and inHuential in Methuen 
affairs ; has filled nearly all the town offices, and 
has represented his district in both branches of 
the Legislature. He was a member of the School 
Committee of Methuen in i860 to 1864; selectman 
in 1873 ; member of the House of Representatives, 
representing Methuen and the city of Lawrence, in 
1874; member of the Senate for the Sixth Esse.x 
District (then consisting of Lawrence, North and 
South .Vndover, and Methuen) in 1883 and 1884; 
and in the House again in 189 1 and 1892 for the 
Third Essex District, comprising Methuen. Brad- 
ford, and Wards 3 and 5 of Haverhill. In his 
first term in the House he served on the com- 
mittee on insurance, and took an active part in ad- 
vancing labor measures. In the Senate he served 
as chairman of the committee on insurance, and 
also on the committees on manufactures and 
public health ; and he was an earnest advocate 
of the weekly payment bill, the employers" liabil- 
ity bill, the free te.xt-books bill, the bill abolishing 
the contract system of labor in the penal institu- 
tions of the State, the abolition of the poll-tax as 
a prerequisite for voting, and the continuance of 
the payment of State aid to soldiers and their 
families. During his second and third terms in 
the House he served on the committee on rail- 
roads. At the time of his election to the Senate 
his senatorial district was strongly Republican, 
but he carried it each year by a majority of 
over twelve hundred votes. In 18S9 he received 
the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Essex 
County, and, though not elected, ran ahead of his 
party ticket, and carried the city of Lawrence by 
a handsome majority. Mr. Parker is a member 
of the John Hancock Lodge of Masons, of Hope 
Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Methuen Club. 
He was married November 12, 1849, to Miss 
Frances C. Billings, of Lebanon, N.H. They 
have one daughter, Helen Parker (now Mrs. 
Spooner). 

PARKER, Walter Edw.ard, of Lawrence, 
agent of the Pacific Mills, is a native of Princeton, 
born September 27, 1847, son of George and Eniilv 
R. (Coller) Parker. His first American ancestor 



was Thomas Parker, born in England in 1609, 
who sailed from London, March, 11, 1635, in a 
vessel fitted out by Sir Richard Saltonstall, with 
whose family, tradition says, he was connected by 
marriage. In direct line were Lieutenant Hana- 
niah Parker, of Reading, 1638-1724, John Parker, 
of Reading and Lexington, 1664-1741, Andrew, of 
Lexington, 1693-1776, Thomas, of Lexington and 
Princeton, 1727-1799, Ebenezer, of Lexington and 
Princeton, 1 750-1839, Ebenezer, Jr., of Princeton, 
1784-1S69, George, of Woonsocket, R.I., 1818- 
1893, and Walter E. Parker. Captain John Parker, 
of Lexington, and the Rev. Theodore Parker 




W. E. PARKER. 

came from the same ancestors. Walter E. was 
educated in the public schools and at a tech- 
nical school in Boston, where he spent a few- 
months. His training for active life was begun 
on an Illinois farm, in Urbana, where he lived 
four years, — from 1856 to i860. In 1861 the 
family returned to New England, and settled in 
Woonsocket, R.I. ; and in 1863 he had his first 
experience in a factory, entering the employment 
of the Social Mill. At the same time he con- 
tinued his studies at the public school. Two 
years later he left school, and devoted his whole 
time to mill work. He also made all the plans for 
and assisted in the work of enlarging the Social 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



245 



Mills. In October, 1876, he became superin- 
tendent of the Globe Mills, Woonsocket, and con- 
tinued in this position till the first of April, 188 1, 
when he came to Lawrence to take charge of the 
cotton department of the extensive Pacific Mills. 
After from five to six years in this department he 
was made agent of the mills (January i, 1887), the 
position he still holds. While a resident of Woon- 
socket, he was for fourteen years (from January S, 
1878, to January 12, 1892) a director of the Pro- 
ducers' National Bank; and in Lawrence, when 
the Merchants' National Bank was organized, in 
1889, he was made vice-president and one of the 
board of directors of that institution. For several 
years also he was a member of the board of 
trustees of the Essex Savings Bank, and he is at 
present one of its vice-presidents. In addition to 
these interests he is a director of the Lawrence 
Gas Company. In \\'oonsocket he was influen- 
tial in municipal affairs, and was for one year 
(1877) president of the Town Council. He is 
now a leading member of the New England Cot- 
ton Manufacturers' Association (president of the 
organization in 1889-90-91); one of the vice- 
presidents of the Home Market Club ; a member 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
with which he has been connected since 1881 ; 
one of the trustees of Tufts College, and a mem- 
ber of the executive board : and member of the 
Boston Athletic Association. He has been con- 
nected with the Masonic order since 1869, and was 
master of the Morning Star Lodge of Woonsocket 
in 1877, and commander of the Woonsocket Com- 
mandery of Knights Templar for two years. In 
politics he is a Republican. He married first, 
October 12, 1870, Miss Anna Augusta Elliott, 
who died February 24, 1875 ; second, May 2, 1877, 
Miss Alida Charlotte Willis (died September 9, 
1885); and third, January i, 1888, Miss Mary 
Bradley Beetle. He has one son, Herbert Sum- 
ner, and one daughter, Helen Willis Parker. 



PARKHURST, Wellington Evarts, of Clin- 
ton, editor of the Clinton Couraiit and the Clinton 
Daily Item, was born in Framingham, January 19, 
1835, so"^ °^ Charles F. W. and Mary (Goodale) 
Parkhurst. He is eighth in descent from George 
Parkhurst, who was an early resident of A\'ater- 
town, and seventh in descent from Robert Good- 
ale, who came to this country from Ipswich, 
England, in 1634. He was educated in the pub- 



lic schools and the Framingham .Academy. After 
a short experience as paymaster for the Lancaster 
Quilt Company in C'linton, he entered the edi- 
torial office of the Worcester Spy, and since that 
time he has been steadily engaged in newspaper 
work. He became editor of the Clinton Courant 
in 1865, and during his service of nearly thirty 
years in the editorial chair he has kept his journal 
in line with the best county newspapers in the 
State. He has been editor also of the Daily Item 
since July, 1893. In Clinton iie has served in 
various offices, — town clerk six years, town 
treasurer, assessor, member of the School Board 




W. E. PARKHURST. 

fifteen years, and director of the Public Library 
six years; and he has represented his district, 
the Thirteenth Worcester, in the lower house 
of the Legislature four terms (1890-91-92-93). 
During the greater part of his legislative service 
he was house chairman of the committees on edu- 
cation and on public charitable institutions. In 
politics he is a steadfast Republican, and has 
long been prominently connected with the party 
organization in his section of the State. For 
several years he has been chairman of the Repub- 
lican town committee of Clinton. He was one of 
the original members of the Massachusetts Press 
Association, and is also a member of the Subur- 



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ban I'ress Association, of the Massachusetts Re- 
publican Club, and of the Masonic and Odd Fel- 
lows orders. He was married first, September 
13, 1866, to Harriet F. Fairbank, of West Boylston 
(died December 13, 1885); and second, August 9, 
1887, to Georgiana B. Warren, of Framingham. 
They have no children. 



PEARSON, Gardner Whitman, of Lowell, 
postmaster, was born in Lowell, September 4, 
1869, son of George H. and Laura W. (Hildreth) 
Pearson. He is a grandson of John H. Pearson, 
formerly the largest ship-owner in Boston, and of 
Dr. Israel Hildreth, of Dracut ; and a nephew of 
the late General Benjamin F. Butler, whose wife 
was his mother's sister. He was educated in the 




GARDNER W. PEARSON. 

public schools of Dracut and of Lowell, at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at 
Harvard College, spending a year at each of 
the last-mentioned institutions. Subsequently he 
studied law two years at the Harvard Law 
School. He was admitted to the bar in January, 
1 89 1, and began practice in association with his 
brother, Fisher H. Pearson. Later he became 
associated with General Butler, and so remained 
until the latter's death, in 1893. He is at pres- 
ent in partnership with John A. Gately in the 



patent business. In politics he is a Democrat, 
and has for a number of years been an active 
worker in his party, but has never held an elective 
office. He was chairman of the Democratic city 
committee of Lowell in 1891-92-93, and mem- 
ber of the State Committee in 1893. He was 
appointed to his present position as postmaster 
of Lowell, in April, 1894. In 1892-93 he was 
a member of the State commission to revise the 
election laws. He belongs to a number of 
clubs, — the Lowell Country, the Vesper Boat, 
the Lowell Cricket and Athletic, the Yorick, Big 
Twelve, — and is a member of Court General 
l^utler. Ancient Order of Foresters. He is an 
enthusiastic lover of athletic sports, and has taken 
a number of prizes in running, jumping, and boat- 
ing, both when in college and after leaving. He 
is unmarried. 



PEMBERTON, Henry Augustus, of Boston, 
merchant and manufacturer, was born in South 
Danvers, now Peabody (named for George Pea- 
body), October 26, 1845, -^O" of Francis Bain- 
bridge and Adeline (Buswell) Pemberton. His 
father was a native of Portsmouth, N.H., and his 
mother of Haverhill. He comes of an early, hon- 
orable New England family, founded by James 
Pemberton, originally of Wales, who settled in 
Massachusetts in 1646, and for whom Pember- 
ton Hill, now marked by Pemberton Square, 
Boston, was named. Samuel Pemberton, de- 
scendant of James, was one of the second com- 
mittee, representing the people in town meeting 
assembled, who in 1770 successfully demanded 
of Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson the removal 
of the British troops from Boston, his colleagues 
being Adams, Hancock, Warren, Phillips, Hen- 
shaw, and Molineaux. The Rev. Ebenezer Pem- 
berton, another descendant, who graduated at 
Harvard in 167 1, and became a fellow of the 
college, was a great scholar and divine, a contem- 
porary of and beloved by such men as Judge 
Sewell, Dr. Cotton Mather, Dr. Increase Mather, 
Major-General Winthrop ; and Thomas Pember- 
ton, the antiquar)-, was also of this highly 
respected family. Henry A. Pemberton was edu- 
cated in the schools of Peabody ; and the prizes 
awarded him upon graduation from the High 
School — gifts of George Peabody, of London — 
indicate that his deportment and scholarship 
while there were excellent. He left Peabody in 
1862 to receive a business training in Boston, 



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247 



where his business headquarters ha\e siuce been 
established. He is now one of the leather firm 
of Pemberton Brothers, High Street, Boston, 




H. A. PEMBERTON. 

carrying on a business inherited from their father, 
by whom it was founded in 1845, — a firm which 
has since become widely known as conservatively 
progressive, thoroughly equipped by its factories 
at Peabody and at Bridgton for its purposes of 
finishing sheep and other skins. Mr. Pemberton 
is a member of the Associated Board of Trade, 
of the Shoe and Leather Association, the Athletic 
Association, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, 
the Beacon Society, and the Masonic Fraternity 
of Boston. In politics and religion he votes and 
worships according to his honest convictions. 
He is not a politician nor an office-seeker, but 
one who performs conscientiously all the duties 
of a private public-spirited citizen. He was mar- 
ried December 17, 1878, to Miss Louise Baldwin, 
daughter of the late George P. Baldwin, of Bos- 
ton, a descendant of the New Hampshire Bald- 
wins, one of whom fought for two sharp winters 
under Ethan Allen. They have three children : 
Henry Augustus, Jr, Frank Arthur, 2d., and 
Gladys Pemberton. Their residence is a charm- 
ing estate in the Boston suburb of Auburndale, 
and its hospitality is proverbial. 



PEVEY, Gii.niiRT AiuKi, AiiixrrT, member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in Lowell, August 22, 
185 1, son of Abiel and Louisa (Stone) Pevey. 
He was educated in the Lowell public schools, 
graduating from the High School a Carney medal 
scholar, and at Harvard College, where he gradu- 
ated in the class of 1873. He studied law with 
the firm of Sweetser & Gardner (Theodore H. 
Sweetser and William S. Gardner, the latter after- 
wards justice of the Superior and Supreme 
Courts), and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
June, 1876. Upon the appointment of Mr. Gard- 
ner to the Superior Bench he became a partner 
of Mr. Sweetser, and remained in this association 
till the latter's death in 1882. Then he became 
assistant attorney of the Boston & Lowell Rail- 
road Company under Colonel John H. George. 
Subsequently, after his retirement from this posi- 
tion, he was for three years partner in practice 
with the Hon. Charles S. Lilley, now justice of 
the Superior Court. During the years 1890-91-92 
he was assistant district attorney for Middlese.x 
County ; and he has been master in chancery for 
the same county for about nine years. Since his 




GILBERT A. A. PEVEY. 

admission to the bar he has been established in 
Boston and Cambridge, with his principal office 
in Boston. In Cambridge he has been a director 



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of the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, and its attorney for seven or eight years. 
He is a director also of the Cambridge Young 
Men's Christian Association, ex-vice-president of 
the Baptist Social Union, and has been vice-presi- 
dent and president of the North Baptist Sunday- 
school Convention. He is a member of the United 
Order of the Golden Cross, of the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, of the Northern Mutual Re- 
lief Association, in all of which he has held official 
positions ; also of the Masonic order (Amicable 
Lodge), of the order of Odd Fellows ( Dunster 
Lodge), of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, and 
of the Cambridge Baptist Union. In politics he 
has always been a Republican ; but he has never 
sought political office, his aspirations not being 
in that direction. He was married November 27, 
1876, and has two children : Emma L. and 
Elva .M. Pevey. 



I'RICE, Ch.arles Henry, of Salem, druggist, 
and president of the Salem F^lectric Lighting 
Company, is a native of Salem, born on the first 
of January 1831, son of Eben N. and Hannah 




CHAS. H. PRICE. 



began work as a boy in the store where he 
still does business as druggist and pharmacist. 
During his long career here he has graduated 
and put into business more than a dozen young 
men who are all now engaged in prosperous 
trade. He has been president of the Salem 
Electric Lighting Company from its formation in 
1 88 1, and for two years president of the Pettingell 
Andrews Electric Supply Company of Boston. 
Since 1884 he has also been president of the 
Holyoke Mutual Fire Insurance Company of 
Salem, one of the leading companies of its kind 
in New England. His only club is his church, 
in which he has long been prominent. He has 
been treasurer of the First Baptist Church of 
Salem since 1856, and for many years super- 
intendent of the Sunday-school ; and he was 
president of the Salem Young Men's Christian 
-Association for a number of years. He married 
first, March 2, 1853, Miss Anna F.. Carlton, who 
died April 26, 1864, leaving one child, Jeannie C. 
Price; and second, January 8, 1868, Miss Fannie 
S. Pettingell. They have two children : Charles 
Brown (born October 22, i86g), and Frank 
Shreve Price (born November 8, 1875). 



(Shreve) Price. He is of English ancestry. He 
was educated in the Salem grammar and high 
schools, and at the age of thirteen, in July, 1844, 



PUFFER, LoRiNG William, D.D.S., of Brock- 
ton, fire underwriter, was born in Stoughton, 
September 17, 1828, son of Loring and Lucy 
Hewett (Southworth) Puft'er. He is of the seventh 
generation from George Puft'er who settled in 
Braintree, now Quincy, in 1639, in the direct line 
from his son James (his other son Matthias was 
the great-great-grandfather of the late Senator 
Sumner) ; a grandson of Nathan Puft'er, who 
served under General Scott in all of the battles 
op the frontier in iS 12-15 ^ '^'''d great-grandson of 
Captain Jedediah Southworth, of Stoughton, who 
served through the whole of the Revolution, and 
was a member of the first constitutional con\-en- 
tion of Massachusetts. On the maternal side he 
is in the seventh generation from Constant South- 
worth, of Plymouth, deputy governor, and an orig- 
inal proprietor of and one of the three persons 
appointed to buy the town of Bridgewater. He 
is a descendant also in the seventh generation 
of the Rev. James Keith, the first minister of 
Bridgewater; in the si.xth generation of the Rev. 
Ebenezer Stearns, the first Baptist minister of 
Easton ; in the seventh of the Rev. Thomas 
Carter, the first minister of Woburn ; in the si.xth 



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249 



of Judge Joseph Wilder, from 1742 to his death in 
1757 chief justice of Massachusetts; and in the 
eighth of Major-General Humphrey Atherton, of 




LORING W. PUFFER. 

Dorchester. His general education was acquired 
in common and private schools which he attended 
until he reached the age of eighteen years, and he 
graduated from the Boston Dental College March 
17, 1870. From eighteen to twenty-five years of 
age he was engaged in mechanical trades and 
manufacturing, which were all then relinquished 
on account of failing health. The three years 
following were devoted to the study of medicine 
and dentistry. He began the practice of den- 
tistry in 1854, and for thirty-five years followed 
the profession actively, from 1856 established 
in North Bridgewater, which afterwards became 
Brockton. His connection with the fire insurance 
business began a few years after his removal to 
North Bridgewater ; and this vocation, with real 
estate, has now almost entirely displaced his pro- 
fession. Quite early in life Mr. Puffer became 
a copious correspondent for various newspapers, 
and later had experience in the editorial chair, 
being editor of the Brockton Advance for one year, 
and editor of the Brockton Eagle during the years 
1884 and 1885. He has done other literary 
work, especially in historical and biographical 



lields, which has widened his reputation. In 
1871-72 he was adjunct professor of operative 
and clinical dentistry in the Boston Dental Col- 
lege, and professor of the institute of dentistry 
and dental therapeutics in 1872-73. Previous to 
1880 he had been secretary, treasurer, and presi- 
dent of the Old Colony Dental Association, and 
was a frequent essayist at its meetings. He has 
at two periods during his residence in North 
J^ridgewater, or Brockton, been a member of the 
School Committee (1875-1885); and for more 
than twenty years he has been one of the trustees 
to the Public Library. He is now chairman of 
the latter board. He was one of a number of 
citizens who originally purchased the library, and 
some years later gave it to the town. He was 
appointed a justice of the peace in [855, and is 
now holding a commission ; and in 1883 received 
the appointment of notary public. Dr. Puffer 
became interested in politics soon after he at- 
tained his majority, and his interest has never 
flagged. Originally an anti-slavery man, he was 
among the first to help form and sustain the 
Republican party, and has been steadfastly de- 
\oted to it since. Outspoken and frank with 
tongue and pen, he is counted one of the most ef- 
ficient, honorable, and successful political workers 
in Eastern Massachusetts. He has been on the 
Republican city committee of Brockton for manv 
years, and was its chairman in 1854-55. In 1856 
he became an active member of the Plymouth 
County Agricultural Society ; was a trustee for 
many years, and has been vice-president. In 
i860 he built the first greenhouse ever con- 
structed in North Bridgewater ; and from that 
date to the present he has been an ardent horti- 
culturalist, florist, and a frequent contributor to 
agricultural, horticultural, and floricultural publi- 
cations. He was one of the most active origina- 
tors of the Brockton Agricultural Society founded 
in 1 87 4, which was a success from the first. Its 
opening exhibition, held in ten days under a tent, 
received an income of §7,400; and by 1893 its 
annual income had reached 529,500. Dr. Puffer 
is also a member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, of the Natural History 
Society of Boston, of the Massachusetts and 
Suburban Press Association, and of the Norfolk 
Club ; and he is a charter member of Paul Revere 
Lodge and Satucket Royal Arch C"hapter, Free 
Masons, of Brockton. He was married Septem- 
ber 16, 1856, to Miss Martha Mary Crane Worces- 



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ter, niece and adopted daughter of the Hon. 
Samuel Thomas Worcester and Mary t'enno 
Crane (Wales) Worcester of Norwalk, Ohio. 
'I'hey have four children : Loring Worcester, born 
February 7, 1857, died July 30, 1858 ; Mary 
Crane, born April 1 i, 1859 ; \\'illiam Loring, born 
May 27, 1863 ; and Clarence Carter Puffer, born 
June 29, 1874. 

RAYM(>\I). JdHX Mak.shall, of -Salem, mem- 
ber of the Essex bar, is a native of Salem, born 
June 16, 1852, son of Alfred A and Sarah (Buf- 
fum) Raymond. His ancestors on both sides were 
among the early settlers of New England. On the 
paternal side he is descended from Captain Will- 
iam Raymond, who settled in Beverly about 1652, 
was appointed by tile (ienerai Court in 1683 lieu- 
tenant commander of Beverly and Wenham troop, 
and was deputy for Beverly in 1685 and 1686, and 
commanded a company in the Canada expedition 
in 1690. On his mother's side he is of Quaker 
descent, his maternal ancestor being Robert 
Buffum. who settled in Salem in 1638. The 
first settlers of the family became Quakers, the 
mother of Mr. Raymond was a life-long member 
of the Society of Friends, and each generation 
has had influential members of that Society among 
its number. His general education was acquired 
in the Salem public schools and at the Friends' 
Boarding-school of Providence, R.I. ; and he was 
prepared for his profession at the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, from which he was graduated in 
1878, receiving the Hilliard prize for the best 
essay on " Insanity as a Defence in Criminal 
Cases." While pursuing his law studies and for 
some time before, he was at work in various occu- 
pations, first as a clerk in a grocery store, then in 
the freight department of the old Eastern and the 
Boston & Lowell railroads at Salem, and after- 
ward as station agent at Peabody. Admitted to 
the bar in October, 1878, he immediately began 
practice in Salem, and has since pursued his pro- 
fession there. In the November election of 1879, 
a year after his election to the bar, he was elected 
a member of the Executive Council for 1880, and 
served through the first term of Governor John 
D. Long. The ne.xt two years, 1881 and 1882, 
he was president of the Salem Common Council. 
and from 1886 to 1889, inclusive, was mayor of 
the city. During his four terms in the latter 
office numerous important reforms were accom- 
plished, and the interests of the city advanced in 



various ways. He was especially instrumental in 
establishing the free public library and fire alarm 
system. One of the most notable reforms, how- 
ever, was the establishing of " liquor limits '' for 
the city, and a system of high license, by which 
he freed the residential sections from the saloon 
almost entirely, largely reduced the number of 
saloons, and brought increased re\enue to the 
city. At the close of his second term he decided 
to retire, but was induced to stand again by peti- 
tions addressed to him, signed by more than fif- 
teen hundred of the leading citizens of Salem ; and 
he was returned by a largely increased majority. 




JNO. M. RAYMOND. 

During his fourth term, the public library was 
opened to the citizens, and on the occasion of 
its opening he delivered the address. He was 
the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
library, holding that position for two years. Mr. 
Raymond is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a 
prominent member of the Scottish rite bodies, 
being thrice potent grand master of Sutton Lodge 
of Perfection, of Salem, grand high priest of 
Ciles F. Yates Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 
Boston, and has held the office of second lieu- 
tenant commander of Massachusetts Consistory; 
he is worshipful master of Essex Lodge, Free 
and Accepted Masons, and a member of Winslow 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



!5I 



Lewis Commander)- of Knights 'I'emplar, and of 
Sutton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of 
Salem Council of Royal and Select Masters. 
Also past noble grand of Fraternity Lodge, 
and past chief patriarch of Salem Encampment, 
Independent Order of ( )dd Fellows. He has 
been president of the Salem Mutual Benefit Asso- 
ciation for fourteen years, and of the Salem Co- 
operative Bank since its organization, in uS88. 
For four years he was a member of the Second 
Corps of Cadets, and is now a member of the 
Veteran Association. He was married in June, 
1879, in Salem, to Miss Anna Belle Jackson. 
They have had three children: Eva S., Helen J., 
and Grace Raymond (deceased). Mrs. Raymond 
died in 1885, a few months after the death of the 
daughter Grace. Li December, 1893, he was 
married to Miss Jennie Abbott Ward, of Salem. 



RAYMOND, Robert Fulton, of New Bed- 
ford, member of the bar, is a native of Fairfield 
County, Connecticut, born at High Ridge, in the 
town of Stamford, June 15, 1858, son of Lewis 
and Sarah .-V. (Jones) Raymond. Public records 
show that his ancestors were in America as early 
as 1630-31, in Little Harbor, now Portsmouth, 
N.H., and in 1634 at Salem, Mass., whence a son 
removed to Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., as 
is shown by the records of that town in 1668. 
The Raymond genealogy shows two branches of 
the family growing up in Salem and Norwalk re- 
spectively, and from the latter branch came the 
subject of this sketch. Up to sixteen years of age 
he attended the district schools at High Ridge 
and Long Ridge, Conn. In 1874, stimulated by 
the example of his brother (now President Ray- 
mond of Wesleyan University) in getting an edu- 
cation, he came to New Bedford to prepare for 
college at the New Bedford High School. After 
completing his preparatory work, he entered Wes- 
leyan University in 1877, took a partial course 
there, and subsequently studied in Harvard Col- 
lege and Law School. The cost of his prepara- 
tory school and college training was met by his 
earnings as a school-teacher, which work he began 
at the age of seventeen while a student in the 
High School, — teaching two winters in Dartmouth 
public schools. After a year at Wesleyan he 
taught two years in the town of Marion, at the 
same time reading Greek and Latin classics ex- 
tensively, intending to re-enter Wesleyan with his 



old class. At the end of his successful work 
there, however, having an opportunity to teach 
mornings in a private Latin school in Boston and 
to work in Harvard College afternoons, he ac- 
cepted that course instead, and for a year pursued 
it, — teaching regularly every morning, taking lect- 
ures at Harvard in history and Roman law after- 
noons, and doing private tutoring evenings through 
the college season. In this way he prepared a 
young man for Harvard within the year, and in 
the summer months took a private pupil to his 
home in Connecticut, and prepared him in Greek 
and Latin for Yale in the autumn. He entered 




ROBERT F. RAYMOND. 

the Harvard Law School in the autumn of 1881, 
and remained two yeans, and then, coming to New 
Bedford, was admitted to the bar at the June term, 
1883, of the Superior Court. It was his intention 
to return to the Law School at the end of the third 
year and take his degree, but he was so busy in 
his practice that he was unable to do so. Later, 
however, in 1894, he took the examinations, and 
received from the college on commencement day 
his LL.B. He has practised at New Bedford 
steadily since his admission to the bar with a good 
degree of success, latterly doing much corporation 
business. He is at present trustee of large corpo- 
ration interests in Kansas and Colorado, and en- 



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gaged in an extensive general practice in eastern 
Massachusetts. For two years after he began 
practice he was principal of a large evening school 
in New Bedford, with from ten to twenty assistant 
teachers ; and at the close of this service he re- 
ceived a testimonial from his pupils which he 
holds as one of his choicest possessions. During 
his first year in New Bedford he was also elected 
president of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion there ; and he continued in this position for 
nine years, within which period the institution 
built one of the finest Christian Association build- 
ings in the country. In politics he was originally 
a Republican of the radical stripe, and did cam- 
paign speaking for the Republican party in Con- 
necticut from the (larfield campaign to 1891. 
Then he became a Prohibitionist, and each year 
since he has served as candidate of that party for 
attorney-general of Massachusetts. He was a 
delegate to the National Prohibitory Convention 
at Cincinnati in 1892, in which he served as a 
member of the committee on platform. He has 
been a member of the Massachusetts Prohibitory 
State Committee since 1892, and has taken the 
stump in every campaign since he joined the 
party. He is a frequent speaker also on occa- 
sions of public meeting to advocate movements of 
moral reform ; before temperance societies and 
conventions of young people, Sunday-schools, the 
Epworth League, Christian Endeavor, and similar 
organizations ; in movements for the elevation of 
the laboring man; and on Memorial Day. In re- 
ligious faith he is a Methodist Episcopalian, and 
active in denominational work. He is a member 
of the Boston Wesleyan Association, having charge 
of Ziitns Herald and the general property of the 
denomination in New England ; a director of East 
Greenwich Academy ; a member of various busi- 
ness boards of laymen of the New F2ngland South- 
ern Conference ; and a member of the Methodist 
Social Union of New Bedford and vicinity, the 
largest in the country, which he was instrumental 
in starting, and of which he was the first president. 
He is vice-president for the State of Massachu- 
setts of the .\merican Sabbath Union. He is a 
member of Acushnet Lodge, No. 41, L (). (). F., 
and also of the Knights of Honor. Physically, 
he is something of an athlete, with a taste espe- 
cially for rowing. He usually has a shell on the 
river and a boat at his summer home on Lake 
W'innipesaukee, N.H., where he organized the 
i'ine Island Outing Club in 1892, of which he has 



since been clerk. He is a collector of books, and 
possesses one of the best law libraries and one 
of the choicest general libraries in New Bedford, 
the latter specially rich in the lines of history 
and economics, and in English, French, and Ger- 
man literature. Mr. Raymond was first married, 
September 12, 1883, to Miss Annie E. Booth, of 
New Bedford, who died December 10, 1884. He 
married second, October 20, 1886, Miss Mary F". 
Walker, daughter of Captain David Walker, of 
Groton, Conn. Their children are : Annie Almy. 
Mary Lois, and Allen Simmons Raymond. 



ROBER'I'S, JiiHN Hemenwav, of the Boston 
office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of 
New York, is a native of Maine, born in Alfred, 
York County, October 8, 1831, son of Nahum and 
Sally B. (Hemenway) Roberts. He is of English 
ancestry. He was educated in the common 
schools and at Alfred Academy. Until he was 
eighteen years of age he lived and worked on his 
father's farm. Then, in 1850, he came to Charles- 
town, and was engaged in the West India goods 
and foreign fruit business till the outbreak of the 
Civil War. Enlisting in July, 186 1, as a private 
for three years, he was mustered into the I'nited 
States service as second lieutenant, Company F, 
FLighth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, in August ; 
was promoted to first lieutenant in .May, 1862, and 
to captain the following August. His regiment 
was immediately ordered to the front in the de- 
fences of Washington. In October, 1861, it was 
assigned to the First Brigade (General Viely), 
Sherman's expeditionary corps (afterwards the 
Tenth Army Corps) to the South Atlantic coast, 
striking first at Port Royal, S.C. It participated 
in all the operations from that engagement to the 
capture of Fort Sumter, including the siege and 
capture of Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of the 
Savannah River, and the capture and occupation 
of Jacksonville, Fla. On the first of January, 
1864, by order of the Secretary of War, at the 
request of the governor of Maine, he was trans- 
ferred to the Second Maine Cavalry, then organiz- 
ing at .\ugusta. Me., as captain of Company M. 
In February the regiment was ordered to New 
Orleans, La., and participated in the Red River 
campaign, after which it was engaged in the ex- 
termination of guerillas in La Fourche and Tesche 
counties, Louisiana. In July. 1S64, it was ordered 



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to West Florida, witli headquarters at Barrancas, 
to assist in tiie siege and operations against 
Mobile, Ala., and assigned to the First Brigade 
Cavalry, Nineteenth Army Corps. From this time 
till the close of the war it was constantly engaged 
in scouting and raiding throughout western Flor- 
ida and southern Alabama, destroying an immense 
amount of Confederate army stores, cutting rail- 
road and telegraph communications between 
Mobile and Montgomery, capturing large quanti- 
ties of cattle, horses, and mules; and it was the 
first to carry the Emancipation Proclamation to 




JOHN H. ROBERTS. 

the negroes throughout that section of the coun- 
try. In the course of these raids the regiment 
had many engagements : at Milton, Euchee Anna, 
Marianna, Fla., and at Pollard, Big and Little 
Escambia Rivers, Pine Barren Creek, and other 
places in Alabama. In May, 1864, Captain 
Roberts was inspector-general of the forces of 
New Orleans, and later judge advocate-general 
of the department. In January, 1865, he was 
detailed judge advocate of an important military 
commission at Barrancas, Fla., for the trial of 
several capital cases (civilians), there being then 
no State government, and consequently no courts 
of justice, .\fter the close of the war he returned 



to Massachusetts, and entered the State militia. 
He was made adjutant of the First Battalion of 
Cavalry in 1869, and afterwards (in 1873) pro- 
moted to lieutenant colonel commanding (serving 
in that capacity until 1876); and he brought this 
corps to so high a state of efficiency that he was 
complimented by General Sherman, when general 
of the United States .Army, as having the finest 
command in the country outside of the regular 
army. Upon his return to civil life after his four 
years of service in the war, during which time he 
was never off duty a day e.xcept for a short time 
when w'ounded, he re-entered his former business 
in the employ of J. C. Tyler & Co., foreign fruit 
merchants, with whom he remained seven years. 
Then he entered the firm of J. F. Conant & CJo., 
Chatham Street, of which, by the death of the 
senior partners, he soon became the head. For 
some years afterwards he was engaged in the 
merchandise brokerage business in India Street ; 
and in 1888 he became connected with the Boston 
office of the Mutual Life of New York. Since 
the war Colonel Roberts has resided in Chelsea, 
where he has taken an active interest in affairs, 
civil, political, and social. He served in the 
Board of Aldermen one term (1876), represented 
the city in the lower house of the Legislature two 
terms (1870-71), and has been at the head of 
many of its social organizations. He is a mem- 
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
Massachusetts Commandery ; of the Union Vet- 
erans' Union, W. S. Hancock command, Chelsea ; 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, Theodore 
Winthrop Post, Chelsea ; of the Robert Lash 
Lodge, Free Masons, the Shekinah Chapter Royal, 
Arch Masons, the Napthali Council, and the 
Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar, all of 
Chelsea ; a member of the Chelsea Review Club, 
and of the Grand Army Club, Boston. He was 
for three successive years (1890-91-92) elected 
department commander of the Union Veterans' 
Union, when it included all the New England 
States, and in 1893 was elected commander-in- 
chief of that organization. He w-as master of 
Robert Lash Lodge in 1874-75, and high priest of 
Shekinah Chapter in 1877-78. Colonel Roberts 
was married in May, 1859, at Charlestown, to 
Miss Louisa Southward. They had three chil- 
dren : Lillian Louise (now Mrs. Alfred J. Hay- 
man), Gertrude Abbie, Mattie Emma B. (now 
Mrs. Henry W. .\sbrand). He married second, 
in 1868, Miss H. Edwina Phelps, of Chelsea. 



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ROBERTS, William Warrkx, of Haverhill, 
city clerk, is a native of Haverhill, born August 
31, 1S66, son of Joseph W. and Medora A. 




WILLIAM W. ROBERTS. 

(Felch) Roberts. He is a direct descendant of 
Governor Thomas Roberts, the emigrant, who 
settled at Dover Xeck, N.H., about the year 
1632. He was educated in the public schools of 
Haverhill and at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial 
College in Boston. After his graduation in June, 
1884, he entered the office of David B. Tenney, 
then city clerk of Haverhill, with whom he re- 
mained until the latter retired from that office in 
January, 1893. In January, 1892, he was elected 
auditor and assistant city clerk ; and upon the re- 
tirement of Mr. Tenney he was elected to the city 
clerkship, which position he has since held. He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity ; of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; of the 
Independent Order of Red Men, of which he is 
a past sachem ; and of the Wachusett Club of 
Haverhill. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was married April 17, 1889, to Miss Alice M. 
Day, of Haverhill. 



1851, the eldest son of Charles Theodore Russell 
and Sarah Elizabeth ( Ballister) Russell. He re- 
moved to Cambridge in 1876, and has since 
resided there. He was educated in the public 
schools of Cambridge, and graduated at Harvard 
College in 1873. He studied law with the firm of 
C. T. iS: T. H. Russell, in Boston, and graduated 
from the Law School of Boston University in 
1875. He was admitted to the Boston bar May 
15, 1875, and became a partner in the firm of 
C. T. l\: T. H. Russell, at No. 27 State Street, 
and continued to practise law as a member of 
that firm until January i, 1894, when the firm dis- 
solved, and he formed with his brother, William 
E. Russell, the law firm of Russell & Russell, 
E.xchange Building. In 1884 he was appointed 
one of the civil service commissioners of Massa- 
chusetts, and has continued under successive re- 
appointment to hold that office, and since 1889 has 
been the chairman of the commission. In 1885 
he was appointed by the Legislature editor of 
" Contested Election Cases before the Legisla- 
ture," and still occupies that position. In 1889 
he was appointed by the court one of the exam- 




C. T. RUSSELL, Jr. 



iners of applicants for admission to the SuiYolk 

RUSSELL, Charles Theodore, Jr., member bar, and for three years has been chairman of 

of the SutTolk bar, was born in Boston, April 20, the board. He is a Democrat in politics, and 



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255 



has never been nianied. He is a member of the 
Union, University, and St. Botolph clubs in 
Boston, and several other social, literary, and 
yachting associations. 



SANDERS, WiLLi.\M, of New Bedford, mer- 
chant, is a native of Rhode Island, born in the 
town of Warren, December 10, 1843, son of 
Henry and Martha B. (Viall) Sanders. He is of 
English ancestry, and is the owner of a coat-of- 
arms granted to one of his ancestors, dated 1522. 




WM. SANDERS. 

His great-grandfather, on the maternal side, 
served as a captain in the war of the Re\-olution ; 
and the latter's commission is now in his hands. 
The family moved to New Bedford when William 
Sanders was a boy of fourteen years ; and he was 
educated there in the public schools, graduating 
from the High School. He began business life 
as a clerk in the post-office of Quincy, where he 
spent two years. Then he went to Boston, and had 
several years' experience in the wholesale clothing 
business. In February, 1866, he started out for 
himself, opening a retail clothing store in New 
Bedford. After conducting this successfully for 
twelve years alone, he admitted his brother, H. V. 
Sanders, to partnership, under the firm name 
of Sanders Brothers. This firm was dissolved 



in 1 88 1, and was succeeded by that of .Sanders & 
Barrows, which in time gave place to a corpora- 
tion, formed in 1894, under the name of the 
Sanders & Barrows Clothing Company, with Mr. 
Sanders as treasurer and general manager. The 
business has steadily grown from the modest start 
in 1866, and it is now the largest clothing busi- 
ness in the State south of Boston. Mr. Sanders 
has served in the Legislature as a member of the 
lower house two terms (1879-80), and he has been 
Bristol County commissioner since i88g. He has 
served also in the State militia, captain of Com- 
pany E, First Regiment, for nine years, — from 
1876 to 1881, and from 1886 to 1891. He be- 
longs to the order of Odd Fellows, a member of 
the Acushnet Lodge, New Bedford ; to the Royal 
Arcanum (regent of Omega Council) ; the Grand 
Army of the Republic, member of Post I ; and the 
\\"amsutta and Dartmouth clubs, New Bedford. 
He has for some years been connected with the 
New Bedford Board of Trade, and is now (1894) 
one of the directors of the organization. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He has long been active 
in municipal affairs, and has been asked many 
times to stand as candidate for mayor, but always 
declined on account of business interests. He 
is well known all over Bristol County, his duties 
as county commissioner taking him to nearly 
every town in the county. Mr. Sanders was 
married November 6, 1866, to Miss Lucretia C. 
Cannon, of New Bedford. They have no chil- 
dren. 

SANFORI), Ai.i'HKi's, member of the Suffolk 
bar, was born in North Attleborough, July 5, 
1 85 6, son of Joseph B. and Mary C. (Tripp) 
Sanford. His early education was acquired in 
tlie public schools of his native town and of Mel- 
rose, to which his father moved when he was a 
small boy ; and he was fitted for college at the 
Boston Latin School. His collegiate training was 
at Bowdoin, from which he graduated in the class 
of 1876. In college he was president of his 
class, a member of the Kappa Chapter of Psi 
Upsilon, and captain of the college base-ball 
nine. He read law in the office of Joseph Nick- 
erson, Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 
1879, when he established himself in Boston, 
where he has since remained engaged in gen- 
eral practice. In politics Mr. Sanford is Repub- 
lican, and early in his career became active in the 
party organization. He entered public life as a 



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member of the Boston Common Council of 1886. 
The next year he was elected to the lower house 
of the Legislature (session of 1888), where he 




ALPHEUS SANFORD. 

served as house chairman of the committee on 
election laws. Returned for the session of 1890, 
he served that term on the committee on the 
judiciary, and ranked with the leaders on the 
Republican side of the House. He was first 
elected to the Boston Board of Aldermen for the 
municipal year of 1893 ; and, returned in 1894, 
was then elected chairman of the board. He 
was secretary of the Republican ward and city 
committee of Boston from 1889 to 1892 ; was 
in 1 89 1 a member of the executive committee 
of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, and 
in 1892 secretary of that organization. He is 
a member also of the Mercantile Library Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Sanford was married September 20, 
1883, in Acushnet, to Miss Mary C. V. Gardiner, 
daughter of William H. and Charlotte (Read) Gar- 
diner. 'I'hey have two children: Gardiner (born 
October 27, 1888) and Hazel Sanford (^born 
August 18, 1892). 



Boston, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
New Durham, May 9, 183 1, son of Isaac B. and 
Mary (Garlandj Shaw. His early training was 
in the country school during the winter months, 
and in the open seasons on the farm or in assist- 
ing his father, who was a builder. Subsequently 
he spent three terms at the Wolfeborough Acad- 
emy, on the shore of Lake Winnepesaukee, 
graduating in 1849. The winter following he 
taught two district schools in the neighborhood 
of his home. .At the age of twenty he came to 
Boston to follow his trade of a carpenter and 
builder. Here he early became noted for origi- 
nality and advanced ideas in mechanical con- 
struction, and built up a substantial business. In 
1865 he formed a partnership with John W. 
Morrison, under the firm name of Shaw & Mor- 
rison, which during an existence of many years 
ranked with the leading carpenters and builders 
of the city. For twenty years Captain Shaw was 
also an active and efficient member of the Boston 
Fire Department, joining it in 1852, under Chief 
William Barnicoat. He rose rapidly in rank 
through the various grades to foreman, and in 




LEVI W. SHAW. 



1871 was elected by the city council an assist- 

SHAW, Captain Levi Woodkurv, of the De- ant engineer under Chief John S. Damrell, which 

partment for the Inspection of Buildings, city of position he held until the department was placed 



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under the board of fire commissioners fin Octo- 
ber, 1873), and reorganized. Then, declining the 
position of district chief engineer offered liiiii by 
the new commissioners, he withdrew from the 
service. In the " (Jreat Fire" of 1872 he was 
one of thief I )anirell's most trusted lieutenants. 
He has been connected with the Department for 
the Inspection of Buildings since January, 1878, 
when, at the solicitation of his former chief, who 
had been placed at the head of the department, 
he accepted the position of assistant inspector. 
In 1886 he was promoted to the charge of the 
sub-department known as the " egress depart- 
ment," as " supervisor of egress, " which is 
charged with the inspection of apartment houses, 
hotels, theatres, manufactories, and other build- 
ings, in which numbers of persons are congre- 
gated, and the enforcement of the laws and 
regulations for the protection of life. Captain 
Shaw is prominent in the order of Odd Fellows, 
is a Knight of Honor, past grand warden of the 
New England Order of Protection, of which he 
was one of the founders, and prominent in other 
orders. He was married in Boston, March 12, 
1853, to Miss Margarette T. Keating. They 
have had three daughters, all of whom have won 
distinction in their special fields of professional 
work : the eldest, Mary Shaw, is the talented 
actress ; the second, Helen A., is a popular writer 
of prose and poetry in leading journals: and the 
third, Margarette Evelyn (now Mrs. Ingersoll), is 
also a frequent contributor to the magazines and 
newspapers of the day. 



SHEDD, William Elliot, of Boston, leather 
merchant, was born in Bridgewater, .\pril 12, 
1850, son of Joel and Eliza (Edson) Shedd. He 
is a descendant of the historical family of Edsons, 
of Bridgew-ater. His education was acquired in 
public schools in Bridgewater and Boston, and 
in private schools in Brockton and Waltham. 
His training for active life was begun in the ma- 
chine shop of his brother, George F. Shedd, in 
Waltham, which he entered at seventeen years 
of age. After one year of practical work here he 
went into the office of another brother, J. Herbert 
Shedd, civil engineer, Boston, where he was em- 
ployed another year. Then his connection with 
the leather business began as a clerk with Field, 
Converse, & Co., Boston. A year later he be- 
came a salesman and book-keeper for Otis 



Doyle iS; Co., Boston, with whom he remained 
for three or four years. For the next two years 
he was in charge of the finished leather depart- 



^W^ 




WM. E. SHEDD. 

ment of the Boston house of Coon, Crocker, 
& Co. ; and thereafter was with the house of 
Dewson, Williams, & Co. till 1888, when he 
established the present successful house of Shedd 
& Crane, commission merchants in sole and upper 
leather. For twenty-one years he was a justice 
of the peace. He has been long connected with 
the Masonic order, and is now a member of 
Monitor Lodge, Waltham. He is an active mem- 
ber of the Piety Corner Club of Waltham, and 
also a member of the New England Shoe and 
Leather Association of Boston. Mr. Shedd was 
married in January, 1875, to Miss Ellen A. Fiske, 
of Waltham. They have two sons : Irving Elliot 
and William Chester Shedd. 



SHELDON, Joseph Henry, of Haverhill, real 
estate interests, is a native of Haverhill, born 
February 12, 1843, son of Samuel and Emily B. 
(Sleeper) Sheldon. He descends in the direct 
line from Isaac Sheldon, one of three brothers, 
who came from England to this country about 
1630. One of his ancestors was General Israel 



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Putnam who led at I'unker Hill, and his maternal 
ffreat-grandfather was a lieutenant in the Revolu- 
tion. His father was born in Danvers in 1S19, 
and his mother in Alton, N.H., in 1818. He 
was educated in the common schools of Haver- 
hill, and was early at work, being but twelve years 
of age when his father died and the care of the 
family fell largely upon him, with the advice and 
assistance of his admirable mother. His first 
employment was in a shoe manufactory in Haver- 
hill, where he remained a short time. Then he 
became a clerk in a dry-goods store, and in 1857 
a clerk in the rcad\-made clothing business, in 




JOSEPH H. SHELDON. 

which he continued for thirteen years. In 187 1 
he began business in the same line on his own 
account, and prospered. In 1890 he retired, and 
engaged in real estate operations and the manage- 
ment of estates. He was a member of the Board 
of Aldermen in 1882 and 1883, and subsequently 
chairman of the first board of registration, resign- 
ing the latter position before his term was com- 
pleted, to accept the office of mayor of the city, 
to which he was elected for 1885. He was re- 
elected to the mayoralty in 1887. His first year 
as mayor was marked by the construction of 
sewers and the inauguration of permanent street 
and road improvements ; and the most note- 



worthy achievements of his second term were the 
laying out of Washington Square Park, and fol- 
low^ing up the same line of work as in 1885. 
In 1893 he was elected a member of the board 
of Overseers of the Poor, which position he still 
retains. On the occasion of the celebration of 
the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of 
Haverhill as a town, in 1893, he served as secre- 
tary of the reception committee. In State and 
national politics Mr. Sheldon is a Democrat ; and, 
in religious faith, a Universalist : he attends the 
First Universalist Church of Haverhill, and is 
chairman of the parish committee. He is con- 
nected with the Free Masons, the Odd Fellows, 
the order of Red Men, and has passed through 
the official chairs of the latter, and also of the 
encampment of the order of Odd P"eIlows. He 
is a trustee of Odd Fellows' Hall Association. 
He was an original member of the Mayors' Club 
of Massachusetts, and was a member of its first 
executive committee in association with ex-Gov- 
ernor Russell and ex-Mayor Rotch, of New Bed- 
ford. He was married December 27, 1866, in 
Haverhill, to Miss Emily E. Jaques, daughter 
of Addison B. Jaques, late treasurer of the 
Haverhill Savings Bank. 



SHERMAN, William Frederick, of Law- 
rence, agent of the Atlantic Cotton Mills, is a 
native of Rhode Island, born in Hopkinton, May 
28, 1S48, son of William A. and Mary Collins 
(Kenyon) Sherman. He received a thorough 
common-school education in district schools, the 
Union High School of Central Falls, R.I., and 
the Lonsdale High of Lonsdale, R.I., finishing 
with a special private technical course under Pro- 
fessor Joseph M. Ross, a graduate of Amherst Col- 
lege. His first work was as a clerk in a country 
savings-bank before he had finished his school- 
ing. The long summer vacations were afterward 
devoted to work of various sorts, — in jewelry 
shops, on a farm, in machine-shops, assisting 
surveyors. At the age of seventeen he taught 
a large country school for four months. At 
eighteen he practised surveying while attending 
school, and at all favorable opportunities ob- 
tained practical information on mill problems and 
work, from his father, who was a '•mill man." 
At nineteen he entered the employ of the Lons- 
dale Company, Lonsdale, R.I., engaging to do 
their draughting and surveying and to learn the 



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259 



cotton manufacturing business. He was with 
this company for nearly four years. From Janu- 
ary to August, 187 1, he was making (h'awings 




W. F. SHERMAN. 

for the Granite Mills of Fall River. Then he 
established himself in Fall River, opening an 
office for mill engineering and civil engineering, 
and soon had a very large practice within and 
without the city. From 1875 to 1887 he was in 
the employ of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual 
Fire Insurance Company, as an expert engineer, 
making descriptions and valuations of manufact- 
uring property; and in 1887 he came to Law- 
rence as agent of the widely known Atlantic 
Cotton Mills, which position lie has since held. 
He is a member of the Lawrence Board of Trade, 
president of the organization in 1890. Mr. 
Sherman is not a club man, nor a member of 
anv of the secret fraternal organizations ; and he 
has neither held nor sought public place. He is 
in politics a Republican. He was married May 
8, 1872, to Miss Martha Gertrude Greene, of 
Rhode Island. They have three children : Alice 
L., Charles G., and Harold F. Sherman. 



1851, son of Perez and Adeline (Jones) Simmons. 
He is a lineal descendant of Moses Simmons 
(originally spelled Moyses Symonzon), who came 
to Duxbury in the first ship to arrive after the 
" Mayflower " from Leyden, and, through his pater- 
nal grandmother, of Colonel Benjamin Church 
who captured King Philip ; and on the maternal 
side his descent is from John Jones and Sarah 
(Lapham) Jones, of Welsh stock. His father, 
Perez Simmons, was for thirty years a prominent 
lawyer in Plymouth County; one of the leaders 
of the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island ; a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Legislature, first in the 
House and afterwards in the Senate, where he 
served on the committee on revision of the stat- 
utes, of whose work the General Statutes of i860 
was the result ; and a member of the State Consti- 
tutional Convention of 1853. John F. Simmons 
was educated in the public schools, in the Assi- 
nippi Institute, Phillips (Exeter) Academy, and 
Harvard College, from which he graduated in the 
class of 1873. He was class orator, and president 
of his society in college. He studied law in the 
Harvard Law School until February, 1875, when he 




JOHN F. SIMMONS. 



was admitted to the bar before Judge Aldrich. He 

SIMMONS, John Franklix, member of the began practice in Abington, in association with 

Plymouth bar, was born in Hanover, June 26, the late Judge J. E. Keith, under the firm name of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Keith & Simmons. 'I'liis relation continued until 
1885, when the firm was dissolved ; and he became 
a partner of Harvey H. Pratt, under the name of 
Simmons & Pratt. In 1890 the firm established 
its Boston office, and has since practised in that 
city. One of his most notable cases was the 
McNulty will case, which took him to Europe in 
1888. He was receiver of the Abington National 
Bank (appointed in August. 1886), and closed up 
his work in six months, the quickest settlement 
on record, it is the only case in which a national 
bank went on, after being in receivers' hands, 
with the same charter and number. He is now 
a director of this bank. For eight years he was 
president of the South Scituate Savings Bank. 
He was a prominent candidate for the Superior 
Court judgeship wlien Judge Corcoran was ap- 
pointed in 1893, having, it is said, as strong a 
petition as was ever presented. While a resident 
of Hanover, he was a member of the School Com- 
mittee for fifteen years. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. He is a Knight Templar of the Old Colony 
Commandery, Abington ; and is a member of the 
Old Colony Club of Plymouth. Mr. Simmons 
was married January 10, 1S77, to Miss Fanny 
Florence Allen (a descendant of Tristram Coflin, 
who came from England to Nantucket, and of 
the family to which Benjamin Franklin's mother 
belonged, of Professor Maria Mitchell's family, 
and of the Folgers and Coffins of Nantucket). 
They have three children : Henry Franklin, Mary 
Folger, and Perez Simmons. 



SIMPSON, James Rae, of Lawrence, merchant, 
was born in Stanstead, Canada, January 4, 1832, 
son of Donald and Helen (Rae) Simpson. His 
early years were spent on a farm, the winter 
months at school, which was several miles distant 
from his home, and reached not infrequently by a 
hard trudge over unbroken roads. His education 
was finished at the Stanstead Academy, from 
which he graduated at the age of fifteen. After 
teaching a country school for four winters, he 
came to the United States in pursuit of em- 
ployment. He was some time employed in a 
furniture store in Boston, next worked awhile in 
a Lowell mill, for a longer period in the print 
works at Manchester, N.H., where he became an 
overseer, and in the spring of 1853 came to Law- 
rence, which has since been his home. Here, 
after working a few seasons in the Pacific and the 



Atlantic mills, he entered the grocery business in 
the employ of Shattuck Brothers, and in 1858 
engaged in this branch of trade with Alfred A. 
Lamprey, under the firm name of A. A. Lamprey 
& Co., which continued for twenty years. Then 
he purchased his partner's interest; and he has 
since conducted the business alone, of late years 
with his son, a graduate of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, as assistant. His profits 
were early invested in real estate, and he now 
owns much valuable property in the city. He 
was one of the promoters of the Merchants' Na- 
tional Bank building and of the building erected 




JAMES R. SIMPSON. 

for the United Order of Pilgrim Fathers, two fine 
structures on the main business street of Law- 
rence. He is president and director of the Mer- 
chants' National Bank, an active member of the 
Lawrence Board of Trade, and president of the 
Pilgrim Fathers' Hall Association. He was a 
member of the Lawrence Common Council in 
1863, and mayor of the city in 1878-79-80-85, 
the only person who has held the office for four 
terms. At the close of his fourth term he de- 
clined a renomination, and retired with an ad- 
mirable record and undiminished popularity. He 
is identified with many societies of a social and 
benevolent nature ; is a past master of the Gre- 



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cian Lodge of Masons, and has been its treasurer 
since 1867 ; a member of the Mt. Sinai Royal 
Arch Chapter, member of Bethany C'ommand- 
ery, Knights Templar ; and member of the Home 
Club. Mr. Simpson was married April, 1859, 
to Miss Julia H. Coan, of Exeter, Me. They 
have two children now living : Nellie M. and 
James E. Simpson. 



SMITH, (William) Dexter, (Jr.), of Boston, 
journalist, writer of popular lyrics, and playwright, 
is a native of Salem, born November 14, 1839, 
son of William D. and Lucy Ann (White) Smith. 
He is of Scotch-English ancestry. At the time of 
his birth his father was an inn-keeper and farmer. 
His education was acquired at the Epes Gram- 
mar and the English High Schools of Salem ; and 
at the age of twenty he came to Boston, where 
he attended Comer's Commercial College, receiv- 
ing at the close of his course a book-keeper's 
diploma. For a year or two he was book-keeper 
in the store of his father, then established at 
No. 18 Faneuil Hall Square, under the firm name 
of William D. Smith & Co., at the same time 
teaching evenings in the Pitts Street free evening 
school ; and in i860 he entered the service of 
the United States as clerk in the Boston post- 
office (1860-64), still continuing his work at 
the evening school, which covered four years 
(1859-63). At about this time he began con- 
tributing to local periodicals, among them Glca- 
soh's ricforial, the Saturday Evening Gazette, and 
the Evening Transcript, furnishing both prose 
and poetry ; and also to write songs. His first 
song, " She is \\'aiting for Us There," was pub- 
lished by Russell & Patee in 1862, while he was 
connected with the post-office ; and it was immedi- 
ately added to the repertory of " Buckley's Sere- 
naders," who sang it thousands of times. Next 
came " Follow the Drum " (1863) and other 
stirring war-songs, — " Hurrah for the Old Flag," 
" Stand by the Banner of Columbia," " Union and 
Liberty," and many others, which at once became 
popular in the army, on the march, and by the 
camp-hre. With the close of the war appeared 
"Columbia is Free" (1865), originally sung at the 
Boston Museum by T. ISL Hunter, and " Our 
Victorious Banner." Then followed numerous 
ballads, several of which became household words. 
Among these " Ring the Bell Softly, there's 
Crape on the Door" (1866: set by E. N. Catlin\ 



" Cross and Crown " (also 1866), sung at scores 
of funeral services by Joseph L. White, the famil- 
iar cradle song, " Put me in my Little Bed " 
(1870), so well known by the children a genera- 
tion ago, "Singing Baby to Sleep," " Where the 
Little Feet are Waiting," and " Darling Minnie 
Lee," have enjoyed the widest popularity, reach- 
ing sales of thousands of copies. His " Ring the 
Bell Softly, there's Crape on the Door," was 
recited at the memorial services in commemora- 
tion of the late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens in Con- 
gress, December 17, 1868, by Congressman 
Ashley. These and other songs appeared in 




DEXTER SMITH. 

rapid succession ; and in a comparatively few 
years the number of Mr. Smith's lyrics had 
reached five hundred, the list of titles alone 
filling twelve pages of the catalogue of the 
library of the British Museum. Several of them 
have been reproduced in England, and " Ring 
the Bell Softly " has been translated into foreign 
languages. His success in this field is due to 
his faculty of reaching the heart of the general 
public. " His songs have won their way," 
W. S. B. Mathews, the eminent critic and musi- 
cal writer, has said, " because they possess the 
qualities of simplicity and graceful sentiment, 
which appeal strongly to the average .\merican." 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Many of Mr. Smith's lyrics have found their way 
to England, and have been set to music and pub- 
lished in that country. Among his song-poems 
thus complimented have been : " Do not \\ound 
the Heart that Loves Thee," and "Baby's gone to 
Sleep'" (set by Sir Julius Benedict, and published 
in London); "Our Victorious Banner"' (set by 
Sir Robert Prescott Stewart, of Dublin): "On 
Rosy \\'ings the Summer comes '" (set by Franz 
Abt, of Germany, composer of " When the Swal- 
lows Homeward fly"); "Tell me not that I'll 
Forget thee" (set by Carl Rosa, London); and 
others. In 1865 Mr. Smith became clerk in the 
music store of G. 1 ). Russell & Co., then at 
No. 126 Tremont Street, and soon after took up 
the work of editor of musical publications, his 
first editorial duties being in connection with 
The Orpheus (1867). Since that time he has 
been continuously engaged as editor and in other 
departments of journalism. Among these periodi- 
cals have been The Folio (1869-71), Dexter 
Smith's Paper (1872-77), and The Musical Record 
(1878-1894) ; and his editorial services have been 
employed, largely as musical and dramatic critic, 
on The Commonwealth, The Beacon, and other 
Boston journals during long periods. He has 
also served as correspondent of the London Or- 
chestra, and of numerous musical journals in this 
country. His first dramatic work was upon a 
version of " Cinderella," which was brought out 
at the Continental Theatre, Boston (1866). Later 
he wrote upon " Revels " (produced by Willie 
Edouin); then " Zanita," produced at the Boston 
Theatre (1884), where it had a long run, and was 
subsequently brought out Ln the other large cities 
of the country. He has also made a successful 
libretto for " Uncle Tom's Cabin," which has 
been performed in various New England cities, 
as well as adaptations of " Boccaccio," first pro- 
duced by the Boston Ideal Opera Company at the 
Boston Theatre (1880), "The Musketeers," and 
others. He has written numerous odes for no- 
table occasions, — the Dedication Ode sung at the 
opening of Selwyn's Theatre, Boston (1867), the 
Dedication Ode sung at the opening of the Cen- 
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia (1876), that 
sung at the unveiling of the Army and Navy 
Monument, Boston Common (1877), and the ode 
for the centennial celebration of the Stoughton 
Musical Society (1886), the oldest musical society 
in the country : and he has published several 
books, among them " De.xter Smith's Poems " 



(Boston: G. D. Russell & Co., 1868), "Blanks 
and Prizes," comedietta (Boston: Spencer & Co., 
1869). and "Cyclopaedia of Boston" (Boston: 
Cashin & Smith, 1886). He has in preparation 
a small vohnne of graceful sonnets of late years 
contributed by him to the periodical press, mostly 
to the columns of the Boston Transcript and Jour- 
nal. Mr. Smith was a member of the musical 
committee of the World's Peace Jubilee, Boston ; 
serv^ed on the committee on Poor Children's E.\- 
cursions 1875-82 ; and has taken part in other 
popular movements. He has been identified with 
Boston since he moved here from Salem, his fre- 
quent trips abroad only increasing his fondness 
for the former city, adding largely also to his 
original patriotic and genuine Americanism of 
thought and feeling. He has been connected with 
the Masonic order since 1873, a member of the 
Revere Lodge, Boston. In politics he was a 
Republican in early life, latterly becoming an 
Independent. He has never held public or other 
office, always declining to serve in such stations, 
which have no attraction for him. He is un- 
married. 



SOULE, RuFUS Albertson, of New Bedford, 
manufacturer, was born in Mattapoisett, Plymouth 
County, March 16, 1839, son of Thomas Howard 
and Margaret Albertson (Dunham) Soule. He is 
a direct descendant of George Soule, who came 
over in the "Mayflower," and, through his mother, 
of the -Albertsons and Dunhams, who were among 
the earliest families in Plymouth. His maternal 
great-grandfather, George Dunham, was an officer 
in the Revolutionary War, and his grandfather, 
George Dunham, an officer in the War of 181 2. 
Thomas Howard, for whom his father was named, 
was the originator of the Howard family in this 
country, and came over in 1634. Rufus .■\. Soule 
received a good education in the public schools in 
New Bedford, and an excellent training for busi- 
ness life. He began upon leaving school as a 
clerk in a boot and shoe store, and for eight years 
he was a salesman with the LTnion Boot and Shoe 
Company of New Bedford. When the Civil War 
broke out, he enlisted in Company E, Third Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts "Volunteers, and contributed 
his share to a remarkable family war record, — 
each of his three brothers also serving in the war, 
one in the cavalry, one in the artillery, and one in 
the navy. All passed through unscathed save 



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263 



one, — Henry Warren Soule, who was killed in 
action at Gettysburg. In October. 1865, Mr. 
Soule entered business on his own account, form- 
ing a copartnership with Savory C. Hathaway for 
the manufacture of shoes, Mr. Hathaway having 
started the business about two months earlier, 
under the style of S. C. Hathaway & Co. At the 




RUFUS A. SOULE. 

beginning the business was small, emplo\ing but 
tive or si.\ hands. In 1866 the style of the firm 
became Hathaway & Soule, and it so continued 
till 1876, when Herbert A. Harrington, of Boston, 
was admitted, and it was changed to Hathaw-ay, 
Soule, & Harrington. In June, 1890, the firm 
became a stock company, under the title of Hatha- 
way, Soule, & Harrington Incorporated, with Mr. 
Hathaway as president, Mr. Soule vice-president, 
and Mr. Harrington treasurer, and the three con- 
stituting the board of directors. The business 
has gradually grown until for the year ending 
June I, 1893, the sales of the corporation had 
reached nearly a million and a half. Its factories 
are now in New Bedford and Middleborough, the 
main office in Boston, and salesroom also in New 
York ; and it is interested in retail stores in New- 
York City, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, and in 
several New England cities, — Boston, Springfield, 
New London, Conn., and Bridgeport, Conn. In 



addition to this extensive business Mr. Soule is 
interested in the City and the Bristol manufactur- 
ing corporations (a director of each), is vice-presi- 
dent of the New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust 
Company, president of the Acushnet Co-operative 
Bank, director of the New Bedford Co-operative 
Bank, president of the New Bedford Board of 
Trade. He has served in the New Itedford city 
government, member of the Common Council in 
1869-70-71-74-75, and president of the body in 
1874; was a member for New Bedford in the 
Legislature of 1878 and 1879, serving both terms 
on the committee on railroads ; and is now chair- 
man of the Board of License Commissioners 
of New Bedford, appointed for the term of si.x 
years from the first Monday in June, 1894. Upon 
his appointment to the latter office the New Bed- 
ford Mercury remarked that he is of " the right 
stamp of man to hold public office. . . . He is 
honest and courageous, devoted to what he be- 
lieves to be right, and fearless in his words and 
acts." He is a member of the Loyal Legion ; 
is past commander of the R. A. Peirce Post, 
190, Grand Army of the Republic (a delegate 
from the Massachusetts Encampment to the Na- 
tional Encampment in Pittsburg, Penn., Septem- 
ber, 1894); member of the Sutton Commandery, 
Knights Templar, the Adoniram Royal Arch 
Chapter, and Star in the East Lodge of Masons 
of the Wamsutta and Dartmouth clubs of New- 
Bedford, and the Saturday Night Club of Hyannis. 
Mr. Soule was married August 28, i860, to Miss 
Susan Nesmith, of Bucksport, Me. They have 
had three children: Margaret Howard (now- wife 
of Dr. Garry de N. Hough), Lois M. (wife of 
Alexander T. Smith), and Rufus A. Soule, Jr. 



STETSON, George Ripley, of New Bedford, 
president of the New Bedford Gas and Edison 
Light Company, is a native of Connecticut, born 
in Brooklyn, Windham County, May n, 1837, son 
of James A. and Dolly (Witter) Stetson. On his 
father's side he is descended from Robert Stetson, 
who was commissioned as cornet in 1658 or 1659 
of the first Horse Company raised in Plymouth 
Colony; and on his mother's side the famil\- 
descent is from the first settlers in the north- 
eastern part of Connecticut, and commissions from 
George III. to his grandfathers Witter are now- 
among the family possessions. The present home- 
stead of the family has been in their possession 



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MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



from aljout the time of the original grants of land 
by the English government. His father moved 
from Brooklyn, Conn., to Northampton, Mass., in 
1843, and, returning to Brooklyn in 1847, occu- 
pied the homestead farm, where, between farm 
work and school, the boy's time was spent till his 
eighteenth year. His education was attained in the 
common schools and in an academy at Hampton, 
Conn. He began work for his trade as a ma- 
chinist on the first of January, 1856, under Hiram 
Wells at Florence, Mass., and completed his 




GEO. R. STETSON. 

apprenticeship at the works of the American 
Machine Company in Springfield, in February, 
1859. The spring of 1861 found him at work 
as a journeyman mechanic in Wallingford, Conn., 
having been thrown out of employment as a ma- 
chinist by the general depression that preceded 
the Civil War. Subsequently lie returned to 
Northampton, and during the war carried through 
contracts in gun-work there, and also in New 
Haven and in Trenton, N.J. In the autumn of 
1863 he entered the employment of O. F. Win- 
chester, of the \\'inchester Arms Company, where 
he remained ten years approximately, including 
a trip to Brazil in 1868 during the war with Para- 
guay, at which time he was in charge of arms and 
ammunition consigned to the Brazilian govern- 



ment. I'hese arms were probably the first consid- 
erable number of breech-loading guns introduced 
into South America. For most of the time spent 
with the Winchester Arms Company he had 
charge of the ammunition department. This was 
a comparatively new industry, and during his con- 
nection with it new machines and processes were 
frequently developed. Many of the methods in 
present use were of his invention. In May, 1873, 
Mr. Stetson came to New Bedford, and assumed 
mechanical charge of the Morse Twist Drill and 
Machine Company, with which he continued as 
superintendent till July, 1890. During this time 
the industry grew from one of comparatively small 
consequence to one of the largest in its line of 
manufacture. On the last-mentioned date he re- 
signed, to take his present ofhce of president and 
general manager of the New Bedford Gas and 
Edison Light Company. In addition to the duties 
of this office he is president of the New Bedford 
Co-operative Bank, president of the Union Boot 
and Shoe Association, and director of the Board 
of Trade. He served as alderman during the 
administration of the Hon. Abram Howland as 
mayor in 1875 ^^'^ 1876 ; and was a member of 
the Water Board for five years, declining a re-elec- 
tion at the close of the second term. He is a 
member of the several Masonic orders, and served 
as treasurer of the Royal Arch Chapter for a term 
of years. He was also president of the Republi- 
can Club of New Bedford during the Harrison 
campaign of 1888. Mr. Stetson married in No- 
\ember, 1859, Miss Ellen M. Stall, of Hadley. 
They have had seven children, five of whom are 
now living : George A., Ellen M., May E., James 
A., and Jane ^^'. Stetson. 



STEVENS. Ch.^rles Godfrey, of Clinton, 
member of the bar and ex-judge of the district 
court, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Claremont, September 16, 182 1, son of Godfrey 
and Hannah (Pool) Stevens. His father was 
also a native of Claremont, born there September 
10, 1796, and died there September 18, 1842, a 
merchant and manufacturer, member of the New 
Hampshire Legislature, moderator of town meet- 
ings for many years, and a delegate to the con- 
vention at Harrisburg, Penn., which nominated 
A\'illiam Henry Harrison for president. His 
mother was a daughter of Captain William W. 
Poole, of Hollis, N.H., a farmer, trader, and 



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265 



manufaLiuiLT. He attended a preparatory school 
and Kimball Union Academy, Merulen, N.H. ; 
and graduated from Dartmouth College 



in 



the 




(.'linton. The onl\- society to which he belongs 
is that of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
He was married .September 29, US46, to Miss 
Laura A. Russell, daughter of F.li and Hepzibeth 
(Floyd) Russell, a descendant on her father's side 
of James Russell (born 17 10, died 1784), origi- 
nally of Wellington, Conn., later of Walpole, N.H.; 
and on her mother's side of Benjamin Floyd, 
born in Boston in 1738, and died in Walpole, 
N.H., in 1812. Their children living are: Edward 
Godfrev and Ellen Kate Stevens. 



STRATTON, Charles Carroll, of Fitchburg, 
of the Sentinel Printing Company, is a native of 
\'ermont, born in the town of Fairlee, August 22, 
1829, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sturtevant) 
Stratton. His father was a farmer, and a leading 
citizen of the town, representing it in the Legisla- 
ture and holding various positions of trust. He 
was educated in the district school and at the 
Thetford Academy. At the age wf-seventeen he 
left home to learn the printer's trade. After 
serving his apprenticeship in the office of the 



CHAS. G. STEVENS 

class of 1840. He read law with ITpham lS: 
Snow, Claremont, N.H., and was admitted to the 
bar in 1843, ^^ Claremont. In 1845 he moved to 
Massachusetts, and began practice in Clinton. In 
1853 he was a member of the Massachusetts 
Constitutional Convention ; in 1862 a member of 
the State Senate ; and in 1862-63 a draft com- 
missioner for Worcester County by appointment 
of Governor Andrew. He was appointed judge 
of the Second Eastern Worcester District Court 
in 1874, and held this position till 1882. Judge 
Stevens has also been long identified with banking 
interests in Clinton. He assisted in organizing 
the Clinton Savings Bank, in 185 1, and has been 
for many years solicitor and secretary and trustee 
of the institution. He was also one of the or- 
ganizers of the First National Bank in 1864, and 
has been its president from its establishment ; 
and he has been a director of the Merchants' and 
Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 
1876. In politics he was a Daniel Webster 
Whig, and afterward became a Republican ; and 
in religious faith he is an Episcopalian, senior 
warden of the Church of the Good Shepherd, in 




C. C. STRATTON. 



Democratic Republican at Haverhill, N.H., he 
went to Newbury, Vt., wliere he worked some 
time at his trade in the office of the Aurora of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Valley. Subsequently he went to Boston, and 
worked several months there in the old Franklin 
Printing-office, and thence to New York, where he 
was employed in the Methodist Book Concern. 
Then in September, 1854, he came to Fitchburg, 
and entered the printing-office of the Sentinel, at 
that time a small weekly paper, with which he 
has been connected ever since, with the e.xception 
of a few months when he was serving in the 
Civil War, attached to the Second Massachusetts 
Cavalry, and in the Christian Commission at City 
Point, Va. In March, 1867, he purchased a half- 
interest in the establishment, and si.x years later, 
entering into partnership with John E. Kellogg, 
began the publication of the Daily Sentinel, the 
first number bearing date of May 6, 1873. The 
venture proved a success, and the business of the 
partners steadily increased and expanded. In 
1 88 1 the daily and the weekly were both en- 
larged ; another increase in the size of the sheets 
was made in 1885, a third in 1886, a fourth in 
1890, when the change from the folio to the quarto 
was made, and a fifth in 1892, the Sentinel \\\&n 
becoming an eight-page paper of seven columns 
each, printed on a perfecting press. The Sentinel 
has been an important factor in the development 
of Fitchburg, and devoted to the interests of 
Central Massachusetts. Mr. Stratton is a mem- 
ber of the order of Odd Fellows and of the 
Knights of Honor, and belongs to the Fitchburg 
Board of Trade and the Fitchburg Historical 
Society. In politics he is Republican. He was 
married June 11, 1873, to Miss Maria S. Putnam, 
daughter of John and Sophronia C. Putnam, of 
Fitchburg. 'I'hey have one child: Louise S. 
Stratton. 



Ebenezer Webster, and established a grocery busi- 
ness of his own, which flourished for several years. 
After the dissolution of this partnership he en- 



TAYLOR, Oliver, of Haverhill, merchant, 
mayor of the city 1893-94, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in the town of Atkinson, in 
1827, son of Oliver and Lettice (Page) Taylor. 
His education was acquired in the public schools 
and at the Atkinson Academy. He began active 
life as a farmer, which occupation he pursued till 
the year 1852, when he moved to Haverhill to 
engage in business. Selecting the grocery trade, 
he entered the store of Currier & Taylor as a 
clerk, with the intention thoroughly to learn its 
details. After spending some time here, and a 
longer period in a similar capacity in the store 
of John Davis, he entered into partnership with 




OLIVER TAYLOR. 

tered the clothing trade, in partnership with his 
brother, Levi Taylor (mayor of Haverhill in 1872, 
re-elected 1873, but declined on account of ill- 
health), under the firm name of Le\-i & Oliver 
Taylor. Subsequently Martin Taylor was ad- 
mitted to the partnership, and the unique style 
of "The Three Taylors," by which the firm 
has since been known, was then adopted. The 
establishment was rapidly developed, and it is 
now one of the largest houses in its line of busi- 
ness in Essex County. In 1878 Mr. Taylor also 
became a member of the firm of Taylor, Goodv^'in, 
& Co., now the largest coal and lumber dealers 
in Haverhill. Besides these interests he is con- 
cerned in the Amesbury Carriage Company, of 
which he is a director, in the Merrimac Valley 
Steamboat Company, a director ; he is president 
and director of the Essex National Bank, di- 
rector of the Citizens' Co-operative Bank, and 
of the Pentucket Savings Bank ; and a large 
owner of Haverhill real estate. For a long period 
he has been prominent in town affairs. He has 
been a member of the local Board of Overseers 
of the Poor for upwards of thirty years; was an 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



267 



alderman in 1S73 ; was first elected mayor for 
1893, nominated in mass caucus, by a good 
majority after a sharp contest, and was returned 
for 1894 by a majority of 1,205. In 1876 and 1877 
he represented his district in the lower house of 
the Legislature, serving the first term as chairman 
of the State House committee, and as a member 
of important committees during his second term. 
Mr. Taylor was married November 12, 1857, to 
Miss Mary E. Fellows, daughter of Samuel Fel- 
lows, of Haverhill. They have one daughter : 
Edith Taylor. 

TRL^ELL, BvRON, of Lawrence, merchant, is 
a native of Vermont, born in St. Johnsbury, No- 
vember 23, 1834, son of George \V. and Fanny 
(Whitcomb) Truell. He received his early educa- 
cation in public schools at Barnston, P.Q., and 
graduated from Stanstead Academy, P.Q., in 
1854. At the age of nineteen he came to Law- 
rence, and entered the dry-goods store of A. \\'. 
Stearns & Co. as merchant's clerk. Here he re- 
mained till 1858, when he formed a partnership 
with George H. Eailev, under the firm name of 



the firm of Byron Truell cS: Co., which still con- 
tinues. His success in business has been 
marked. In 1867 he remodelled and enlarged 
his store, and added the carpet department. 
In 1 88 1 he made an extensive tour in Europe, 
inspecting thoroughly the foreign market, and 
making connections that have proved very lucra- 
tive. In 1883 he again enlarged his quarters 
by taking down the old store and rebuilding in 
the most modern style of business architecture, 
and his present establishment is in e.xtent and 
richness one of the finest in his section of the 
State. He is a director of the Pacific National 
Bank, and president of the Lawrence Board of 
Trade. His public life began in the Lawrence 
city government as member of the Common Coun- 
cil of 1865. In 1875 and 1876 he represented his 
city in the lower house of the Legislature, where 
he served on the important committees on labor 
statistics (chairman) and on mercantile affairs. 
In 1877 and 1878 he was a State senator, serving 
both terms as chairman of the joint committee on 
prisons, and in 1878 as chairman of the committee 
on mercantile affairs. In 1888 he was alternate 
delegate to the National Republican Convention 
at Chicago. In 1890 and 1891 he was a member 
of the E.x'ecutive Council, elected from the Sixth 
Councillor District. He is prominently connected 
with the Masonic order, a member of the Grecian 
Lodge, Lawrence, of Mount Sinai Royal Arch 
Chapter, and of Bethany Commandery of Knights 
Templar ; and he also belongs to the Royal Ar- 
canum. The only club with which he is con- 
nected is the Home Club of Lawrence. Mr. 
Truell was married September 5, 1859, to Miss 
Mary E. Armstrong, daughter of William H. and 
Marv (Hannaford) .\rmstrong, of Lawrence. 
They have two daughters : (iertrude E. (now Mrs. 
Albert E. Butler) and Grace L. (now Mrs. George 
H. Eaton). 



VOSE, James Whitini;, of Boston, founder and 
president of the Vose & Sons Pianoforte Com- 
pany, is a native of Milton, suburb of Boston, 
the birthplace and working-place of Benjamin 
Crehore, the builder of the first American piano, 
in 1798. He was born October 21, 1818, son of 
Whiting and Mary (Gooch) Vose. His ancestors 
came from England, and settled originally in 
Bailey & Truell, and engaged in the same business Milton. He was educated in the public schools 
on his own account. In 1863 the connection and the Milton Academy, from which he gradu- 
with Mr. Bailey was dissolved; and he established ated with honors in the spring of 1834. Immedi- 



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*-t^ 




BYRON TRUELL. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ately after leaving school, on the yth of April, he 
was apprenticed to learn the cabinet-maker's 
trade. He worked at this trade till the autumn 
of 1839, when on his twenty-first birthday he 
entered a piano factory as a workman. He soon 
acquired skill in various departments, and in 1846 
began making piano and organ keys on his own 
account. In this branch of the manufacture he 
was remarkably successful, and his work was 
sought by the best manufacturers. But his am- 
bition was to make the finished piano ; and in 
185 1 he started in a small way, completing his 
first instrument before the close of that year. In 




JAS. W. VOSE. 

1855, in order to devote his attention exclusively 
to his piano interests, he sold out his key busi- 
ness, and since that time has been engaged wholly 
in the development and manufacture of the Vose 
piano. ' From the first he has followed closely 
every detail of the work, overseeing each process, 
constantly experimenting, carefully studying each 
new principle as it has appeared, and, if satisfied 
of its worth, promptly adopting it. Under his 
conduct the manufacture has grown from an out- 
put of two pianos a week in 1855, from a small 
factory, to an average of eighty per week in 1892, 
from one of the largest establishments of its kind 
in the country, comprising four great buildings, 



on Waltham and A\'ashington Streets at the .South 
End, Boston, two of five stories each, one of 
seven, and one of four stories, with a total floor- 
age of 129,000 square feet, and an aggregate area 
under plant of 138,000 square feet. Mr. Vose 
is a member of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association, of the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery Company, and of the Bostonian 
Society. In politics he is a Republican, a mem- 
ber of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, 
of the Brookline Republican Club, and of the 
Boston Marketmen's Republican Club ; and in 
religion he is a Baptist, connected with the Brook- 
line Baptist Society, and a member of the Baptist 
Social Union. He was married September 16, 
1847, to Miss .\lmira Howe. They have had 
five children : Francis Childs (deceased), Irving 
Bond, Willard Atherton, Julien Wallenstein, and 
Frances Howe Vose. His three sons, Irving, 
Willard, and Julien, are associated with him in 
his piano business, the former first entering the 
factory in 1869, and now in charge of the factory 
warerooms ; Willard, after serving his apprentice- 
ship, becoming general superintendent of the fac- 
tory, and since 1874 the treasurer of the company ; 
and Julien entering the factory in 1882, and be- 
coming superintendent of the works in 1889, the 
year of the incorporation of the company. 



WALLACE, RonNEv, of Fitchburg, manufact- 
urer, was born in New Hampshire, in the town 
of New Ipswich, December 21, 1823, son of 
David and Roxanna (Gowen) Wallace. He is a 
lineal descendant of Benoni Wallis, who lived in 
Lunenberg, Mass., in 1755. He was educated in 
the common schools, and began business life 
at the age of sixteen, driving freight teams be- 
tween Rindge, N.H., and Boston. He continued 
in this occupation till he was twenty years old, 
and for the succeeding ten years had the entire 
charge of selling the then celebrated medicines 
of Dr. Stephen Jewett throughout New England. 
Then in 1853 he came to Fitchburg, and entering 
into partnership with the late Stephen Shepley, 
under the firm name of Shepley & Wallace, en- 
gaged in dealing at wholesale in books and 
stationery, and in paper and cotton waste. This 
was the beginning of a business which grew to 
large proportions, and made the firm one of the 
best known in its trade in New England. In 
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divided, Mr. Wallace taking the cotton waste 
department, which he speedily greatly developed. 
The same year, 1865, with three associates, he 
founded the Fitchburg Paper Company. Four 
years later he became the sole owner of the busi- 
ness, and so remained until 1879, when he ad- 
mitted his sons, Herbert I. and George R. Wal- 
lace, to partnership. Since that time new mills 
have been built, large additions made to the 
original plant, and comfortable dwellings erected 
near by for the operatives. Mr. Wallace has also 
for many years been interested in other corpora- 
tions. Since 1864, with the exception of one 




RODNEY WALLACE. 

year, he has been a director of the Putnam 
Machine Company ; he has been president and 
director of the Fitchburg Gas Company for thirty 
years ; one of the proprietors of the F"itchburg 
Woollen Mills for seventeen years ; and for a long 
period a director of the P'itchburg Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, of the Fitchburg Railroad 
Company, of the Parkhill Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of the Fitchburg National Bank, and a 
trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank. He has 
held numerous public offices, but in each case the 
office has sought the man. In 1S64, 1S65, and 
1867 he was a selectman of his town ; in 1873 he 
represented Pitchburg in the General Court, and, 



although unanimously renominated, declined a re- 
election on account of ill-health; in 1880-81-82 
he was a member of the governor's council ; in 
1884 a delegate to the National Republican 
Convention at Chicago; and in 1889-90 a rep- 
resentative in Congress of his C'ongressional 
district. He has liberally aided numerous under- 
takings for the benefit of the city; and a monu- 
ment to his munificence and public spirit is the 
Wallace Library and Art Building, which was 
erected by him in 1885, at a cost of $84,000, and 
presented to the city of Fitchburg for a free pub- 
lic library, reading-room, and art gallery. Since 
1878 he has been a trustee of Smith College, 
Northampton. Mr. Wallace was married Decem- 
ber I, 1853, to Miss Sophia Ingalls, of Rindge, 
N.H. She died June 20, 1871, leaving two sons : 
Herbert I. and George R. Wallace. He married 
second, December 28, 1S76, Mrs. Sophia P. 
(Billings) Bailey, of Woodstock, Vt. 



WARDWELL, Jacob Otis, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Lowell, born March 14, 
1857, son of Zenas C. and Adriana S. (Pillsbury) 
Wardwell. Whtn he was four years old, his par- 
ents moved to Groveland, and there his boyhood 
was passed. He was educated in the local 
schools, the Georgetown High School, and the 
New London Academy. He studied law in the 
offices of J. P. & B. B. Jones, of Haverhill, and 
Samuel J. Elder, of Boston, and in the Boston 
Plniversity, from which he graduated in the class 
of 1879. That year he was admitted to the Essex 
bar, and, taking up his residence in Haverhill, 
began practice there, forming a partnership with 
Henry N. Merrill, under the firm name of Merrill 
& Wardwell. This relation continued till the first 
of December, 1S91, when Mr. Wardwell withdrew, 
and established his oflice in Boston, where he has 
since practised. His specialty is corporation law. 
He is general counsel for the Edison Electric Illu- 
minating Company of Boston, and other large 
corporations, mostly in the electrical business. 
Early taking an active interest in politics on the 
Republican side, he became prominent among the 
younger leaders of his party soon after his estab- 
lishment in Haverhill. His first service was in 
the Haverhill Common Council, to which he was 
elected in 1882. In 1887 he was elected to the 
lower house of the Legislature, and through re- 
elections served five consecutive terms. In his 



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first year he was conspicuous in committee work 
and prominent in debates : and at tlie beginning 
of his second term lie was recognized as tlie Re- 
publican leader on the Hoor, which position he 
maintained through the remainder of his legisla- 
tive work. He was twice a candidate for speaker 
of the House and in the second contest, one of 
the hardest in the history of the Commonwealth, 
he was defeated by only two votes. Among the 
committees on wliicii he ser\ed during his several 
terms were those on elections (chairman), pro- 
bate and insolvency, mercantile aflfairs (chairman), 
the judiciary, and rules (chairman). He was also 



Knight Templar of Ha\erhill Commandery. Mr. 
Ward well was married on the 25 th of Decem- 
ber, US77, to Miss Ella M. Eaton, of Bristol, Vt. 
Thev have two children : Sheldon E, and Chester 
.Man U'ardwell. 




J. OTIS WARDWELL. 

a member of the special committee to investigate 
charges of corrupt use of money in the passage of 
the bill to incorporate the town of Beverly Farms, 
and chairman of the committee to investigate sim- 
ilar charges as to the bill for granting franchises 
for elevated railroads in Boston. He has been 
a member of the Republican State Committee 
since 1885, and served as secretary of the com- 
mittee in 1889, 1890, and 1891, having formerly 
been assistant secretary for two years. He is 
president of the Essex Club, president of the Pen- 
tucket Club of Haverhill, and member of the 
Wachusett Club ; and he belongs to the Masonic 
order, past master of the Saggahaw Lodge and 



WETHERBEE, Is.\.ac Josiah, D.D.S., presi- 
dent of the Boston Dental College, is a native of 
Vermont, born in South Reading, March 9, 1817, 
son of the Rev. Josiah and Abigail (Jones) W'eth- 
erbee. His father served with distinction in the 
War of 1812. He was a leading clergyman in the 
Free Baptist denomination, and died in his ninety- 
third year, having lived to see the abolition of 
slavery, for which he labored for fifty years. 
When a boy, Isaac J. Wetherbee gave marked evi- 
dence of a genius for mechanical pursuits, in sev- 
eral feats displaying a large intelligence in the 
methods of execution. At the age of fifteen he 
made a verge to a bull's-eye watch from a darning- 
needle with two common files as tools, and re- 
ceived a dollar and fifty cents for the job. Then 
he constructed a cylinder escapement for a Lepine 
watch without the aid of a watchmaker's lathe, for 
which he was paid four dollars. He was also suc- 
cessful in making pistols, and in altering over old 
riint-locks into percussion-locks. He obtained a 
fair education in the country schools, and, arriving 
at manhood, studied for the ministry under his 
father. He was set apart by ordination to the 
gospel ministry at North Hampton, N.H., June 2, 
1841, and at once began preaching. He held 
pastorates first at North Hampton, N.H., Kittery, 
Me., and afterwards in Charlestown, Mass., where 
he resided in 1845. In 1846 he was obliged by 
ill-health to relinquish this profession ; and he 
turned his attention wholly to dentistry, which he 
had for some years studied and practised among 
his friends in a private way. He further pursued 
his studies with the limited text-books then extant, 
and in 1850 graduated from the Baltimore Dental 
College, tlie first and the then only dental college 
in the world, receiving his degree of Doctor of 
Dental Surgery in February. Establishing liim- 
self in Boston, he early became prominent in the 
profession. In 1865 the Boston Dental Insti- 
tute was organized with seventy members, and 
he w'as elected its president. This society held 
meetings monthly, and gave lectures on dental 
science and allied subjects, till it was superseded 
by a charter for the Boston Dental College, 



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granted June 3, 186S, when upon tlie foinuil or- 
ganization of the institution in July following he 
was made president, with B. B. Perry as secre- 
tary. This position he has since held, with the 
exception of four years, from 1869 to 1873 inclu- 
sive, the first fifteen years also occupying the 
chair of dental science and operative dentistry. 
He is now professor of operative dentistry, emeritus. 
The college was founded for the purpose of giving 
students a thorough education in dental science, 
art, and mechanism, which could not be obtained 
in dental offices, and for the general elevation of 
dentistry to the rank of a recognized profession. 



ization of which he opened the way, and a mem- 
ber of kindred associations. He was j)resident of 
the New England Dental Society for one year ; 
treasurer of the American Dental Association for 
two years ; and president of the American Dental 
Convention one year. He has been long con- 
nected with the Washingtonian Home, an incor- 
porated institution in Boston for the care and cure 
of inebriates, and is now first vice-president of the 
corporation. Dr. Wetherbee was married at Pitts- 
ford, Vt., January 3, 1837, to Miss Sarah Abigail 
Sheldon, the second daughter of Jacob Sheldon, 
by whom he had one son, who died in infancy. 
.-Vfter the demise of his wife in 1870, who was a 
graduate in medicine, he married again February 
I, 1872, Miss Myra Woods, of Nashua, N.H., by 
whom he has had two children : Helen Frances 
and Irving Josiah Wetherbue, wlio are now living. 




ISAAC J. WETHERBEE. 

During its existence of over a quarter of a century, 
twenty-three years of this long period under Dr. 
Wetherbee's administration, it has graduated four 
hundred and ninety-three students with the degree 
of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Its faculty now 
(1894) numbers eight professors, and there are 
fifteen additional instructors. It requires the 
faithful attendance of students for nine months of 
the year. Dr. W'etherbee was the first in his pro- 
fession in Boston to require his office students to 
remain with him for three years, and to promise 
to attend subsequently a dental college and grad- 
uate therefrom. He is an honorary member of 
the Massachusetts Dental Society, for the organ- 



\\'KYMOUTH, Geurck Warkkn, of Fitchburg, 
manufacturer, was born in West Amesbury (now 
Merrimac), Essex County, August 25, 1850, son 
of \\'arren and Charity (Fenno) Weymouth. He 
is of English ancestry, his ancestors first in 
America coming from Portsmouth, England. He 
was educated in the public schools of his native 
town, graduating from the High School. He 
began active life in the carriage-making trade, 
and at the early age of twenty- one engaged in 
the business on his own account. He moved to 
Fitchburg in 1882, where he established an ex- 
tensive carriage repository, which he has since 
successfully carried on. In 1890 he also became 
general manager of the Simonds Rolling-machine 
Company, manufacturing bicycle balls, pedal pins, 
crank axles, and pins for the Westinghouse and 
other car brakes on a large scale, in which he 
had been a stockholder since its formation in 
1886, and rapidly developed its work, within two 
years greatly increasing the output of the mill, 
and quadrupling its business. Besides these in- 
terests he is actively concerned in numerous 
other enterprises of more or less magnitude. He 
is a director and was one of the founders of the 
Orswell Mills, and of the Nockege Mills, director 
of the Worcester Society of the .F^tna Life Insur- 
ance Company, director and one of the promoters 
of the Fitchburg and Leominster Street Railway 
Company, director of the Fitchburg National 
Bank, and trustee of the Fitchburg Savings Bank. 
During his residence in Fitchburg he has been 



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devoted to its interests, and forwarded various 
movements which have quickened its develop- 
ment, especially as a manufacturing centre. He 



1 




C. W. WEYMOUTH. 

served one year in the Common Council, and was 
nominated for alderman, but declined to stand. 
He has been for some years a leading member of 
the Fitchburg Board of Trade, and is now (1894) 
its president, and as such took a prominent part 
in securing the location of a Normal School in 
Fitchburg; is a member of the Merchants' Asso- 
ciation, and of the Park and Athletic clubs of 
Fitchburg. In politics he is a stanch Republi- 
can. He was married July 19, 1882, to Miss 
Emma Josephine Poyen, of Merrimac, Mass. 
Thev have no children. 



WHITE, J0NATH.4N, of Brockton, member of 
the Plymouth bar for nearly half a century, was 
born in East Randolph (now Holbrook), August 
22, 1 8 19, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Holbrook) 
White. He was educated in the common schools, 
at several academies, fitting for college at Phillips 
(Andover) Acadeni)-, being the valedictorian of 
his class, and at Yale, where he graduated in the 
class of 1844. which numbered over one hundred, 
as second in rank. His law studies were pursued 



at the Harvard Law School, where he spent two 
years, and in the Boston law office of Richard H. 
Dana one year. Admitted to the bar in August, 
1847, he has practised at Brockton (the town 
of North Bridge water till 1874) continuously since 
1849. As a lawyer, he has enjoyed a large gen- 
eral practice, was frequently counsel for the town 
of North Bridgewater, and later was the first city 
solicitor of Brockton. In important matters he 
has been frequently consulted by neighboring 
towns and by corporations and individuals to 
obtain his legal opinion, which everywhere is 
recognized as entitled to great weight ; and by 
both bench and bar he is regarded as a sound 
and logical thinker and terse and effective writer 
and speaker. He was a prominent and useful 
member of the General Court during the sixties 
and seventies, representing North Bridgewater in 
the House of Representatives in 1864 and 1866, 
and a senator for the years 1869, 1877-78-79, 
and for three years a member of the judiciary 
committee of the Senate, and 'for the last year 
was its chairman. He has an active interest 
in educational matters ; and, as a member of the 




JONATHAN WHITE. 

School Committee and of the Committee on 
the Public Library, he has done much to forward 
intellectual cultivation in the community. His 



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273 



integrity in professional and private life is un- 
questioned. He holds a leading position in the 
First Congregational Church, of which he is a 
member. Mr. White married May 4, 1849, M'ss 
Nancy M. Adams, of Holbrook. They have had 
four daughters : Alice A., Mary, .\nnie F., and 
Winnifred H. White. 



has always been a Republican. He was married 
first, in Exeter, N.H., July, 186S, to Miss Mary A. 
Warren. She died in July, 1S73. By this mar- 



WIGGIN, George Win.slow, of Franklin, 
member of the Norfolk County bar, was born 
in Sandwich, N.H., March 10, 1841, son of 
Richard and Mehitable (Beede), the former of 
whom was descended from Governor Thomas 
Wigrsin, of Stratham, N.H., and the latter from 
Governor Winslow, of Plymouth, Mass. His 
early life was spent upon his father's farm in New 
Hampshire. His education, obtained almost 
wholly by his own industry, was begun in the 
common schools of his native town, and continued 
in the local academy of the town, the Friends' 
Boarding School at Providence, R.I., and Phillips 
(Exeter) Academy, where he completed the four 
years' course, graduating in 1867. Previous to 
entering Phillips Academy, he taught school three 
winters, two in F'almouth and one in Barnstable, 
Mass. After graduating from that academy, he 
continued teaching for five years, one as in- 
structor in mathematics in the Friends' Boarding 
School, and four as principal of the high school 
at Wrentham, Mass. He began his law studies 
while in \\'rentham, reading with the Hon. Samuel 
Warner, and was admitted to the Norfolk bar in 
1872. His first office was in Franklin, where 
he soon entered upon a good practice. Subse- 
quently he opened a Boston office, and has since 
conducted a general law practice there. He was 
county commissioner for Norfolk County from 
1879 to 1894, and chairman of the board from 
1885 to 1894. He has served as selectman, 
assessor, and on the School Board of the town of 
Franklin. He is also vice-president of the Ben- 
jamin Franklin Savings Bank and of the Dean 
Co-operative Bank of Franklin ; and a director 
and clerk of the Milford, Franklin, & Provi- 
dence, and the Rhode Island i.'v; Massachusetts 
Railroad Companies. He has been president of 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective 
Association since 1891. He is a prominent 
member of Masonic fraternities, has been master 
of his lodge, high priest in the Chapter, and dis- 
trict deputy in the Grand Lodge. In politics he 




GEORGE W. WlGGiN. 

riage were two children, both deceased. He 
married second, in Stoneham, November, 1878, 
Miss Mary A. Bryant, formerly preceptress in 
Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vt., and also of 
Dean Academy at Franklin. They have one 
child : Alice \A'iggin. 



WILBAR, Joseph Edwards, of Taunton, reg- 
ister of deeds, was born in Taunton, July 9, 1832, 
son of Joseph and Fanny M. (Lincoln) Wilbar. He 
is in the eighth generation from Samuel Wilbore, 
the line of descent running : (2) Shadrach \Mlbor, 
Sr., (3) Shadrach Wilbor, Jr., (4) Meshach Wil- 
bor, Sr., (5) George Wilbor, (6) George ^^'ilbar, 
Jr., (7) Joseph Wilbar, and (8) Joseph E. Wilbar. 
He was educated in the schools of his native toAvn. 
At the age of seventeen he entered the office of 
register of deeds as clerk for his father, for the 
northern district of Bristol County. He served in 
that capacity until December, i86i, when he was 
appointed postmaster of Taunton, which position 
he held for more than four years. Tlien he re- 
turned to the register of deeds office as clerk and 
assistant register, and continued in that relation 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



uiUil Jamuiry, 1874, when lie was elected register this office covering forty years); and his appren- 
of deeds to take his father's place. He has held ticeship was thorough. Subsequently he rose 
the position since that time. He has been a trus- through the various stages to the position of as- 
sistant foreman which he held for a long period. 
In 1889, after twenty-five years' continuous ser- 
vice, he came into possession of the Winchester 
S/d/-. through purchase, and had the distinction of 
printing the first newspaper printed in the town. 
Through perseverance and hard work he has suc- 
ceeded in placing the S/nr in the front ranks of 
suburban journals. He was for twelve years con- 
nected with .the State militia, a member of Com- 
pany K., First Regiment, first lieutenant for three 
years (1873-74-75). He is a Freemason, mem- 
ber of the Royal Arch Chapter, Woburn, and the 
William Parkman Lodge, \\inchester ; an Odd 
Fellow, belonging to the Waterfield Lodge ; a 
member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Mystic 
\'alley Club, the Suburban Press Association, and 
the Village Improvement Society of Winchester. 
In politics he is a Republican, but not active per- 
sonally in or out of his editorial work. He was 
married November 29, 1876, to Miss Ella Kath- 
arine Tupper, of Cambridge, who was among the 
first of " women reporters " in Boston to report 




JOSEPH E. WILBAR. 

tee of the Bristol County Savings Bank since 1874, 
and president of the institution since January, 
1882. He is also a director of the Bristol County 
National Bank. In politics he is a Republican. 
Mr. Wilbar was married December 26, 1861, to 
Miss Emma Barrows, daughter of Albert and Har- 
riet (Ide) Barrows, of Norton. They have five 
children : Albert E., Arthur L., Charles B., 
Helen M., and Louise R. Wilbar. 



WILSON, Theodore Price, of Winchester, 
editor and publisher of the Winchester Star, was 
born in Boston, August 14, 185 1, son of Alexan- 
der W. and Samulina (Monroe) Wilson. His 
parents were both natives of Paisley, Scotland. 
His general education was acquired in the public 
schools of South Boston, which he attended until 
he reached the age of fourteen, when he went 
into the composition-room of the Boston Evening 
Tra~i'cllcr to learn the printer's trade. Here he 
worked under the eye of his father, an experienced 
printer, who Iiad been long connected with the 
Traveller office (the entire service of the latter in 




THEODORE P. WILSON. 

public meetings, and who has had a large experi- 
ence in newspaper work. They have one child : 
Theodore Price Wilson. Jr. 



PART IV. 



ADAMS, William Frf.hkrilk., of Springfield, 
of the " Old Corner Bookstore," was born in 
Springfield, March 13, 1848, son of David A. and 
Harriet (Swift) Adams. He is a descendant of 
Crovernor William Bradford, eighth in direct line. 




w. F. ADAMS. 

He was educated in the Springfield puljlic schools. 
His business career was begun in the Second Na- 
tional Bank of Springfield, with which he was con- 
nected for five years. Subsequently he entered 
the " Old Corner Bookstore," — one of the land- 
marks of Springfield, dating from 1834, — and 
became a partner of James L. \\'hitney, who had 
been for many years connected with the business, 
under the firm name of Whitney & Adams. In 
July, 1887, the business was incorporated under 
the title of the W. F. Adams Company, with Mr. 
Adams as president and treasurer, and has so con- 



tinued since. Mr. Adams has served three terms 
in the Springfield City Council (1891-931. In 
politics he is a Republican. He is a member of 
the local Winthrop and Nyasset clubs. He was 
married May 30, 1888, to Miss E. Jennie Strong, 
of Springfield, and has two children : Dorothy S. 
and William Bradford Adams. 



AKARMAN, John Nel.^o.x, of Worcester, gen- 
eral manager of the Consolidated Street Railway, 
is a native of Brooklyn, N.^'., born March 4, 1854. 
He was educated in the public schools of Bergen, 
N.J., and of Brooklyn, graduating from the supple- 
mentary grade of Public School No. 26, Brooklyn, 
in the summer of 1871. After leaving school, he 
entered the ofifice of George H. Day, civil engineer 
and surveyor, and assisted in the building of the 
large piers on the Brooklyn side of the East River 
adjoining Fulton Ferry. In the summer of 1872 
he moved to Boston, where he began street rail- 
roading in the service of the South Boston Street 
Railroad Company. Here he worked till the 
spring of 1876, when he entered the employ of the 
Middlesex Railway Company. He remained with 
the latter company for seven years, filling the sub- 
ordinate positions of starter, supervisor, and assist- 
ant superintendent under John H. Studley, the 
veteran Boston street railroad superintendent, to 
whose guidance he attributes whatever success he 
has attained in the business. In April, 1883, he 
became superintendent of the Charles River Street 
Railroad, a new line then opened in Cambridge, 
and continued in tliis position till the purchase of 
the road bv the Cambridge Railroad Company on 
the first of July, 1886. Then he went to Worces- 
ter, and served as superintendent of the Worcester 
Horse Railroad and the Citizens" Street Railway 
until the consolidation of the two roads, when he 
was elected superintendent of the consolidated 
company. In the spring of 1888 he resigned to 
build the Biddeford & Saco Railroad, running from 



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Biddeford to Old Orchard I'.each, Me., in which 
enterprise he was associated with Charles B. Pratt, 
the president, and H. S. Seeley, the treasurer, of 





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JNO. N. AKARMAN. 

the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Com- 
pany. On the first of January, 1889, he sold out 
his interest in the Biddeford road, and on the first 
of June following became general manager of the 
Elizabeth & Newark Railroad, N.J. Subsequently 
he brought about the consolidation of that road 
with the Essex and Irvington roads, under the cor- 
porate title of the Newark Passenger Street Rail- 
way Company, at the same time becoming the 
general superintendent of the united lines. In 
1892 he obtained an option on the full amount of 
the capital stock of the Worcester Consolidated 
Company (7,000 shares), which he disposed of to 
a syndicate ; and on the first of December, that 
year, when the purchase was completed, he re- 
turned to Worcester, and as superintendent and 
general manager proceeded at once rapidly to de- 
velop the property. Under his supervision the 
road w-as electrically equipped throughout, and its 
value greatly enhanced. Mr. Akarman is a thirty- 
second degree Mason, a member of the Montacute 
Lodge, Eureka Chapter, Hiram Council, and the 
Worcester County Commandery of Worcester, and 
of the Massachusetts Consistory and the Aleppo 



Shrine of Boston. He belongs also to the Worces- 
ter and Commonwealth clubs of Worcester, the 
Washington Association of New Jersey, and the 
Megantic Fish and Game Corporation of Maine. 
During his residence in New Jersey he was fish 
warden of Esse.x County. 



ALLEN, Ch.arles Albert, of ^^'orcester, civil 
engineer, city engineer for fifteen years, is a na- 
tive of Worcester, born January 27, 1852, son of 
Albert S. and Eliza A. (Cole) Allen. He is 
of the Sturbridge branch of the Allen family. 
His grandfather Allen moved from that town to 
Worcester about the year 1834, and until railroads 
entered Worcester was part owner of and oper- 
ated the stage lines centring there. He was edu- 
cated in the Worcester public schools, and at the 
Worcester Academy, graduating in 1869. He 
began preparation for his profession immediately 
after graduation, and in 1870 was engaged on 
preliminary surveys for the Massachusetts Central 
Railroad. From 187 1 to 1873 he was assistant 
engineer of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad 




CHARLES A. ALLEN. 



Company; from 1873 to 1875 chief engineer, and 
also engineer of the Worcester Viaduct then being 
constructed; in 1875-76-77 was engaged in pri- 



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vate engineering practice, and in contracting, as 
a member of the firm of Allen & Chase, during 
this period constructing the foundations and out- 
side walls of the new Worcester Lunatic Hospital, 
" Section A " of the Boston \\'ater Works (Sud- 
bury supply), the Southbridge street railroad 
bridge, and various other engineering works of 
more or less importance; from 1878 to November, 
1892, was city engineer, finally resigning this posi- 
tion in order to give his entire attention to his 
growing private business ; and since has been 
engaged in the construction of water-works, sew- 
ers, and dams in various sections of New England. 
During his term of service as city engineer he 
constructed a large part of the sewerage system 
of Worcester, and the additional (Holden) water 
supply. In 1883 he was sent to Europe by the 
city to study the question of sewerage disposal ; and, 
as the result of his investigations, he constructed 
tiie Worcester sewerage disposal plant, one of the 
largest and most successful chemical disposal 
plants in the world. In late years he has served 
on many important commissions appointed by the 
courts. Mr. Allen is a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers, of the Boston Society 
of Civil Engineers, and of the U'orcester County 
Society of Civil Engineers, also of the Worcester 
Club, and of several Masonic orders. In politics 
he is a Republican ; in religion, an Episcopalian, 
junior warden of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 
Worcester. He was married April 29, 1875, to 
Miss Grace T. Chase. They have four children 
living : Robert C, Chester S., Mary H., and Grace 
W. Allen. 



of early New England, notably those of John 
Howland and John Tilley, of "Mayflower" 
fame, Cotfin, Chipman, Cady, Cook, Burt, Bart- 



ALLEN, Orrin Peer, of Palmer, pharmacist, 
was born in Wallingford, Vt., September 30, 1833. 
He is descended in the si.xth generation from the 
emigrant Edward Allen, who came from London 
about 1690, and settled on the island of Nan- 
tucket, through Nathaniel-, Joseph', Robert*, and 
Robert"'. His mother, Eliza Paine (Doolittle) -Vllen, 
claims her descent from Abraham Doolittle, son 
of Sir Archibald Clark (Laird of Doolittle, County 
Midlothian, Scotland, traced to Sir .\lamus Clark, 
of Comrie Castle, County Perth, Scotland, 1349, 
and assistant secretary to James I., who came 
to this country, probably from London, about 
1638, and settled in New Haven, Conn., where 
he was a leading citizen), through Jolin-, Rev. 
Benjamin"', Amzi^ and RoswelF. He numbers 
among his ancestors many of the worthy names 




ORRIN P, ALLEN. 

lett, Barnard, Gardner, Knapp, Lee, I'hilbrick, 
Skiff, Strong, Todd, Winler, and Westwood, sev- 
eral of whom deserved well of their country by 
their service in the Colonial and Revolutionary 
wars. Mr. Allen was educated at Chester Acad- 
emy, Vt., where he held a high position as a stu- 
dent. He taught school at intervals to pay his 
way, and on the completion of the course was 
elected superintendent of schools in Vernon, Vt., 
which office he held until he accepted the position 
of a teacher in the Taanach Institute, Hacken- 
sack, N.J. He came to Palmer October 5, 1859, 
where he established a pharmacy, which he still 
continues with success. When a child, he became 
interested in literary pursuits which he has never 
relinquished, and has, by extensive study, fitted 
himself for a ready writer in many fields of effort. 
He began writing for the press in early life, and 
has been a frequent contributor to various publi- 
cations ever since. He has recently become quite 
a student of genealogy, to which he has devoted 
much research, having published the genealogies 
of the Lee and Doolittle families, and nearly com- 
pleted the history of the branch of the Allen 



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family to wliich he belongs, including that of Gen- 
eral Kthan Allen. He has also the Cady and 
Scott families well under way. He is a member 
of the New England Historic Genealogical Society 
of Boston, of the Potumtuck Memorial Association 
of Deerfield, and local secretary of the Con- 
necticut Valley Historical Society of Springfield. 
For eighteen years he has been secretary and 
treasurer of the Eastern Hampden Agricultural 
Society. He was for a long period a trustee of 
the Palmer Savings Bank ; was one of the foun- 
ders of the V'oung Men's Library Association of 
J'almer, of which he was for many \ears a trustee 
and the librarian ; was the prime mover in the 
matter of preparing a history of the town of 
Palmer, and chairman of the committee which had 
the matter in charge, until its completion in 
1889. He is a Freemason, belonging to several of 
the Masonic bodies of Palmer. As a member of 
the Second Congregational Church, he has held the 
office of superintendent of the Sunday-school, 
and has been for years clerk of both the church 
and parish. He is also an active member of the 
(^uaboag Literary Society, which was organized in 
1893. Mr. Allen was married June 14, 1863, to 
Miss Lucinda E. Scott, of Vernon, Vt., a de- 
scendant of Revolutionary ancestors. Their chil- 
dren are : Walter Scott, who was educated at 
Mitchell's Boys' School of Billerica ; Julia A. and 
Lily M. Allen, who were both educated at the State 
Normal School at Westfield. 



BALDWIN, John Sianion, of Worcester, 
manager of the S/>_y, is a native of Connecticut, 
born in New Haven, January 6, 1834, son of John 
D. and Lemira (Hathaway) Baldwin. His father 
was an anti-slavery pioneer, some time editor of a 
free-soil paper in Hartford, Conn., in the late 
fifties editor of the Bn/fy Covimonwealth in Bos- 
ton, also an anti-slavery paper, and from 1859 till 
his death, in 1883, editor of the Worcester ^i.- 
and from 1863 to 1869 representative of the 
Worcester district in Congress. John S. was edu- 
cated in the public schools of North Killingly, 
North Branford, and Hartford, Conn., and was 
fitted for Yale College. Unable however, to enter 
college, the cost of the course being beyond his 
means, he became a student in the State Normal 
School, where he was prepared for the profession 
of a teacher. He graduated with honors, and ac- 
cepted an offer to take charge of a large school ; but 



an urgent call to take the direction of the business 
department of the Boston Daily Commomvcalth, 
which his father was then editing, caused him 
to cancel this engagement. He was already a 
printer, having learned the trade in Hartford while 
attending school. From that time he has been 
continuously engaged in newspaper work. From 
Boston he would have gone to Minneapolis, Minn., 
as proprietor of a weekly paper there, but for his 
father's desire to have iiim remain in business 
with him. Accordingly, the Worcester Spy was pur- 
chased ; and in March, 1858, they removed to 
Worcester, and began the publication of that his- 




JOHN S. BALDWIN. 

toric journal, under the firm name of John 1). Bald- 
win lV- Co., the firm including his brother Charles C. 
This association held till the father's death in 
1883, soon after which the business was incorpo- 
rated under the laws of Massachusetts as the Spy 
Publishing Company, with John S. Baldwin as 
president and treasurer. The Spy is one of the 
oldest newspapers in the country, started in Bos- 
ton in 1770 by Isaiah Thomas as the organ of 
the Patriots, and hurriedly moved to Worcester in 
1775, on the eve of the battle of Lexington, where 
it has since remained. The original title of the 
Massiuiiiisctts Spy is still retained in the weekly 
issue of the present day. A\'hen the Baldwins 



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purchased tlie property, the daily issue had been 
pubHshed fourteen years, having been started in 
1845. Under their conduct it has been a strong, 
dignified, and inHuential sheet. Its change to a 
quarto form was made in 1888 (July 16), at which 
time the Sunday issue was begun. Mr. Baldwin 
served in the Civil War as captain, commissioned 
by Governor Andrew, of a company of infantry 
which he raised for the Fifty-first Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers. His first service was in the 
Eighteenth Corps, and he participated in all its 
marches and battles in North Carolina. After- 
ward he served with the Army of the Potomac. 
In politics he is a Republican. He has been a 
member of the Common Council and of the 
School Board of Worcester, and represented 
Worcester two terms in the lower house of the 
Legislature ( 1870-7 i ), where he served on the com- 
mittees on education and on finance. He belongs 
to the Grand Army of tiie Republic, the Society 
of the Army of the Potomac, the Military ( )rder 
of the Loyal Legion ; and is a member of the 
Massachusetts Club, Boston, and of the Worces- 
ter Club, and the Quinsigamond Boat Club of 
Worcester. He was married October 19, 1863, to 
Miss Emily Brown, of Worcester. They have six- 
children : Eleanor, Robert S., Alice H., John 1)., 
Henrv B., and Emilv C. Baldwin. 



BASSETT, Joseph Massa, of \^'orcester, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Vermont, born in the 
farming town of Eden, August 31, 1834, eldest 
son of George and Achsa A. (Adams) Bassett. 
His great-grandfather, Samuel Bassett (born 1754), 
was a volunteer soldier of the Revolution, wounded 
by a musket-shot in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
His grandfather, Massa Bassett, was a native of 
K.eene, N.H. (born January 24, 1783); and his 
paternal grandmother, Catharine Bassett, daughter 
of Solomon and Ruth Kingsbury, was a native of 
Walpole, Mass., (born October 20, 1783). They 
were among the earliest settlers of Eden, where 
they lived afterward to the end of life. His mater- 
nal grandparents were about the same age of Massa 
and Catharine Bassett, and, it is believed, also emi- 
grated to Vermont in the early settlement of the 
northern part of that State. Joseph M. was reared 
on the farm, early taking his share of the farm-work, 
attending the district school twelve weeks each 
winter. At the age of si.xteen he came to Worces- 
ter to make a start in business life. He found 



employment in the manufactory then known as 
Court Mills ; but after about six months here he 
was obliged, by failing health, to return to the 
farm. A few months later, having recovered his 
strength, he went to work in a country store, where 
he spent two years full of experience ; and in 
March, 1854, he returned to Worcester to remain 
permanently. For a year he was employed in a 
lumber-yard there. Then he became book-keeper 
and business assistant for the firm of Willard, 
Williams, & Co., manufacturers of woollen machin- 
ery ; and after service with this firm and its suc- 
cessors, F. Willard Ov Co., and Bickford \' 




J. M. BASSETT. 

Lombard, for a period of eight years, he entered 
the firm of E. C. Cleveland & Co., also engaged 
in the manufacture of woollen machinery, as a 
partner. This association continued for four 
years, when he withdrew, and forming a partner- 
nership with W. I). Hobbs, under the firm name 
of Bassett &: Hobbs, entered the wool business. 
A year later he returned to his old business, form- 
ing a new partnership with Mr. Cleveland, under 
the name of Cleveland \r Bassett. The venture, 
however, was not prosperous, the firm meeting 
with losses and difficulties ; and in about two years 
it was dissolved through failure. Subsequently, 
on the first of Julv, 1870, joining R. A. M. Johnson, 



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who had been for some time manufacturing hand 
spinning-machines called jacks, he formed the 
firm of Johnson & Bassett for the development 
and manufacture of automatic machinery for wool 
spinning, in which he has since been profitably 
concerned. The firm first introduced self-operat- 
ing heads for jacks, and a few years later put on 
the market the self-operating woollen mule, adding 
from time to time valuable improvements in the 
mechanism of both machines. Upon the death of 
Mr. Johnson in March, 1880, Mr. Bassett pur- 
chased the interest of the former from the admin- 
istrators of his estate, and continued the business 
alone until the first of January, 1892, when he 
admitted his son, George M. Bassett, to partner- 
ship, retaining throughout the original firm name of 
Johnson & Bassett, without change. The present 
building, occupying the corner of Foster and Bridge 
Streets, was built expressly for the business in 
1886, and was first occupied in September that 
year. Mr. Bassett has been long a member of 
the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 
and of the Home Market Club since its organiza- 
tion. He belongs also to the Commonwealth 
Club of Worcester. In politics he is an earnest 
Republican for the reasons that the principles and 
economic policy of that party have been more in 
accord with his own views than those of any other 
party. He is in no sense a politician ; and with 
the exception of six years' service on the Worces- 
ter School Board, which he gave in the interest of 
popular education, he has held no public place, 
devoting his time and energies chiefly to his busi- 
ness. He has been an extensive traveller, in his 
own country and abroad, visiting nearly all the 
leading American cities, journeying in Mexico and 
in the principal European countries. Mr. Bassett 
was married April 16, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth 
Kennan. daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Kennan, 
born June 8, 1833, in Hyde Park, Vt. Thev have 
had five children, three sons and two daughters, of 
whom only two are now living : George M. (now 
associated with Mr. Bassett in business, born in 
Worcester, November 3, 1864) and Arthur J. 
Bassett (musician, born in Worcester, June 29, 
1868). 

BATES, Edward Cr.aig, of \Vestborough, jus- 
tice of the First District Court of Eastern Worces- 
ter, is a native of Westborough, born March 6, 
1866, son of Lucius R. and Martha (Matthews) 
Bates. His early education was acquired in the 



public schools of Westborough. After graduating 
from the High School in 1883, he fitted for college 
at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, spending two years 
there, entered Harvard, and graduated in the class 
of 1889. He prepared for his profession at the 
Boston University Law School, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1891. Opening his office in West- 
borough the first of November that year, he prac- 
tised there exclusively until 1894, when in Feb- 
ruary he established an office in Boston also. He 
was appointed to his present position of justice of 
the First District Court of Eastern Worcester in 
1890. While pursuing his profession, he has given 




EDWARD C. BATES. 

some attention also to historical matters. In con- 
nection with the Rev. Heman P. DeForest, he 
wrote the " History of Westborough," published 
by the town in 1891 ; and he was the author of 
the paper on " Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin " 
m the A^eic Enghimi Afagaziiic oi yiixy, 1890. He 
is a trustee of the Westborough Public Library ; 
has been president of the Village Improvement 
Society since April, 1892 ; and is connected with 
various social, literary, and business clubs. Judge 
Bates was married January 2 i, 1892, to Miss Grace 
Belknap \\'inch, daughter of the late Hon. Calvin 
M. Winch, of Boston. They have one child : 
Edward Munroe Bates, born February 23, 1894. 



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BEEBE, Henry Jared, of Springfield, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Monson, born July 3, 1843, 
son of Jared and Mary (Stacy) Reebe. He was 




HENRY J. BEEBE. 

educated in the public schools and at Wilbrahani 
Academy. After graduating from the academy, he 
was for two years in mercantile business as a 
clerk, first in Holyoke, and later in C'hicopee. In 
186 1 he entered the office of his father, and there 
remained three years. The next three years he 
was in the dry-goods commission house of O. H. 
Sampson & Co., New York City. Then, having 
been elected treasurer of the Springfield Plate 
Company, he removed to Springfield, where he 
spent two years. At the end of that time, in 1870, 
he joined his father in the purchase of the woollen 
mill at North Monson, and engaged in its conduct 
under the firm name of J. Beebe & Son. In 1876 
his father died, and the same year he bought the 
woollen mill of Webber & Beebe in Holyoke. The 
two mills were run together till 18S0, when the 
Monson mill was sold ; and since that time the 
Holyoke mill has been continued under the firm 
name of Beebe, Webber, & Co., owned entirely by 
Mr. Beebe and his brother-in-law, J. S. Webber. 
Mr. Beebe is interested in numerous other man- 
ufacturing concerns. After his father's death 
in 1876 he was elected a director of the Farr 



Alpaca Company of Holyoke ; and he is now a 
director of the Beebe & Holbrook Paper Company 
of Holyoke, the Indian Orchard Company of 
Springfield, and the United Electric Light Com- 
pany of Springfield : and a trustee of the National 
Automatic Weighing Machine Company of New 
York. He is also a director of the Eirst National 
Bank of Springfield. In politics he is a steadfast 
Republican. He has served two years (1880-81) 
in the Springfield city government. He is a mem- 
ber of the Nyasset and the Winthrop clubs of 
Springfield. He has been twice married, first, Oc- 
tober 20, 1864, to Miss Othalia Vaughan, by whom 
were three children : Henry J., Jr., Arthur Y., and 
Albert A. Beebe; and second. May 20, 1880, to 
Mrs. Kate E. Glover, daughter of John Olmsted, 
of Springfield. 

BENT, Charles McIlvaink, of Worcester, 
banker, was born in New Bedford, October 5, 
1835, son of Nathaniel Tucker and Catherine 
Eliza Donaldson (Metcalf) Bent. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools. He has been in the 
banking business from the beginning of his active 




CHARLES M BENT. 



life. In the summer of 1852 he entered the 
Worcester Bank, then the principal bank in the 
city, as boy. Here he came under the guidance 



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and direction of William Cross, an accomplished 
banker, then cashier and holding tlie foremost 
position among financiers of the city, and was 
thoroughly fitted for the banking business. In 
December. 1864, he was elected treasurer of the 
People's Savings Bank, then recently incorporated, 
which has now become one of the large and suc- 
cessful financial institutions of the city. This 
office he still holds, being its only treasurer. Mr. 
Bent has been for many years prominent in musi- 
cal matters in Worcester, sometime occupying the 
presidency of the Worcester Choral Union, one of 
the first board of directors of the Worcester County 
Musical Association, elected when it was incorpo- 
rated, and now its vice-president. In politics he 
has always been a consistent Republican. In re- 
ligion he is an Episcopalian, and is identified with 
different societies of the Church in this diocese. 
For upwards of thirty years he has held different 
offices in All Saints' Church, Worcester, and is at 
present (1894) warden. Among other positions 
which he holds is that of president of the Worces- 
ter Homceopathic Hospital and Dispensary Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Bent was married October 10, 1867, 
to Miss Helen Maria Kennedy, daughter of James 
L. and Helen Maria (Clark) Kennedy. They 
have had two children: Robert Metcalf (died in 
infancy) and Catherine Metcalf Bent. 



Michigan, and ^^'isconsin, from 1845 to 1849. In 
1854 he and his brother Henry entered into part- 
nership at Norwich, Conn., in the subscription pub- 
lishing business. A year later Gurdon Bill removed 
to Springfield, which has since been his home, and 
carried on the same business there for si.xteen 
years. In the course of this active career he 
published many books of importance, among them 
Headley's " Life of Washington," Dr. J. G. Hol- 
land's "Life of Abraham Lincoln," and J. S. C. 
Abbott's " History of the Civil War in .America." 
Mr. Rill has taken no prominent part in politics, 
and seldom accepts public office, although he 
might easily have had such honors. He has 
served in the City Council of Springfield, and was 
in 187 1 a member of the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives. In business, since he closed 
his connection with publishing, he has held many 
important positions. He has been president of the 
Springfield & New London Railroad, is now 
president of the Second National Bank of Spring- 
field, and president and director of various manu- 
facturing companies. He is a man of positive 
and tenacious character, persistent and successful 



BILL, Gurdon, of Springfield, a leading busi- 
ness man and prominent citizen for forty years 
past, was born in Groton, Conn., in that part now 
Ledyard, June 7, 1827, son of Gurdon and Lucy 
(Yerrington) Bill. His ancestry dates definitely 
from the early Puritan emigration from England 
in the first half of the seventeenth century, the 
Bills who came over about 1635 and landed at 
Boston being of a numerous family of Norman 
origin. In this country the family has had many 
representatives in places of trust, and been promi- 
nent in the law, the ministry, and other profe.s- 
sions, — a typical New England family. His 
mother's family also dates from the beginnings of 
New England. His education was that of the 
common schools of his native town. In his boy- 
hood he worked upon his father's farm, and at 
eighteen years of age "bought his time" of his 
father at $12 a month until he was twenty-one, and 
went out into what was then the Far West, canvass- 
ing for the subscription publications of Thomas 
Cowperthwait & Co., in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, 




GURDON BILL. 



in his undertakings. He does the duty of a citizen 
with no personal ambitions to serve, and his ser- 
vices to the public are performed without ostenta- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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tion. He gave to the city of Springfield in 1885 
its soldiers' monument, — a granite shaft bearing 
the names of battles on its sides, and surmounted 
by the figure of a private soldier at parade rest, — 
which stands in Court Square in the heart of the 
city. In 1893 he joined with his brothers, Henry 
and Frederick, in giving to Ledyard, Conn., the 
beautiful library building on the common. Mr. 
Bill was married in 1852 to Miss Emily A. Deni- 
son, of Groton. They have had five children : 
Nathan I)., Harriet E., Mary A., fkhvard E., and 
Charles G. Bill. Nathan D. and Edward E. are 
now established in business life in Springfield. 



field Knitting Company (1892). He is now presi- 
dent of the Plainer and Porter Paper Company, 
president of the National Envelope Company, 



BILL, Nathan Denison, of Springfield, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Springfield, born October 
12, 1855, son of Gurdon and Emily Avery (Deni- 
son) Bill. His earliest ancestors in America 
were John and Dorothie Bill, who appeared in 
Boston in 1638. Among his early English ances- 
tors was Dr. Thomas Bill, who was physician to 
Henry VIII. and Edward VI., and also to Prin- 
cess Elizabeth ; and \\'illiam Bill, LL.D., who was 
the first Dean of Westminster Abbey, 1560. He 
was educated in Springfield private and public 
schools. At the age of twelve he worked on a 
farm for two summer months, receiving as wages 
$2.50 a month ; at the age of fifteen he was at sim- 
ilar w^ork three months, receiving Jio a month ; the 
following winter and spring, when he was sixteen, he 
taught school in Ledyard, Conn., for §25 a month ; 
and at the end of the school term, which co\ ered 
four and a half months, he engaged in canvassing 
in Maine and on Prince Edward Island, devoting 
three months to this business, — all of this being 
part of his education as outlined and planned by 
his father. When he reached the age of eighteen 
years, he went into a wholesale paper and sta- 
tionery concern, where he served an apprenticeship 
of two years, and then, at twenty, entered busi- 
ness on his own account under the style of the Union 
Envelope and Paper Company. Two years later 
he consolidated with P. 1^. Kellogg and George A. 
Russell under the name of the National Papeterie 
Company ; and this partnership continued for 
eleven years, when he retired from detail manage- 
ment of business. Meanwhile in 1887 he organ- 
ized with others the Springfield Envelope Com- 
pany ; and subsequently the Platner and Porter 
Paper Manufacturing Company (in 1889), the Na- 
tional Envelope Company (1892), and the Spring- 




NATHAN D. BILL. 

vice-president of the Springfield Envelope Com- 
pany, treasurer of the Springfield Knitting Com- 
pany, treasurer and director of the Union Water 
Power Company, director of the Warwick Cycle 
Company and of other companies, and trustee of 
the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of New York. 
He is a director also of the City Library Associa- 
tion of Springfield. His public service other than 
that in connection with the City Library has been 
confined to one term as a member of the Springfield 
Board of Aldermen (1893). He is very fond of 
hunting and fishing, and with all his business inter- 
ests finds time each season to indulge more or less 
in these alluring pastimes. He is a member of the 
Union League, the New York Yacht, and the Al- 
dine clubs of New York, and of the several Spring- 
field clubs. He was married April 22, 1885, to 
Miss Ruth Elizabeth Wight, daughter of ex-Mayor 
Emerson Wight, of Springfield. They have one 
daughter : Beatrice Bill. 



BLACKMER, John, M.D., of Springfield, long 
a Temperance and Prohibitory party leader, was 



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born in Plymouth, July 18, 1828, eldest son of 
John and Esther (Bartlett) Blackmer. His early 
education was acquired in the common schools, 
and, after fourteen years of age, through private 
tuition under the Rev. John Dwight. He was 
fitted for college at Phillips ( Andover) Academy, 
and took a select course at Brown University. 
Subsequently he studied medicine in the Harvard 
Medical School, and graduated March 4, 1854. 
The course of education which he pursued was of 
his own choice, in accordance with an agreement 
made with his father, who told him, when he 
reached the age of fourteen, that the money to 




JOHN BLACKMER. 

meet the cost of an\' educational course that he 
might select would be forthcoming, with the under- 
standing that it should be returned as soon as cir- 
cumstances would allow, — his father adding that 
it was his purpose to give all his boys an equal 
chance, and that he should make the same offer 
to each of the other two upon arriving at the age 
of fourteen years. \Mien he was about eighteen 
years old he began teaching, and continued in 
this occupation during vacations and as circum- 
stances would allow until his graduation from the 
medical college, taking common schools at first, 
and afterward select schools. He began the prac- 
tice of medicine in the autumn of 1854, in the 



town of Effingham, X.H. He remained there five 
years, and then, receiving the appointment of 
assistant physician in the Maine Insane Hospital 
at Augusta, removed to that city. After an expe- 
rience of a year in that institution he accepted a 
similar position in the McLean Asylum in Somer- 
ville, Mass., where he served two years. In 
October, 1862, he was commissioned assistant 
surgeon of the Forty-first Regiment, Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, and began a service which 
continued through the Civil War. He first went 
into camp at Bo.xford to e.xamine recruits, and 
just before the regiment was filled he was or- 
dered to Boston for e.xamination for promotion. 
On November 4 he was made surgeon of the 
Forty-seventh Regiment, which speedily reported 
for duty to General Banks at New Orleans, having 
received marching orders on the 29th of that 
month. After the close of his army service he 
received an appointment for medical and surgical 
service in the navy, and continued there till the 
close of the war. Upon his retirement from this 
service he was called to take charge of the New 
Hampshire Asylum for the Insane during the 
absence of its superintendent, Ur. laancroft, in 
England. This work finished, he entered general 
practice in the town of Sandwich, N.H., where he 
remained seven years. He came to Springfield in 
1877, and has since continued in general practice 
there. In politics he has been a radical Prohibi- 
tionist for more than a quarter of a century. 
When in New Hampshire, he was chairman of 
the Prohibition State Committee, editor of the 
Proliihition Herald, and for three years candidate 
of the party for governor. In Massachusetts he 
has also been chairman of the Prohibitory State 
Committee, editor of T/ic FiibHc Good, then the 
organ of the party, five times candidate for lieu- 
tenant governor, and twice candidate for governor, 
for the latter office receiving the highest vote with 
one exception that a "straight" Prohibitionist 
candidate has ever received in the State. He is 
now, and has been since 1884, editor of the 
Domestic yoiinial, an unsectarian family news- 
paper published in Springfield, devoted to tem- 
perance and religion. He has written extensively 
for papers and periodicals for many years, enough 
probably to fill a large octavo volume. He has lect- 
ured somewhat extensively, both in New Hamp- 
shire and in Massachusetts, on temperance, pro- 
hibition, and other themes. He was some time 
superintendent of schools in New Hampshire, and 



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285 



giive courses of lectures at teachers' institutes 
and before other educational bodies. He was for 
two years and now is (1892-94) chairman of the 
temperance committee of the Association of Con- 
gregational Churches of Massachusetts, of which 
he has long been a member. In Springfield he be- 
longs to the North Congregational Church, and since 
1879 has been leader of a large Bible class in the 
church. Dr. Blackmer was married October 22, 
1863, to Miss Ellen S. Dearborn, of Efifingham, 
N.H., a graduate of Bradford Academy, Mass. 
They have one daughter and one son : the daugh- 
ter, Helen D., now wife of Dr. George F. Poole, 
who occupies the chair of physical director in the 
School for Christian Workers, Springfield ; and 
the son, John A. Blackmer, now connected with 
the Boston Post. 



BOWLES, Samuel, of Springfield, editor-in- 
chief and publisher of the Springfield Republican, 
was born in Springfield, October 15, 185 1, eldest 
son of Samuel Bowles, the founder of the daily 
Republican, and Mary S. Dwight (Shermerhorn) 
Bowles. He is of early Massachusetts and New 
York stock. On the paternal side he comes of 
the English family of Bowles or Bolles mentioned 
in the records of the Genealogist Burke, and of a 
line of notable New Englanders. His first ances- 
tor in America was John Bowles, an elder in the 
Roxbury First Church in 1640, one of the foun- 
ders of the Roxbury Free School, and a member 
of the Artillery Company. The next in line, 
John, 2d, married the grand-daughter of John 
Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, was a Harvard 
graduate in 167 1, subsequently a ruling elder in 
the church, a representative in the General Court, 
and speaker of the House. John, 3d, was also 
graduated from Harvard (1703), was long a lead- 
ing man in Roxbury town affairs, was a major in 
the militia, and for ten successive years sat in 
the General Court for Roxbury. John, 3d's, son, 
Joshua, was a carver of furniture in Boston, de- 
scribed as a very benevolent, pious man. Two of 
Joshua's sons served in the Revolution, as ser- 
geant and captain respectively : the third, Samuel, 
a boy of thirteen, when the war broke out, first 
worked at the pewterer's trade in Boston, then 
moved to Hartford, Conn., where he kept a 
grocery store some time, and prospered moderately. 
His son, Samuel, was early apprenticed to a 
printer, worked some years as a journeyman and 



foreman in Hartford and New Haven, and in 
1824 came to Springfield, and started the weekly 
Springfield Republican : and his son was Samuel, 
3d, the eminent editor, "the pioneer and leader 
of independent journalism in the United States," 
as he has been pronounced, who brought the 
Republican into national prominence, and fixed it 
there. On the maternal side Mr. Bowles is a 
descendant of (ieneral Henry K. Van Rensselaer, 
a distinguished soldier of the Revolution. His 
maternal grandfather, Henry Van Rensselaer 
Schermerhorn, was a prominent lawyer and farmer 
of Geneva, N.Y.; and his maternal grandmother 




SAML BOWLES. 

was a native of Springfield, daughter of James 
Scutt Dwight. Mr. Bowles was educated in pub- 
lic and private schools in Springfield, through 
extensive travel in the United States and abroad, 
and at college. To travel, supplementing the 
school training, two years and a half were de- 
voted. Two years, from 187 1 to 1873, were spent 
in special study at Yale, and half a year, or one 
term, at Berlin (Germany) University. After 
leaving college, he wrote letters of travel for the 
Republican for a few months ; and then, entering 
the Republican office, he was for two years con- 
nected with the editorial department under his 
father, getting some training also in the business 



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end. Ill 1875 he became business manager of 
the Republican; and in 1878, upon tlie death of 
the elder Bowles, editor-in-chief and publisher, ■ 
which position he has held from that time. Under 
his administration the paper has continued along 
the lines marked by his distinguished father, and 
developed new features which have held it in the 
front rank of the best journalism of the day. In 
1878 the Sunday Republican was started, and 
early became a strong addition to the establish- 
ment. It is wholly different from other Sunday 
papers, and has marked literary and local qualities 
of its own. The several editions of the paper 
have, of late, been repeatedly enlarged to meet 
the demands of its steadily growing and prosper- 
ous business. The mechanical plant has been 
twice renewed within the last dozen years. In 
1888 the Republican took possession of an admi- 
rably arranged and equipped new building of its 
own, located in the centre of Springfield's busi- 
ness section. Since 1878 Mr. Bowles has been a 
director in the City Library Association of Spring- 
field. He was married June 12, 1884, to Miss 
Elizabeth Hoar, daughter of Judge E. Rockwood 
Hoar, of Concord. They have two children : 
Samuel and Sherman Hoar Bowles. 



BRICK, Francis, M.D., of Worcester, was 
born in Gardner, Mass., March 16, 1838, son of 
Alfred Harrison and Lucy (Scollay) Brick. He 
is of English ancestry, his earliest ancestor in this 
country on the paternal side coming about the year 
1640 and settling in Dorchester, and the Scollavs 
appearing early in Boston. His great-grand- 
father, Jonas Brick, served throughout the Revolu- 
tionary war on the patriot side ; and his great- 
grandfather, David Comee, was in tlie Lexington 
and Concord fight. The family name was Breck, 
the older English being " Brecke," Brick being a 
perversion in spelling. He was educated in the 
common schools of his native town, at the Cas- 
tleton (Vt.) Seminary, and the Appleton (N.H.i 
Academy ; and was fitted for his profession at the 
Homceopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, Ohio, 
where he graduated in February, 1861. He had 
as preceptors E. J. Sawyer, M.D., of Gardner, and 
James C. Freeland, M.D., of Fitchburg. Settling 
in the town of Winchester, N.H., he began prac- 
tice there in the autumn of 1861. Subsequently, 
in the spring of 1864, he moved to Kecne, N.H., 
and in January. 1875, came to Worcester, where he 



has since been established. While in New Hamp- 
shire, he was a member of the State Homceopathic 
Society, and of the American Institute of Homce- 
opathy : and after his removal to Worcester he be- 
came a member of the \\'orcester County Homoeo- 
pathic Society, later becoming its president. He 
has also been vice-president of the Massachusetts 
Surgical and Gyna;cological Society, president of 
the Worcester Dispensary and Hospital Associa- 
tion, and is now \ice-president of that organiza- 
tion. He is prominent in the Masonic order, 
receiving his first three degrees in 1863 ; later 
he became a charter member, and past master of 




FRANCIS BRICK. 

Lodge of the Temple of Keene, N.H., and is now 
an honorary member. He is a life member of the 
Cheshire Royal Arch Chapter ; a Knight Templar. 
Of the Scottish rite : past most wise and perfect 
master of Lawrence Chapter ; a life member of the 
Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree ; 
a member of Aleppo Temple, A. A. O. Nobles of 
the Mystic Shrine ; and past e.xalted ruler of the 
Worcester Lodge of Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, No. 243. He is also a member of 
the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and of numer- 
ous other literary associations. He is medical 
director of the Boston Mutual Life Association. 
Dr. ISrick was married June 3, 1862, to Helen F. 



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Guild, of Attleboro, i\Iass. They have one son : 
Lu Guild Brack (spelling his name according to 
the form used in colonial times). 



BROOKS, William Henry Seward, of Hol- 
yoke, member of the Hampden County bar, is a 
native of New ^'ork, born at Schuyler's Lake, 
a part of Richfield Springs, Otsego County, Jan- 
uary 5, 1855, son of Reuben Palmer and Margaret 
(Eliot) Brooks. He was fitted for college at the 
Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, N.Y., and, en- 
tering Dartmouth, graduated there in 1876. His 




WILLIAM H. BROOKS. 

law studies were pursued in the office of Warren 
C. French at Woonsocket, Vt. Admitted to the 
bar in 1878, he established himself in Holyoke, 
forming a law partnership with Edward W. Cha- 
pin. This association continued till 1S82, when 
he withdrew, and has since practised alone, with 
offices in both Holyoke and Springfield, the county 
seat, in which much of his legal work centres. 
His practice is general, civil and criminal, in both 
of which branches he excels. In recent years he 
has been counsel in a number of capital cases, 
and has also successfuly conducted numerous civil 
suits of note. He is now counsel for many of the 
principal corporations in Western Massachusetts, 



among them the Boston & Maine, the Boston & 
Albany, and the Connecticut River Railroad Com- 
panies. In 1881-82-83 he was city solicitor of 
Holyoke, and in 1889 was nominated for the dis- 
trict attorneyship, but failed of election, falling 
short a few votes only. For the past three years 
he has been senior counsel of Holyoke. In poli- 
tics he is a steadfast Republican, and has done 
effective campaign work, especially in his Congres- 
sional district. In 1884 he was the Republican 
candidate for mayor of Holyoke. and was defeated 
by a small majority, although the city is in general 
elections strongly Democratic. In 1892 he w^as 
nominated for Congress, but declined to stand. 
He is a member of the Holyoke Masonic Lodge, 
of the Springfield and Nyasset clubs of Spring- 
field, and of the University Club of Boston. 
He has been twice married: first, in 1887, to 
;\Iiss Mary French, daughter of Warren C. 
French, of Woodstock, Vt., who died in 188 1 ; 
and second, in 1884, to Miss Jennie Chase, 
daughter of the late Edwin Chase, of Holyoke. 
He has five children : three by the first union : 
William Steele, Eliot Palmer, and Mary Brooks : 
and two by the second, Chase Reuben and 
Rachel Margaret Brooks. 



BULLOCK, Augustus George, of Worcester, 
president of the State Mutual Life Assurance 
Company, was born in Connecticut, in the towm 
of Enfield, June 2, 1847, son of Alexander Hamil- 
ton and Elvira (Hazard) Bullock. His grand- 
father was Rufus Bullock, of Royalston ; and his 
father, the late Governor Bullock, who immediately 
succeeded Governor Andrew, serving through the 
years 1866-69, was member of the Legislature, 
speaker of the House, and mayor of Worces- 
ter. He was educated at the Highland Mili- 
tary .\cademy, Worcester, the Leicester Acad- 
emy, and Harvard College, where he was grad- 
uated in the class of 1868. .\fter graduation 
he travelled some time in Europe, and upon his 
return began the study of law in the office of the 
Hon. George F. Hoar, and subsequently with the 
Hon. Thomas L. Nelson, now judge of the United 
States District Court, at Worcester. He was 
admitted to the bar of \\'orce.ster County in 1876, 
and practised for seven years, retiring in January, 
1883, when he became president and treasurer of 
the State Mutual Life .Vssurance Company of 
Worcester, which office he has since held. He 



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has also been for some years president of the 
State Safe Deposit Company ; a director of the 
Worcester National Hank, and of the Worces- 




A. G. BULLOCK. 

ter County Institution for Savings ; a director 
of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad, of the 
Providence & Worcester Railroad, of the Worces- 
ter Traction Company, of the Worcester Consoli- 
dated Street Railway Company, and of other cor- 
porations. He is connected with numerous his- 
torical societies, a member of the American Anti- 
quarian Society, of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, and of the Archjeological 
Institute of America ; is a member of the Ameri- 
can Bar Association, of the Worcester Club, the 
University and Exchange clubs of Boston, and the 
Democratic, Reform, and University clubs of New 
York. He was one of the eight commissioners at 
large to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, 
chairman of the committee of the exposition on 
fine arts, and a member of the committee on edu- 
cation. In 1S68 he was private and military sec- 
retary to his father. Governor Bullock, with rank 
of lieutenant colonel. In \A'orcester he has served 
as a director of the Public Library, and a trustee 
of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital. Colonel Bul- 
lock was married October 4, 187 1, to Miss Mary 
Chandler, daughter of George and Josephine R. 



Chandler, of Worcester. They have had four 
children : Chandler, Alexander Hamilton, Augus- 
tus George (deceased), and Rockwood Hoar Bul- 
lock. 

CARPENTER, Frank Eaton, of Springfield, 
member of the bar, was born in Monson, August 
29, 1851, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Colton 
(Grout) Carpenter. He was educated in the Mon- 
son Academy. He studied law in Hartford, Conn., 
in the ofiice of Francis Fellowes &: Son. and was 
admitted to the Hartford County bar on the first of 
July, 1873. The same year, in October, he came 
to Springfield, and opened his law office. He 
practised at first alone, but early became a partner 
of the late Mayor John M. Stebbins, under the 
firm name of Stebbins & Carpenter, which relation 
held till 1877. His practice has been of a mer- 
cantile character in courts of probate and insol- 
vency. Soon after his establishment in Spring- 
field he became prominent in politics as a Demo- 
crat ; and in the municipal election of 1882 he was 
elected to the Common Council. He served in 
this body two terms (1883-84), and was then 




FRANK E. CARPENTER. 



elected to the lower house of the Legislature for 
1885. In 1 89 1 he was a State senator for the 
First Hampden District, ordinarily Republican, 



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289 



which he carried by a good vote ; and in 1892 a 
member of the Springfield Board of Aldermen. 
During his term in the House he served on the 
committee on railroads ; and in the Senate he was 
chairman of the committee on bills in the third 
reading, and a member of the committees on elec- 
tion laws and on constitutional amendments. He 
is a member of the Springfield Commandery, 
Knights Templar, and of the \\'inthrop and Ny- 
asset clubs. Mr. Carpenter was married March i, 
1875, to Miss Elizabeth M. Lombard, of Hrimfield. 
She died in November, 1880. 



and retired from the service. Before his appoint- 
ment as superintendent of sewers he served two 
terms (1869-70) in the City Council. General 



CHAMBERLAIN, General Rohf.rt Horace, 
sheriff of \^'orcester County, is a native of Worces- 
ter, born June i6, 1838, son of General Thomas 
and Hannah (Blair) Chamberlain. On both sides 
he is of old \\'orcester County stock. His ances- 
tors on the paternal side first came to Worcester 
from Newtowne, now Cambridge, in 1740 ; and the 
Blairs were early settled in the county. His pater- 
nal grandfather was a selectman of the town, and 
so was his father at a later period ; and both were 
substantial citizens in their day. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at the Worcester 
and Westfield academies, and at the age of eigh- 
teen was at work, apprenticed to a firm of ma- 
chinists. Having mastered his trade, he worked 
at it till the Civil War broke out. Then he en- 
listed as a private in Company A, Fifty-first Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers. Soon after he 
was made sergeant i and later, re-enlisting in the 
Sixtieth Regiment, he was commissioned captain 
of Company F. After the war and his return to 
Worcester he resumed his trade, and followed it till 
1870, when he was appointed by Maj-or Blake 
superintendent of sewers. This position he held 
for eighteen years, during which period the system 
was developed and widely e.xtended. In 188S he 
was made master of the House of Correction, and 
in 1892 was elected to his present position of 
sheriff by a large majority. For twelve years suc- 
ceeding the war he was active in the State militia, 
and in this service received his commission as gen- 
eral. He reorganized the Worcester City Guards, 
and was the first captain of the company ; also 
organized a battery of artillery in Worcester, which 
still bears the name of Chamberlain Light Battery ; 
w-as major and afterward colonel of the Tenth 
Regiment, anti was made brigadier-general of the 
militia in December, 1869. In 1876 he resigned. 




R. H. CHAMBERLAIN. 

Chamberlain is an Odd Fellow and a Mason of 
high degree, — a past commander of ^^'orcester 
County Commandery of Knights Templar, and 
past grand commander of the Grand Commandery 
of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He is con- 
nected with the Grand Army, a charter member of 
Post ID. He is a member of the Worcester Board 
of Trade, of the Worcester County Mechanics' 
Association (president for tin-ee years), and of the 
Hancock Club. In politics he has always been a 
Republican, but not a politician. He was married 
January 10, 1865, to Miss Esther Browning, of 
Hubbardston. They have two daughters : Flora 
Browning and Mabel Susan Chamberlain. 



CHAPIN, EnwARn Whit.man, of Holyoke, 
member of the bar, is a native of Chicopee, born 
August 23, 1840, son of Whitman and Theodocia 
(McKinstry) Chapin. He was educated at Willis- 
ton Seminary, Easthampton, and at .\mherst, grad- 
uating from the former in the class of 1859, and 
from the latter in the class of 1863. He studied 



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law with Beach & Stearns in Springfield and at 
the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the 
bar in December. 1865 : and from that time to the 




EDWARD W. CHAPIN. 

present he has practised in Holyoke, attaining a 
foremost position in his profession. He was the 
first city solicitor of Holyoke ( 1S75 ) ; was for nine 
years a member of the School Committee, and in 
1873 was chosen as representative in the State 
Legislature. He is a director of the City National 
]5ank, of the Holyoke & W'estfield Railroad, and 
of two manufacturing corporations; namely, the 
Beebe and Holbrook Paper Company and the Farr 
Alpaca Company. He has been the secretary and 
attorney of the Mechanics' Savings Bank since its 
organization in 1872. Having had charge of the 
settlement of manv important estates, his legal prac- 
tice has been largely confined to probate business. 
He is now the senior special justice of the Hol- 
yoke Police Cmut. which office he has held for 
several years. In politics Mr. Chapin is a Repub- 
lican ; and in religion, a Congregationalist, deacon 
in the Second Congregational Society of Holyoke. 
He was married May 16, 1866, to Miss Mary L. 
Beebe, daughter of fared Beebe, of Springfield. 
They have had four children : Arthur R., Anne C. 
(now Mrs. William F. \\'hiting), Alice M.. and 
Clara M. Chapin. 



CLARK, Colonel Embury P., of Springfield, 
high sheriff of Hampden County, is a native of 
Buckland. Franklin County, born March 31, 1845, 
.son of Chandler and Joanna (Woodward) Clark. 
He was educated in the public schools of Charle- 
mont and in those of Holyoke, to which his par- 
ents removed when he was a boy of thirteen. 
After leaving school, he worked in a store till 1862, 
when at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in Com- 
pany B, Forty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers, and served in North Carolina and with 
the Army of the Potomac. At the expiration of 
his service he returned to Holyoke, and was suc- 
cessively a drug clerk, shipping clerk, book-keeper, 
and paymaster till 1876, when he was elected 
water registrar of the city of Holyoke. In this 
office he was retained by repeated elections for 
si.xteen years, finally retiring to accept his present 
position of sheritT of Hampden County, to which 
he was elected in 1892. He has been prominent 
in the State militia since the close of the war. 
Starting in 1868 as sergeant of Company K, Sec- 
ond Regiment, he was elected captain a year later, 
commissioned major August 14, 187 1, and lieu- 




EMBURY p. CLARK. 

tenant colonel August 31, 1875. ^or the purpose 
of reorganizing the militia, in 1876, he was honor- 
ably discharged with all other officers ranking 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



291 



above captain ; he then re-entered the service De- 
cember 23, icSyS, as captain of Company ]), Second 
Regiment ; was the next year ( August 2 ) promoted 
to the lieutenant colonelcy, and on the 2d of Feb- 
ruary, 1889, made colonel of the regiment, which 
position he still holds. He is a member of the 
Military Service Institution of the United States, 
and a charter member of Kilpatrick Post, No. 71, 
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was for 
eight years commander. He has always taken 
great interest in educational matters, and was a 
continuous member of the School Hoard of Hol- 
yoke for fifteen years, up to the time of his re- 
moval to Springfield. Colonel Clark was married 
.Vugust 23, 1866, to Miss Eliza A. Seaver, daugh- 
ter of Perley and Julia M. (Field) Seaver, of 
Holyoke. They have four children : Kate E., 
Edward S., Frederick B., and Alice M. Clark. 



March, he moved to Springfield : but, his health 
failing, he returned to Huntington in September, 
1865. In January, 1872, he re-established him- 



COPELAND, Alfred Minott, of Springfield, 
member of the bar, is a native of Connecticut, born 
in Hartford, July 3, 1830, son of Alfred and 
Emma A. (Howd) Copeland. He is descended in 
the direct line from Lawrence Copeland through 
his son William, born in Kraintree, November 15, 
1656, and married April 13, 1694, to a grand- 
daughter of John Alden of the " Mayflower." 
Their son Jonathan married Betty Snell, daughter 
of Thomas Snell, of Bridgewater ; their son Uaniel, 
born in 1741, married Susannah Ames, daughter 
of Joseph Ames, of West Bridgewater ; their son 
Daniel, born in 1767, married Abigail Shaw, 
daughter of Gideon Shaw, of Raynham, April 28, 
1791 ; and their son Alfred, born April 17, 180 1, 
married Emma Augusta Howd, daughter of W'hite- 
head Howd, of New Hartford, Conn., September 
S, 1829. Alfred M. was educated in the public 
schools and in academies in part, and in part by 
private tuition. He attended public and some- 
times private schools until the age of twelve. At 
the age of thirteen he was at work at wood-turning 
and other wood-working, which he continued, with 
schooling winters, until he reached eighteen. 
After that he spent several terms, with interrup- 
tions, at academies, taught school some time, and 
at the age of twenty-two began reading law. He 
was admitted to the bar in December, 1855, and 
in January following began practice, established 
in the town of Huntington, Hampshire County, 
Mass. He remained there until June, 1863, when 
he moved to Chicopee. The following year, in 




ALFRED M. COPELAND. 

self in Springfield, and the following spring formed 
a copartnership with Judge Henry Morris, which 
continued for ten years. Since its dissolution he 
has practised alone. He was a special justice of 
the Police Court of Springfield for about twenty 
years, and during his residence in Huntington he 
was some time a trial justice. In Huntington also 
he was for one year town clerk, and served several 
terms on the School Committee. He also served 
one term on the School Committee in Springfield. 
In 1875 he was a representative for Springfield in 
the lower house of the Legislature. In politics he 
has usually acted with the Democratic party ; but he 
revolted against General Butler in 1883, and went 
over to the Republican party, where he remained 
until Blaine was nominated for the Presidency. 
That year, and in the two Presidential campaigns 
following, he voted for Cleveland. He has served 
in political conventions, and made political speeches 
in national and State campaigns. In religious 
faith he is a Unitarian, and has served on the 
parish committee in the Unitarian society in 
Springfield eleven years. He is a member of the 
Masonic order, four years master of the local 



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Masonic lodge ; and mcniber of the Connecticut 
Valley Historical Society. He is the author of 
the history of the former town of Murrayfield, 
which included the present towns of Chester and 
Huntington in Western Massachusetts. Mr. Cope- 
land was married at Huntington, December 31, 
1857, to Miss Emyra A. Bigelow. They have two 
children : Alfred B. and Mary E. Copeland. 



CRANK, Kli.kry Bicknell, of Worcester, 
lumber merchant, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Colebrook, Coos County, November 12, 
1836, son of Robert Pruden and Almira Paine 
(Bicknell) Crane. He is in the seventh genera- 
tion among the descendants of Henry Crane, 
of Wethersfield and Guilford, Conn., and in the 
eighth generation in descent from Zachary liick- 
nell, of Weymouth, Mass. Both ancestors came 
from Old England to the New, the former about 
the year 1640, and the latter 1636. His father 
was one of the original settlers of Beloit, Rock 
County, Wis., arriving there in the winter of 
1836-37 ; and his mother followed with him, a 
babe of nine months, in August, 1837. He was 
educated in the common schools of Beloit, at the 
Beloit Seminary, and in the Preparatory Depart- 
ment of Beloit College. After leaving this depart- 
ment, not entering the college, he took a position 
as book-keeper in the office of a lumber merchant 
in the town. Not long after his employment here, 
however, as a result of the financial depression 
beginning in 1857, which was severely felt in the 
West even into and through the year 1859, the 
credit system was abandoned by his employer; and 
in i860 he took a trip overland to California. 
That fall he cast his first presidential vote for 
Abraham Lincoln while crossing the Sierra Moun- 
tains, at a station called Strawberry Valley. After 
spending about two years in California and 
Oregon, he returned by way of the isthmus, to 
New York, and was soon re-established in the 
lumber trade as book-keeper and salesman for a 
lumber merchant in Boston, He continued in 
this capacity for several years, when the business 
was sold out. Then in April, 1867, he estab- 
lished himself in Worcester as a lumber merchant 
on his own account, where he has since remained, 
steadily successful, having met no interruptions or 
disturbances in his business from the start. Al- 
though this has demanded much the larger part 
of his time, he has found opportunities to devote 



some spare moments to literary work in the line 
of local history and genealogy, having compiled 
and published the " Revised Rawson Family 
Memorial" in 1875, and in 1887 "The Ancestry 
of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of 
Massachusetts Bay." He is now, and for a 
number of years has been, engaged in collecting 
materials for and compiling a history of his own 
family, " The Cranes in America and in Old 
England." He was among the early members of 
the Worcester Society of Antiquity, one of its 
corporate members in 1877, was at the first 
meeting after incorporation, on March 6, that year, 
elected second vice-president, and was president 
for twelve years from January, 1881, declining the 
annual election given him for 1893. He has 
served in the Worcester Common Council two 
terms, from January, 1876, to January, 1880, and 
on the Board of Aldermen two years, 1886 
and 1887, declining to be a candidate for further 
service on account of the demands of his busi- 
ness. During the entire time of his service in the 
City Council he was an active worker on impor- 
tant standing and special committees. He is a 




B. CRANE. 



prominent member of the \\'orcester County 
Mechanics' Association, elected to the board of 
directors in 1884, vice-president 1887-89, presi- 



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293 



dent in 1890 91 and liu dLdi\eicd the historical and trustee of several large estates. He is a 
address at tlie tiftieth anni\ersary of the asso- member of the American Antiquarian Society and 
ciation. on the sth of February. ICS92. He was of the Worcester Fire .Society, and belongs to the 
also for three years president of the Worcester 
Builders' Exchange, and for the same length of 
time was president of the Sons and Daughters 
of New Hampshire. He is the compiler of the 
"Memoirs, Sons and Daughters of New Hamp- 
shire, Worcester, 1880 to 1885," giving the history 
of this association, with its transactions during 
the period covered by the above dates. In 
politics he has been a steadfast Republican from 
the time of his first vote, and has voted reg- 
ularly at e\ery election. Mr. Crane was married 
May 13, 1859, to Miss Salona Aldrich Rawson, 
a descendant in the eighth generation of Edward 
Rawson, secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Col- 
ony from 1650 to 1686. They have had but one 
child : Morton Rawson Crane. 



DEWE\', Francis Henshaw, of Worcester, 
member of the bar, is a native of Worcester, born 
March 23, 1856, son of Francis H. and Sarah 
B. (Tufts) Dewey. He comes of a family distin- 
guished in the annals of the Massachusetts judici- 
ary, his father having been a judge of the Supe- 
rior Court for twelve years, and his grandfather, 
Charles A. Dewey, a judge of the Supreme Judi- 
cial Court for twenty-nine years, — from 1837 until 
his death in 1866. Francis H. was educated in 
private schools, fitting for college at St. Mark's 
School, Southboro. He graduated at Williams 
College in the class of 1876, receiving the degree 
of A.M. three years later. His preparation for 
his profession was made at the Harvard Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1878, and in 
the law office of Staples & Goulding, of Worcester ; 
and he was admitted to the bar in February, 1879. 
He has practised at \\'orcester since that time, 
and engaged also in financial, railroad, and other 
interests. He has been solicitor of the Worcester 
Mechanics' Savings Bank since 1880, clerk of the 
bank since 1882, and trustee since 1888 ; has 
been president of the Mechanics' National Bank 
since April, 1888 ; for several years a director of 
the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company, of 
the Worcester Gas Light Company, of the Worces- 
ter Traction Company, of the Worcester Con- 
solidated Street Railway Company ; director and 
treasurer of the Proprietors of the Bay State 
House, and of the Worcester Theatre Association ; 




FRANCIS H. DEWEY. 

leading clubs of Worcester, — the Worcester, the 
Hancock, and the Quinsigamond Boat clubs. In 
politics he is Republican, but is not active, having 
no time or inclination for political work. He was 
married December 12, 1878, to Miss Lizzie D. 
Bliss, daughter of Harrison and Sarah Howe Bliss. 
They have one daughter, Elizabeth Bliss, and one 
son, Francis Henshaw Dewey, Jr. 



DODGE, Thomas Hutchins, of Worcester, 
law3'er, inventor, and manufacturer, is a native of 
Vermont, born in Eden, Lamoille County, Septem- 
ber 27. 1823, fourth son of Malachi F. and Jane 
(Hutchins) Dodge. His ancestors were Malachi 
F.", Enoch'', Elisha^ Joseph-, and Richard', who 
settled in Salem, Mass., in 1638, from England. 
His father was a substantial farmer, first in Eden, 
and afterwards in Lowell, Vt., moving to the latter 
place when Thomas H. was a child. Here the 
boy lived, until about fourteen years of age, a free 
farm life, attending the district school during the 
winters. 'I'hen, his eldest brother having secured 
a position with the Nashua (N.H.) Manufacturing 



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Company, the family moved to Xasluia, where his 
schooling was continued in the public schools. 
While yet in his teens, determining to become a 
lawyer and a manufacturer, and desiring to act for 
himself, he agreed with his father upon a simi to 
be paid for his time during the remainder of his 
minority ; and, when the papers were duly executed 
and signed, he set out to prepare himself for his 
chosen vocations. His first aim was to master the 
business of manufacturing cotton cloth ; and to this 
end he began at the beginning, finding a place in 
one of the carding-rooms of a mill as a roll carrier. 
Meanwhile he read many books and papers bear- 
ing on the subject. When he had earned sufficient 
funds, he left Nashua, and entered the Gymna- 
sium Institute at Pembroke, N.H., where he made 
rapid progress, ranking among the foremost in his 
class. After leaving Pembroke, he returned to 
Nashua, and secured a place in the spinning and 
weaving departments of the Nashua Manufacturing 
Company. Remaining in this position till he had 
acquired a full knowledge of the processes, and 
again had a small capital in hand saved from his 
earnings, he took up a course of study in the 
Nashua Literary Institute. This completed, he 
returned to the mills, and was soon made second 
in charge of the warping, dressing, and drawing-in 
departments. Subsequently he was promoted to 
the full charge of these departments, the youngest 
person who had ever held this position. In the 
mean time he had been pursuing a course of study 
in elementary law, and continuing his studies in 
Latin under a private tutor. He also compiled a 
" Review of the Rise, Progress, and Present Im- 
portance of Cotton Manufactures of the United 
States : together with Statistics, showing the Com- 
parative and Relative Remuneration of English 
and American Operatives," which he published in 
the year 1850. While in charge of departments of 
the Nashua Manufacturing Company's business he 
was enabled, through his e.xact knowledge of de- 
tails, considerably to reduce expenses, and by his 
ingenious inventions to impro\e the character of 
the work. He made numerous other experiments 
and improvements; and in 1851 a patent was ob- 
tained for a printing-press of his inxention. to 
print from a roll of cloth or paper, and cut the 
material into the desired lengths after the impres- 
sion was made and while in motion, which was the 
beginning of the revolution in machinery for print- 
ing paper, culminating in the lightning presses of 
the present day. In 185 i he turned his attention 



directly to preparation for the law. entering the 
office of the Hon. George Y. Saw-yer and Colonel 
A. F. Stevens, of Nashua ; and on the 5 th of 
December, 1854, he was admitted to the New- 
Hampshire bar. He immediately began practice 
in Nashua; but soon after, in March, 1855, being 
offered by the Hon. Charles Mason, then United 
States commissioner of patents, a position in the 
examining corps of the patent office, he moved to 
Washington. He remained in the patent office 
nearly four years, the greater portion of the time 
serving as examiner-in-chief, having been early 
appointed to that position, and the last year as 




THOMAS H. DODGE. 

chairman of the permanent board of appeals estab- 
lished in December. 1857. While in the patent 
office, he invented the important improvement in 
the mowing machine, by which the finger bar and 
cutting apparatus are controlled by the driver 
from his seat, now in almost universal use, and 
estimated to save the labor of over one million 
of laborers during the harvesting season in this 
and foreign countries. Resigning from the patent 
office in November, 1858. to resume the practice 
of law. he was admitted to the Supreme Court of 
the United States, and opened an office in Wash- 
ington ; and for twenty-five years thereafter he 
enjoyed a large and lucrative practice in patent 



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295 



cases, both in the East and West, ranking among 
the first in that branch of tiie profession. It is 
due to the efforts of Mr. Uodge, while a resident 
of Washington, that letters, uncalled for, are re- 
turned to the writers, he having in 1S56 fully 
elaborated the plan and details thereof, and pre- 
sented them in writing to the then Postmaster- 
General, Judge Cambell. Early in the si.xties Mr. 
Dodge became one of the active managers of the 
Union Mowing Machine Company, established in 
Worcester, and also opened a branch law office 
here; and in 1864 he took up his residence in 
this citv. In 1 881, while still engaged in his ex- 
tensi\'e law practice, he joined Charles G. Wash- 
burn in the organization of the Worcester Barb 
Eence Company, with himself as president and 
Mr. Washburn as secretary and manager, and 
began the manufacture of the four-pointed cable 
barbed fence wire of their invention, now made 
by the \^'ashburn & Moen Manufacturing Com- 
pany, which subsequently purchased their entire 
plant and patents. In 1884 Mr. Dodge retired 
from active professional work, and has since given 
much of his time to his extensive farm interests in 
Worcester and Western Iowa, where he owns one 
of the largest farms west of the Mississippi, and 
to his extensive grounds about his town residence. 
During his residence in Worcester he has been 
a public-spirited and generous citizen, having given 
to the city a tract of thirteen acres for a public 
park; presented to the trustees of the Odd Fel- 
lows' State Home the tract of land covering thir- 
teen acres on which the Home stands, and land 
for Odd Fellows' Park, though himself not a mem- 
ber of the order ; materially aided the Worcester 
Natural History Society in its efforts to maintain 
summer schools for the young ; and assisted lib- 
erally in building Union, Piedmont, and other 
churches in Worcester. With the exception of 
service on the first city council of Nashua, when 
a law student in the early fifties, he has held no 
elective office. He was married June 29, 1843, 
to Miss Eliza Daniels, of Brookline, N.H. They 
have no children. 



DOL'GLASS, Fraxklix Pikrce, of \\"orcester. 
proprietor of the Hay State House, is a native of 
Lynn, born February 7, 1853, son of Franklin J. 
and Semantha A. (Stiles) Douglass. His father 
was a well-known citizen of Lynn, at one time 
a member of the citv government ; and his mother 



was of Bethel, Maine, daughter of .\ndrew J. 
Stiles. His grandfather, Samuel Douglass, was 
a native of York, Me., was a merchant, also a 
hotel-keeper there, and was largely interested in 
the Southern coastwise trade, running schooners 
and other craft sailing north and south. His edu- 
cation was attained in the Lynn common schools, 
at the Littleton (N.H.) High School, and at Thet- 
ford Academy, at Thetford Hill, Vt. His first 
experience in hotel life was obtained when yet 
a boy, at the old Union House, Littleton, X.H. 
He was next employed at the Profile House, 
White Mountains. Thence he went to the office 




F. p. DOUGLASS. 

of the United States Hotel, Boston, when but 
seventeen years of age. He remained there till 
1875, when he leased the Mettakesett Lodge at 
Katama, Martha's Vineyard, which he conducted 
one season. In the autumn of the same year he 
came to the Bay State as its chief clerk, and from 
that time has been connected with this house. 
He continued as chief clerk until 1888, when, in 
connection with a partner, he bought the lease 
and furniture, and became proprietor, .\fter four 
years of partnership he bought the interest of his 
partner, and has since conducted the house alone, 
making it a prosperous one. He has spent many 
thousand dollars in modern furnishings and re- 



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pairs, and pul the large house in tiiorougli condi- 
tion. Mr. Douglass is connected with the Ma- 
sonic order, a member of the Quinsigamond Lodge, 
Eureka Chapter, Hiram Council, \\'orcester Lodge 
of Perfection, Lawrence Chapter Rose Croix, 
and the Worcester C"ounty Commandery Knights 
Templar, all of Worcester ; of the Boston Con- 
sistory of Boston, thirty-second degree, and of 
Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine of Boston. He is 
also a member of the Gesang Verein Frohsinn, 
of the Elks, of the Worcester Council No. 12, 
Royal Arcanum, and of the Hancock Club. He 
was married in 1880 to Miss L. Etta \\"ilco.x, 
a daughter of Alfred \\'. Wilcox, of Worcester. 
They have one child : Grace W. Douglass, born in 
1882. 

EARLE, Stephen Carpenter, of Worcester, 
architect, was born in Leicester, January 4, 1839, 
son of .Amos .S. and Hannah (Carpenter) Earle. 
He is a lineal descendant of Ralph Earle, born 
near Exeter, England, who came to New England 
about the )'ear 1630, and soon after settled in 
Rhode Island. His great-great-great-grandfather 
Ralph, grandson of the first Ralph, was one of the 
original settlers of Leicester ; and Steward South- 
gate and Nathaniel Potter, also original settlers of 
Leicester, were ancestors of his father's mother. 
On the maternal side he descends from the Car- 
penters and Tafts, early settlers in the southern 
part of Worcester County. He was educated in 
the Leicester district school, the Friends' Boarding 
School, Providence, R.L, and the High School, 
Worcester. He subsequently took a short course 
in architectural design in the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology. After leaving school, he was 
for five years a book-keeper. Then he pursued 
the study of architecture in various architects' 
offices in New York and A\"orcester, broken by 
eleven months' service in the l^nion army (1862, 
1863). For one year he was draughtsman at the 
Hoosac Tunnel, and in 1865-66 seven months 
were devoted to the tour of Europe, with study 
along the way. Upon his return from Europe he 
began work as an architect, opening his office in 
Worcester in February, 1S66. In March of the 
same year he was joined by James E. Fuller, and 
the firm of Earle & Fuller was established. This 
continued for ten years. Afterwards Mr. Earle 
was alone till 1891, when on the first of July he 
entered into partnership with Clellan W. Fisher, 
under the firm name of Earle ^; J-'isher, which re- 



lation still continues. From 1872 to 1885 he had 
a Boston office as well as a Worcester one. His 
work has been of a general character, public and 
private, including many fine churches, among 
them All Saints', Saint Matthew's, Saint Mark's, 
Central, Pilgrim, .South Unitarian, and others of 
less importance in \\'orcester ; the new building 
for the Worcester Free Public Library and many 
fine libraries elsewhere ; the buildings for the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; the Slater Memo- 
rial, Norwich, Conn., Iowa College Library, Good- 
now Hall, for the Huguenot Seminary, in South 
Africa, and numerous other school and college 
buildings in various parts. He is a member 
of the American Institute of .Vrchitects, of the 
Worcester Chapter of the American Institute of 
Architects, and of the Boston Society of Archi- 
tects. In addition to his professional work he 
is interested in the Worcester Co-operative Bank, 
of which he has been a director from its foun- 
dation, was vice-president from 1885 to 1888, 
and has been president since 1888. In politics 
he is an ardent Republican, but without ambition 
for office, and in religious faith an Episcopalian. 




STEPHEN C. EARLE. 



He has been senior warden of Saint John's 
Church, Worcester, since 1889, was junior warden 
from 1887 to 1889, and vestryman from 1884 to 



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297 



1887 : ;iiicl vestryman in All Saints" Church from 
1S79 to 1885. He has also been on the board 
of directors of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation since i88g. Other organizations to which 
he belongs are the Episcopal Church Club, the 
(^uinsigamond Boat Club, the Hancock Club, and 
the Art Society, all of Worcester ; and the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He was married October 
19, 1869, to Miss Mary L. Brown, of Worcester, 
who is descended from the first white child born 
in Worcester. Their children are: Charles B. 
(horn July 18, 1S71, graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege 1894), Ralph (born May 3, 1874, now a 
cadet in the United States Naval Academy, 
Annapolis), Richard B. (born May 29, 1876, now 
a student at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute), 
Ruth S. (born December 17, 1882), and Edward 
Karle (born November 27. i88g). 



his law business down to conveyancing, e.xamina- 
tion of titles to real estate, and probate practice : 
and it is believed that he now (1894) has the 



ELLIS, Ralph Waterbury, of Springfield, 
member of the Hampden bar, was born in South 
Hadley Falls, November 25, 1856, son of Theo- 
dore W. and Maria Louise (Van Boskerck) Ellis. 
He is of Puritan stock on one side, and of 
Dutch on the other, his mother being a lineal 
descendant of Anneke Jans, famous as the grantor 
of lands occupied by Trinity Church in New York 
City, and domiciled in this country before any 
Mayflower matrons stepped upon Plymouth Rock. 
His father was an active business man, having 
for many years the management of the Glasgow- 
Mills at South Hadley Falls. He was educated 
in the common schools of his native town, in the 
High School of Springfield, the family moving to 
that city in 187 1, and at Harvard College, grad- 
uating in the class of 1879. He was valedic- 
torian of his class in the High School in 1875, 
and graduated eleventh in his college class. 
When in college, he was prominent in indoor 
athletics, taking the horizontal bar cup one year ; 
and was secretary of the Pi Eta Society. As a 
boy, spending some time in his father's office, he 
had familiarized himself with business methods 
and management : but upon graduation from col- 
lege he proceeded to prepare for professional 
life. He entered the law office of the Hon. M. P. 
Knowlton at Springfield, and took the two years' 
course at the Harvard Law School, and, being 
admitted to the Hampden County bar on Novem- 
ber 17, 188 1, at once began active practice, with 
office in Springfield. He has gradually narrowed 




RALPH W. ELLIS. 

largest conveyancing practice of any single lawyer 
in Western Massachusetts. He is also connected 
with numerous corporations : a director of the 
Holyoke Card and Paper Company, of other 
manufacturing companies, and of the Springfield 
National Bank ; and a trustee of the Springfield 
Five Cents Savings Bank. In 1893 he was a 
representative for the Sixth Hampden District 
in the General Court, where he served on the 
committees on insurance and on public service. 
He is a member of the \\'inthrop Club of Spring- 
field, the Phi Beta Kappa, Har\ard, the Con- 
necticut Valley Congregational Club, and the 
Connecticut Valley Historical 'Society. He was 
married April 13, 1882, to Miss Katharine .VUyn 
Rice, of Springfield. They have one son : Theo- 
dore \\'aterburv Ellis, Jr. 



FARRAR, Henry Tilla, of Worcester, real 
estate, fire insurance and mortgage broker, is a 
native of Princeton, born January 28, 1837, son 
of Peter and Persis (Chaffin) Farrar. He is of 
English and Scotch ancestry, a direct descendant, 



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on the paternal side, of Judge Farrar, who came 
from England, and settled in I'epperell. He 
was educated in the common schools of Princeton, 
and was early at work with his father, who was 
a carpenter and contractor. At the age of twenty- 
four he was established in the grocery business in 
Lynn, a member of the firm of Farrar & Hart- 
well. Two years later, in 1863, he sold out this 
business, and went to New York, where he entered 
an insurance office then at the corner of Broad- 
way and Murray Street. In 1S65 he became the 
New Flngland agent of Jesse Oakley & Co., and 
was with this firm, and with Colgate & Co., until 



The office of the firm, in the Knowles Kuilding, 
finished in oak and highly decorated, has been 
pronounced the finest real estate office in New^ 
England. Mr. Farrar is a director of the Worces- 
ter Board of Trade, and president of the Common- 
wealth Club. He is connected with the Masonic 
fraternity, member of the Morning Star Lodge of 
Worcester and of the Worcester Royal Arch 
Chapter. Among other organizations to which he 
belongs is the Tattasit Canoe Club, of which he is 
an honorary member. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He has been active at times in political 
movements, but has never sought or desired office. 
He was married August 12, i860, to Mary E. 
Partridge, daughter of Dr. Warren Partridge, of 
Princeton. They had no children. Mrs. Farrar 
died on the 4th of February, 1889. 




HENRY T. FARRAR. 

1885, when he started his present business in 
Worcester. This rapidly developed until it be- 
came one of the most extensive of its class in the 
city. After three 'years alone, he formed a part- 
nership with Charles L. Gates, under the firm 
name of Farrar & Gates, which has since con- 
tinued. He has carried through some of the most 
important real estate transactions in Worcester, 
including the largest deal ever consummated here, 
— the purchase in 1894 of half an acre of the most 
valuable business property on Main Street, on be- 
half of the State Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
for a costly business block, — and conducted an 
extensive fire insurance and mortgage business. 



FAY, James Monroe, M.D., of Northampton, 
was born in Chester, Hampden County, March 23, 
1847, son of Warren and Jane D. (Bell) Fay. His 
early education was somewhat blighted by the sud- 
den death of his father, leaving his mother with 
five children, himself, the eldest, but eight years 
of age, in destitute circumstances. The following 
years of boyhood he spent on a farm with Deacon 
Moses Gamwell, of Middlefield, attending the pub- 
lic schools during the winter months only. At 
the age of fifteen he left the farm, and entered the 
employ of his uncle, William Fay, of Chester, to 
learn the wood-turning trade. Here he was en- 
gaged for two years, attending, as before, the win- 
ter terms of the public schools. His plan for fur- 
ther education met with repeated disappointments. 
For two years his time and means were given to 
the care and comfort of his only brotlier, who de- 
veloped a hip-joint disease, and, after unabated 
suft'ering, died. He continued, however, to study 
text-books at odd hours, and subsequently was 
enabled to take a course at Wilbraham Academy, 
boarding himself and working his way from dav to 
day. He began the study of medicine with the 
late Dr. William O. Bell, of Westfield, afterwards 
attending medical lectures at the University of 
Vermont, where he graduated in June, 1875. 
Later he attended a course of lectures at the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 
City. He was first in practice in the town of 
Colebrook, Conn., but soon removed by invitation 
to his native town, where for eight years he was 
the only physician and surgeon. At the end of 



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that period, having overworked, he was eompelled 
to take a rest, whicli resulted in the sale of his 
practice in this town, and his establishment in 




kidneys," insomnia, cathartics, insanity, poliomy- 
elitis, and chorea ; and lias delivered lectures on 
ethnology of the races, trifles, and association of 
ideas. He is a Knight Templar, member and 
treasurer of the Northampton Commandery. 
Since 1891 he has been a trustee of the Hamp- 
shire Savings liank. Dr. Fay was first married 
May 10. 1S71. in Northampton, to Mi.ss Harriette 
Forsyth. She died February 8, 1886. He mar- 
ried second, March 23, 1887, in Hatfield, Miss 
Mary L. Hubbard, daughter of Klisha and Cor- 
delia ( Randall) Hubbard. He has three children : 
Clara E. by his first, and Grace L. and Mary Bell 
Fav bv his second marriage. 



GARDNER, Ch.-^rlf.s Lefevrk, of Palmer, 
district attorney for the Western district, was born 
in Cummington, Hampshire Country, May 27, 
1839, son of Elisha and Elvira (Sprague) Gardner. 
His education was acquired in the public schools 
and in the famous Ashfield Academy, and he read 
law in the office of the late Judge S. 'I". Spaulding, 
of Northampton. Upon his admission to the bar 
in 1867 he established himself in Palmer, and has 



J. M, FAY. 

Northampton. While in Chester, he was twice 
elected a member of the School lioard, on which 
he served as chairman five consecutive years. In 
Northampton he was elected a member of the 
Koard of Health in 1887. and the following year 
city physician, which offices he held, through re- 
peated elections, till his election to the Legislature 
in the autumn of 1891 for the term of 1892, when 
he resigned both. As a member of the Legisla- 
ture, he served on the committee on public chari- 
table institutions, and was appointed one of the 
delegates to represent the State at the dedication 
of the World's Fair buildings in Chicago. Dr. 
Fay is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, president of the Hampshire Medical As- 
sociation, a member of the medical staff of the 
Cooly Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, member 
and secretary of the board of examining surgeons 
for pensions, and medical examiner for various 
life insurance companies. He enjoys a good gen- 
eral practice, and as a consulting physician is fre- 
quentlv called outside of his regular field. He 
has written a number of papers on medical topics, 




CHARLES L. GARDNER. 

since resided there. He was at first associated 
with James G. Allen, afterwards Judge Allen of 



treating chiefly " congenital cystic degeneration of the Eastern Hampden District Court, under the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



firm name of Allen & Gardner; but since 1870 he 
has practised alone, his field embracing the prin- 
cipal places in the county. From 1870 to 1872, 
when the Eastern Hampden District Court was 
established, he was trial justice for Hampden 
County. He was elected district attorney for the 
Western district, comprising Hampden and Berk- 
shire counties, in the autumn election of 1892, for 
the term of three years. During the years 1875 
and 1S76 he represented his town in the lower 
house of the Legislature, and in 1878 and 1879 
was a State senator, serving both terms in the 
House, and through his two terms in the Senate, 
on the committee on the judiciary; and in his 
second year in the House as a member also of the 
special committee on constitutional amendments. 
In 1868 he was appointed assistant internal reve- 
nue assessor, and held that office till 1S70, when 
it was abolished. In 1886 he was made a mem- 
ber of the Board of Trustees of the State Primary 
and Reform Schools, and served one term, declin- 
ing a reappointment. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, prominent in the party councils. From 1879 
to 1882 he was a member of the e.\ecutive com- 
mittee of the Republican State Committee. In 
Palmer he has long been identified with move- 
ments for the development and prosperity of the 
town. He has been a trustee of the Palmer 
Savings Bank for many years, and from 1882 to 
1890 was its president. He was married May 19, 
1869, to Miss Esther E. Gilmore. of Monson, 
daughter of the late Nathaniel Gilmore, in his day 
a leading citizen of StafTord, Conn. They have two 
children : Charles Gilmore and Edwin Sprague 
Gardner. 

GERE, Henry Sherwood, of Northampton, 
editor of the Hampshire Gazette, is a native of 
Williamsburg, born April 30, 1828, son of Edward 
and Arabella (Williams) Gere. His grandfather, 
Isaac Gere, came to Northampton from Preston, 
Conn., in 1793; was a watch and clock maker, 
became a prominent citizen, one of the leading 
business men, and erected the first brick store in 
Northampton. Henry S. was educated in the 
public schools, at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, 
and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, one of 
the first to enter the latter institution. His con- 
nection with newspapers began at the age of 
seventeen, when he entered as an apprentice the 
printing-office of the Hampshire Herald, the first 
abolition or anti-slavery paper published in West- 



ern Massachusetts. W nineteen he took the 
paper, and, with a fellow-apprentice as a partner, 
began to publish and edit it, having previously 




HENRY S. CERE. 

had a brief experience in a little venture of his 
own, called the Holyoke Mountaineer. After a 
year, during which time he did the editorial work 
and worked with his partner at the case and press, 
the Herald was merged into the Northampton 
Courier, then also a free-soil paper ; and he took 
the position of general assistant. Eight months 
later, in April, 1849, he bought the Courier, and 
for nearly ten years published and edited it alone. 
In 1858 the Courier and the Hampshire Gazette 
(dating from 1786) were united, and he has been 
a publisher and editor of that paper ever since. 
His service in newspaper printing-offices of nearly 
half a century (forty-nine years, March 5, 1894) is 
the longest in the Western part of the State, if not 
in the whole State, — the entire period in the same 
town, and thirty-si.x years in the same office. He 
is still on duty daily, doing his full share of work 
as the head of his paper, which he has kept stead- 
ily up with the times. Since November i, i8go, 
a daily edition has been issued. During the Civil 
^^'ar he was eleven months in the Union army, en- 
listing as a private in the Fifty-second Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteers, in 1862. The regi- 



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301 



ment formed a part of the forces under General 
Banks in Louisiana, and soon after its arrival 
there he was detailed as postmaster at Katon 
Rouge, and served in that capacity through the 
term of his enlistment. For eighteen years ( 1859- 
77) he was county treasurer (Hampshire County), 
and for six years served on the School Committee 
of Northampton ; and he has held quite a number 
of smaller positions. He might have held legis- 
lative office, but he preferred to remain with his 
paper. He has mingled much with the people, 
and has been a welcome speaker at numerous 
banquets and rural gatherings. In politics he 
was first of the Liberty party, enlisting in the 
abolition contest with fervor, then of the Free-soil 
party, and then of the Republican. He has been 
chairman of the Republican county committee 
for twenty-five years. In 1890 the honorary de- 
gree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Amherst 
College. Mr. Gere was married August 22, 1849, 
at Easthampton, to Miss Martha Clark. They 
have had seven children : George S., Collins H., 
Edward C, Frederick, Mary E., William H., and 
Martha F. Gere. 




County, May i, 1859, son of the Rev. Edward J. 
and Rebecca J. (Fuller) Giddings. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Great Harrington, 
Mass. Subsequently he studied law in the office 
of Justin Dewey, now of the Superior Court bench. 
He was graduated from the law- school of the 
University of Michigan in 1883, having been ad- 
mitted to the Michigan bar the previous year. 
He began newspaper work in 1884 as a reporter 
on the staff of the paper of which he is now the 
managing editor. He was promoted to the city 
editorship in 1887, and became managing editor 
in i8Sg. He is a member of the Hampden 
Lodge of Odd Fellows and of the Winthrop Club, 
Springfield. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was married September 16, 1879, ^^ Miss Nellie 
Barnes Wood, of Great Harrington. They have 
two children : Harold Fuller and Olive Giddings. 



EDWARD F. GIDDINGS. 



GIDDINGS, Edward Fuller, of Springfield, 
managing editor of the Uriioii^ is a native of New 
York, born in the town of Eaton, Madison 



GILL, James D., of Springfield, fine arts 
dealer, was born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, 
June 27, 1849, son of Bartholomew and Mary 
(Dwyer) Gill. His education was acquired in 
the pubhc schools and at the academy of Hins- 
dale. Out of school hours he was generally 
employed by the townspeople on errands or was 
interested in healthful games. For one summer 
he was on a farm belonging to George T. Plunkett, 
and drove the milk-cart through the village. In 
the spring months he bought maple sugar, and 
peddled it on the cars between Hinsdale and 
Pittsfield, clearing, many a day, ten dollars for his 
day's work. He left Hinsdale in 1867 for a posi- 
tion offered him by the Hon. Lewis J. Powers, of 
Springfield, in the retail department of the latter's 
paper and notion business. Here he was en- 
gaged until 1869, when Mr. Powers sold this 
department, and thereafter was with Charles W. 
Clark, the purchaser, vuitil 187 1. Then he en- 
tered business on his own account, forming a 
partnership with the late Frederick R. Hayes, 
under the firm name of Gill & Hayes. This 
relation continued until 1876, when he succeeded 
to the entire business, and has since remained 
the sole proprietor. For many years he has been 
interested in the best work of the foremost of 
American artists ; and through them his name has 
become widely known, not only in this country, 
but in Europe. His annual exhibitions have been 
given always in the month of February, and the 
works shown have come direct from the artists' 



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studios, personally selected by him. Each one 
of the seventeen exhibitions thus far given has 
been a marked success. The galleries in which 
the works are shown were erected especially for 
this purpose, and are admirably constructed and 
arranged. From them canvases have gone to 
nearly every State in the Union. Mr. Gill is a 
firm believer in the future of American art, and 
his convictions are only strengthened by his fre- 
quent visits to the principal galleries of the Old 
World. He enters into the social, political, and 
business life of his adopted city as few men do. 
He belongs to the W'inthrop Club, is a member 



late Milton A. Clyde, of Springfield. They have 
one son : James Milton Gill. Mr. Gill lives on 
upper Worthington Street, in one of the most 
attractive residences of the neighborhood. 




JAMES D. GILL. 

of the De Soto Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of 
Springfield Lodge of Freemasons. In politics 
he is an ardent Republican. He was president 
of the Harrison and Morton Battalion in 1888, 
president of the City Republican Club from 
1890 to 1893, chairman of the Republican county 
committee of Hampden for about six years, and 
until he resigned; and he is now (1894) vice- 
president of the National League of Republican 
clubs for Massachusetts. He represented his 
ward in the Springfield City Council in 1880 and 
1 88 1, and was a member of the Board of Alder- 
men in 1883. Mr. Gill was married November 
16, 1874, to Miss Kvelyn Clyde, daughter of the 



GILMORE, DvviGHT Olm.stead, of Springfield, 
proprietor of the Court Square Theatre, is a 
native of Connecticut, born in the towm of Staf- 
ford, November 2, 1837, son of Nathaniel and 
Charlotte A. (Olmstead) Gilmore. Both parents 
were also Connecticut born, his grandparents be- 
ing natives of Enfield. His birthplace was the 
Stafford Street Hotel, in stage-coach days a 
regular stopping-place for meals of the old 
New York and Boston stage line, of which his 
father was landlord. He comes from a family 
of hotel-keepers. His mother's brother, Elisha 
Holton Olmstead, known as "the deacon," began 
in the noted Warriner Tavern in Springfield, now 
known as Chandler's Hotel, from which he went 
to Boston, and with his brother, John Dwight 
Olmstead, managed the Tremont for a number 
of years, and was also connected with the Revere 
House at Boston and the Ocean House at New- 
port, R.L Four stages stopped at the Stafford 
Street Hotel and changed horses daily, and in the 
great stables adjoining the stage line company 
kept a large number of its teams. He can 
remember seeing his father sitting in the saddle, 
waiting for the mounted courier with the Presi- 
dent's message, which he took under his arm, and 
carried to the next stopping-place, Sturbridge, on 
its way to the State House, at Boston. Here the 
boy lived till he was six years old, when his father 
died, leaving his mother with four small children, 
whom she moved to Monson, Mass., her home 
some time before her marriage, and bravely went 
to work to support and educate them. The 
mother and children are all still living. The 
oldest, Charles N., is assistant superintendent of 
the Rock Island Railroad, Edwin G. is proprietor 
of the Academy of Music, Fourteenth Street, 
New York, and the sister is the wife of Charles 
L. Gardner, of Palmer, district attorney of Hamp- 
den and Berkshire counties. Dwight O. ac- 
quired his education in the common schools and 
at Monson Academy, which after his tenth year 
and until his seventeenth he attended winters 
only, working on neighboring farms through the 
spring, summer, and autumn seasons. At the age 
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spectacle-maker, L). D. Moody, of Monson, to 
learn the trade of spectacle-making, at that time 
quite an industry. He served three years as 
apprentice and three years more as a journeyman 
in Mr. Moody's employ. The opening of the 
Civil War and the high premium on gold and 
silver temporarily ruining the spectacle business, 
and Mr. Moody finally being obliged to close his 
shop, young Gilmore came to Springfield (May 13, 
1862), intending to go to work in tlie pistol shop 
of Smith & Wesson, a former shopniate liaving 
secured him a place here. By an unavoidable 
delay, however, he failed to reach Springfield at 




!»■■:« «^i.. J» »<-5!!«f=>- •"iS? 



UWIGHT O. GILMORE. 



entirely renovated it, changing the name from 
Haynes's Music Hall to Gilmore's Opera House. 
Subsequently he further improved the Opera 
House, and also enlarged the hotel, making it one 
of the largest in the city, in the spring of 189 1 
he began his most important undertaking, the 
erection of the Court Square Theatre and busi- 
ness block adjoining, in the heart of the city. 
These were completed in the autumn of 1892, 
one of the handsomest groups of buildings in 
Springfield ; and the beautiful theatre, pronounced 
by the Springfield Rcpiihlicaii in every particular 
comparable with the best, was formally opened on 
the evening of September 5, with a brilliant 
audience, including Governor Russell with mem- 
bers of his statif as guests, and the leading citi- 
zens of Springfield. In February, 1892, the 
excellence of his work was formally recognized by 
the presentation (on the evening of the 24th) of 
the painting of "Ophelia" by Jules Joseph 
Lefebvre, of Paris, for which the subscribers paid 
$5,000, bearing this inscription : " Presented to 
Dwight O. Gilmore by his friends, in appreciation 
of his enterprise and public spirit in building the 
Court Square Theatre, Springfield, Mass., Sep- 
tember 5th, 1892." The presentation was made 
by a committee of citizens representing the sub- 
scribers to the fund, and the painting now hangs 
in the foyer of the theatre. Mr. Gilmore has 
served in both branches of the city government of 
Springfield, — in the Common Council in i88t 
and 1882, and in the Board of Aldermen in 
1883-84, — receiving in each case the nomination 
from both parties. He is himself a Republican. 
He is one of the stockiiolders of the Hampden 
Park Association of Springfield, and treasurer of 
the trottino- association. He is unmarried. 



the appointed time, and another man was taken 
for the place. In looking about for another open- 
ing, he found that he could purchase an interest 
in the Music Hall Dining-rooms, which was then 
the principal restaurant of the city, and occupied 
the site of the present Opera House. This was 
his opportunity, and he seized it. He continued 
the business, after the burning of the Music Hall 
on July 24, 1864, occupying the basement of the 
present building, which succeeded that structure, 
until 1868, when he sold out, and built the Gilmore 
Building at No. 420 Main Street. In 187 1 he 
added the hotel adjoining. Ten years later, in 
1 88 1, he bought the Opera House property, and 



GRANT, CH.A.RLES Enw.4RD, of Worcester, fire 
insurance business, is a native of Maine, born in 
Kennebunk, June 14, 1842, son of Edward and 
Rebecca (Mason) Grant. His father was of 
Scotch, and his mother of English descent. His 
ancestors on the paternal side were among the 
earliest settlers in the vicinity of Saco, Me., 
coming there from Cape Cod ; and on the maternal 
side he descends from settlers in Haverhill in 
1648, who subsequently removed to near Keene, 
N.H. He was educated in the public schools of 
Boston, his parents moving to that city when he 
was a child. He served throughout the Civil 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



War. eiilistinj; on the 2jcl of Sei)tember, iS6i, as 
sergeant in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, having served during the 
pre\MOUs May with the New England Guards at 
Fort Independence. Boston Harbor. He was 
commissioned second lieutenant May 23, 1863, 
and captain in the Fifty-fifth Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, the 7th of June following; 
then major by brevet for gallantry on James 
Island, S.C, July 2, 1864. During the last year 
of his service he was detached for staff duty, act- 
ing as aid and provost marshal in July, 1864; su- 




CHAS. E. GRANT. 

perintendent of transportation from Charleston, 
to Columbia, S.C, in May and June, 1865 ; and 
post quartermaster at Orangeburg. .S.C, from July 
to August 29, when he was mustered out. Imme- 
diately after the war he engaged in the flour and 
grain business in P.oston, in which he continued 
till 1872, when he entered the oflice of the lioyl- 
ston Insurance Company, Boston. Three years 
later he established himself in Worcester, pur- 
chasing a small fire insurance business there. 
This gradually increased, partly by absorption of 
other agencies, until now he is at the head of 
the largest Worcester city agency. Mr. Grant is 
a member of the Commonwealth and Hancock 



clubs of Worcester, a director in the latter. In 
politics he is a Republican, but has never taken 
active part in public affairs. He was married 
November 29, 1S77, to Louella M. Howe, daugh- 
ter of John W. Howe, wire-goods manufacturer of 
Worcester. They have a daughter and three sons : 
Stephanie, Barton Howe, Malcolm Mason, and 
Harold Grant. 



GREEN, Samuel Swett, of Worcester, libra- 
rian of the Free Public Library, was born in 
Worcester, February 20, 1837. His father was 
James Green, son of the second Dr. John Green of 
\^■orcester, and brother of the third Dr. John Green 
of the same place. His mother is Elizabeth 
(Swett) Green. Through his father he is descended 
from Thomas Green, of Maiden, who came to this 
country about the year 1635 or 1636, and from 
Thomas Dudley, the second governor of the col- 
ony of Massachusetts Bay. Through his mother 
he is descended from Ralph .Sprague, who came 
to Charlestown in 1629, from Upway, Devonshire, 
England. Mr. Green graduated from the Worces- 
ter High School in 1854, and from Harvard Col- 
lege in 1858. In 1859 he visited Smyrna and 
Constantinople. Remaining two years in Worces- 
ter on account of ill health, in the autumn of 
1 86 1 he entered the Divinity School of Harvard 
University, and graduated from that institution in 
1864. He took the degree of Master of Arts in 
1870 at Harvard, and in 1877 was chosen an 
honorary member of the chapter of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society connected with the same univer- 
sity. In 1864 Mr. Green became book-keeper in 
the Mechanics' National Bank, Worcester, and, 
a few months later teller of the Worcester 
National Bank, in which position he remained 
several years. He declined the place of cashier 
of the Citizens' National Bank, Worcester, as suc- 
cessor to John C Ripley, and a position in the 
Worcester County Institution for Savings. He 
became a director of the Free Public Library, 
U'orcester, January i, 1867, and four years later, 
January 15, 187 i, librarian of the same institution. 
The latter is the position which he now holds. 
The library has grown rapidly in size and influ- 
ence under his care ; and a remarkable feature 
respecting its use is the very large proportion of 
books that is employed for study and purposes of 
reference. Mr. Green is one of the distinguished 
librarians of the countrv, and is regarded as an 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



305 



authority in regard to the use of libraries as pop- 
ular educational institutions and in respect to the 
establishment of close relations between libraries 
and schools. He has held various offices in the 
American Library Association, of which he was 
one of the founders. Having been elected presi- 
dent of the association in i8gi, he presided at the 
meetings held in San Francisco October 12-16 of 
that year. In May, 1892, he was chosen one of 
the original ten members of the new council of 
the association. Mr. Green was a delegate of the 
American Librarv .\ssociation to the International 




SAMUEL S. GREEN. 

Congress of Librarians held in London in October, 
1877, was a member of the council of that body, 
and took an active part in the discussions carried 
on in its meetings. Before the close of the Con- 
gress the Library Association of the United King- 
dom was formed. Mr. Green was chosen an hon- 
orary member of that association in 1878. He was 
for many years a member of the committee ap- 
pointed by the overseers of Harvard University to 
make an annual e.xamination of the library, and 
gave annual courses of lectures, as lecturer on pub- 
lic libraries as popular educational institutions, to 
the students of the School of Library Economy, 
when that school was connected with Columbia 



College, New York City.j In October, 1890, Mr. 
Green was appointed by the governor of Massa- 
chusetts an original member of the State Board of 
Free Public Library Commissioners for a term of 
four years, and in 1894 was re-appointed for a full 
term of five years. In November, 1890, he assisted 
in the formation of the Massachusetts Library Club, 
and was elected first vice-president of the club. 
He was a member of the Advisory Council of the 
World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Co- 
lumbian Exposition, on a Congress of Librarians, 
and presided over that congress during the pro- 
ceedings of the second day. He is a Fellow of 
the Royal Historical Society of (Jreat Britain, a 
member ofj the American .\ntiquarian Society, a 
member of the council of the latter body, and 
a member of the American Historical Associa- 
tion, of the New England Historic-Genealogical 
.Society, and of the Colonial Society of Massa- 
chusetts. He is a trustee of Leicester Acad- 
emy, and a trustee of the Worcester County 
Institution for Savings. He was the first presi- 
dent of the Worcester High School Association, 
and has been president of the Worcester Indian 
Association and of the Worcester Art Society, and 
treasurer of the Worcester Natural History Soci- 
ety. He is a member of the Art Commission of 
the St. Walstan Society, Worcester, and of the 
Sons of the Revolution, and lieutenant governor 
of the Society of Colonial Wars. Mr. Green has 
written constantly for the Library Journal since 
its establishment, and has made many contribu- 
tions to the proceedings of the American Anti- 
quarian Society. He has also contributed to other 
magazines and periodicals in the United States and 
England. He has written two books and several 
pamphlets on questions in library economy, which 
have been widely circulated and have exerted a 
great influence. He has made many addresses, 
and read a number of papers on library and other 
subjects, and has prepared monographs, which 
have been published by the Massachusetts Board 
of Education, the United States Bureau of Educa- 
tion, and the American Social Science Association. 
He was chairman of a committee of three gentle- 
men who supervised the preparation of the por- 
tion of the latest history of Worcester County 
which relates to the town and city of \\'orcester. 
He has printed several pamphlets, embodying the 
results of historical investigations. He belongs to 
the Worcester Club, Worcester, and the Univer- 
sity Club, Boston. Mr. Green is unmarried. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



GRIFFIN, Solomon Bui.kley, managing editor 
of the Springfield Republican, was born in Will- 
ianistown, August 13, 1852, son of tlie Rev. 
Nathaniel Herrick Griffin. D.D., and Hannah E. 
(Bulkley) Griffin, daughter of the late Major Solo- 
mon Uulkley, of W'illiainstown. He is of sterling 
ancestry, descended on his father's side from 
Jasper (iriffin, of Southold, L.I., who was born 
in Wales about the year 1648. and died at 
Southold in 1718, and on his motlier's side from 
the Re\-. Peter liulkley. the founder of Concord, 
Mass., and its venerated first minister. His 
fatlier was lonir connected with Williams College. 




S. B. GRIFFIN. 

He was prepared for college by his father, but, 
owing to ill-health, took a partial course only, with 
the class of 1872, Williams. In 188 1 he was given 
the degree of A.M., and enrolled with his class. 
His studies were conducted directly with a view 
to journalism ; and in college he was one of the 
editors of the college weekly journal, the Videttc. 
Upon leaving college, he took a place upon the local 
staff of the Springfield Rcpiihlkan, and received 
a thorough training under that master in journal- 
ism, the late Samuel Bowles. He did all kinds of 
work in the editorial department, " proved apt in 
catching" Mr. Bowles's "methods and principles, 
and rich in the newspaper instinct" ( Merriam's 



'• Life and Times of Samuel Bowles "). Subse- 
quently he became local editor, and in 1878 man- 
aging editor, which position he has since held, 
doing constant editorial writing. From the day 
he entered the Rcpiibliian office he has devoted 
himself entirely to his profession, and is now one 
of the veterans in Massachusetts journalism. As 
an editor, he is progressive, alert, quick to adopt 
the best of new methods, while holding fast to the 
best of the old and tried ones. He is familiar 
with every detail of the newspaper, and in the 
work of supervision of departments, which falls 
to the professionally trained managing editor, 
lives up to the Bowles principle to " make every 
department such that everybody will want to read 
it." He has done excellent service also as a 
special correspondent for the Rcpiiblicati at na- 
tional and .State political conventions ; and in 
18S5. spending some time in Mexico, he wrote 
a series of notable letters to his paper, which were 
later collected and published in book form in 
"Mexico of To-day "( New York : Harper Broth- 
ers, 1886). Mr. Griffin is a member of the 
Authors' Club of New York, of the University 
Club of fioston. and of the Nyasset and \\in- 
throp clubs of Springfield. In politics he is an 
Independent of the most independent sort. He 
was married November 25, 1892, to Miss Ida M. 
Southworth, of Springfield, daughter of the late 
John H. Southworth. They have one son : Bulk- 
lev .Southworth Griffin. 



HAILE, Wii.i.iA.M Henrv, of Springfield, man- 
ufacturer, lieutenant governor of the Common- 
wealth in 1890-91-92, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in the town of Chesterfield, September 
23, 1833, son of William and Sabrana (Walker') 
Haile. His father was a successful merchant and 
manufacturer, and the first Republican governor 
of New Hampshire ( 1857-58). His early educa- 
tion was acquired in the public schools of Hins- 
dale, to which the family remo\'ed when he was 
a child ; and he was fitted for college at Kimball 
Union Academy in Meriden. N.H. He first 
entered Amherst, but after a \'ear spent there 
went to Dartmouth, where he was graduated with 
high honors in 1856. Immediately after gradua- 
tion he went to Springfield, and began the study 
of law in the office of Beach & Bond. Admitted 
to the bar in 1859, he established himself in Bos- 
ton, and practised for a short time. But his tastes 



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307 



were for business rather than for the hiw ; and in 
1861 he returned to Hinsdale and engaged there 
in the manufacture of woollen goods, forming a 
partnership with his father and the late Rufus S. 
Frost, of Chelsea, under the firm name of liaile. 
Frost, & Co. Subsequently the business was in- 
corporated as the Haile & Frost Manufacturing 
Company, with Mr. Haile as treasurer ; and upon 
the death of Mr. Frost he became president, 
which office he at present holds. He continued 
his residence in Hinsdale until 1872, when he 
removed to Springfield, which from that date has 
been his home. Mr. Haile early took an interest 




WILLIAM H. HAILE. 

in politics as a Republican, and not long after 
his return to Hinsdale he was elected as a repre- 
sentative of the town in the New Hampshire Leg- 
islature. He served there three terms, 1865-66- 
71, taking a prominent part in the proceedings of 
the sessions. In Springfield he was elected mayor 
of the city for 1881, and the ne.xt two years was a 
State senator for the First Hampden Senatorial 
District. In the senate he served on the com- 
mittees on military afifairs (chairman), mercantile 
affairs (chairman), banks and banking, and man- 
ufactures, and was counted among the leading 
men on the Republican side of the chamber. He 
was first nominated for lieutenant jrovernor in the 



autumn of 1889, on the ticket headed by John 
Q. A. Brackett, for the term 1890. Renominated 
for the ne.\t election, again with Mr. Brackett, he 
was elected, the head of the ticket being defeated 
by William E. Russell, the Democratic candidate. 
In the next election he was a.ssociated with 
Charles H. .\llen, of Lowell, and again elected, 
the head of the ticket being again defeated by 
Governor Russell. In each of the three years 
that Mr. Haile was elected lieutenant governor 
his vote was larger than that of the Republican 
candidates for governor. In 1892 Mr. Haile was 
placed at the head of the Republican ticket with 
Roger Wolcott for lieutenant governor, and in this 
contest was defeated, Mr. Wolcott being elected 
with the Democratic (iovernor Russell. It will be 
remembered, however, that in this election a con- 
fusion arose in the marking of the ballots because 
of the presence of the name of Wolcott Hamlin 
on the tickets. In this way very many votes in- 
tended for Mr. Haile were negatived by wrong 
marking, and the number of such is believed by 
many of Mr. Haile's supporters to have been 
sufficient to lose him the election. Hesides his 
interest in the Haile & Frost Manufacturing Com- 
pany, Mr. Haile is connected officially with numer- 
ous manufacturing and financial companies. He 
is president of the -Springfield Gas Light Company ; 
director of the Springfield Fire and Marine Insur- 
ance Company, of the Massasoit Paper Company, 
the Chester Paper Company, the Berkshire Cotton 
Manufacturing Company in Adams ; director of 
the Pynchon National Bank and of the Winchester 
National Bank ; and trustee of the Springfield 
Institution for Savings. He is a member of the 
National Association of Wool Manufacturers, of 
the Home Market Club, of the Winthrop Club of 
Springfield ; a member of the Board of Fire Com- 
missioners, a director of the Springfield Library 
.Association, and a trustee of the Springfield Cem- 
etery Association. Mr. Haile was married on the 
I St of January, 1861, to Amelia L. Chapin, 
daughter of Ethan S. and Louisa B. Chapin, of 
Springfield. They have had three children : Will- 
iam C. (died August 14, 1864), Alice (now Mrs. 
Calkins), and Henry Chapin Haile. 



HALL, Charles, of Springfield, merchant, is a 
native of Vermont, born in Bennington, November 
18, 1832. Through his father, Hilaird Hall, he 
is a descendant of John Hall, who was born in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



England in 1584, came from Kent C'onnty to lios- 
ton in 1633, went thence to Hartford, Conn., 
about 1636, and wa.s one of the first settlers 
of Middletown, Conn., in 1650. Through his 
mother, Dolly Tuttle (Davis) Hall, he descends 
from Henry Davis, who was under General Stark 
at the line of rail fence in the battle of Bunker 
Hill ; served three years during the war, and was 
at West Point when Arnold treacherously at- 
tempted to surrender it to the enemy. His father, 
Hiland Hall, was also a native of Bennington, 
born July 20, 1795, and distinguished as a states- 




CHARLES HALL. 

man and jurist. He represented Vermont in Con- 
gress from 1833 to 1S44; was judge of the Su- 
preme Court of Vermont from 1846 to 1849; 
second comptroller of the United States Treasury 
in 1850; from 1851 to 1854 chairman of the 
Board of Land Commissioners to settle land 
claims in California ; and governor of Vermont 
from 1858 to i860. After his retirement from 
the governorship he wrote and published the 
early history of Vermont ; and he was largely in- 
strumental in accouiplishing the erection of the 
Bennington liattle Monument. He died Decem- 
ber 18, 1885, in his ninety-first year. Charles 
Hall was the youngest of eight children. He 



attended the district school, and was one year at 
the academy at North Bennington. At the age of 
eighteen he went to California, returning to Ben- 
nington in 1853. He then studied law, was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and in 1856 opened an office in 
Oshkosh, Wis. Within two months after, however, 
he disposed of his law library, and entered mer- 
cantile business, in which he has ever since been 
engaged. At the election of President Lincoln he 
was appointed postmaster of Oshkosh ; and he 
held this commission till President Johnson called 
upon the office-holders to adopt his policy, which 
he declined to do. In 1867 he removed to North 
Bennington, Vt., and was made president of the 
North Bennington Boot and Shoe Company. In 
the spring of 187 1 his company opened a whole- 
sale house in Chicago, and he went there to take 
charge of it. In the following fall the store and 
stock were totally destroyed in the great Chicago 
fire. Ten days after the fire the Chicago " Chris- 
tian LTnion " was organized through the exertions 
of William H. Baldwin, president of the Boston 
Young Men's Christian Union of Boston, Charles 
W. M'endte, Professor David Swing, Robert Coll- 
yer, George M. Pullman, and others, — seventeen 
in all of the originators, — and Mr. Hall was made 
vice-president of the organization. After closing 
ujj the business of the North Bennington Boot and 
.Shoe Company, he mo\ed to Springfield, Septem- 
ber 6, 1873, and opened a wholesale and retail 
crockery store, in which he has since continued, 
enlarging his store and business from year to year. 
He has been a Republican since the party was 
organized, voting for Colonel Fremont in 1856. 
He has never missed casting his vote at any mu- 
nicipal or general election, but beyond this he has 
refrained from participating in politics, confining 
himself entirely to business ; and he has held no 
oflfice in Springfield except that of president of the 
Springfield Board of Trade. Mr. Hall was married 
first to Miss Jane E. Cady, daughter of Lewis 
Cady, at Bennington, Vt., September 20, 1856, 
and by this marriage was one daughter : Laura V. 
Hall, born at Oshkosh, Wis., March 14, 1858. 
He married second Mrs. Mina C. Phillips, 
widow of John F. Phillips, of Lake Mills, Wis., at 
Oshkosh, April 19, 1864. By this marriage three 
children were born: Trenor Park (born at Osh- 
kosh, June 26, 1865, died at North Bennington, 
Vt., April 24, 1870), Mary D. (born at Chicago, 
111., December 31, 187 1), and Charles Hiland 
Hall (born at Springfield, August 12, 1874). 



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HAMMOND, JiiH.v Chester, of Northampton, 
nieniber of the bar, is a native of Amherst, born 
August 15, 1842, son of Salem and Julia A. 
(Johnson) Hammond. He is a lineal descendant 
of Thomas Hammond, born in Lavenham, Eng- 
land, in 1583. who came to this country and was 
settled in Hingham before 1636, and moved to 
Newton about the year 1650. His son Nathaniel 
was born in Hingham in 1643; Nathaniel's son 
Nathaniel was born in Newton in 1676: his son 
Ebenezer was born also in Newton in i 7 i 4, set- 
tled in Charlton 1741; his son Moses, in Charl- 
ton in I 758 ; and his son Salem, the father of John 




JOHN C. HAMMOND. 

C, in Charlton in 1803. All of these ancestors 
were owners and tillers of New England farms ; 
and up to the age of si.xteen he was himself a 
New England farmer boy, securing through the 
farm life a stock of experience and health of 
the highest value. He attended the public 
schools of Amherst, was fitted for college at the 
Williston Seminary, Easthampton, graduating in 
1 86 1, entered Amherst, and graduated there in 
1865. He studied law with the Hon. Charles 
Delano, of Northampton, and was admitted to the 
bar October 22, 1868, then becoming Mr. Delano's 
partner. Since that time he has been continuously 
in practice at Northampton, from 1868 to 1883 



under the firm name of Delano i.\: Hammond, 
from 1883 to 1888 alone, and the last six years 
in association with Henry P. Field, under the firm 
name of Hammond lS; Field. He was admitted to 
the bar of the L'nited States Circuit Court on the 
2d of November, 1876. While pursuing his pro- 
fession, he has been much interested in public 
improvements. He has largely promoted by his 
influence the Northampton Street Railway and its 
extensions, and been concerned in other under- 
takings. In connection with his brother, I.yman 
D. Hammond, he has also become interested in 
Chicago real estate ; and a block owned by them, 
at the corner of La Salle and Monroe Streets, 
bears the name of their native county, being 
called " Hampshire Block." Mr. Hammond's 
public service has been confined to one year in 
the Northampton Common Council — the year of 
the organization under the city charter (1883) — 
and six years on the .School Committee (1887 to 
1892 inclusive). He is a trustee of the Williston 
Seminary, of the Hopkins Academy, Hadley, and 
of the Clark Institution for Deaf-mutes, North- 
ampton, and one of the overseers of the Chari- 
table Fund of Amherst College. He was married 
November 16, 1S71, to Miss Eliza M. Brown, of 
Oxford. They have had five children : Robert B. 
(born September 19, 1874, died September 11, 
1875), Thomas J. (born December 22, 1876), 
Maud and May (twins, born September 19, 1879), 
and Ethel Hammond (^born September 6, 1884). 



HARKINS, James William, Jr., of Worcester, 
dramatist, was born in Toronto, Canada. June 3, 
1863, son of James W. and Mary (Smith) Harkins, 
both of Worcester, who were visiting in Toronto 
at the time of his birth. His education was ac- 
quired in the Worcester schools. He was gradu- 
ated from Hinman's College in 1882, and during 
the succeeding six years taught school, from 18S2 
to 1884 teaching in private schools in Little Rock, 
Ark., and in Texas, and from 1884 to 1888 in the 
Curtiss College, Minneapolis, INIinn. The latter 
year he went upon the stage to study its tech- 
nique, and requirements for playwriting, and in 
1890 produced his first play. "The Midnight 
Alarm." Next brought out was "The Fire 
Patrol" in 189 1, and in 1892 "The \\'hite Squad- 
ron " appeared. He has since written, for pro- 
duction during the season of 1894-95, "The City 
beneath the Sea," "Under Sealed Orders," "The 



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Twentieth Century," -God or C'asar ? " and "The 
Sugar King." He also has in pubhsher's hands, 
for earlv issue, a novel entitled " Raolian."' He 




JAS. W. HARKINS. Jr. 

is co-author of the comedy "The Substitute," and 
of "The Northern Light" now (1894) in prepara- 
tion. His plays have become widelv known in 
American cities, and he has contracted with Aus- 
tralian managers for their production in Australia 
and in England. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Dramatists' Club of New York, and of the 
Washington and Commonwealth clubs of Worces- 
ter. Mr. Harkins is unmarried. 



HARRIS, Henry Francis, of Worcester, 
member of the bar, was born in the \illage of 
Harrisville, West Boylston, August 19, 1849, son 
of Charles Morris and Emily (Dean) Harris. On 
the maternal side he is a descendant of Governor 
'i'homas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
His early education was begun in the common 
schools, and continued at the Green Mountain 
Institute, South Woodstock, Vt., where he spent 
four terms, at the \\'orcester Academy, \\'orcester, 
two terms, and at the Lancaster Academy, two 
years, where he was fitted for college. He en- 
tered Tufts, and graduated in 187 1, first in the 



class. He began his law studies in the Harvard 
Law School, spending half a year there, then read 
a vear in the law office of the Hon. Hartley 
Williams in Worcester, and from January to June, 
1873, attended the Boston University Law School, 
and graduated in the first class of that institution : 
during the same period and until Christmas, 1873, 
reading in the law office of John A. Loring in 
Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Suffolk 
County in December. 1873, and on the first of 
January following opened his office in Worcester, 
where he has continued in active practice to the 
present time. As a boy and young man, during 
the time between attending school and fitting for 
college, and during the college vacations, he 
learned all the details of manufacturing cotton 
goods, acquiring a practical acquaintance by actual 
work thereon with every machine in the cotton 
factory, and also had some experience in a woollen 
factory; and since 1880 he has been connected 
with manufacturing interests in addition to his 
legal practice. That year he was elected a direc- 
tor and assistant treasurer of the West Boylston 
Manufacturing Company, and in May, 1889, was 




HENRY F. HARRIS. 



chosen treasurer, succeeding his father at the 
latter's decease, which position he still holds ; and 
since February, 1S94, he has been president of 



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the L. M. Harris Manufacturing t'onipany, having 
been a director since its organization in 1890. 
He has also laeen a director of the Worcester Safe 
Deposit and Trust Company since the early part 
of 189 1, and a director of the First National Fire 
Insurance Company since 1892. In West Boyl- 
ston he was a member of the School Committee in 
1882 and some years prior to that date, and was 
master of the Boylston Lodge of Masons in 1889- 
90. In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
member of the Hancock Club of Worcester, at 
present one of the executive committee and chair- 
man of the coniniittee on admissions. Mr. Harris 
was married May 17, 1883, to Miss Fmma 
Frances Dearborn, of Worcester. They ha\e two 
children: Rachel (born December 11, 1887J and 
Doroth\' Harris iborn March 22, 1890). 



quantity of tlie iron and steel work used in the 
construction of locomoti\es and cars is produced. 
Mr. Hawkins is a niemlier of the financial com- 



HAWKIXS, Rkhakii Fenner, of Springfield, 
iron bridge builder and manufacturer, was born in 
Lowell, March g, 1837, son of Alpheus and Celia 
(Rhodes) Hawkins, both descendants of old Eng- 
lish stock, of the earliest Rhode Island families, 
one of the ancestors on the Hawkins side being 
Roger Williams. When he was a child, the family 
moved to Springfield, where he was educated in 
the public schools, and has since lived. At the 
age of sixteen, having graduated from the High 
School, he went to work, beginning as an office 
boy for Stone & Harris, bridge builders, and origi- 
nal railroad builders of the country. Here he 
steadily advanced, learning every detail of the 
business, until he became a partner in the con- 
cern. In 1862 Mr. Stone retired: and he con- 
tinued in partnership with Mr. Harris till 1867, 
when the latter retired. Since that date he has 
been alone, conducting the business under the 
name of R. F. Hawkins" Iron Works. He was 
one of the earliest to engage in the construction of 
iron bridges, and was also among the earlier pro- 
moters of the general use of iron as building mate- 
rial in New England. Of the many large bridges 
he has built, one of the most notable is the North- 
ampton bridge of the Central Massachusetts Rail- 
road, an iron structure fifteen hundred feet long ; 
and another is the \\'illimansett bridge, near Hol- 
yoke, eight hundred feet in length. Examples of 
his iron work for buildings are shown in the jails 
of Springfield and New Bedford, both of which 
are constructed largely of iron. At his works, 
besides material for bridges and building, a large 




R. F. HAWKINS. 

mittee of the Hampden Savings Bank, a director 
of the Board of 'I'rade, and concerned in other 
local institutions. In politics he is a Republican, 
and has repeatedly been urged to stand as the 
party candidate for mayor of the city : but he has 
steadfastly declined on the ground that his busi- 
ness demanded his best time and attention. He 
has, however, served on the Board of Aldermen 
three terms (1872-74), and is now a member of 
the Board of Water Commissioners. Mr. Haw- 
kins was married September 3, 1862, to Miss Cor- 
nelia jM. Howe, daughter of Aniasa B. and Sarah 
(Cadwell) Howe, of Springfield. They have five 
children : Paul, F'lorence, Edith, Ethel, and David 
Hawkins. 



HKJGINS, Fr.a.xcis Elox, of Worcester, mer- 
chant, is a native of Worcester, born October 15, 
1 85 1, son of E. G. and Lucy M. (Graves) Higgins. 
He is a descendant in the direct line of Henry 
Higgins, son of Jonathan Higgins, of Cape Cod, 
who moved to Hardwick early in the eighteenth 
century, and joined the ;Baptist church there in 



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1736. His ancestry on the maternal side is traced 
back to William fhilds, who came to America 
from England in 1634. He was educated in the 




FRANCIS E. HICGINS. 

public schools, finishing at the Worcester High 
School. After leaving school, he went to w'ork in 
the counting-room of the Ames Plow Company, 
where he was employed till July, 1869, when he 
entered the store of E. G. & F. \\'. Higgins (com- 
posed of his father and uncle), dealers in wall 
paper and interior decoration. In 1876 F. W. 
Higgins retired ; and the business was continued 
under the name of E. G. Higgins until the ist of 
January, 1880, when Francis E. bought a half 
interest in it, and the name was changed to E. G. 
Higgins & Co. He then assumed the management, 
and established a jobbing department. In 1884 
he made an extended trip abroad for the purpose 
of studying the development tliere of the art of 
interior decoration, and upon his return consider- 
ably extended this feature of his business. In 
February, 1893, the present corporation, under the 
name of the E. G. Higgins Company, was formed, 
with himself as treasurer and manager, and E. G. 
Higgins as president. The house now sells 
through its jobbing branch to dealers in all sec- 
tions of New England, and several New York 
architects carry its line of samples ; and it im- 



ports from England, Scotland, France, Germany, 
and Japan direct. In September, 1S93, a branch 
store was opened in Boston. Mr. Higgins has 
done some work in oil and water-color painting, 
and was an active member and treasurer of the 
Art Students' Club for seven years. He was also 
a corporate member of the organization. He is 
now a member of the Commonwealth Club of 
Worcester and of the Worcester Board of Trade. 
He was married October 12, 1885. to Miss Sarah 
C. Heald, of Worcester. They have two children : 
Etha Hazel and Gladys Higgins. 



HILL, Arthur Gaylord, of Northampton, 
manufacturer, was born in Northampton, Decem- 
ber 6, 1841, son of Samuel L. and Roxana Maria 
(Gaylord) Hill. His father was the sixth Samuel 
in the direct line of descent. The family was first 
heard from in Rehoboth, this State, and then in 
Smithfield and Providence, R.I. His early edu- 
cation was attained in the public schools of North- 
ampton, the Hudson River Institute, Claverack, 




ARTHUR G. HILL. 

N.Y., and the West Newton (Mass.) English and 
Classical School ; and he was graduated Bachelor 
of Science from Harvard, class of 1864. He be- 



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gan business life soon after leaving college with 
the Nonotuck Silk Company of Florence : and he 
remained with this company, holding the position 
of assistant treasurer and assistant superintendent, 
for twenty years (1864 to 1884). 'riicn he be- 
came a member of the firm of Martin & Hill, cash 
carrier manufacturers, and from 1889 to 1S92 was 
president of the Martin Cash Company. He was 
also owner of the Hill Machine Works from 1888 
to 1892. He has long been prominent in mu- 
nicipal affair.s, serving as an alderman one term 
( 1886 ) ; member of the School Committee one year ; 
fire engineer, 1882 ; member of the trust funds 
commissioners three years ; trustee of the Forbes 
Library, 1890-93 ; trustee of the Lilly Library, 
1890-92 : and mayor of the city of Northampton 
in 1887 and 1888. He has also represented the 
city in the General Court, a member of the House 
of Representatives of 1890. He was president of 
the Northampton Board of Trade for 1888 to 
1892. He is connected with the Knights of 
Honor, holding the position of grand dictator in 
1889, and that of supreme representative 1889- 
94 ; and has been president, director, or manager of 
a number of athletic, dramatic, musical, and social 
clubs from i86i to the present time. Mr. Hill was 
married July 7, 1869, to Miss Kate Elizabeth 
Edwards, of Northampton. They have two chil- 
dren living : Florence Gaylord and Marion Louise 
Hill. 

HOPKINS, Colonel William Swinton Bf.n- 
NExr, of \\'orcester, city solicitor, is a native of 
South Carolina, born in Charleston, May 2, 1836, 
son of Erastus and Sarah Hannah (Bennett) 
Hopkins. His first ancestor on the Hopkins side 
in this country was John Hopkins, who came 
from London to Cambridge with the Rev. Mr. 
Hooker in 1633, and moved soon to Hartford, 
Conn. He and Stephen Hopkins, of the '• May- 
flower," and Edward Hopkins who came to Hart- 
ford, Conn., in 1638 with the Rev. John Davenport, 
and was an early governor of Connecticut, were 
near relatives, if not brothers. His son Stephen 
built the first mill in \\'aterbury. Conn., which he 
gave to his son John, who became a man of 
public affairs and had some military position. 
This John of Waterbury was father of Colonel 
Hopkins's great-great-grandfather, Samuel Hop- 
kins, D.D., of West Springfield, Mass., who 
married Esther Edwards, the daughter of Timothy 
Edwards, of East Windsor, Conn., and sister of 



Jonathan Edwards. Timothy Edwards married a 
daughter of the Re\-. Solomon Stoddard, of North- 
ampton, who was a son of Anthony Stoddard, who 




W. S. B. HOPKINS. 

came from England to ISoston. Colonel Hopkins's 
great-grandfather was Samuel Hopkins, D.D., of 
Hadley, who was minister there fifty-four years ; 
his grandfather was a merchant in Boston, and 
mo\ed to Northampton : and his father, Erastus 
Hopkins, who spent most of his life and died 
in Northampton, was born in Hadley. John 
Hopkins, of Waterbury, was also the father of 
'I'imothy Hopkins, also of Waterbury, from whom 
the Berkshire County family, of which Presi- 
dent Mark Hopkins of Williams College was 
the most distinguished representative, was de- 
scended. On his mother's side Colonel Hopkins 
is descended from Thomas Bennett, who came 
from England to Charleston, and married Hayes 
Singletary, daughter of John Singletary of St. 
Paul's Parish, S.C., a Huguenot. His maternal 
grandfather, William Swinton Bennett, married 
Anna Theus, daughter of Major Simeon Theus 
(a patriotic man before and in the Revolution) 
and Rebecca Le'gare, — he the son of Simeon 
Theus, and she the daughter of Daniel Le'gare, 
both Huguenots. The intermarriages of these 
families form connections with the Swinton, Lucas, 



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Gadsckn, and many other South (nroHna famihes. 
Colonel Hopkins was educated mostly in private 
classical schools, — his earlier education acquired in 
a public classical school, — and at Williams College, 
where he graduated in the class of 1855. He 
studied law in the office of the Hon. William 
Allen at Northampton and at Harvard Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar in January, 
1858. He opened his first office on the 20th of 
August that year at Ware ; and here he practised 
until soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, 
when he abandoned his business, and entered the 
.service. Enlisting on October 9, 1S61, he served 
as captain and lieutenant colonel, commanding the 
Thirty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
from the first of November following to the 
8th of April 1864. He went out in the first 
New Orleans Expedition, on the ship which 
carried General Butler, and after storm and ship^ 
wreck made the voyage to Ship fsland in about 
thirty days. They lay in the Mississippi River 
with the navy, and witnessed Earragut's passage 
of the forts. Captain Hopkins with his company 
cleared the wharf for the landing of the first 
troops in New Orleans. He camped in the city 
till August, 1862, and then passed six months in 
Eort Jackson in garrison. He participated in the 
Teche campaign in 1863, beginning with the 
battle of Bisland, which preceded Port Hudson, 
and was in the whole of that siege with its three 
bloody assaults. He was stationed at Baton 
Rouge till December, 1863, and then under orders 
converted his regiment into cavalry, and in 1864 
took part in the Red River campaign, after the 
failure of which he resigned, and was honorably 
discharged. Resuming his profession, he prac- 
tised in New Orleans from May, 1864, to Septem- 
ber, 1866, during that period acting as special 
counsel there for the United States treasury. 
Then he returned to Massachusetts, and estab- 
lished himself in Greenfield, where, from October, 
1866, to October, 1873, he practised, part of the 
time in partnership with David Aiken. Then he 
came to Worcester, and has since continued here 
in partnership with the late P. C. Bacon, and with 
Henry Bacon, and Erank B. Smith, holding a 
foremost position at the Worcester county bar. 
Erom 187 1 to 1874 he was district attorney for 
the North-western District of Massachusetts. Sub- 
sequently he WHS district attorney for the Middle 
District (from 1884 to 1887); and in 1S93 was 
made city solicitor of Worcester, which position 



he still holds. He was the first commander of 
the Worcester Continentals, a veteran organiza- 
tion, in office twelve years ; and he is a member 
of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a 
member also of the Sigma Phi Society at W'illiams 
College; of the Worcester Club (the second presi- 
dent of the organization and still in office) ; and of 
the New York and the Boston University clubs. 
His politics have all been Republican. He went 
on the stump for Eremont before he could vote. 
.As a boy, he was a " Eree Soiler," as was his father 
before him. The latter was a ." Free Soil " and 
Republican leader of the Massachusetts House of 
Representatives for many years, and was a promi- 
nent member of the national convention of i860 
which nominated Abraham Lincoln ; and twenty 
years after the son was a member of the con- 
vention which nominated his college mate, James 
.\. Garfield. Colonel Hopkins has always refused 
political offices except those which were profes- 
sional. He was married January 20, 1859, to 
Miss Elizabeth Sarah Peck, of Easthampton. 
They have had four children : Sarah Bennett, 
Erastus, Elizabeth Peck, and William S. B. Hop- 
kins, Ir. 



HOWELL, John Freem.\n, of Worcester, city 
auditor, was born in Sutton, December 16, 1830, 
son of Barnabas E. and Olive (Peirce) Howell. 
On the maternal side his ancestry is traced back 
to John Peirce (or Pers), a weaver, who came to 
this country in 1637 from Norwich, Norfolk 
County, England, and was one of the settlers of 
Watertown, from whom all. or nearly all, of the 
army of Peirces or Pierces in America are de- 
scended. On the paternal side it is believed that 
his ancestors were Nova Scotians. His mother 
died June 17, 1840, when he was a boy of ten; 
and in the autumn of the following year his 
father sold the farm in Sutton, and removed to 
East Douglas, later purchasing a farm there. He 
was educated in the common school of the times, 
with one year at an academy, from the age of six- 
teen to seventeen. Then he left the farm, in De- 
cember, 1847, to enter a country store in Clinton- 
ville (afterwards Clinton). He continued in mer- 
cantile business in Clinton for eighteen years, and 
then, in June, 1865, removed to Worcester, where 
he was clerk with W. O. Swett, in the grocery 
business, the next three years. Erom May, 1870, 
to .April, 1887, he was book-keeper for the hard- 
ware firm of Kennicutt &: Co., and thereafter 



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clerk in the city auditor's otifice till June, 1889, KENDRICK, Ed.mi'nd Peasi.kk, of Spring- 

when he was elected city auditor. He has occu- field, member of the bar, mayor of the city 1893- 
pied this office since that time, having been re- 94, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Leb- 
anon, February i, 1849, son of George S. and 
Hannah (Lyman) Kendrick. He is on both sides 
of early English ancestry. On his father's side 
the first to come to this country was John Ken- 
drick, who was born in England in 1604, and 
emigrated to Massachusetts before 1639. His 
father's mother was Thankful Howe, daughter of 
Abner Howe, who was a captain in the Revolu- 
tionary army. On his mother's side ancestors 
were engaged in the early Indian and Re\olu- 
tionary wars. He was educated in the public 
schools of Lebanon, and at the Kimball Union 
.\cademy, Meriden, N.H., from whicli he grad- 
uated in 1866. He also attended a business 
college in Springfield, from which he was duly 
graduated. He studied law with Judge Bosworth 
in Springfield, and at the lioston University Law 
School, and was admitted to the bar in Spring- 
field, October 25, 1876, to practise in the courts 
of the Commonwealth. Subsequently, in 188 1, 
he was admitted to practice in the United .States 



J. F. HOWELL. 

elected annually. Mr. Howell is prominent in 
the Masonic and other orders, treasurer of Mon- 
tacute Lodge, and Lawrence Chapter of Rose 
Croi.x, eighteenth degree A. and A. Scottish rite a 
member of intermediate bodies in S. R. Masonry, 
as well as those of the York Rite to Commandery 
of Knights Templar ; is a past regent of Worces- 
ter Council, No. 12, Royal .Arcanum; and past 
commander of Hope Council, No. 17, .Vmerican 
Legion of Honor. In politics he was in early life 
a Whig until the dissolution of that party, since 
which he has been connected with the Republican 
party. He has never sought office, and those 
positions which he has held he has endeavored to 
fill with fidelity. He is a member of the Salem 
Street Congregational Church of Worcester, and 
one of the trustees of the parish. He was first 
married, May 15, 1850, to Miss Jane E. Lowe, of 
Clinton; and second, February 22, 1864, to Miss 
Martha W. Tarbell, of Worcester. The chil- 
dren of the first marriage were Augustus F. (now 
of Winchester) and John Henry Howell (of 
Worcester") ; and of the second, one living, — 
Mattie R. Howell. 




E. P. KENDRICK. 

Circuit Court. He has practised in Springfield 
since his admission to the bar. His public ser- 
vice began in 1881 as a member of the Spring- 



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field Common Council. Twice re-elected, he 
-served through 18S2 and US83, being president 
of the board these years. In 1884 and 1885 he 
was a representative for Springfield in the lower 
house of the Massachusetts Legislature. In that 
body he served on the committees on the judi- 
ciary, civil service, and rules, and was influential 
in the passage of the civil service law. In 1890 
he was a member of the Springfield Board of 
Aldermen. In the December election of 1892 he 
was first elected mayor for the term of 1893, and 
in the following election was returned for a 
second term by a majority of over fifteen hun- 
dred votes. Mr. Kendrick is a prominent Mason, 
member of the following bodies: Hampden 
Lodge Morning Star Chapter, Springfield Council, 
Springfield Comniandery Knights Templar, Even- 
ing Star Lodge of Perfection, Massasoit Council, 
of all of which he has been at the head ; a mem- 
ber also of Springfield and Mt. Olivet Chapters of 
Rose Croix and Massachusetts Consistory. He 
is a past grand king of the Grand Chapter of 
Massachusetts, past deputy grand master of the 
(Irand Council of Massachusetts, has received the 
thirty-third, or highest. Masonic degree, and is an 
honorar\' member of the Supreme Council. He 
is also connected with the Odd Fellows, a mem- 
ber of the De Soto Lodge. He is a member of 
the Winthrop Club of Springfield, and was for 
three years its president. He is a director of the 
Connecticut River Railroad Company, and of 
the Masonic Hall Association in Springfield ; and 
is one of the trustees for Hampden Lodge of 
Masons. In politics he has always been a 
Republican ; and in religion he is an Episcopalian, 
a member of Christ Episcopal Church, of which 
he has been vestryman and clerk for many years. 
He has written considerably for the press on legal 
subjects, contribLiting to the Avrc Hiig/ain/ Home- 
stead, the American Agriciiltjiriit, the Central /,a7c 
Journal, and other periodicals, and has been a 
contributor to the American and English Ency- 
clopaedia of Law. Mr. Kendrick was married 
April 9, 1885, to Miss Clara A. Holmes, daughter 
of the late Otis Holmes, of Springfield. They 
have one child : Raymond Holmes Kendrick. 
born February 23, 1S87. 



Kent. On the paternal side he is of the fourth 
generation in direct descent from Samuel Kent, 
who was born in Charlestown, October 13, 1675 ; 




KENT, Thomas Goddard, of Worcester, mem- 
ber of the bar, was born in Framingham, Decem- 
ber 12, 1829, son of John and Mary (Goddard) 



THOIVIAS C. KENT. 

and on the maternal side sixth in direct descent 
from Edward Goddard, who was born and lived 
in Norfolk County, England, was on the Parlia- 
ment side and much oppressed during the Civil 
War, when his house was demolished by a com- 
pany of Cavaliers, and whose son William came to 
America in 1665, and settled in Watertown. His 
father was a carriage-builder. Both parents were 
very religious, and the children of the family were 
trained under the Shorter Catechism, which they 
were required to repeat throughout every Sunday 
evening. He was fitted for college in Warren 
Academy, Woburn, and graduated from Yale in 
the class of 185 i. Immediately after leaving col- 
lege he began the study of law with the Hon. Ed- 
ward Mellen, chief justice of the then existing 
Court of Common Pleas. While a student, in the 
spring of 1852, his father died, leaving six chil- 
dren, but no fortune to distribute. He was en- 
abled, however, to continue his studies ; and in 
October, 1853, he was examined by the Hon. 
Benjamin F. Thomas, then justice of the Supreme 
Court, and upon his recommendation was admitted 
to the bar.. He began practice established in Mil- 



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ford, though his court work was hi Worcester ; 
and his business soon extended. Within his hrst 
seven years of practice he was arguing his causes 
before the judges of the Supreme Court at its an- 
nual session; and since 1S59 he has never failed 
to ha\'e important cases to argue at this annual 
session. He has tried cases in all the counties 
of the State; but he is identified with the bar of 
Worcester County, where his general business has 
been for forty years. In 1869 he was elected to 
the lower house of the Legislature, and there 
served on the committee on the judiciary. In 
1874 he was the Republican candidate in his dis- 
trict for the Senate, but was defeated in the gen- 
eral defeat of his party that year. In 1882 and 
1S83 he was one of the Massachusetts commis- 
sioners appointed to establish the boundary line 
between Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which 
liad been in dispute for more than two hundred 
years, and was successfully accomplished by this 
commission. In 1875 he was appointed by the 
Supreme Court one of the three e.Kaminers of 
candidates for admission to the bar in Worcester 
County, which office he held for si.xteen years, 
when he resigned. He removed his residence to 
Worcester in 1883, and in 1886 he was elected 
to the House of Representatives from this city. 
In the session following he was chairman of the 
committee on the judiciary. Having no taste for 
legislation or politics, he declined a re-election. 
In 1879 he spent several months in travel in 
Europe. Mr. Kent has lost two wives by death, — 
the first in 1863, after a union of si.x years; and 
the second in 1877, after a union of eleven years. 
He married again in 1887 Miss Lucy A. Flagg, of 
Worcester. 



KIMBALL, Hknrv A., of Northampton, mer- 
chant, mayor of the city 1894, is a native of Con- 
necticut, born in Windham, May 3, 1842, son of 
Albert and Melissa (Woodward) Kimball. His 
father was also a native of Windham (born 1808, 
died June 6, 1886), and his mother of another Con- 
necticut town (born 1812), now living in Scotland, 
Windham County. He was brought up on a 
rugged and rocky farm, and acquired his educa- 
tion in the local common and high schools. At 
the age of eighteen he became a teacher, and for 
eight years thereafter taught school winters and 
worked on the farm summers. In -1S69 he left 
farming and school-teaching, and entered the em- 
ploy of the New York & New Haven Railroad Com- 



pany, in the freight department at Xew Haven. 
After a service here of about four years he went 
to the Air Line Railroad as clerk to the super- 
intendent, and remained on that line five years, 
part of the time filling the positions of general 
freight agent and general ticket agent. In April, 
1879, he left the railroad business, and established 
himself at Holyoke, Mass., in the coal business, in 
which he has since continued. In July, 188 1, he 
removed to Northampton, where his business has 
grown from small beginnings to upwards of 100,- 
000 tons a year. It is now^ conducted under the 
firm name of Kimball & Cary. Mr. Kimball is 
also a director of the Hampshire County National 
Bank, of the Norwood Engineering Company, and 
of the Boston Cash Register Company ; and a 
trustee of the Hampshire Savings Bank. He has 
served one term in the Connecticut House of Rep- 
resentatives (1869), three terms in the Massachu- 
setts House of Representatives (1888-89-90), and 
three terms in the State Senate. In the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature he served five years on the 
committee on railroads ; also on the committees 
on banks and banking, and woman's suffrage. 




HENRY A. KIMBALL. 



He was especially identified with legislation rela- 
tive to the separation of grade crossings, and was 
promoter and champion of what is known as the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



" Xortliainpton Grade Crossing Act," passed in 
1892, under the provisions of wiiicii tlie problem 
of separating the grade crossings of Northampton 
is ahiiost assured during his administration as 
mayor. He was elected mayor of Northampton 
for the term of 1894 as a Democrat, by thirty-five 
majority, although the city went Republican for 
governor a month earlier by nearly three hun- 
dred. In politics he has been always a Democrat. 
He is a member of Masonic bodies, including 
Knights Templar. He was married October 13, 
1863, to Miss Mary T. Williams, of Canterbury, 
Conn., daughter of Harlow and Lotilla D. Will- 
iams. She died October 15, 1865. He married 
second, October 23, 1867, Miss Hannah M. Will- 
iams, a sister of his first wife. He has no chil- 
dren. 



KNOWL'l'ON, Marcus Perrin', of Springfield, 
justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Com- 
monwealth, was born in Wilbraham, February 3. 
1S39, son of Merrick and Fatima (Perrin) Knowl- 
ton. His boyhood was spent on a farm in Mon- 
son, to which his parents moved when he was five 




occupation was that of a teacher, before entering 
college teaching a district school two winters, and 
after graduation becoming principal of the Union 
School at Norwalk, Conn. For some time also 
he was an instructor while at Yale. He began 
his law studies early in 1861, reading first with 
James G. Allen, of Palmer, and then with John 
Wells and Augustus L. Soule, of Springfield, both 
of whom were afterwards on the Supreme Bench ; 
and he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar late 
in 1862. Eight years later he was admitted to 
practice in the United States Supreme Court. 
Before his elevation to the bench he was con- 
nected with numerous large interests, and served 
in various official capacities. In 1872 and 1873 
he was president of the Springfield Common 
Council; in 1878 he was a Springfield represen- 
tative in the lower house of the Legislature, where 
he served on the important committees on the 
judiciary, on the liquor law. State detective force, 
and constitutional amendments; and in 1880 
and 1881 a State senator, representing the First 
Hampden District. At this time also he was a 
director of the Springfield iS: New London Rail- 
road Company ; director of the City National Bank 
of Springfield ; and trustee and treasurer of the 
Springfield City Hospital. He was first ap- 
pointed a justice of the Superior Court in August, 
1 88 1, and was promoted to the Supreme Bench in 
1887 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 
of Judge Gardner, who died the following year. 
Judge Knowlton wa? first married July 18, 1867, 
at Springfield, to Sophia Ritchie, daughter of 
William and Saba A. (Cushman) Ritcliie. She 
died February 18, 1886. On May 21, 1891, he 
was married to Rose M. Ladd, of Portland, Me., 
daughter of Cyrus K. and Susan Ladd. They 
have one child : Marcus L. Knowlton, born 
March 23, 1892. 



M. p. KNOWLTON. 

years old. He was educated in the common 

schools, at the Monson Academy, and at Yale, 

where he graduated in the class of i860. His first 



LANGTRY, Albert Perkins, of Springfield, 
publisher of the Springfield Union, was born in 
Wakefield, July 27, i860, son of Joseph and 
Sarah J. iLakin) Langtry. His father was a na- 
tive of St. John, N.B., and his mother of Boston. 
He was educated in the common schools, mostly 
at Newton, to which his parents moved when he 
was a child. He began active life at the age of 
eighteen as boy in a Boston office. Subsequently 
he found his way into journalism, and in 1882 be- 
came a reporter on the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Standard- 



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i'liioii. In 1 886 he joined the st;an' of tlie Jirook- in tiie common schools and at the English and 



lyn Ihiirs, also as a reporter, later becominj; man- 
ager of the Long Island edition of the same paper. 




A. p. LANGTRY. 

In 1S90 he came to Springfield as business man- 
ager of the Union, then an evening paper only. 
In 1892, when the property was reorganized and 
the morning issue started, he became general 
manager, and in 1894 was made publisher, the 
position he now holds. Under his management 
the Union has grown largely in circulation, adver- 
tising business, and influence. Mr. Langtry was 
also one of the founders of the Providence (R.I.) 
A'cu's. In politics he is a Republican, but has 
never held office. He w'as married August 3, 
1886, to Miss Sallie C. Spear, of the West Rox- 
bury District, Boston. They have no children. 



LArHK()l', Edward Howard, of Spring- 
field, member of the Hampden bar, is a native of 
Springfield, born December 2, 1837, son of Bella 
and Lucinda ( Russell) Lathrop. He is a descend- 
ant of the Rev. John Lathrop, of Boston, or- 
dained minister of the Second Church in Boston in 
1768, and is of the branch of the Lathrop family 
to which Mr. Justice Lathrop of the Massachu- 
setts Supreme Court belongs. He was educated 



Classical Institute of Springfield, and began the 
study of law in 1856, in the office of Merrill & 
\\illard, at Montpelier, Vt. He was admitted 
to the bar in December, 1859, and has since prac- 
tised continuously in Springfield. His public life 
began as a member of the lower house of the 
Legislature of 1868. In 1874 he was a State 
senator, representing the First Hampden District. 
For the succeeding three years, 1875-76-77, he 
was district attorney for the Western district made 
up of the counties of Hampden and Berkshire, in 
which office he maintained the high standard 
which had been set by his predecessors. In 1881 
he was re-elected to the House of Representatives 
for the term of 1882, and four years later re- 
turned for 1886, serving both terms on the com- 
mittee on the judiciary. In 1878 and again in 
1892 he was the Democratic candidate for Con- 
gress in his district. He has a reputation for in- 
dependence, and his boldness in expressing his 
mind has won respect among his opponents. 
During the campaign of 1S80 he came out in a 
letter for Garfield, and after that acted with the 




EDWARD H. LATHROP. 



Republicans, though openly differing with their 
tendency on the tarilT issue, until the adoption by 
the party of the e.xtreme high tariff policy, when 



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he returned to fellowship witli the Democrats. 
He has a graceful faculty of campaign oratory, 
and is a favorite speaker at banquets and other 
public occasions. Mr. Lathrop is connected with 
the Masonic rirder, a member of the Springfield 
Schuetzen Verein, the Springfield Royal Arch 
riiapter. the Council Commandery, Rosewell Lee 
Lodge ; and his club connections are with the 
Springfield, the W'inthrop, " Kamp Komfort 
Klub," and the Westminster of Springfield. He 
was married November 26, 1867, to Miss Susan 
T. Little, of Huntington. They have had three 
children : Maud (deceased). Edward H., Jr. (de- 
ceased), and Paul H. Lathrop. 



LONG, C'harlks Lednako. of Springfield, 
member of the bar, is a native of Lowell, born 
September 16, 185 1, son of David W. and Orpha 
(Leonard) Long. He is a descendant of David 
Long who lived in Taunton, and there died Octo- 
ber 14, 1784. He was educated in the public 
schools of Lowell. He entered the Harvard Law 
School, and at the end of one year passed the two 




CHAS. L. LONG. 



February. 1S72, when he went to Springfield, and 
entered the law oflice of Stearns & Knowlton, 
consisting of the Hon. George j\L Stearns, of 
Chicopee, and the Hon. Marcus P. Knowlton, 
now a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme 
Court. In 1875 he was admitted to membership 
in the firm, when it took the name of Stearns, 
Knowlton, & Long, and was a member thereof 
until its dissolution in 1878, by the retirement of 
Mr. Stearns to his office in Chicopee. Thereupon 
the firm of Knowlton &: Long was formed, which 
continued till Mr. Knowlton was appointed to the 
Superior Court in 1881, since which Mr. Long 
has practised alone. He is recognized as one of 
the leading lawyers of the city, and has a large 
general practice, being counsel for many of 
the financial and manufacturing corporations of 
Springfield. He was city solicitor in 1881, again 
in 1889-90-91. and in 1893-94; and was ap- 
pointed by Governor Ames one of the associate 
justices of the Police Court of Springfield on De- 
cember 26, 1889. He has served three terms in 
the Springfield Common Council, in 1884-85-86, 
the last two terms president of the body, and in 
the December election of 1894 he was elected 
mayor of Springfield for the year 1895. In pol- 
itics he has always been a Republican. He is 
a member of the Winthrop Club of Springfield. 
Mr. Long was married December 15, 1880, to 
Miss Hattie F. Clyde, daughter of Milton A. and 
Caroline V. Clyde, of Springfield. They have 
one child : Milton Clyde Long. 



years' course, and received the degree of LL.B. 
(187 1). The next term he returned to the school, 
and engaged in a general study of the law till 



LONGLEY, Henrv Ashley, of Northampton, 
for a long period high sheriff of Hampshire 
County, was born in Hawley, Franklin County, 
January 5, 1814 ; died in Northampton, Decem- 
ber 27, 1893. His grandfather, Edmond Longley, 
was one of the first settlers of Hawley, at that 
time designated as Plantation No. 7 ; served in 
the War of 18 12, and died at the advanced age of 
ninety-si.\, retaining his faculties in a remarkable 
degree until the last. Mr. Longley was educated 
in his native tow-n and in the Bennington Semi- 
nary, where he spent two terms, entering at the 
age of seventeen. After his graduation from the 
academy he engaged in mercantile business, in 
company with his father, in Belchertown. In 
April, 1861, he removed to Northampton; and 
there he lived for the remainder of his life. He 
was first made sheriff of Hampshire in February, 



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321 



1855, receiving the appointment from Governor 
Henry (Gardner, and held the office until it be- 
came elective. Then, as the Republican candi- 




measures which he believed would best promote 
the welfare of the State, secure prosperity, and 
prevent discord. He belonged to the Masonic 
order, member of the Jerusalem Lodge. He was 
married October 16, 1833, to Miss Eliza Smith, 
daughter of Obed Smith. They had a son and 
a daughter : William Hyde and Sylvia Elizabeth 
Longley. 



L\ FORI), Edwin Francis, of Springfield, 
member of the bar, is a native of Maine, born in 
\\aterville, September 8, 1857, son of Moses 
Lyford, LL.L)., and Mary L. (Dyer) Lyford. 
His father was for many years a professor in 
Colby University in the department of astronomy 
and natural philosophy. The family history has 
been traced back to Francis Lyford, a mariner of 
Boston, commander of the sloop "Elizabeth," 
who died in 1723. Edwin F. attended the public 
schools of his native place ; was fitted for college 
at the W'aterville, now Coburn Classical Institute, 
and was graduated from Colby University in 1877. 
In 18S2 he received the degree of A.M. from the 



H. A. LONGLEY. 

date, which party he had joined on its formation, 
he was elected to the position ; and he was again 
and again returned, always with large pluralities, 
and once with but a single vote against him in the 
whole county, the score rounding up to nine 
terms, an aggregate of twenty-seven years, which 
with his previous service gave him a record of 
about thirty years. In appearance and in phys- 
ical development, the Hampshire Gazette has re- 
marked, he was "the typical high sheriff. He 
introduced the practice of his officers wearing the 
blue brass-button uniform when on duty in the 
courts, which has since become the established 
custom everywhere. He was always a popular 
officer. He was full of sympathy for his fellow- 
men, and the prisoners had no better friend than 
he. Sometimes this sympathy got the better of 
his judgment: but the people always stood by 
him, for they liked his kindly, humane disposition. 
He was a man of fine feeling, and had a deep 
sense of religious matters." Early in his career, 

when living in Fielchertown. Major Longley was same institution. -After graduation from college 
a representative in the (leneral Court (1849-52 he studied law in the office of the Hon. Reuben 
and 1854), and as a legislator supported those Foster at W'aterville, and also taught for a while 




EDWIN F. LYFORD. 



322 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in high school and in university. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Maine in 1879, and to the 
Massachusetts bar in 1882, when he removed to 
Springfield. Since that time he has been in active 
practice in the latter city. He early became in- 
terested in municipal and political affairs, and 
has served his city in its local government and in 
the State Legislature. He was a member of the 
Springfield City Council in 18S5 and 1886; mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives in 1892 and 
in 1893, and of the Senate in 1894. In the 
House he served as clerk of the committee on 
cities in 1892 ; and as chairman of the committee 
on probate and insolvency, and member of that 
on constitutional amendments, in 1893. During 
the latter year he was also chairman of the special 
committee charged with the investigation of the 
Bay State Gas Company, as the result of which 
investigation the act known as the "Lyford Bill" 
was passed, which conditionally revoked the char- 
ter of the company. In the Senate he served as 
chairman of the Senate committee on probate and 
insolvency, and as clerk of the Senate committee 
on the judiciary, and was a member of the joint 
committee on taxation and that on revision of 
corporation laws. He was also chairman of the 
joint special committee on "the unemployed." 
He served as secretary of the Republican Club of 
Springfield in 1888, and secretary of the Ward 
Five Republican Club in 1891. He is a member 
of the Board of Trustees of Colby University, a 
director of the Springfield Young Men's Christian 
Association, a member of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, member of 
tiie Connecticut Valley Historical Society; of the 
\\'inthrop, Westminster, and Saturday Night clubs 
of Springfield, the Springfield Bicycle Club, the 
Springfield Canoe Association ; of the Middlesex 
Club of Boston : and of the Massachusetts State 
Republican Club, — on the executive committee 
of the latter. In religious views Mr. Lyford is a 
Baptist, member of the State Street Baptist 
Church of Springfield. He has done some liter- 
ary work of note, and in 1882 published a book 
for children entitled " Pictures and Stories from 
American History.'' He is unmarried. 



he is of Scotch ancestry, and on the maternal of 
English. He is a descendant of the McClures 
who were among the early settlers of London- 
derry, N.H. His father, born in Merrimack, son 
of Edward McClure, was a merchant of Nashua 
for many years. Frederick A. was educated in 
the public schools of his native place. After 
passing through the High School, he entered upon 
a course of training for the profession of a civil 
engineer, taking a position in the office of the city 
engineer of Worcester in 1869, and continuing in 
this office for three years. Then he began oper- 
ating upon the construction of railroads as an 
assistant engineer. After much experience and 
practical knowledge gained in this way, his last 
employment being on the work of changing a por- 
tion of the railway lines within the limits of the 
city of Worcester, he re-entered the office of the 
city engineer in 1877. Here he remained as an 
assistant till 1891, when he was elected superin- 
tendent of sewers, in which capacity he served 
until elected to his present position, to which he 
has been twice re-elected. As a civil engineer, he 
has won more than a local reputation. He is a 




FREDK. A. McCLURE. 



McCLURE, Frederick Albert, of Worcester, 

city engineer, is a native of New Hampshire, born member of the Worcester County Society of Civil 

in Nashua, August i, 1852, son of Charles E. and Engineers, and of other organizations. In poli- 

Lucinda (Smith) McClure. On the paternal side tics he is a Republican. He was married May 



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323 



29, 1883, to Miss Ida Evelyn Wliilticr, of Fitch- 
burg. They have one child, a daughter : Evelyn 
Mct'hire. 




(1894) president, director, and trustee of the 
Mutual Investment Company. He has been a 
generous giver of land for public park purposes, 
having with J. U. McKnight, his partner and 
brother, given to the city Thompson's Park, 
McKnight Park, two parks in Amherst Street, 
Clarendon Street Park, Dartmouth Street Park, 
and McKnight Glen. He also gave the lot on 
Buckingham Street for the Children's Home. 
He is a director of the Oak Grove Cemetery. 
He was formerly a member of the Springfield 
Club, and now belongs to the Winthrop Club. 
In politics he is a Republican. He was mar- 
ried August 30, 1864, to Miss Caroline Phelps 
James, daughter of Willis James, of New York. 
They have one daughter : Lillian James McKnight. 



MARDEN, Frederick Gray, of Worcester, 
proprietor of the Commonwealth Hotel, was born 
in Boston, August 2, 1855, son of Jefferson L. 
and Frances (Veazie) Marden. He is of Puritan 
ancestrv, on his mother's side in direct line of 
the Veazies early in Massachusetts, and on his 



w. H. Mcknight. 

McKNIGHT, William Harrison, of Spring- 
field, real estate operator, is a native of New 
York, born in Truxton, Cortlandt County, July 
6, 1836, son of Charles and Almira (Clapp) 
McKnight. On his father's side he is of Scotch 
descent, and on his mother's of English. His pater- 
nal great-grandfather, Lewis ]McKnight, settled in 
Monmouth County, New Jersey, about the year 
1700; and his first ancestor on his mother's side in 
America was Roger Clap, born at Salcombe Regis, 
Devonshire, England, April 6, 1609, who came 
out in the "Mary and John," landed at Nantasket, 
Mass., May 30, 1630, and was one of the first 
settlers of Dorchester. His father was born at 
Charlton, N.Y., August 12, 17S7, his mother at 
Easthampton, . Mass., January 23, 1802; and 
they married August 30, 182 1. He was educated 
in the public schools of Truxton. In 1858 he 
entered the dry-goods trade in Springfield, and 
continued in this business for twenty years. 
From 1878 to 1880 he was in the flour commis- 
sion business ; and since 1880 he has been en- father's side from first settlers in Portsmouth, 
gaged in real estate operations, under the firm N.H. He was educated in the public schools of 
name of J. D. & W. H. McKnight. He is now Quincy and Boston. When a boy of eleven, he 




F. G. MARDEN. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



was at work on a farm in Maine. At the age of 
fifteen his schooling was finished ; and not long 
after he was employed in a dry-goods commission 
house, in which business he continued several 
years. In 1881 he was connected with the Mem- 
phremagog House, Newport, Vt., as clerk, and he 
has been engaged in the hotel business ever since. 
After an experience of about a year at the Ifnited 
States Hotel, Boston, as clerk, he took the Hotel 
Preston at Beach Bluff, which he managed through 
the seasons of 1883 and 1884. In 1886 he be- 
came the proprietor of the Clifford House in 
Plymouth. In 1890 he went to the City Hotel. 
Portland, Me., where he remained till February, 
1893, when with a partner he bought the Com- 
monwealth Hotel, and removed to Worcester. 
This house, one of the largest ni the city, he 
has since conducted, under the firm name of 
F. G. Marden & Co. 



brother, George, the other in Union Block. In 
1866 George died, and the two stores were then 
consolidated. From Union Block removal was 



MARSH, Charle.s S.mith, of Springfield, mer- 
chant, is a native of Hardwick, Worcester County, 
born May 15, 1842, son of Joel Smith and Abi- 
gail Drury (Gleason) Marsh. He is a descendant 
in the direct line of John Marsh, one of the first 
settlers of Hartford, Conn., there in 1639, who 
lived some time also in Hadley and in Northamp- 
ton, Mass. His great -great -great -grandfather, 
Samuel Marsh, lived in Hatfield, and was a rep- 
resentative in the General Court in 1705-06. 
His great-great-grandfather, Thomas, moved early 
to Ware: his great-grandfather, Judah, also lived 
in Ware, and died there, aged nearly eighty- 
nine years ; and his grandfather, Joel, was the 
first to reside in Hardwick, moving there about 
the year 1800. His paternal grandmother lived 
to the age of nearly ninety-four, and his father 
reached the ripe age of eighty-nine years and ten 
months. His mother also lived to a good old 
age, her death occurring in 1885 in her eighty- 
first year. His education was begun in the Hard- 
wick public schools, and completed in those of 
Springfield, which he attended from his ninth to 
his eighteenth year. Upon leaving school, he en- 
tered the wholesale and retail grocery business 
established by his father in Springfield in 1852, 
the year the town became a city, and has been 
connected with it ever since, a period of thirty- 
four years. From 1861 to 1866 they carried on 
two stores, he conducting one at No. 4 Burt's 
Block, Main Street, and his father and vounger 




CHAS. S. MARSH. 

made in 1876 to the present location in Barnes 
Block, in which Mr. Marsh owns a half interest. 
He early became a partner in the business, while 
the firm name was J. S. Marsh &: Co. It became 
J. S. Marsh &; Son upon the removal to Barnes 
Block, and so remained till the death of the sen- 
ior Marsh in August, 1893, although the latter 
virtually retired from the business several years 
before, and it ha^ for some time been largely man- 
aged by the son, who developed it to its present 
proportions. Mr. Marsh is prominent in the Ma- 
sonic order, a member of the Hampden Lodge, 
Springfield, of the Morning Star Chapter, Spring- 
field, the Springfield Council, the Springfield 
Commandery Knights Templar, the Evening Star 
Lodge of Perfection (present treasurer, having 
been previously some time secretary), the Massa- 
soit Princes of Jerusalem, the Springfield Chapter 
of Rose Croix, and the Massachusetts Consistory, 
thirty-second degree, of Boston. He belongs to 
the Masonic Social Club of Springfield, and has 
been a member of the Winthrop Club. For sev- 
eral years he has been connected with the Spring- 
field Board of Trade. In politics he is a Repub- 



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iican, and in religion a Congregationalist, — a 
niemljer of the First Churcli of Clirist, in Spring- 
lield, since 1866, and its treasurer for five years, 
1S76-80. He never married. 



MARSH, Daniel Jav, of .Springfield, treasurer 
of the Five Cents Savings Bank, is a native of 
Connecticut, born in Hartford, July 27, 1837, son 
of Michael and Catheryn (AUyn) Marsh. He is 
a descendant of John Marsh, who emigrated from 
Braintree, England, in 1633, was a pioneer set- 
tler of Hartford, Ct., and of Hadley, Mass., and 
mirried Anne Webster, daughter of Governor 
John Webster of Connecticut, some of whose 
grandsons were pioneers of Litchfield, New Hart- 
ford, and Lebanon, Ct., and one. Colonel Eben- 
ezer IVLrrsh, led a Connecticut regiment against 
Ticonderoga. Among his ancestors Mr. Marsh 
also counts the famous Mathers, — the Rev. Rich- 
ard Mather, grandson of John Mather of Lowton, 
Lancaster, England, who landed in Boston, Au- 
gust 16, 1635, and was long the minister of Dor- 
chester ; Increase Mather, son of Richard, and 




DANIEL J. MARSH. 



in Charlestown in 1632, was representative from 
1648 to 1658, commissioner for the United Colo- 
nies 1660-64, and magistrate 1657-67, many of 
whose descendants served with distinction in the 
armies of the colonies against the Indians, the 
French, and in the War of the Revolution. He 
was educated in the district school in Springfield 
and at the \\'ilbraham .\cademy. He began busi- 
ness life as a clerk in a drug store. Afterward he 
was some time a book-keeper in a dry-goods store, 
then in an insurance office, then for the construc- 
tion company that built the (_)hio li: Mississippi 
and North Missouri Railroads (conducting the 
first train over the latter road), and in 1859 he 
was elected to the position which he still holds, — 
treasurer of the Springfield Five Cents Savings 
Bank. During the Civil War he served a year in 
the army, 1861-62, going out as a private in the 
Forty-si.xth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
soon promoted through the lower grades to lieu- 
tenant, and later aide-de-camp and acting adju- 
tant-general. Eighteenth Army Corps, on the staff 
of General H. C. Lee. He has served in the City 
Council of Springfield one term (1874), and has 
been a park commissioner since the organization 
of the board in 1883, president of the board for 
ten years. In politics he is a Democrat, and a 
firm believer in the rights of the people. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the 
Loyal Legion of the United States. He was mar- 
ried May 15, 1864, to Mi.ss Harriet Mary Gay, 
daughter of N. Denslow Gay. They have two 
children: Henry Daniel (born 1S65 ) and Oliver 
AUyn Marsh (^born 1S66;. 



Cotton Mather, son of Increase; and the Allyns, 
descending from the Hon. Matthew AUyn, who 
came from Brampton, Devon, England, and settled 



MARSH, Henrv Elihu, of Springfield, propri- 
etor of Cooky's Hotel, was born in Hatfield, 
May 30, 1846, son of Elihu and Mary A. (War- 
ren) Marsh. He was reared on the farm, and ed- 
ucated in the common school. .\t the age of 
twenty he left home, and came to Springfield, 
where he obtained a situation as office boy in 
Cooley's Hotel. F'rom that time to the present 
he has been continuously engaged at Cooley's, 
working though every grade to the head of the es- 
tablishment. In 1881 he was taken into partner- 
ship by J. M. Cooley, the original landlord of the 
house (first opened in 1850); and in 1892 he 
assumed the entire management. Under his di- 
rection the house has been enlarged, and equipped 
with modern fittings. Mr. Marsh has served one 



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term in the Springfield Common Council ( 189 iV 
He is connected with the Masonic orders, mem- 
ber of the Roswell Lee Lodge and the Springfield 




HENRY E. MARSH. 

Commandery of Knights Templar, and is a mem- 
ber of the W'inthrop Club. He was married in 
1870 to Miss Mary L. Fisher, of Danielsonville, 
Conn. They have three boys : Edward Fisher, 
Philip Allen, and Harry Cooley Marsh. 



MARSH, WiLLi.^M Charles, of Springfield, 
treasurer of Hampden County, is a native of 
Springfield, born February 13, 1862, son of 
Charles and Helen (Penniman) Marsh. He 
is a direct descendant of Cotton Mather. His 
father was a well-known citizen of Springfield, 
president of the Pynchon National Bank, and 
vice-president of the Springfield Institution of 
Savings at the time of his death, November 27, 
1 89 1. He was educated in the Springfield gram- 
mar and high schools, leaving the latter in his 
junior year to enter business, contrary to the wish 
of his father who, himself a college-bred man, 
graduate of Williams in the class of 1855, wanted 
him also to go to Williams. But he was anxious 
to get out into the world and earn his own living, 
although his father was a man of means, and 



abundantly able to put him through college. 
While yet at school, he worked at odd hours, and 
after his fifteenth year was self-supporting. The 
first two years after leaving school he was in the 
Chicopee National Bank. Then for ten years he 
was with the Pynchon National Bank, while his 
father was its president, the greater portion of 
that period as paying teller ; and he resigned this 
position when he was elected to his present office 
of county treasurer in November, 1S91. He has 
been treasurer also of numerous organizations, 
— of the Springfield Bicycle Club, the largest 
in the State, 1885-86; of the South Congrega- 
tional Church in 1888-89-90-91 ; of the Spring- 
field Canoe Club in 1S89-90; and of the Spring- 
field Cemetery Association since 1892 (elected 
December, 1891). From December, 1888, to May, 
1891,116 was United States disbursing agent for 
the government while building the new post-office 
at Springfield. In politics he is a Democrat. 




WM. C. MARSH. 



He is a member of the Young Men's Democratic 
Club of Massachusetts, and of the local Bicycle 
and Winthrop clubs. He is unmarried. 



MELLEN, James Henry, of Worcester, editor, 
and identified with labor interests, is a native of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Worcester, linni Xnvcmher 7, 1845, ^'^n of James 
and .Mary;aret ( ISrennan ) Mcllen. He is of Irish 
ancestry. He was educated in the Worcester pub- 
he schools, and his training for active Hfe was in 
an iron foundry and the deliating society. Early 
taking an interest in politics and writing for the 
press, he became a recognized leader in working- 
men's and kindred movements when vet a young 
man. Since the late seventies he has been a con- 
spicuous member of the lower house of the Legis- 
lature, — five years representing the Twenty-third 
Worcester District, and seven the Twenty-second, 
— and for two years (1887-88) he was prominent 
in the Worcester Common Council. In the Legis- 
lature he has served on the committees on labor, 
prisons, public charitable institutions, convict 
labor, mercantile affairs, revision of the statutes, 
railroads, rules, taxation, and special committees 
on finance, expenditures, and revision of the tax 
code ; and has introduced and advocated numer- 
ous labor measures. Li his second term (1878) he 
introduced the order for legislation requiring that 
children under thirteen years of age before being 
employed in manufacturing establishments must 
be able to read and write. The next year he put 
in the order for municipal weekly payments, upon 
which the first weekly payment bill which be- 
came a law in the State was reported: in 18S1 he 
introduced a secret-ballot bill; in 1886 an arbi- 
tration bill, also an order for legislation requiring 
the placing of guards on freight cars ; and in 
1888 a bill establishing a ten-hour day for street 
railway employees, and an order to make Labor 
Day a legal holiday. He introduced the first 
order on municipal lighting, which was supported 
by Edward Bellamy, Rev. Edward E. Hale, and 
others ; he was instrumental in modifying the 
trustee process ; the famous ten-hour law could 
not be enforced until he caused the word " wilful " 
to be stricken out, in 1879 ; he agitated separa- 
tion of grade crossings for years, and introduced 
the first order on the subject in 1881, requiring 
railroads to pay all of the expense ; and he was 
on the legislative committee sent to Washington 
to protect railroad employees in 1892. Through 
his influence the committee of the Legislature on 
labor, which until 1881 had been only a "special " 
committee, was changed to a regular joint stand- 
ing committee. During the administration of Gov- 
ernor Butler he was a member of the Tewks- 
bury Almshouse Livestigation Committee, and 
had a hand in the minority report sustaining the 



governor; and in 1895 he was on the committee 
appointed to draft resolutions on the death of 
General Butler. He established the Worcester 




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JAMES H. MELLEN. 

Daily TiDics, as an evening Democratic labor 
paper, in 1879. and was its editor for upwards of 
ten years. For seven years he was identified with 
the " moral suasion " temperance movement ; he 
is an advocate of tax-reform ; and he has some 
time been State master workman of Massachu- 
setts Assembly of Knights of Labor. Mr. Mellen 
was first married in 1867 to Julia A. Mooney, by 
whom he had seven children : William R., John F., 
Katie, Annie, Margaret, James, and Richard Mel- 
len. He married second, in 1S88, Mary O'Ha- 
gan, of Ogdensburg, N.Y. They have one child : 
Mary Mellen. 



MERRILL. Charles Amos, of the Worcester 
bar, was born in South Boston, September 23. 
1843. He is a son of the Rev. John W. Merrill, 
D.D, of Concord, N.H., who was the second 
president of McKendree College, 111., and after- 
wards, for more than thirty years, professor in the 
Methodist General Biblical Institute at Concord 
before it became a department of Fioston LTniver- 
sity. His mother was Emily Huse Merrill, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



daughter of the late Enoch Huse, of Newburyport, 
Mass. Mr. Merrill is of English ancestry, his 
progenitor having been born at Salisbury, Eng- 
land, in 1610, and died at Newbury. Mass., in 
1655. He prepared for college at the Concord 
(N.H.) High School, entered Dartmouth College 
in i860, left at the end of the second year of his 
course on account of severe illness, and after- 
ward entered Wesleyan University, where he 
graduated in 1864. He was for a time principal 
of Bacon Academy at Colchester, Conn., and 
afterward of Brainard .\cademy at Haddam, 
Conn. In 1865 he was a paymaster's clerk in the 




CHARLES A. MERRILL. 

army, and in 1866 an e.\aminer of referred claims 
in the pa)'master-generars office at Washington. 
In 1867-68 he was private secretary of the ser- 
geant-at-arms of the United States Senate and of 
the late Senator J. \\'. Patterson, of New Hamp- 
shire. He graduated from Columbian Law School 
at Washington in 1868, and from the Harvard 
Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1868 by the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and in 1869 by the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He was subse- 
quently admitted to the United States Circuit 
Court at Boston. In 1870 he was partner of the 
Hon. Isaac Atwater, an ex-justice of the Supreme 



Court of Minnesota, at Minneapolis. The ne.xt 
year he returned to Massachusetts, and was part- 
ner of W. A. Gile at Worcester till 1879, when 
this relation ceased, since which time he has been 
constantly engaged in practice at the last-named 
city. He received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. 
in course from Wesleyan LTniversity, and the de- 
gree of LL.B. from Columbian and Harvard 
Law Schools. He edited the Supplement to the 
Public Statutes of 1882-88. Other than as stated 
he has held no political office, and has devoted 
himself e.xclusively to his profession. He was 
married April 15, 1873, to Miss Ellen Elizabeth 
Shuey, of Minneapolis, a daughter of the late 
John H. Shuey, of that city. They have no 
children. 

MOXOM, Rev. Philip Stafford, 1 ).])., of 
Springfield, pastor of the South Congregational 
Church, was born in Markham, Canada, August 
10, 1848, son of Job Hibbard and Annie (Turner) 
Moxom. His father was born in 1816 in Wilt- 
shire, England, not far from Salisbury; was edu- 
cated in a military school ; served over six years 
in the Queen's Grenadiers; came to Canada 
under Lord Durham during McKenzie's Rebell- 
ion ; afterward left the army ; entered the ^\'es- 
leyan ministry, but became a Baptist minister 
after several years ; moved to the States, settling 
in Illinois in the late fifties; served in the Civil 
War in the Fifty-eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry, 
as second, then first lieutenant, promoted to the 
latter rank for honorable service on the field of 
.Shiloh, and was wounded three times ; is still 
living in Kansas, at the age of seventy-eight 
years. His mother was a native of Yorkshire, 
England, born in 18 19, and came to Quebec in 
childhood. She was a woman of remarkable 
character, quiet, patient, eager to learn, of invin- 
cible integrity, an earnest and progressive Chris- 
tian. She died May 21, 1893. Mr. Moxom's 
education was begim in the common and high 
schools of De Kalb, 111., and was interrupted by 
the Civil War, to which he went first, in the winter 
of 1861-62, with the Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantrv. 
— his father's regiment, — as "boy" to Captain 
Bew'ley. In this capacity he was at the battle of 
Fort Donelson. On October 3, 1863, he enlisted 
in Company C, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, and 
served until the 29th of November, 1865. Upon 
his return from the war he resumed his studies, 
entering the preparatory class of Kalamazoo 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



353 



Worcester Honiceopathic Hospital and Dispen- Safe Deposit & Trust Company, and of tlie 
sary ; and lie is a trvistee of the Worcester Rural Springtield Electric Light Company. He is con- 
Cemetery Corporation. Mr. Upham was married nected with the First Congregational Church, a 
Jime 1 6, 1873, to Miss Clara Story, of Worcester, member of the prudential committee: and is 



They have one child : Edith Story Upham. 




a director of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion. He was first married in Glasgow in 1867 
to Miss Janet Miller, who died in 1881, leaving 
one son : Robert Wallace. He married second, 
in 1883, Miss Madora Vaille, daughter of Dr. 
Henry R. and Sarah (Lewds) Vaille, of Springfield. 
They have five children : .Andrew B., Douglas V., 
Madora, Ruth, and Norman Wallace. 



WARREN, JoHX Kelso, M.D., of Worcester, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Manches- 
ter, March i, 1846, son of Joseph H. and Mary A. 
(Kelso) Warren. He was educated in the common 
schools and at the Mount Vernon and Frances- 
town academies i and fitted for his profession at 
the New York Homttopathic Medical College, 
graduating on his twenty-fourth birthdav. Start- 
ing in life poor, he earned his way through school 
and college, first bv working vacations, and later 



A. B. WALLACE. 

W.VLLACE, Andrew B., of Springfield, mer- 
chant, is a native of Scotland, born in Newburgh- 
on-Tay, March 27, 1842, son of David and Chris- 
tine (Brabner) Wallace. He was educated in the 
local schools, and at fifteen entered a dry-goods 
store as an apprentice, where he served four years. 
Afterward he was a clerk in stores in Sterling and 
in Glasgow, and in 1867 came to this country, land- 
ing in Boston. There he spent three years in the 
dry-goods house of Hogg, Brown, & Taylor, and 
then, forming a partnership with John M. .Smith 
of Springfield, at that time of the firm of Forbes 
& Smith, opened a store in Pittsfield. In 1874 
he removed to Springfield, having purchased Mr. 
.Smith's interest in the business of Forbes & 
.Smith, which thereupon became Forbes & Wal- 
lace. He is also a director of the .Springfield 
Knitting Company, of the Warwick Bicycle Com- 
pany, of the Denholm & McKay Dry Goods by teaching. Immediately after his graduation 
Company of Worcester, of the Pettis Dry Goods he established himself in Palmer, and for some 
Company, Indianapolis, Ind., of the Springfield time was the only physician practising homte- 




K. WARREN. 



354 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



opiithy between Springfield and Worcester. In 
April, 1879, ^^ v.'eT\t to Europe for the purpose of 
making a special study of surgery, and spent 
.some months in the hospitals of London, Paris, 
Heidelberg, and Edinburgh. Returning in 1880, 
he resumed his practice in Palmer. In December, 
1882, he removed to Worcester, where he has been 
in active practice ever since. In December, 1893, 
he established a private surgical hospital, the first 
institution of its kind in Worcester, which con- 
tinues in a satisfactory condition. Dr. Warren is 
a member of the American Institute of Homce- 
opathy, of the Massachusetts State Medical Society, 
the Massachusetts Surgical Society, and of numer- 
ous local societies. He was married November 24. 
1873, to Miss .Augusta A. Davis, of Newport, N.H. 
They have two children : Alice B. and Bertha M. 
Warren. 

WARRINER, Colonel Stephen Cadv, of 
Springfield, insurance agent, was born in Monson, 
August 25, 1839, son of Stephen O. and Saphiria 
(Flagg) Warriner. He is a descendant in the 
direct line of William Warriner, settled in Spring- 
field in 1640. His great-great-great-great-grand- 
father was Deacon James Warriner, born in 
1640 ; his great-great-great-grandfather. Lieu- 
tenant James \\'arriner, born in 1668; his great- 
great-grandfather. Ensign James Warriner, born 
1692 ; great-grandfather, Captain James Warriner, 
Jr., who commanded a companv of minutemen 
who marched to Lexington ; and his grandfather, 
Stephen \A'arriner, born 1760. He was educated 
in the common schools and at Monson Academy. 
He worked on his fathers farm until he was 
eighteen years of age, and while a student at the 
academy taught school during the vacation 
seasons, — in 1858-59 in Huntington County, 
Penna., and in i860 in Monson. He attended 
the academy for four years, and was a member 
of the graduating class of 1861. On the 28th 
of April that year he enlisted, and was mustered 
in as a private in Company E, Tenth Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteers, June 21. He was 
early made sergeant of his company, which rank 
he held till August 9, 1862, when he was com- 
missioned as captain of Company E, Thirt\--sixth 
Regiment, and so served till his honorable dis- 
charge, April 28, 1864. He was never absent 
from his regiment when it was on duty, and he 
took part in the following engagements: Williams- 
burg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Charles City Cross 



Roads, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Jackson, 
Campbell Station, Blue Springs, the siege of 
Vorktown, Vicksburg, and Knoxville, Tenn. 
Establishing himself in Springfield in 1866, he 
began business as a fire insurance agent, which 
has been his occupation ever since. In politics 
he is a Republican, and since the early seventies 
has been prominent in party affairs. From 1875 
to 1878 he was chairman of the Republican city 
committee of Springfield. He has served in the 
Springfield city government, the State Legislature, 
and on the staff of Governor Talbot. He was 
first elected a member of the Common Council of 
Springfield for the term of 1877 ; w'as an alder- 
man in 1880; on the governor's staff through 
1879 as colonel and aide-de-camp; and a member 
of the House of Representatives of 1893-94-95. 
During his first term in the Legislature he served 
on the committees on printing and on engrossed 
bills ; and through his second term he was on 
the committee on elections. He has served as 
commander of Clara Barton Post, No. 65, Grand 
Army, for two terms, and of E. K. Wilcox Post, 
No. 16, also two terms. He is connected with 




S. C. WARRINER. 



the Masonic order, a member of the Roswell Lee 
Lodge of Springfield, and of the Morning Star 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Other organiza- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



355 



tions to which he belongs are the Springfield 
Improvement Company and the Middlesex Club 
of Boston. Mr. Warriner first married September 
19, 1865, Miss Mary Warren Lincoln (died July 
28, 1877), and second, October 4, 1882, Miss Ida 
Marion Lincoln. He has one son. William 
Stephen Warriner. born July 15, 1866, who is 
now first lieutenant Company K, Second Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, aiul man- 
ager of his father's business interests. 



pany, and for other corporations. In addition to 
these interests he is concerned as director in 
several Southern and Western irrigation and 



WELLS, Gideon, of Springfield, member of 
the bar, and connected with various corporations, 
is a native of Connecticut, born in Wetiiersfield, 
August 16, 1835, son of Romania and Mary Ann 
(Morgan) Wells. He was educated in the East 
Windsor Hill School of Easthampton, and at Yale, 
graduating in the class of 1S58, and read law in 
the office of Chapman & Chamberlin, Springfield. 
Admitted to the Hampden County bar in i860, 
he began practice with Messrs Chapman & 
Chamberlin. The same year this partnership 
being dissolved, Mr. Chapman having been 
appointed to the Supreme Bench and Mr. 
Chamberlin removing to Hartford, he became a 
member of the firm which succeeded to the busi- 
ness, his associates being N. A. Leonard and, 
nominally, e,x-Congressman George Ashmun, the 
close friend of Webster, and in later life of 
Lincoln, chairman of the convention which nomi- 
nated him for the presidency, who had been asso- 
ciated with Mr. Chapman since 1834. The firm 
of Leonard & Wells continued for twenty-five 
years, and was concerned in many important 
cases. During the Civil War Mr. Wells served 
in the Forty-si.\th Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers, as first lieutenant of Company A of 
Springfield, and subsequently in the same capacity 
in Company A of the Eighth Regiment. From 
1869 to 1876 he was register of bankruptcy, and 
from 1876 to 1890 judge of the Police Court of 
Springfield, in the latter position making a reputa- 
tion especially for his clear rulings on perplexing 
points. Since 1877 he has been a director of the 
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
and attorney for the corporation ; and since 1890 
he has been president of the Holyoke Water 
Power Company, having for many years acted as 
its attorney. He has also been for a long time 
attorney for the Springfield Street Raihvay Com- 
pany, for the Connecticut River Railroad Com- 




GIDEON WELLS. 

electric companies in which liie Massachusetts 
Mutual Life is interested ; is a director and vice- 
president of the John Hancock National Bank, 
and a director of the Third National Bank of 
Springfield. Early in life he served in the Spring- 
field Common Council two terms (1865-66). He 
was married October i, 1875, to Miss Marietta 
Gilbert, daughter of Merrit S. and Esther (Jones) 
Gilbert. They have one son : Gilbert Wells. 



WHITCOMB, M.'^RCiENE Hamilton, mayor 
of Holyoke 1894, is a native of Vermont, born in 
Reading, October 25, 1838, son of James H. and 
Louisa M. (Philbrick) Whitcomb. He is of Eng- 
lish ancestry on the paternal side, and of Scotch 
on the maternal ; and ancestors on both sides 
fought in the Revolution. He was educated in 
Vermont common schools. He began active life 
as spooler boy in a woollen factory, and from that 
modest position worked his way through the vari- 
ous departments of woollen manufacture. He 
continued in this business as an employee for six- 
teen years, witii the exception of two years spent 



356 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in the army during the ("ivil War, — one year as a 
member of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regi- 
ment in whicli he enlisted in 1862. and the other 



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WILDER, Harvev Bradish, of Worcester, 
register of deeds, is a native of Worcester, born 
October 12, 1836, son of Alexander H. and Har- 
riet (Eaton) Wilder. His education was acquired 
in the ^\'orcester public schools, the 'I'hetford 
(Vt.) Academy, and the Leicester ( Mass. J Acad- 
emy. With the exception of about fifteen months 
(from April, 1855, to August, 1856), when he was a 
clerk in Boston in the book-store of the old firm 
of Ticknor & Fields, he has been connected with 
the Worcester Registry of Deeds during his entire 
business career. From September, 1856, to No- 
\-ember, 1874, he was chief clerk in the registry; 
then, upon the death of his father, who had been 
register for twenty-eight years, he was appointed 
by the county commissioners register for the year 

1875. Hs ^^'^s first elected register in November, 

1876, and has been regularly returned since. He 
has been a member of the Ancient and Honora- 
ble Artillery Company since 1873, second lieuten- 
ant in 188 1 ; is a charter member of the Quin- 
sigamond Lodge of Masons, Worcester ; and a 
member of the Commonwealth Club of Worces- 
ter. In politics he is Republican. He was mar- 



M. H. WHITCOMB. 



as musician in the Second Brigade, Second Divi- 
sion, Ninth Corps Band, ending with the close of 
the war. He was superintendent of the Eagle 
Mills of Athol, Mass., also of the Otter River 
Company's mills at Otter River, Templeton, for 
five years for Rufus S. Frost & Co., Boston ; came 
to Holyoke in 1876 as superintendent of the 
Springfield Blanket Company's mills, and held that 
position for ten years ; was then, in January, 
1886, appointed chief of police of Holyoke, 
which office he held continuously for five years ; 
and was elected mayor of the city in December, 
1893. He is the proprietor of " Whitcomb Build- 
ing " in Holyoke, renting room and pow-er for dif- 
ferent industries, and has other real estate invest- 
ments in the city. In politics he is a Republican, 
a firm believer in the protection theory. He is 
connected with the Masonic order, a member of 
the Springfield Commandery Knights Templar ; is 
a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of Kil- 
patrick Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. 
Whitcomb was married December 25, 1857, to 
Jane H. Webber, of Newport, N.H. They have 
one son : Eugene H. Whitcomb. 




HARVEY B. WILDER. 



ried October 21, 1862, to Miss Anna F. Chapman, 
of Ossipee, N.H. She died November 12, 1864. 
He married second, June 14, 1870, Mary J., 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



357 



daiigliter of Dr. Jefferson Pratt, of Hopkinton, the People's Savings Bank. In 189 1 he organized 
Mass. He has one son : Charles Pratt Wilder, the Worcester, Leicester, & Spencer Electric Street 

Railway, which, until recently, was the longest 



WINSLOW, Samuel, of Worcester, manufact- 
urer, was born in Newton, February 28, 1827, 
died in Worcester, October 21. 1894. He was 
son of Eleazer Robbins and Ann (Corbett) Win- 
slow. He was educated in the public schools, 
and immediately after leaving school went to work 
in a cotton machinery manufactory. In tills occu- 
pation he displayed such inventive skill and gen- 
eral capacity that at the age of twenty he was 
made foreman of the shop. Eight years after, in 
1855, he formed a copartnership with his brother 
Seth C. VVinslow, and established a machine shop 
in Worcester, which was the beginning of the ex- 
tensive business of which he was long at the head. 
The firm first began the manufacture of skates in 
1857. Upon the death of his brother Seth, in 
187 1, Mr. Winslow assumed the entire direction 
of the business ; and he continued alone till 1886, 
when the present corporation, under the name of 
the Samuel Winslow Skate Manufacturing Com- 
pany, was formed. In this he retained a majority 
of the stock, and remained president and treas- 
urer until his death. He was for many years in 
public life, his first public service having been 
rendered when he was but twenty-one, as a mem- 
ber of the prudential committee for the employ- 
ment of teachers and the charge of the schools in 
the village of Newton Upper Falls. In 1864-65 
he was a member of the Worcester Common 
Council; in 1873-74 a representative from the 
Tenth Worcester District in the lower house of 
the Legislature; in 1885 a member of the Worces- 
ter Board of Aldermen, elected to fill a vacancy ; 
and for the years 1886-89 mayor of Worces- 
ter, each year elected by large majorities. And, 
upon retiring from the office of mayor, he was 
elected a trustee of the Worcester Free Public Li- 
brary for a term of six years. In 1892 he was a 
delegate to the National Republican Convention 
held in Minneapolis. He was long a prominent 
member of the \\'orcester County Mechanic's As- 
sociation, a trustee from 1868 to 187 i, vice-presi- 
dent from 1884 to 1886, and president in 1886, 
declining a re-election on account of tiie pressure 
of his duties as mayor. From 1889 till his death 
he was president of the Citizens' National Bank 
of Worcester, during which period the deposits of 
the bank quadrupled. He was also a trustee of 




SAMUEL WINSLOW. 

electric street railway in the world. In the fol- 
lowing year he organized the Worcester and Mill- 
bury Electric Street Railway. He was president 
of these roads from their organization as well as 
of the State Central Street Railway Company, now 
preparing to build more than fifty miles of sub- 
urban roads, until his death. He was prominently 
identified with the public works and charities of 
Worcester for nearly half of a century. He was 
married November i, 1848, to Mary Weeks Rob- 
bins, who died in June, 1893. 



WINSLOW, Samuel Ellsworth, of Worces- 
ter, manufacturer, chairman of the Republican 
State Committee, was born in Worcester, April 11, 
1862, son of Samuel and Mary Weeks (Robbins) 
Winslow. He is a descendant in the eighth gen- 
eration of Kenelm Winslow, brother of Edward 
Winslow, governor of the Plymouth Colony. He 
was educated in the public schools of Worcester, 
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and at Har- 
vard, graduating from the High School in 1880, 
the seminarv in iSSi, and the college in 1885. In 



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college he was a member of the Institute of 1770, 
of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Pi, Hasty Pudding, 
Harvard Union, and numerous other clubs for 
special purpose ; was prominent in athletics, the 
successful and winning captain of the Harvard 
Base Ball Club of 1885 ; and was chairman of the 
1885 Class Day committee. During the year fol- 
lowing his graduation he travelled somewhat ex- 
tensively abroad, and in 1886 engaged actively 
in business in Worcester. Since that year he has 
been secretary and general manager of the Sam- 
uel Winslow Skate Manufacturing Company ; 
from 1888 to 1892 he was a member of the firm 
of The Winslow & Curtis Machine Screw Com- 
pany ; and subsequently became a director of the 
Citizens' National Bank. He is a director also 
of the Worcester, Leicester, & Spencer Street 
Railway Co., and of the Worcester I'v Millbury 
Street Railway Co. In i8go he was aide-de- 
camp, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of 
Governor Brackett. He early took an active part 
in Republican party affairs, local and State, and. 
displaying the qualities of a leader, was speedily 
advanced to e.xecutive positions. He was a mem- 



iW^>^ 




SAMUEL E. WINSLOW. 



lican Club of Massachusetts : and chairman of 
the Republican State Committee first in 1893, the 
year of the election of Governor Greenhalge, the 
first Republican governor of the State since 1890, 
and now holds the office. Colonel Winslow is a 
member of the \\'orcester. Commonwealth, and 
Quinsigamond Boat clubs of Worcester ; presi- 
dent of the \\"orcester Athletic .-Vssociation ; mem- 
ber of the Worcester Horticultural Society ; trus- 
tee of the Worcester Agricultural Society : member 
of the Boston Athletic Association and of the 
Harvard Club, New York. He was married 
April 17, 1889, to Miss Bertha Russell, daughter 
of Colonel E. J. and Lucenia Russell, of Worcester. 
Their children are : Dorothy, Russell, and Sam- 
uel E. \\ inslow, Jr. Samuel Winslow, 2d, died at 
age of ten months. 



ber four years and chairman three years of the 
Republican city committee of Worcester: mem- 
ber of the first e.xecutive committee of the Repub- 



WOOI), Al?iert, M.D., of Worcester, was born 
in Northborough, February 19, 1833, son of Samuel 
and Elizabeth ( Bowman) Wood. He is descended 
from William Wood, who emigrated from England 
in 1638, and settled in Concord: William Wood's 
son Michael died in Concord in 167 1 ; his son 
Abraham removed to Sudbury ; his son Samuel 
lived in that part of Marlborough now North- 
borough : his son Abraham married Lydia John- 
son, and their son Samuel was the father of Albert. 
On his mother's side he descends from the Val- 
entines of Hopkinton. He was educated in the 
schools of Northborough, the Classical School 
of West Newton, the State Normal School at 
Bridgewater, and Dartmouth College, graduating 
in 1856. From 1856 to 1859 he taught school, 
and then entered the Harvard Medical School, 
from which he graduated in 1862. He served in 
the hospitals one year. In the summer of 1862 
he entered the army, and served throughout the 
Civil War. He was assistant surgeon of the 
Twenty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
from July 7, 1862, to .\ugust 7, 1863: surgeon of 
the First Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry, from 
August, 1863, to November 30. 1864; and acting 
staff surgeon. United States Army, till May 17, 
1865, on duty mostly at City Point Hospital, Vir- 
ginia. He came to \\"orcester soon after, and was 
city physician for five years. Subsequently he 
was surgeon of the City Hospital for ten years, 
and is now one of the trustees. He has been 
treasurer of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital since 
1874, and of the Worcester Insane Asylum since 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



359 



1877 ; was superintendent of the Washburn Free 
Dispensary for several years, and is now a trustee 
of the Memorial Hospital ; has been one of the 




ALBERT WOOD. 

pension examiners for twenty-five years ; and for 
one year served as a member of the State Board 
of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. Since January, 
1889, he has been junior medical director of the 
State Mutual Life Insurance Company. In addi- 
tion to all this special service Dr. \\'ood has 
always had a good professional practice. He is 
a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and 
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; is con- 
nected with various medical societies and clubs ; 
is a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, and member of the American Association of 
the Medical Directors of Life Insurance Com- 
panies. He was married July 7, 186S, to Kmma 
.\llen, of Worcester, daughter of William and 
Emily Chandler Allen, of Pomfret, Conn., by 
whom he had two children : Albert Bowman and 
Emily Chandler Wood. His first wife died Feb- 
ruary 26, 1892. He married second, July 13, 
1893, J. Isabel Cleveland, of Worcester. 



February 7, 1857, son of Eliphalet S. and Susan 
Hudson (Farrar) Wood. His education was ac- 
quired in the common and high schools of Win- 
chendon. He began work in a printing-office in 
Winchendon when a lad of twelve ; and, with the 
exception of about five years devoted to study, he 
has been actively engaged in the printing busi- 
ness from that time. At the age of seventeen he 
was occupying the position of foreman in a news- 
paper and job oflice, — that of the Franklin 
Couiiiy Ti/nes, at Greenfield. Later he removed 
to Fitchburg, from there went to Chicago ; and in 
January, 1878, returned East to take charge of 
the job printing establishment of Edward R. 
Fiske, at that time one of the most prominent and 
successful printers in Worcester. He remained 
with Mr. Fiske two years, and then on the first of 
May, 1880, entered the employ of Sanford & Co., 
stationers and printers, as foreman of their print- 
ing department, then occupying quarters on 
Maple Street. On the first of May, 1882, he pur- 
chased a half interest in this department; and it 
was conducted under the firm name of Sanford & 
^\'ood for eleven months, when he purchased his 




OLIVER B. WOOD. 



partner's interest. Since that time he has carried 

WOOD, Oliver Brooks, of Worcester, book on the business under his own name, and by close 

and job printer, is a native of Ashburnham, born application and the production of good work has 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



so increased it tiuit during tiie three years 1892- 
94 it exceeded in volume that of an)- similar es- 
tablishment in Worcester. Having outgrown the 
old quarters, on the first of March, 1894, the 
business was transferred to the commodious brick 
block, No. 50 Foster Street. In his printing 
house is now executed every variety of job and 
book printing, from the small address card to the 
large volume; and since 1884 law printing has 
been a distinctive feature of the business. Mr. 
Wood has been president of the Worcester Ty- 
potheta; since 1892. He is connected with the 
Masonic fraternity, a member of the Athelstan 



Lodge, Goddard Council, Eureka Royal Arch 
Chapter, Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Law- 
rence Chapter, Rose Croix ; is a member of the 
Worcester Light Infantry Veteran Association, of 
the Worcester Continentals, of the Worcester 
Driving Park Company, and of the Common- 
wealth Club. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was married October 19, 1881, to Miss Jennie 
Chase Flagg, of Grafton. They have had four 
children: Olive Marguerite, Roger Hamilton 
(died in infancy), Hamilton Brooks, and Gladys 
(eannette \\'ood. 



PART V. 



ADAM, Rc_)iiKRi' Wri.i.iAM, of Pittsfield. meni- 
Ix-r of tlie Berkshire bar, and treasurer of the 
Fierkshire t'ounty Savings Bank for upwards of 
a quarter of a century, is a native of Connecticut, 
liorn in Canaan, September 28, 1825, son of 




ROBT. W. ADAM. 

William and Charlotte (Lawrence) Adam. He 
is on the paternal side of Scotch ancestry, and 
on the maternal of English. He received his pri- 
mary education in the public schools of his native 
town, was fitted for college at Lenox Academy, 
entered \\'illiams, and graduated in the class of 
1845. His law studies were pursued in the office 
of Rockwell & Colt, of Pittsfield, and at the ^■ale 
Law School ; and he was admitted to the bar on 
the 25th of April, 1849. From that time he was 
in active practice in Pittsfield until 1865, when he 
became treasurer of the Berkshire Countv Sa\ings 



Pjank, which position he has held ever since. He 
has also been long connected officially with other 
local institutions, — president of the Pittsfield Coal 
(ias Company since 1857, and director of the 
Berkshire Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 
1855. In town and city affairs he has been 
prominent since the fifties, and has held numerous 
public positions. He represented the town in the 
Legislature in i860 : from 1863 to 1865 he was 
town assessor; and in i8gi and 1892 a member 
of the Board of Aldermen, president of the board 
the second year. Since 1889 he has been presi- 
dent of the Pittsfield Cemetery Corporation. He 
is much interested in historical matters, and has 
for a number of \ears been an active member of 
the Berkshire Historical Society. He is a mem- 
ber also of the Bostonian Society of Boston, and 
of the Monday Evening Club of Pittsfield. In 
politics he is an Independent Republican. He 
was married September i, 1852, to Miss Sarah P. 
Brewster, of Pittsfield. 'I'hey have a daughter and 
son : Mary L. and \\'i!liam L. Adam, both living 
in Pittsfield. 

ADAMS, Charles Ei.isha, of Lowell, mer- 
chant, president of the Massachusetts Board of 
Trade, is a native of Lowell, born April 16, 1841, 
son of Elisha and Sally Howe (Prouty) Adams. 
He is a descendant in the seventh generation of 
Rogers Adams, of Brookline, who came to New 
England between 1640 and 1650, married Mar\', 
daughter of Thomas Barker, of Roxbury, in 1674, 
and died March 2, 17 14. His great-grandfather. 
Smith Adams, of Newton, was in the battles of 
Lexington and Concord. He was educated in the 
Lowell public schools. He began business life as 
a clerk in a retail hardware store in Lowell, and 
after five years of this experience became a sales- 
man for a wholesale hardware house in New York 
City. He remained six years in New York, then 
was a year connected in the same capacity with a 
("incinnati wholesale house : and in August, 1868, 



362 

returned tn 
paint, and 
sex Street 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Luwell. opening tiiere a reUiil hardware, 
mill supplies store at Xo. 185 Middle- 
. He now occupies the stores Nos. 




CHAS. E. ADAMS. 

404, 408, and 410 Middlesex Street, engaged in 
both the retail and wholesale trade. Mr. Adams 
has been especially interested in later years in 
concerted work of business men and in electrical 
matters. He suggested the idea of its formation, 
and w'as one of the founders of the State Board of 
Trade (now composed of thirty-eight boards of 
trade and business associations, representing the 
mercantile and industrial interests of the Common- 
wealth), and has been its president since it was 
organized, October 30, 1890. He is president 
also of the Bradley-Stone Electric Storage Com- 
pany (manufacturers of storage batteries) of 
Lowell, and director of the Lowell, Lawrence, &: 
Haverhill Electric Street Railroad Company, of 
the Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company, of 
the North-western Telephone Exchange Company, 
Minnesota, of the Cleveland Telephone Company, 
Cleveland, Ohio, and of the South-western Tele- 
graph and Telephone Company in Texas and 
Arkansas. He has for some years been promi- 
nent in trade organizations, is an active member 
of the New England Hardware Dealers' Associa- 
tion, and of the New England Paint and Oil Club ; 



and in 1889-90, inunediately preceding the organ- 
ization of the State Board of Trade, was president 
of the Lowell Board of Trade. In 1S87 and 1888 
he represented Lowell in the lower house of the 
Legislature; and in 1893 was United States alter- 
nate commissioner to the World's Columbian E.x- 
position from Massachusetts. He is a thirty- 
second degree Freemason, a member of the order 
of Odd Fellows, and of the Royal Arcanum. Other 
organizations to which he belongs are the Massa- 
chusetts Society of the Sons of the .American 
Revolution (member of the board of managers), 
the Massachusetts Club of Boston, and the High- 
land, Country, and Vesper Boat clubs of Lowell. 
He has been for a number of years connected 
with the directory of the Merrimack River Savings 
Hank of Lowell, and is now a member of the 
hoard of investment. He \vas married December 
10. 1873, to Miss Ida Mary Barrett, of .\ntrim, 
N.H. Thev have no children. 



.ALDEN, George Newell, of New Bedford, 
fire insurance agent, is a native of New Bedford, 




GEO. N. ALDEN. 



born Julv 10, 
land) Alden. 



1845, son of Silas and Emily 
His paternal grandparents 



Paul and Rebecca (Newell) Alden, and his 



(How- 
were 
mater- 



MKN OF I'ROGRESS. 



363 



nal griiiidparcnts, Francis ami Marv (Parker) 
Howland. his maternal grandmother a daiigliter 
of John Avery Parker. He was educated in the 
pubhc schools of New Bedford, finishing in the 
High School under John F. Emerson and his suc- 
cessor, Charles P. Rugg. He began business life 
in the counting-room of James K. \\'ood ^: Co., 
which he entered in the spring of 1863. In June 
the following year he became book-keeper for 
J. & \\'. K. ^^'^lg, but five months later left his 
desk, and enlisted in the United States service, 
joining the Nineteenth Unattached Company, 
Massachusetts Volunteers. He served until the 
close of the war (mustered out June 27, 1865), 
and, returning to New Bedford, engaged in the 
insurance business with which he has ever since 
been connected. He began this business in Sep- 
tember. 1865, with Joseph S. Tillinghast. a well- 
known tire insurance agent in his dav, and con- 
tinued with him till his death in January, 1876. 
Then he formed a copartnership with Mr. 'Filling- 
hast's son Joseph, under the firm name of 'Filling- 
hast i!v: Alden, and this relation held until the 
death of this partner in September, 1889, since 
which time he has conducted the business alone 
and in his own name. In 1876 he was also elected 
secretary and treasurer of the Bristol County Mu- 
tual Fire Insurance Company, which position he 
still holds. Mr. Alden is a member and a trustee 
of the Acushnet Lodge, No. 41 of the Order of 
Odd Fellows, and adjutant of Post igo of the 
Grand .Army of the Republic, having held other 
offices in the post. He was married September 

12, 1877, to Miss Clara Eaton Burdick. 'J'hey 
have two children: George Newell, Jr. (born May 
25, 1S80). and Mar_\- Hathaway .\lden (born July 

13. 1886). 



Standard began with the establishment of the 
journal in 1850. He was the commercial and 
ship-news editor for years, until the importance 



ANTHONY, Edmund, Jr., of New Bedford, 
managing editor of the Daily Evening Standard, 
was born in Taunton, October ig, 1833, son of 
Edmiuid and .-Vdaline (Soper) .^nthony. On his 
father's side he is connected with the .Anthonys 
of Somerset, Fall River, and Rhode Island, his 
grandfather being Nathan Anthony, of Somerset, 
and his great-grandfather, David Anthony, of 
Somerset. On the maternal side he is a direct 
descendant of Myles Standish, of Plymouth. He 
acquired his education in private schools and at 
Bristol Academy of Taunton ; and he was trained 
for active life in the printing-office of his father. 
His connection with the New Bedford F.ivning 




mr"^ 



EDIVIUND ANTHONY. Jr. 

and value of the whole fishery industry gave way- 
to manufacturing. In 1863 he became a partner 
in the business with his father and brother, Benja- 
min Anthony, under the firm name of E. Anthony 
& Sons. The senior died in 1876; but the firm 
name has since continued, having become incor- 
porated in 1892. He has been managing editor 
of the journal for many years, and has maintained 
it steadily as a high-grade and trustworthy publi- 
cation. Mr. Anthony has been a Republican all 
his life ; but he has held no political office, and 
has always declined to stand for public place. 
He was married first in 1857 to Miss .\nn F'ran- 
ces Willard, who died in 1876. Their only child, 
a daughter, died in 1865. His second marriage 
was in 1880, with Miss Sarah Co.\. They have 
no children. His residence is in Fairhaven. 



ARNOLD, Henry, of Methuen, importer, is a 
native of England, born in liradford, Yorkshire, 
March 2, 1837, son of John and Elizabeth 
(Myers) Arnold. He received a practical educa- 
tion in the schools of his native place. .After 



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serving an apiirciUict-ship fur pattern-making, ma- 
chinist, and draughtsman, he followed the voca- 
tion of a pattern-maker for a number of years. 



having the welfare of liumanity in \iew. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. He was married June 
5, 1872, to Miss Hannah Albezette. They have 
one child : Gertrude M. Arnold. 




HENRY ARNOLD. 

Coming to America in the fifties, he has passed 
thirty-six years of business life in this country. 
Beginning here in work at his trade, in course of 
time he assumed the conduct of the industrial 
works of the machine shop. Subsequently he was 
for some time engaged in the manufacture of 
worsted yarns. Then, returning to his old occu- 
pation, he carried on the business of pattern-mak- 
ing in Boston for five years; and in 1887 he en- 
tered the business which he has since pursued, — 
that of an importer of woollens. Mr. Arnold is 
widely known through his connection with British- 
American movements. He was one of the prin- 
cipal promoters of the celebration of (^ueen Vic- 
toria's Jubilee by the British residents of Boston 
and vicinity in June, 1887 ; and he was also one 
of the principal organizers of the British-American 
Association of Massachusetts, that year instituted. 
He has held some of the most important offices 
in the society, — treasurer, vice-president, and 
president, — and is now serving his second term 
as president. He is an e.v-president, also, of the 
Sons of St. George. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic order, and is identified with many interests 



ASHLEV, Charles Sujiner, of New Bedford, 
merchant, and postmaster of the city, is a native 
of New Bedford, born September 5, 1858, son of 
Joshua B. and Susan (Sanderson) Ashlev. ()n 
the paternal side he is of the Ashleys of England, 
and on the maternal side a direct descendant of 
Ethan Allen. His father was a well-known citi- 
zen of New Bedford. He was educated in the 
public schools, finishing at the Friends' Academy. 
He entered business at an early age, and at 
seventeen was engaged on his own account in the 
meat trade. In 1883 he established a wholesale 
pork and provision business which is still flourish- 
ing ; and in 1890, forming a copartnership with 
Stephen D. Pierce, under the firm name of Ashley 
& Pierce, he opened a clothing and furnishing 
goods store, the trade of which has since grown 
to large proportions. For the past ten years he 




CHAS. S ASHLEY. 

has taken a prominent part in municipal affairs, 
and as citizen and official has been devoted to the 
interests of his city. At the age of twenty-six he 



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365 



was electctl lu Uie Common Council. In 1887 
;uid 1888 he was a member of the Board of Alder- 
men, and in 1891 and 1892 mayor of the city, 
elected for his first term after two unsuccessful 
contests by one of the largest majorities ever re- 
ceived by a mayoralty candidate, and returned by 
a flattering vote. His administration as mayor 
was marked by the advance of the system of pub- 
lic parks and by other notable improvements. In 
politics he is an ardent Democrat ; but, as a candi- 
date for municipal office, he received the indorse- 
ment and support of men of all parties. He was 
appointed to his present position as postmaster 
of New Bedford in March, 1894. Mr. Ashley is 
connected with numerous organizations, and is an 
official in several of them. He is a director of 
the New Bedford Board of Trade ; a member of 
Vista Lodge of Odd Fellows, and was its treasurer 
for five years ; a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, master of the exchecjuer at present, hav- 
ing held the same position when the lodge was 
first instituted ; member of the Manchester Unity, 
Odd Fellows; and member of the Wamsutta, 
Merchants', Dartmouth, and Hunters' clubs of 
New Bedford. He was married first in 1880 to 
Miss Anna B. Luce, by whom were three chil- 
dren : Ralph E., Hannah B., and Charles S. 
Ashley; and second, in 1891, to Mrs. Philip IS. 
Purrington. 

BAILEV, Horace Porter, of Plymouth, mer- 
chant, was born in Kingston in 1839, son of 
Thomas and Cynthia (Chandler) Bailey. His 
paternal ancestors were Ward and Sarah Bailey, 
early residents of Kingston. His education was 
acquired in the public schools. After leaving 
school, he learned the metal worker's and plumb- 
ing trade ; and this occupation he followed from 
1857 to i860. Then he entered the hardware 
trade in Plymouth, and on the ist of February, 
1869, bought the interest of John C. Barnes, and 
began the business at No. 18 Main Street, under 
the firm name of Harlow & Bailey, which has since 
continued. In 1882 he was elected a water com- 
missioner of Plymouth, and from that date he has 
served continuously as secretary of the board ; 
and since 1883 he has been chief engineer of the 
Plymouth fire department. He is a member of 
the Plymouth Lodge Freemasons, and was master 
of the lodge from 1866 to 1869 ; has been for ten 
years a member of the Knights of Honor, and 
some time a member of the Old Colonv Club. In 



politics he is a Republican, but has never taken 
an active part in political work. He was married 
in i860 to Miss Elizabeth B. Foster, of Kingston. 




HORACE P. BAILEY. 



They have five children : Arthur L., Fred P., 
Mary F., Lizzie P., and Percy S. Bailey. 



BARNES, Lewis Edgar, of Methuen, super- 
intendent of the Methuen Company, was born in 
Lawrence, March 7, i860, son of William and 
Juliette A. (Waldo) Barnes. He is of old New 
England stock. He was educated in the Methuen 
public schools, graduating from the grammar 
school. He began work at the age of fifteen, 
entering the employ of the Methuen Company as 
"runner" in the office, and received a thorough 
business training through the kindness of F. E. 
Clarke, agent of the Methuen Company and 
Pemberton Company, of Lawrence, by whom he 
was given everv chance of advancement. In 
March, 1888, he was placed in charge, as superin- 
tendent, of the Nevins Bagging Mill in Salem, 
owned b\' the proprietors of the Methuen Com- 
pany, where he remained a year. Then, in 
March, i88g, he became superintendent of the 
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Law- 
rence, but a little more than a vear later — in 



366 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



June. 1890 - returned to llic Mcthuen Company, 
taking the position of superintendent, wliich he 
has since held. Mr. Barnes has ser\ed his town 




LEWIS E. BARNES. 

as a member of the School Committee for fi\e 
years (1885-1890), and he has been a trustee of 
the Nevins Memorial for two years. He is a 
Knight Templar, member of the Lawrence Com- 
mandery ; a member of the Aleppo Temple, of 
the John Hancock Lodge, Freemasons, Methuen ; 
of the Royal Arcanum ; and of the Methuen Club. 
He was married January 26, 1890, to Miss Carrie 
E. Richardson, of Methuen. They have no chil- 
dren. 

l-i.\RNE\', Edwin Luthek, of New^ Bedford, 
member of the bar, was born in Swansey, April 1. 
1827, son of Edwin and Abby (Luther) Barney. 
He was reared on a well-regulated New England 
farm, and acquired a good education in the 
country schools and at Brown Lfniversity, where 
he spent one year in the class of 1850. He 
studied for his profession in the Yale Law 
School, and in the office of the late Timothy G. 
Coffin, of New Bedford, and was admitted to 
the bar at Taunton in October, 1850, at the age 
of twenty-three years. From that time he has 
been in active practice, engaged in all branches of 



his profession, and is now the oldest practising 
lawyer in Bristol County. He has tried more 
causes than any other attorney in the county, and 
is still in full practice. He has had several law 
students, the most notable one perhaps being the 
present attorne3'-general of Massachusetts, Mr. 
Knowlton. In the sixties he was for two terms a 
senator in the Legislature (1866-1867). He was 
judge advocate on (General Butler's staff from 
1869 to 1875. He is a Mason of more than forty 
years' standing, and has taken all the degrees up 
to the thirty-second. In politics he has always 
been a Democrat. In i860 lie was a Douglas 
Democrat, and all through the Civil War he was 
a stanch War Democrat. He was married .-Vpril 
IS, 18^6, to Miss Marv Hillman. They have 




E. L. BARNEY. 



four sons. The two oldest, Benjamin Butler 
and Edwin L. Barney, Jr., are lawyers practising 
law with their father. 



BENT. William Henkv, of Taunton, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Cambridge, born January 2, 
1839, son of Nathaniel T. and Catharine E. D. 
(Metcalf) Bent. His father, born in Milton in 
1810, graduated at Harvard College in 1831, a 
minister of high standing in the Episcopal Church, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



367 



\v;is a descendant of John llont. who came from 
England to Massachusetts in 163S. His mother 
was horn in Cnmbridsie in iSii, danghter of 




WM. H. BENT. 

Colonel Eliab W. Metcalf, a descendant of Michael 
Metcalf, who came from England to Massachu- 
setts in 1637. He was educated in private and 
public schools, and fitted for a civil engineer. 
When he was seventeen years old (in 1856), he 
entered the extensive machinery works of William 
Mason in Taunton ; and he has been connected 
with them ever since, except for a short time after 
the panic of 1857, when that business was tem- 
porarily suspended. Returning in 1859, he gradu- 
ually worked up to the position of chief executive 
officer of the works at the death of Mr. Mas(m 
in May, 1883. In 1873, when the business was 
incorporated under the name of the Mason Ma- 
chine Works, he became treasurer of the corpora- 
tion, which office he has held uninterruptedly 
until the present time. Ihe corporation employs 
in good times about one thousand men, chiefly 
in building cotton machiner)'. Mr. lient is also 
connected with numerous other large interests. 
He is a director of the Corliss Steam P^ngine 
Company of Providence, R.I. ; director of the 
Nemasket Mills. Taunton : director of the Boston 
Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; 



president of the Liberty Square Warehouse Com- 
pany of Boston ; and director of the .Machinists' 
\ational Bank of Taunton. He has served as an 
alderman of Taunton two terms (1877 and 1878), 
and has been chairman of the Board of Commis- 
sioners of the Sinking Eunds of the city ever since 
it was created in 1878. .\lihough repeatedly 
sought, he has declined political offices and ap- 
pointments other than municipal, among them 
that of member of the special commission on the 
unemployed, created by the Legislature of 1894, 
to which he was appointed by Governor Green- 
halge. In politics he is a Republican. He was 
a delegate to the National Republican Convention 
of 1 888. He is an earnest and influential advo- 
cate and defender of protection, a frequent con- 
tributor to the press in its interest, and since 
Xovember, 1892, has been president of the Home 
Market Club. He is also a member of the tariff 
committee of the Arkwright Club of Boston. In 
religious faith he is an Episcopalian, and is a 
prominent lay member of the church organization. 
He is a delegate to the Diocesan Convention of 
the Episcopal Church of Massachusetts ; is a 
member of the committee of fifteen appointed 
by Bishop Lawrence in 1S94 to report a plan 
for the division of the diocese ; a member of the 
Episcopalian Club of Massachusetts ; and senior 
warden of St. Thomas Episcopal Churcii, Taun- 
ton. His club associations are with the Union 
Club of Boston. Mr. Bent was married June 14, 
1865, to Miss Harriet E. Hendee, daughter of 
Charles J. Hendee, of Boston. They have had 
three sons : Arthur Cleveland, Frederick Hendee, 
and Charles (died in infancy). Tile two sons 
living graduated from Harvard College in 1889. 
Mrs. Bent died in 1873. He married second 
Miss Sarah E. Chesbrough, daughter of Lewis R. 
Chesbrough, of New \'ork, January 29, 1885. 



BIXBY. FREn Morton, of Brockton, special 
justice of the police court, was born in Brockton 
(then North Bridgewater), December i, 1863, son 
of Charles C. and Alice (Crocker) Bixby. He 
was educated in the common and high schools of 
his native town. He studied for his profession 
in the Boston University Law School, youngest 
member in his class, from which he graduated in 
1884, appointed by the faculty class orator for 
scholarship, and was admitted to the bar that 
year. He has since been engaged in general 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



practice in I'.rnckton, civil and criminal, having 
a large business in the latter class. In 1889 and 
1890 he was assistant district attorney for the 



:m- 




and grandfather removed with the family to 
Venice, Cayuga Count)', N.V., where they lived 
many years. The father and mother, however, 
subsequently returned to Massachusetts ; and both 
died in New Bedford. Alanson Borden first at- 
tended school near his first home, and after the 
removal to New York he was a regular pupil at 
the district school until he reached seventeen 
years of age. Then he entered the academy at 
Groton, N.Y., and a few months later changed to 
Aurora (Cayuga County) Academy, which he at- 
tended about two years. It had been his cher- 
ished intention to go through college, and during 
a period of teaching after leaving Aurora Acad- 
emy he began preparation for a college course ; 
but a combination of circumstances rendered it 
impracticable to carry out his plans, and his fur- 
ther educational advantages were restricted to one 
year in an academy at Ithaca, N.Y. He had ac- 
quired, however, in these several institutions an 
excellent academic education ; and this was much 
enhanced by subsequent private study. Follow- 
ing his term at Ithaca, he taught in district and 
private schools, closing this kind of labor with one 



F. M. BIXBY. 

South-eastern District; and in 1890 was appointed 
special justice of the Brockton police court, the 
position he still holds. With the exception of a 
term in the Common Council of his city ( 1886), he 
has held no political position, confining himself 
exclusively to the practice of his profession. He 
is a Tnember of the Masonic fraternity, and promi- 
nent in the order of Elks, an exalted ruler, and 
president of the Elks Club of Brockton. He is a 
member also of the Commercial, the New Eng- 
land, and the Winthrop Yacht clubs. He was 
married November 25, 1887, to Miss Lillie Hal- 
lett, of Cambridge. They have one child: .Mice 
Parker Bixby (born September, 1889). 



BORDEN, Alanson, of New Bedford, judge of 
the Third Bri-stol District Court, was born in the 
town of Tiverton, R.I., near the Massachusetts 
State line (now in Massachusetts), January 7, 
1823. His father was Isaac Borden, a farmer, as 
were also his grandfather and earlier ancestors, 
who were of English descent ; and his mother was 
Abby Borden, a member of a different family, not 
related. When he was a lad of nine, his father 




ALANSON BORDEN. 



year at Fall River, Mass. In 1S46 he went to 
live in New Bedford, resolved to enter the legal 
profession. He began his studies in the office of 



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369 



KUiolt & Kasson, and remained there two and one- 
half years, when he was admitted to the bar, and 
at once opened an office, lie has ever since 
practised in New Bedford, though much of his 
time and talent has been given to the duties of 
public life. He was appointed in 1856 special 
justice of the police court, and held this position 
for three years, when he resigned. Next he was 
elected to the Legislature, and served acceptably 
two years (1859 and i860). Following this ser- 
vice, he accepted the office of trial justice for 
juvenile offenders in New Bedford. In 1864 he 
w^s appointed judge of the city police court, and 
held this office till 1874, when all the police 
courts of the county were abolished and the 
county divided into three districts. At that time 
he received the appointment of judge for the third 
district, including New Bedford and the tbwns of 
Dartmouth, \\'estport, Fairhaven, Acushnet, and 
Freetown, which position he has since held. In 
1864 he became the law partner of the late Judge 
Robert C. Pitman, and this connection continued 
until the appointment of Mr. Pitman to the bench 
of the Superior Court in 1869. In his various 
legislative and judicial positions he has demon- 
strated his fitness for them. In 1877 he was 
mayor of the city, and gave an excellent adminis- 
tration. He has been a member of the school 
board for many years, and chairman for three. 
His legal practice has been of a general character, 
mostly office practice ; and the confidence reposed 
in him has led to his frequent appointment as ad- 
ministrator of estates, as trustee of private prop- 
erty, and executor of wills. He has for many 
years been prominently identified with the tem- 
perance cause, both by words and deeds render- 
ing it most efficient service. Judge Borden was 
married first, January 27, 1852, to Miss May C. 
Topham, of New Bedford. .She died August 22, 
1876. He married second, Miss Mary Kent, 
daughter of George Kent, of \\'ashington. .She 
died January 9, 1885. He married on the [6th 
of January, 1886, Miss Anna R. C'omesford, of 
New Bedford. His children are : a son by his 
first wife. William A., who is now in charge of 
the Voung Men's Library at New Haven, Conn. ; 
and a daughter, Laura E. Borden, now Mrs. 
Charles H. Lobdell, of Xew liedford. 



HOUTON, Eur.F.XE, of Pittsfield, superintend- 
ent of schools, is a native of New York, born in 



Jefferson, Schoharie County, December 6, 1850, 
son of Ira and Emma (Foote) Bouton. On both 
sides he is connected with early Connecticut fam- 
ilies. On the paternal side he is a descendant in 
direct line of John Bouton, born about 1615, who 
came to Boston from Gravesend, England, in the 
ship "Assurance" in 1635, ^^^ '^^^ one of the 
first settlers of Norwalk, Conn. The Bouton- 
Boughton genealogy makes this John Bouton to be 
one of the twin sons of Nicholas Bouton, Count 
Chamilly of France, born about 1580 ; says that 
he was a Huguenot who fled to England during 
the great persecution, and came to this country as 
an emigrant from there ; that he became an influ- 
ential citizen, in 167 1 and for several years subse- 
quent was a representative in the general court of 
the colony of Connecticut, and served his towns- 
men in many official capacities in Norwalk. On 
the maternal side Mr. Bouton is a direct descend- 
ant of Nathaniel Foote, who came from England 
in 1630, first settled in Watertown, Mass., and in 
1635 was one of the company of emigrants who 
set out to begin settlements on tlie Connecticut 
River at Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor, 
himself settling at Wethersfield and becoming one 
of the original proprietors of that town. Through 
this Nathaniel Foote, Henry Ward Beecher wrote, 
— in reference to his mother, Roxana Foote, of 
this family, — the genealogy can be traced back to 
" James Foote, an officer in the English army, who 
aided King Charles to conceal himself in the 
Royal Oak, and was knighted for his loyalty." 
Eugene Bouton first attended the district schools 
of his native town, and at the age of fifteen, in 
1865, entered the seminary at Stamford, N.Y., 
then under the principalship of the Rev. John 
\\'ilde. The following year he attended the Dela- 
ware Literary Institute at Franklin, N.Y. ; and he 
finished preparation for college at Cazenovia Sem- 
inary in 1870, after two years' study there. He 
entered Yale College in 187 1, and graduated from 
the academic department in 1875, ranking high in 
scholarship and literary attainments here as at the 
academy. He won a number of prizes ; was for 
two years editor of the Va/f Courant ; wrote for 
the Literary Magazine: was a speaker at Com- 
mencement, and class poet. In 1880-81 he pui'- 
sued a course of graduate study at Yale, in Eng- 
lish poetry, under the direction of Professor H. A. 
Beers, at the close of the year receiving the degree 
of A.M. in recognition of this work ; and in 
1881-82 took a further course in general English 



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litLTaluic uiitk-r l»r. W. 1'. ('od(lin,:;lt>n. of Syra- 
cuse University, receiving fnim that institution at 
Commencement in i8cS2 tiie degree of Pli.U. Dr. 
Bouton l)egan teacliing when a youth of scarcely 
sixteen, liis first experience iseing in district 
schools in various parts of New York State, be- 
sides for a part of one year in Stamford Seminary. 
After graduation in 1S75 he taught ancient lan- 
guages and natural science in the academy and 
union school of Norwich, N.Y., for two years ; 
was then principal of the union school and acad- 
emy at Sherburne, X.N'., for three years. In 




EUGENE BOUTON. 

1880 he was invited to the chair of English lan- 
guage and literature in the Albany .Academy, 
which position he filled three and one-half years. 
During the summer of 1881 he visited Great Ilrit- 
ain and France for the purpose of obtaining spe- 
cial information concerning English liistory and 
literature. In January, 1884, he was appointed a 
member of the Institute Faculty of the State of 
New York by the State superintendent of public 
instruction, and served thereon for two years, 
until appointed deputy superintendent of public 
instruction in January, 1886, and shortly after- 
wards principal of the newly established State 
Normal School at New Paltz, N.Y. Two and a 
half years were devoted to organizing the latter 



school; and then, having with the local hoard 
secured from the Legislature an appropriation for 
more than doubling its size and capacity to meet 
the enlarged requirements, he resigned its prin- 
cipalship, and turned his attention for the next 
two years to literary work at Sherburne, N.Y. In 
1890 he was recalled into service as superintend- 
ent of schools at Bridgeport, Conn. ; and this po- 
sition he retained for three years, during which 
time the course of study was considerably broad- 
ened, and the educational work of the city mate- 
rially improved. He was appointed to his present 
position as superintendent of schools at Pittsfield. 
early in 1894. While at the .\lbany Academy, in 
the spring of 188 1 he was elected professor of 
history and English literature in the College of 
Charleston, S.(.'., but declined to accept the offer; 
and, while principal at New Paltz, he declined an 
invitation to the chair of English literature in the 
University of Kansas. Since that time he has 
declined to become a candidate for several impor- 
tant positions apparently within his reach, but 
likely to interfere with the working out of his edu- 
cational ideas. Mr. Bouton's contributions to 
literature have been numerous and varied. He 
contributed to McClintock and Strong's Cyclo- 
p;tdia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical 
Literature in 1877 ; in 1884 he published, in con- 
nection with Professor James Johonnot, a work 
on elementary physiology and hygiene, entitled 
■' How we li\e; or, the Human Body, and How to 
take Care of it" (New York: D. Appleton & 
Co.), a revised edition of which was issued five 
years later under the title of " Lessons in 
Hygiene"; he has engaged in the preparation of 
other te.xt-books ; has been a frequent contributor 
to educational periodicals, and has written a 
number of occasional poems which have appeared 
in periodicals. He has always been active in 
educational associations, and has shared in most 
of the educational movements in recent years. 
He was among the first in New York State to 
agitate the licensing of common-school teachers 
bv .State rather than by merely local authority. 
Besides his reports in various official capacities, 
in which many of his educational ideas have been 
set forth, he has presented several papers before 
the Liniversity Convocation of New York State 
and the State teachers' associations of New 
York and Connecticut. He has served in various 
official capacities in teachers' associations ; was 
one of the originators and a director of the New 



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York Slate Reading Cirelc ; and, while at Bridge- 
port, was a member of the Fairfield County 
Historical Society, the Jiridgeport Scientific 
Society, and the Seaside Club, In politics he is 
a Democrat. Dr. Bouton was married June 29, 
1887, to Miss Elizabeth Rumrill Ciladwin, daugh- 
ter of .Mbert R. Gladwin, of Sherburne, N.\'. 
They ha\'e three children: Katharine (born in 
Sherburne, January 26, 1889), Ciladwin (born in 
Bridgeport, September 16, 1891), and Klizabeth 
(born in Bridgeport, October 14, 1S931. 




E. A. BRACKETT. 

BRACKET'!', Edward Aui;ustus, of Winches- 
ter, chairman of the Massachusetts Commission 
on Inland Fisheries and Game, is a native of 
Maine, born in Vassalboro, October i, 1819, son 
of Reuben and Elizabeth (Starkey) Brackett. He 
was educated in the common schools and at the 
Friends' Academy at Providence, R.I. His early 
life was devoted to sculpture, and some of his best 
works were busts of \\'illiani Henry Harrison, 
Senator Talmage, Benjamin F. Butler, John 
Brown, Washington Allston, Wendell Phillips, 
William Lloyd Garrison, and the group " The 
Shipwrecked Mother and Child." He served in 
the early part of the Civil \\'ar, appointed by Gov- 
ernor .Andrew first lieutenant and battalion quar- 



termaster of the First Massachusetts Cavalry 
October 25, 1861, and mustered into the service 
December 4 following In March, 1862, he re- 
signed in consequence of the reorganization of the 
cavalry by act of Congress. He was first ap- 
pointed one of the State Commission on Inland 
Fisheries in June, 1S69, and has held the office 
ever since, a period of upwards of twenty-five 
years. In October, 1894, he was reappointed for 
another term of five years. Since 187;^ he has 
been chairman and executi\e officer of the board, 
and has written the annual reports since 1872. 
He is the inventor of a fishvvay which has always 
been successful even over the highest dams, and 
of hatching trays that are in universal use. In 
politics he is a Republican. He has been twice 
married, first, in 1842 to Miss Folger, of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, and second, in 1872, to Miss Belville, 
of Mt, Washington, ( )hio. He has two sons and 
three daughters: Frank D., Walter V., Lena R. 
mow Mrs. H. E. Wellington), Bessie R. (Mrs. 
Charles S. Parker"), and Bertha F2. Brackett. 



liR.\l)V, [ames, Jr., of {''all River, collector of 
customs, port and district of Fall River, was born 
in Cambridge. November 23, 1830, son of James 
and B. (Brady) Brady. He was educated in the 
public schools. At the age of twelve he was em- 
ployed in a cotton mill, and at twenty had attained 
the oversight of the spinning department, which 
occupation he was engaged in at the outbreak of 
the Civil War in 1861. He joined the army in 
the first vear of the war, commissioned as first 
lieutenant of Company G., Twenty-si.xth Massa- 
chusetts Regiment, September 18, 1861. He was 
made captain December 6, 1862, veteranized in 
January, 1864, and served until the end of the 
latter year, being discharged from military ser- 
vice on the 3 I St of December by reason of wounds 
received in battle at Winchester, Va., September 
1 9 preceding, while gallantly leading his com- 
mand, — the loss of the left leg. and gun-shot 
wound in left side and in right leg. While being 
taken off the field, a volley was fired at him ; and 
two of the men carrying him were killed. In 
July, 1865, he was appointed to the Fall River 
collectorship by President Johnson ; and he has 
been retained since by succeeding Presidents, — re- 
appointed by President Grant, March 2, 1870, and 
February 24, 1874; by President Hayes, April 12, 
1878: by President .\rthur, May 2, 18S2: by 



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President ClevehuKl, August 5, 1886: by President 
Harrison, September 11, 1890; and by President 
Cleveland in 1894. Captain Brady is a member 



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JAMES BRADY, Jr. 

of Post 46, Grand Army of the Repulalic : a mem- 
ber of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 
of which he was president from October, 1881, 
to October, 1884, covering three terms; a Free- 
mason, member of King Philip Lodge, Fall River, 
Royal Arch Chapter, Fall River Council, and God- 
frey de Bouillon Commandery; and a member of 
the Home Market Club. Captain Brady was first 
married. May 19, 1853, to Miss Delila Van Deusen, 
of Copake, N.Y. They had six children : Clara, 
James 1)., Carrie B., Viola, Leila, and Delmer 
Brady. He married second, November 11, 1886, 
Miss Josephine M. ISurnsicle. of Winchester, Va. 
They ha\e no children. 



BROWN, Daniel Eugene, M.D., of Brockton, 
was born in Maine, in the city of Ellsworth, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1865, son of Ivory L. and Emma L. 
(Eppes) Brown. On the paternal side he is a de- 
scendant of Peter Brown, who came from England 
in the " Mayflower," and on the maternal side 
of Colonel Da\id Greene, a brother of General 



Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. His 
mother was a daughter of Daniel Eppes, ist, son 
of Henry and Emma (Greene) Eppes, the latter 
daughter of Colonel David Greene's son John and 
.Abigail (Gerry) Greene. His father was on the 
maternal side a cousin to Chief Justice John A. 
Peters, of Maine. His general education was ob- 
tained in the public schools of Ellsw'orth ; and he 
studied for his profession in the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, wliere he was 
graduated March 31, 1886. During his vaca- 
tions from school he worked in the stores of his 
father and his uncle, Daniel H. Eppes, in Ells- 
worth. He began the practice of medicine on the 
I St of May, the year of his graduation, well estab- 
lished in Brockton, where he has since continued. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Homoeo- 
pathic Medical Society and of the Plymouth 
County Homteopathic Medical Society. He also 
belongs to the order of Odd Fellows, the Benevo- 
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and the 
Knights of Pythias ; and is a member of the Com- 
mercial Club of Brockton. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. He was married June 9, 1883, to Miss 
Linnie M. Burnham, daughter of A. F. Burnham, 




DANIEL E. BROWN. 

a well-known lawyer of Ellsworth, Me. 
have one son, .Albert Farrington Brown. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



37, 



BRUCE, Alexander Bern, of Lawrence, man- 
ufacturer, for two terms mayor of the city, is a 
native of Scotland, born in Krecliin, September 




A. B. BRUCE. 

17, 1853, son of David and Jemima (Bern) Bruce. 
He came to this country at an early age witli his 
parents, who settled in Andover, and was edu- 
cated there in the pubHc schools. At the age of 
fifteen he went to Lawrence in searcli of employ- 
ment, and, finding a place as workman in the 
cracker and biscuit factory of the late Jonathan P. 
Kent, made rapid progress in the business. 
Within six years he rose from the foot of the line 
to the position of foreman. After the death of 
Mr. Kent he successfully managed the business 
until 1 88 1, when he purchased an interest in it, 
and his name appeared in the firm. From that 
time the firm name was Kent & Bruce till Febru- 
ary, 189 1, when Mr. Bruce became sole proprietor 
of the plant. It is now with one exception the 
largest cracker and biscuit bakery in New Eng- 
land. While de\ eloping this business, Mr. Bruce 
also engaged in other interests, and is now a 
director of the Merchants' National Bank, director 
of the Lowell, Lawrence, & Haverhill Railroad, 
trustee of the Wildey Savings Bank of Boston, 
and director of the New England North-western 
Investment Company. He was president of the 



Lawrence Board of Trade in 1893. In 18S4 he 
was a member of the Lawrence Board of Alder- 
men, and in 1886-87 mayor of the city, in which 
office he so conducted affairs as to win the com- 
mendation of men of all parties. His adminis- 
tration was marked by numerous local improve- 
ments, the strengthening of the fire department 
by the purchase of needed apparatus, and other 
practical work. He also succeeded in relieving 
the city of the payment of the sum of §25,000 
originally assessed upon it for the Union Street 
Bridge, constructed at an expense of §65,000, 
through appealing to the higher courts, by the de- 
cision of which that sum was assessed upon the 
other towns of the county. His success in the 
mayoralty was attributed by the local press to his 
frankness, openness, his readiness to give every 
citizen full information on all municipal matters, 
and to his application of general business princi- 
ples to the conduct of the city's business. In 
politics he is a steadfast Democrat, but in the 
mayoralty was unpartisan. As a citizen, he is 
charitable, benevolent, helpful in many good 
causes. He is connected with the Masonic and 
Odd Fellows' orders, and is a member of the 
Home and Canoe clubs of Lawrence and of the 
Algonquin Club of Boston. He was married in 
1870 to Miss Mary H. Mitchell. They have one 
child, David Bruce. 



BUCKINGHAM, George Beecher, of Worces- 
ter, manufacturer, is a native of Connecticut, born 
in the town of Oxford, March 20, 1849, son of 
Philo B. and Sally C. (Perkins) Buckingham. 
His ancestry on the paternal side is traced back 
many years. It has been a tradition in his family 
that their ancestor was a Welshman ; but, as the 
old records are lost, this is merely traditional. 
The name of Buckingham as a family name is de- 
rived from the county of Buckingham in England. 
There is a family crest of handsome design. 'The 
Puritan settler was Thomas Buckingham, who was 
the ancestor of all the American Buckinghams. 
He arrived in Boston June 26, 1637, probably in 
the ship "Hector," and in March following (1638 ) 
sailed for Quinepiack, now New Haven ; and a 
history of the Buckingham family from that 
period is extremely interesting. Many of the 
family in this country have filled honorable and 
important positions. Eleven have graduated from 
Vale College and several at other colleges and 



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seminaries ; ami a lary;e number have distinguislied 
themselves in the learned professions. Colonel 
I'hilo B. Buckingham, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, had a most brilliant war record. In 
1862 he closed up his business, raised a company 
of volunteers, enlisting himself as a private, and 
afterwards chosen captain; was present at the 
battle of Chancellorsville, also at (Gettysburg in 
1S63 ; was in command of a brigade by seniority, 
and made the famous -'march to the sea" from 
.\tlanta to .Savannah ; took part in many battles, 
and served gallantly to the end, being mustered 
out lune 27, 1.S65. He died ( )ctober 16, 1894. 




GEO. B. BUCKINGHAM. 

George B. was educated mainly in the public 
schools of Seymour and New Haven, finishing 
while in New Ha\en with a course at the Russell 
Military School. His early business life was 
spent in New Haven ; and in 1869, when twenty 
years old, he came to V\'orcester in the service 
of the Sargent Card Clothing Company. He re- 
mained with this concern until 1S73, when he 
united with Warren McFarland in the malleable 
iron business. Under his active management this 
has grown to very large proportions, now embrac- 
ing two e.\tensive and independent manufactories, 
— the Arcade Malleable Iron Conqjany. and the 



Worcester Malleable Iron Works. Mr. Bucking- 
ham is also a director of the Citizens' National 
Bank of \\'orcester and of the E. C. Morris Safe 
Company of Boston. He is an active member of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Conipanv 
of Boston, member of the Worcester Countx' 
Mechanics' Association, and prominently con- 
nected with Freemasonry, said to be one of the 
best known craftsmen in the country. He joined 
.Vthelstan Lodge of Freemasons in 1872, and 
rapidly progressed in the order. In that year 
he also joined Eureka Chapter and Worcester 
County Conuiiandery of Knights Templar : in 
1873, Hiram Council Royal and Select Masters ; 
in 1874, Worcester Lodge of Perfection; in 1876 
and 1877 he was high priest of Eureka Chapter; 
in 1885 he became a member of Goddard Coun- 
cil Princes of Jerusalem, Lawrence Chapter of 
Rose Croix, and Massachusetts Consistory, thirty- 
second degree; in 1887-88-89 was eminent com- 
mander of Worcester County Commandery ; in 
1888-89-90-91, most wise and perfect master 
of Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croi.x ; in 1889, 
member of Supreme Council, thirty-third degree, 
a sovereign grand inspector-general, northern 
jurisdiction, LTnited States of America ; and in 
1893-94, president of the Board of Trustees of the 
Masonic Fraternity of Worcester. Mr. Bucking- 
ham was married July 2, 187 1, to Miss Abbie 
McFarland. They have had three children : Alice 
Perkins (born September 29, 1872), Florence 
Edith (born August 28, 1874), and Harold Paul 
Buckingham (born April 10, 1886). 



CHASE, Eli Aver. M.I)., of Brockton, is a 
native of Maine, born in the town of Unity, Waldo 
County, April 2, 1847, son of Harrison and 
Marcia (Ayer) Chase. He is a descendant in the 
eighth generation of William Chase, who settled 
in Yarmouth, Mass.. in 1637. On the maternal 
side he descends from Dr. Eli Ayer, of Palermo, 
Me. He was educated in the common schools, 
and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and East 
Maine Conference Seminary of Bucksport. His 
studies were interrupted by the Cix'il War, in which 
he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-ninth 
Maine Infantry Regiment, when he was but seven- 
teen years old, and served with his regiment in 
Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, and the Caro- 
linas till February, 1866. He resumed school 
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leacliiiii;-. He hcyan ihu study of medicine in the 
office of Dr. J. T. Main, at Unity, in April, 1S69, 
and subsequently attended the medical depart- 




ClllSHOLM, William Parmer, MA)., of 
lirockton, is a native of Nova Scotia, born in On- 
slow, Colchester County, February 21, 1853, son 
of Thomas B. and Letitia (Fletcher) Chisholm. 
His father's father, Alexander Chisholm, came with 
his father, Donald Chisholm, to Nova Scotia, from 
Scotland, toward the end of the last century. 
They were descended from the chief of the clan 
Chisholm, and traced their lineage back to Sir 
Robert Chisholm, who flourished in the fourteenth 
century. His mother's father was Captain jdhii 
Fletcher, son of Captain Thomas Fletcher, who 
came from England with his brother. Colonel 
I'letcher, and settled in Londonderry, N.S., in the 
last century. Dr. Chisholm received his general 
education in the schools of his native town, at the 
Provincial Normal College, Truro, N.S., and at 
I )aIhousie University, Halifa.x, N.S. He began his 
medical studies under the family physician, Dr. 
I). H. Muir, at Truro, then attended the Halifax 
Medical College, where he was under the special 
training of Dr. Farrell, professor of surgery, and 
finished in the medical department of the University 



E. A. CHASE. 

ment of Bowdoin College and the Long Lsland 
Cf)llege Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y., where he grad- 
uated in June, 1872. While a medical student he 
taught school at inter\als. LTpon receiving his 
degree of M.D. he was appointed house surgeon 
in the Long Island College Hospital ; and in Sep- 
tember, 1873, he entered upon the practice of 
medicine proper in North Bridgewater, now Brock- 
ton. Since that time he has devoted himself 
entirely to his profession, and his practice has 
been large and lucrati\e. He is president of the 
Plymouth District Medical Society and a member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In politics 
he has generally acted with the Republican party ; 
but he has never taken an active part in national. 
State, or municipal politics, nor sought office. He 
belongs to the Masonic fraternity, is a member of 
the Brockton Lodge, No. 164, of the order of Elks, 
and a member of Post 13, Fletcher Webster, 
Grand Army of the Republic. Dr. Chase mar- 
ried October 23. 1876, Miss S. Ella Seaman. 
They have three children : Harry .\\er, Clara S., 
and Annie C;. ("hase. 




W. p. CHISHOLM. 



of the City of New York, graduating therefrom in 
March, 188 1. After graduation he came to Brock- 
ton, and immediately entered upon the active 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



practice of his profession, in which lie has since 
been steadily engaged. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society. He is connected 
with the Knights of Pythias, member of Damocles 
Lodge, Brockton, also belongs to the Brockton 
Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order 
of Elks, and is a member of the Elks Club. He 
was married March 22, 1883, to Miss Lila A. 
Cogswell, of Cornwallis, N.S. They have three 
children : Beatrice, Olivia, and William Cogswell 
Chisholm. 

COOK, William Henry, of Milford, editor of 
the M\\iorA/iiuni(i/. is a native of Vermont, born 
in the historic old town of Bennington, January 7, 
1843, son of James L C. and Marion E. (Robert- 
son) Cook. The latter deceased May 8, 1888. 
He was educated mostly in the district schools. 
When a lad of nine years, he learned to set type 
in the office of the ^'ermont State Banner at 
Bennington, of which his father was editor and 
part proprietor in association with the latter's 
brother, under the firm name of B. G. & J. 1. C. 
Cook ; and in his early teens he was the carrier 
of the Banna- to its village subscribers at a salary 
of twenty-five cents a week. In 1859, at the age 
of si.xteen, he became a partner of his father, his 
uncle having died in 1856, and was the youngest 
editor in the State. He was present at the organ- 
ization of the Vermont Press Association. His 
work on the Banner continued without break 
until 1870, when the establishment was sold. 
For two years thereafter he contributed to various 
papers, and then, in the spring of 1872, in con- 
junction with his father and brother, — George G. 
Cook, — purchased the Milford Journal and job 
office connected with it. Since that time the Mil- 
ford business has been most successfully carried 
on by the father and sons, under the firm name of 
Cook & Sons, the elder superintending the me- 
chanical departments, William H. serving as the 
editor of the paper, and George G. as the busi- 
ness manager. The latter also served as post- 
master of Milford during the Harrison administra- 
tion. In 18S8 the firm established the Milford 
Daily Journal, a penny paper, in response to a 
quite general public sentiment, which met with 
immediate success. Of Mr. Cook's professional 
principles the National Journalist has said, " He 
is a firm believer in an individualized editorial 
column which shall state honest convictions in a 
plain and unequivocal manner, and stand by 



them.'" He comes naturally by his newspaper 
tendencies and love of printing, his father having 
begun work at the age of thirteen, in the old office 
of the IntelUf(encc at Bellows Falls, Vt., then 
owned by the latter's brother, B. G. Cook, and 
continued at it uninterruptedly from that time to 
the present, a period of sixty-four years. He is yet 
actively at work in the '■ art preservative " in the 
Journal office, where he is present not less than 
eight hours daily, and may be properly spoken of 
as one of the few " old school prniters " in the 
State who still continue to " stick type." Early 
in his career as editor of the Milford Journal, Mr. 




w. H. COOK. 

Cook became especially active in movements for 
journalistic organizations. He is one of the 
founders of the .Suburban Press Association, and 
was its president through the first three years of 
its existence. .\t the present time (1895) he is 
president of the Massachusetts Press Association, 
and also of the Republican Editorial Association. 
His interest in politics began with his journalistic 
work. Before he was of age he was a delegate 
in a Republican Convention in Vermont, and at 
twenty-three was chairman of the Republican 
committee of Bennington County. Four years 
after he had acquired citizenship in Massachusetts 
he was elected a representative for his district in 



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(Mich.) College on the 1st of January, 1866. He 
studied there and later in Shurtleff College, Upper 
Alton, 111., but did not graduate then. During 
this period he also had some e.xperience as a 
teacher both in Illinois and in Michigan. In 
187 1 he began the study of law in the office of 
May & Buck in Kalamazoo, but in the summer 
of that year he was called to the ministry. In 
September following he was ordained in Bellevue, 
Mich. He served a short pastorate in Bellevue. 
and a little more than three years in Albion, Mich. 
In 1875 he went to the Mt. Morris, N.Y. 
(Livingston County), Baptist church. In Septeni- 




PHILIP S. MOXOM. 

ber, the same year, he entered the Rochester 
Theological Seminary, and took the full three 
years' course, graduating in May, 1878, meantime 
serving as pastor of the Mt. Morris church till the 
last of March, 1879. In July that year he took 
the degree of A.B. in the University of Roches- 
ter, and in 18S2 A.M. in course in the same col- 
lege. From the Mt. Morris church he went to 
the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, be- 
ginning his pastorate there on the ist of April, 
1879. In August, 1885, he became pastor of the 
l'"irst Baptist Church, Boston, and served there 
till the ist of January, 1894; and on the ist of 
.April following he began his service in Springfield 



as pastor of the South Congregational C hurch. 
In June, 1892, while in Boston, where he took 
rank among the foremost clergymen of that city, 
he received the degree of D.I), from Brown Uni- 
versity. Dr. Mo.xom has written and published 
various articles on social and religious questions, 
and in 1894 published a volume of addresses to 
young people under the title of " The Aim of 
Life" (Boston, Roberts Brothers), which passed 
rapidly into the second thousand. He also wrote 
a paper entitled an " Argument for Immortality" 
for the World's Parliament of Religions, and 
preached the sermon, on " Moral and Social 
.\spects of War," before the World's Peace Con- 
gress in Chicago in 1893, He has preached 
much at Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities, 
at Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, Vassar 
College, and other educational institutions. He 
is a member of the American Peace Society, 
and has- been a delegate to International Peace 
Congresses in London in 1890, Berne in 1892, 
Chicago in 1893, and Antwerp in 1894; is a mem- 
ber of the American Economic Association, of 
the American Academy of Political and Social 
Science, of the council of the Andover House 
Association ; honorary member of the Dartmouth 
Alumni Association : member of the University 
Club of Boston, and of various other clubs ; was 
president of the Appalachian Mountain Club 
1894; and president of the Browning Society, 
Boston, 1894-95. In politics he has been a 
Republican, in later years an independent Re- 
publican. He takes much interest in political as 
well as in social questions. He has travelled 
much abroad, having made five trips to Europe. 
iJr. Mo.xom was married September 6, 187 1, to 
Miss Isabel Elliott, daughter of the Hon. Adam 
Elliott, of Barry, Mich. They have four children 
living : Philip W. T. (now in Brown University), 
Howard Osgood, Edith Knowles, and Ralph Pen- 
dleton Moxom. 



NEWMAN, Louis Frank, of Springfield, real 
estate operator, is a native of the South, born in 
Montgomery, Ala., December 19, 1857, son of 
Rebeka and Seeman Newman. His father was a 
German emigre as a result of the Revolution of 
1848. The boy lived in Montgomery until the 
close of the Civil War; and then his father, fear- 
ing the effects upon business of the changes of 
the reconstruction period, took the family abroad. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



He was there educated, at -Segnitz. in Bavaria, a 
famous boys" school, where he spent four years, 
from 1867 to 187 1. In 1871, after travelling 
through Germany, he returned to this country, 
and at the age of fourteen entered the store of 
his father, re-established in Montgomery, to learn 
the dry-goods business. This business, however, 
was uncongenial to him : and after three years 
experience in it he set out for New York, work- 
ing his way from Norfolk, \'a.. on an Old 
Dominion steamship. In New York he found 
temporary employment in making picture frames, 
though he lacked every preparation for the work. 




LOUIS F. NEWMAN. 

A year later, in 1S76, the Centennial Exhibition 
drew him to Philadelphia, where he secured 
emplo_\ment as entry clerk with Sharpies & Sons, 
then the leading dry-goods house in that city. 
Here he remained until 1880. Meanwhile he had 
come under the influence of the Young Men's 
Christian .Association : and he w^as so impressed 
by the adaptability of this institution to reach 
young men, and to train and preserve them, that 
he finally resigned all idea of business life for at 
least ten years, and in October of 1880 entered 
its employ, being appointed general secretary of 
the association at Richmond, Va. He was then, 
with one exception, the youngest secretary in 



.\merica. After organizing the Richmond associa- 
tion and putting it in good condition, in February, 
1883, he was transferred to Detroit, Mich., to 
occupy a similar position. Here the organization 
had been reduced by poor management and a 
lack of know-ledge as to its proper sphere. He at 
once re-established it on a business basis ; and 
w^hen he resigned in December, 1890, after eight 
years' work, what was a disrupted, homeless, and 
bankrupt organization, when he assumed charge, 
had become a flourishing institution, with a 
membership of nearly two thousand, an income of 
twenty thousand dollars a year, and a building of 
its own, valued at one hundred and se\enty-five 
thousand dollars, free of debt. During this time 
he became widely know-n as a forceful speaker on 
social and religious topics, having occupied some 
of the leading pulpits and platforms in the West. 
He is what might be called a bookworm. He 
owns a fine library and one of the best collec- 
tions of etchings in the country. Since his retire- 
ment from the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion work Mr. Newman has devoted his attention 
to real estate, making his home in Springfield, 
and his ventures during the three years from 1891 
to 1894 have reached into millions of dollars. As 
a sample of his energy, it may be mentioned that 
in May, 1893, in the face of the financial panic 
which characterized that year, he, with others, 
purchased a fifty-acre tract of land in Springfield. 
.At the end of one year he had built a dozen fine 
houses upon it, opened wide boulevards and 
terraces, laid out drives, erected statuary and the 
like, and greatly increased the value of the prop- 
erty. His chief characteristics are executive 
ability, tact in dealing with men, centralized 
energy and perseverance. In the first year of his 
.Springfield business experience, despite the fact of 
being unknown to a single business man in the 
city, he has succeeded in identifying with him 
in his numerous enterprises some of the leading 
conservative bank presidents. Mr. Newman was 
married May 11, 1893, to Miss Lura Barden, the 
famous elocutionist, of Detroit, .Mich. They have 
one son : Gwendel Barden Newman. 



NICHOLS, Ch.\rles Lemuel, M.D., of Worces- 
ter, is a native of \\'orcester, born May 29, 185 i, 
son of Lemuel B. and Lydia C. (Anthony) 
Nichols. His father and father's father were also 
physicians, the former one of the founders of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Worcester County HoiiUL-opathic Medical Society, 
and its first president in 1866. His mother was a 
daiigliter of James Anthony, a prominent manu- 
facturer of Providence, R.I., and connected with 
one of the oldest families of that State. He was 
educated in the Worcester public schools, the 
Highland Military School of Worcester, and at 
Brown University, where he graduated A.H. in 
1872 and A.M. in 1875. Daring the year 1872- 
73 he was assistant instructor in chemistry at 
Brown. He took the regular course of the 
Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1875, and 
after a year as interne in Ward's Island (N.V.) 




CHAS. L. NICHOLS. 

Homoeopathic Hospital went abroad, where he 
further pursued his studies through the year 1877. 
Returning to Worcester, he entered upon the 
general practice of his profession, in association 
with his father. This partnership continued till 
the death of the latter in 1883, when he succeeded 
to tiie entire practice. He was largely instru- 
mental in establishing the Worcester Homreopathic 
I )ispensary (dating from 1880; incorporated 1885), 
and has been treasurer of the Dispensary Associa- 
tion from its beginning. He is also much inter- 
ested in the .Associated Charities, of which he is 
secretary. He has been a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Homtcopathic Medical Society since 



1878, and of the Worcester County HonKeopathic 
Medical Society since 1877. He married, first, 
June 14, 1887, Miss Carolina Clinton Dewey, 
daughter of Judge Francis H. Dewey, who died 
December 22, 1878, leaving one child, Caroline 
D. Nichols; and, second, November 25, 1884, 
Miss Mary Jarette Rrayton, daughter of the Hon. 
John S. Brayton of Fall River : they have three 
children, Charles L., Jr., Harriet 11, and Jirayton 
Nichols. 

NORCROSS, Orlando W., of Norcross Broth- 
ers, building contractors. Worcester, is a native 
of Maine, born in Clinton, October 25, 1839, 
younger son of Jesse and Margaret (Whitney) 
Norcross. When two years old, his parents 
moved to Salem, Mass. He was educated in the 
schools of Salem. He learned the carpenters' 
trade, and came naturally by his calling, his 
father, Jesse S. Norcross, having been a man of 
unusual ability, whose chief business had been 
setting up saw-mills in the woods of Maine. In 
1864, after his return from the war, he started, 
with his brother, James A. Norcross, business in 
Swampscott, as Norcross Brothers, carpenters and 
builders. The beginning was modest, with little 
promise of speedy expansion. Two years later, 
however, they were given the contract to build the 
Congregational church in Leicester : and in 1867 
they found their opportunity in Worcester, which 
had entered upon a stage of e.xtensive improve- 
ments. From that time their progress was rapid, 
and their work became of the first importance. 
Within the three years 1868-70 they built the 
Crompton Block on Exchange Street, the First 
Universalist Church, and the Worcester High 
School building, and had begun operations in 
Springfield, building there the South Congrega- 
tional Church. In 1872 the\' took the contract 
for building the Hampden County Court House, 
Springfield; and in 1873 began Trinity Church 
in Boston, the masterpiece of Richardson, subse- 
quently executing other notable work of Richard- 
son's design. In the period between 1873 and 
1879 they built the Norwich Congregational 
church ; the beautiful All Saints' Church, Worces- 
ter ; the Cheney Block, Hartford; the Latin and 
English High School buildings, Boston ; the Gym- 
nasium and Sever Hall, Harvard College ; the 
Woburn Library ; the Ames Library, North Easton, 
and the North Easton Town Hall ; Trinity Church 
parsonage, Boston ; and the Newport villa of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Mrs. Annie W. Shernuui. During llie eigiities 
they e.xtended their operations to more distant 
places, building the Albany City Hall ; the Alle- 
gheny County Court House and Jail, Pittsburg; 
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ; the How- 
ard Memorial Library, New Orleans ; the Turner 
Building. St. Louis, Mo. ; the Marshall Field 
Building, Chicago ; the New York Life Insurance 
Building, Omaha. Neb. : the New York Life Insur- 
ance Company Building, Kansas City, Mo. ; the 
Lionberger Building, St. Louis, Mo. ; the Presby- 
terian church, Albany; Lawrenceville School 
Building, New Jersey; and the Crouse Memorial 




O. W. NORCROSS. 

College, Syracuse, N.Y. Within the same period 
they built in New England the Memorial Building, 
Yale College ; the Harvard College Law School 
building; a Vermont University building ; the I)ur- 
fee High School building. Fall River ; the Crane 
Memorial Hall, Quincy ; and the Maiden Library ; 
the P'iske Building, the State Street Exchange, and 
other business structures in Boston ; the First 
Spiritual Temple; the Boston Art and Algonquin 
Club houses ; the Burnside Building, Worcester ; 
the Framingham and Springfield stations on the 
Boston & Albany Railroad ; and the Hartford 
(Conn.) station of the New York, New Haven & 
Hartford line ; in New York citv, the Union 



League Club House, the Union Theological 
Seminary, St. James Episcopal Church, and Holy 
Trinity Church ; Grace Church, New Bedford ; 
Newton Baptist church ; and numerous costly 
private residences in various cities. Their work 
of later years includes the tall Ames Building, 
Washington and Court .Streets, Boston, and 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce. They also 
built the Ames Memorial Monument at Sher- 
man, Wyoming Territory, on the highest ele- 
vation of the Rocky Mountains crossed by the 
Union Pacific Railroad ; and the soldiers' monu- 
ment at West Point. They have now extensive 
wood and iron working shops in Worcester, and 
large stone-working plants in Boston and in Cleve- 
land, Ohio ; and own granite, sandstone, and 
marble quarries. Mr. Norcross served in the 
Civil War three years, enlisting in the Fourteenth 
Massachusetts Infantry, which became the Mas- 
sachusetts Heavy Artillery. As a resident of 
Worcester, he has taken an active interest in local 
afl:airs ; and he is an earnest supporter of the tem- 
perance cause. In 1875 ^e was a member of the 
commission of experts appointed to investigate 
the condition of the Federal Building in Chicago, 
whose findings were all sustained by subsequent 
events. Mr. Norcross was married in May, 1870, 
to Ellen P. Sibley, of Salem. They have had two 
sons and three daughters, the daughters only 
now living. 

OLMSTED, John, of Springfield, manufacturer, 
president of street railways, and concerned in 
numerous other business interests, was born in 
Enfield, Conn., June i, 1820. That John Olm- 
sted at seventv-four years of age is a foremost 
factor in the life of Springfield, respected for 
what he is and has done, is a statement which he 
would decline to father. It comes by authority of 
the Springfield Republican, speaking for the com- 
munity where he has lived since i860. He was 
born of good New England stock, his father being 
George Olmsted, a farmer, and his mother the 
daughter of Ensign Russell, who had been a 
Revolutionary soldier. The lad, thoughtful and 
self-respecting by nature, went to the local school, 
and then attended the Wilbraham and W'estfield 
academies. He wished to go to college, but the 
way was not open except by mortgaging his fut- 
ure, and this he did not feel justified in doing. 
So he took up the business of life with a very 
good equipment, for those old rural academies did 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



much for thfir pupils; and ever .since Mr. ( >hu- 
sted has read books much, and studied men and 
affairs more. Stril;ing out for himself, at twenty 
j-ears of age he became a manufacturer of tin- 
ware and dealer in paper stock. His talent for 
business was so obvious that the local magnates, 
like the late Colonel Hazard, encouraged and gave 
him advice, which he put to good use, for the 
old and honorable principles governing trade are 
good always. In 1854 his health gave out and he 
sold his business, and retired to a farm in Somers. 
Outdoor life brought back his vigor, and he moved 
to Springfield six years later. Mr. Olmsted's 




JOHN OLMSTED. 

early interest in public affairs appears in the fact 
that he took the New York Tribiiih- and the 
Springfield Daily Repuhliian from tlicir first 
issues, — the one established in 1S41 and the 
other in 1S44, — and that he embarked in the anti- 
slaxerv movement in boyhood. He attended 
every anti-slavery State convention held in Con- 
necticut before his removal to Massachusetts. 
and knew to a man the faithful three hundred of 
that State who always turned out at these annual 
rallies ; and we may well believe that they were 
"a mighty respectable body of men." He came 
to know Lovejoy and Giddings well, saw them in 
their homes, and threw himself without reserva- 



tion into the battle for freedom. After Lincoln's 
nomination Mr. Olmsted chanced to be in Spring- 
field, 111., and so came to know and measure and 
early cast in his lot with the man who was to con- 
summate that splendid contest. Mr. Olmsted's 
first venture in Springfield was in the cotton 
waste and paper stock business with the late 
Lewis H. Taylor. They also manufactured cot- 
ton batting on Mill River, and twines in West- 
field. Mr. Taylor retired in i866, and for four- 
teen 3'ears Mr. Olmsted conducted the paper 
stock and cotton waste business alone. Then a 
partnership was formed with Frank E. Tuttle 
under the name of Olmsted & Tuttle. Some half 
dozen years ago the business was removed to 
Chicopee, reorganized on a stock company basis, 
and it is a very prosperous concern. Meantime 
Mr. Olmsted's business investments and relation- 
ships have been steadily enlarged during the 
thirty-four years, until they branch out widely into 
the local life. To the steady success of his pri- 
vate business life is added a distinction of wider 
scope in the thoroughly sound way in which he 
has built up Springfield's street railway system. 
The statement that he has given the city a model 
system is proved by the fact that it is so regarded 
by experts in street railway matters, and visited as 
such by delegations from cities all over the United 
States. He took charge of a small, unprofitable, 
and poorly managed company, and has made it 
such an adequate servant of the people as speed- 
ily commanded popular confidence and favor. 
Its patronage is phenomenal, its electric equip- 
ment thoroughly good, and its lines have been 
extended to Chicopee, West Springfield, and 
Indian Orchard, with other extensions and im- 
provements planned to the extent of an expendi- 
ture of 55200,000. At no time has Mr. Olmsted 
owned a controlling interest in the company, or 
cared to ; and he has rejected all propositions 
looking to outside syndicate ownership which 
would have had no care for the local service. 
He has had genuine pride in doing the best possi- 
ble thing for the company and the people, holding 
that the interests of both are one. The success 
and soliditv of his method has led Northampton 
and Holyoke people to seek his aid, and he now 
(1894) has the practical oversight of the street 
railway companies in both these cities. His fair- 
mindedness, close knowledge of matters under his 
care, tact, power of clear statement, and reason- 
able disposition, make him almost a model advo- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



cate when questions of railway francliises come 
before the city government of these places. The 
comforts of home have always outweighed in Mr. 
Olmsted's mind the attractions of public life. He 
has served for two terms in the Common Council, 
four terms an alderman, and was a member of the 
House of Representatives in 1883. It is an open 
secret that he could have been mayor, had he so 
desired. All his life Mr. Olmsted has been a 
good citizen and a contributor to the common 
welfare. It is owing to his efforts in raising the 
funds that .Springfield has her unique and beauti- 
ful .\rt Building, to which Mr. Olmsted was also 
one of the large contributors. It is a part of his 
philosophy that those who have been prospered 
in fair dealing owe something to their fellows and 
the community, and he has been and is paying 
the debt in quiet and effective ways not to be cat- 
alogued. Mr. Olmsted is president of the Spring- 
field Street Railway Company and the North- 
ampton Street Railway Company: of the First 
National Bank of Springfield, and of the Olmsted 
& Tuttle Company; vice-president and director 
of the City Library Association ; director of the 
United Electric Light Company, the Indian Or- 
chard Company, the Holyoke Street Railway 
Company, the Oak Grove Cemetery Association, 
the Metallic Roll Company of Indian Orchard, 
and the Western Massachusetts Mutual Insurance 
Company ; and trustee of the Hampden Savings 
Bank. Mr. Olmsted was married in 1842 to 
Rhodelia E. Langdon, of Somers, Conn. ; and 
their union was an ideally happy one until Mrs. 
Olmsted's death, September 29, 189 1. Two of 
their children are living: Mrs. Henry J. Beebe 
and Mrs. Frank H. Goldthwait, both of Spring- 
field. ^ 

PARKER, Henry Langdon, of Worcester, 
member of the bar, is a native of Acton, born 
October 7, 1833, son of Asa and Margaret Ann 
(McCoristone) Parker. He was educated in the 
Lawrence Academy, Groton, and at Dartmouth, 
graduating in the class of 1856 ; and prepared for 
the law in Milford and in Worcester. Admitted 
to the bar in i860, he began practice at Hopkin- 
ton. Five years after he moved to Worcester, 
where he has since been established. From 1862 
to 1865 he was trial justice in Middlesex County. 
Since early in the eighties he has been prominent 
in municipal and State matters, his public service 
beginning on the School Board of Worcester, of 



which he was a member for si.\ years, from 18S2 
to 1888. In 1885 he was elected a Worcester 
representative in the lower house of the Legis- 




HENRY L. PARKER. 

lature for 1886, and returned the next year: and 
in 1889 and 1890 was a senator for the First 
Worcester District: in 1893 was chairman of the 
committee to revise the city charter of Worces- 
ter ; and is now one of the Trustees of Public 
Reservations for the preservation of places of 
beauty and historic interest in the Commonwealth. 
When in the General Court, he served on leading 
committees, and had a prominent part in legisla- 
tive work. During his second term in the House 
he was chairman of the committee on probate and 
insolvency; in his first term in the Senate was 
chairman of the committee on public service, and 
in his second term chairman of the committees on 
the judiciary, on rules, and on election laws. In 
politics he is a Republican, and in religion an 
Episcopalian, — w-arden of St. Matthew's Church of 
Worcester for several years from 1872, and since 
1889 warden of St. Mark's Church. He is much 
interested in horticulture, and has been president 
of the Worcester County Horticultural Society 
from 1889 to the present time. Mr. Parker was 
married on the first of January, 1861. He has 
had three sons and tw-o daughters : Henry L.. Jr. 



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335 



(graduate of Dartmoutli in 1885, now a lawj-er), 
George C. (also a graduate of Dartmouth in 1887, 
died June 15, 1889), Grace A., Herbert I., and 
Gertrude M. Parker. 



L'ARKKR, Hkrkert, of Lancaster, member of 
the bar, was born in Charlestown, March 2, 1856, 
son of George A. and Harriet N. (Felton) Parker. 
His father was a civil engineer who, during the 
latter years of his life, lived in Lancaster ; and 
his mother is a sister of the late President C C. 
Felton of Harvard University. His early educa- 
tion was acquired at private schools in Philadel- 
phia and with tutors. He entered Harvard with 
the class graduating in 1878, but was obliged to 
leave in the senior year on account of ill-health, 
and has never taken a degree. He read law in 
Worcester in the office of the Hon. Messrs. George 
F. Hoar and Thomas L. Nelson, and was admitted 
to the Worcester County bar in 1883. After his 
admission he was at \^'ashington for one session 
of Congress as private secretary to Senator Hoar, 
and clerk on the committee on privileges and elec- 




HERBERT PARKER. 

tions. On his return to Massachusetts he opened 
an office in Worcester and then in Clinton, where 



ship with the Hon. John W. Corcoran, which con- 
tinued till the latter's removal to Boston in 189 1. 
i'hereafter, in 1892, he became junior partner in 
the law firm of Xorcross, Baker, & Parker at 
Fitchburg, which relation continued till January, 
1894, when he retired, and opened an office in 
Worcester, where he has since been in practice. 
In 1886 he was appointed assistant district at- 
torney for the Middle District of Massachusetts, 
which office he still holds. He also held until his 
resignation in 1894 the office of special justice of 
the Second District Court of Eastern Worcester. 
He is now a member of the board of examiners 
for admission to the bar, treasurer of the Law Li- 
brary Association of W'orcester County, and sec- 
retary of the .Association of District Attorneys of 
the Commonwealth. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, and has always voted that ticket, except in 
1884, when he voted for the Cleveland presiden- 
tial electors. He served many years on the Re- 
publican town committee of Lancaster ; in the 
years 1892-93 was a member of the Republican 
State Committee, and from time to time has 
served on Republican congressional, senatorial, 
county, and representative district committees. He 
was a member of the School Committee of Lan- 
caster for four years, and for many years he has 
been one of the trustees of the Public Library of 
that town. He has been a member of the Hasty 
Pudding Club of Harvard, the Puritan of Boston, 
the Quinsigamond Boat and the \\'orcester clubs 
of W'orcester, and the Athletic .Association of 
Clinton. Mr. Parker was married at Lowell, Sep- 
tember 22, 1886, to IMiss Mary Carney Vose. 
They have had three children: George A. (born 
at Lancaster, October 8, 1887), Katherine Vose 
(born at Lancaster, November 16, 1888), and 
Edith Parker (born at Lancaster, September 26, 
1893)- 

P.\RSONS, Ch.^rles Heni<\', of Springfield, 
real estate dealer, was born in Springfield, June 
18, 1864, son of William H. and Sarah A. (Wood) 
Parsons. He is descended from "Cornet" Jo- 
seph Parsons, who was one of the original settlers 
of Springfield, and whose name appears on the 
deed of Springfield from the Indians. He was 
educated in the public schools of Springfield, grad- 
uating from the High School. He began to build 
houses for his father at the age of seventeen, and 
a year or two later started in to buy and sell real 



in a short time (in 1885) he formed a copartner- estate on his own account. By learning the car- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



penter's trade, and acquiring by study at odd 
times a fair i<no\vledge of architecture and also of 
conveyancing, he fitted himself for his chosen 
business, and became able personally to super- 
intend the construction of his buildings, to draw- 
plans, and to do his own legal work. His busi- 
ness steadily increased; and during the eight 
years between 1886 and 1894 he sold over one 
hundred houses and blocks, besides upwards of 
five hundred building lots. He has served as a 
director of the Springfield Board of Trade, is a 
member of the .Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company of Boston, and of the Springfield, Kamp 




CHAS. H. PARSONS. 

Komfort, Nyasset, Bicycle, and Winthrop clubs 
of Springfield. In politics he is a Democrat. 
Although never active in politics, he made a good 
showing as a candidate for alderman on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket in the municipal campaign of 1893, 
while falling short of the necessary votes to elect, 
polling more than any other candidate from his 
party. Mr. Parsons was married September 23, 
1885, to Miss Addie M. Marvel, of Hartford, Ct. 
They have two children : Marvel, born in 1889; 
and Russell Parsons, born in 1892. 



PINKERTON, Alfred S., of Worcester, pres- 
ident of the Massachusetts Senate 1892-93, is a 



native of Pennsylvania, born in Lancaster, March 
19, 1856, son of \\'illiam ('. and Maria \\". 
(Fiske) Pinkerton. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Lancaster and of Scranton ; and at 
the age of thirteen, his father dying, he was 
obliged to leave school. Removing with his 
mother, a Massachusetts woman, to Worcester, he 
found employment in a large manufacturing firm 
as a book-keeper ; and here he remained for about 
three years. Having a desire to study law, he 
read general literature, and pursued his studies 
evenings, after work through the day. At length 
he entered the office of the Hon. Peter C. Bacon, 
and there read under the latter's direction. Ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1881, he immediately began 
the practice of his profession in Worcester, and 
has followed it since, obtaining early in his career 
a recognized standing and a good business. He 
was first sent to the Legislature in 1887, elected 
to the House of Representatives, and immedi- 
ately took rank among the leading members. He 
was this first year chairman of the committee on 
towns, one of the most important committees of 
the session on account of the business before it 
( the bill for the division of Beverly among other 
matters of note), and its spokesman on the floor. 
Re-elected to the ne.xt House, he was during his 
second term a member of the committees on the 
judiciary and on constitutional amendments, and 
of the special committee to represent the Com- 
monwealth at the celebration of the settlement 
of the North-west territory. .Again re-elected, he 
served his third term, again on the committee on 
the judiciary, and as chairman of that on water 
supply ; and was selected to present the name 
of Senator Hoar at the Republican caucus for 
renomination to the Ignited States senatorship. 
The next year, 1890, Mr. Pinkerton was a mem- 
ber of the Senate, elected from the Fourth 
Worcester District. He served during his first 
term in the upper branch on the committees on 
constitutional amendment (chairman), on the ju- 
diciary, and on probate and chancery ; and he 
was a member of the special committee to whom 
was referred the contest for the seat of Senator 
Hart, the first case arising under the Australian 
ballot law, the decision of which was of great 
interest. Returned to the Senate of 1891, he 
served as chairman of the committee on the judi- 
ciary, the highest honor in the gift of the chair : 
on the committee on probate and insolvency, and 
as chairman of the special committee to consider 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the org;anization and powers of the various State 
commissions, which being continued through the 
recess he served again as its chairman, and pre- 
sented its elaborate report to the succeeding Leg- 
islature. In 1892, returned for the third time, he 
was elected president of the Senate by the unani- 
mous vote of his associates. Republicans and 
Democrats alike ; and he was honored with a sim- 
ilar election in 1893. During his long service in 
both branches he was frequently heard in debate, 
always commanding attention ; and in the chair of 
the Senate he made a reputation as a parliamenta- 
rian. He was chairman of the special committee 




A. S. PINKERTON. 

to revise the rules of the Legislature in 1S92, and 
of the special committee to revise the laws relat- 
ing to corporations, other than municipal, and to 
consider the question of stock-watering. For a 
number of years he has been prominent in the 
Republican party organization, secretary in the 
early eighties of the Republican county committee, 
and subsequently its chairman, resigning this po- 
sition when elected to the Senate, but retaining his 
membership in the committee, and now again is 
its secretary and treasurer. He is in constant 
demand as a public speaker, especially during po- 
litical campaigns. Mr. I'inkerton is prominently 
connected with the Masonic fraternity, being past 



master of Athelstan Lodge, member of Eureka 
Chapter, Worcester Council, and Worcester 
County Commandery Knights Templar, and is 
also high in the councils of Odd Fellowship ; 
has served at the head of Worcester Lodge and 
Wachusett Encampment, and holds membership 
in the Canton and Rebekah Lodge of that order. 
Entering the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 
1882, he was elected grand master in 1888, the 
youngest man ever selected for that position ; 
elected representative to Sovereign Lodge in 
1889, and re-elected in 1890-91-93, where he has 
taken commanding position. Since retiring from 
the office of grand master, he has been chairman 
of the committee of finance of the Grand Lodge, 
and was a member of the committee reporting in 
favor of the establishment of a home for the 
support of infirm and indigent members of the 
order, which has since been erected in Worces- 
ter. He is a member of the Republican Club of 
Massachusetts, of the Middlesex (political din- 
ing) Club (one of its vice-presidents), and of the 
Hancock Club of Worcester. He has served as 
a director of the Worcester Public Library. He 
is unmarried. 



POTTER, Burton Willis, of Worcester, mem- 
ber of the bar, is a native of New York, born in 
Colesvilie, February 8, 1843, son of Daniel and 
Julianna (Potter) Potter. He is descended from 
George Potter, of Portsmouth, R.I., who settled 
there in 1638; and from John Potter, who moved 
to Bennington, Vt., from Rhode Island, in early 
life, a soldier of the Revolution and a prominent 
man in his town. He was educated in the dis- 
trict schools in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.V., 
at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., and at 
Williams College ; and he was fitted for his pro- 
fession at the Harvard Law School. His training 
for active life consisted of hard work on a farm, 
with little schooling during the winter months, 
and the reading of such books as he could get 
hold of in the rural community where he lived, 
till the fall of 1862, when he enlisted in Company 
A of the Fourteenth Vermont Regiment for 
service in the Civil War. This regiment con- 
stituted a part of the famous Second Vermont 
Brigade, which was commanded by General 
Stannard, and took a prominent part in repulsing 
the charge of General Pickett's division in the 
battle of Gettysburg. He also served in the Sixth 
Massachusetts Regiment in 1864. While attend- 



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ing academy and college, he tavight school during 
vacations and at such other times as he could 
without interfering too much with his collegiate 
studies, in order to earn money to defray his 
expenses, as he was compelled to work his way 
through without financial assistance from any one. 
He was admitted to the bar at Worcester on the 
22d of January, 1868, and has since been actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession in that 
city. He represented Worcester in the Legisla- 
ture in 1872, 1883, and 1884; was ballot law 
commissioner one year ; a trustee of the Worces- 
ter Public Library five years, and one year presi- 
dent of the board of trustees ; and he is now 
president of the W'orcester Society of Antiquity, 
of the Chamberlain District Farmers" Club, and 
of the Association of Members of the Legislature 
of 1872. His tastes are literary; and he finds 
much enjoyment in general literature, and in 
travel at home and abroad. He is the author of 
the treatise on "The Road and Roadside," which 
is now in its third edition. After the publication 
of this book Williams College conferred upon him 
the honorary degree of A.M. in recognition of 




BURTON W. POTTER. 



meritorious scholarship. He has written some for 
magazines and newspapers, and has delivered 
many public addresses on themes of public 



interest ; but his life-work thus far has been con- 
fined in the main to his law practice. He was 
married at Groton on July 23, 1868, to Miss 
Fannie Elizabeth Wright. They have had seven 
children : Winthrop Alva, Estelle, Paul, Helen, 
Lincoln, Ruth, and Roger Willis Potter ; and all 
except Winthrop, who died when five years of age, 
are now living. Mr. Potter has a fine estate of 
about seven acres of land, called " Applecroft," 
situated on Salisbury Street in the suburbs of 
Worcester ; and a summer residence called 
" Edgelake Farm." situated on the shores of 
Mischopange Pond, in the old hill town of Rut- 
land, Mass. 

PRATT, Charles Blake, of Worcester, presi- 
dent of the First National Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, the L. W. Pond Machine Company, and the 
Consolidated Street Railway Company, mayor of 
the city 1877-79, ^^'^ some time in the General 
Court, is a native of Lancaster, born February 14, 
1824, son of Jesse and Mary (Maynard) Pratt. 
His parents were very poor; and when a lad of 
nine years, having had biit slight schooling and 
little home training, he started out to earn his liv- 
ing. For three years he worked in a cotton mill 
in Fitchburg; and then, making his way to Roches- 
ter, N.V., he apprenticed himself there, for his 
minority, to learn the moulder's trade. A year 
later, however, having become interested in sub- 
marine work through an exhibition of submarine 
diving which he had witnessed, he secured a re- 
lease from his apprenticeship, and engaged to 
learn this business. After spending six years in 
work under water, thoroughly mastering its de- 
tails, and having a small capital in hand, the sav- 
ings from his wages, he returned to the moulder's 
trade, completing his training for it in Worces- 
ter, in the old Wheeler foundry. Thereafter he 
worked in foundries till his twenty-seventh year, 
when he re-entered the submarine business on his 
own account, which he followed for the next 
twenty years with great success, executing many 
important and profitable contracts along the At- 
lantic coast and the great lakes, involving difficult 
and oftentimes hazardous operations. Retiring 
in 1871, he has since devoted himself to his 
Worcester interests, which had become large when 
he was yet actively engaged in submarine work. 
He has been connected with the First National 
Fire Insurance Company for many years, manager 
of its business a long period, and its president 



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since 1872 ; he has been president of the Fire 
Patrol since the organization of the Worcester 
Protective Department by tlie lo 



nisurance 




CHAS. B. PRATT. 

companies, which maintains the Patrol ; was one 
of the organizers of the L. W. Pond Machine 
Company, for the manufacture of improved metal 
planers, and is now its president ; has been presi- 
dent and manager of the consolidated street rail- 
way companies since the union of the old company 
and the Citizens' Street Railway Company ; was 
the projector of the latter company, originally or- 
ganized during his presidency of the Worcester 
County Agricultural Society, to establish a street 
railway line to bring the agricultural fair grounds 
on the west side of the city into market; has 
been a director of the First National Hank of 
Worcester since its organization, and for many 
years a trustee of the Worcester Institution for 
Savings ; is a large stockholder in the Kay State 
House corporation, and was for many years a 
director ; and he was the heaviest stockholder in 
the Worcester Theatre and one of the original 
hoard of directors of this corporation. His public 
career began in the City Council of Worcester, to 
which he was first elected in 1856. In 1858 he 
was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, 
and served in tire session of 1859. In his first 



campaign for the mayoralty, in December, 1876, 
nominated by the Democrats, he was elected over 
Joseph H. Walker, the regular Republican candi- 
date, although the candidates for aldermen on the 
Walker ticket were all elected ; and he was re- 
elected for the term of 1878, and again for 1879. 
as a non-partisan, with the support of leading men 
of both parties, by handsome majorities, retiring 
at the close of his third term, having declined 
urgent requests of representative non-partisan 
citizens to stand for a fourth term. His adminis- 
tration was marked by numerous public impro\e- 
ments and a business-like conduct of affairs. In 
1882 he was nominated for the State Senate (ses- 
sion of 1883) by the Democrats of the city dis- 
trict, against the late Judge Dewey, the candidate 
of the Republicans, and was elected by a majority 
of two hundred and twenty-six, the Republican 
candidates for minor offices being elected by 
majorities of from four hundred and fifty to five 
hundred in the city. During his service as sen- 
ator he was chairman of the committee on agri- 
culture, and was instrumental in defeating the 
project in that session pressed for a division of 
Worcester County. He served but one term, de- 
clining a renomination. He is at present one of 
the commissioners of the funds of the Worcester 
City Hospital, to which position he was elected 
soon after his retirement from the city govern- 
ment ; and an overseer of the poor. He was 
president of the Worcester County Agricultural 
Society for si.xteen years ; and it was largely 
through his influence that the exhibitions of the 
New England Agricultural Society, of which he 
w^as a trustee, were brought to Worcester. He is 
prominent in the Masonic order, having attained 
the thirty-second degree ; is a member of the 
Worcester County Commandery of Knights Tem- 
plar, and of various Odd Fellow and Pythian organ- 
izations. Mr. Pratt was married before reaching 
the age of twenty-one, March 4, 1844, to Miss 
Lucy Ann Brewer, daughter of Thomas Brewer, 
of Boylston. They have one son : Charles T. 
Pratt, now with the Boston Post. 



PUTNAM, Otis Earle, of Worcester, mer- 
chant, is a native of Leicester, born February 20, 
183 1, son of Salmon and Tryphena (Higelow) 
Putnam. He is a direct descendant in the eighth 
generation of Thomas Putnam, son of John Put- 
nam, who came to America in 1634. When he 



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was a child, his parents moved to Boston ; Ijut in 
1843 they removed to Worcester, where he has 
since resided. He was educated in tlie public 




OTIS E. PUTNAM. 

schools, finishing at the Worcester High School. 
He began work in 1847, at the age of sixteen, 
entering the employ of John R. Wyman in the re- 
tail dry-goods business, and ten years later was 
a member of the firm into whose hands the busi- 
ness had passed, that of Chamberlin, Barnard, & 
Co., the successors of H. H. Chamberlin & Co., 
who succeeded Mr. Wyman in 1850. Upon the 
retirement of H. H. Chamberlin the firm name 
became Barnard, Sumner, &: Co., and it so re- 
mained till 1892, when the Barnard, Sumner, & 
Putnam Company was formed, with Mr. Putnam 
as treasurer of the corporation. Upon the death 
of Mr. Sumner, January 6, 1893, Mr. Putnam was 
also made vice-president, and has since held botli 
offices. For many years he successfully dis- 
charged a variety of exacting duties, and was the 
principal buyer for the house : and since its great 
business, occupying a floor space of 80,000 feet, 
has been divided into separate departments, 
thirty in all, he has maintained a general over- 
sight over all. Mr. Putnam is also a trustee of 
the Five Cents Savings Bank, and a trustee of 
the Worcester Music Hall Association. He is a 



member of the Board of Trade, an honorary mem- 
ber of the Worcester Light Infantry and the 
Worcester Continentals, and member of the Com- 
monwealth Club. In politics he has been a life- 
long Republican. He has been twice married : 
first to Miss Harriet E. Waite, of Worcester, who 
died in 1863, leaving no children; and second, 
September 20, 1866, to Miss Louisa Davis, of 
Lowell. They have one son : Arthur D. Putnam, 
born February 16, 1S68, now connected with the 
business of the Barnard, Sumner. tS: Putnam Com- 
pany. 

RICE, Colonel John Lovell, of Springfield, 
city marshal, is a native of Vermont. He was born 
in the town of Weathersfield, February i, 1840, 
son of Lysander Mason and Clarinda Whittemore 
(Upham) Rice. On both sides he is of early New 
England stock. On the paternal side he is a de- 
scendant in the direct line of Edmund Rice, of 
Hertfordshire, England, born in 1594, who came 
to Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, and died in Marl- 
borough in 1663; and on the maternal side of 
John tfpham, born in Somersetshire, England, in 
1597, who came to \\'eymouth, Mass., in 1635, 
and died in Maiden in 1681. Of his paternal an- 
cestors five generations lived in Massachusetts, in 
the towns of Marlborough, Sudbury, Petersham, 
and Shrewsbury. His great-grandfather, Stephen 
Rice, was the first of the family to settle in Ver- 
mont, in 1786. He died in Reading, that State, 
in 1802. His grandfather, Ha\en Rice, born in 
Petersham. Mass., in 1786, died in West Wind- 
sor, Vt., in 1868. His father. Lysander M. Rice, 
was a native of Reading, \'t., born in 18 12, and is 
still living in Weathersfield, ^'t. Of his maternal 
ancestors, the first settling in \'ermont was his 
great-grandfather, Asa Upham, a nati\-e of Stur- 
bridge, Mass., born in 1736. The earlier Uphams 
were mostly identified with Maiden. Asa Upham 
moved to Weathersfield about 1764, and this 
town has since been the famih- home. Colonel 
Rice's mother was born there (in 18 15), and died 
there (1889). Colonel Rice was educated in the 
common schools of Weathersfield and at Kimball 
Union Academy of Meriden, N.H. He began 
active life in 1859 as a clerk in a country store 
at Cornish, N.H. Here he remained till 1861, 
when he joined the Ihiion Army. His military 
service covered the entire period of the Civil War. 
and was full of action. Enlisting on the 19th of 
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Hampshire Volunteers, he was appuinted captain 
in the Sixteenth New Hampshire, November 2, 
1862, and lieutenant colonel of the Seventy-fifth 
United States Colored Infantry, August 30, 1863. 
He served in the Army of the Potomac in 1861- 
62, and in the Department of the (nilf, 1863-64- 
65. in the first battle of Hull Run, July 21, 1861, 
he was shot through the lungs, and left for dead 
on the field ; and funeral services were held at his 
iiome. From tiiat time till January 3, 1862, he 
was in Libby Prison. He was in all the battles 
of the Peninsula campaign of 1862, also those 
of Pope's campaign of 1862, — Second Bull Run, 
Bristow Station. C'hantilly, etc. He was ordered 
to Louisiana in December, 1862. He was in the 
'I'eche campaign and siege of Port Hudson in 
1S63, the Red River campaign of 1864; and in 
1865 commanded the district around Opelousas, 
La., and assisted in the re-establishment of civil 
government. He remained in Louisiana through 
1 866, and planted cotton in Avoyelles Parish. 
I'hen, returning North, he established himself in 
Springfield, in the provision business. He con- 
tinued in tliis business for si.x years (1867-73), 




while reading law in the Boston law office of Jew- 
ell, Gaston, & Field. Admitted to the bar in the 
Superior Court at Boston, April 24, 1876, he re- 
turned to Springfield, and has practised his pro- 
fession there ever since. In 1881 he was elected 
to the lower house of the Legislature from Spring- 
field, and during his term (1882) served as chair- 
man of the committee on military affairs and 
member of the committee on cities. In 1882 
(January 23) he was appointed city marshal (chief 
of the police department) of Springfield, and re- 
appointed in 1892-93 and 94. From 1886 to 
1890 he was postmaster of Springfield, and dur- 
ing the same period a member of the local board 
of the United States Civil Service Examiners : 
and on November 14, 1889, he was appointed 
commissioner of the United States Circuit Court, 
District of Massachusetts, which position he still 
holds. Colonel Rice is a member of the Massa 
chusetts Commandery, Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion ; was commander of E. K. V\'ilcox 
Post, 16, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1870, and 
judge advocate of the Massachusetts Department 
in 1883; is a member of the Connecticut Valley 
Historical Society ; and of the American Economic 
Association. In politics he has been always a 
Democrat. He was married first at Cornish, N.H., 
January 8, 1867, to Miss Marion Virginia Chellis, 
daughter of Enoch F. Chellis, of Cornish. She 
died October 30, 1873, leaving no children. He 
married second at Springfield, October 3, 1879, 
Miss Clara Elizabeth Galpin, daughter of Allen 
M. Galpin, of Springfield. They have three chil- 
dren : Allen Galpin, Elizabeth Banks, and Ellen 
Birnie Rice. 



JNO. L. RICE. 



and then went to Boston as inspector in the cu.s- 
tom-house, to which position he was appointed 
June 8, 1874. He served here two years, mean- 



SALISBURY, Stephen, 3d, of Worcester, 
member of the bar, and officially connected with 
numerous financial and business corporations, 
was born in Worcester, March 31, 1835, only son 
of Stephen, 2d, and Rebekah Scott (Dean) Salis- 
bury (born in Charlestown, N.H., 18 12, and died 
in Worcester 1843). His father, Stephen Salis- 
bury, 2d (born in Worcester 1798, and died there 
in 1884), was the son of Stephen Salisbury, ist 
(born in Boston 1746, and died in Worcester 
1829), and of Elizabeth 'I'uckernian (born in Bos- 
ton 1768, and died there in 1851 ). He was edu- 
cated in Worcester public and private schools, at 
Harvard, graduating in the class of 1856, and 
abroad, at the Frederick William University in 
Berlin, where he spent tw^o years. While in Eu- 



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rope at this time, he also attended lectures at the 
Ecole de Droit in Paris during the spring of 1857, 
and later travelled extensively in Turkey, Asia 
Minor, and (Ireece, making a month's horseback 
tour in the latter country, and in Italy, England, 
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Upon his return 
to Worcester in December, 1858, he took a course 
of book-keeping, and then studied law in the office 
of Messrs. Dewey & Williams as a student, and 
a year later passed two years at the Harvard Law 
Scliool. Receiving his degree of LL.B. in i86i, 
he was admitted to the bar in October of that 




STEPHEN SALISBURY. 

year. Tlie following winter and spring he spent 
in Yucatan, visiting one of his college classmates ; 
and during his stay he made a critical study of many 
of the Maya Indian ruins and monuments, some 
results of which are embodied in valuable contri- 
butions of historical relics which he subsequently 
made to the American Antiquarian Society. His 
connection with financial and other corporations 
began soon after his return from Yucatan, when, 
in 1863, he became a director of the State Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, a position he still holds. 
Two years later he w'as made a director of the 
Worcester National Bank, subsequently becoming 
its president on the death of his father (in 1884), 
who had occupied that position for thirty-nine 



years and that of director for fifty-two years. In 
1877 he became a member of the board of in\ est- 
ment of the \\'orcester County Institution for 
Savings, of which his father had been president 
from 1845 to 187 1, and upon the death of the 
Hon. .Alexander H. Bullock (in 1882), who had 
succeeded his father as president, was elected to 
that office, which he still occupies ; and in the 
eighties he became a director of the Worcester, 
Nashua, & Rochester and of the Boston, Barre, & 
Gardner railroads, holding those positions till the 
absorption of these roads by the Boston & Maine 
and the Fitchburg Railroad companies, respec- 
tively. He has also long been interested in and 
connected officially with numerous local institu- 
tions, — the City Hospital, of which he was a trus- 
tee from its incorporation, and secretary of the 
board of trustees for seventeen years ; the Wash- 
burn Memorial Hospital, of which he was also 
a trustee from its incorporation, and secretary of 
the board for ten years ; the Worcester Poly- 
technic Institute (of which his father was the first 
president), a trustee since 1884; Clark Univer- 
sity, a trustee since 1887, and its treasurer for 
one year ; and the Worcester Music Hall, a direc- 
tor, and for ten years treasurer of the association. 
He has been a member of the .American Anti- 
quarian Society since 1863, member of the 
council since 1874, and president since 1887; 
and has contributed to its Transactions numerous 
papers, among them papers on the early in- 
habitants of Yucatan and their arts, as illus- 
trated by discoveries inspected there during other 
visits in 1885 and 1890 (when he extended his 
journeyings into other parts of Mexico and 
to Cuba), translations from the German from a 
number of papers by Dr. Philipp J. J. \'alentini 
on Mexican antiquities and kindred subjects, 
and a paper on " Books and Libraries." He is 
president of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology at Cambridge, and is a mem- 
ber also of the American Geographical Society, 
of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society, the Con- 
servatorio Yucateco, and the Sociedad Mexicana 
de Geografia y Estadistica. He has contributed 
in various ways to the prosperity and welfare of 
Worcester, meeting the expense of an addition to 
the City Hospital and of the laboratory of the 
Polytechnic Institute, giving to the city for use as 
a public park the tract of eighteen acres border- 
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Park, ami aiding generously local charitable and 
educational institutions. Mr. Salisbury's [jublic 
career has been confined to service three terms 
as a member of the Worcester Common Council, 
1863-65-66, the last term president of the board ; 
and three terms 1893-94-95, in the State Senate, 
for the First Worcester District, serving as chair- 
man of the committee on education, and also on 
the committee on treasury, e.\pencliture.s and en- 
grossed bills, and as chairman of the committee 
on banks and banking. In politics he is Repub- 
lican. In 1 888 he revisited Europe, spending 
much time in France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, 
and Portugal. Mr. Salisbury is not married. 



railway enterprise for the development of the 
northern suburbs of the city, which necessitated 
a strenuous fight with a strongly intrenched foe, 
the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Cor- 
poration. After defeating all opposition, the 
North End Street Railway Company was put in 
operation over five miles of Worcester's best 
streets, and has proved a great public conven- 
ience. In politics Mr. Searls is a Republican, and 
was honored by the voters of his ward with an 
election to the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives of 1894, in which l)ody he served on 
the committee on election laws. He was married 
September 12, 1882, to Kate Robinson, daughter 
of the late John R. Robinson, of New York City. 
They have one child : Florence Searls, born No- 
vember 3, 1888. 




SIBLEV, Willis Emorv, of Worcester, mem- 
ber of the bar, is a native of New Salem, Frank- 
lin County, born December 10, 1857, son of Syl- 
vanus and Abigail Elizabeth ( Briggs) Sibley. 
His paternal grandfather, Tarrant Sibley, and his 




WM, p. SEARLS. 

SFARLS, William Phineh.-^s, of Worcester, 
president of the North End Street Railway Com- 
pany, is a native of New York, born in Brooklyn, 
lane 3, 1851, son of William and Catharine 
(Bachus) Searls. He is of English ancestry. 
His education was attained in private schools. 
He began his business career in Wall Street in 
the office of his father, long a member of the 
New York Stock Exchange, and its president in 

1868-69. i" J""S. 189°. he came to Worcester, maternal grandfather, John Briggs, were both na- 
intending temporarily to reside here, but has since tives of Massachusetts. His father was a type of 
remained, having become identified with a street the enterprising New England farmer; and his 



WILLIS E. SIBLEY. 



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earlier life, when not in school, was occupied on 
his father's farm, in which he, as a boy, took a 
lively interest. He was educated in the public 
schools of New Salem and at New Salem Acad- 
emy, after which he engaged in teaching for a 
period of five years. He gave up teaching in 
the spring of 1885, and, establishing himself in 
Worcester, began the study of law m the office 
of Burton W. Potter. He was admitted to the 
Worcester County bar P'ebruary 24, 1888, and im- 
mediately opened a law office in Worcester. 
Since then he has been successful in building up 
a large practice in his profession. He has held 
many responsible positions of trust, involving the 
handling of large estates, and has gained a rep- 
utation for ability, integrity, and fair dealing. 
Though his practice is general, embracing both 
criminal and civil business, he much prefers the 
civil side of the law. He has always been a Re- 
publican, but never sought political honors. He 
is a member of the Plvmouth Congregational 
Church of Worcester, with which he united in 
July, i88g. Mr. .Sibley was married December 
21, 1892, to Miss Marion Elizabeth Chapin, of 
Worcester. 

SMITH, John Mackenzie, of Springfield, 
senior partner of the dry-goods house of Smith & 
Murray, is a native of Scotland, born in Dumfries. 
His education was acquired in the \\'allace Hall 
School of that place. He began business life as 
an apprentice in a local dry-goods store. Four 
years were spent there, after which he took a 
position with a dry-goods firm in Glasgow ; and 
the apprenticeship served in the latter establish- 
ment stood him in good stead when he came to 
this country in i860. His first four years here 
were spent in the employ of George Trumbull 
& Co., who in those days conducted one of the 
leading dry-goods houses of Boston, established 
on the corner of \Mnter and Washington streets. 
In 1865 Mr. Smith went to Springfield, where in 
partnership with A. B. Forbes, under the firm 
name of Forbes & Smith, he conducted success- 
fully for nine years the dry-goods business they 
had bought of John J. Rockwood. During part 
of this period he was also interested in the busi- 
ness which was conducted in Pittsfield by A. B. 
Wallace and himself, under the firm name of 
Smith & Wallace. In 1874 the Pittsfield partner- 
ship was dissolved. Mr. Wallace joined A. B. 
Forbes in Springfield : while Mr. Smith again 



turned to Boston, having received the call, which 
was no slight honor for so young a man, to be- 
come one of the firm of Churchill, Gilchrist, & 
Smith. He continued in this association three 
years. Then followed his return to Springfield, 
where he had left his family; and in April, 1876, 
the dry-goods house was established which still 
bears the name of Smith & Murray. At that 
time it was not the large and important establish- 
ment it is now ; for it has grown with the city, until 
to-day it fills a wide block from the basement to 
the fifth story. Mr. Smith's employees are also 
his friends, and many of the men who to-day are 




J. M. SMITH. 

the heads of the various departments were among 
his clerks when he first started. Although far 
from clannish. — for his clerks are of various 
nationalities, — he is always anxious to advance 
his own countrymen ; and he has had hundreds 
of Scotchmen in his employ. To friendless lads, 
just across, he proves a kindly guide, looking after 
their interests and comforts, and making easier 
the sudden transportation to a strange land. In 
sickness and trouble he is always ready to help, 
not only with sympathy, but with aid that is sub- 
stantial He is wholly unsectarian in his charities, 
which have been broadcast, although always done 
in an unostentatious manner. He is one of the 



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directors of the Commonwealth Mutual Fire In- 
surance Company of Boston ; president of the 
Agawam Manufacturing Company, manufacturers 
of knit underwear; a director of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Springfield ; and a member of the 
Springfield Board of Trade. Mr. Smith was mar- 
ried November 13, 1868, to Miss Adelaide (J. 
Phelps, daugliter of the late Charles Phelps, of 
Springfield ; and his family now consists of two 
daughters, Josephine A. and Adelaide P. Smith. 
His iiome is a quaint, old-fashioned, generously 
proportioned house, with wide piazzas, standing 
in the middle of a large lawn and finely kept 
garden.s, on Bowdoin Street in the Hill region of 
Springfield. Mr. Smith is an excellent judge and 
a real lover of a fine horse, and half a dozen 
beautiful steeds find their comforts happily catered 
to in the stable on his estate. He gave a year's 
study to the design of this stable ; and it compares 
favorably with the housing provided for a V'ander- 
bilt's stud. The ventilation is perfectly arranged, 
while electricity and hot and cold water are pro- 
vided in a variety of places to make work easier 
for the grooms and life more comfortable for the 
horses. The interior is finished in polished wood, 
with which the coloring of beautifull)' stained 
glass windows harmonizes well. The coaciiman 
and groom's chambers are comfortably furnished, 
and fitted with bath appurtenances and electric 
light ; while their sitting-room downstairs is a 
place where spare time may be spent pleasantly 
if the magazine-laden tables are a criterion. 



SPAULDING, Timothy Gridlev, of North- 
ampton, member of the bar, was born in Ware, 
Hampshire County, July 30, 185 i, son of .Samuel 
T. and Maria (Gridley) Spaulding. His paternal 
grandmother was Tirza Hoar, a daughter of Ca]3- 
tain Joseph Hoar, of Brimfield. Joseph was a 
grandson of Captain Leonard Hoar, who came 
from Concord to Brimfield about 1720. Leonard 
was a son of Daniel and grandson of John Hoar, 
llie first of the name who settled in Concord. 
His maternal grandfather was 1 )r. Timothy J. 
Gridley, of Amherst, who married Dorothy Smith 
Mattoon, a daughter of General Ebenezer Mat- 
toon, of Amherst. General Mattoon was under 
Arnold in the Quebec expedition, and at the bat- 
tle of Saratoga ; was a member of the first Con- 
gress, adjutant-general of Massachusetts, and for 
many years high sheriff of Hampshire County, also 



commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company of Boston. Timothy G. Spaulding 
received his early education at tlie public schools 
in Northampton, at Williston Seminary, Fasthamp- 
ton, and at the Classical School on Round Hill, 
Northampton. From the High Sciiool in North- 
ampton he entered Amherst College, where he was 
graduated in the class of 1872. In college his 
specialties were writing and debating. The year 
following his graduation he taught a private school 
for boys at Westchester, N.Y. Among his pupils 
here was John B. Mason, the actor. Then he 
studied law in the oftice of his father, and was 




T. G. SPAULDING. 

admitted to the bar at Greenfield in August, 1877. 
Since that time he has been established in North- 
ampton, engaged in general practice, civil and 
criminal. He was the first city solicitor of North- 
ampton, serving from 1883 to 1887 ; and he has 
been counsel for the city in numerous important 
special cases. For many years he has been gen- 
erally the spokesman before committees of the 
Legislature on matters which concerned North- 
ampton or its citizens, and he has been active in 
all matters of public interest. He was a member 
of the House of Representatives from Northamp- 
ton in 1878, and declined a re-election ; was a mem- 
ber of the Northampton .School Committee from 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1878 to iSr)2 : for sixteen years has been secre- 
tary of the Northampton Institution for Savings ; 
is one of the trustees of the Academy of Music, a 
gift to the city ; was one of the founders and or- 
ganizers of tlie Northampton Club in 1881, and 
its president in 1887-88, and is a member of the 
Connecticut Valley Historical Society. In poli- 
tics he is Republican, prominent and active in his 
party, managing State, county, and district cam- 
paigns. He has been offered the mayoralty of 
Northampton several times, but each time de- 
clined it. In 1890 he was nominated for Con- 
gress in the old Eleventh District. He is unmar- 
ried. 

SPRAGUE, Gener.\l Augustus Brown Reed, 
of Worcester, merchant, ex-sheriff of Worcester 
Count}-, is a native of Ware, born March 7, 1827, 
son of Lee and Lucia (Snow) Sprague. His ances- 
tors on both sides were of Puritan stock, his mater- 
nal grandmother Alice Alden being a lineal descen- 
dant in the sixth generation from John Alden, of 
the "Mayflower " company. Of his branch of the 
Sprague family were Charles Sprague, the "banker 
poet " of Boston, the Rev. William Buel Sprague, 
the author of " Annals of the American Pulpit," 
and the two governors Sprague of Rhode Island; 
and Colonel Homer B. Sprague, the well-known 
educator, is his cousin. He was named for the 
Congregational minister long settled in W^are. He 
obtained a good general education in public and 
private schools, and was fitting for college : but 
home circumstances made it impossible for him to 
take a college course, and at the age of fifteen he 
came to Worcester, and entered business. He was 
first employed in the store of H. B. Claflin, after- 
wards the famous New York merchant, and next for 
a while in that of H. H. Chamberlain. Then in 
1847 he entered mercantile business for himself, 
in which he continued until the outbreak of the 
Civil War. At that time he was major and in- 
spector of the Fifth Brigade, having been con- 
nected as a private, non-commissioned and com- 
missioned officer, with the Worcester City Guards 
since the age of seventeen. .-Vt the call for troops 
he was unanimously elected captain of the City 
Guards, then Company A, Third ?!attalion of 
Rifles, Major Charles Devens, Jr., commanding, 
and on the 20th of April left for the seat of war. 
Reaching Annapolis by transport from New York, 
his company was sent to re-enforce Fort McHenry ; 
and while here he won the approbation of his men 



by his spirited action in securing the release of 
Sergeant \\'illiam Starr, who had been arrested 
for disrespect to Marshal Kane. Major I!)evens 
being called to the command of the Fifteenth 
Massachusetts Regiment early in July, Captain 
Sprague, as senior officer, commanded the battal- 
ion till its muster-out on the 3d of August. Then 
at once identifying himself with the Twenty-fifth 
Regiment, on the 9th of September he was com- 
missioned its lieutenant colonel, several of those 
who had served with him in the third battalion 
also being commissioned in the same regiment at 
his request. Before leaving for the front, he was 
presented by his former command with a sword 
and belt, and later with a fine horse and equip- 
ments, the Hon. Alexander H. Bullock making 
the presentation on behalf of the donors. The 
regiment became a part of the Burnside Expedi- 
tion ; and he served with it until the 1 1 th of No- 
vember, 1862, participating in all of its battles 
and skirmishes, and being reported for " bravery 
and efficiency " in the engagement at Roanoke 
Island and Newbern. Then on the date above 
mentioned he was commissioned colonel of the 
Fifty-first Massachusetts ; and by special request 
of Gen. John G. Foster, commanding the de- 
partment, he was returned with his new regiment 
to North Carolina, where he participated in the 
engagements of Kinston, Whitehall, and Golds- 
boro, and these names were ordered to be in- 
scribed on the regimental colors. At the time of 
Lee's second invasion, followed by the battle of 
Gettysburg, his regiment with others left Newbern 
to re-enforce General Dix at White House on the 
Pamunkey River, and then returned to Fort 
Monroe for transportation North, its term of ser- 
vice having ended. Learning, however, that Lee's 
army was north of the Potomac, Colonel Sprague 
at once wired the Secretary of War, offering the 
regiment for further service. The offer being 
accepted, it was ordered to Baltimore, and thence 
to Maryland Heights, joining the army of the 
Potomac near Williamsport, Lee occupying the 
hills opposite. Only when Lee was finally in re- 
treat in Virginia, the regiment returned to Massa- 
chusetts, and was mustered out July 27, 1863. 
Shortly after his return Colonel Sprague was 
asked by Governor Andrew to raise and command 
the Fifty-seventh Regiment, but illness in his 
family prevented. .V few months later, however, 
he offered his services ; and, as no regiments were 
then being raised, he was given his choice of the 



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lieutenant colonelcy of the I'ourth Massachusetts 
C'avah'y or of the Second Artillery, both then in 
the field. He waived the former in favor of a 
captain in the First Cavalry deserving promotion, 
and took the latter on the ist of February, 1864. 
He served thereafter in Southern Virginia and 
North Carolina, commanding the regiment in its 
field service, moving with General Schofield's 
command to open communication with Sherman 
at Goldsboro. He was commissioned colonel of 
the regiment September 18. His service, cover- 
ing nearly four years, closed with his discharge 
September 20, 1865, at (lalloupe Island; and he 




A. B. R. SPRAGUE. 

received from Congress the rank of brevet briga- 
dier-general of volunteers to date from March 
13, 1865, for "gallant and meritorious service 
during the war." Returning to civil life, he re- 
entered business. In 1867 he was made city 
marshal, but soon resigned this position to 
take that of collector of internal revenue for the 
Kighth Massachusetts District, which he held 
from March 4, 1867, to July i, 1872. During 
this period he served one term in the Worcester 
Board of Aldermen, having previously served in 
the Common Council two terms before the war. 
Upon the death of the Hon. J. S. C. Knowlton, 
sheriff of Worcester County, he was appointed to 
this position July 5, 187 1. and was subsequently 



elected for six successive terms of three years 
each. During his service as sheriff he introduced 
many reforms in Worcester County prisons, revis- 
ing the system of accounts, improving the diet of 
the prisoners, abolishing the custom of shaving 
heads of prisoners, and uniforming them in parti- 
colored garb, — a work especially appreciated by 
the Commissioners of Prisons, who in their yearly 
reports referred to these institutions as the model 
prisons of the Commonwealth. During Governor 
Long's administration he was ofTered the warden- 
ship of the State prison, but declined to take it. 
General Sprague has been for several years asso- 
ciated in business with Charles V. Putnam, and is 
now treasurer of the large furniture house of the 
Putnam and Sprague Company. He has been a 
director of the Worcester Electric Light Company 
from its organization, and for years a vice-presi- 
dent of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion (junior vice- 
commander in 1868); a member of George H. 
Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic 
(commander of the department of Massachusetts 
in 1868, and in 1873-74 quartermaster-general of 
the National Encampment by appointment of 
General Charles Devens, commander-in-chief) ; 
and member of the Twenty-fifth, Second Heavy 
Artillery, and Fifty-first Regiment Associations 
( president for many years of the last-named organ- 
ization : presented by his associates in i88g with 
a gold diamond-studded G. A. R. badge). Post 
24, G. A. R., of Grafton, bears his name. For 
many years also he has been connected with the 
Masonic fraternity. He was married in Worces- 
ter, December 23, 1846, to Miss Elizabeth 
Janes Rice, daughter of Samuel and Eliza M. 
Rice. They had five children : Josephine Eliza- 
beth (who married a son of the late Sheriff Knowl- 
ton, and, dying, left a son, who is General Sprague's 
ward), Carrie Lee (died in 1876), Fred Foster 
(now in business witli his father), Samuel Augus- 
tus, died in infancy, and Willie Lee Sprague in 
his eighth year. Mrs. Sprague died in February, 
1889. He married second, October 3, 1890, 
Miss M. Jennie Barbour, of Worcester: and they 
have one child : Alice Alden Sprague. 



STONE, WiLLiioRK Besexikk, of Springfield, 
member of the Hampden County bar, was born 
in East Longmeadow, June 24. 1853, son of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Ambrose: D. and Florutte (Grandin) Stone. His 
father was born in Canada, of P'rench parents and 
ancestry; and his mother was also a native of 
Canada and of French parents, but her ancestors 
two or three generations back were German. He 
was educated in the pubHc schools of Springfield 
and by private tutors. He graduated from the 
High School (in 1872) among the highest in his 
class, and prepared for Harvard College ; but he 
was prevented by illness from entering. Subse- 
quently, however, he spent four years in study 
with his tutors, going through the whole Harvard 
course, and taking a wider range of classical 




WILLMORE B. STONE. 

studies. He read law with Augustus L. Soule, 
late justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, until 
the elevation of the latter to the bench (1877); 
and then in the office of George M. Stearns and 
Marcus P. Knowlton, the latter now a justice of 
that court. While a student at law, he was at the 
same time engaged in tutoring pupils in the 
classics, and was principal of the evening school, 
at Indian Orchard and at Springfield, for a 
number of years. He also wrote political articles 
for the press. Admitted to the bar June 24, 1878, 
he entered upon a successful and lucrative profes- 
sional business in Springfield, where he has always 
practised. In 1881 he was retained to assist the 



government in working up the case of the Com- 
monwealth 7'. Dwight Kidder, indicted for the 
murder of his brother, Charles D. Kidder. In 
1882 he was assigned with E. B. Maynard (now 
judge of the Superior Court) by the Supreme 
Court to defend Turpin Jenckes, indicted for the 
murder of John Otis. The case against the 
defendant tried by Attorney-general Marston was 
very strong; but his counsel obtained a verdict for 
manslaughter, which was regarded a great victory; 
and he was given a sentence of only six years. 
In 1889 again Mr. Stone was assigned by the 
court, after being retained for the defence, in 
Commonwealth t. John Daly, indicted for the 
murder of police officer Abbott. In this case 
the government accepted the plea of guilty in 
the second degree. He has been counsel also in 
many important civil cases, among them the 
famous Massasoit House case, so called. Mr. 
Stone prepares his cases carefully, and has the 
reputation of trying them well and of arguing to 
the jury with eloquence and ability. He is and 
always has been an early and late worker, and 
handles a large general practice. Among his 
clients are many of the best people of the 
community. In politics he is a Democrat, and 
active in the party organization, chairman some 
time of the Democratic city committee, and 
member of the Democratic State Central Com- 
mittee. He has frequently presided at conven- 
tions and caucuses of r.)emocratic voters ; has 
made addresses in conventions, and nominated 
candidates for office : and has spoken acceptably 
on the stump, having a good reputation as a 
public speaker here as well as in court. He has 
been nominated for the lower house of the Legis- 
lature twice, for the Senate, and for the mayoralty 
of Springfield, and has in each case received a 
large vote in excess of the party vote. He is a 
diligent student of history and of the science of 
government, and a wide reader on miscellaneous 
subjects. He is a member of the Winthrop Club 
of Springfield and of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts. He was married 
December 22, 1880, to Miss Caroline Bliss 
Newell. They have had six children : Pauline, 
Willmore B., Jr., Beatrice, Bradford, John Newell, 
and Florette Stone (deceased). 



STOVVE, Luke Sterns, of Springfield, jewel- 
ler, was born in Lancaster, August 9, 1834, son 



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349 



of Luke Stowe and Abigail (Houghton) Stowe, 
sister of the late Judge Houghton, of New York 
State. He is a grandson of Ichabod Stowe, a 
soldier of the Revolution. He was left an orphan 
at twelve years of age, his father and mother both 
dying the same year, and was bound out to a 
neighboring farmer till he was seventeen. His 
advantages for education were confined to the 
common schools of his native town. Upon reach- 
ing the age of seventeen he engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits ; and at twenty-one, with a few 
hundred dollars saved from his scanty earnings 
and a small sum by inheritance, embarked in 




L. S, STOWE. 

business for himself in the town of Gardner. 
Having received a thorough business training and 
possessing native ability, he was successful from 
the start. He moved to Springfield in 1864, 
when it was a city of hardly twenty thousand in- 
habitants, but with enterprise and push ; and 
there his business steadily developed. The firm 
of which he is now the head is the oldest and far 
the largest in the city, a member of the National 
Jobbers' Association, in watches and jewelry 
doing business in every New England State. In 
the autumn of 1883 the greater part of the valua- 
ble stock of the firm was stolen by burglars ; but 
within forty-eight hours after the robbery Mr. 



Stowe had purchased an entire new stock of 
goods, and his business was moving on in the 
usual way. Mr. Stowe is also a director of the 
City National ]5ank, of the Masonic Mutual In- 
surance Company of Springfield, and of the 
Rubber Thread Company of Easthanipton, be- 
sides holding interests in several other corpora- 
tions. He has never sought public office, prefer- 
ring to devote himself to business rather than to 
politics. He has, however, served as chairman 
of the Republican county committee several years. 
He is a member of the Boston Jewelry Club, 
which is composed of the wholesale jewellers of 
the New England States. He is a wide reader, 
and is well informed in the current literature of 
the day. He was married in September, 1857, 
to Miss Mary Howe, of Bolton. They have had 
two sons and one daughter, Lena Stowe. The 
sons died in infancy. 



TAYLOR, George Sylvester, of Chicopee, 
manufacturer, first mayor of the city of Chicopee 
(1891), is a native of South Hadley, born March 
2, 1822, son of Sylvester and Sarah (Eaton) Tay- 
lor. He comes of an old South Hadley family on 
the paternal side, and on the maternal side is of 
Springfield stock. His grandfather, Oliver Tay- 
lor, and his grandmother, Lucy (White) Taylor, 
were both of South Hadley. His grandfather, 
James Eaton, was a nati\e of West Springfield ; 
and his grandmother, Eleanor Eaton, was a 
Chapin, of Chicopee. He has lived in Chicopee 
from childhood, the family moving from the farm 
where he was born to Chicopee Falls in 1828. 
He was educated in the High School of Chicopee 
and at the select school of Sanford Lawton in 
Springfield. During his early boyhood he spent 
his vacations on the old farm in South Hadley 
which his father continued to conduct in connec- 
tion with a market at Chicopee Falls; and from 
twelve to eighteen, when not at school, he worked 
in his father's market. The ne.xt two years he 
was in the dry-goods and grocery store of D. M. 
Bryant. Then he engaged as a clerk in the dry- 
goods store of S. A. Shackford & Co., and here 
remained for upwards of twenty years, becoming 
a partner in 1843, when he had reached his ma- 
jority, the firm name being changed to Shackford & 
Taylor, and enjoying a prosperous trade. With- 
drawing from this business in 1863, he formed 
a partnership with Bildad B. Belcher, under the 



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tinn name of Belcher \- Taylor, and embarked in 
the manufacture of agricultural tools. The fol- 
lowing year the firm became a corporation under 
the now widely known name of the Belcher is: 
Taylor Agricultural Company, with Mr. Taylor as 
treasurer. Subsequently, in 1866. upon the resig- 
nation of Mr. Belcher, he was made agent of the 
company; and he has held both offices ever since. 
He has also been for some time president and 
manager of the Chicopee Falls Building Company, 
and a trustee of the Chicopee Falls Savings Bank 
from its incorporation (1875) till 1888, when he 
was made its president. He has been identified 




CEO. S. TAYLOR. 

with municipal affairs since the early fifties, and 
has performed much and conspicuous public ser- 
vice. He was for two years an assessor of the 
town of Chicopee ; three years a selectman ; from 
1857 to 1859 special ju.stice of the police court; 
in i860 and 1861 a representative of Chicopee in 
the lower house of the Legislature; in i86g a 
State senator; and in 189 1 the first mayor of 
Chicopee, elected as a citizens' candidate without 
opposition, in the first election after the town be- 
came a city (1890). In politics Mr. Taylor was 
first a VVhig, and upon the dissolution of that 
party became a Republican. He has served on 
the Republican State central committee, and been 



an influential member of his party in his section 
of the State. He has been steadfastly devoted to 
Western Massachusetts interests, notably those of 
the farming districts. He has for many years 
maintained an active membership in one of the 
harvest clubs of the Connecticut valley, and was 
president of the Hampden Agricultural Society 
three years. In religion he is a Congregation- 
alist, a leading member of the Chicopee Falls 
Congregational Church, deacon since 1857, and 
superintendent of the Sundav-school for twenty- 
five years. He has been connected with the Ma- 
sonic order since 1857, and is now a member of 
the Springfield Commandery. He was married 
November 25, 1845, to Miss Asenath B. Cobb, a 
native of Princeton. They have had seven chil- 
dren ; Flla Sophia (now Mrs. H. N. Lyon), Sarah 
Rebecca (deceased), George Emerson (deceased), 
William Bradford (deceased), Edward Sylvester 
(now in business in Springfield), William Cobb 
(now in business in Chicago), and Albert Eaton 
Taylor (now in business in Chicopee Falls). 



THAYER, JoHX R., of \\'orcester, member of 
the bar, is a native of Douglass, Worcester County, 
born March 9, 1845, son of Mowry and Harriet 
(Morse) Thayer. His grandfather, Jolin Thayer, 
was a farmer in Douglass, as was his father. John 
Thayer. He was educated in the common schools 
of Douglass, at Nichols Academy in Dudley, where 
he was fitted for college, and at \'ale, srraduatin"; 
in the class of 1869. He read law with the late 
Judge Henry Chapin, and was admitted to the 
bar at Worcester in June, 187 1. He at once 
began practice in the ofiice of Judge Chapin. 
Afterwards he was some time with the late Judge 
Hartley Williams; then he became a partner of 
Colonel William A. Williams, which relation con- 
tinued for si.x years ; then formed a partnership 
with Charles S. Chapin, under the firm name of 
Thayer & Chapin; and in 1885 formed the pres- 
ent partnership with Arthur R. Rugg, under the 
name of Thayer cSc Rugg. His achievements in 
his profession have been notable, early in his 
career bringing him into prominence as a coun- 
sellor and advocate. He has had five capital 
cases, and the present year (1894) his firm has 
as many cases on the docket in the .Superior and 
Supreme courts as any firm in Worcester. Mr. 
Thayer has also been prominent for a number of 
vears in local and State affairs, and has taken a 



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551 



very prominciU part for many years in presiden- 
tial and congressional campaigns. He has served 
four vears in the Common Council and the same 



^•^^B 




JOHN R. THAYER. 

period in the Board of Aldermen of Worcester. 
In 1880 and 1882 he was a representative in the 
lower house of the Legislature, serving both terms 
on the committee on the judiciary; and in 1890 
and 1 89 1 a State senator. In 1886 he was the 
Democratic candidate for mayor of Worcester, 
polling the largest vote ever cast in Worcester for 
a Democrat for this position. In 1892 he was 
the Democratic candidate for Congress against 
the Hon. Joseph A. Walker, making a spirited 
canvass throughout the district, and being de- 
feated by less than one thousand votes, while the 
presidential electors on his ticket were defeated 
by more than three thousand. He has been a 
trustee of the Worcester City Hospital for eight 
years, and a trustee of Nichols Academy since 
1S75. Mr. Thayer was married January 30, 1872, 
in Worcester, to Miss Charlotte D. Holmes, 
daughter of Pitt and Diana (Perrini Holmes of 
that city. They have six children : Henry 
Holmes, John Mowry, Charlotte Diana, Margue- 
rite Elizabeth, Mary Perrin, and Edward Carring- 
ton Thaver. 



TRASK, Rev. John Low Ro(;ers, D.D., of 
Springfield, pastor of the Memorial Church, is a 
native of Maine, born in Hampden, Penobscot 
County, December 19, 1842, .son of Judge Joshua 
P. and Mary E. (Rogens) Trask. He is a descend- 
ant of Osmond Trask, one of the first settlers of 
Beverly, Mass. His grandfather, great-grand- 
father, and great-great-grandfather were born in 
the same house in North Beverly. The house 
which was standing in 1692 {vide map in Upham's 
" History of the Salem Witchcraft ") is still in the 
possession of a descendant of John Trask (a son 
of Osmond), who owned it and the farm at the 
time of his death, in 1720. His mother was a 
grand-daughter of the Rev. John Rogers (H.C. 
1739), first minister of the Fourth Church of 
Gloucester, and through him was descended from 
the Rev. John Rogers (H.C. 1649), fifth president 
of Harvard College. It has always been a family 
tradition, never in the judgment of many conclu- 
sively disproved, that this John, through the Rev. 
Nathaniel, of Ipswich, and his father, the Rev. 
John of Dedham, England, was great-grandson of 
the Rev. John Rogers who was burned at the 




JOHN L. R. TRASK. 

stake by order of Bloody Mary, 1555. John 
L. R. Trask was educated at the High School in 
Gloucester, where he spent his youth ; at Dummer 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Academy, Kyfield, and Atkinson Academy, N.H., 
and at Williams College, graduating in the class 
of 1864. From college he went to the Princeton 
Theological Seminary, and subsequently to An- 
dover, spending two years at the former (1864- 
66) and two at the latter, graduating in 1867. He 
was first ordained and installed pastor of the Sec- 
ond Congregational Church, Holyoke, in Decem- 
ber, 1867, and continued in that relation till May. 
1883, when he was dismissed on account of ill- 
health. After a period of rest he resumed pas- 
toral work in Lawrence as minister of Trinity 
Church, and resigned there in June, 1888, to ac- 
cept a call to the Memorial Church in Springfield, 
of which he is now the pastor. During his pas- 
torate at Holyoke, Dr. Trask, with the co-opera- 
tion of his friend, the Hon. William Whiting, 
founded the Holyoke Public Library. He called 
the meeting of the citizens to consider the project, 
and by his efforts in public and private secured 
gifts from citizens and an appropriation of money 
from the town ; and he was a member of the board 
of government of the institution until he ceased to 
be a citizen there. In 1892 he was the orator, by 
invitation of the citizens of Gloucester, on the oc- 
casion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the settlement of that town, which was the 
birth and burial place of his fatlier and mother. 
He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, of the 
New England Historic Genealogical Society, of 
the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, of the 
Connecticut Valley Theological Club, of the \\"m- 
throp Club of Springfield, and of the Sons of the 
Revolution. He received his honorary degree of 
D.D., from Williams College in 1879. Dr. Trask 
was married August i, 1871, to Miss Abby J. 
Parker, of Dunbarton. They have three children : 
Frederic Parker, Elizabeth Rogers, and Mary El- 
lery Trask. 

LTPH.\M, RocER Freeman, of Worcester, secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Worcester Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company, is a native of Worcester, 
born September 13, 1848, son of Freeman and 
Elizabeth (Livermore) llpham. He is a descend- 
ant on the paternal side of John Upham, who 
came to Weymouth from England with the " Hull " 
colony in March, 1635 ; and, on the maternal side, 
of Oliver Watson, one of the Revolutionary patri- 
ots who met in convention at Watertown in 1775, 
delegate from the towns of Spencer and Leices- 
ter, the British holding the town of Boston. His 



father was a Worcester carpenter and builder. 
He was educated in the public schools of Worces- 
ter, full course, graduating from the High School 
on the 3d of May, 1866, with the rank of saluta- 
torian in the English department. Immediately 
following graduation he entered business life, 
beginning as entry clerk in the People's Fire 
Insurance Company of Worcester, which carried 
on an e.xtensive business in the northern and west- 
ern portions of the United States. He was shortly 
after advanced to the position of book-keeper, 
and again, within a few years, to the office of 
assistant secretary of the company. The Boston 
fire of 1872 terminating the career of the People's 
Company, he accepted an engagement with the 
Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, one 
of the oldest (incorporated February, 1823) and 
strongest mutual fire insurance companies in the 
Commonwealth. The same year he was elected 
assistant secretary of the company ; on December 
8, 1880, he was elected secretary; and on May 4, 
1887, he was made secretary and treasurer, which 
position he has since occupied. Mr. Upham is 
also a trustee of the Worcester Five Cents Savings 




F. UPHAM. 



Bank. He is connected with several philan- 
thropic organizations, secretary of the Home for 
Aged Men of Worcester and trustee of the 



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377 



the lower house of the Legislature, and was re- 
turned for the second term ; and since that time 
he has served repeatedly as delegate to conven- 
tions of his party. His Republicanism is of the 
stalwart order, and he is zealous in advancing 
parly principles and interests. Mr. Cook was 
married .September 20, 1888, to Mrs. Georgiana 
Fay. 

CURRIER, Festus Curtis, of Fitchburg, in- 
surance agent, was born in HoUiston, October 6, 
1825, son of Ebenezer H. and Betsey (Pond) Cur- 
rier. His grandfather, Edward Currier, entered 
the .American army in 1776, and acted as servant 
to General Washington's staff until old enough 
to serve in the ranks, when (in 1778) he became a 
regular soldier, and served to the end of the Revo- 
lution. Festus C. was educated in the public 
schools and the Holliston Academy. He remained 
in Holliston (with the exception of three years, 
1851-53. when he was in Worcester), engaged in 
mercantile and manufacturing business, until 1869, 
wlien he removed to Fitchburg, and entered the 
insurance business, which he has since followed. 
For many years he had the largest insurance 
agency in "Worcester North." In 1875 he was 
appointed by Governor Gaston a member of the 
.State detective force, and became a most efficient 
and successful officer. Upon the organization of 
the department of inspection of public buildings 
and manufacturing establishments, he was placed 
in charge by Chief Detectixe General Stephenson, 
and visited officially nearly every manufactory in 
the State, his extensive insurance experience par- 
ticularly fitting him for the work of intelligent in- 
spection. At the expiration of his term of three 
years, not seeking a reappointment, he returned to 
his insurance business. Mr. Currier has served 
on the School Board of Fitchburg (1873), and 
three terms (1874-75-81) on the Board of Alder- 
men, in the latter body being chairman of the 
committees on claims, buildings, military, and 
salaries. As an active and interested member of 
the Democratic party, with which he has always 
acted, he has been placed in nomination for 
numerous offices. In 1874 he was made the party 
candidate for county commissioner, and came 
within a few hundred votes of election. In 1886 
he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, 
and ran very much ahead of his ticket, reducing 
the majority in the strong Republican district by 
about forty per cent. In 1880 he received a flat- 



tering vote for representative in the State Legis- 
lature. Although a firm party man, he has always 
held the esteem of his opponents. In 1868 he 
was a delegate to the National Democratic Con- 
vention held in New York, and in 1884 he was 
on the Cleveland electoral ticket. For twenty- 
five years Mr. Currier has also been actively in- 
terested in Odd Fellowship, and he is now a 
member of Mt. Roulstone Lodge and King David 
Encampment. He was the organizer of the Mas- 
sachusetts Mutual Aid Society of Fitchburg in 
1879, and, as its secretary, the executive officer 
for thirteen years, during which time over $250,- 




F. C. CURRIER. 

000 were distributed among the families of its 
deceased members. He served as treasurer of the 
Worcester North Agricultural Society for six 
years, and as president in 1888. He is now vice- 
president of the Wachusett Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company of Fitchburg, and in connection with 
his general insurance agency does a large business 
in steamship ticket and foreign drafts. In relig- 
ious faith he is an Episcopalian, a prominent 
member of Christ (Episcopal) Church of Fitch- 
burg, having served for six vears as warden. Mr. 
Currier was married at Holliston, July 16, 1850, 
to Miss Joanna M. Allen, who died May 2, 1894. 
He has had four children, three of whom died in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



childhood. Frederick A. Currier, the only sur- 
viving one (born December 24, 185 1), is now- 
associated with him in the insurance business. 
He has also an adopted daughter : Gertrude M. 
Currier. 

D.W'IS, Hexkv Gasset, M.D.. of Everett, was 
born in Trenton. Me., November 4. 1807. son of 
Isaac and Polly (Rice) Davis. His grandfather 
was Deacon Isaac Davis, of Northboro, Mass., a 
descendant of Dolor Da\is, one of the first settlers 
on the Cape. His early education was obtained 
in the common schools. His father returned to 
Massachusetts when Henry was a child, and en- 
gaged in manufacturing. At about the age of 
fifteen he took charge of his father's factory, and 
here his mechanical ingenuity had a chance to 
develop itself. At this time there was little knowl- 
edge of general manufacturing among the Amer- 
ican people; and in 1835 h^ decided to go South, 
and establish the manufacture of cotton bagging 
there. On his way thither, however, an incident 
occurred which changed his wliole career. He 
visited a sister under treatment for lateral curva- 
ture of the spine ; and, on inquiring about the 
treatment, it seemed to him unphilosophical and 
ill adapted for the desired end. He ascertained 
that this was the best treatment known to the 
profession. 'I'his decided him to begin the study 
of medicine, and to devote himself to this depart- 
ment of surgery. He accordingly at once entered 
his name as a student. In the winter of 1835-36 
he attended lectures at New Haven, and was 
under the instruction of the professor of surgery. 
The next spring he went to Bellevue Hospital, 
New York, as assistant physician. Dr. Wilson 
was then resident physician, and during his ab- 
sence in the summer I )r. 1 )avis had full charge of 
the establishment. His first receipt for a cough 
became the house prescription, and he also intro- 
duced the use of narcotics for excited lunatics. 
Soon after his return to New Ha\en he made his 
first use of extension upon a patient considered 
hopelessly gone in consumption. He put her 
upon treatment which obliged her to sustain as 
much of her weight as possible by her arms, 
thereby greatly enlarging the chest, which had 
been extremely narrow. She had no further 
trouble with her lungs, and was living forty years 
later. Dr. Davis was graduated from the Vale 
Medical School in March, 1839, practised in 
Worcester a short time, and then went to Millbury, 



where he treated a large number of patients from 
the surrounding towns. In 1855. being advised 
to seek a broader field for his work, he left Massa- 
chusetts for New York City. Here he success- 
fully treated patients from all parts of the United 
States and from abroad. He remained in New 
York in the practice of his specialty till ill health 
induced him to return to Massachusetts. He is 
now, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, residing 
in Everett. Some of his discoveries in orthopedic 
surgery are as follows. In treating his first case 
of Pott's disease of the spine, he found that the 
apparatus which he devised stopped the excru- 




HENRY G. DAVIS. 

elating pain incident to the disease, rendering the 
patient comfortable and able to exercise. This 
fact led him to apph' the same principle, namely, 
the separation of diseased surfaces, to diseased 
joints. To enable the patient to take outdoor exer- 
cise, he devised apparatus that would not only sep- 
arate the diseased surfaces, but prevent their being 
brought in contact by the weight of the body, if 
thrown upon it by accident. In making extension, 
he began using adhesive plasters; but, finding the 
plaster spread upon plain goods inadequate for 
his purpose, he had some spread upon twilled 
goods, thus originating this kind of plaster. He 
also discovered that extension could be made as 



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379 



effectually upon the bellies of muscles as upon 
their inserted parts. This enabled him to treat 
fractures of the patella in such a manner as always 
to secure bony union. By these uses of extension 
he found that all the tissues could be elongated 
as much as required, provided the extension was 
continued uninterruptedly, which is as necessary 
as the extension itself. By this process, it is 
claimed, congenital dislocations of the hip or 
those arising from accident can be reduced with 
certainty and without difficulty; and it has also 
been used to restore deformities and applied to 
advantage in fractures, particularly those of the 
hip inside the capular ligament, securing bony 
union without deformity. He discovered that 
bony union never takes place between the bones 
of ulcerated joints, that motion can be restored by 
extension. He also discovered that the loss of 
use from infantile paralysis can be perfectly re- 
lieved. He devised apparatus for sustaining the 
head when the vertebra of the neck were diseased, 
thereby keeping the figure correct. For all the 
various diseases and distortions that he had to 
treat Dr. Davis was obliged to invent some way 
of meeting the difficulty, since he was the pioneer 
in this branch of surgery, or, as he was called at a 
meeting of that society in Boston, '■ the father of 
American orthopedic surgery." Dr. Davis was 
married in 1857 to Miss Ellen W. ])eering, of 
Portland, Me., by whom he had three children, 
two daughters and one son, all of whom are now- 
living, as follows : Annie W'aite, Henry Rice, 
and Mary Deering Davis (now Mrs. ^^'. (i. Web- 
ster). 



DAVI.S, Robert Thompson, M.D., of Fall 
River, representative in the P'orty-eighth, Forty- 
ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses, was born in 
Countv Down, north of Ireland, August 28, 1S23, 
son of John and Sarah (Thompson) Davis. His 
father was of the Presbyterian fjiith, and his 
mother a Quaker. They emigrated to America 
when he was a child of three years, and settled in 
Aniesbury, where he received his early education 
in the public schools. Subsequently he attended 
the Aniesbury Academy and the Friends' School 
in Providence, R.I. Then he took the regular 
course of the Harvard Medical -School, graduat- 
ing in 1848. He began the practice of medicine 
in Waterville, Me., and, after three years' experi- 
ence there, removed to Fall River, in which he 
soon became firmlv established. He earlv took 



an earnest interest in public matters, and became 
prominent in aft'airs. He was a member of the 
Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention of 
1853 ; a State senator in 1859 and 1861 ; a dele- 
gate to the National Republican Conventions of 
i860 and 1876; mayor of Fall River in 1873, 
being elected without opposition, and declining a 
re-election ; member of the State Board of Char- 
ities when organized in 1863 ; member of the 
State Board of Health when that hoard was organ- 
ized in 1869, and so remained until its consolida- 
tion with the State Hoard of Health, Lunacy, and 
Charitv in 1S79, when he became a member of 




R. T. DAVIS. 

the latter board ; was first elected to the Forty- 
eighth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-ninth 
and Fiftieth Congresses by large majorities; and 
member of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commis- 
sion from 1889 to 1892. When in Congress, 
Dr. Davis delivered speeches upon the life-saving 
service, the tariff", the fisheries, the Nicaragua 
Canal, the prevention of yellow^ fever, and other 
subjects. Among his numerous public addresses 
have been the following : in 1851, address in favor 
of instructing Fall River representatives to vote 
for the election of Charles Sumner to the United 
States Senate; in 1868, the first of the series of 
addresses on Memorial Dav in l'"all River: ad- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



I 



dress in Mickilcboio on Memorial Day several 
years later ; address to the public schools on the 
centennial of the adoption of the constitution of 
Massachusetts ; on the dedication of City Hall, 
Fall River ; memorial address on General Sher- 
man and Admiral Porter before the Grand Army ; 
and on July 4, 1888, at Amesbury, the address 
at the unveiling of the statue of Josiah Bartlett, 
one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. Dr. Da\is has been much interested 
in the growth and business enterprises of Fall 
River. He is now president of the Wampanoag 
and Stafford corporations, and director of the 
Merchants', Robeson, Stevens, and Algonquin 
corporations. He married in 1848 Miss Sarah 
C. Wilbur, daughter of Dr. Thomas Wilbur, of 
Fall Ri\er. Her death occurred in 1856. They 
had one son, who died in infancy. He married 
in 1862 Miss Susan A. Haight, of Newcastle, 
Westchester County, N.Y. Their only son, Rob- 
ert C. Davis, was born in 1875, ^"<^ '^ ^ student 
in Harvard Universitv. 



DERBY, Philander, of Gardner, manufact- 
urer, is a native of Vermont, born in the town 
of Somerset, \\'indham County, June 18, 18 16, 
son of Levi and Sally C. (Straton) Derby. He 
is a grandson of Nathan and Abigail (Pierce) 
Derby, of Westminster, Mass., and great-grandson 
of .Andrew Derby, of the same town. His educa- 
tion was acquired in the common schools. He 
remained on the home farm until his majority, 
and then spent several years in Massachusetts 
and in Jamaica, during which time he learned the 
business of chair-making. When opportunity of- 
fered to engage in the business for himself, he 
promptly embraced it. During the trying period 
from 1857 to 1 86 1 he was a young manufacturer 
in the town of Gardner, with heavy responsibil- 
ities resting on him. Having nerved himself to 
meet the crisis in a manly fashion, he managed to 
pass through it without serious harm, meeting his 
obligations, maintaining his credit, and sustaining 
his reputation. Mr. Derby has done much in the 
way of in\-ention and improvement of machines 
through which the work of chair-making has been 
made easier and more rapid. During his long 
business career he has enjoyed exceptional pros- 
perity, due more to his energy and perseverance 
than to fortunate circumstances. He has been 
found ready to do his full share in supporting the 



institutions of society, 
and charitable objects 
for the public welfare. 



contributing to benevolent 

and in aiding enterprises 

He is a director of the 




PHILANDER DERBY. 

Gardner National Piank, and a trustee of the 
Gardner Savings Bank. Invitations to public 
office he has invariably declined. In politics he 
is a Republican, and in religious faith an Ortho- 
do.x Congregationalist. He was married Septem- 
ber 27, 1839, at Petersham, to Miss Viola Dunn, 
daughter of John and Abigail Dunn. They have 
had four children : Mary Augusta, John Baxter 
(deceased, July 11, 1842), Ella Viola, and Arthur 
I'hilander Derby. 



DICKINSON, Henry Smith, of Springfield, 
manager of the George R. Dickinson Paper Com- 
pany, Holyoke, is a native of Springfield, born 
September 26, 1863, son of George R. and Mary 
Jane (Clark) Dickinson. His father, born in 
Readsborough, Vt., in 1832, son of Caleb Dickin- 
son, a prosperous farmer of that town, was one 
of the foremost paper manufacturers in Hampden 
County, and the founder of the George R. Dickin- 
son Paper Company. His mother was a native 
of Framingham, this State. He was educated in 
the Springfield public schools, and at the age of 
seventeen began business life as book-keeper for 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



?8l 



the l)ickiiis(in i\: (lark I'apcr ('oiiipaii)', hi wliich 
his father at tliat time liad a half interest. He 
remained with this concern until the establish- 
ment of the George R. Dickinson Company and 
the completion of its mill, — one of the most com- 
plete and perfect of modern paper mills, — in the 
spring of 18S3. Then he engaged in the work of 
selling the product of the new company, and be- 
came the " right-hand man " of his father, who 
was its president, treasurer, and manager. He as- 
sumed various oltice duties, and made four exten- 
sive trips over the country each year, going south 
to Louisville and west as far as Omaha. Less 
than live years after the mill went into operation 
liis fatlier died from the etTects of a fall, by step- 
ping through an open trap-door in a Springtield 
store ; and the entire care and management of the 
business, as well as of other interests of the estate, 
fell upon him, then but twenty-four years of age. 
The capacity which he displayed commanded the 
confidence of all who came in contact with him. 
Under his direction the business of the company 
expanded ; and in less than three years from the 
death of his father the mill was enlarged and 




HENRY S. DICKINSON. 



new machinery added, increasing its manufactur- 
ing capacity to twenty-five tons of envelope and 
super-calendered book papers daily. Mr. Dickin- 



son is also a director of the Hancock National 
Bank and a trustee of the Five Cents Savings 
Bank, both of Springfield. In politics he is an 
earnest Republican, and has been called by his 
party associates to serve in prominent positions. 
He was a delegate to the National Republican 
convention in Minneapolis in 1884, and the same 
year was chairman of the Republican city com- 
mittee of Springfield. In 1889 and 1890 he was 
a member of the Springfield Board of Aldermen, 
president of the board the second year, also chair- 
man of the committee on fire department, and a 
member of the committee on finance ; and he has 
been repeatedly urged to stand for the Republican 
nomination for mayor. In 1891 he was elected 
to the lower house of the Legislature, where he 
served on the important committee on railroads. 
He was also a member of the special committee 
representing the State at the dedication of the 
Bennington (Vt.) Battle Monument. He declined 
a renomination for a second term. He has dis- 
played his public spirit in numerous ways, and 
given substantial aid to numerous local organiza- 
tions and popular movements. The first United 
States flag to float over a Springfield public 
school-house was presented by him. He is a 
prominent Freemason, member of the Springfield 
Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Aleppo 
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Boston. 
The fine tower clock on the Masonic building in 
Springfield was his gift to the Masonic Associa- 
tion. He finds relief from the cares of business 
in yachting, fishing, and in driving fine horses. 
He is the fortunate possessor of the sloop-rigged 
yacht " Rival," formerly owned by Commodore 
Sanford, of the Atlantic Yacht Club of Brooklyn, 
N.V., which has won a dozen and more races, 
and under his ownership captured the " Rival 
Cup" of the New Haven Yacht Club in 1S94. 
His summer fishing trips are to Canada, in the 
region cultivated by the Amablish Fishing Club, 
of which he is a member. In Springfield he is a 
member of the leading clubs and of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. Mr. Dickinson was 
married March 2, 1885, at Cleveland, Ohio, to 
Miss Stella E. Paige, daughter of William H. 
Paige, formerly connected with the VVason Car 
Works of Springfield. They have three children : 
George Richard, Henry Raymond, and Stuart 
Dickinson. Mr. Dickinson's home is a modern 
residence on Pearl Street, whicli he purchased 
in 1894. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



DOWNS, Hakrv Ashton. M.D.. of Sonierville. 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Barnstead. 
October i8, 1867, son of George and Laura Ann 




He belongs to the Masonic order, member of Lib- 
erty Lodge, and of Amity Royal .\rch Chapter of 
Beverly. In politics he is a Republican, and in 
religious faith a Baptist, member of the Winter 
Hill Baptist Church of .Somerville. He is unmar- 
ried. 

E.ATON, Wii.i.iAM Newcomi!, of Quincy, ice 
dealer, is a native of Quincy, born December 29, 
1845, son of Jacob F. and Ann Jerusha (New- 
comb) Eaton. His paternal grandparents, John 
and L)olly (Fox) Eaton, were of Meredith, N.H., 
and his maternal grandparents, \\'illiam and Je- 
rusha (Arnold) Newcomb, of Quincy. He was 
educated in the Quincy public schools. After 
leaving school, he was first employed in the store 
of Faxon Brothers, Nos. 9 and 1 1 Commercial 
Street, ?!oston, tiour business. Subsequently he 
took charge of the ice business for his father until 
the latter's death in 187 i. Since that time he has 
been engaged in the business on his own account. 
Mr. Eaton served for seven years as selectman 
and paymaster of Quincy; in 1883 and 1S84 he 
was a representative for (Quincy in the lower house 



i^W^ 




H. ASHTON DOWNS. 



(Wedgwood I Downs. He is of old English 
stock, his mother being of the famous family of 
Wedgwoods, who have made fine pottery for a 
number of generations in England. When he 
was a babe, his parents moved from Barnstead 
to Farmington, N.H., where he lived until he was 
twelve years of age. Then a second removal 
was made to Beverly, Mass., which was his home 
till 1889. His general education was acquired in 
the public schools of Farmington and of Beverly : 
and his medical studies were pursued in the Bos- 
ton University Medical School, where he gradu- 
ated in June, 1893, having taken a four years' 
course. He also spent four months at the West- 
borough Insane Hospital, studying cases, and 
three months at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. 
He came to Somerville in July, 1893, and in June, 
1894, was appointed a member of the medical 
staff of the Somerville Hospital. Since the first 
of January, 1894, he has been the medical exam- 
iner of the Somerville Young Men's Christian 

Association. Dr. Downs is a member of the of the Legislature; in 1891 and 1892 a 
Massachusetts Homttopathic Medical Society, for the First Norfolk District ; and is now 
and of the Boston University Alumni Association, a commissioner of public works for the 




■'yi^fftFi'?-^- 



WILLIAM N. EATON. 



senator 

(1895) 
city of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



38: 



Quincy. His politics are Democratic. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason, member of tlie Rural 
Lodge of Quincy, and of the South Shore Com- 
niandery, Knights Templar. He is a member also 
of the Granite City Club of Quincy. He was 
married December 29, 1869, to Miss Mary Fran- 
cesca Packard, daughter of Elisha and Lucy 
(Newcomb) Packard, both of Quincy. They have 
five daughters : Minnie Francesca, Loulie Packard 
(married to Arthur Hall Doble, June 6, 1894), 
Annie Jerusha, Edith Elizabeth, and Grace Eaton. 



cott was married in Dedham on the 22d of July, 
1845, to Miss Sarah Fairbanks, daughter of 
\\'illiain and Millie Fairbanks. Tliev have two 



ENDICOTT, Augustus Br.^dfurd, of Ded- 
ham, sheriff of Norfolk County, was born in Can- 
ton, September 10, 18 18, son of Elijah and Cyn- 
thia (Childs) Endicott. He is descended on the 
paternal side from one of the earliest families of 
that name in Massachusetts. His education was 
acquired in the common schools of CanLon. He 
was early apprenticed to a trade, that of carpen- 
tering, and served for four and a half years. 
Soon after reaching his majority, he went to 
Chelsea to become a pattern-maker in the iron 
foundry there. He continued in this occupation 
for about ten years, and then turned his attention 
to other lines of work. In 1852 he removed to 
Dedham, where he has since resided. The fol- 
lowing year he was appointed a deputy sheriff' 
under Thomas Adams, then sheriff' of Norfolk 
County ; and this position he held continuously 
thirty-three years, until August, 1885, when, upon 
the death of Sheriff' Wood, he was appointed by 
(Governor Robinson sheriff of the county, to serve 
until the following November. Then he was 
elected for the unexpired term of Sheriff Wood, 
— one year; and at the ne.xt election, in Novem- 
ber, 1886, was chosen for the full term of three 
years. At each succeeding election he has been 
re-elected. He has also represented the town of 
Dedham in the Legislature, serving , two terms 
(1872 and 1874); and has held the offices of se- 
lectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, and mem- 
ber of the Koard of Health for twenty-two years. 
He is prominent, also, in various business inter- 
ests in Dedham, — president of the Dedham Na- 
tional Bank, president of the Dedham Institution 
of Savings, a director of the Norfolk Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company of Dedham, and director of 
tile Dedliam Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 
He is a member of the Fisher Ames Club of Ded- 
Iiani. In politics he is a Democrat. iMr. Fndi- 




A. B. ENDICOTT. 

daughters and one son : Mary .Vugusta (now Mrs. 
William H. Lord), Lizzie Blanche (now Mrs. 
George H. Young), and Henry Bradford Endicott. 



ENDICOTT, Henrv, of Cambridge, manufact- 
urer, was born in Canton, November 14, 1824, 
son of Elijah and Cynthia (Childs) Endicott. He 
belongs to the Massachusetts family of Endicotts, 
and to the branch that settled in Canton in 1700. 
His education was acquired in the public schools 
and through home study. He began business life 
in the manufacturing of steam-engines and boilers 
in Boston, in 1845, I'lider the firm name of .Allen 
& Endicott, and has had a long and successful 
career in this branch of work. He is now presi- 
dent of the .\lien &: Endicott Building Company, 
director of the Cambridge Gas Liglit Company, 
director of the First National Bank of Cambridge, 
and trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. 
He has been connected with the Masonic frater- 
nity nearly forty years, and has passed through the 
various orders to high rank, having also held high 
position. He was made a master mason in i860. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in Amicable Lodge, Cambridge, and was worship- 
ful master in 1864-65-66 ; was worshipful master 
of Mizpah Lodge (U.D.) in 1868, and elected 
worshipful in 1869 under charter; and was dis- 
trict deput)' grand master, District No. 4, in 
1867-68. He was exalted in 1861 in St. Paul's 
Royal Arch Chapter, Boston ; was scribe, 1862-63 ; 
king, 1864; high priest, 1865-66 ; also high priest 
of Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter (LT.D.) in 
1865 ; and grand king of the Grand Chapter of 
Massachusetts in 1867. He was made royal and 
select master in Boston Council in 1861, and 
became a member the same year ; was made a 




HENRY ENDICOTT. 

Knight Templar in 1861 in Boston Commandery, 
and became a member the same year ; after hold- 
ing nearly all the minor offices, was elected cap- 
tain-general in 1868 ; generalissimo, 1869 and 
1870; and eminent commander in 1891 and 1892. 
He was trustee of the permanent fund from 1874 
to 1888. He received the degrees of the Ancient 
and Accepted Scottish Rite from the fourth to the 
thirtieth, both inclusive, May 9, and the thirty-first 
and thirty-second. May 16, 1862, in the Grand 
Consistory of Massachusetts ; was created a sov- 
ereign grand inspector- general, thirty-second 
degree, in 1874. He was senior grand warden 
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1873, 



and most worshipful grand master in 1887-88-89 ; 
was elected member of the board of directors in 
1869, and has been a member continuously since 
by election or virtue of office. He is an honorary 
member of Mt. Olivet, Amicable, and Mizpah 
lodges of Cambridge, Converse of Maiden, St. 
Paul's and Cambridge Royal Arch Chapters, Bos- 
ton Commandery, and St. John's Commandery, 
Xo. 4, Philadelphia. His club associations are 
with the Colonial Club of Cambridge and the 
Union Club. Mr. Endicott was married first May 
4, 1847, to Miss Miriam J. Smith, who died in 
1849, at the age of twenty, leaving no children. 
He married second, September 2, 185 1, Miss 
Abby H. Browning, of Petersham. They had 
four children, of whom one only survives : Emma 
Endicott Marean. He has five irrandchildren. 



EWING, George Clinton, of Enfield, is a 
native of New Hampshire, born in Littleton, Jan- 
uary 15, 1843, son of George C. and Lydia A. 
(Stillwell) Ewing. His father was one of the early 
founders of the city of Holyoke, Hampden County, 
and died in 1887, leaving a valuable property in 
that place : he was a member of the Massachu- 
setts Legislature in 185 1, and candidate for lieu- 
tenant governor on the Prohibitory ticket 1879. 
The family moved to Holyoke when George C. 
was a child, and he was educated in the public 
schools there and at Williston Seminary. After 
leaving the seminary, he was clerk in a store for a 
year. In 1862 he became connected with the 
Fairbanks Scales Company, with headquarters at 
Philadelphia. He rose rapidly in the estimation 
of the managers, and, when twenty-six years old, 
was given an interest in their Philadelphia branch. 
In 1874 he was sent to England to take charge of 
the London branch house ; and, while in this posi- 
tion, he made frequent trips upon the continent, 
perfecting arrangements for the introduction of 
the famous scales. In 1876 he made a tour of 
the world, visiting India, China, and the Australian 
colonies. This trip was so successful in a busi- 
ness way that he repeated it in 1879, being absent 
about three years. At the World's Fair held in 
Sydney in 1879 and 1880 he was one of the 
judges appointed by the government of New 
South Wales ; and a like honor was given him by 
the Victorian government at their exposition in 
:88i. In 1882 he started on another three years' 
trip, going this time to South Africa and to most 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



385 



of the Pacific islands, still pushing the sale of the 
Fairbanks scales. I'pon his return he settled in 
Knfield, and updii the death of his father he as- 




hetween Winchendon and Boston for the late 
E. Murdock, Jr., till the railroad was built in 1844. 
For the next twenty-four years (from 1844 to 1868) 
he was in the livery business in Winchendon in 
partnership with Henry Whitcomb, under the firm 
name of Whitcomb & Fairbank. In 1852 he 
bought the .'\merican House, and was its landlord 
from that time to 1865. The year previous he 
organized the First National Bank of Winchendon, 
and was elected its first president, which position 
he has held continuously ever since, a period of 
thirty years. He has long been prominent in 
town affairs, holding positions of responsibility, — 
a selectman for twenty-five years, most of the 
time chairman of the board, an assessor for fifteen 
years, most of this time also chairman, and ceme- 
tery commissioner for thirty-four years in succes- 
sion, save one year ; and as road commissioner, 
or highway surveyor, he has had partial or full 
charge of the highways i)i Winchendon for more 
than thirty years. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was married June 27, 1847, to Miss Mary E. 
Lee. They have one daughter, Mary Helen, born 
February 17, 1857, married September i, 1881, to 



GEO. C. EWING. 



sullied the management of the latter's estate. In 
politics he is a Republican. He was never, how- 
ever, in political life until his election to the lower 
house of the Legislature of 1894 for the Fifth 
Hampshire District. In that body he served 
on the committee on public service and on the 
special committee on the unemployed. Mr. Ewing 
was married April 20, 1882, to Miss Amanda 
Woods, daughter of the Hon. Rufus I). \\'oods, 
of Enfield. They ha\-e three children : Kathleen. 
Rufus \\'.. and Marjory Ewing. 



FAIRBANK. John Hknrv, of Winchendon, 
president of the First National Bank for thirty 
years, is a native of Harvard, born January 21, 
18 1 7, son of .\rtenias and Rachel (Houghton) 
Fairbank. His paternal grandparents were Jona- 
than and Hannah (Hale) Fairbank, also of Har- 
vard, and his maternal grandparents Jonathan and 
Mary Houghton, of Waterford. Me. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of Harvard. He 
went to Winchendon in 1836, when he was nine- 
teen vears old, and dro\e an eight-horse team 






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H. FAIRBANK. 



(ieorge R. R. Rivers, of Milton. .She has two 
children : Robert W. (born August 13, 1882) and 
Harry F. Rivers (born August 17, 1883). 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



FAVKRWEATHER, John Appletox, of \\est- 
borough, banker, is a native of Westborough, born 
March 12, 1808, son of John and Sally (VVheelock I 



has been president of the \\'orcester County Agri- 
cnltural Society for one term, and a trustee for 
thirty-five or forty years. He is a trustee also of 
the Westborough Reform School. In politics he 
is Republican. He was married December, 1831, 
to Miss Sarah Augusta Tyler, of Boston. They 
have one son and one daughter : John Appleton 
and Sarah Wheelock Faverweather. 



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FRENX'H, Charles Ephraim, M.D., of Law- 
rence, was born in Berkley, September 4, 1867, 
son of Captain Oliver E. and Harriet N. (Porter) 
French. His great-grandfather, Charles French, 
was a sea captain, his grandfather, Ephraim 
French, a merchant, and his maternal grandfather, 
Philip Porter, a mechanic. They were all men 
of honor and lo\e for truth. His early education 
was attained in the public schools of his native 
town and at Newport, R.I. A scientific training 
followed, in New York City, with several years' 
study with a private tutor ; then the college train- 
ing at the University of the City of New York, 
and study for his profession at the University of 



J. A. FAVERWEATHER. 

Fayerweather. The family was originally of Cam- 
bridge, and through the Fayerweather homestead 
the present F'ayerweather and Appleton Streets 
now run. His early education was acquired 
in a private school, and he was graduated from 
Brown University in the class of 1826. His 
boyhood was spent on his father's farm. Later 
he entered mercantile life, in which he continued 
for many years : from 1824 to 1858 a merchant in 
Westborough, and from 1858 to 1863 m the whole- 
sale grocery business in Boston. He has been 
president of the Westborough National Bank from 
its foundation in 1864, and a trustee of the West- 
borough Savings Bank from its formation in 1870. 
In town affairs he has long been prominent. He 
was a selectman of the town for many years, an 
assessor for three years, and an overseer of the 
poor for many years. In 1866 he represented his 
district in the House of Representatives. He has 
been always one of the very energetic men of West- 
borough, active especially in benevolent work ; a 
strong supporter of the Congregational Church, of 
which he is a member, and one whose judgment 
and ad\ice are sought for and relied upon. He 




CHAftLES E. FRENCH. 



Maryland at Baltimore, where he received the 
degree of M.I), in April, 1893. Subsequently he 
acquired some experience in pharmacy, and pur- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



387 



sued special sUulies in the llcilL-vue, New York, the State Militia, serving as t'lrst lieutenant of 

and Maryland. Baltimore, hospitals. He began Company I, F.ighth Regiment, from that year to 

practice in Boston July, 1893, but after a few 1874; then as adjutant of the same regiment, 

months was called away from his work by a long 1874-75 : as major Seventh Battalion, 1876-77- 

illness in his family, and was unable to return to 78 ; adjutant again of the Eighth Regiment, 1879- 

it till the summer of 1S94. Then he established S0-81: and assistant adjutant-general of the Sec- 



himself in Lawrence. He is unmarried. 




CHAS. C. FRY. 

FRY, Ch.\rles Coffin, of Lynn, treasurer of 
the Lynn Gas and Electric Company, is a native 
of Lynn, born May 31, 1842, son of Homer and 
Patience (Boyce) Fry. His parents and grand- 
parents on both sides were Quakers. His father 
was born in Bolton, and his mother in Lynn. His 
education was acquired in the common and high 
schools of Lynn. He began active life in the 
shoe business, and was concerned in it for a num- 
ber of years. Subsequently he became connected 
with the Lynn Gas I-ight Company ; and since 
1880 he has occupied the position of treasurer of 
that company, and of the Lynn Gas and Electric 
Company succeeding it. He was auditor of the 
city of Lynn in 1876, and city marshal in 1877 
and 1878. During part of the Civil War, in 1862 
and 1863, he served in the Eighth Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteers, as private and cor- 
poral. Since 1865 he has been prominent in 



ond Brigade from 1882 to date. He is also a 
prominent Mason, having held the positions of 
master of Mt. Carmel Lodge in 1876-77, eminent 
commander of Olivet Commandery in 1882-83, 
and right eminent grand commander of the grand 
commander)' of Knights Templar of Massachu- 
setts and Rhode Island in 189^ and 1894. He 
is a member of Mt. Carmel Lodge, Sutton Chap- 
ter, Olivet Commandery, Lafayette Lodge of Per- 
fection, Giles F". Yates Council, Princes of Jerusa- 
lem, Mt. Olivet Chapter, Rose Croi.x, Massachu- 
setts Consistory, and .Meppo Temple. He be- 
longs to the Grand Army of the Republic, member 
of General Lander Post, No. 5. His club asso- 
ciations are with the Park and O.xford clubs of 
Lynn. Of the former he has been president since 
1892. In politics he is a Republican. He is 
unmarried. 




CHAS. J. GLIDDEN. 



GLIDDEN, Ch.\rli:s J.aspkr, of Lowell, con- 
nected with telephone interests, is a native of 
Lowell, born August 29, 1857, son of Nathaniel 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



A. and Laura l'',llen ( Clark i Gliddcn. His educa- 
tion was attained in the Lowell public schools. 
He began active life as a telegraph messenger in 
1872 in Lowell, and at the age of sixteen was 
appointed manager of the Atlantic and Pacific 
Telegraph Company's office at Manchester, N.H. 
This position he held for about four years, 1873- 
77, during that time also servmg as a correspond- 
ent of the Boston Globe. In the fall of 1877 he 
became treasurer of the Lowell District Telephone 
system and of the syndicate that purchased nearly 
all telephone properties in New England and in 
si.\ Western States. In 1883 he was made secre- 
tary of the New England Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company ; and the same year was one of 
the organizers of the Erie Telegraph and Tele- 
phone Company, and elected treasurer, which lat- 
ter position he has since held. He has been 
president of the Traders' National Bank of Lowell 
since its organization on the ist of July, 1892. 
Mr. Glidden has held no public office, having no 
desire for political fame. He was married July 
10, 1878, to Miss Lucy Emma Cleworth, of Man- 
chester, N. H. 



Fruit I'arni, of which he is now proprietor, often 
e.xhibiting several hundred varieties of fruit at 
local fairs. He has been prominent in town 



GREEN, George Hexrv B.vrtlett, of Bel- 
chertown. farmer, making fruit-raising a specialty, 
was born in Southampton, December 15, 1845, 
son of Frank and Sarah Young (Bennett) Bartlett. 
He was but two years old when his father died, at 
the age of twenty-two ; and his mother died in 
Ludlow ten years later. When he was four years 
old, he was taken to live with an uncle, Reuben 
Green, in Belchertown, on the farm which he now 
occupies ; and, though never adopted, the name 
of "Green" was affixed to his own, and he has 
always retained it. His educational advantages 
were limited during his minority to the district 
school, which he attended twenty weeks each year 
until he was nine years old, and after that but 
twelve weeks a year ; but, by the use of midnight 
oil, he was enabled to keep abreast of many 
whose school privileges were less limited. After 
reaching his majority, he took one term with a 
local teacher of note and one term at Wesleyan 
.Vcademy, W'ilbraham, since which time he taught 
every winter, excepting two, until he went to the 
State Legislature in 1S92, while teaching, im- 
proving numerous opportunities for study. He 
also did some writing for local newspapers. When 
out of school, he has managed the Rock Rimmon 




GEO. H. B. GREEN. 

affairs since the seventies. In 1876 he was 
elected to the School Committee, and has been a 
member of the board ever since, with the excep- 
tion of the years 1886 and 1887. He was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Assessors from 1884 to 1891 
inclusive, and moderator of town meetings in 
1893 and 1894. His service in the Legislature 
has covered three years, — one term in the House 
(1892) and two in the Senate (1893-94). When 
a member of the lower branch, he was on the com- 
mittee on labor, libraries, and education, chair- 
man of the first two in 1894; and in the Senate 
served as chairman of the committee on printing 
and member of the committees on labor and pub- 
lic health. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was married May 4, 1869, to Miss Nancy Howe 
Sanford, of Belchertown. Their children are : Iva 
Louise, Carleton DeWitt, Susan Dwight, Sarah 
Sanford, Harriet Sophia, Elsa Rachel, Clayton 
Reuben, and George Henry Bartlett Green, Jr. 



HALL, Eben .\llen, of Greenfield, editor and 
proprietor of the Gazittc ami Courier, is a native 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



3'^9 



of 'I'auiilon, l)()rn December 20, 1839, son of 
Rufus and Lydia W. (Tobey) Hall. Me is in line 
of descent sixth generation from George Hall, who 
came from England in 1636-37, and was one of 
the original proprietors and a ftmnder of the town 
of Taunton in 1639. He was educated in the 
'J'aunton public schools. Early giving evidence 
of a natural taste for the printer's art and the 
publishing business, he entered the office of the 
Bristol County A' (■//t/i/zur// in Taunton when seven- 
teen years of age, and there learned his trade. 
In the second year of the t'i\il War he left his 
place, and joined the Union Army. Enlisting in 
Company E, Thirt\-ninth Regiment, commanded 
by Colonel P. .Stearns Davis, in August, 1862, he 
served until discharged at the close of the war in 
June, 1865, ranking as sergeant. He participated 
in many of the principal battles of the .Vrmy of the 
Potomac, — the \\'iklerness, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna, Pethesda Church, Cold Harbor, the siege 
of Petersburg, — was captured at Hatcher's Run 
in February, 1865, and confined in Libby Prison; 
but, soon paroled and e.xchanged. joined the regi- 
ment soon after Lee's surrender. ITpon his dis- 



ington, took charge of the ]5aper. Desiring to 
enlarge his sphere of work, he went to Greenfield 
in 1866, and made an engagement with the 
Gazette and Courier, then owned by S. S. East- 
man & Co. Three years later. u]X)n the death of 
Colonel .Ansel Phelps, one of the partners, he 
bought a third interest in the paper; and in 1876 
he became sole proprietor, and has been the 
owner and publisher since. In his conduct of the 
Gazette, as has been well said by one of his ablest 
contemporaries, he has kept '' the old ideals un- 
tarnished." He has given it character, and has 
made it "a model of what a country newspaper 
ought to be." Mr. Hall has served one term 
in the Legislature (1879), representing the First 
Franklin representati\'e District ; and he was a 
member of the Executive Council with Governor 
Butler in 1883, and with Governor Robinson in 
1S84. His politics are Republican. He is a di- 
rector of the Franklin County National Bank and 
a trustee of the Greenfield .Savings Bank in 
Greenfield, a vice-president of the Massachusetts 
Press Association, a member of the council of ad- 
ministration of the Massachusetts Department of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, and a member 
of the Greenfield Club. He was married June 2, 
1 86 1, to Miss Bashie L. Tisdale, of Taunton. 
They have had four children : Jessie Allen (who 
married Frederick L. Greene), Albert Tisdale, 
Nina Elliot, and Agnes Lincoln Hall (deceased). 




HANSCOM, San'FOrd, M.D., of Somerville, is 
a native of Maine, born in Albion, January 28, 
1841, son of James and Mary (Frost) Hanscom. 
He was prepared for college at the \\'aterville 
(Maine) Classical Institute, and entered Colby 
University in 1863, but left college in his sopho- 
more year to enter the army for service in the 
Civil War. Subsequently, however, in 1885, his 
alma mater conferred upon him the degree of A.M. 
He went to the front as first lieutenant of the 
Eighth unassigned company of Maine ^'olunteers, 
which, when ready for service, was assigned to the 
Eleventh Maine Infantry, then in the Twenty- 
fourth Army Corps, Army of the James. Soon 
after this assignment he was commissioned adju- 
tant of the regiment. It was in active service 
around Richmond and I'etersburg in the spring of 
charge from the service he returned to the Pristol 1S65, until the surrender of those cities; and its 
County Kepiildieaii office, and for a few months, last engagement was at Appomatto.x Court-house 
while the editor \vas serving a clerkship in Wash- the morning of the day of General Lee's surrender. 



EBEN A. HALL. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



AftL-r ills return from tht; army he entered the 
Harvard Medical School, from which he gradu- 
ated in 1868, and began practice in the spring of 
i86g, established in Somerville, where he has 
since resided. He has been interested in edu- 
cational matters, serving as a member of the 
Somerville School Committee for the past four- 
teen years. He was also for six years a trustee 
of the Somerville Public Library. For a period 
of ten years he has been State medical examiner 
for the Royal Arcanum in Massachusetts. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety and a former member of the Boston Gyne- 




SANFORD HANSCOM. 



belongs to the CJrand 



cological Society. He 
Army of the Republic and the Massachusetts 
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion, and is a Freemason, member of the Soley 
Lodge. He was married October 26, 1874. to 
Miss Beulah A. Hill, daughter of Cyrus and 
Cynthia (Morse) Hill. They have one daughter : 
Aline Louisa Hanscom. 



HARRIS, Robert Orr, of East Bridgewater, 
district attorney for the South-eastern District, was 
born in Boston, November 8, 1854, son of the 
Hon. Benjamin \V. and Julia A. (Orr) Harris. 



( Ml tlie paternal side he is a lineal descendant of 
Arthur Harris, who came to this country from 
England in 1640, settled first in Duxbury, after- 
ward was one of the original purchasers and pro- 
prietors of Bridgewater, under what was called 
the "Duxbury Purchase," and moved to that part 
of Bridgewater now East Bridgewater. On the 
maternal side he descended from the Hon. Hugh 
Orr, who came from Scotland in 1730, settled first 
in Easton, and then removed to Bridgewater, — a 
leading man of his time, and the first man in this 
country to manufacture cotton spinning machinery. 
His ancestors on both sides have been identified 
always with the best life of the community, and 
actively interested in all matters looking toward 
progress. His father was district attorney for the 
South-eastern District from 1858 to 1865 ; after- 
ward member of Congress from the Second (now 
the Twelfth) District, from 1872 to 1882; and is 
now judge of probate and insolvency, Plymouth 
County. His mother died October 5, 1872. 
Robert O. received his primary education in the 
public schools of East Bridgewater and in the 
Dwight School in Boston. In 1865 the family 
moved to Dorchester, and lived tiiere until 1872, 
during which time he attended the Boston Latin 
and Chauncy Hall schools. In 1872 he went to 
Phillips (Exeter) Academy, from which lie entered 
Harvard in June, 1873. Immediately after his 
graduation, in 1877, he began the study of law in 
the office of his father's firm, Harris & Tucker, 
taking also special courses in the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School. He was admitted to the bar at 
Plymouth, March 4, 1879. He practised in 
Brockton with Judge W. A. Reed, under the firm 
name of Reed & Harris, until his father retired 
from Congress in March, 1883, when he became 
a member of the firm of Harris & Tucker. ITpon 
the appointment of his father as judge of probate, 
he began practice on his separate account, and 
has since practised alone. As district attorney, 
it fell to his lot to be the first affected by the 
change in the law in regard to the trial of capital 
causes, and to have to try two murder cases in his 
first year without the assistance and counsel of 
the attorney-general. The district which he now 
serves is the same served by his father from 1S58 
to 1865. As a lawyer, he is considered a sound 
and safe adviser, and, as a trial lawyer, has an 
excellent reputation. In trial he is cool and ready, 
and is very effective with his juries. Mr. Harris 
has always been interested and active in public 



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391 



affairs in iiis town, and lias served for a number 
of years on the School Committee, of which he is 
still a member. He was a member of tlie Legis- 




f4is mother died when he was a child of two 
years, and he was but seven years old when his 
father died. Then he was put out to live with 
one Timothy Work, and remained on the latter's 
farm till he was nearly twenty-one years old, re- 
ceiving when he left, as full compensation for his 
labors, a cheap suit of clothes. His schooling 
was confined to a few months each year, when 
there was no farm work to be done, in the village 
school, during his early boyhood. His first em- 
ployment after he left Timothy Work was on an- 
other farm at twelve dollars and a half a month. 
Then he learned the trade of filing and finishing 
augers and bits ; but, as this proved detrimental 
to his health, after working at it about two vears. 
lie abandoned it, and learned the trade of bottom- 
ing shoes, which he followed, in connection with 
farming, for upwards of a quarter of a century. 
In the panic of 1837 he lost six hundred dollars 
of the few hundred he had managed to save from 
his earnings at his trade and at farming. There- 
after he worked out by the day on farms until the 
summer of iiS38, when he engaged to work twenty- 
two acres of land on shares, he to receive one-half 



ROBERT O. HARRIS. 



lature of 1889, and made a reputation as a debater 
and a man of practical good sense. In politics he 
has always been a Republican, and for many years 
active in the councils of the party in his county. 
He has been a frequent and effective platform 
speaker in important campaigns, having a pleasant 
manner and a logical and convincing way of pre- 
senting his arguments. He is a member of the 
University Club of Boston, of the Massachusetts 
Republican Club, of the Odd Fellows' order, of 
the Knights of Honor, and of the local Social and 
Improvement Association. .Although quiet and 
domestic in his manner and tastes, fond of reading 
and study, spending most of his spare time in his 
library, he likes society, and has many warm, 
social friends. He was married .\pril 21, 1880, 
at Newport, R.I., to Miss Josephine D. Gorton. 
They have four children : Anne VN'inslow, Alice 
Orr, Elizabeth Cahoone, and Louise Chilton 
Harris. 







ERASMUS HASTON. 



HASTON, Erasmus, of North Brookfield, the crop. Out of this he realized about two hun- 
farmer, was born in Belchertown, April 18, 18 12, dred and fifty dollars for seven months' work, 
son of I'hilip and Rebecca (Ranger) Haston. meanwhile working at his trade through the win- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ter. The following spring lie purchased a farm 
of between three and four hundred acres in 
Greenwich, and, after working it some time, sold 
the land at an advance, and returned to his shoe 
work. A year or so later he purchased another 
farm, situated on the Spencer road in North 
Brookfield, known as the " Bush place '" : and this 
he carried on, at the same time pursuing his trade, 
for six years. Then he disposed of this property 
at a good bargain, and again turned his attention 
exclusively to shoe work. His next venture was 
on a farm of about twenty-seven acres in North 
Brookfield, where he now lives, which he pur- 
chased in 1847. (iradually the village grew up 
around him : and in course of time he sold the 
greater part of his land in lots which yielded him 
a competence for his declining years, and he is 
now one of the wealthy men of the town. Since 
186 1 his main occupation has been that of a 
farmer, having that year retired from work in the 
shoe factory. He has been a good citizen, and 
interested in the welfare of North lirookfield. 
In 1892 he and his wife presented to the town the 
fine new granite Library Building. He was first 
married in 1847 to Miss Abigail Whiting of North 
Brookfield, who died the following year. He mar- 
ried second, in 1849, Miss Elvira Shedd, a na- 
tive of Vermont, daughter of Zachariah and Lydia 
(Proctor) Shedd, natives of Massachusetts and 
Vermont respectively. They have had two chil- 
dren, both of whom died in infancv. 



Hawkins has also held the office of city solicitor 
of Pittsfield since the adoption of the city form of 
government in January, 1891. He is interested 



HAWKINS. W.Ai.TER FoxcRUFT, of Pittsfield. 
member of the Berkshire bar, is a native of Pitts- 
field, born July 12, 1863, son of \\'illiam J. 
Hawkins, an Englishman by birth and ancestry. 
and Harriet E. (Foxcroft) Hawkins, daughter of 
George A. Foxcroft, of Boston, and Harriet E. 
(Goodrich) Foxcroft, a native of Pittsfield. He 
received a thorough education in private schools, 
the High School at Pittsfield, and \\'illiams Col- 
lege, where he was graduated in the class of 1884; 
and was fitted for his profession at the Columbia 
College Law School, New York, graduating there- 
from in the class of 1886. He was at once ad- 
mitted to the New York bar, and in October fol- 
lowing to the Berkshire bar. In 1888 he formed 
a partnership with Henry J. Ryan, a graduate of 
the Boston Univ'ersity Law School, under the firm 
name of Ryan & Hawkins, which still continues. 
Their practice has been a general ci\ il one. Mr. 




WALTER F. HAWKINS. 

in the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company 
of Pittsfield, and is one of the directors of the 
corporation. In politics he is a Republican, and 
a member of the executive committee of the Berk- 
shire Republican Club. In college he was a 
member of the Chi Psi and the Phi Beta Kappa 
fraternities. Mr. Hawkins was married October 
7, 1891, to Miss Helen A. Rich, of Brooklyn, N.Y. 



HARDEN, Joseph Orlix, of Somerville, treas- 
urer of Middlesex County, was born in ISlandford, 
Hampden County, July 8, 1847, youngest son of 
Elizur B. and Lucinda E. (Simmons) Hayden. 
\\'hen a boy, his father, who was a schoolmaster, 
removed to Granville, and became a farmer of 
comfortable means. Mr. Hayden attended the 
district school, and afterwards the Granville Acad- 
emy and the High School in Chicopee. At the 
age of seventeen he went West, and acted as clerk 
in a law. real estate, and insurance office in Minne- 
apolis. Minn., for two years, leaving the position to 
become manager and part owner of the Star, a 
newspaper printed in Minneapolis. Disposing of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



39: 



ills interest in tlie concern, lie returned to the East, 
.ind in the autumn of 1868 became connected with 
a wholesale house in Boston, making his home in 
Somerville. After a year in this business he re- 
turned to newspaper work, holding the position of 
cashier and treasurer of the Times Publishing 
Company, a corporation printing the daily and 
Sunday Times, where he remained for seven years. 
In 1S76 he purchased the Somerville //•'///v/i^/, at 
that time a small weekly paper, and by wise busi- 
ness policy and careful management he has made 
it a leading suburban paper in Massachusetts. 
In 1891 the Somerville Journal Company was or- 
ganized, and he became manager and treasurer of 
it. Mr. Hayden was first elected treasurer of Mid- 
dlese.x County in 1885, and has since held the 
position through repeated re-elections. In Somer- 
ville he has held manv offices of responsibility and 
trust. In 1882 he became president of the Somer- 
ville Mystic Water Board, serving in that position 
until 1890 : and to his energy and persistence is 
largel)' due the introduction of the high service 
system which the city now enjoys. When the 
-Somerville Improvement -Society was formed, he 




J. O. HAYDEN. 



was chosen president of that organization. Dur- 
ing his term of office the association placed me- 
morial tablets upon historic spots within the city 



limits. He is now president of the Somerville 
National Bank, a trustee of the Somerville Sav- 
ings Bank, and a trustee of the Somerville Hospi- 
tal Association. From 1886 until 189 1 he was 
treasurer of the Somerville Central Club, and 
froin 1 89 1 until 1894 was treasurer of the Subur- 
ban Press Association. He is now president of 
the latter association, and is also treasurer of the 
Massachusetts Republican Editorial .\ssociation. 
He is a member of John Abbot Lodge, Free 
Masons, Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, and 
Orient Council, R. & S. M., is secretary of the 
Prospect Council, .\merican Legion of Honor, 
and a member of the Manomet Club. He was 
married in 1870 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Pond, of 
Somerville. 

HIGGINS, George Cleaveland, of Lynn, con- 
veyancer and trustee of estates, ex-mayor of the 
city, was born in Orleans, November 19, 1845, 
son of Jonathan and Mary ( Doane) Higgins. He 
is of early Cape Cod stock. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native town. Coming to 
Lynn in 1862, at the age of si.xteen, he learned 
the trade of morocco dresser in the factory of 
Pevear & Co. In 1864 he enlisted in Company 
D, Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts \'olunteers, 
and went with the regiment on its third campaign 
in Maryland. At the end of this service he re- 
turned to his trade, and followed its various 
branches, ser\ing several years as foreman, until 
1883, when he became a book-keeper and sales- 
man in the Boston leather house of H. A. Pe\ear 
iV- Sons. Here he remained until 1892, since 
which time he has been engaged in conveyancing, 
probate business, and the care of estates. His 
connection with municipal affairs began in the 
early eighties. He was a member of the Common 
Council in 1881-82-83, serving on important 
committees, including those on claims and drain- 
age, and was elected mayor for the term of 1888. 
In 1893 and 1894 he represented the Nineteenth 
Esse.x District in the State Legislature, serving in 
that body on the committees on probate and in- 
sohency and on rules both sessions, and as clerk 
of the committee on liquor law in 1894. He has 
served some time on the Board of Overseers of 
the Poor of Lynn, and was its chairman in 1893. 
He is in politics a stanch Republican, and has 
for a long period been connected with the Lynn 
Republican city committee. He is a member of 
General Lander Post, No. 5, of the (hand .Army 



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of the Republic ; is a Royal Arch Mason, Sutton 
Chapter, and member of the Mt. Carmel Lodge; 
and an Odd l-cllow. member of the Trovidence 




CEO, C. HICGINS. 

Lodge. As a member of the Lynn Board of 
Trade, he is interested in numerous movements 
for the welfare of the city. Mr. Higgins was 
married on the ist of January, 1868, to Miss 
Ellen S. Irving, a native of Waterville, Me. They 
have three children: Arthur J., George Henry, 
and Mabel C. Higgins. 



HILL, Don Gleason, of Dedham, member of 
the bar and town clerk of Dedham, was born in 
Medway, July 12, 1847, son of (ieorge and Sylvia 
(Grout) Hill. He traces back to first settlers of 
Rhode Island : Thomas Angel (who came with 
Roger Williams), Christopher Smith, Roger Mowry, 
John Field, Thomas Olney, Thomas Barnes, and 
Nicholas Phillips : to early settlers of the Massa- 
chusetts Colony : Captain John Grout, Edward 
Dix, John Barnard, John Putnam, through Thomas 
and Ann (Carrj Putnam of witchcraft memory, Ed- 
ward Holyoke, George Carr, l'',dward Elmer, who 
went with the Rev. Thomas Hooker's company to 
settle Hartford, and James Hamlin; and to Hugh 
Calkins, of Gloucester, but e;irl)- in the I'hnioutli 



Colony. He was educated in Wilbraham Acad- 
emy and at Amherst College, where he spent two 
years in the class of 1869. Then he entered the 
law school of the LTniversity of Albany, from 
which he received his degree of LL.B. in May, 
1870, and was admitted to the New York bar 
the same year. Returning to Medway, he read 
further in the office of Charles H. Deans ; and in 
June, 1S71, removing to Dedham, he entered the 
office of the late Hon. Waldo Colburn, with whom 
he remained until the latter was elevated to the 
Superior Bench (in June, 1875). He was admitted 
to the Massachusetts bar in September, 1871. 
In October, 1875, he formed a law partnership 
with Charles A. Mackintosh, another of Judge 
Colburn"s students, under the firm name of Hill 
& Mackintosh, which continued about ten years, 
since which time he has practised alone, devoted 
mostly to probate law and conveyancing. He has 
been attorney for the Dedham Institution for 
Savings for nearly twenty years, and some time 
attorney for the Dedham Co-operative Bank, the 
Norwood Co-operative Bank, and the Braintree 
Savings Bank. He is also a trustee of the Ded- 
ham Institution for Savings and a director of the 
Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He 
has held the position of town clerk of Dedham 
since 1880, and has served the town in various 
other capacities, during several years member of 
the boards of selectmen, assessors, overseers of 
the poor and health, a trustee of the Dedham 
Public Library, serving as a member of book com- 
mittees, and a member of the committee appointed 
to distribute the income of the Hannah Shuttle- 
worth Fund for the relief of the needy poor ever 
since it was bequeathed to the town in 1886. He 
is much given to antiquarian pursuits, and has 
published a number of valuable volumes of ancient 
records, the list embracing the following: (i) 
" The Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 
and Intentions of Marriage in the Town of Ded- 
ham, 1633-1845," pp. 286 (Dedham, 1886); (2) 
"The Record of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 
and Admissions to the Church and Dismissals 
therefrom, transcribed from the Church Records 
in the Town of Dedham, Mass., 1638-1845, with 
Epitaphs in the Cemeteries," pp. 347 (Dedham, 
1884); (3) "The Early Records of the Town of 
Dedham, Mass., 1636-1659," illustrated, pp. .\vi, 
237 (Dedham, 1S93); (4) "An Alphabetical Ab- 
stract of the Record of Births in the Town of 
Dedham, Mass., 1844-1890," pp. 206 (Dedham, 



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1894); (5) "Tlie Early Records of the Town of 
Dedhain, Mass., 1 659-1 673, with Appendi.x con- 
taining Transcript from the Massachusetts State 
.Archives," and from the General Court Records 
1635-1673 and a list of Deputies to the General 
(.'ourt prior to 1696, pp. 304 (1894) ; (6) " An 
Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Deaths in 
the Town of Dedham, Mass., 1844-1890," 217 pp. 
(1895). Mr. Hill's careful and accurate work in 
these transcripts of records hitherto inaccessible 
to most investigators, to which he has added 
admirable introductions and indices, has been 
warmly connnended, especially by historical and 
literary periodicals, which have given them exten- 
sive review. Special reference has also been 
made to his work in the report of the Massa- 
chusetts State commissioner on public records of 
parishes, towns, and counties. Mr. Hill is now 
president of the Dedham Historical Society and 
member of the council of the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society, member of the Ameri- 
can Historical Association, and corresponding 
member of the Worcester Society of Antiquity 
and of the \^'estern Reserve Historical Society. 



to Miss Carrie Louisa Luce, of Dedham. They 
have six children : Carrie Frances, Helen Florence, 
Don Gleason, Jr., Maria Louisa, Alice Laura, and 
Geor£;e Hill. 




DON GLEASON HILL. 

He received the honorary degree of A.^L from 
.\mherst College in 1894. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He was married in December, 1876, 



HILL, AViLLLAM, of Easthampton, proprietor of 
Hill's ALansion House, was born in Charlton, 
Worcester County, June 12, 1821, son of Hanson 
and Polly (Clemans) Hill. At the age of seven 
he was bound out to a Connecticut farmer for 
seven years, the conditions being his board and 
clothes with twenty-five cents in money per year. 
He had little regular schooling, and acquired his 
education through observation, experience, and 
reading after reaching manhood. From the age 
of fourteen to eighteen he worked in a boarding- 
house, and learned to cook. Then he started out 
to look for a better place, and secured a position 
as cook at the hotel in East Douglas. At this 
trade he worked for a year. His next experience 
was as a clerk in a country store at Webster for 
two years. From here he went into a large 
boarding-house, where he was employed a number 
of years. In 1852 he made his first venture in 
the hotel business, leasing the Nonotuck Hotel in 
Northampton for a year. At the end of the lease 
he retired, and became agent at the railroad station. 
In 1859 he made his second venture, leasing the 
famous old Mansion House in Northampton, which 
dated from 1827 and stood where the Catholic 
church now- stands ; and since that time with the 
exception of a few months he has been continu- 
ously in hotel life. He kept the Mansion House 
for ten years, which period he recalls as the most 
interesting in his long career. The Supreme 
Court then held about three sessions each year 
in Northampton, and at his house the judges 
and many distinguished men of the bar stopped. 
Among his guests were numbered Chief Justice 
Bigelow, E. Rockwood Hoar, Dewey, Chapman, 
Charles Allen, Rockwell, Vose, Devens ; Governors 
Andrew, Bullock, and Clafiin, and Thomas Tal- 
bot, who afterwards became governor ; Presidents 
llarnard of Columbia College and Strong of 
Princeton ; Professors Peirce and Agassiz of Har- 
vard and Loomis of Yale ; Martin \'an Buren, 
Theodore Parker, Henry Ward Beecher, and many 
others of like prominence and fame. From North- 
ampton Mr. Hill went to Easthampton, in April, 
1870, and took the direction of the hotel, since 
known as Hill's Mansion House. Here he was 
established till 1886, taking at the same time an 



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active and inriuenlial part as a citizen in town 
affairs. He was president of tiie Village Improve- 
ment Societ)- for twelve years, was moderator of 
town meetings for nine years, a justice of the 
peace by appointment of Governor Rice. He 
also kept other hotels in other places during part 
of this period : the Creighton House in Boston 
four years, the Hotel Warwick in Springfield two 
years, the Strickland House, New Britain, Conn., 
one year. Subsequently he built the Norwood 
Hotel in Northampton, and kept it four months, 
then sold out to Henry F. Barnard, and built the 
new hotel for Dwight L. Moodv at Northfield, 




WILLIAM HILL. 

which he kept for a year. In iSS6 he leased the 
Plympton Hotel property at Watch Hill, R.I., and 
remodelled the three houses there, the Plympton. 
Bay ^'iew, and 1 )ickens. into one large establish- 
ment, which, as the Plympton Hotel and Annexes, 
he is now conducting in connection with the Hill 
lyfansion House at Easthampton. to which he re- 
turned in October, 1893. Mr. Hill has success- 
fully solved the problem of how to run a country 
hotel without a bar, and prosper. From 1870 to 
1886 he had in his Hill's Afansion House more 
than one thousand Williston Seminary students; 
and he has probably furnished more class suppers 
than any other hotel man in New England, but 



nc\er with a drop of wine on the table. He has 
never used tobacco, or been before or behind any 
bar to drink a glass of into.xicating liquor. He 
has been a pronounced Prohibitionist from Dr. 
Jewett's day. and has lost some trade and suffered 
some persecution on account of his principles. At 
one time, while landlord of the Mansion House at 
Northampton, upw^ards of a hundred trees on his 
estate were girdled and ruined by some person or 
persons incited to this wanton act by his efforts 
to break up the illegal sale of liquor in the town. 
But in the long run he has prospered, and made 
his hotels popular. At Easthampton one of his 
most interesting experiences was the entertain- 
ment of Henry Ward Beecher and the hitter's 
large party of supporting friends on the occasion 
of his notable vacation trip after the close of his 
great trial in 1875. In politics Mr. Hill has 
always been a Republican. He was married in 
1845 to Miss Clarissa M. Richards, of Springfield. 
They have had six children : ^^■illiam R., Charles 
H.. Clara M., Charles F., Thomas R., and Willie 
Hill, of whom only Thomas R. is now livuig. 



HILTON, George Whitkfiei.d, M.I)., of Low- 
ell, is a native of Maine, born in South Parsons- 
field, York County, August 9, 1839, son of George 
and Abigail (Ricker) Hilton. He is of English 
ancestry on both sides. He was reared on a farm, 
and educated in the common schools and local 
academy. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil 
War, in August, 1861, he enlisted in the Eighth 
Maine Reghnent of infantry for the term of three 
years. For two years he was on detached service 
as acting hospital steward in the United States 
general hospital at Beaufort, S.C.; also on the 
Cnited States hospital boat, the steamer "Ma- 
tilda," stationed at Bermuda Hundred on the 
James River, receiving the sick and wounded 
from the front and transferring them to Fort Mon- 
roe. His duties here were to prepare the medi- 
cines prescribed by the surgeon in charge, assist in 
surgical operations, and to see that the sick and 
wounded were properly cared for. He was mus- 
tered out, September, 1864, at the close of his 
term. Soon after he received from the Secretary 
of War the appointment of hospital steward in 
the United States regular army, but declined to 
serve. It was while in the army hospital service 
that he laid the foundation for his medical edu- 
cation ; and after his return to civil life he further 



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pursued his studies, hut wns ohlified to defer 
entering college b)' hick of means. In October. 
1869, he moved with his family to Chicago, HI., 
and in 1S75 was enabled to enter the Hahnemann 
Medical (rdlege. Graduating in February, 1S77, 
he immediately began the practice of his profes- 
sion in Chicago, where he remained till Xovember. 
188 1, when he returned East, and established 
himself in Lowell. In January, iSgi, while en- 
gaged in practice there, he first announced to the 
public his discovery of the remedy widely known 
as Dr. Hilton's Specific, No. 3, which has made 
him famous. He is a member of Ladd and Whit- 




C. W. HILTON. 

ney Post, No. 185, Grand Army of the Republic; of 
the Oberlin Lodge, Order of Odd Fellows. No. 28 ; 
and of the Country and Highland clubs of Lowell. 
He was married December 3, 1865, to Miss Mary 
E. McCammon, daughter of David and \\lnnefred 
(Smith) McCammon, of Plymouth. They ha\e 
three children: Jennie (now Mrs. C. F. Haniblett. 
of Lowell), Grace, and Maud Hilton. 



HODGES, William Alle.v. of (^ui""^}'- mayor 
of the city 1894, is a native of Petersham, born 
May 15, 1834, son of Jerry and Mary Simpkins 
(Tucker) Hodges. On both sides he descends 



from old I'lymouth County families. His paternal 
ancestor, William Hodges, settled in what is now 
Taunton about the year 1 640, and died there 
April 2, 1654. He was a land proprietor, and 
prominent in local affairs. Hi.s two sons, John 
and Henry, were also identified with Taunton, 
and are mentioned as proprietors of land there in 
1675. John married Elizabeth Macv in 1672; 
and of their numerous children John, the eldest, 
born in 1673, became a resident of Norton. His 
son Fxlmund had thirteen children, and li\ed all 
his life in Norton. Edmund's son, Tisdale, born 
in 1753, was a captain of troopers. He married 
Naomi Hodges, daughter of Captain Joseph 
Hodges, of Norton, who was killed in an Indian 
fight near Fort Schuyler in the French War. 
During his latter years he moved to Petersham. 
He had seven sons, all of whom were given an 
education above the average of those days, several 
of them being sent to college. His son Jerry, the 
father of William A. Hodges, was born in Norton 
in 1787. received an excellent education, and was 
fitted for the medical profession. He held a com- 
mission some time as surgeon's mate in the United 
States army, and was recognized as a man of 
marked ability. He died in 1858. William 
.\. Hodges' paternal great-grandfather, Samuel 
Tucker, was one of the first settlers of Milton. 
Mr. Hodges was the tenth in a family of eleven 
children. He was educated in the common schools 
of Petersham and at Milton Academy. At the 
age of fourteen he started out for himself, and, 
after some time spent at work in Boston, be- 
came an apprentice in Milton, serving three years 
at the trade of a baker. Thereafter he worked as 
journevman in Milton. Roxbury, and other places 
until 1858, when he went to California. He re- 
mained two years on the Pacific coast, engaged in 
mining and also working at his trade, and then 
returned to Massachusetts and to the shop of one 
of his former employers in Roxbury. Two years 
later he journeyed West in search of a promising 
place in which to locate. .After spending five 
months in McGregor, Iowa, however, he returned 
East, and again engaged with iiis former em- 
ployers in Ro.xbury. In May, 1866, he moved to 
Quincy, and purchased an interest in the baking 
business established in the shop which he still 
occupies. In the autumn of 1867 he became sole 
proprietor of the establishment, and in course of 
time considerably enlarged his premises and 
greatly increased the business. During his resi- 



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dunce in Quincy he has been a pubhc-spirited 
citizen and prominent in its affairs. In 1872 he 
was first elected a selectman of the town, and the 
next year was made chairman of the board. In 
1874 he was returned without opposition. A few 
weeks after this election he resigned the office, in- 
tending to devote himself exclusively to his pri- 
vate business, but in the autumn following he 
was nominated by the Democrats for representa- 
tive in the Legislature, and was elected to that 
position. The next spring (1875) he was again 
elected a selectman of Quincy. In 1876 he was 
an alternate delegate to the National Democratic 



f9^ »*»»^ 



^ 

a 







WM. A. HODGES. 

Convention at St. Louis, and the autumn of that 
year was nominated for State senator by the 
Democrats of the First Norfolk District. The 
district, however, was so strongly Republican that 
tliere was no hope of election, although he made 
a good run. In 1877 he was returned to the 
Board of Selectmen by a large majority, and be- 
came its chairman. In April, 1878, in a by-elec- 
tion for senator, occasioned by the death of Mr. 
liarker, senator-elect, he was again the Democratic 
candidate, and this time was successful. In 1S79 
he was not a candidate for selectman ; but in the 
autumn of that year he was given the compliment- 
ary nomination for executive councillor by the 



Democrats of the Second Councillor District, over- 
whelmingly Republican. In :88o-8i he again 
served as selectman and chairman of the board, 
in 1880 also receiving the complimentary nomina- 
tion for county commissioner from his party, and 
in 188 1 nominated for treasurer and receiver-gen- 
eral on the Democratic State ticket. In 1882 he 
was renominated for State treasurer. In 1883 
he was again put in the field as the Democratic 
candidate for senator from his district, and was 
elected after a spirited canvas. In 1S86-87-88, 
the last three years of town government in Quincy, 
he served as selectman, assessor, and overseer of 
the poor. He was elected mayor of the city in the 
elections of 1893 and 1894. He is a prominent 
Mason, member of the Rural Lodge of Quincy, 
of St. Stephen's Lodge of Royal Arch Masons, 
and of the Boston Commandery. He was married 
September 15, 1868, to Miss Annie M. Wilson, 
daughter of George F. and Maria (Stetson) \\'il- 
son, of Quincy. They have three sons and a 
daughter now living : Francis Mason, Mabel Stet- 
son, Edward Tisdale Quincy, and ^^'illard Allan 
Hodges. 

HOLBROOK, \ViLi.i.\M Edward, M.I)., of 
Lynn, was born in Palmer, Hampden County, 
July 24, 1852, son of Dr. William and Clara 
(Belknap) Holbrook. His first ancestor in this 
country was Thomas Holbrook, who came from 
Brantry, England, in 1635. His great-great- 
grandfather, first of Bellingham, and afterward of 
Sturbridge, served as lieutenant in the Revolution. 
His grandfather was Major-General Erasmus 
Holbrook of the State Militia : and his father, 
William Holbrook, M.D., born in Sturbridge June 
23, 1823, was surgeon of the Eighteenth Massa- 
chusetts Regiment in the Civil War, has held the 
position of medical examiner ever since the es- 
tablishment of that office, and has been in prac- 
tice forty-eight \'ears. His mother and both of 
his maternal grandparents, Captain Peter and 
Anna (Marsh) Belknap, were also all natives of 
Sturbridge. William E. attended Monson Acad- 
emy, where he was fitted for college, graduating in 
1872, entered Amherst and graduated in the class 
of 1876, and completed his study for his profes- 
sion at the Harvard Medical School, graduating 
therefrom in 1879. He began practice in his 
native town in 1879, soon after finishing his col- 
lege course. He built up a good practice there, 
but, wishing a larger field, came to Lynn in Octo- 



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399 



ber, 1885 
herud to 
general pr 



In his practice he lias 
the reguhir school. While 
actice, his tastes are sur"ical. 



always acl- 
doing a 
\\'hen he 




went with the troops to Fortress Monroe, and 
there served until he was detailed by (General liut- 
ler to a post in New York City as medical exam- 
iner of applicants for enlistment. Subsequently 
he was transferred to the navy, and served some 
time on the United States steamer " Xipsic,"' then 
in charge of the hospital at New Orleans. After 
the close of hostilities he remained in the ser\ice 
by special request of his superior officers, and 
cruised for two years in Southern waters. When 
his term expired, he was holding the post of assist- 
ant port physician, lie established himself in 
Canton in May, 1868, and was from that time en- 
gaged in an extensive general practice, as physi- 
cian and surgeon, till his death. He held the 
position of medical examiner for the P'ifth Nor- 
folk District for eighteen years, being in his third 
term when he died ; and was pension examiner for 
three years, under appointment of President Har- 
rison. In town affairs he was active and influen- 
tial, and was called to numerous positions of 
responsibility, among them that of member of the 
Board of Commissioners originally appointed to 
secure a supply of pure water for the town. He 



W. E. HOLBROOK. 

came to Lynn, he knew only one familv, and at 
first it was a hard struggle ; but he has succeeded 
in establishing an extensive and lucrative practice. 
Dr. Holbrook is a member of the ]\Iassachusetts 
Medical Society and of the Harvard Alumni As- 
sociation. In politics he is a Republican. He is 
unmarried. 

HOLMES, Alexaxder Reep, M.I)., of Can- 
ton, was born in New Bedford, July 16, 1826, son 
of the Rev. Sylvester and PLsther Holmes : died in 
Canton, November 11, 1894. His paternal grand- 
mother was a descendant of " Silver-headed " 
Thomas Clark, of Plymouth, one of the " May- 
flower " company, so called from the silver plate 
which covered his head after he had been scalped 
by the Indians. Dr. Holmes was educated in 
public schools and academy, and was fitted for his 
profession at the Pennsylvania Medical University, 
where he was graduated in 1849. He first prac- 
tised in his native place, where he remained until 
the outbreak of the Civil War, when he was 
among the first to enlist for service. Joining the 
Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, he 




A. R. HOLMES. 



was connected with the Masonic order, a member 
of Adoniram Chapter of New Bedford and of Sut- 
ton Commandery Knights Templar; was an early 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



member of the Grand Army of the RepubHc, com- 
mander of Post 94 for five years; a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Norfolk 
Medical Society : and of the Norfolk Club. In 
politics he was an active Republican. He was 
regarded as a surgeon of marked ability and a 
skilful physician ; and in his practice, it has been 
said. •' he was more than the physician : he was 
the kind friend, the genial and hearty presence." 
Dr. Holmes married December 14. 1858, Mrs. 
Harriet F. Newhall, born Lindsey, of Prescott. 
They had three children, one only of whom is now 
living : Grace Lindsev Holmes. 



prisoner (September 30), and sent to Libby Prison. 
,\fter five days' retention here he was removed to 
Salisbury, N.C., thence to Danville, and thence to 
Libby Prison again, as hostage, January 15. 
February 22, 1S65, he was paroled, and declared 
exchanged b\* order of the War Department in 
March. After a month's leave of absence he re- 
turned to active service, joining his regiment at 
Petersburg, Va. Reaching Alexandria Tune 10, 
he served from that time until he was mustered 
out, as inspector of the Second Division, Ninth 
Army Corps. Returning to business, he became 
connected with the large wholesale house of Dan- 



HORTON, Everett Southworth, of .\ttle- 
borough, manufacturer, is a native of Attle- 
borough, born June 15, 1836, son of Gideon M. 
and Mary S. (Smith) Horton. His great-grand- 
father, Lieutenant James Horton, born 17 41, died 
1H33, was a soldier of the Revolution. He was 
educated in the common schools and at the old 
-Attleborough .\cademy. His youth was spent on 
his father's farm and in the latter's store, of which 
he subsequently became the owner. \\'hen the 
Civil War broke out, he was here engaged ; and, 
early enlisting, he made a brilliant record, cover- 
ing the entire period of hostilities. He went out 
as second lieutenant of Company C, Forty-seventh 
Regiment, Massachusetts \'olunteers, having en- 
listed September 12, 1862, for the term of nine 
months. His regiment was assigned to the Gulf 
Department under General Banks, and, reaching 
New Orleans in December, was detailed to the 
First Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army 
C'orps. On February 2, 1863, he was commis- 
sioned captain ; and this rank he held until the 
regiment was mustered out. Four weeks after his 
return home he re-enlisted (November 14, 1863) 
for the term of three years in the Fifty-eighth 
Regiment. He was again commissioned second 
lieutenant, and also recruiting officer for the regi- 
ment. In February following (1864) he was com- 
missioned captain of Company C, same regiment. 
He was in the thickest of the battles of the Wil- 
derness, Spottsylvania, Tolopamoy Creek, Gaines's 
Mills, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, 
Poplar Spring, Church, and White Plains. On 
the 8th of August he was promoted to be major, 
and mustered in on the 25th, and six days later 
was commissioned lieutenant colonel : but before 
he was mustered into this office he was taken 




E, s. horton. 

iels, Cornell. & Co.. of Providence. R.l. The 
next fourteen vears were spent here : and then he 
embarked in the manufacture of jewelr}' in Attle- 
borough, under the firm name of Horton, .\ngell, 
& Co., in which he has since been engaged. He 
is also president of the Attleborough Savings and 
Loan Association and vice-president of the Attle- 
borough Gas Light Company. He has held nu- 
merous local offices, — selectman, assessor, member 
of the Board of Health, — is now (1895) chairman 
of the Board of -Selectmen, a commissioner of 
the sinking fund, president of the trustees of the 
Richardson School Fund, and president of the 
Attleborough Free Public Librarv : and he has 



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401 



rcprcsuiUfd the town and the district in liuth 
branches of the Legishiturc. When a member of 
the House in his first term, 1891, he served on 
the committee on public charitable institutions, 
and during his second term, 1892, was a member 
of the committee on railroads. In the Senate, 
1893. he was chairman of the committee on roads 
and bridges, and member of those on parishes 
and religious societies, and on rapid transit. He 
is prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, 
a ciiarter member of William A. Streeter Post, 
No. 145, its commander for four terms, 1872-73, 
i88r, and 1892, and a delegate to the national 
encampment at San Francisco, Columbus, Ohio, 
Detroit, Mich., Washington, D.C, and Pittsburg, 
Penna. He is also a member of the Massachusetts 
Commandery, Military Order Loyal Legion of the 
United States, and president of the Rhode Lsland 
United States Veteran Association. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the 
Royal Arcanum, and of the Order of United 
Workmen. In politics he has been always a Re- 
publican, on town committees for a long period, 
and president of the local Republican Club for 
ten years. He is also a member of the Pomham 
Club of Providence, R.I. Major Horton was first 
married June 12, 1861, to Miss Mary Ann Car- 
penter. She died in 1871, leaving one child: 
Mary Edith Horton (born July 22, 1862). He 
married second, in 1873, Miss Eliza I). Freemont. 
They have one child : Gertie E. Horton inborn 
May 29, 1876). 



I\'ERS, Samuel, of New Bedford, treasurer of 
the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company, 
and of other corporations, was born in Dedham, 
June 14, 1828, son of Samuel and Caroline (Ful- 
ler) Ivers. He was the fourth of a family of si.K 
children, one girl and five boys, all of whom 
reached adult age, and became active in affairs. 
He was educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive town, and also in the Washington Grammar 
School of Roxbury, to which place his parents 
moved during his boyhood. Upon leaving the 
Washington School at about the age of si.\teen, 
when the family again moved, this time to Cam- 
bridge, he entered the dry-goods store of his 
eldest brother, of the firm of Ivers & Campbell, 
then on Hanover Street, Poston, to learn that 
business. After remaining here about a year, 
when the firm sold out, he came to New Bedford, 



and was for another year a clerk in the dry-goods 
store of a Mr. Shaw. Then he engaged as clerk 
with Xehemiah Leonard, in the sperm and whale 
oil commission and candle manufacturing busi- 
ness. A few years later he was taken into part- 
nership, the firm name becoming N. Leonard 
&: Co. ; and this association held till the death of 
Mr. Leonard in 1869. For some time previous to 
Mr. Leonard's death Mr. Ivers had practically the 
sole charge of the business on account of the 
feeble health of the former ; and he continued it 
alone for several years after. He was also exec- 
utor and trustee of the estate of Mr. Leonard, 




SAMUEL IVERS. 

which was valued at upwards of a hundred thou- 
sand dollars. In 1880 Mr. Ivers, with three 
others, took up the .Southern Massachusetts terri- 
tor}', and organized the Southern Massachusetts 
Telephone Company, with a capital of thirty 
thousand, increased with the increase of the busi- 
ness from time to time until it reached six hun- 
dred thousand dollars, of which he was made 
treasurer and clerk. About the same time he was 
one of the organizers of the Williams Manufactur- 
ing Company, with a capital of two hundred thou- 
sand dollars, and one of a number who organized 
the New Bedford Opera House Company, with a 
capital of fifty thousand dollars, and built the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Opera House, becoming treasurer and clerk of 
both of these corporations. .Subsequently he was 
elected treasurer and clerk of the Clark's Cove 
Guano Company, capital between seven and eight 
hundred thousand dollars. After four or five 
years' service in these several positions he re- 
signed the treasurership of the Guano Company, 
and soon after that of the Williams Manufacturing 
Company, the business of the Telephone Com- 
pany having increased to such an extent that he 
could not comfortably attend to the duties of all 
of them. He is still treasurer and clerk of the 
Telephone and of the Opera House companies, 
treasurer of several smaller enterprises, director 
of the several companies of which he is and has 
been treasurer, trustee of several estates, and 
trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank, of which 
he was one of the original incorporators. In pol- 
itics he is and always has been a Republican, at 
times more interested in political movements than 
at others, especially when local matters of impor- 
tance are issues. He has been a member of the 
Republican city committee at different times, 
and its chairman or treasurer a number of terms. 
He has held a few local offices ; and at one time, 
during his absence from home, and without his 
knowledge, he was nominated for representative 
in the Legislature, 'i'hat he was not elected gave 
him mucli gratification, as he has always preferred 
business to public station. He has been asked 
repeatedly to be a candidate for Common Coun- 
cil, the Board of Aldermen, and for the mayoralty 
but has in all cases positi\-ely declined. He has 
been long prominent in the North Congregational 
Church, and was treasurer of the Sunday-school 
for about fifteen years. He is a member of the 
Wamsutta Club, one of the few who started and or- 
ganized it, and its treasurer for ten or fifteen years ; 
and he is a member of the New ISedford Board of 
Trade. He was married first in 1851 to Miss 
Jane Frances Tobey, daughter of Jonathan Tobey, 
who died early in 1853 ; and second, late in 1851^, 
to Miss Flizabeth Perkins, daughter of John Per- 
kins. She died in 1885. By his first wife he had 
a daughter, Ella Frances Ivers, who is still living: 
and, by his second wife, a daughter. Lizzie Per- 
kins Ivers, who died October, 188:;. 



eldest son of Stafford and Harriet (Potter) faques. 
He is descended from Captain J. Jaques, one of 
three brothers who came from France to this 




j.\QUES, Alden Potter, of Haverhill, a large 
holder of Haverhill real estate, was born in 
Maine, in the town of Bowdoiu, March 4. 1835. 



ALDEN P. JAQUES. 

country in the early colonial daj-s, and settled in 
Newbury, .Mass. Subsequently Captain J. was 
one of the first settlers of Harpswell, .Me., becom- 
ing a large holder of land there. Fur several 
jears he was master of a merchant ship, and was 
finally lost at sea. Isaac Jaques, the grandfather 
of Alden P., removed from Harpswell to Bowdoin, 
and became a prominent citizen. .Alden P. was 
the oldest of a family of three sons and one 
daughter. He spent his boyhood on the farm, 
attending the public schools during the three 
winter months of each year. His father was a 
contractor and builder ; and, being away from 
home much of the time, the farm was in the son's 
hands from the time he was old enough to con- 
duct it until he readied the age of eighteen. 
Then he struck out for himself, and, obtaining a 
situation in Richmond, Me., as a ship-joiner, he 
followed that trade until the financial panic and 
depression of 1857, when, ship-building becoming 
inacti\-e, he turned his attention to house carpen- 
tering. In 185S he purchased a farm in Bowdoin, 
Me., and engaged in general farming. He re- 
mained there. howe\er, but about a year, in 1S59 



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403 



removing to Haxcrhill. aiul lulurning to his old 
trade of carpentering. IJeing a skilful workman, 
he found steady employment in the finer grades of 
finishing, and continued in this occupation for 
three years, his last work at the trade being on 
the City Hall. I'hen he took up shoe manufactur- 
ing. He formed a partnership with his brother-in- 
law, Randall A. Potter, under the lirni name of 
Potter & Jaques, and engaged actively in the in- 
dustrv. In 1S70, in compan)' with John IS. 
Nichols, he purchased the large wooden building 
then standing on Washington .Street, known as 
the Coffin Block, and the Whipple House adjoin- 
ing, and three years later began here an enter- 
prise which soon revolutionized the shoe industry 
in Haverhill, — the application of steam power in 
shoeniaking. He was also the first to succeed in 
making shoes in what is known as a " string 
shop '■ ; and in this, as in the adoption of steam 
to shoe manufacture, he was followed by others 
until it became the prevailing method. Mr. 
Jaques continued in the shoe manufacturing busi- 
ness until the disastrous fire of Februarj-, 1882, 
which destroyed his factory and other buildings. 
Then he became more extensively interested in 
real estate, erecting, in place of the property swept 
away by the fire, more substantial structures, and 
turned his attention to other enterprises. Since 
about i8go he has been extensively and very 
profitably engaged in gold-mining in Colorado. 
He has always taken a warm interest in Haver- 
hill affairs, and has served the city in various 
positions. He was for two terms a member of 
the School Board; in 1885 and 1886 an alder- 
man; in 1887 and 1888 a member of the lower 
house of the Legislature for Haverhill, serving 
in that body on important committees, in his first 
term a member also of the special committee ap- 
pointed to represent the Commonwealth at the 
centennial celebration of the signing of the Na- 
tional Constitution at Philadelphia: and in 1890 
a member of the State Senate, serving that term 
as chairman of the State House committee, chair- 
man of the committee on woman suffrage, and 
member of the connnittees on county affairs and 
criminal costs, and on libraries. In politics he 
is an earnest Republican, and has contributed 
generously, in personal work and in contribution, 
to campaign funds for the advancement f>f liis 
party. He has been long a member of the 
Haverhill Conimandery of Knights Tem|)lar, of 
the Saggahen Lodge, Freemasons, and of the 



Mutual Relief Lodge, ( )dd Fellows. In religious 
faith he is a Congregationalist member of the 
.North Congregational Society. He is ever ready 
to help the needy, and his sterling integrity makes 
his word as good as his bond. Mr. Jaques 
was married first in 1858 to Miss Harriet Carr, 
daughter of John Carr, of Bowdoin, Me., who died 
in 1865: and second, in 1871, to Miss Marcia 
L. .V\-ery, daughtei- of Leonard R. .\very, of New 
Hampton, N.H. They have had one son : Walter 
H. Jaques. 



JENNINGS, .Andrkw Jackshx, of Fall River, 
member of the Bristol bar, is a nati\e of Fall 
River, born .Vugust 2, 1849. son of Andrew M. 
and Olive 1!. iChace) Jennings. He was educated 
in the Fall River public schools, at the English 
and Classical School of Mowry & Gofi' in l'ro\i- 
dence, R.I., and at Brown University, from which 
he graduated with special honors in the class of 
1872. In college he was a good athlete, as well 
as a good scholar, prominent in all athletic sports, 




ANDREW J. JENNINGS. 



captain some time of his class nine, and also of 
the universitv nine. l''oi- two years after gradua- 
tion he was princiinil of the High School of War- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ren, R.I. Then he began his law studies, enter- 
ing the office of the Hon. James M. Morton, in 
Fall River, as a student in July, 1874, and 
the Boston University Law School the following 
January, (iraduating in 1876, he was admitted 
to the bar, and at once began practice in part- 
nership with Judge Morton. This relation con- 
tinued till Mr. Morton's elevation to the Supreme 
Bench in September, 1890. Thereafter he was in 
partnership with John S. Brayton, Jr., for two 
years, and subsequently formed a partnership with 
the son of Judge Morton, under the firm name of 
Jennings & Morton. He gained special promi- 
nence as counsel in association with ex-Governor 
George D. Robinson for the defence in the 
famous ''Lizzie Borden case" in 1892. He has 
been prominent also in public affairs, serving 
three years on the Fall River School Commit- 
tee (1876-79), two years as a representative for 
Fall River in the lower house of the Legislature 
(1878-79), and one year as a senator (1882J, de- 
clining a re-election for a second term. During 
his entire service in the General Court he was 
a member of the committee on the judiciary ; 
and in 1882 was chairman of the joint specia- 
committee on the removal of Judge Day by ad- 
dress. As a legislator, he was effective in de- 
bate and influential in committee work. When 
in the House, he was especially identified with 
the civil damage law, and in the Senate with 
the act prohibiting saloons within certain distance 
of school-houses, which he introduced. He was 
chosen district attorney for the Southern district 
in November, 1894, to fill the une.xpired term of 
the Hon. H. M. Knowlton, elected attorney gen- 
eral of the State. In politics he is a Republican, 
and has for some years spoken regularly from the 
stump during the annual fall campaigns. He 
has also delivered formal addresses on public 
occasions, one of the most notable of this class 
being his memorial oration for the city of Fall 
River on the day of the funeral of General Grant. 
Mr. Jennings is now president of the Young Men's 
Christian Association of Fall River, has been for 
some years a trustee of Brown University, and is 
a member of the University Club, Boston, and the 
Delta Kappa Upsilon, New York. He was mar- 
ried December 25, 1879, to Miss Marion G. Saun- 
ders, daughter of Captain Seth and Nancy I. 
(Bosworth) Saunders, of Warren, R.L They have 
two children : Oliver Saunders and Marion Jen- 
nings. 



JOHXSON, Georgk William, of I'.rookfield, 
ex-member of the Governor's Council, was born in 
Boston, December 27, 1827, son of Samuel and 
Charlotte A. (Howe) Johnson. His father was 
an eminent Boston merchant, at different times 
member of the firms of Brewer & Johnson, John- 
son & Curtis, and J. C. Howe iS: Co., "distin- 
guished," as one who knew him well wrote in an 
obituary notice after his death, " by a singular 
union of shrewd judgment and methodical habits 
of business, with the energy of an impulsive tem- 
perament." "The mercantile history of Boston," 
this writer added, " has furnished few, if anv, 




GEO. W. JOHNSON. 

more worthy specimens of the honorable, liberal. 
Christian merchant." George W. was educated 
in the Chauncy Hall and the Boston Latin schools. 
In his seventeenth year he entered the importing 
and jobbing house of Deane & Davis, Boston, 
and, upon attaining his majority, became a mem- 
ber of the firm, the name being then changed to 
Deane. Davis, & Co., and later to Davis, Johnson, 
& Co. In 1850 this partnership was dissolved, 
Mr. Johnson having accepted a proposition to en- 
gage in the Mediterranean trade ; and soon after 
he sailed for Smyrna and other parts of the Le- 
vant. I'pon his return, however, eight months 
later, he found that the firm with whom he had 
made the connection had become insolvent ; and 



MKN OP' PROGRESS. 



405 



lie was obliged to cliange his |)hiiis. Tlie next 
five years he was abroad the greater part of the 
time, partly for pleasure and partly for business, 
visiting Kngland, China, and South America. In 
April, 1.S56, he went to Brookheld, the home of 
his maternal ancestors, to which he was much at- 
tached, for a temporary residence ; and the follow- 
ing year, marrying there, he made it his iJermaiient 
home. In i860, having concluded to adopt a pro- 
fession, he began the study of law in tlie ottice of 
|. K. dreene, of North Brookfield, and sulise- 
quenlly completed his studies in that of the dis- 
tinguished Boston lawyer, Peleg W. Chandler. 
.\diiiitted to the Suffolk bar in 1S63, he at once 
began practice in Brookfield. To his law busi- 
ness he added that of negotiating loans for East- 
ern capitalists on real estate in Chicago. For a 
while the two branches were conducted together 
comfortabl}- : but in course of time his frequent 
absences from home to attend to Chicago matters 
interfered with his legal practice, and in 1S6S he 
closed the Brookfield otTice, and confined himself 
wholly to his financial operations. In 1870 he en- 
tered the manufacturing field, engaging in shoe 
manufacture in Brookfield, in partnership with 
Levi Davis, under the firm name of Johnson & 
Davis. Two years later the firm name was 
changed to Johnson, Davis, & Forbes. The busi- 
ness was continued till 1878, when, their factory 
being destroyed by fire and the shoe trade being 
in a depressed condition, the partnership was dis- 
solved. Thereupon Mr. Johnson resumed his law 
practice and the Chicago loan business. .\ few 
years later he retired from professional work, and 
has since lived in the enjoyment of a well-earned 
ease. In the local aft'airs of Brookfield he has 
always taken an active part, and he has for many 
years been prominent in State affairs. He was 
chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Brookfield 
and of the School Committee for a long period, 
and he has been one of the trustees of the Mer- 
rick Library since its foundation. In 1868 he 
was a delegate to the National Republican Con- 
vention in Chicago, and twelve \ears later was an 
alternate to the convention which nominated Gar- 
field. He has served in both branches of the 
State Legislature, beginning as a senator for the 
Third Worcester District in 1870, and member of 
the House in 1877 and 1880. In the Senate he 
was a member of the committees on probate and 
chancery, on the library, and on woman suffrage i 
and was especially active in opposing the State 



grant to the old ilartforil \- l''rie Railroad, now 
the .\ew ^'ork .S; New Kngland. In the House 
during his first term he served on the committee 
on finance, and his second term on the same com- 
mittee, also on that on rules and orders, and as 
House chairman of the committee on fisheries. 
In 1877, by appointment of (Governor Rice, he 
became one of the inspectors of the State Primary 
School at Monson ; and, under the act of 1879 or- 
ganizing the Board of State Charities, he was ap- 
pointed a trustee of the .State I'rimar)- and Reform 
schools, and served several years as chairman of 
the board. In 1887 he was a member of the 
E.xecutive Council, and, twice re-elected (for 1888 
and i88g), served the entire length of Governor 
Ames's term in the governorship, taking a leading 
hand in a number of important matters. He was 
one of the principal members of the committee on 
pardons and a member of the special committee 
on the purchase of land and on plans and esti- 
mates for the State House E.\tension. On the 
latter committee his services were especially 
efficient. Owing to the illness of the governor, 
who was one of his associates, and the early re- 
tirement of the other member, the entire work of 
carrying through a number of delicate business 
transactions fell upon him ; and all interested bore 
testimony to his satisfactory conduct of them. 
Every purchase was made without the intervention 
of brokers, thus saving to the State the cost of 
commissions. In 1889 he was a leading candi- 
date in the Republican State con\ention for the 
nomination for lieutenant governor, with the in- 
dorsement of a strong list of supporters, and on 
the first ballot received three hundred and thirty- 
seven votes, a good portion of them cast by Bos- 
ton delegates. But the choice of the convention 
fell on another candidate, and in the campaign 
following he gave his successful competitor the 
heartiest support. In December, 1889, he w-as 
appointed to the State Board of Lunacy and 
Charity, on which he has served to the present 
time, occupying the position of chairman since 
1892. In the presidential election of 1892 he 
was chosen one of the presidential electors, and, 
as a member of the electoral college, cast his vote 
for Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Johnson was mar- 
ried February 24. 1857, to Miss Mary Ellen 
Stowell. daughter of E. C. Stowell, of Chicago. 
They have had eight children, of whom si.x are 
now living : Clara S., George H., .\licc R., Ethel, 
Harold A., and Marion P. Johnson. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fOHN'SOX. Samiki. Allen, of Salem, sheriff 
of Essex County, is a native of Salem, born July 
31, 1847, son of Samuel S. and Elizabeth (Allen) 
Johnson. He is descended on the maternal side 
from Chester Allen, son of one of the first settlers 
of Sturbridge, and Anna Rice, of Kelchertown. 
His father's family was of Stafford's Springs, 
Conn. He was educated in Wisconsin, attending 
the public schools of Ueloit, fitting for college at 
the Beloit College Preparatory School, and taking 
a part of the course at Keloit College as a mem- 
ber of the class of i86g. being obliged to leave 
before completing the full course on account of 




SAMUEL A. JOHNSON. 

failing eyesight. Soon after leaxing college he 
began the study of law in the office of Todd i*v; 
Converse in Beloit, where he spent about a year. 
The next two years were devoted to travel in 
the distant West and in F'urope. Returning to 
Salem in the autumn of 1870, he resumed his 
law studies in the office of the Hon. \\'illiam U. 
Northend, and was admitted to the bar of Essex 
County on October 3, 187 i. He remained in the 
office with Mr. Northend, practising his profes- 
sion, until May, 1872, when he entered into a law 
partnership with Dean Peabody, at that time one 
of the leading attorneys and practitioners of Lynn, 
and since for manv vears clerk of courts for 



Essex County. P-le remained in active practice in 
Lynn until !N[ay, 1S75, and then, on account of 
a severe and prolonged illness, was obliged to 
withdraw from professional work, and to seek 
health and strength in Colorado. Returning in 
July, 1876, to his old home in Salem, instead of 
resuming practice, his physician advising him not 
to attempt it. he took an appointment in Decem- 
ber following as deputy sheriff" ; and this office 
he held, serving much of the time as special 
sheriff", until he assumed the duties of his present 
office of sheriff' of Essex Count v, to which he was 
elected in 1892. He has been a member of the 
Second Corps of Cadets of Salem for t\vent\' 
vears, having enlisted in April, 1874, and has 
passed through the various grades to that of 
major, which office he now holds. He is also an 
active member of numerous fraternal organiza- 
tions : in the Masonic order connected with the 
Essex Lodge, the Washington Royal Arch Chap- 
ter, the Winslow Lewis Commandery, the Sutton 
Grand Lodge of Perfection, all of Salem, and 
the Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston ; 
HI the order of Odd Fellows, member of the 
Essex Lodge and the Naumkeag Encampment : 
in the Ancient Order of United Workmen, mem- 
ber of the John Endicott Lodge ; and in the Im- 
proved C")rder of Red Men, member of the Naum- 
keag I'ribe. In politics Sheriff" Johnson is a 
stanch Republican, but has held no elective of- 
fice except that of sheriff. He was married No- 
vember 17, 1872, to Miss Eliza A. Fitz, daughter 
of Daniel P, Fitz, of Salem, Their children were: 
Nellie Maud and Chester Allen Johnson. Mrs. 
Johnson died February 1, 1S85 ; and he married 
second, October 5, 18S6, Miss Lily J. Shannon, of 
New^ York City. They have one child : Mary 
Hilda Johnson. 



KEITH, Z1B.4 Carv, of Brockton, first mayor 
of that city and its representative in numerous 
other stations, is a native of North Bridgewater, 
which became Brockton in 188 1. born July 13, 
1S42, in the ancestral home of the family built in 
1747. His father, Ziba Keith, was a descendant 
in the fourth generation of Rev. James Keith, 
the first minister m Bridgewater, settled P"ebruary 
.18, 1664, and his mother, Polly (Noyes) Keith, 
was of an early Old Colonv family. He acquired 
his education in the North Bridgewater public 
schools and at the Pierce Academy, Middle- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



407 



bdiough. His business life was bcj;un at eighteen, 
when he became book-keeper and salesman for 
Martin L. Keith, in Boston. Four years were 
spent there, and then in 1864, with Embert How- 
ard as partner, he bought out a general txnuitrv 
store in Canipello, formerly kept by Sidney Pack- 
ard, and started in trade on his own account. 
'I'wo vears later he sold his interest in the store, 
but rebought the ne.xt year (1S67), and from that 
time continued the business with profit until 1883, 
when ho retired. Subsequently he became con- 
nected with banking interests. He was an incor- 
porator of the Campello Co-operative Bank, and 




2IBA C. KEiTH. 



secretary and treasurer of the institution in its 
early days ; an incorporator of the Brockton Sav- 
ings Bank, and later one of the vice-presidents of 
the corporation, which position he still holds ; and 
a director of the Brockton National Bank from 
the time of its incorporation until 1893. when he 
resigned to take the presidency of the Plymouth 
County Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of 
which he is still the head. He is also treasurer 
of the Monarch Rubber Company. Mr. Keith's 
notable public career was begun as a represen- 
tative for North Bridgewater in the State Legis- 
lature of 187s ^"'l 1876. In 1879 he was chosen 
a selectman of his tow-n. In 1881 he was a mem- 



ber of the committee selected by the town to draft 
the city charter, and in 1882 he was made the first 
mayor of the new city. Two years later he was 
re-elected to the mayoralty, and returned the next 
year; was again chosen to serve for 1891, and 
twice re-elected, — for 1892 and 1893. I'nder his 
administration a system of sewerage was provided 
for, and work upon it begun ; the abolishment 
of grade crossing was begun : the construction of 
the City Hall accomplished, and a park commis- 
sion established. For the years 1887 88-89, ^^^ 
served as tax collector. In 1887 and 1888 he 
represented his district in the State Senate, and 
in 1892 was elected a member of the (lovernor's 
Council for service in 1893. Re-elected in 1893 
and in 1894, he is now serving his third term. 
During his first term as a councillor he served 
on the committees on accounts, harbors, and 
public lands, charitable institutions, military af- 
fairs, and railroads. In 1894 he was a member of 
the committees on finance, harbor, and public 
lands, militar\' aftairs, railroads, .State House 
Extension, accounts (chairman); and in 1895 
member of the committees on finance, harbor 
and public lands (chairman), military affairs, rail- 
roads. State House Extension, accounts (chair- 
man). Of Mr. Keith's public service it has been 
said that, " wherever he has been placed, he has 
served to the satisfaction of the great mass of 
citizens, and therefore with honor to himself." 
He is thoroughly identified with Brockton, and by 
his able and energetic leadership has contributed 
much to its prosperity. He is in politics a stead- 
fast Republican, but has considered municipal 
affairs from the point of \ iew of the citizen 
rather than the party man. He is a Freemason, 
member of St. George Lodge and of the Bay State 
Commandery. He was married December 31. 
1865, to Miss Abbie Frances Jackson. 'i'hey 
have one son : William C. Keith. 



KINGM.\N. HosEA, of Bridgewater, member 
of the Plymouth bar, and chairman of the State 
Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, is a native 
of Bridgewater, born .April 11, 1843, son of 
Philip D. and Betsey ( Washburn) Kingman. He 
traces his lineage to Henry Kingman, who settled 
in Weymouth some time about 1636. He was ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Bridgewater, at 
the Bridgewater Academy, at .Appleton .\cademy, 
New Ipswich, N.H., where he was fitted for col- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



lege, and al I Jarlnioutli. He was a student in 
college when the Civil \\'ar broke out, and in the 
summer of 1862, closing his bonks, he joined 




HOSEA KINGMAN, 

the army, enlisting as a private in Company K, 
Third Regiment, Massachusetts \ olunteers. He 
was mustered in on September 22, that year, and 
went with his regiment to Newbern, N.C. Here 
he remained until December, when he was de- 
tailed to duty in the signal service, and was con- 
tinued in this department for the remainder of 
his term, first assigned to Port Royal, S.C., and 
later to Folly Island, Charleston Harbor. Mus- 
tered out on the 2 2d of June, 1863, he returned 
to college, made up his junior year work in his 
senior year, and graduated with his class in 1864. 
Then he began the study of law at Kridgewater 
in the office of William Latham, where he spent 
two years. He was admitted to the bar June 21, 
1866, and at once engaged in practice as a part- 
ner of Mr. Latham, under the firm name of 
Latham lV' Kingman, which relation held until 
187 1, when Mr. Latham retired, and Mr. King- 
man continued alone. He has enjoyed a large 
practice in his profes^ion since he first began ; 
and his time has been very fully occupied with 
professional duty. November 12, 1878. he was 
appointed special justice of the First I )istrict 



Court of Plymouth County, and held this posi- 
tion until July 6, 1885. From ]\L\rch 7, 18S3, to 
January 3, 1887, he was city solicitor of Brockton. 
From 1884 to 1887 he was commissioner of in- 
solvency through repeated elections ; and from 
Januar}-, 1887, to August, 1889, district attorney, 
resigning this office when appointed to the Metro- 
politan Sewerage Commission. He has been 
chairman of the latter body since the begin- 
ning of his service thereon. He is a trustee 
of the Old Colony Safe Deposit and Trust Com- 
pany of Brockton, and trustee of the Bridgewater 
Savings Bank. In 1864 he was a captain in the 
State Militia. He is much interested in historical 
and educational matters, and is a trustee of the 
Plymouth Countv Pilgrim Society and of the 
Bridgewater .Academy. He is prominent also in 
the Masonic and other fraternal organizations, 
having been master of the Fellowship Lodge of 
Brockton three years, district deputy grand mas- 
ter three years, and a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, the Knights of Honor, and the New 
England Order of Protection. His club associa- 
tions are with the LTniversity of PJoston, the Com- 
mercial of Brockton, the Old Colony of Plymouth, 
and the Bridgewater Social Club, of which he is 
president. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. 
Kingman was married June 21, 1864, to Miss 
Carrie Cole, daughter of Hezekiah and Deborah 
f Freeman) Cole, of Carver. They have one 
daughter: Agnes Cole Kingman. 



KNIGHT, Horatio Gates, of Easthami)ton, 
lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth 1S75 to 
187S inclusive, is a native of Easthampton, born 
March 24, 1818, son of Sylvester and Rachel 
(Lyman) Knight. His ancestry, while not clearly 
ascertained, is believed to be a combination of 
English and Scotch. His education was attained 
through private tutors and in the public schools of 
his native town. In lieu of a college training he 
early enjoyed the advantage of travel and obser- 
vation in various lands, wide reading, and associa- 
tion with wise men. He began active life at four- 
teen as a clerk in a country store, entering the 
employ of Samuel W'illiston, the successful manu- 
facturer and distinguished philanthropist. Early 
working his way to positions of responsibility, at 
twenty-four he became a partner in Mr. Williston's 
e.xtensive button manufacturing business. There- 
after he continued with Mr. W'illiston in various 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



409 



iiianufacturiny; and mcicantilL- L-iUcrpriscs inUil 
the latter's death in 1874. He bought the first 
India rubber and the first elastic fabric looms and 
braiding machines used in the Easthampton fac- 
tories, and the prosperous business of the partners 
was in no small share due to his intelligent energy 
and systematic methods. He has been a director 
in many and president of several manufacturing 
corporations and banks, and trustee of se\-eral 
educational institutions. Having resigned many 
of these positions, including that of a trustee of 
Williams College which he held many years, he is 
still president of the Williston and Knigiit Com- 
pany and of the Northampton Institution for 
•Savings, a trustee of the Clarke Institution for 
Deaf Mutes, and director of the First National 
Bank of Northampton. Mr. Knight's notable 
public career began in the early fifties, and cov- 
ered a long and important period. He was a 
member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1852 and 1853, was a senator in 
1858 and 1859, ^ member of the Executive Coun- 
cil in 1868 and 1869, lieutenant governor for four 
years (1875 to 1878 inclusive), was drafting com- 




During his service as lieutenant governor the con- 
tract was made under which the Hoosac Tunnel 
was completed. As draft commissioner, instead 
of drafting, he promoted enlistments, expending 
from his own resources thousands of dollars in 
this work; and, as a result, Hampshire County's 
quota was filled without resorting to the draft. 
While as lieutenant governor, cliairman i)f the 
committees of the P^xecutive Council on pardons, 
several hundred applications for pardon were 
passed upon. In politics Mr. Ivnight was a Whig 
till that party was succeeded by the Republican, 
to which he has since adhered without wavering. 
He has since ser\ed his native town upon its 
.School Committee and in \arious other offices, 
and is at the present time chairman of its Water 
Commissioners. He was the originator of the 
Village Improvement Society, which has done 
much to promote the beauty, attracti\-eness, and 
prosperity of Easthampton. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Civics, of the Home 
Market Club, and has been a member of the 
Union League of New York. He was married 
.September 28, 1841, to Miss Mary Ann Huntoon. 
'J'hey have had three daughters : Alice, Lucy, and 
Mary: and four sons: Horatio Williston, Chailes 
Huntoon, Frederic Allen, and Russell \\"right, the 
last two having died in childhood. 



LARRABEE, Jnux, of Melrose, pharmacist, 
member of the State Board of Registration in 
Pharmacy, was born in Melrose (then North .Mai- 
den), April 21, 1850, son of John and Sarah Jane 
(Kimball) Larrabee. He is a direct descendant 
of the Larrabee family who settled in this section 
in colonial days. His education was acquired in 
the public schools of his native town. Early es- 
tablishing himself as a pharmacist in Melrose, he 
conducted a successful business alone for twenty- 
three years, from 1867 to 1890: and since that 
time he has been associated with A. C. Stearns, a 
former clerk, under the firm name of Larrabee Ov 
Stearns. He has been a member of the State 
Board of Registration in Pharmacy since May, 
1887, first appointed by Governor Ames, and re- 
appointed by Gox'ernor Br:ickett. in 1890, for the 
term of five years. He is interested, also, in 
local banking institutions, having been a trustee 
missioner l_iy appointment of Governor .-\nclre\\ in and clerk of the Melrose Savings Bank from Jan- 
1862, and commissioner to the Vienna Exposition uary, i886, to the present time, and the first 
by appointment of Governor Washburn in 1873. cashier (1892) of the Melrose National Bank, the 



HORATIO C. KNIGHT. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



orj^anizulion and .successful eslahli>limcnt of 
which were hirgely due to his efforts. He is now 
a director of the latter institution, having resigned 
the position of cashier after one year's service on 
account of the pressure of other duties. He has 
served his town during a long period in various 
capacities. For twenty-one years — from 1873 to 
1894 — he was town clerk, finally retiring, having 
declined a renomination. From 1888 to 1893 he 
was also clerk of the Hoard of Selectmen. .Since 
1875 he has been a member of the committee on 
cemeteries, in 1883 and 1887 he was a repre- 
sentative in the I.egislature for the F,le\'enth Mid- 



the Melrose ^'()ung Men's Christian .Association; 
of the Massachusetts State Pharmaceutical .Asso- 
ciation ; and of the Franklin Fraternity, a literary 
organization formed in 1863. In pdlitics he is a 
Republican, and in religion a Baptist, member of 
tiie First Baptist Church of Melrose. Mr. Larra- 
bee was first married .September 18, 1876, to Miss 
I^. Ellen Ricker, daughter of Stephen and Sarah 
(Clements) Ricker. She died Mav 18. 1890. 
lea\ing two children : John Heber and Sarah 
Helen Larrabee. He married second, Decem- 
ber 8, 1892, Miss M. Edna .Atkins, daughter of 
Sullixan H. and Sarah Abbie (Ricker) Atkins. 
Tiiey have one child: Harold Atkins Larrabee 
(born August 20, i894t. 




JOHN LARRABEE. 

dlese.x District, serving both terms as chairman 
of the committee on engrossed bills; in 1883 as 
clerk of the committee on woman suffrage; and in 
1887, clerk of that on public health. He is now 
( 1895) serving as sewer commissioner for Melrose, 
the town having in process of construction a sys- 
tem to connect with the North Metropolitan Sew- 
erage system. He is a member of the Wvoming 
Lodge, Freemasons ; of the .Melrose Lodge, order 
of Odd Fellows; of the Bethlehem Council, Royal 
.Arcanum ; of the Garfield Lodge, Ancient Order 
of United Workmen ; of the Massachusetts Soci- 
ety of Sons of the .American Revolution (being a 
great-great-grandson of Captain John ^■inton ) ; of 



LAWRENCF>, W'ii.i.i.a.m I!.aiii;kk, of lioston and 
.Metlford, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in 
Charlestown, November 15, 1856, son of General 
Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. (Badger) Lawrence, 
( )n the maternal side he is a descendant of Giles 
Badger, who came from England with his two 
brothers, and who was at Newbury in 1643, and 
there died January 11, 1647. He was educated 
in the Boston Latin School and at Harvard Col- 
lege, where he was graduated in the class of 1879. 
.At the Latin School he was a Franklin medal 
scholar, and in 1874-75 was colonel of the Bos- 
ton .School Regiment. In college he was a mem- 
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa. He fitted for his pro- 
fession at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 
the class of 1882, and was admitted to the .State 
and United .States courts in the spring of 1883. 
Upon his return from extended travels in Europe 
he began practice that year in the office of the 
late Nathan Morse in Boston. He is now at No. 
40 Water Street. He is a member of the Boston 
liar .Association and one of tlie proprietors of the 
Social Law Librarv. In .Medford, where he re- 
sides, Mr. Lawrence has been prominent in af- 
fairs ; and before the town became a city served 
on the Board of Selectmen and as ( )verseer of the 
Poor (from 1888 to 1890). In 189 i and again in 
1892 he represented Medford in the lower liouse 
of the Legislature; and. in 1893 and 1894 he was 
senator for the F'irst iSIiddlese.x District (com- 
prising the cities of Somerville and Medford and 
the towns of Arlington and Winchester). While 
in the House, he served on the committees on the 
judiciary, probate, and insolvency, and drainage ; 
and in the Senate both terms as chairman of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



4" 



committees on the treasury and on expenditures, 
and a member of the committees on the judiciarv 
and on rules. He has always taken a warm in- 
terest in public matters, and has been especially 
acti\e in promoting progressive municipal move- 
ments. In the years 1885-89 he was instrumen- 
tal in averting the threatened division of the tow n 
of Medford, and later in securing the city charter. 
He has been for some years a trustee of the Med- 
ford Savings Bank. In politics Mr. Lawrence is 
a Republican, an active member of the party or- 
ganization, in 189 I 92 serving on the Republican 
State Committee. He is prominent in the Ma- 




WILLIAM B, LAWRENCE. 

sonic fraternity, a past deputy district grand 
master of the Grand Lodge, past master of the 
.Mt. Hermon Lodge, past high priest of Mystic 
Royal .\rch Chapter, past thrice illustrious mas- 
ter of Medford Council, Royal and Select Ah\s- 
ters, past grand master of the Grand Council. 
Royal and Select Masters, captain-general of Ho.s- 
ton Commandery, Knights Templar, and senior 
warden of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection. He is 
a charter member of the .Medford Club, and a 
member of the University Club of Boston. He 
was married October 2. 1883, to Miss .Vlice May 
Sears, daughter of J. Henry and P'.mily (Nicker- 
son ) Sears, and a lineal descendant of Richard 



Sears, one of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colonv 
in 1633. Their children are: Marjorie, Samuel 
Crocker, 2d. and Ruth Lawrence. 



LORD, LuciE.N, of .\thol. real estate in\estor 
and builder, proprietor of the Athol Academy of 
Music and owner of the Pequoig House, is a 
native of .Vthol, born October ri. 1840, son of 
Ethan and Thankful (Richardson) Lord. His 
father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were 
also natives of .\thol ; and the latter was one of 
the first five men who came from Hatfield in 1735 
to settle in '' Pec|uoig," which subsequently be- 
came .\thol. He was educated in the common 
and high schools of the town. After leaving 
school, he was associated with his father for a 
while in the lumber and grain business, then 
ser\-ed some time as clerk in a dry-goods store, 
with Walter Thorpe, and in 1866 entered business 
on his own account, forming a partnership with 
Howard B. Hunt, and opening an insurance 
agency and stationery store. After two years suc- 
cessful trade he was appointed postmaster of 
.\thol (April 21, 1869) by President Grant, which 
office he held through the administrations of 
Presidents Hayes, Arthur, and Garfield, until 
1889. Since that time he lias been actively en- 
gaged in real estate and building, to which he had 
given much attention tkning the previous ten and 
more years, erecting in 1874 tiie Masonic Building. • 
In i8gi he built the .Vthol .Academy of Music, 
and he is now (1895) rebuilding the Pequoig 
House, a large and fine hotel of modern design 
and finish, and is developing four large tracts for 
residences: '"Lake Park," "South Park,"' '-Inter- 
vale." and '-Pleasant \'alley.'-' He has from 
vouth up been closely identified with all praise- 
worthv movements for the benefit of local institu- 
tions, taking an active part in musical and dra- 
matic affairs, and ser\ing his town in various 
capacities. He represented .\thol in the General 
Court in 189 1, and is now a member of the .Athol 
School Committee and of the Library Committee. 
He is a trustee of the .\thol Savings Bank, direc- 
tor of the .Vthol and Orange Electric Railroad 
Company, and manager as well as owner of tile 
Academy of Music. He belongs to the .Masonic 
fraternity, member of the Athol Commandery, of 
which he was eminent connnander in 1881-82 83. 
and is a member of the P.oard of Trade and of 
the Pequoig' Club. He was largely instrumental 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in fouiuling tlic Second Initaiiiin Society in Athol. 
was several years its clerk, and for the past eigh- 
teen years has been superintendent of the Sunday- 




national reputation for the extent and excellence 
of its work and for its fair dealing in all transac- 
tions. From a modest beginning it steadily ex- 
panded its works and operations in various direc- 
tions until now it has, in addition to its large 
plant in Quincy, extensive works in IJarre, Vt., 
wliere it owns a large quarry of fine, light granite ; 
three large yards at Buffalo, NA'. : and offices 
at Albany, \A'., and at Indianapolis, Ind. In 
(,)uincy the firm owns ten acres of the best quarry 
land in the city, and thirty-one acres in East Mil- 
ton. Its works are thoroughly equipped with ma- 
chinery of every description required for large 
operations, some of it especially constructed for 
the firm's use. One derrick alone is capable of 
removing a one hundred ton block of stone at a 
single lift. Thirty thousand feet of lumber are an- 
nually consumed in boxing the firm's finished work 
for shipment. It was the first concern in Quincy 
to introduce the apparatus of the American Pneu- 
matic Tool Company for carving and cutting 
stone, superseding hand labor, Mr. McDonnell 
being a stockholder in the company. Examples 
of the work of the firm are seen in various parts 



LUCItN LORD. 



school. In politics he has regularh- voted with 
the Republican party, but has never been a poli- 
•tician. Mr. Lord was married September i, 1868, 
to Miss Delia Maria Pierce, of Royalston. They 
have one daughter : Elizabeth Lord, born Febru- 
ary 9, 1 878. Their home is a fine residence re- 
cently erected by themselves on Chestnut Hill 
.\venue, Athol. 



McDonnell, Thijmas Hexry, of Qulncv, 
one of the leaders in tire granite industry of the 
United States, and president of the Quincy Quarry 
Railroad Company, is a native of Quincy, born 
.Vugust [8, 1S48, son of Patrick and Mary 
(Hughes) McDonnell. He acquired his educa- 
tion in the Quincy public schools, finishing with a 
thorough business course at Comer's Commercial 
College, Boston, and at an early age was actively 
engaged in the granite business, associated with 
his father and his brother, John Q. McDonnell, 
under the firm name of McDonnell & Sons. This 
relation has since continued, and the firm of which 
he has become the active head has acquired a 




T. H. McDonnell. 



of the country : in the monument 
George B. McClellan at Trenton, N.J 
Mackey family monument at Franklin, 



of General 
.. the C. W. 

Penna., the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



413 



ScvciUy-scxunth RL-gimcnl luniuuncnl .U Saratoga, 
N.Y., the Wocher canopy at liuffalo, N.V., cost- 
ing twenty-tive thousand doUars ; the Shoemaker 
monument at Spring Gro\e, Cincinnati : and many 
monuments of fine finisli in cemeteries of the 
hirger cities East and West. One of its most nota- 
ble pieces of work was the reconstruction of the 
Soldiers" Monument at liuffalo. which was highly 
complimented by the committee having the matter 
in charge. Mr. McDonnell was an active pro- 
moter of liie (Uiincy Quarry Railroad, — a contin- 
uation of the ancient " Granite Railway," the first 
railroad built in the country, — connecting the 
quarries on the hills with the main railroad, one 
of the most important enterprises of Quincy, com- 
pleted and formally opened in October. 1894; and 
he was elected its first president. He was also a 
promoter of the Quincy and Boston Electric Rail- 
way, and has been a director of it since its incor- 
poration. Besides his quarry business and his 
Quincy interests, Mr. McDonnell is interested in 
the Security Live Stock Insurance Company of 
Boston, of which he was one of the originators, 
and the president until May, 1894, when he de- 
clined a re-election on account of the pressure of 
other business, but remained in the directory. 
He also owns a dairy farm of five hundred acres in 
Springville, N.V. He is a member of the Knights 
of Columbus. In the year 1892 Mr. McDonnell, 
accompanied by his friend Rev. T. J. Donahy, 
of Newton L^'pper Falls, enjoyed a European trip ; 
and, while in Rome, they were accorded the rare 
privilege of a pri\ate audience with Pope Leo 
XIII. 

M.\CRINTIRE. Edw.ard Augustus, of Salem, 
bookseller, is a native of Rhode Island, born in 
I'rovidence, January 24, i.S_:;i. son of John and 
Claris-sa (Craig) Mackintire. His father was of a 
family of sea-faring men in Salem, with the ex- 
ception of Samuel Mackintire. who was a noted 
carver and architect of Salem during the first 
decade of the present century. His mother was 
of Scotch descent. He received a good grammar 
school education, and at thirteen years' of age was 
at work in the book and stationery store of Henry 
P. Ives in Salem. Here he learned the business, 
and remained until 1878, when in February he 
formed a partnership with W. Harvey Merrill, 
uhder the firm name of Merrill & Mackintire, 
and opened a book, stationery, and wall paper 
store of his own. In July, 1894. he purchased 



his partner's interest, and continued the busi- 
ness as sole proprietor. Mr. Mackintire has al- 
ways taken a deep interest in the welfare and 




E. AUG. MACKINTIRE. 

growth of Salem, and has by his infiuence pro- 
moted many important improvements. He has 
been for some years an active member of the 
Salem Board of Trade, and its president since 
.Vpril. 1893. He was the founder and first vice- 
president of the Salem Co-operative Bank, which 
position he has held since its establishment in 
1888 ; and he was for two years a director of the 
Association of Massachusetts Co-operatixe Banks. 
He has also been long connected with the Salem 
Mutual Benefit Association, a director of the or- 
ganization for fifteen years. He is a member of 
the Essex Institute, of the Salem Charitable Me- 
chanic Association, of the Salem \'eteran Cadets, 
of the Enterprise Fire Club, and of numerous fra- 
ternal organizations: connected with Essex Lodge, 
No. 26, and Naumkeag Encampment of Odd Fel- 
lows, the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Honor, 
the Pilgrim Fathers, and the United Workmen. 
In politics he is Republican, interested in the 
party organization, but never holding office, al- 
though many times urged to take nominations. 
He was an early member of the Salem Repub- 
lican Flambeau Club, and its treasurer for nine 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



vears. lie \v;is married March 9. 1880. to Miss 
Alice Williams Glover, a descendant of Oeneral 
John Glover, of Marblehead, the famous hero of 
the Revolution, whose statue stands in Common- 
wealth Avenue, Boston. They have had four 
children : Bessie Glover, Richard Craig, Alice, 
and George Augustus Mackintire (deceased). 



M AR'l'l X, (;Ri;(;ok\ Akvidk, M.D., of Frank- 
lin, was born in Bedford, I'.Q.. December 22. 
184', son of Abram and Sarah (Spruston) Mar- 
tin. His father's grandfather came from Holland, 
and settled in the Hoosac Valley of Massachu- 
setts, where his grandfather was born. His father 
was born in Bedford, I'.Q. His maternal grand- 
father was born and lived in Lancaster, Enghind. 
which was his mother's native place. .She re- 
ceived her education in London. England. He 
attended the common and high schools of his 
native town, and at eighteen was apprenticed for 
three years to a civil engineer and general mill- 
builder. After serving his time, he worked at mill 
building, civil and hvdraulic engineering, through- 



Commencement Bay. where Tacoma City now 
stands. He began the study of medicine on the 
first of January, 1873, and, subsequently attending 
the medical department of the University of Ver- 
mont, graduated there in June, 1879. He was 
first established as a physician in the town of 
China, Me., where he spent seven years. He had 
a large and pleasant practice there : but, desiring 
a more compact field of labor, he decided to set- 
tle near some large city. Accordingly, in 1886 
he came to Franklin. He has devoted himself 
entirely to his profession, and has attained sub- 
stantial success in it. The only offices he has 
held have been those of examining physician for 
several insurance companies, and chairman of the 
Board of Health of Franklin, which position he 
has occupied for several years. He is a member 
of the Thurber Medical Association, of the Maine 
.State Medical Society, and of the .\merican Med- 
ical Association. He is connected with numerous 
fraternal organizations, a member of the Ancient 
Order of I'nited Workmen, of the Royal Societies 
of Good Fellows, of Central Lodge, No. 45, F'ree- 
masons, Dunlap Royal Arch Chapter. No. 12. 
Mount Lebanon Council, .St. Omer Commander)'. 
No. 13, Knights Templar, Providence Grand Con- 
sistory. .American Association Scottish Rites, 
United States Jurisdiction: and of King Daxid 
Lodge, No. 71, Odd Fellows. In politics he has 
been alwavs a Republican. Dr. Martin is an 
ardent iiuntsman, and every year finds iiim in the 
woods of Maine hunting deer and bear. He was 
married February 23. 1886, to Miss Rachel A. 
l>ump\is, of China. Me. 



.MK AD, Jri.iAX .Augustus, .M.D., of W'atertown, 
was born in West .Acton, April 15, 1856, son of 
()li\er Warren and Mary F^lizabeth (Hartwelll 
Mead. His father was a native of Bo.\borough, 
where the Mead family had been settled for manv 
years, and his mother of Har\ard. She belonged 
to the Littleton branch of the Hartwell family. He 
was educated in the public schools of West Acton, 
the Concord High .School, Phillips (E.xeter) .Acad- 
emy, and at Har\ard, graduating A.B. in 1878 ; 
and fitted for his profession at the Harvard .Mech- 
cal School, graduating M.D. in 1881, and in 
Europe, at the universities of Leipzig. \'ienna. 
out New England, in the Province of Quebec, and and Paris, where he spent two years, tn Novem- 
on the Pacific Coast. .Among other works he ber, 1S83. he settled in W'atertown, and then 
superintended the large saw-mill on the shore of began practice, ni which he has since been 




MARTIN. 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



415 



.slcadily engaged. Since 18S4 he lias been niedi- in lirownlield, Januar\- 16, 1X49. son of Sanuiel E. 
cal examiner of Middlesex County, first appointed and Clarissa (Flint) Merrill. His ancestors were 
by Governor Robinson, and reappointed in 1891 Massachusetts folk on both sides. The Merrills 

went from Newbury, Essex County, and were 
among the first settlers in Fryeburg and Brown- 
lield. Me., and in Conway, N.H. His mother 
was born in North Reading, and went to Maine 
early in life. He was educated in the public 
schools of Norway, whither his parents mo\ed 
when he was a boy of eight years. He came to 
IJoston in 1870, and entered the grocery business. 
.Six years later he removed to Lewiston, Me., 
where he continued in the same business ; and 
in 1878 established himself in (^uincy, Mass., as 
a grocer and real estate owner. In 1887 he built 
the Durgin and Merrill Block, the first business 
block in Quincy. He has represented his city 
and senatorial district in both branches of the 
Legislature, serving in the House of Representa- 
tives in 1888 and 1889, and in the Senate in T893 
and 1894. During both terms in the House he 
served on the committee on water supply. I'he 
first year as a senator he was chairman of the 
committee on constitutional amendments, and a 




JULIAN A. MEAD. 

by Governor Russell. He served for three years 
as assistant surgeon ; and two years as surgeon 
of the Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, 
under Colonel Bancroft: and is now post surgeon 
at the United States Arsenal at W'atertown. He 
established the first Board of Health in W'ater- 
town, and was chairman of the board in 1886. 
He has served the town in other capacities, — as 
a member of the School Committee since 1884, 
and chairman since 1885 : and as a trustee of the 
W'atertown Public Library since 1891, for three 
years also secretary of the board. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical .Societv and of 
the Medico-Legal Societv ; member of the Cnion 
and I'nitarian clubs, Boston; of the W'atertown 
Unitarian Club, three years its president ; and of 
the N'illage Club, W'atertown, of which he is the 
present president. He has contributed numerous 
articles to the medical journals. Dr. Mead was 
married December 12, 1889, to Miss Mary Dear- 
born F-nierson. of Newton. 




JOHN F. MERRILL. 



member of the committees on mercantile affairs 

.MF^RRILL, John Fi.iNr, of Quincy, grocer and on towns ; and the second year he was chair- 

and real estate owner, is a native of Maine, born man of the committee on mercantile affairs, and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



member of those on liills in the third reading and 
libraries. In politics he is a Republican. He is 
prominent in the Masonic order, — a member of 
the Rural Lodge of Quincy, for several j-ears secre- 
tary of St. Stephen's Chapter, and member of the 
South Shore C'ommandery of Knights Templar. — 
and is also connected with the order of Red 
Men and the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Merrill was 
married November lo. 1894, to Miss Elizabeth 
Upton Waters, of ,Vew \'ork. 



MILLER, Edwin Child, of Wakefield, assist- 
ant superintendent of the Henry F. Miller & Son 
Piano Company, was born in Melrose, December 
I, 1857, fourth son of Henry F. and Frances V. 
(Child) Miller. He is a lineal descendant of 
Roger Williams, and of tlie Hon. Joseph Jenckes, 
and is connected with the Ogdens, Beverleys, 
Hitchcocks, and many of the early Rhode Island 
families. During his boyhood his parents re- 
moved to Boston, and he was educated there in 
the public schools. He entered the English High 
School in 1872, from the sub-master' class of the 
Dwight School ; and he was one of eighteen pupils 
in the class of one hundred who at the close of 
the course won the Franklin medal, and a Law- 
rence prize in declamation, in general scholarship, 
and for an essay. He was also captain of the 
prize company, English High School Battalion, of 
the Boston School Regiment. Graduating in 
1875, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, and there was graduated in 1879 
with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the me- 
chanical engineering department. ."Vfter leaving 
the institute, he was first employed as draughts- 
man by the inventors of the Woodbury Merrill 
Patten hot-air engine. Then he entered the office 
of his father, the founder of the Henry F. Miller 
& Son Piano Company, as book-keeper, and in 
1884, having become a member of the company, 
was appointed as assistant superintendent, which 
position he has since held. He removed to 
Wakefield in 1887, si.x years after the company 
had established the manufacturing department of 
its business there, and at once became identified 
with the interests of the town. He was one of 
the first members of the Wakefield Board of 
Trade, and an early president of the organiza- 
tion: in 1890 he became president of the Wake- 
field Horticultural and Agricultural Society ; in 
1893 he was appointed by the town a member of 



the committee to purchase the water-works : and 
in 1893-94 represented the town in the lower 
house of the Legislature. He was chairman also 
of the executive committee having charge of the 
celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anni- 
versary of the settlement of the towns of Reading. 
North Reading, and Wakefield. Since 1889 he 
has been a member of the Wakefield Savings 
Bank corporation. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and an active member of the party organiza- 
tion, serving as delegate in district and State con- 
ventions. In the Legislature he has served on 
important committees, among them those on pub- 




EDWIN C. MILLER. 

lie service, of which he was House chairman 
for both 1893 and 1894, and on transit (in 1894), 
of the latter committee being the member hav- 
ing charge on the floor of the house of the 
Boston Elevated Railroad bill passed that year. 
He has been a vice-president of the Middlese.x 
( political dining) Club, Boston ; a member of the 
American Academy of Political and Social Sci- 
ence, of the Sons of the American Revolution, of 
the Golden Rule Lodge, Wakefield, Freemasons, 
of the Albion Lodge, Wakefield, New England 
Order of Protection, and of the Quannapowitt 
Club, Wakefield ; a fine member of the Richard- 
son Light Guards : and a contributing member of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



417 



H. M. W'arien I'ost, No 12, of tlu; Grand Army 
of the Republic. Mr. Miller was married Janu- 
ary 30, 1S84, to Miss Ida Louise P'arr, daughter 
of the late Hon. Evarts W. Farr, of Littleton, 
N.H. The}- have two children : Barbara (born 
August 30, 1885. in lioston) and Henry Franklin 
Miller, 3(1 i born Xo\-ember 18, 1887. in Melrose 1. 



MILLS, Hiram Francis, of Lowell, civil 
engineer, is a native of Maine, born in Bangor, 
November i, 1836, son of Preserved Brayton and 
Jane (Lunt) Mills. His early education was ac- 
quired in the public schools of Bangor; and he 
was graduated as civil engineer at the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.V.. in 1856. 
Before entering upon independent professional 
life, he concluded to have ten years' experience 
with the ablest engineers in the country ; and dur- 
ing this period he was associated with James P. 
Kirkwood, \Mlliani E. W'orthen. James B. Francis, 
Charles S. Storrow, and others. In 1863 he 
made a design for and constructed the State Dam 
on I )eerfield Ri\er. I'hree years later he de- 
signed a stone dam for the Penobscot River at 
Bangor, and in 1882 one for the Merrimac River 
at Sewall's Falls. He lias been consulted upon 
many of the important hydraulic questions that 
have arisen in different States of the Lhiion. 
He was appointed engineer of the Esse.x Com- 
pany in 1869, and has since that time continued in 
charge of this companvs affairs at Lawrence, in- 
cluding the laying out and management of the lands 
and the management of the water power of the 
Merrimac River, with its daily distribution among 
the several manufacturing companies in the city. 
He has also acted as consulting engineer for these 
companies, and the three tall chimneys of Law- 
rence were designed by him and built under his 
direction. He has made very e.Ktensive experi- 
ments upon the flow of water in pipes, conduits, 
canals, and rivers, and in the discharge of water 
wheels ; and his formulas upon the flow of water, 
though not yet published, have been used, with 
his consent, by several of the leading engineers in 
designing their works. In 1893 he was appointed 
consulting engineer of the Proprietors of Locks 
and Canals on Merrimac River, at Lowell, and in 
1894 engineer, having charge of the management 
of the water power there and of making improve- 
ments therein by enlarging the capacity of the 
canals and directing the dailv distribution of the 



water power among the manufacturing corpora- 
lions. He has held no remunerative political 
offices, but since the reorganization of the Massa- 
chusetts State Board of Health, by Governor 
Robinson in 1S86, he has been a member of that 
board and chairinan of its committee on water- 
supply and sewerage ; and as such he carried on 
the investigation and prepared the report in ac- 
cordance with which the Metropolitan Sewerage 
System has been constructed. He also designed 
the Lawrence Experiment Station of the board, 
where its experiments upon the purification of 
sewage and of water have been carried on for 




HIRAM F. MILLS. 

seven years under his direction. He designed 
and directed the construction of the filter-bed for 
Lawrence by which the drinking-water of the city, 
received from the Merrimac River, is purified, 
and deaths within the city from typhoid fever and 
other diseases communicated by polluted drink- 
ing-water ha\e been very much reduced. On 
account of his public services Harvard College in 
1889 conferred upon him the honorary degree of 
.V.M. In 1S77 he was elected a Fellow of the 
.American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 
1885 he has been a member of the corporation of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 
for several years chairinan of its committee on 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



nifchanical LMif;ineeiing and a|)plie(l mechanics. 
He is also a inenibei- of the \isiting committee of 
the Lawrence Scientific School. He is a director 
of the Essex Savings Bank ; president of the Law- 
rence Line Company: and a director of the Theo- 
logical School of the New Jerusalem Church. 
He has published many professional papers and 
essays, among them "Water Power of the 
United States "( 1867), "Experiments upon Cen- 
tral Discharge Water Wheels" (1870), -Experi- 
ments upon Piezometers used in Hydraulic FAperi- 
nients " ( 1878), " Protection of the I'own of West- 
field from Future P'loods" (1879), "Construction 
of the Pacific Mills Chimney" (1885), "'i'he Pro- 
tection of the Purity of Inland Waters" 118S7), 
" Purification of Sewage by applying it to Land " 
(1888), "Report of the State Board of Health 
upon the Sewerage of the Mystic and Charles 
River Valleys" (1889), "A Classification of the 
Drinking Waters of the State" (1890), "Report of 
the State Board of Health on Filtration of Sewage 
and of Water and Chemical Precipitation of 
Sewage" (1890), "Purification of Sewage and of 
Water by Filtration" (1893), "The Filter of the 
Water-supply of the City of Lawrence, and its 
Results" (1894). and memoirs of Mr. Jolm C. 
Hoadley and Mr. James B. Francis. Mr. Mills 
was married October 8, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth 
\\'orcester. 

MINOR, Wkslev Lvnc, of Brockton, archi- 
tect, was born in Franklin. St. .Mar\'s Parish, La., 
January 8, 1851, son of John W. and Mary (Lyngi 
Minor. When he was a lad of seven, the family 
moved North to New Bedford; and his early edu- 
cation was attained there in public schools. Later 
a second removal was made to the tow-n of Marion, 
where he attended the High School; and after his 
graduation the family was established in Middle- 
boro, where he received a partial training for his 
profession in after years. He first, however. 
learned the carpenter's trade as an apprentice to 
his father, who had resumed this trade which he 
had followed early in life and had abandoned for 
the study and practice of the profession of den- 
tistry ; and the study of architecture was begun 
while working at carpentry. His first teacher was 
Professor Hamblin, a retired architect, who was 
then in charge of a department at Pierce .Academy 
in the town, .\fter taking a three years' course 
in drawing and elementary architecture, he went 
to Boston, where he was employed in the archi- 



tect's office of William R. Ware. .V few months 
later he went to Philadelphia, and entered the 
office of J. McArthur, Jr., the well-known architect 
of the new City Hall in that city, and after a 
year's experience there he found an opening in 
the office of Richard H. Hunt, of New \'ork. 
where he remained another year : then he engaged 
in practice, first establishing himself in Charles- 
ton, S.C. He soon, however, moved West. and. 
opening offices in Topeka. Kan., and Denver, Col., 
conducted a fiourishing business in both jslaces. 
A few years after, his health failing, he was 
obliged to leave Kansas, and, going to Kentuckv. 




W. L. MINOR. 

settled temporarily in the town of Catlettsburg. 
which had been visited by a serious fire. He re- 
mained there about a year, and during that time 
practically rebuilt the town, replacing the burned 
wooden buildings with substantial brick structures. 
He next returned to the East, and was for two 
years and a half established in his boyhood home 
at New Bedford. Hax'ing then entered into an 
agreement with a New York architect to open an 
office in Newport, R.L, he started one day from 
Boston to Newport, and stopped oft" at Brockton 
to transact .some business. Becoming interested 
in the place, and concluding that it offered prom- 
ise of good architectural work, he lost no time in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



419 



comniuiiicating with his Xtw ^'ol•k friend, and pro- 
posed a partnership for business here instead of 
in Newport. The proposition was declined, hut 
he decided to stay and practise alone. This was 
in 1882 ; and he has been in constant practice with 
headquarters here since, building most of the 
notable buildings and residences in tlie city and 
neighborhood. Examples of his woik are the 
iSrockton City Hall, the Washburn and Howard 
blocks, the Enterprise, Home Hank, and l.ixby 
buildings, the residences of Ziba C Keith. 
Caleb H. I'ackard. Dr. E. E. Dean, William E. 
Douglas, and numerous others in Brockton ; and 
the Middleborough High .School. He also pre- 
pared the plans for the Broadway High School in 
Everett and the High School in Wichita, Kan. 
In politics Mr. Minor has been a lifelong Demo- 
crat, but he has never held or aspired to office. 
He is a member of the Electric Lodge of Odd 
Fellows of Brockton. He was married October 
lo, 1876, to Miss Ella C. Nickerson, of Cotuit. 
They have three children: Wesley ('.. Rose S., 
and S, \'ernon Minor. 



,Ml)\K, Ei.iMtA (Al'iix, of Stoughton, manu- 
facturer and merchant, is a native of .Stoughton, 
born .\pril 25. 182S, son of Oeorge Randall and 
Sarah (Capen) Monk. His ancestors on both 
sides were Puritans. His mother was the daugh- 
ter of Deacon Elisha Capen, whose wife, Milly 
Gay, was a woman remarkable for industry and 
amiabilitv. — she taught school before marriage, 
spun cloth from fia.x raised on her father's farm in 
Stoughton. took it on horseback to Boston, sold 
it, and pmchased a silk wedding dress from the 
proceeds, — and lived to the age of ninety-seven 
years, seven months. His great-grandfather, 
George Monk, was at Dorchester Heights, and 
served in Colonel Benjamin Gill's regiment under 
Washington. His great-great-great-grandfather. 
Elias Monk, enlisted from the town of Dorchester 
in the Canadian \\'ar in 1690. Elisha C. received 
a public school education, supplemented by pri- 
vate instruction in Latin and rhetoric bv the Rev. 
William .M. C'ornell, an educator contemporary 
with Horace Mann, He learned the trade of 
boot-making, and in 1856 began the manufacture 
of boots and shoes for the California trade. In 
later vears he was interested in the dry-goods 
trade at (ireele\". Col., and at ( ulor.idn Springs, for 
a long period. His public career began in 1857, 



when he represented his native town in the hjwer 
house of the State Legislature. He was instru- 
mental in the passage of the bill of that year 
making the term of members of school committees 
three years each, and served on the committee 
first districting the State into senatorial and rep- 
resentative districts in accordance with the con- 
stitutional amendments that year ratified, in 
1866 and 1867 he was a member of the State Sen- 
ate, and served on the committee on the treasury. 
During the Civil War he was acti\e in promoting 
the cause of the Union. He visited the army 
and camped with the soldiers on the Rappahan- 




ELISHA C. MONK. 

nock in 1862, and was on the battlefield of Gettys- 
burg before the dead were buried, when in com- 
pany with a party, of whom the late Phillips Brooks 
was one, he \isited the hospitals, and tra\-elled 
over the entire battle-ground in one day. .\t the 
time of the last call for men to fill the quota of 
Stoughton. his prompt action resulted in a speedy 
completion of the business. Learning that there 
were to be obtained in Washington thirty-four 
emancipated slaves, he telegraphed to the Hon. 
Oakes .\mes, then representing the Congressional 
district, asking what bounty was required to se- 
cure these men. I'he answer was seventy-five 
hundred dollais, the money sidjject to draft at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



once. Thereupon he authorized Mr. Ames to 
draw on him for this amount. Squads of the en- 
rolled men were then organized, and in three days 
the money was raised and the quota filled. Dur- 
ing the years 1889 and 1890 Mr. Monk served on 
the Board of Selectmen of Stoughton as chairman. 
He has also served the town on a number of im- 
portant committees, notably those for building 
the Town House and the Drake School-house, 
and that nn [lark. In 1870 he joined the Union 
t'olony to settle in the new West of which Horace 
(ireeley was treasurer, and was of the founders of 
the town of Creele}', fifty-four nules north of Den- 
ver, Col. He was, with Judge Plato, of Illinois 
(who was one of the presidential electors for Illi- 
nois, voting for Abraham Lincoln in i860), a com- 
mittee to make the division and subdivisions of 
land, comprising in all 12,500 acres, for the col- 
onv. The historian of the town gives him the 
credit of having inserted in the deeds of the col- 
on v to individuals the provision prohibiting the 
manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a 
beverage on the lands deeded, — these to revert to 
the town in case of violation. The following year, 
a similar provision being inserted in the deeds 
given at Colorado Springs, it was there contested 
as unconstitutional ; and, after the Territorial and 
State courts had passed upon the matter, it was 
carried to the I'nited States Supreme Court, where 
it was confirmed as valid and binding. Mr. 
Monk regards this as one of the grandest achieve- 
ments of his life, its practical eftect having been 
to eliminate from this tract of land all sale and 
manufacture of into.xicating liquors, and greatly to 
advance the prosperity of the people. In his na- 
tive town Mr. Monk has always been foremost in 
the van of progress, advocating the building of 
tow'n hall, high school, library, water-works, new 
roads, and other improvements. He is a mag- 
netic public speaker, and has been heard on nu- 
merous important occasions. In 1869 he deliv- 
ered the first address before Post 72 of the Cirand 
Army of the Republic, which received high com- 
mendation. It was subsequently printed, and is 
now in the Public Library. He was for many 
years a member of the Sons of Temperance. In 
politics he first voted the Free Soil ticket, and 
subsequently became a Republican. He is now a 
member of the Society of the Sons of the .Ameri- 
can Revolution. He was married January 13, 
1852, to Miss Sallie Brett French. Their children 
are ; George, Bertha L., and Kunice C. Monk. 



M()RRIS, FnwAKii Fr.wki.in, of Monson, 
banker, is a native of Monson, born July 25. 1840, 
son of George F. and Sarah A. (Morse) Morris. 
He is in the seventh generation from Edward 
Morris, born at VValtham Abbey, Essex County, 
England, August, 1630, who came to New Eng- 
land in 1652, and settled in Roxburv. the line 
running as follows : Fxlward Morris (married Xo- 
vcmber, 1655, to (jrace Bett), Edward Morris, 2d, 
born in Roxbury, March, 1658 (married May 24, 
1683, to Elizabeth I'owen), Edward Morris, 3d, 
born in Roxbury, November 9, i588 (married 
January 12. 1715, to lUthiah Peake), Isaac Morris, 





E. F. MORRIS. 

born in Woodstock, Conn., March 26, 1725 (mar- 
ried October, 1748, to Sarah Chaft'ee), Edward 
Morris, 4th. born in Woodstock, Conn., December 
12, 1756 (married March 28, 1782, to Lucy ISliss), 
Edward Morris. 5th, born in South Wilbraham, 
Mass., July 21, 1784 (married June 27, 1808, to 
iSIercy Flynt), and George F. Morris, born at 
South Wilbraham. May 4, 1814 (married Mav 15, 
1839, to Sarah A. Morse). Mr. Morris was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at the Monson 
Academy. He entered the Monson Bank as 
clerk on June 15, 1857, being then nearly seven- 
teen years of age, and remained there until the 
first of January, 1864, when he took the post of 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



421 



l)n(ik-kL'c]HT in lliL' Agawaiii IJaiik u\ Springliuld. 
( )n tlic lirsl of April following;, however, he was 
elected cashier of tiie Monson Bank, and returned 
to Monson. This position he has held continu- 
ousK' from that time, and has been a director of 
tile bank since 1871. He was also treasurer of 
the Monson Savings Bank from its organization, 
limr r, 1.S72, to June 1. 1S93. both banks occup_\- 
iiig the same \ault and banking-rooms. On the 
latter date the tw^o banks were separated; and, 
resigning the treasurership of the .Savings liank, 
he was elected its president, which office he still 
holds, lloth corporations have attained a degree 
of prosperity' much be\ond the average of similar 
institutit)ns. Mr. Morris has had charge of the 
settlement of many estates, and filled important 
positions of a hduciary character. He is much 
interested in educational matters. He was prin- 
cipallv instrumental in the establishment of a Free 
Reading Room in 1874, resulting in the incorpo- 
ration of the Monson Free Library in 1S77, of 
which he has since served as a director ; and he 
has been a trustee of Monson Academ\' for nearly 
twenty-five years, the past seventeen years its 
treasurer, and for twenty-one years on its standing 
committee, of which he is now the chairman. In 
1S94 he was elected a corporate member of the 
.\merican Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
Missions. He has been deacon of the t'ongrega- 
tional church of Monson since 1869, treasurer 
since 1861, and for nine years past superintendent 
of the Sunday-school. In politics he is Repub- 
lican. He is now serving his town as a member 
of its Board of \\'ater Commissioners organized in 
1894. He is connected with the Masonic order. 
member of the Dayspring Lodge, of which he was 
for two years master. Mr. Morris was married 
October 25, 1S65, to Miss Louise (. (lapp, of 
Kasthampton. They ha\e had four children, 
three of whom are now living : Alice Amelia, 
Louise, and Edward L. Morris. 



MIlRSK, Ei,ij.\n .Vd.ams, of Canton, m.inufact- 
urer, member of Congress for the Twelfth ^h^ssa- 
chusetts District, is a native of Indiana, born in 
South Bend, but of an early New England family. 
His father, the Rev. Abner Morse, .\.M., was a 
native of Medway, Mass., descending from Samuel 
Morse who settled in Dedham in 1635: and his 
mother, Hannah ( Reck 1 Morse, was born in New 
York State. His middle name "Adams" is a 



famih' name, coming from the m.irriage of an an- 
cestor, Joseph Morse, of Sherborn, with I'rudence 
Adams, of Braintree, now (^uincy, a relative of the 
Rresidents, John Adams and John (,)uincy .\dams. 
Eleven years after his birth the family returned to 
Massachusetts, and his early education was ac- 
quired here in the public schools of Sherborn and 
Holliston. Subseepiently he attended the well- 
known old Boylston School in Boston, and finished 
at the Onondaga .Vcademy in New ^■ork State. 
In his nineteenth year he enlisted foi the ('i\il 
War, joining Company .\, hburth Massachusetts 
Infantry, as a private, and was with Oeneral Bul- 




ELIJAH A. MORSE. 

ler in Mrginia for three months, and with (ieneral 
Banks nine months in Louisiana. The foundation 
of his fortune was laid when he was vet a bo\', 
alone in a little shop in Sharon, during his school 
\acations, in the preparation of the stove polish 
which afterward became widely known untler the 
name of the " Rising Sun." L'pon his return 
from the armv he joined his brother in the estab- 
lishment in Canton of the works for the manufact- 
ure of his stove polish, and this was rapidly de- 
veloped into an important industry. The factory 
now co\ers four acres of ground, and has a capacity 
of ten tons a day. Since September i, i888, Mr. 
Morse has been the sole proprietor of the busi- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



iicss. Mr. .Morse's public L;uccr heL;an in the 
seventies, when he w;is elected a member of the 
.Massachusetts House of Representati\es of 1876. 
in which body he at once became prominent. In 
1886 and 1887 he was a member of the State Sen- 
ate; in 1888 a member of the E.Kecutive Council: 
and the latter year, while holding the position of 
councillor, was nominated and elected to Congress 
as tile successor of John I). Long, by a plurality 
of thirtv-six hundred and eighty votes. He has 
since served in the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and 
Fifty-third Congresses, and in the November elec- 
tions of 1894 was returned for a fourth term liy 
an increased m.ajority. As a State Senator, he was 
influential in advancing various reform measures, 
and, with other legislation, secured radical amend- 
ments to the laws for the protection of children 
and for the punishment of crimes against chastity. 
In Congress he has been identified with all the 
great measures advocated b}' the Republican 
party, and has made speeches on the floor of the 
House in favor of protection to .\merican manu- 
facturers and American labor, in favor of sound 
finance, in favor of restricted immigration, against 
sectaiian appropriations of public money, in favor 
of more stringent naturalization laws, in favor of 
the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, in favor 
of memorializing the Russian government in be- 
half of the persecuted Jews, in favor of a non- 
partisan commission to in\'estigate the alcoholic 
li(|uor traffic and its relations to pauperism, crime, 
insanity, taxation, and on many other important 
subjects. His politics have always been Republi- 
can. He has also been a life-long supporter of 
temperance measures, for many years a recognized 
leader in the temperance cause. He is interested 
in all matters pertaining to the public schools, and 
is a warm supporter of every effort for social re- 
form which he regards as genuine. He is a prac- 
tical philanthropist, and has given generously to 
various charities. The ground for the Canton 
Memorial Hall, the memorial tablets in the hall, 
and the bronze soldier on the green, in memory of 
those who fell in the Civil War, were his gifts to 
the town. He has frequently been heard on the 
public platform, in addresses on political, educa- 
tional, temperance. Grand .\rmy, and religious 
topics, of which he has delivered more than two 
thousand in New England and other States. Mr. 
Morse is a member of the New England Historic 
(Genealogical Society, of the Congregational Club, 
of the Norfolk Club, of I'ost 94 of the Crand 



Arni\ of tile Repuljlic. ot the Sons of the Revo- 
lution, and has for many years been a deacon of 
the Congregational church in Canton. He was 
married on the ist of January, 186S, to Miss Fe- 
licia V'ining, daughter of Samuel A. Vining, of 
Holbrook. They have three living children : 
Abner 1 born in 1870), Samuel (born 1S761. ^ind 
ISenjamin (born 18781. 



.MOSFI.FA', S.XMUEL RcjKEKf, of Hyde Park, 
proprietor of the Norfolk Cotinty Gazette, is a 
natixe of ( )liio, born in Columbus, November 6, 
1846, son of Thomas W. H. and Mary .\. 
( Keckner ) Moseley. His grandparents were 
natives of \'irginia, and removed to Kentuckv in 
the early history of that State, where his parents 
were born. His father was a civil engineer and 
iron bridge builder, and during the Mexican war 
was adjutant-general of the State of Ohio. He 
was educated in the public grammar school. 
After leaving school, he entered the employ of the 
Moseley Iron Bridge and Roof Company of ISos- 
ton, and subsec|uently engaged in journalism. In 




S. R. MOSELEY. 



1873 he became part proprietor of the Xorfolk 
County Gcjsettf (one of the oldest newspapers 
published in Norf(jlk Countv, established in 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



423 



l)c(lliain in 1S13, and lenioxccl U> Hyde Park in 
i<S6iS), and in 1S76 becanit- full ouiilt. He has 
for many years been prominent in Hyde Park 
affairs. In iSyj he was one of the auditors of 
the town ; in iS,S5 and again in 1887 represented 
Hvde Park in the State Legislature, serving both 
years on the committee on railroads, and the 
Litter year on the special committee on investiga- 
tion of child labor: and from 1890 to 1894 was 
postmaster of Hyde Paik. He is a I'reemason, 
member of I'.lue Lodge, Council and Chapter; 
an Odd Fellow, member of Forest Lodge; also 
a member of the Neponset Tribe of Red Men, of 
the Knights of Honor, No. 437, and of the 
Ancient Order of I'nited Workmen. His club 
associations are with the Hyde Park and 
Waverley clubs of Hyde Park, the Jjoston Press 
Club, and the Sea Serpent Club. In politics he is 
a Republican. He was married June 10, 1870, to 
Miss Caroline M. Brown, of .\ndo\er. 'rhe_\' have 
no children. 



politics he is an Independent. He is connected 
with the order of Odd j-'ellows and the Cnited 
.American Mechanics ; and is a member also of 



MOL'L'l'ON, Edgar Sewai.i., of Fitchburg, 
t ontractor and builder, is a native of .Maine, born 
in Wells P>each, September 11, 1857, son of 
William Donnell and Olive (Springer) Moulton. 
He is a descendant of Thomas Moulton, who 
came fnnn the town of Moulton, Norfolk County, 
Kngland, in 1635 and settled in Newbury, Mass. 
His father, born in N'ork, Me., in i8o8, was a 
prominent ship-builder at Wells for fort\- years, 
and built many vessels during that time. His 
mother was a native of Kennebunk. He was ed- 
ucated in the common and high schools, and first 
learned the ship carpenter's trade at Wells. 
When still a voung man. he followed the sea for 
two and a half years. Subsequently he worked 
some time at the house carpenter's trade in L)'nn 
and Boston. He came to Fitchburg in May, 1882, 
and. engaging in building operations, soon became 
a most successful contractor and builder. He is 
also prominent in the management of the Fitch- 
burg Co-operative Bank as a director and member 
of the investment committee. He early took an 
interest in municipal affairs, and in 1893 was 
elected mayor of the city for 1894. -After a most 
successful administration and a strict enforcement 
of the " no license " law, he was re-elected 
December 4 by the largest \ote ever cast for 
mayor in the history of the city. He is economi- 
cal, but progressive, and recognized by his con- 
stituiMits as clearlv a man of the people. In 




EDGAR S. MOULTON. 

the Voung Men's Chri'stian .\ssocialion, oi the 
Board of Trade, of the Merchants' .Association, 
of the Fitchburg Historical Society, and of the 
P'itchburg .Vthletic Club. Mayor Moulton was 
married October 16. 1893. to Miss Martha C. 
Cobli, of Fitchburg. 



N.\SH, Rev. Mei.vix Shaw, of North Han- 
over, pastor of the First Universalist Church 
of Norwell, was born in .Abington, August 3, 1857, 
son of Merritt and Betsey (Shaw) Nash. Start- 
ing with the training of the public schools of 
.Abington, he acquired a liberal education under 
private instructors and through extensive reading 
methodically pursued. He also attended courses 
at the Dartmouth Summer School of Science. 
His professional life was begun as a public school 
teacher, first in the .Abington schools (1877-78), 
and afterwards for thirteen years (from 1878 to 
189 1) as principal of the Hanover High School. 
In 1 89 1 he entered into business relations with 
the Hon. Jedediah Dwelley, of Hanover, at the 
same time continuing literarv work, in which he 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



hnd engaged while teacliini;, and his .studies for 
the ministry. 'I'he next year, after ha\ing 
preached for two vears under a license fruui the 




MELVIN S. NASH. 

Massachusetts L'niversalist Convention, he was 
ordained as a minister in tlie rni\ersalist Church, 
and called to the pastorate of the Norwell society 
where he has since been settled. In 1894 he 
represented his district ( Hanover and Rockland) 
in the lower house of the Legislature, where he 
served on the committee on public health. In 
politics he is a Republican. He is active in 
public affairs, and concerned in educational and 
other interests in his town. He has been chair- 
man of the Hanover Library committee since 
1888. He belongs to the order of Odd Fellows, 
a member of North River Lodge, in which he has 
served as noble grand. He is most interested in 
literary pursuits, in which he has spent the greater 
portion of his life thus far : and he is proud of the 
fact that so much of his success in literarv things 
has been due to his own efforts, he being to a 
great e.xtent a self-educated man. I\Ir. Nash was 
married ( )ctober 27, 1881, to Miss Josephine .S. 
Dwellev, of Hanover. Thev have no children. 



lirockton ). .September 22, 1S36, son of Washbiu'n 
and Hannah (Packard) Packard. He is de- 
scended from Samuel Packard, who came to this 
country from England among the earlier settlers : 
and on his mother's side from John .\lden of Pil- 
grim fame. He received his early education in 
common schools and academies, and studied out 
of school, reading somewhat of the classics, Greek 
and Roman, and taking French and German 
under native teachers. Some time after leaving 
school he worked with and assisted his father in 
the latter's business of shoe manufacturing, and 
then became a school-teacher. He was chosen 
principal of the Academy at Plympton about the 
vear i8jg, and served there two years, resigning 
in lS6i. He also taught in common schools. In 
1862 he re-entered the shoe business, and contin- 
ued in it successfully- for a number of years. In 
iS6^, forming a copartnership with Oliver F. 
Leach, under the firm name of Leach & Packard, 
he engaged in the manufacture of shoes for the 
Southern and Western trade. This partnership 
held until 187 1, when it was dissolved, and Mr. 
Packard continued alone, manufacturing mainlv 




DeWITT C, PACKARD. 



for the New England trade, until 1879. Then 

PACKARD. l)iA\'!ir Ci.inidn, of lii'ockton. this business was gradually abandoned for the 

city clerk, was born in North llridgewater (now mortgage, brokerage, and real estate business, in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



425 



wliicli lie was engaged, until his election as citv 
clerk. Mr. Packard has been prominent in town 
and city affairs for a number of years, and has 
held numerous local positions. From 1S77 to 
1888 he was a trustee and a member of the 
board for the management of the Public Library, 
f-'roni 1879 to 1883 he was a member of the 
School Committee. In 1880 he was a member of 
the committee of citizens chosen to prepare and 
obtain a city charter, in 1881 was chosen town 
clerk, and in 1882 elected city clerk, which posi- 
tion he has held continuously to the present time. 
Since 1875 he has held a commission as justice 
of the peace; in 1880 he was a United States 
census enumerator: in 1884 he was appointed bv 
the goxernor a commissioner to qualify civil offi- 
cers, and he has been an examiner under the 
Massachusetts Civil Service Rules since their 
adoption. In his youth he had some connection 
with the newspaper press, serving as a reporter 
on the North Bridgewater Gazette, and also oc- 
casionally contributing to the Boston Post, TraTft- 
Icr, Saturday Evening Gazette, the A'etc Rn^^Iaiul 
Fanner, and later to the Rural Xe^u Yorker. 
Mr. Packard was married January 5, 1865, to 
Miss Clarissa J. Leach, daughter of Oliver and 
Susannah ( Rowland) Leach. They have had two 
children: Clinton Francis and Clara Washburn 
Packard. 



n.C, and was graduated there in 1865. In 
August, 1865, he was promoted to the position 
of assistant surgeon, and was ordered on dutv to 



PAINE, A.MAsA ELi.iur, M.l)., of Brockton, 
was born in Truro, November 19, 1843. so'i of 
Aniasa and Susannah (Freeman ) Paine. On his 
father's side he is connected with the families of 
Paines and Smalls, and on his mother's side with 
the Freemans and Atwoods, who were among the 
first settlers of Cape Cod. He was educated in 
public school and academy, and prepared for his 
profession at the Harvard Medical School, which 
he entered in the spring of 1862. Enlisting in 
.August, 1862, in Company E, Forty-third Massa- 
chusetts Regiment, he was detailed for service in 
the regimental hospital, in which he was engaged 
until mustered out in the autumn of 1863. Re- 
turning to Harvard in October following, he 
remained there until June, 1864, when he re- 
ceived the appointment of medical cadet in the 
regular army. F'irst stationed at Mt. Pleasant 
Hospital, \\'ashington, D.C., he was some time in 
charge of the erysipelas ward. Meanwhile he 
attended the Georgetown College, Georgetown, 




A. ELLIOT PAINE. 

the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, colored 
troops, stationed in South Carolina. His army 
service closed in February, 1866. Then he en- 
gaged in general practice, first in Wellfleet and 
Taunton, finally settling in North Bridgewater 
mow Brockton) in September, 1867. In Brock- 
ton he has served on the Board of Health two 
years ; and he has been medical e.xaminer for the 
P'irst Plymouth District since 1877. He was 
]5resident of the Plymouth District Massachusetts 
Medical Society for i8gi and 1892, and is at 
present (1895) treasurer of the Massachusetts 
Medico-legal Society. He has been identified 
with the order of Odd Fellows since 1871, and 
has passed through the chairs of both lodge and 
encampment. He is also a member of Canton 
Nemasket, Patriarchs Militant, Independent Order 
of Odd F'ellows, of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, of the Loyal Legion, and of the Commercial 
Club of Brockton. In politics he is a Republican. 
Dr. Paine was married May i, 1867, to Miss 
Lucie W. Ritter, of M'ashington, D.C. They have 
two daughters : Georgina L. and Claarlotte H. 
Paine. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



I'IKRCE, JdHK ('.. <if (Moucester. member of 
the Essex bar. was l)orii in Rockport, October 8, 
1856, son of Sylvester and Annie E. (Sanborn) 
Pierce. His father was a native of Maine, born 
in Lebanon, son of John Pierce of the same place. 
Both were farmers. Being left fatherless at the 
age of eight years, and obliged early to earn his 
own living, his schooling was confined to that 
which the common schools of his native place 
afforded. He, however, acquired knowledge in 
other ways, and through his own exertions ob- 
tained a liberal education. After leaving school. 
he was engaged for five years in sloop-freighting 




JOHN C. PIERCE. 

of granite from Rockport to Boston. Then he 
began the study of law, in January, 1879 entering 
the law office of William \\'. French, afterwards 
mayor of (iloucester ; and after three years of 
study here he was admitted to the bar at the 
June term, 1882, of the Superior Court in Salem. 
Since that time he lias been in active practice in 
Gloucester and Rockport, devoting himself espe- 
cially to the settlement of estates and to United 
States pensions business. He has served his 
native town as a member of the School Committee 
through fi\e terms, 1882-83-84-86-89, acting a 
part of the time as secretary of the board, and 
for three years, 1882-83-84, as auditor of ac- 



counts. In 1885 he was a candidate for the Leg- 
islature for the First Flssex representative District, 
but was defeated after a close contest by only 
three votes. He is an ardent Republican, and 
has served as secretary of the Republican town 
committee of Rockport (from 1885 to 1890 land 
one vear (1887) on the Republican State Commit- 
tee for the Third Essex senatorial District. He is 
a member of the Tynan Lodge of Freemasons 
and of the Columbia Club of Gloucester ; and in 
the Ashler Lodge of Masons, Rockport, he has 
held the positions of senior deacon, junior and 
senior warden. Mr. Pierce was married February 
22, 1886, to Miss Emma E. Saunders, daughter of 
William E. Saunders, of Rockport. They have 
three children: Zillah F., John C, Jr., and Sylves- 
ter Pierce. 

PORTER, Edwarh Francis, of Watertown, 
was born in Scituate, July 21, 1820, son of Ed- 
ward J., soldier of the war of 18 12, and Ruth 
(Gardner) Porter. He was the oldest of nine 
children, five boys and four girls, all of whom lived 
to adult age, and were present at the golden wed- 
ding of their parents in 1869 at his house in East 
Boston. His paternal grandfather, William Porter, 
of Marshfield, was in the sixth generation from 
Richard Porter, who came from England in 1635, 
and settled in Weymouth ; and his maternal grand- 
father, Perez Gardner, of Hingham, a soldier of 
the Revolution, serving during the whole term of 
the war, with Arnold in his march through Maine 
to Canada, and finally discharged at New York 
by General Washington, was of Hingham ancestry 
for several generations. He was educated in the 
common schools, and after leaving school served 
an apprenticeship with his father as a sail-maker. 
In due course of time he became a master at the 
work, and in 1844 succeeded his father in the 
business, then established in Scituate. Three 
years later, in 1847, he moved to Boston, and 
there continued the sail-making business till i860, 
making most of the sails for the large clipper 
ships built by Donald McKay and Samuel Hall. 
In the year 1855 he began d\'e-wood manufact- 
uring, which he continued successfidly till 1873, 
when he retired from active business. He was 
the founder of the Boston Dye-wood &: Chemical 
Company in 1868. Mr. Porter has been elected 
or appointed to numerous positions, and has per- 
formed much public service. He was a member 
of the Boston Common Council in 1855 and 1856, 



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427 



a member of the lower house of the Legislature have had six sons and one daughter : Francis R. 
in 1857 and 1859. a senator in 1858, State com- (now a physician), Damon t". (deceased by acci- 
missioner for the sale of liquor from 1859 to 1866. dent 1874, a clergyman), Henry S., W. L.. I,. H.. 

and W. D., deceased 1889 (in commercial busi- 
ness), and Annie P. Porter. 




RAW Kdc.ar KxAPi', of i-'ranklin. concerned 
in railroad, manufacturing, and tinancial interests, 
is a native of Franklin, Ijorn July 17. 1844, son 
of James Paine and Susan (Kiiapp) Ray. His 
father was the son of Joseph and Lydia (Taine) 
Ray, and was born in South Mendon, now East 
Klackstone ; and his mother was daughter of Cap- 
tain Alfred and Eleanor (Hawes) Knapp. 'Phe 
father of .Alfred Knapp was a major in the War 
of the Revolution, and the father of Eleanor 
Hawes Knapp a private. Mr. Ray was educated 
in the public schools of his native town, at the 
Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, \'t., and at a 
commercial college in Boston. He was brought 
up to habits of business by his father, who knew 
the worth of practical education ; and his whole 
life from boyhood to manhood was filled with 



E. -F, PORTER. 

also commissioner for New Hampshire in 1862- 
63-64-65, and authorized to sell to Maine town 
agents during 1860-61-62-63 : and a member of 
the IJoston PJoard of .Aldermen in 1865 and 1866. 
In Watertown lie has been a selectman four 
terms, 1887-88-89-93; a member of the Hoard 
of Health, 1892-93 ; member of the commit- 
tee nn the construction of sewers in the town 
in 1890 91-92, when the work was finished; and 
chairman of the committee on building the new 
lirick school-house in 1894 95. He has belonged 
lo the Methodist Church since 1839, serving as 
trustee most of the time since, first in Scituate, 
afterwartl in P^ast pjoston, and now in Watertown. 
He has been a member of the Weslexan .Associa- 
tion since 1852 ; was a trustee of Wesleyan .\cad- 
cniv. Wilhrahaiii. for ten vears till 1882, when he 
resignetl from ill-health : a trustee of Lasell Semi- 
nary about the same time : and member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Charitable Mechanic .Association since 
1862, trustee in 1895 for three years. In politics 
he was originally a Free Soiler and afterward a home training anil few idle moments. Beginning 
Republican. .Mr. Porter was married .May 8, business life in manufacturing interests, he early 
1S42, to Miss I'hebe Damon, of Scituate. They became concerned in railroad and other aflairs ; 




EDGAR K. RAY. 



428 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and ho is now connected in an official capacity 
with numerous important corporations. He is 
president of the Citizen's National Bank of Woon- 
socket, R.I.. of the Woonsocket Street Railway, 
of the Rhode Island & Pascoag Railroad, of the 
Rhode Island & Massachusetts Railroad, and of 
the Elm Farm Milk Company ; treasurer of the 
Putnam Manufacturing Company, of Putnam, 
Conn. ; and director of the Milford iS: Franklin 
Railroad, the Franklin National Bank, the Woon- 
socket Electric Light and Power Company, and 
the Ray's Woollen Compan\-. All this business 
he carries comfortably and without friction, being 
possessed of great powers of concentration. In 
politics Mr. Ray is a Republican. Although emi- 
nently fitted for political life, his business interests 
have crowded so heavily upon him that he has 
persistently refused public offices, serving only on 
the Board of Selectmen of Franklin, of which he 
is now chairman. He is a member of the Scjuan- 
tum Club, the Hope Club, and the Athletic Club, 
all of Providence, R.l. He was married Decem- 
ber 23, 1874, to Miss Margaret Smith, daughter 
of .\rtemas R. and .Ardelia (Fairbank) Smith, of 
Fitchburg, Mass. ; and tliey have had two chil- 
dren : Eleanor Knapp, and Joseph Gordon Ray, 
2d. Mr. Ray lives in the old Major Knapp 
homestead in Unionville (a village of Franklin t, 
which has been in the family since its purchase in 
1784. Major Knapp, returning home at the close 
of the Revolution, erected the present house, 
which is kept in a good state of preservation. In 
addition to his heavy business cares Mr. Ray 
takes an active interest in agricultural pursuits, as 
is disclosed by the appearance of the old home- 
stead with its ample barns and broad acres. His 
hospitality is unbounded, and he prides himself in 
keeping " open house " for all his friends. 



years later he moved to Brockton, where he has 
since been established. He was city solicitor for 
three years. i886-8g, and became judge of the 



REED, Warren Au(;ustu.s, of Brockton, judge 
of the Police Court, was born in Boston, July i, 
185 1, son of Augustus and Laura Ann (Leach) 
Reed. He is in the ninth generation from Will- 
iam Reade, of Weymouth, who came from Eng- 
land in 1635. He was educated in Boston gram- 
mar and English High schools, and at Harvard 
College in the class of 1875, of which he is 
secretary. .After graduation he spent a year in 
study in Europe, and in 1876-77 attended the 
Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1878, and began practice in Boston. Three 




WARREN A. J!EED. 

Police Court September 26, 1889. He has a large 
and varied general practice. He served as a mem- 
ber of the School Committee of Brockton for si.x 
years, from 1884 to 1890 inclusive. He was mar- 
ried in Boston, December 3, 1878, to Miss Nellie 
N. Crocker, of that city. They have had seven 
children, two of whom are living: Nellie (born 
March 30, 1880, died April 5, 1880), Laurence B. 
(born in Boston, February 22, 188 1), Robert and 
Malcomb (born March 2, 1886. died March 4, 

1886, in Brockton), Warren A. (born August 20, 

1887, died April 21, 1890), Clarence C. (born 
August 30, 1889), and Mildred Reed (born Sep- 
tember 2, i8go, died October i, 1890). 



RHODES, Marci's Morton, of Taunton, 
manufacturer, was born in Fo.xborough, January 22, 
1822, son of Steplien and Betsey (Bird) Rhodes. 
On his father's side he is descended from early 
settlers of Dedham, and on his mother's side from 
early settlers of Sharon. On both sides the 
families were large, and those of the present day 
are widely scattered throughout the country. He 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



429 



was educated in the common schools of P'ranklin. 
Foxborough, and Taunton, and at the High School 
and Bristol Academy of Taunton. After leaving 
school, he entered the factory of his father, and 
learned the trade of making tacks and nails. At 
the age of twenty-one he was taken into partner- 
ship under the firm name of S. Rhodes & Son. 
He continued in this business until i86j, when 
lie c-mi)arked alone in a special branch of tack- 
making. In 1870 he admitted his elder sons 
to partnership, the firm name becoming M. M. 
Rhodes (Iv: Sons, and added lo the business the 
making of papier-mache shoe buttons, from a 
machine of his own in\ention, the first practical 
machine of tiiis kind used in the countrw 'I'his 
was the basis of his subsequent prosperity. In 
1888 the firm became a corporation under the 
name of M. M. Rhodes & Sons Company. Mr. 
Rhodes was a member of the first Common 
C'ouncil of the city of Taunton, in 1865 : and was 
a member of the Board of Water ( 'onniiissioners 
under whose direction water was introduced into 
Taunton. In politics he was first connected 
with the old Whig party, and since its dissolu- 




MARCUS M. RHODES. 



tion and the formation of the Republican part)' 
he has been a member of the latter organization. 
He was married November 11, 1S45, to Miss 



Rowena A. Williams, of Taunton. They have 
had three sons : Charles M.. George H., and 
Albert C. Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes resided in 
Franklin and Foxborough until 1835, when he re- 
moved to Taunton, where he has since lived. 



RICH.MO.M), (JKoRCK ii.vKsrnw, of New Bed- 
ford, register of deeds, was born in New Bedford, 
November 9, 182 1, son of Gideon and Rebecca 
(Barstow) Richmond. His father was of Dighton, 
and his mother of Scituate. He was educated 
at the Friends' Academy, New Bedford, Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough, and Brown University, 
where he remained two years. He was early 
identified with the local interests of his native city, 
and has always taken an active part in municipal 
and political matters. In fact, no citizen of New 
Bedford has been more prominently identified 
with its public affairs during the past forty years 
than he. His influence became noticeable in the 
contest of the people against the New Bedford 
Bridge Corporation, which lasted from 1845 to the 
summer of 1855, and terminated in securing what 
had become an imperati\-e necessity, — the widen- 
ing of the draw of the bridge from thirty-two feet 
to sixty feet, and the deepening of the channel 
through the draw, to accommodate the increasing 
commerce of New Bedford, wdiose large whaling 
Meets were then sailing upon every ocean. This 
result is said to have been largely due to Mr. 
Richmond's energy and perseverance, which 
finally prevailed against the powerful Bridge Cor- 
poration, the question having been pressed by him 
to an issue, through State and national courts and 
tlirough the General Court of Massachusetts, not- 
withstanding a variety of hindrances and the dis- 
couragements of the law's delay. In 185 i he was 
elected on the Whig ticket as a representative in 
the State Legislature of 1852. On the first of 
May, 1 86 1, he was appointed inspector, weigher, 
ganger, and measurer in the New Bedford Custom 
House, and held this office until January 5, 1874, 
when he resigned. During his service in the 
Custom House the temperance question became 
prominent in local politics, and he was at once 
foremost on the side of the temperance men. An 
ardent Republican, he was also an ardent advo- 
cate of prohibitory measures for the suppression 
of the liquor traffic. In 1870, 187 1, 1872, 1874, 
and 1S78 he was mayoi' of New Bedford, each 
lime being chosen as the representative of the 



430 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



clistinctl)- temperance element : ;ind to this day his 
administration is cited by proiiibitory advocates 
as proof of the soundness of their \ie\vs. Aside 
from this, Mr. Richmond's conduct of the mayor- 
alty was highly successful. His administration 
was signalized by a notable extension of streets, 
and in the rebuilding of the New liedford Bridge 
in 1870, his enterprise in this and other public 
improvements contributing in a marked degree to 
the prosperity of the city. On December 31, 
1 87 J, he was appointed by Governor \\'ashbvun a 
member of the Board of Police Commissioners, 
and remained on the board until it was abolished, 
in July, 1874. In 1880 and 1881 he was a mem- 
ber of the State Senate, representing the Third 
Bristol District. During his second term in the 
.Senate he was chairman of the committees on 
public charitable institutions and on the liquor 
law. He was first appointed to the office of regis- 
ter of deeds for the Southern Bristol District in 
March, 1883, a vacancy then occurring; and he 
has since been repeatedly elected by the people, 
the last time Xovember 5, 1S94, unanimously. 
.\s register, he has been an efficient and popular 




CEO. B. RICHMOND. 



official. Since the spring of 1886 Mr. Richmond 
has been a trustee of the Westborough Insane 
Hospital,- - first appointed by Governor Robinson, 



reappointed in Feliruary, 1887, by Governor 
Ames, and in 1S92 reappointed by Governor 
Russell for five years. He was a member of the 
Republican State central committee for 1888: 
chairman of the Republican county committee for 
several years ; chairman of the first Congressional 
district Republican committee three years ; and 
for some time chairman of the thu'd Bristol district 
senatorial committee. In 1S88 he declined a re- 
election on all these committees, desiring to de- 
\ote his time to the duties of his office. For a 
long period he has been closely identified with 
movements for promoting the moral and material 
welfare of the city. He has been for years one 
of tile board of the New Bedford Port .Society ; 
for se\en years was president of the Young Men's 
Christian .Association : is now chairman of the 
Board of Trustees of the First Baptist Society, 
and was for five years superintendent of the 
Sunday-school : and is a trustee of the New Bed- 
ford Five Cents Savings Bank. Mr. Richmond 
was married at Middleborough, November 5. 
1S44, to Miss Rebecca R. C. Nelson, daughter of 
the Rev. P>benezer and Rebecca C. (Childs) Nel- 
son, of Middleborough, by whom he had seven 
children, five of whom are living. Mrs. Rich- 
mond died July 31, 1863. His second marriage 
was at New Bedford, December 15, 1864, to Miss 
.\bby ,S. Nelson, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel 
and Hannah (Smith) Nelson, of New Bedford, 
who died Julv 30, 1868. His third marriage was 
at New Bedford, November 2, 187 1, to Miss 
P'lizabeth E. Swift, daughter of Charles D. and 
.Marv H. (Crane) Swift of New Bedford. 



ROBINSON, David Fr.-\.\klix, of Lawrence, 
manufacturer, was born in New Hampshire, in 
the town of Fremont, December 10, 1829, son 
of David and Mary (Beedei Robinson. He was 
educated in the district school with six terms of 
private school, and trained for active life on the 
farm. He became a manufacturer of machine 
card clothing in 1857, beginning business on the 
first of April, .tnd has been successfully engaged 
in it since. He has always tried to avoid politi- 
cal office, but his fellow-citizens induced him to 
serve two terms in the city government, the first 
in 1875, as a member of the Common Council, 
and the second in 1887, as an alderman. He was 
eminent commander of the Bethany Coinmandery 
of Knights Templar in 1S69 and 1870, and ffom 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



431 



i,SS4 to iS()o inclusive; and president of the 
Honu' ( lub from i88g to 1S94. He is also a 
nicniht-r of the Tuscan Lodge of I'Yeemasons. of 




D. FRANK ROBINSON. 

the Mt. Sinai Royal Arch Chapter, and of the 
Lawrence Council. He has been a resident of 
Lawrence since the ist of ^Lay, 184/, and always 
interested in the welfare of the city and its institu- 
tions. Mr. Robinson was married in June, 185 i, 
to Miss Eliza Ann Norris. They have had two 
children : Franklin N'ewton and Frederick Xorris 
Robinson. 



R(")SS, Geokcie IvisON, M.F)., of Canton, was 
born in the old Custoin House, Newport, R.I.. 
Ma\ J5. 1847. ^on of David and Mary (Ivison) 
Ross. His father was a native of Inverness, Scot- 
land, born in 181 2; and his mother was of Car- 
lisle, England, born the same year. His paternal 
grandfather, David Ross, was born in the High- 
lands of Scotland ; and his maternal grandfather, 
(ieorge Ivison, for whom he is named, was of 
the old family of Ivison, of Carlisle, a branch 
of which, settled in America, was represented in 
the firm of Ivison, Phinney, HIakeman, iV Co,, 
now Ivison, Phinney, & Co., New^ York City. His 
maternal grandmother was a Lancaster, which 



traces back to aristocratic blood : but, as there 
is no use for titles in this country, he has never 
taken the trouble to e.\amine this branch of his 
genealogical tree. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools, and at the age of eighteen gradu- 
ated from the mercantile department of the East 
Greenwich Academy, East (Greenwich, R.I. Then 
he became cashier for the firm of 15. A. Whitcomb 
iS: Co., Westminster Street, Providence, R.I.; but. 
not long after, his health being impaired, he left 
the city, and went to Danielsonville, ("onn., where 
he entered the grocery store of C. L. N'oung. 
Having a great desire for further study, he soon 
found his way back to the seminary, becoming 
a pupil in the academy at Suffield, Conn. His 
studies there completed, he engaged as clerk in 
the drug store of his brother-in-law, W. VV. \\'ood- 
ward, in Danielsonville ; and, in this work develop- 
ing an interest in drugs, he determined to enter the 
medical profession. Thereupon he went to \\'ash- 
ington University for special training, and gradu- 
ated there in 1876. He first established himself 
in Canterbury, Conn.; and in five years it was said 
by his brothers in the profession that he had the 
greatest drives of any physician in Windham 
County. In 1879 he performed the most e.xten- 
sive operation of skin-grafting on record, which 
brought him wide fame. The case was that of 
a boy of ten, who, by falling into a set-kettle 
of boiling water, had lost the skin of his left leg 
from the bend of the knee, and a part of the thigh, 
to the foot ; and it was described in the Aliihii^aii 
Medical Xeii's, May 10, 1880, as follows; "Dr. 
Ross was called, and suggested skin-grafting. . . . 
The question arose, would the boy be a cripple ; 
for. as time progressed, the leg became fiexed, and 
the raw surfaces of leg and thigh were growing 
together. The grafts grew firmly, and promised 
success. The problem to solve was how to 
straighten the leg. . . . The doctor made a box 
after the pattern of an old-fashioned fracture box, 
with a shaft, cog-wheel, and spring-catch attached. 
After placing the leg in this, he placed a stuft'ed 
pad over the knee, with a cord attached at either 
side running down around the shaft underneath 
the box, which projected from the sides. Every 
day after the operation of grafting was performed 
the crank was given a few extra turns, bringing 
the knee down into the box. This procedure was 
renewed every day for nine long weary months : 
but the grafts grew, the leg straightened, and the 
doctor succeeded. To-dav the boy has two good 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



legs, is strong and health)-, and a living monument 
to the doctor's patience, perseverance, and skill." 
This account was copied into the Scientific Atneri- 
can and newspapers generally ; and Dr. Ross re- 
ceived many letters from his professional brethren 
regarding it. In 1881 he made the discovery that 
hydrate of chloral was a specific in acute Bright's 
disease of the kidneys, and published it in the 
Ne7v Eu^Iaiici Medical Journal. Two years later 
Thomas \\'ilson, M.R.C.S., England, made the 
same discovery, and published it in the Ah'w York 
Medical Gazette. In 1883 Dr. Ross was appointed 
medical e.xaminer for his district, which position 




CEO. IVISON ROSS. 

he held until his removal to Canton in May, 1885. 
In 1888 he delivered the address before the 
Alumni Association of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Baltimore, of which he had 
become an alumnus by the merging of the medi- 
cal department of Washington University into it 
in 1877. The same year (1888) he was made 
president of the Alumni Association. In politics 
Dr. Ross is a Republican, and was chairman of 
the Republican town committee for a number of 
years. He has never desired public office, and in 
1883, when he was proposed for State senator, 
declined ; and, being asked to name the candi- 
date, named his nearest neighbor, Thomas G. 



(.'larke, wiio was promptly nominated and elected. 
In Canton he served several terms on the Board 
of Health. He is a Freemason, an Odd Fellow, 
a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Associa- 
tion, and a member of the Republican Club of 
Massachusetts. He enjoys a large and lucrative 
practice, keeps step with the times, continues to 
visit the hospitals and dispensaries weekly, and is 
in every way a progressive man. He was married 
first in 1872 to Miss Marion Ktta Underwood, 
daughter of .-Vlbert Underw'ood, of Danielsonville, 
Conn. She died in May, 1884, leaving two chil- 
dren, Margaret and Marion Etta, the latter an 
infant born three weeks before her death. He 
married second, in the autumn of 1885, Miss 
Ella E. Baker, daughter of PLustis Baker, of West 
Dedham. He lives in a beautiful home, which he 
has christened " Bonnie Doon." 



RUGGLES, Henry Ellis, of Franklin, mem- 
ber of the bar, was born in Boston, July 25, 1858, 
and became the adopted son of Calvin H. and 
Maria C. (Streeter) Ruggles. He was educated 
in the common and High schools of Upton, at 
Phillips (Exeter) Academy, and at Williston Sem- 
inary. Easthampton. He began the study of law 
with Judge .\. A. Putnam of U.xbridge, but was 
obliged, for financial reasons, temporarilv to 
suspend it, and to go to work in a straw shop. 
After he had become an overseer, he resigned, and 
resumed his studies with the Hon. George W. 
Wiggin, of Franklin, meanwhile teaching school, 
his wife also assisting in the family support by 
working in the straw shop. He was admitted to 
the bar on the i6th of January, 1888, and began 
practice in Franklin, where he has since been 
established. He has been active in local and 
State politics, as a Democrat, for a number of 
years, and has served on numerous special com- 
mittees in town affairs. For three years (1890- 
gi-92) he was town clerk of Franklin. He was 
elected to the lower house of the Legislature of 
1892, and has been twice since a candidate, each 
time leading his ticket, the only Democrat elected 
from his district since 1857. During his term he 
served acceptably on the committees on water- 
supply, on probate and insolvency, and on revision 
of the judicial system of the Commonwealth (joint 
special committee), which sat through the recess. 
He is prominent in both the iMasonic and Odd Fel- 
lows orders, a thirty-second degree Mason, and 



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433 



grand master of tlie Massachusetts Odd Fellows, 
having been deputy grand master in 1894, grand 
warden in 1S92, and grand guardian in 1 S89. He 




H. E. RUGGLES. 

belongs to the Excelsior Lodge, Freemasons of 
Franklin, and to King David Lodge, No. 71, Odd 
Fellows, the King Mountain Encampment, No. 71, 
and Lady F'ranklin Lodge, No. 66, Daughters of 
Rebecca. Other organizations of which he is a 
member are the Franklin Grange, Patrons of Hus- 
bandry, and the "\'oung Men's Democratic Club of 
Massachusetts, which he was among the earliest 
to join ; and he is a trustee of the Wildy Savings 
Rank of Boston. He was married September 8, 
iSSj. to Miss Carrie E. Douglass. She died 
Man h 1 1, 1894. He has no children. 



RUSSELL, Frederick William, M.D., of 
W'inchendon. was born in W'inchendon. lanuarv 
27, 1845, son of Ira and Roannah (Greenwood) 
Russell. He belongs to the Lexington branch of 
the Russell family, being descended from William 
Russell, an English emigrant, who is known to 
have been living in Cambridge, with his wife, in 
1645. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Russell, 
was one of the first settlers of Rindire, N.IL. 



about 1762. His father. Dr. Ira Russell, born in 
Rindge in 18 14, served with distinction in the 
Civil War, as surgeon of the Eleventh Massachu- 
setts Regiment, brigade surgeon of Hooker's 
Brigade, surgeon of United States V'olunteers, and 
medical director, retiring at the close of tlie war 
as brevet lieutenant colonel. His maternal great- 
grandfather was Colonel Jacob Brown Woodbur_\ , 
who attained distinction in the War of the Revolu- 
tion as a man of great courage and endurance. 
His common school education was obtained in the 
High School at Natick : and his collegiate train- 
ing was at Harvard, which he entered after a few 
months at Vale, graduating with the class of 1869. 
Before entering college, he had nearly a year's 
e.xperience in the army as hospital steward (1862- 
63 ) ; and the autumn following his graduation he 
entered the Medical School of Dartmouth College. 
In June, 1870, he was graduated from the medical 
department of the Lfniversity of New York City, 
and immediately entered general practice in com- 
pany with his father in Winchendon. The sum- 
mer of 1873 was spent at the Exposition and in 
the Medical School at Vienna. In 1S82 he be- 




FREDERICK W. RUSSELL. 



came actively associated with liis father in the 
care of the Highlands, a private hospital for the 
treatment of mental and nervous diseases; and so 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



continued until 1HS9, when lie Ijecame sole owner 
of the institution. He has been president of the 
Worcester North District Medical Society, and is 
a member of the American Medical Association, 
and of the New England Psychological Associa- 
tion. In addition to his professional work. Dr. 
Russell is interested in business enterprises, being 
the founder and a director of the Winchendon 
Electric Light and Power Company, and founder 
and president of the Winchendon Co-operative 
Bank ; and he has long been an active advocate of 
all public improvements in his community. He is 
chairman of the town Board of Health in Win- 
chendon, and has served on the School Committee. 
In politics he has always been a zealous working 
Republican, but has held no elective office. He 
is a member of the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, is connected with the Improved Order of 
Red Men, and belongs to the Grand Army of the 
Republic, the Loyal Legion, and the Sons of Vet- 
erans. Dr. Russell was married June 11, 1872, 
at Lancaster, to Miss Caroline Emily Marvin. 
They have had three children: Rowena Mary, 
Dorothea Marvin, and Walter Marvin Russell. 



S.AUNDERS, Danikl, of Lawrence, member of 
the bar for above half a century, was born in 
Andover, October 6, 1822, son of Daniel and 
Phabe Fo.xcroft (.Abbott) Saunders. His father 
was a woollen manufacturer in Andover, and was 
the founder of the city of Lawrence. On his 
mother's side he is a descendant of George 
-Abbott, one of the first settlers of Andover in 
1643. His grandfather, Caleb Abbott, served 
with distinction in the Revolutionary army 
from the commencement to the end of the 
war, beginning at the battle of Hunker Hill 
and ending at the surrender of Burgoyne. Mr. 
Saunders's education was acquired at the old 
Franklin .Academy of North Andover and at 
Phillips (^.Andover) .Academy, and he read law in 
the office of his brother-in-law, the late Judge Jo- 
siah G. .Abbott, and at the Harvard Law School. 
He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar on the 
first day of January, 1845, and in January, 1S49, to 
the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
Very early after his admission he took a leading 
position, and was employed by his clients to con- 
test their cases against N. J. and Otis P. Lord, 
Asahel Huntington, and Judge Perkins, the then 
leading lawyers of his time, and subsequently in 



an extensive practice with .Abbott, Endicott, Perry, 
Ives, Northend, and Thompson. He was a for- 
midable antagonist in a trial, and prepared his 
cases with much care, and tried them with great 
ability and skill, and was regarded by his contem- 
poraries as one of the ablest advocates in the 
countv. His practice was not confined to his 
own county ; but he tried many cases in other 
counties and outside of the State. He has repre- 
sented his district in both branches of the General 
Court, a member of the Senate in 185 1, and of 
the House of Representatives in 1859. He was 
mavor of Lawrence in i860, at the time of the fall 




DANIEL SAUNDERS. 

of the Pemberton Mills, which caused the death 
of a hundred persons. His executive ability on 
that occasion was so marked that it received 
recognition, and was favorably commented upon 
by the press generally. Politics, however, was not 
to his taste; and his election in 1859 to the Gen- 
eral Court was without his consent and against his 
express wishes. .As stated above, his father was 
the founder of Lawrence, a portrait of whom now 
hangs in the aldermanic chamber of the city, suit- 
ably inscribed " Founder of the City of Law- 
rence." This portrait was presented by Daniel 
and his two brothers, Charles W. and Caleb Saun- 
ders, the latter of whom has also been mavor of the 



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435 



city. Accompanying the gift of the portrait was 
a letter from the givers, narrating in detail the dis- 
covery by their father of the water power of the 
Merrimac at this point, his labors in demonstrat- 
ing its utility before any capitalist or manufacturer 
dreamed of its existence, and his successful efforts 
in establishing the new manufacturing centre, 
which letter was filed witii tlic archives of the city. 
It relates that the elder Saunders's attention was 
called to the possibilities of a water power which 
might develop a great manufacturing town, by a 
profile plan of a survey of the river from Lowell to 
tide-water, made prior to 1830, — of which he had 
become possessed in 1832 or 1833, — provided 
the measurements of the various rapids as shown 
on the plan were correct. The object of this sur- 
vey was to ascertain the cost of building locks and 
canals around the several falls, so that boats with 
merchandise might pass up and down the river ; 
and, the expense being found larger than the then 
business of transportation would warrant, the mat- 
ter was dropped. To verify the plan of the 
survey, the elder Saunders himself, from time to 
time, made measurements of the several falls ; 
and, upon ascertaining that it was substantially 
correct, he set about purchasing lands along the 
river until he held the key to an enterprise which 
might be started for the development of this 
power. Having determined in his own mind what 
might be done, he sold out his woollen mills at 
North Andover and at Concord, N.H., and di- 
rected his whole energies in securing other lands 
which might be essential in controlling the water 
power. The letter continues: "This done, he dis- 
cussed with me (who was then a law student in 
the office of his nephew, the Hon. Josiah G. 
Abbott, of Lowell) the best mode of starting his 
long-cherished object of establishing a new manu- 
facturing town on the Merrimac. Long prior to 
this time Mr. Abbott had been the confidential 
and legal adviser of my father in this matter; and, 
outside of our own family, he was tiie only one 
cognizant of the extent of his plans. In 1837 Mr. 
.\bbott, then a member of the Legislature, pro- 
cured for my father an act incorporating the 
Shawmut Mills, so called, for the purpose of 
manufacturing cotton and woollen goods and ma- 
chinery at Andover. The charter of the company 
was purposely very brief and indefinite, not 
even naming the Merrimac Ri\er as a base of 
operation. My father desired this charter to pro- 
tect his interest in case any other jierson should 



discover the extent of the river power before he 
had completed his arrangements for its use. For 
good and obvious reasons his name was not men- 
tioned in the charter, the only persons named 
as grantees being Caleb Abbott, father of Judge 
Abbott, and a brother-in-law of my father, Arthur 
Livermore, a connection by marriage with Mr. 
Abbott, and John Nesmith, a friend and client of 
his, who allowed the use of their names without 
being then aware of the real intent and scope of 
my father's plans or of the purpose for which the 
company was chartered." As there was no occa- 
sion for the use of this charter, nothing was done 
under it. The next move, by advice of Mr. 
Abbott, was to bring the matter to the attention of 
some of the manufacturers and capitalists of 
Lowell. Accordingly, the real object of the char- 
ter of the Shawmut Mills was then disclosed to 
Mr. Nesmith, one of the grantors ; and Samuel 
Lawrence, of Lowell, was consulted. It was hard 
to convince either of these gentlemen that there 
was such a power as Mr. Saunders described ; 
but when, after many protracted interviews, he 
demonstrated the fact to them by showing the 
fall of the different rapids, the aggregate of which 
disclosed a power equal to that of Lowell, their 
doubts gave way to surprise. Inquiry was then 
made as to whether there was any good place for 
building a dam below Deer Jump Falls. These 
falls were a few miles below Lowell. Mr. Saun- 
ders pointed out two places suitable for locating 
a dam and building a town, — one at Peters' 
Falls, a few miles above the present dam, the 
other at Bodwell's Falls, the place where the dam 
is now located. Subsequently, a few other gen- 
tlemen were consulted; and it was soon decided 
to utilize the power which Mr. Saunders had dis- 
covered. For this purpose the Merrimac River 
Water Power Association was formed, Mr. Saun- 
ders at the head as manager, with Mr. Hopkinson 
(afterward Judge Hopkinson), Samuel Lawrence, 
John Nesmith, Daniel Saunders, Nathaniel 
Stevens, Jonathan Tyler, and Judge Abbott. As 
there were two places at which the new town 
might be located, Mr. Saunders advised the taking 
of bonds from the land-owners in both places by 
which they should agree to sell at a price about 
double the then value of their farms. In this 
way, he said, there would naturally spring up a 
rivalry between the places, and, when one had 
bonded his lands, he would be anxious that his 
neighbor should do likewise, and would use his 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



inrtuence to induce him lo do so. 'i'liis course 
was adopted ; and its wisdom was demonstrated 
by the fact that, with the exception of one or two 
small pieces, all the lands needed were secured in 
both places. The present site was finally selected, 
and the lands here bonded were purchased, in 
which purchase were included the lands formerly 
purchased by Mr. Saunders on his own account 
years before the company was formed. For these 
lands he only asked the price he had paid with 
simple interest added. The letter concludes : 
" We are grateful that Providence so prolonged 
his days that ho saw accomplished the purpose 
and labors of many years of his busy life, and to 
know that the seed which he had sown with 
anxious care had grown and ripened in a harvest 
equal to his expectations. He merits and well 
has the most prominent place in the early history 
of Lawrence." In national politics Mr. Saunders 
is a Democrat; in State politics, an Independent, 
not always supporting Democratic candidates ; 
and in municipal politics a supporter of the best 
men for office without regard to parties. He was 
married October 7, 1846, to Mary Jane Liver- 
more, daughter of Judge Edward St. Loe Liver- 
more. They have had two sons and three daugh- 
ters : Charles G., Mary L., Frederick A., .\nne G., 
and Edith St. Loe Saunders. 



phia, of the Massachusetts Homceopathic Society. 
and of other organizations. He was married in 
1 86 1, in Easton, Penna., to Miss Lydia Cobb, 



SEII', Charles Lewis, M.D., of New Bedford, 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Easton, Octo- 
ber 16, 1842, son of Edward and Margaret Seip. 
He received a good education in the public 
schools of his native town, finishing with an aca- 
demic course in Philadelphia. His inclinations 
led him early to the study of medicine, in which 
he persevered ; and, after two years' preparatory 
work, he entered the Philadelphia School of 
.Vnatomy and Surgery, from which he graduated 
in due course. Later on, his studies were further 
pursued in the Hahnemann Medical College of 
Philadelphia, where he was graduated with the 
regular degree of M.D. in March, 1882. He 
immediately began practice, first settled in the 
city of Philadelphia, and subsequently coming to 
Massachusetts has since successfully followed his 
profession in Middleborough and in New Bedford, 
becoming established in the latter city in 1886. 
He is now in the enjoyment of a large and success- 
ful practice. Dr. Seip is a member of the Homa-o- 
pathic Medical Society of the County of Philadel- 




CHAS. L. SEIP. 

daughter of Wilson and Mercy Cobb, of Middle- 
borough. Thev have no children. 



SHAW, Oliver, of Watertown, manufacturer, 
was born in Carver, February 5. 183 1, son of 
Joseph and Hannah (Dunham) Shaw; died in 
Watertown, December 26, 1894. He was a direct 
descendant of early settlers of Plymouth. He 
attained his education in the public schools. At 
the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to learn 
the moulder's trade, and worked at that trade for 
a number of years in Middleborough, East Bos- 
ton, South Carver, and Watertown. In 1863 he 
took charge of the Miles Pratt & Co.'s stove 
works, Watertown, as superintendent, and contin- 
ued in that capacity to the time of his death, a 
period of thirty-one years. From 1877. w'hen the 
Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company suc- 
ceeded the firm of Walker, Pratt. & Co. (succes- 
sors of Miles Pratt & Co.), he was also a director 
of the corporation. He was one of the organizers 
of the Watertown Savings Bank in 1S72, and a 
trustee of the institution from its establishment: 
and he was president of the Union Market Na- 



MF.N OF PROGRESS. 



437 



tioiial l!anl< from 1883. He was long proniiiieiU 
in town nlfairs, and identified witii its interests, 
serxinir on tile IJoard of Selectmen for fifteen years 



■^ST 



f 




send, May 9, 1851, son of Levi and Mary Jane 
(Fletcher) Sherwiii. His father was also a native 
of Townsend. and his mother was of Chelmsford. 
He was educated in the public schools of Groton 
(which became Ayer in 1871) and at Lawrence 
Academy, (Jroion, where he spent a year. At 
the age of fourteen he began work in a grocery 
store; and he has been in a store for most of the 
time since. When he reached his majority, he 
entered into partnership with his father in a 
general merchandise business, which lasted until 
the death of the latter in 1889; and since that 
time he has been in association with his brother. 
In 1S91 he became president of the Union Furni- 
ture Company of Ayer. He is also president of 
the trustees of the .Ayer Building Association, 
member of the North Middlese,x Savings Bank 
.Association, and a director in several other cor- 
porations. He has held the principal offices of 
the town, — member of the lioard of Selectmen for 
several years, and part of the time chairman of 
the board, assessor, member of the Sinking Fund 
Commission, member of the Board of Health, and 
auditor; and at the present time (1895) is a 



OLIVER SHAW. 

(1870 85), and its chairman for nine consecutixe 
years, finally voluntarily retiring, to the regret of 
many of the townspeople. He declined urgent 
solicitations to take office again until 1894, when 
lie consented to stand for State senator for his 
district, and was elected in the November elec- 
tion. From 1852 to 1857 he served in the State 
Militia as a member of Company K, Third Regi- 
ment : and during the Civil War he displayed his 
devotion to the Union cause in \-arious practical 
ways. In politics he was a stanch Republican. 
He was a member of the Middlesex Club of Bos- 
ton, and of the Village Club of Watertown. He 
was an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal 
church during his residence in Watertown. He 
was married September 16, 1855, to Miss 
Miranda .Atwood, of Carver. Their family con- 
sisted of four children : .Alton Elenore, Bradford 
01i\er, Bartlett Ellis, and Charles Fletcher Shaw, 
the onlv sur\i\or of whom is Charles Fletcher. 




WM. U. SHERWIN. 



selectman, assessor, on the health board, and one 

SHERWIN, WiLLi.A.M Uaki, of -Vyer, mer- of the permanent incorporated tru.stees of the 

chant and manufacturer, was born in Town- .Ayer Library .Association. In 1893 he repre- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



sented the town in the lower liouse of the Legisla- 
ture, where he served on the committee on federal 
relations. In politics he is a Republican, and has 
served as chairman of the Republican town com- 
mittee of Aver. He does not use tobacco or 
liquor in any form, and prides himself on his 
steady good health, having had no need of a 
physician for more than twenty years. Mr. 
Sherwin was married January 7, 1874, to Miss 
Mary F. Richardson, of Ayer, a native of Rich- 
mond, Me. They have three children : Charles 
E. (aged si.vteen years), Daisy G. (twelve years), 
and Hertha L. Sherwin (eight years). 



STILES, James Arthur, of Gardner, member 
of the bar, is a native of Fitchburg, born Septem- 
ber I, 1855, son of James F. and Ann Maria 
(Works) Stiles. He is in direct line of descent 
from Robert Stiles, born in England in 1637, who 
came to this country in 1637. His ancestors 
were mostly farmers. Jacob Stiles, the grandson 
of Robert, held a royal commission in the Ameri- 
can contingent ; and his son Jacob, born in 




/ 



JAMES A. STILES. 



was educated in the Fitchburg High School and 
at Harvard, graduating in the class of 1877. He 
studied law in the office of Torrey & Bailey, Fitch- 
burg, and was admitted to practice in the courts 
of the Commonwealth in June, 1880, and in the 
LInited States courts in October following. He 
practised in Fitchburg till April, 1882, and then, 
entering into partnership with Edward P. Pierce, 
extended his practice to Gardner. The firm have 
since had a business of fair proportions in both 
places. Since i8gi Mr. Stiles has also been a 
special justice of the First Northern Worcester 
District Court. He has numerous other interests 
in Gardner : is connected with the Gardner Co- 
operative Bank, of which he has been treasurer 
from its foundation in 1889 ; the Gardner Electric 
Railway, treasurer since its foundation in 1894: 
and the Westminster National Bank, at present a 
director. He has been a director of the Levi 
Heywood Memorial Library Association since 
1889 ; captain of the Gardner Boat Club since 
1890, when it was founded ; and some time a mem- 
ber of the Park Club of Fitchburg, and of the 
•Academic Club of Gardner, an alumni association. 
In politics he is a Republican. He was for two 
years chairman of the Republican town committee 
of Gardner, and is now a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Republican Club. Mr. Stiles was 
married June 9, 1887, to Miss Mary Lizzie Emer- 
son, of Claremont, N.H., who died May 18, 1888. 
He has one son : John Emerson Stiles. 



Lunenburg in 1737, and Jacob 2d's son Lincoln, 
were soldiers in the Re\olution, Lincoln, then a 
boy, acting as servant to his father. James A. 



STONE, Andrew Cooi.inoE, of Lawrence, 
judge of the Police Court, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Marlborough. Cheshire 
County, May 16, 1839, son of Aaron and Mar\' 
(Ward) Stone. He was educated in the public 
schools, at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, 
N.H., and at Phillips (E.xeter) Academy, gradu- 
ating from the latter in i860. He came to Law- 
rence, and began the study of law with the Hon. 
Daniel Saunders in 1861, but early in 1862 closed 
his books, and enlisted for the Civil War as a pri- 
vate in the Thirty-third Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers, with which he served three years. At 
the close of the war he established himself tempo- 
rarily in Ashtabula, Ohio, where he resumed his 
law studies, and in 1S67 was admitted to the Ohio 
bar. Returning to Massachusetts, he was admitted 
to the Essex bar in March the same year, and 
began practice in Lawrence. His progress was 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



439 



steady and substantial, and within a few years he 
had attained a leading place among Lawrence 
lawyers. In 1SS5 he was made cit\- solicitcjr, And 




dent. Judge Stone was married at Ashtabula, 
Ohio, January 19, 1869, to Miss Mary V. Hul- 
bcrt, daughter of Jo.seph I), and laicinda (Halli 
Hulbert of that place. 'I'hey have no children. 



TOLMAN, William, of Pittsfield, insurance 
agent, was born in Lanesborough, June 2, 1858, 
son of Albert and Jane A. ('rower) Tolman. 
His father, son of Captain Stephen Tolman, of 
Dorchester, was a well-known school-teacher, prin- 
cipal for ten years of tlie High School in Pitts- 
field ; and his mother was a daughter of Justus 
Tower, of Lanesborough, a prominent man in that 
town, and its representative in the General Court 
in 1S68. The family moved to Pittsfield when he 
was a boy of ten years. He attended the public 
schools there until he reached the age of fourteen, 
when he became a clerk in the Agricultural Bank. 
Six years were spent in this employment, during 
which time he applied all his spare moments to 
preparation for college. In the autumn of 1878 
he entered Williston Seminar)-, and, graduating 
therefrom with honors in 1880, entered Williams, 



ANDREW C. STONE. 



two years later (in January, 1887) was raised to 
his present position as justice of the Police Court 
of Lawrence. An earnest Republican, he early 
became active in party affairs. During the pres- 
idential campaign year of 1884 he was chairman 
of the Republican city committee, member of the 
Repuljlican State Committee, and delegate to the 
National Republican Convention at Chicago. He 
has served two terms in the Lawrence Common 
Council (1870-71), president of tliat body the sec- 
ond year, and two terms in the State Senate 
(1880-82), during both terms as senator an influ- 
ential member of the committees on the judiciary 
and on railroads. He is prominent in the Ma- 
sonic order, past master of Phctnician Lodge of 
Lawrence, member of the Mount Sinai Royal Arch 
Chapter, member of the Bethany Commandery, 
past senior grand warden and permanent member 
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In the 
Grand Army he was commander of Post 39 at 
Lawrence in 1881, and judge advocate on the 

staff of the commander of the department of wliere he spent three years, being obliged to lea\e 
Massachusetts for 1888. He is a member of the at the end of his junior year by failing health. 
Home Club of Lawrence, and its present presi- At both seminary and college he paid his own ex- 




WILLIAM TOLMAN. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



peiiscs. During- the tirst year after leaving col- 
lege he worked in different national banks of the 
county. Then in 1884 he was appointed special 
agent of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company 
for Western Massachusetts, and since that time 
he has been actively and successfully engaged in 
the business of this office. In 1894 he repre- 
sented the Fourth Berkshire District in the Leg- 
islature, serving on the committee on education 
and taking an active part in legislation. Among 
his most effective efforts on the floor was his argu- 
ment in favor of Pittsfield as the place for the 
new State Normal School. He was called the 
" cyclone orator of the House." The nomination 
as representative came to him entirely unsolicited : 
but, after he had accepted it, he worked zealously 
for success, and he had the satisfaction of receiv- 
ing the largest vote of any representative candi- 
date in the district, which is naturally Demo- 
cratic. Although an earnest Republican, he votes 
on all questions according to the dictates of his 
conscience and exactly as he believes to be right. 
He is a member of the Business Men's Associa- 
tion of Pittsfield, and of the Crescent Lodge of 
Masons, in which he holds official position. He 
is unmarried. 



TUCKER, Geor(;k Henry, of Pittsfield. 
county treasurer of Berkshire County, was born 
in Lenox, September 12, 1856, son of George ]. 
and Harriet (Sill) Tucker. His grandfather, 
Joseph Tucker, a lawyer, was county treasurer 
from 1813 to 1847, and register of deeds from 
1 80 1 to 1847 ; and his father, also a lawyer, suc- 
ceeded to both positions, holding the former from 
1847 to September, 1878 (the date of his death), 
and the latter during the same period, with the 
exception of six years, when the statute made it 
incompatible to hold both offices. His paternal 
grandmother was Lucy (Newell) Tucker, of Lenox. 
His maternal grandfather, Thomas Sill, was of 
Middletown, Conn. George H. was educated in 
the Lenox High School in the old Academy build- 
ing, and at the Pittsfield High School, where he 
fitted for college. He entered Williams in 1874, 
but in November, 1876, was obliged to leave on 
accoinit of the illness of his father, and to take up 
the hitter's duties as county treasurer. Subse- 
quently, however, in 1884, Williams College gave 
him his degree, and put him back with his class, 
although he did not graduate. Mr. Tucker re- 



mained in his father's office until the hitter's 
death in 1S78 (at the age of seventy- four), when 
he was appointed to the vacancy for the unexpired 
term ; and he has held the office through re-elec- 
tions successively from that time to the present. 
In 1882 he became a partner in the wholesale 
dye-wood house of John T. Power & Co., of Pitts- 
field, which in 1885 became Dutton &: Tucker, 
and has since so remained. In 1886 he was 
made director of the Berkshire Life Insurance 
Company of Pittsfield. in 1892 a director of the 
Third National Bank of Pittsfield; and he is a 
director in various other corporations and a trus- 




GEORGE H. TUCKER. 

tee of several estates. He is prominent in the 
Masonic order, having been a master of the 
Crescent Lodge of Pittsfield three terms (1883- 
S4--85). deputy grand master of the Fifteentii 
Masonic District three years (1886-87-88), and 
being now (1895) commander of the Berkshire 
Commandery, Knights Templar, first raised to 
this position in 1893. He is a member of the 
Business Men's Association, and was the treasurer 
of the organization from 1882 to 1890; and he is 
a member of the University Club of Boston. He 
was married September 7, 1892, to Miss Mary 
Talcott Briggs, daughter of General Henrj- S. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



441 



Briggs, ;uul ^land-dauglitei of Governor (ieorge 
N. Briggs. 



TUCKER, Jo.SEi'H. of Pittsfield, ex-lieutenant 
governor of the Commonwealth, and present jus- 
tice of the District Court of Central Berkshire, 
was born in Lenox, August 21, 1832, eldest son 
of George |. and Eunice (Cook) Tucker. His 
father was the second son of Joseph Tucker, who 
was the son of John Tucker who came to Stock- 
bridge from Lester in \\'orcester County about 
1770. Joseph '{"ucker, the grandfather, was 
elected treasurer of Berkshire County in 18 12 
and re-elected until his death in 1847, "hen he 
was succeeded by his son, George J., who held 
the office till his death in 1878, and was suc- 
ceeded by his youngest son George H., who 
now holds the office. Thus the grandfather, son, 
and grandson have held this important office, 
by popular election for eighty-two years. [See 
Tucker, George Henry.] Joseph Tucker, the 
present, was prepared for college at the Lenox 
Academy : and, entering the sophomore class of 
Williams in 1849, graduated with it in 185 i. He 
at once began the study of law in the office of 
Rockwell & Colt in Pittsfield, and passed a year 
in the Harvard Law School ; and he was admitted 
to the Berkshire bar in 1854. After a short so- 
journ in Detroit and Chicago he opened a law 
office in St. Louis, Mo., and was gradually build- 
ing up a good business, when illness compelled a 
return to the East. He left St. Louis in the 
autumn of i860 with the intention of returning in 
the following spring ; but the outbreak of the 
Civil War prevented, and instead he opened an 
office in Great Harrington. There he remained 
until September, 1862, when he enlisted in the 
Forty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts A'olunteers, 
and became first lieutenant of Company D. Li 
December following he w'as appointed acting as- 
sistant adjutant-general of the troops of Banks's 
Expedition, in New York City; and, soon after 
the arrival of his regiment in Louisiana, he was 
appointed an aide on the staff of the P'irst Brigade, 
First Division, Army of the Gulf. On the 21st 
of May, 1863, while doing statT duty, in the battle 
of Plains Store, near Port Hudson, La., he was 
wounded by a shell in the right knee, necessitat- 
ing amputation of the right leg. As soon as pos- 
sible he came homt; : and in November Governor 
.■\ndrew appointed him superintendent of recruit- 



ing in Berkshire County. His public career began 
as a member of the General Court, to which he 
was elected to represent Great Barrington in 1865. 
During 1866 and 1867 he represented Southern 
Berkshire in the State Senate, taking an influential 
part in the important legislation of those years. 
In 1868 Chief Justice Chase appointed him 
United States register in bankruptcy for the 
Tenth Massachusetts Congressional District. 
From 1869 to 1872 inclusive he was lieutenant 
governor of the Commonwealtii. three years with 
Governor Claflin and one year with (Governor 
Washburn. In 1873 he was appointed justice 




JOSEPH TUCKER. 

of the District Court of Central Berkshire, and 
has held this position continuously from that date. 
Since 1892 he has been president of the Berkshire 
County Savings P.ank, the oldest and largest sav- 
ings bank in that county ; and he is also presi- 
dent of the Pittsfield Electric Street Railway. 
F'or the last three years he has been chairman 
of the School Board of Pittsfield. In December. 
1894, he was elected Commander of W. W. Rock- 
well Post, (irand Army of the Republic. Judge 
Tucker was married September 20, 1876, to Miss 
Elizabeth Bishop, daughter of Judge Henry W. and 
Sarah (Buckley) Bishop, of Lenox. Mrs. Tucker 
died February 12. 1880, leaving no children. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



'I'L'CKER. Wii.i.iAM Emerson, M.D., of Ips- 
wich, was born in Salisbury, near Amesbury, 
Essex County, Marcii 7, 1849, son of Ebenezer 
and Ethelinde (Wadleigh) Tucker. His paternal 
grandfather, James Tucker, was a fanner, and his 
maternal grandfather. Henry \\'adleigh, a ship- 
builder. His general education was acquired in 
the public schools of Amesbury and by private in- 
structor, and he studied medicine at the Harvard 
Medical School, at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New York City, and at the Long 
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn. L. I., taking his 
degree at the latter in 1870. Beginning the prac- 




W. E. TUCKER. 

tice of his profession in October following his 
graduation, in Ipswich, he has remained there ever 
since, engaged in a large and successful business. 
In July, 1888, he was appointed medical examiner 
for his district, which position he still holds. 
Since 1888 he has also been attending physician 
to the Essex County House of Correction. He 
has served two terms, 1880-81, on the School 
Board of Ipswich. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society and of the Massachu- 
setts Medico-legal Society. He has been con- 
nected with the Masonic fraternity since 1872. 
a member of the John T. Heard Lodge, and has 
been an Odd Fellow since 1875. member of the 
Agawam Lodge. Dr. Tucker is unmarried. 



WASHBURN, George Albert, of Taunton, 
banker, was born in Swansea, February 5, 1836. 
son of George and Diana Northam (Mason) \\'ash- 
burn. and moved to Taunton in 1841, where he 
has since lived. He is a direct descendant on the 
paternal side of John and Margaret Washburn, who 
came to Duxbury. New England, from Stratford 
on .Avon, England, in 1632. John ^\'ashburn was 
a member of Captain Myles Standish's company, 
was one of the original purchasers of ancient 
Bridgewater. and was the ancestor of all of the 
Washburns of Massachusetts, including the noted 
family, children of Israel Washburn, of Maine. 
( )n the maternal side Mr. Washburn is descended 
from Sampson Mason, who fled to New England 
on the ascent of Charles II. to the throne of Eng- 
land, having been in Cromwell's army, settled in 
Rehoboth, and whose descendants for one hun- 
dred and eight years were known as the " Mason 
Elders," and were pastors for that period from 
father to son of the first Baptist church in Massa- 
chusetts. He was educated in the schools of 
Taunton, public and private. At the age of six- 
teen he entered the store of .Albert G. Washburn, 
in Taunton, dealer in hardware, iron, and steel, 
and thence went into the employ of Wood i\: 
Washburn in the same business, with whom and 
their successors he remained a number of years. 
He became a member of the firm in 1857, when it 
was known as Hunt, Harris, & Co., and so con- 
tinued, subsequently under the name of John 
Hunt & Co., till .April 16, 1861. Then, on the 
first call for troops for the Civil War, he left his 
business, and enlisted in the L'nited States service. 
He went out as sergeant of Company G, Fourth 
Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteers, the first 
company to leave Taunton, and also the first com- 
pany of the first regiment to leave Massachusetts, 
for the front, arriving at P'ortress Monroe April 
20. By an interesting coincidence his grand- 
father, Isaac Washburn, was in the first company 
(a •• minute-man "' I to leave Taunton April 19, 
1775, and airi\ed at his destination .Vpril 20. 
1775. He served three months to the end of his 
term, and then at once re-entered the service as 
first lieutenant in Henry Wilson's Regiment, the 
Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, for 
three years. He was attached to the first division. 
First Brigade, Fifth .Army Corps, .Army of the 
Potomac. He was wounded in the battle of 
Ciaines's Mill, Va., June 27, 1862, and taken pris- 
oner; was some time in Libbv Prison. Subse- 



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443 



quciUly he was promoted to a captaincy to date Austin, of Brockton). Edgar Reed, Elliott (now 
from July II, 1862. He was mustered out to date a practising physician), and Charles Oodfrey 
from January 5, 1863, and received official notice Washburn (now a law student at Boston Univer- 
sity). 



WELLS, Danikl Whmk, of Hatfield, farmer, 
is a native of Hatfield, born April 17, 1842, son 
of Elisha and Louisa (Field) Wells, of Hatfield. 
He is a descendant of Hugh Wells, of Wethers- 
field, Conn., one of the first settlers there, in 
direct line from his son Thomas, who came to 
Hadley in 1660. He was reared on his fatlier's 
farm, and educated .' in the common schools. 
Subsequently he engaged in farming on his 
own account, and followed the occupation of a 
farmer successfully for a quarter of a century. 
He has been for many years prominent in town 
affairs, and represented the Third Hampshire 
District two terms in the Crcneral Court (1883- 
84), the second term serving on the joint com- 
mittee on taxation. He has also been a direc- 
tor of the First National Bank of Northampton 
for sixteen years, and president of the trustees 
of the Smith Charities in Northampton for four 




GEORGE A. WASHBURN. 

of discharge March 8, 1863. On the very next 
day he was elected treasurer and collector of taxes 
of Taunton ; and this office he held for twenty-nine 
years in succession, resigning on the 24th of 
December, 1891, to assume the duties of presi- 
dent of the Taunton National Bank. Other nui- 
nicipal offices which Mr. Washburn has from time 
to time held are those of clerk of the Overseers 
of the Poor (from 1865 to 1882 inclusive), mem- 
l)er of this board (1883 to March, 1891), clerk of 
the Board of Assessors (1869-75), member of tlie 
City Council (1892-93-94), and secretary and 
treasurer of the Board of Sinking Fund Commis- 
sioners (1878 to 1892). He is at present (1895) 
secretary of the latter board. He is a trustee of 
the Morton Hospital, trustee of the Taunton Sav- 
ings Bank, and member of the Investment Com- 
mittee, and a director of the Taunton Street Rail- 
wav Companw He was married first to Miss 
Elizabeth Gordon Pratt, daughter of Nathan and 
Lydia Pratt, and second to Miss Ellen Dutton 
Reed, daughter of Edgar Hodges and Ellen Au- 
gusta Reed. He has one daughter and three 
sons: Harriet Mason mow wife of Cliarles .\. 




DANIEL W. WELLS. 

years. He served in the Civil War, enlisting 
as a private in Company K, Fifty-second Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in 1862. He 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



is a iiicnibLT of Post 86, (iiand Army of the 
Republic, and of the Resolute Grange of Hat- 
field. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Wells 
was married October ig, 1875, to Miss Hannah 
A. Belden, of Hatfield. They have had two 
children: Reuben Field and Louisa I'.elden 
Wells. 



WHEEl.RR, John Wilson, of Orange, man- 
ufacturer, is a native of Orange, anfl has always 
resided there with the exception of a year or two 
spent in Fitchburg. He was born November 20, 
1832, the second of nine children of Wilson and 




JOHN W. WHEELER. 

Catherine ( Holmes Warden) Wheeler. His edu- 
cation was attained in the public schools. For a 
year or two after his majority he worked as a car- 
penter. F^rom 1856 to 1862 he was employed 
in a general store in Orange. Then for a few 
months he was occupied in the claim agency busi- 
ness, and in 1863 he entered mercantile business 
on his own account. Four years later, at the age 
of thirty-five, associating himself with others, he 
engaged in the manufacture of sewing machines, 
under the firm name of A. F. Johnson & Co. In 
1869 a corporation was organized in place of the 
firm under the name of the Gold Medal Sewing 
Machine Compan\-, b)- which the business was 



known until 1882, when the corporate name was 
changed to the New Home Sewing Machine Com- 
pany. From the start Mr. Wheeler has been the 
financial manager and one of the controlling spirits 
of the enterprise ; and it has grown from small 
beginnings until now it employs nearly six hun- 
dred men, and turns out nearly four hundred fin- 
ished machines a clay. In January, 1881, he was 
elected a trustee of the Orange Savings Bank, 
and five years later was made president, which 
position he has since held. He has also been one 
of the directors of the Orange National Bank 
since June, 1880 ; in January, 1888, was elected 
vice-president, and in January, 1894, president. 
In 1891 he was elected president of the Boston 
Mutual Life Association of Boston. He was 
chosen president of the Worcester North-west 
Agricultural and Mechanical Society at .Athol in 
December, 1890 ; and in 1893 was elected presi- 
dent of the Orange Board of Trade. In politics 
Mr. Wheeler is a Republican, and has been called 
by his fellow-citizens to various positions of re- 
sponsibility and honor. From 186 1 to 1867 he 
served as town clerk, in 1866 was one of the 
selectmen of the town, and in 1876 was elected 
a member of the Legislature. In t888 he was a 
delegate to the National Republican Convention 
at Chicago which nominated President Harrison. 
He is a prominent Mason, one of the founders of 
Orange Lodge, organized in 1859, its first secre- 
tary, afterwards its treasurer ; a charter member 
and first treasurer of Crescent Royal Arch Chap- 
ter, organized in 1884; and a charter member 
of ( )range Commandery of Knights Templar, or- 
ganized in 1894. Mr. Wheeler was married in 
Orange, October 9. 1856, by the Rev. Hosea 
Ballou, to Miss .Mmira E. Johnson, daughter of 
Daniel and .\lmira (Porter) Johnson. Three chil- 
dren have been born by this union, but only one 
survives : Marion L., now wife of John B. Welch. 
Mr. Wheeler resides about a mile from Orange 
Village on his " Grand View Farm," where, while 
still closely attending to business, he finds recrea- 
tion in breeding fine horses and cattle, to which 
pleasant and interesting occupation he devotes a 
large share of his leisure time. 



W'IGGIN, Charles E., of Haverhill, banker, is 
a native of New Hampshire, born in the town of 
Durham, November 29, 1843, son of 'i'homas and 
Caroline F. (Voung) Wiggin. He is a direct de- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



445 



scenclant of Governor Thomas W'iggin, who came 
from the west of England in 163 1, and settled in 
Strathain. N.H. He was educated in the public 




( Richards) Wood. His father was of Brooktield, 
and his mother of Hopkinton. He was educated 
in the public schools of Worcester, and, soon after, 
leaving the High School at the age of eighteen, 
entered the volunteer army, enlisting in the Thirty- 
sixth Massachusetts Regiment. His regiment was 
in the field two years and eleven months, and 
saw hard service, participating in fully twenty-five 
engagements, including Fredericksburg, Antietam, 
\'icksburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold 
Harbor, Weldon Railroad, and the Crater, in all 
of which he had a part. At Cold Harbor he was 
struck in the right shoulder by a rifle-ball and 
sent to the hospital, but he managed to escape 
and rejoin his regiment. He also sufTered from 
two severe fevers contracted through exposure 
and hardships in the field. Returning to Worces- 
ter at the close of the war at the age of twenty-one, 
he entered a business college, from which he grad- 
uated in March, 1866, at the head of his class. 
Then he engaged in active business, and was for 
several years intimately associated with various 
industries of W'orcester. But his one ambition 
was to enter the legal profession ; and. finally aban- 



CHAS. E. WIGGIN. 



schools of South IJeruick and at Phillips ( Exeten 
Academy, graduating in 1865. His active life 
was begun as a clerk in the Merrimack National 
liank. in which he spent a year. Then he en- 
gaged in the shoe business, and on the ist of 
January, 1869, began the manufacture of shoes. 
In this branch he continued successfully for up- 
wards of twenty years, retiring in November, 
rSQr. Since that time he has confined himself 
mostly to his banking interests. He is now 
I 1895) president of the Haverhill Safe Deposit 
and Trust Company, president of the Merchants' 
National Bank, and treasurer of the Haverhill 
Electric Company. He is a member of tlie Ha- 
verhill Commanderv of Knights i'emplar. and of 
the Pentucket Club. Mr. Wiggin was married 
November 25. 1869, to Miss Sarepla Churchill, of 
Lowell. They have two children : May C. and 
Alice C. \\'iggin. 



""►■•i 



i) 




CHARLES W. WOOD. 



WOOD. Chaki.ks Watson, of Worcester, mem- doning business, he applied himself energetically 
bcr iif the Worcester bar, is a native of Worcester, to study for it. reading in the law office of Rice \- 
born June 26. 1844, son of AVatson I., and Mary Blackmer, and in March, 1882, was admitted to 



446 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Worcester bar. He rose rapidly in the pro- 
fession, and soon secured a large and lucrative 
practice. Early in his career he became a mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
and has been among the foremost in advancing 
its interests. It was largely due to his energy 
and influence that the Odd Fellows' Home was 
established in Worcester, and it is a peculiar satis- 
faction to him to see it placed near what was for- 
merly his father's estate. On the occasion of the 
laying of the corner-stone he was chief of staff. 
He has been frequently called upon to deliver ad- 
dresses before the order on other important and 
special occasions. He is now a member of the 
Grand Lodge and a past grand of Central Lodge. 
No. 1 68, having occupied the various minor of- 
fices. He is also connected prominently with nu- 
merous other fraternal societies, among them the 
Bay State Commandery, No. 151, Knights of 
Malta, of which he is Sir knight commander, Reg- 
ulus Lodge, No. 71, Knights of Pythias, and Com- 
monwealth Council, No. 3, of the .Vmerican Me- 



chanics. He belongs to the Grand .\rmy of the 
Republic, member of Post No. 10; is commanding 
officer of the W. S. Lincoln Command, No. 18, 
Union Veterans Union ; and major-general, com- 
manding the department of Massachusetts of the 
latter order, elected to the headship at the annual 
department convention held in \\'orcester in Octo- 
ber, 1894. General Wood was first married in 
March, 1867, to Miss Eugena K. Arnold, of Lan- 
caster, who died January 2. 187 1, leaving two 
children. He married second, June, 1872, Miss 
Lottie C. \\'etherell, of Hardwick, who died, child- 
less, in April, 1873 ; and third, July 7, 1875, 
Miss Lizzie M. Burr, who is still living. He has 
one son and three daughters: Charles H. (born 
July 2, i868j, a graduate of the Boston University 
Law School, and now associated with him in his 
law practice: Clara Eugena (born September 18. 
1870), now the wife of F. L. Gaines, of Greenfield; 
Florence L. B. (born December 6, 1876); and 
Grace E. R. Wood (born August 11, 1880J. 



PART VI. 



Al'.l!()| r, Ji_)HN EnwAKii, of Wiittrtowii, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, and having his law ofilice in 
Boston, is a native of Maine, born in Norridge- 
wock, November jo, 1845, son of John S. and 
Kli/abeth 'I'. (Allen) Abbott. On the paternal 




JOHN E. ABBOTT. 

side he is descended (being in the eighth geneia- 
tion) from George Abbott, who emigrated from 
\'orkshire, Eng., and settled in Andover, Mass., 
about 1643; and on the maternal side (in the 
tenth generation) from George Allen, who came 
from England in 1635. <^"d fi""^' settled in Saugus, 
in 1637 removing to Sandwich, where he lived 
until his death in 1648. Mr. Abbott's father, the 
Hon. John S. .Abbott, was for thirty years a promi- 
nent lawyer in Maine, at one time attorney-general 
of the State. Removing to Massachusetts in 
i860, he made his home in Newton until 1875, 



and practised law in Boston from i860 until his 
death in 1881. The well-known authors, Jacob 
Abbott and John S. C. .Abbott, were cousins of 
John S. Abbott. The mother of John E. Abbott, 
Elizabeth Titcomb (Allen) Abbott, daughter of 
William Allen of Norridgewock, was a woman 
of unusual culture and refinement. She died in 
the prime of life, greatly lamented. Two of her 
brothers, the Rev. Stephen .-Mien, D.I)., and the 
Rev. Charles F. Allen, D.I)., became prominent in 
Maine as clergymen of the Methodist denomina- 
tion. John E. Abbott's early education was ac- 
quired in public schools in Norridgewock and in 
Newton, until 1862. He was subsequently fitted 
for college at Allen's Classical School, West New- 
ton, and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's 
Hill, Me. He first entered Yale in the class of 
1869 ; and, at the end of the first term there, 
entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 
where he graduated in 1869. After graduation 
he taught for two years in G. W. (_'. Noble's 
private school in Boston, and studied law in the 
office of his father. He was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar in 1872, to the United States Circuit 
Court for the District of Massachusetts in 1874, 
to the New York Supreme Court and United 
States Circuit and District Courts for the Southern 
District of New York in 1877, and to the United 
States Supreme Court in 1885. From 1872 to 
1876 he practised law in Boston in partnership 
with his father, from 1876 to 1879 was a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Abbott Brothers, New 
N'ork City, and since 1880 has practised alone in 
Boston. He was a member of the Legislature in 
1893 and 1894, representing the towns of Water- 
town and Belmont, and during his second term 
was chairman of the committee on bills in the 
third reading. He is a member of the Episco- 
palian Club, of the Middlesex Club, of the Water- 
town Historical Society, and of sundry other asso- 
ciations. He was married June 12, 1878, to Miss 
Alice G. Cochrane, daughter of the Hon, M. H. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Cochrane, of Compton. ("anada, senator in the 
Dominion Parliament. I'hey have four children ; 
Charles M.. Mabel L.. Harriette F., and Eleanor A. 
Abbott. 

ABRAHAM, Fekimnanm), of Boston, pioneer 
manufacturer of meerschaum goods, is a native of 
Germany, born March 28, 1844. He was edu- 
cated in public schools and through private les- 
sons, and was well trained in mercantile business 
in Frankfort and Mayence, Germany, before he 
came to this country. He first started business 
in Boston in October, 1868, as a tobacconist, es- 
tablished at the South End, on the corner of 
Washington and Union Park Streets. Beginning 
in a small way, he early developed a special trade 
in meerschaum goods, and expanded his business 
in other directions. In 1879 he removed down 
town to No. 25 Court Street, and about ten years 
later (in 1888) leased the adjoining store, e.xtend- 
ing to Franklin Avenue, making of the two one 
store, the largest retail store in this branch of 
trade in the city. He has become the largest 



his factory at the foot of State Street. Mr. Abra- 
ham is prominent in the Masonic, Odd Fellows, 
and other orders, holding numerous positions. 
He is a I'Veemason, member of the Germania 
Lodge, the Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Giles 
F. Yates Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Mount 
Olivet Chapter Rose Croix, Massachusetts Con- 
sistor)-, thirty-second grade, and Aleppo 'I'emple. 
Mystic Shrine; in the Order of Odd Fellows is a 
past grand of the Herman Lodge, and a past chief 
patriarch and past high priest of Mount Sinai En- 
campment ; and in the Royal Arcanum a past 
regent of the Sumner Council. He is also a past 
president of the Moses Mendelssohn Lodge, No. 
25, Independent Order Free Sons of Israel, now- 
representative of this lodge to the L'nited States 
Grand Lodge ; and a member of the executive 
committee of the latter organization. Other or- 
ganizations to which he belongs are the German 
Turnverein, the Hebrew Benevolent Association, 
the Home for the Aged and Infirm, the German 
Aid Society, and the Temple Adath Israel. He 
has for some years been a notary public and jus- 
tice of the peace, Mr. Abraham was married 
.November 18, 1868, to Miss Jette Jeselsohn. 
They have had five children. 'l"he eldest son, 
Leopold Abraham, is in business with his father, 
admitted to the firm in February, 1894, and is 
also a notary public and justice of the peace. He 
is ex-president of the Roxbury Bicycle Club, and 
treasurer of the Associated Cycling Clubs of Bos- 
ton and \icinitv. 



ALDEN, Geijrce Dennv, of Bridgewater, justice 
of the Fourth Plvmouth District Court, was born in 
ISridgewater, July 29, 1866, son of John C. and 
Mary (Car\er) Alden. He is in the eighth gen- 
eration from John Alden, of the " Mayflower's " 
passengers ; and on the maternal side in the 
eighth generation from Governor John Carver. 
His paternal grandfather was the Rev. Seth 
Alden, graduate of Brown L'niversity in 18 14, and 
settled in Marlborough for a number of years ; 
and his paternal grandmother was the daughter of 
the Re\'. John Miles, and sister of the present 
Rev. Dr. Henry A. Miles, of Hingham. His ma- 
ternal grandfather was Eleazer Carver, of Bridge- 
water, who founded the Carver Cotton Gin Works 
manufacturer of meerschaimi goods in New Eng- in that place, still well known. George D. was 
land, and also an extensive manufacturer of educated in the public schools of Bridgewater, at 
smokers' articles of various sorts, and of cigars, at the Boston Latin School, and the academy at Sax- 




F. ABRAHAM. 



MKN OF 1'RU(;KKSS. 



449 



Ion's River, Vt., where he gradiuited in 1^185. With- 
out attending college, he began preparation for his 
profession, entering at once the Boston Unixersity 




GEO. D. ALDEN. 

Law School. After a year here he became a stu- 
dent in the law office of Morse & Allen, Boston. 
.\ year later he returned to the Law School, taking 
the middle and .senior year, and graduated with 
his class in 1888, receiving the degree of LL.B. 
He was admitted to the bar soon after his 
graduation, and immediately began practice in 
Iioston, where he has since been established, 
doing a good and growing general business. He 
has been quite active in politics, having been on 
the stump every year up to the present, since 
1888, when he made many speeches for the ticket 
of Cleveland and Thurman. He was first nomi- 
nated for the position of judge of the Fourth Dis- 
trict Court of Plymouth County by Governor Rus- 
sell in 1 89 1, to fill a vacancx' ; but the Republican 
Executive Council refused confirmation. After 
waiting a few weeks, his name was again sent in, 
and was again rejected. The governor refusing 
to make any other appointment that year, the po- 
sition remained vacant until March, 1892, when 
he was for the tliird time nominated, and this time 
confirmed. He has held the position ever since, 



continuing also his practice in Boston, where he 
is associated with Samuel M. Child, with offices 
in Rogers's Building. In the autumn of 1891 he 
received the nomination for representative in the 
Legislature for the district comprising Bridge- 
water, East Bridgewater, and West Bridgevvater, 
a district which has never sent a Democrat to the 
General Court, and overwhelmingly Republican. 
He made a notable run, coming within a very 
few votes of election. He is a member of the 
University Club of Boston. He is not married. 



AMES, Fr.\nk. Mdrton, of Boston and Can- 
ton, was born in Easton, August 14, 1833, son of 
( )akes and Eveline O. (Gilmore) Ames. He is in 
the direct line of descent from William Ames, 
born at Bruton, Somersetshire, England, settled 
in Braintree in 1635, the line running: John, 
settled at West Bridgewater, Thomas, Thomas 
John, Oliver and Oakes Ames. He was educated 
in the public schools of Easton and at the 
Leicester and .Vndover academies. After com- 
pleting his education, he entered the famous 
shovel works of Oliver Ames & Sons at North 
Easton, and there spent several years acquiring a 
practical knowledge of the details of the manu- 
facture and an intimate acquaintance with the 
business management. He moved to Canton in 
1858 to take charge of the business of the 
Kinsley Iron & Machine Company (owned by the 
Ames family), and ultimately became the principal 
owner of the works. Meanwhile he became con- 
nected with railroad and other interests. He was 
for several years trustee in possession and mana- 
ger of the New Orleans, Mobile &: Texas Rail- 
road; and is now a director in various corpora- 
tions, and president of several, among others the 
Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company. 
He is interested in the cultivation and manufact- 
ure of sugar, and has a plantation of over twelve 
thousand acres, situated on the west bank of the 
Mississippi, directly opposite the city of New 
( )rleans, where he usually has under cultivation 
about fifteen himdred acres of sugar cane, and a 
large area of corn, several hundred acres of the 
remaining portion being used for grazing. Mr. 
.\mes has been active in public affairs, and has 
represented Canton in both branches of the 
General Court. He was a member of the House 
of Representatives in 1869, and again in 1882, 
and a senator in 1885, declining a re-election. 



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W'liile in the House, he served on the committee 
on railroads : and in the Senate was a member 
of the committees on drainage and on manufact- 
ures, and chairman of a special committee on the 
subject of a metropolitan police ; and it was 
largely through his efforts that the present Hoard 
of Police for Boston was established. In politics 
he is an ardent Republican, and was a delegate to 
the iNational Republican Convention at Chicago 
in 1884. In early life he was connected with the 
State militia, joining it in 1853 as sergeant major 
of the Second P)attalion Infantry, which afterward 
became the Fourth Regiment. From this rank 




F. M. AMES. 

he was promoted first to quartermaster, and then 
in 1857 to major, which position he resigned in 
i860. He is a member of the Merchants' Club of 
Boston, of the Boston Merchants' Association, of 
the Home Market Club, the Unitarian Club, the 
Boston Art Club, and of several political clubs. 
He was married November 13, 1856, to Miss 
Catherine H. Copeland, daughter of Hiram and 
Lurana (Copeland) Copeland, of Easton. They 
have had seven children, all but one of whom are 
still living : Frank A., -Alice L., Oakes, Anna C, 
K. Evelyn, and Harriet E. Ames. Mr. .Ames's 
residence in Canton is his summer home : his 
town house is on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 



.\NGELL, (iEORcE Thorndikk, of Boston, 
foinider with others of the " Massachusetts Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to .\nimals," of the 
".American Humane Education Society," and of the 
'• Parent .American Band of Mercy," and devoted 
for over a quarter of a century to the advance- 
ment of humane work the world over, was 
born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, June 5, 
1823. His father was the Rev. George .Angell, 
formerly of Providence, R.I., whose life is to be 
found in " I'lie .Annals of the .American Baptist 
Pulpit " (New Vork : Carter &: Brothers), also 
in other Baptist publications. His mother was 
Rebekah (Thorndike) Angell, youngest daughter 
of Lieutenant Paul Thorndike, of Tewksbury, 
Mass., a lady distinguished through life for relig- 
ious de\otion and deeds of charity. Left father- 
less at three years of age, his early training was 
altogether in the hands of this excellent woman : 
and by her his primary education was directed. 
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846. 
For the next three years he taught a Boston 
school day times, and studied law nights and va- 
cations. The next two years he was in the Har- 
vard University Law School, and the Boston law of- 
fices of Charles G.. F". C, & C. \\'. Loring, eminent 
counsellors. In December, 185 i, he was admitted 
to the bar ; and, through the influence of the 
Messrs. Loring, was at once offered a partnership 
with the distinguished commercial lawyer, Benja- 
min F". Brooks, and another with the Hon. Sam- 
uel F>. Sewall, one of the most learned members 
of the bar. He accepted the latter, and entered 
immediately upon a successful and lucrative prac- 
tice. In 1864, tnH) years before tlie forming of 
the first society iti America for tlie prevention of 
cruelty to animals, and when he did not know that 
there was any such society in the world, Mr. 
.Angell (being then unmarried) gave by will a 
large portion of his property, after the death 
of his mother and himself, to be used in circu- 
lating in secular and Sunday-schools humane 
literature for the prevention of cruelty to ani- 
mals ; and in 1868, the drixing to death in a forty- 
mile race of two of the best horses of the State, 
moved him to action for the establishment of a 
Massachusetts society for that purpose. He 
promptly wrote to the Boston Daily Advertiser, 
announcing his willingness to give both time and 
money to establish such a society, and stating 
that, if there were any other persons in Boston 
willing to unite with him in this object, he should 



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he glad to be informed : and the next morning, 
heing called upon by an influential Boston lady, 
Mrs. William Appleton, who told him that she had 
been trying to form a similar society, and also by 
other prominent citizens, he found himself en- 
gaged in a work which led him to abandon his 
|3rofession, and to devote himself and his means 
without any pecuniary compensation to the pro- 
tection of dumb animals from cruelty and to the 
humane education of the American people. He 
lirst obtained an act of incorporation from the 
Massachusetts Legislature for the new society, 
and wrote and caused to lie adopted the constitu- 




CEO. T. ANGELL. 

lion and by-huvs under which it has acted ever 
since ; then, with the aid of Chief Justice Hig- 
elow and the Hon. William Gray, prepared the 
laws under which its prosecutions have been 
made e\er since, and obtained their enactment by 
the Legislature. These accomplished, he suc- 
ceeded in getting the city government of ISoston 
to put under his personal orders for three weeks 
seventeen policemen, picked from the whole force, 
to canvass the entire city, houses, and stores, for 
funds to carry on the work ; and so, with the aid 
of gifts from \arious citizens, he raised about thir- 
teen thousand dollars. Next, in behalf of his 
society, he started the first paper of its kind in the 



world for the protection of dumb animals, which 
he named Our Dumb Animals, and caused to be 
printed two hundred thousand copies of the first 
number. These he distributed through the Bos- 
ton police in every house in Boston, and, through 
the aid of the Legislature and of General Burt, 
then postmaster of Boston, in every city and town 
in the State. He next caused twenty drinking 
fountains for animals to be erected ; and, by his 
exposures of the terrible condition of the Brighton 
slaughter-houses, laid the foundations of the 
Abattoir which took their place. In 1869, worn 
out by the arduous night and day labors of organ- 
izing this new institution, Mr. Angell crossed the 
ocean for rest, but immediately on reaching Eng- 
land became engaged in a work quite as impor- 
tant as that he had left. He addressed the 
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
Animals in London, and twice the Baroness Bur- 
dett-Coutts and her friends, and so brought about 
the establishment in England of a paper similar 
to his own, which is now widely circulated by the 
Royal Society throughout the British possessions ; 
and also obtained the organization of a Ladies' 
Humane Educational Society or Committee, in 
connection with the Royal Society, of which the 
Baroness Burdett-Coutts has ever since been the 
president, and which has done a great work in 
behalf of humane education in Great Britain, and 
led to the establishing there of the first " Band 
of Mercy " in the world. During this trip Mr. 
Angell attended the meetings of many of the con- 
tinental societies for the prevention of cruelty, 
and attended as the only American delegate, and 
addressed, the World's Convention of these so- 
cieties held at Zurich, Switzerland. In his 
address on this occasion he spoke of his society 
as " now striving to unite all religious and political 
parties on one platform for the purpose of carry- 
ing a humane literature and education into all the 
schools of the countr\-, and thus not only insure 
the protection of animals, but also the prevention 
of crime, unnecessary wars, and forms of violence. 
When the leading minds of all nations shall act 
together on this subject, and the nations shall be 
humanely educated, wars between nations will 
end." Returning to America, Mr. Angell went at 
once to Chicago, perhaps the crudest city in the 
world at that time, and, at a personal cost to him- 
self of about six hundred dollars and several 
months' time, succeeded in establishing there the 
Illinois Humane Societv, which has ever since 



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been pnitectiiig from cruelty millions of cattle and 
other animals in the great stock-yards, as well 
as animals, previously without any protection, in 
'and about that city. It would require a volume 
fully to record Mr. Angell's work in his humane 
cause from that day to the present. He has given 
addresses and aided in forming humane societies 
as far South as New Orleans and as far West as 
North Dakota. He has addressed State legislat- 
ures, national and international conventions of 
educational men, agricultural and religious con- 
ventions, union meetings of churches, — as notably, 
in Minneapolis, a union meeting of all the evan- 
gelical churches there, presided over by the Gov- 
ernor of the State, — also numerous colleges and 
universities in various parts of the country. He 
twice addressed the National Grange at \\'ash- 
ington and at Richmond, and once addressed 
eight hundred and thirty-six of the police of Phil- 
adelphia, officers and men, and once about three 
thousand drivers of horses gathered in the Boston 
Theatre. In the winter of ICS85-86 he addressed, 
during sixty-one days, all the high. Latin, normal, 
and grammar schools of Boston one hour each. 
In 1882 he started the ".American Band of 
Mercy," of which he has since caused to be 
formed over twenty-one thousand branches, with 
probably between one and two million members. 
In 1889 he formed the " .\merican Humane Edu- 
cation Society" (the first of its kind in the worldl, 
and obtained its incorporation by the Massachu- 
setts legislature, with power to hold half a million 
dollars free from taxation. P"or this corporation 
he has employed missionaries forming humane 
societies in the South and West ; has caused 
nearly two million copies of " Black Beauty " to 
be circulated in English and other European and 
Asiatic languages ; has, through the offering of 
large prizes, obtained other humane stories as 
sequels to " Black Beauty." which are now being 
extensively circulated over this country and 
abroad ; has furnished his paper. Our Di(i)ib Ani- 
mals, regularly to nearly all the professional and 
educated men of his own State, and to the editors 
of every .\merican newspaper and magazine north 
of Mexico. In his autobiographical sketches it 
appears that in the one year from November i. 
1890, to November i, 1891, he had printed by 
his two humane societies about one hundred and 
seventeen million and eighty thousand pages of 
humane literature, being probably far more than 
was printed in the same time bv all other humane 



societies in the world combined. His writings 
are circulated not only over the United States, 
but largely in Europe and somewhat in Asia, 
some of them being used in places as far dis- 
tant as China, Japan, and in the public schools 
of New Zealand. At a single meeting of the Na- 
tional .Vmerican Teachers' Association he pre- 
sented to the teachers, in behalf of his societies, 
one hundred and ten thousand copies of humane 
publications. He lias offered many prizes to 
all American editors, all American college and 
university students, and to many others, for best 
essays on liuniane subjects. His wide correspond- 
ence numbers sometimes more than two hundred 
letters in a single day"s mail ; and his exchange 
lists bring to his office not infrequently more than 
a hundred newspapers and magazines daily. .\s 
a director of the .American Social Science Asso- 
ciation he has given much money and time in 
exposing the sales of poisonous and dangerously- 
adulterated foods and other articles, which re- 
sulted in a Congressional report containing about 
a hundred manuscript pages of evidence which 
he had collected, and of which he had more 
than a hundred thousand copies sent over the 
country, laying the foundations for the various 
laws on the subject which have since been en- 
acted in various States. Though now in his 
seventy-second year, Mr. Angell is still busy de- 
veloping and carrying out new plans to increase 
his work. He was married in 1872 to Eliza A. 
Martin, of Nahant. 



BAILEV, Edw.ard Willis, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in North Scituate, November 5. 1849, 
son of John Wade and Priscilla L. ( Vinal) Bailey. 
His father, mother, and grandparents were all 
natives of Scituate. Both grandfathers were sea- 
captains, and his paternal grandfather was in the 
War of 18 12. His education was begun in the 
public schools of his native town, and continued in 
the Boston schools, to which city the family re- 
moved when he was a boy of ten. He attended 
the Brimmer School here, then on Common Street, 
and graduated in 1865, a Eranklin medal scholar; 
and subsequently the English High .School, then 
on Bedford Street, from which he graduated in 
1S68. In September following he went to work 
for his uncle. Job E. Bailey, dealer in doors, win- 
dows, and blinds, wholesale and retail, as an office 
boy. From this position he was before long 



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raised to tii;U of hook-keeper. Then he became a 
salesman, and uhimateK- the manager, which place 
he heUl till the ist of January, 1S91, when he 



Delias been a member of the Newton ward and 
city committee for si.x years, and two years its 
secretary. He was married February 12, 1874, to 
Miss Emma J. Polley, of Boston. They have five 
children : Marion W'.. Alice P., Sarah J., Edward 
i\., and Evehn W. IJailev. 



K 




li.MLEV, Jamks Ai.dkrson', Jr.. of .\rlington, 
member of the bar, was born in West Cambridge 
(now Arlington), March 25, 1867, .son of James 
Alderson and Marietta (Peirce) Bailey. On the 
maternal side he is of the old New England 
families of Peirce and Locke, a direct descend- 
ant of Captain Benjamin Locke, who fought at 
Lexington and at Bunker Hill ; and on the pa- 
ternal side is of the English families of Bailey 
and Johnson. His father was a soldier in the 
Civil \\'ar, and held important town offices. He 
was educated in the Arlington public schools, 
graduating from the High School in 1883, and at 
Harvard College, where he was graduated in the 
class of 1888. sumnia cum lauJc, and with honors 
in political science. He studied law at the Har- 



E. W. BAILEY. 

bought his uncle's interest. The iausiness was 
established in 1846 by Bailey & Jenkins, both 
Scituate men, and has occupied the premises No. 
24 Kneeland Street since February, 1869. The 
present style of the firm is E. W. Bailey & Co. 
Mr. Bailey's residence has been for si.xteen years 
in Newton. He is especially prominent in fra- 
ternal organizations, belonging to numerous or- 
ders, and at the head of a leading one. He is a 
member of the Newton Royal .\rch Chapter, Dal- 
housie Lodge. Free Masons : of Newton Lodge, 
No. 92, Odd Fellows: of Garden City Lodge, No. 
1901, Knights of Honor ; of Newton Council. 
American Legion of Honor ; Mt. Ida Council, 
Royal Arcanum ; Newton Lodge .\ncient Order 
of United Workmen, all of Newton : also of the 
Grand Lodges of .\ncient ( )r(ler of Inited Work- 
men, of the .\nierican Legion of Honor, and of 
the Royal Arcanum : and he is at the present 
time grand dictator of the Knights of Honor of 
Massachusetts, which has 10,000 members in 138 
lodges in the State, and in the national organiza- 
tion 126,000. In politics Mr. Bailey is a Repub- 
lican, active in the party organization in his city. 




JAMES A. BAILEY, Jr. 

vard Law School, graduating in 1891, LL.I!. and 
A.M. He worked his way through both college 
and law school. While in college, he was particu- 



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I 



larly interested in the study of political economy 
and of history. He took an active part in the de- 
bates of the Harvard Union, and was an officer of 
that society. He was also a director of the Har- 
vard Republican Club, of the Harvard Dining 
Association, and of the t'o-operative Society. He 
was admitted to the bar in July. 1890; and began 
practice immediately after his graduation from the 
Law School, establishing himself in Boston. Quite 
early in his career he was engaged in several im- 
portant cases, which attracted considerable atten- 
tion. He was in 1894 associated with C'austen 
Mrownc in tlie preparation of a new edition of 
" Browne on the Statute of Frauds."' He has 
been active in politics since his college days. He 
has served as chairman of the Arlington Republi- 
can town committee for three years, and is a mem- 
ber of the Eighth Congressional I )istrict Repub- 
lican Committee. .\s secretary of the latter body 
in 1892, he took a large part in the management 
of the successful campaign of the Hon. Samuel W. 
McCall for Congress against the Hon. John F. 
Andrew, and spoke a few times on the stump. In 
the autumn of 1893 he was nominated by accla- 
mation for representative in the Legislature for 
Arlington and \\'inchester, and was elected by a 
large majority, the youngest man ever sent to the 
House from this district. In the campaign of 
that year he also spoke occasionally on the stump. 
In the Legislature he served as clerk of the 
committee on the judiciary, as a member of the 
committee on elections, and as secretary of the Re- 
publican caucus committee. His work upon the 
elections committee, in connection with the " Ward 
Seventeen" (Boston) case, was a feature of the 
session. Dissenting from his six colleagues, he 
made the fight alone, and succeeded in having 
the House substitute his resolve declaring vacant 
the seats of the sitting members for the report 
of the committee " leave to withdraw." This con- 
test made Mr. Bailey one of the most prominent 
members of the Legislature of 1894. He is a 
member of Hiram Lodge, Freemasons, and of 
Menotomy Royal Arch Chapter ; of Bethel Lodge, 
Odd Fellows; of the .Arlington Boat Club (a trus- 
tee), of the Middlese.x Club (treasurer), of the 
Sirloin Club, and of Phi Beta Kappa and I'hi 
Delta I'hi. He is unmarried. 



10, 1 85 1, son of Henry and Lucy Theodora Cielli- 
neau (Stearns) Barrett. On the paternal side he 
is a lineal descendant of Colonel James Barrett and 
Captain Nathan Barrett, who took part in the Con- 
cord fight, April 19, 1775. His maternal grand- 
mother, Marianne Theresa Saint Agnan, was born 
on the island of Grenada, one of the West Indies, 
and early an orphan. When very young, she came 
with slaves to this country for her education, 
under the care of Judge Rogers, of E.xeter, N.H., 
and afterward attended private school in New- 
buryport and Salem: and in 1821 she married 
Richard Sprague Stearns, the \(iungest son of Dr. 




ILVRRETT, Harr\ Hiidson, of Maiden, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Maiden, March 



HARRY H, BARRETT. 

William Stearns, of Salem. Her father, Michael 
Saint Agnan, was a native of France, where the 
name of Saint Agnan has been borne by several 
noble families of distinction. Her mother, Mari- 
anne Theodora Gellineau, was a daughter of 
Charles Anthony Gellineau, who came from 
France, and settled in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 
and of Lucie Poincette, a nati\e of Castile, in 
Spain. Her maternal aunt, Lucette Gellineau, 
was the friend and room-mate of Empress Jo- 
sephine at the Martinique Convent. Harry H. 
was educated in the Maiden Grammar School, at 
Phillips (Andover) Academy, also at Phillips 
( Exeter) Academy, graduating from the latter in 



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i.Syo. uiul at Harvard ('ollejj;e, where iic was grad- 
uated in tlie class of 1874. From college he en- 
tered the Harvard Law School, which he attended 
from 1874 to 1879, also studying in lioston in the 
offices of F,. R. iV Samuel Hoar, Charles G. Fall, 
and Stearns \- Butler. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in June, 1882, and has since been en- 
gaged in general practice. He was a representa- 
tive for Maiden in the lower house of the Legisla- 
ture in 189 1, the only Democrat representative 
elected frciin that place since 1861. He has been 
.1 ci\il service examiner (State) for Maiden since 
January, 1892. He is much interested in the in- 
stitutions and affairs of his city, and is now serv- 
ing as a member of its park commission. He 
has been a trustee and clerk of the Maiden Hospi- 
tal since its organization in i8go. He has been 
long a member, and was some time president, of 
the Maiden Deliberative Assembly (organized in 
1 87 5). and is also a member of the Kernwood 
( hil). in politics, while classed as a Democrat, 
he is a Democrat with independent proclivities. 
Mr. Barrett is unmarried, and lives with his 
mother and unmarried sister at the homestead in 
.Maiden. 



J5ARRV, D.wiD Franklin, of Boston, sales 
agent, member of the Board of Aldermen, was 
horn in Boston, on Sturgis Place, a part of old 
lort Hill, February 29, 1852. His father, David 
Barry (now deceased), was well known in Boston 
over forty years ago. He carried on the business 
of a wheelwright and shipwright in F^ast Boston, 
and in 1845 enlisting in the United States volun- 
teer service, subsequently went to the Mexican 
War. In 1849 he moved from East Boston to the 
city proper, and established his business on Cove 
Street, where it flourished for seventeen years. 
Thence he removed to Castle Street with his fam- 
ily, which consisted of two sons and a daughter. 
The latter died at sixteen years of age. Daxid 
F.'s mother was Mary E. (Welch) Barry. He was 
educated in Boston public schools, graduating 
from the Quincy Grammar School in the class of 
1867. During his boyhood he had an ambition 
to acquire a knowledge of advanced studies, and 
accordingly devoted his evenings and spare hours 
of the day to reading, .\bout 1874 he became a 
sales agent for Marshall, Son, & Co., wholesale 
hook-binders' machinery, and has been so em- 
ployed ever since. In 1879 he was elected by 
the Democrats of Ward Sixteen a member of the 



Common Council, and through regular re-elections 
served in that liranch of the city government for 
fourteen consecutive years. For five years of this 
period, 1887-88-91-92-93, he was president of 
the body. In 1894 he was a member of the 
Board of .Aldermen, being elected by the people 
at large, and receiving the highest vote of any of 
the twelve successful candidates; and in the De- 
cember election was re-elected for the term of 
1895. His services in committee work have been 
notable and valuable, covering nearly all of the 
different committees appointed to supervise and 
report measures pertaining to the progress and 




DAVID F, BARRY. 

development of Boston. He was the prime mover 
in the scheme for the " municipal ownership of 
public docks," and presented and ably advocated 
the petition to the Board of Aldermen of 1894, 
signed by over eleven hundred prominent mer- 
chants of Boston, calling attention to the pressing 
need of a system of public docks owned l)y tiie 
city, the result of which was the appointment of 
a special committee to look into the matter, and a 
favorable report, which was unanimously accepted 
by both branches of the city council. Mr. Barry's 
public spirit and progressive ideas have been dis- 
played in numerous other acts. He has favored 
all appropriations for public schools, and has al- 



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ways strivL'ii for the passage of all orders pertain- 
ing to public schools. He has also been an 
ardent and steadfast supporter of the City Hos- 
pital, and his efforts in its behalf have met the 
warm approval of the trustees. Speaking of his 
value as a public official, the Boston Herald oi No- 
vember 22, 1S91. says: "Mr. Barry is. first of all. 
a diplomat : and he often succeeds by diplomacy 
where the excellent flowers of rhetoric would fail. 
A self-made man. his success along the political 
line of endeavor has been acquired through dili- 
gence, using the means at hand, and sedulously 
working for the best interests of those he is 
elected to serve. Mr. Barry owes nothing to the 
schoolmaster, except it be the rudimentary brush- 
ing he received by tlie light of the torch at Henry 
Morgan's evening school. The opportunity af- 
forded some of his colleagues to drink deep at the 
fountain of knowledge was not his to enjoy. God 
gave him natural talents, however, in abundance : 
and these he has used to their fullest extent. He 
has a strong will, vigor, and the faculty of doing 
well whatever he undertakes. He is an earnest 
speaker, guardedly careful of the rights and feel- 
ings of others, and often wins his point through 
his own personal magnetism, what others w'ould 
lose though they had the verbal magic of a 
Burke." He has ahvavs been a firm and constant 
friend of the members of the Grand .\rniy of the 
Republic ; and they have on many occasions at- 
tested their belief in his sincerity and apprecia- 
tion of his endea\ ors in their behalf. Mr. Barry 
was married May 15, 187 1, to Miss Mary Eliza- 
beth Madden. They have one son, John Mar- 
shall Barry, now (1895) in the sophomore class 
at the Massachusetts State College at Amherst, 
stud\ing landscape engineering. 



eniies. He entered the .Methodist ministry in 
.\ugust, 1848, when but eighteen years of age: 
and he has been continuously engaged since. 



B.ATKS, Rkv. Lkwis Bkntun, D.l.)., of Boston, 
pastor of the Bromfield Street Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, is a native of Massachusetts, born in 
North Easton, No\'ember 26, 1829, son of Lewis 
and Elizabeth (Websten Bates. He is in the 
ninth generation from John Rogers, the mart\r. 
His first ancestor in America was Nathan Bate, 
who came in 1635, and was the first white man to 
land on the shore of what is now Hingham. From 
him he is in the eighth generation. His educa- 
cation was acquired in the public schools, which 
he attended until he reached the age of fourteen 
years, and at the 1 )artmouth and I-'almouth acad- 




L. B. BATES. 

laboring zealously in numerous fields. In 1849 
he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church 
in .South .Scituate. in i8!;o and 185 1 he had 
charge of the church in South ^'armouth. The 
latter year, in .\pril, he became a member of the 
New England Conference. From 1852 to 1855 
he was settled over the church in Lebanon. Conn. 
The next three years he was pastor of the church 
in West J'hompson, Conn. The latter was a cir- 
cuit with twentj'-two monthly preaching places. 
During the year 1857 he preached one hun- 
dred and twentv-two successive evenings, and 
out of this revival three Methodist Episcopal 
churches were established. To-day seven Metho- 
dist churches occupy the ground where he labored 
alone. From 1858 to 1861 he was pastor at 
North Easton, 1861 to 1863 at North Dighton, 
1863-66 at MilKille, conducting revi\als in all of 
these churches : from 1866 to 1869 at New Bed- 
ford, where more than five hundred persons were 
converted in four months and more than four 
hundred united with tiie church, in one day one 
hundred and fifteen persons being baptized: and 
from 1869 to 1872 at Taunton, pastor of the First 



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Mfthoclist Episcopal Church, where niurc than 
three hundred were converted. In 1872 he was 
transferred from the New England .Southern Con- 
ference to the New England, and became pastor 
of the Mount Bellingham Church in Chelsea. 
Here he remained until 1875, when he was sta- 
tioned at the Broadway Methodist Episcopal 
Churcii in South Boston. Remaining here three 
years, in 1878 he was assigned to the liethel. 
East Boston, which was his field of laijor for six- 
teen years. During this long and successful 
pastorate he received more than fifteen hundred 
persons into the church, and gave church letters 
to more than thirteen hundred persons who went 
to all portions of the globe, to become connected 
with other churches. He baptized more than thir- 
teen hundred, and attended the funerals of more 
than eighteen hundred, hundreds of them being 
sailors. In September, 1894, the authorities of 
the church placed him in charge of the 15romfield 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church in the heart 
of the city. In three months the congregation 
had more than doubled, and all the work of the 
church appeared to be reviving. During the forty- 
si.\ years of his ministry Dr. Bates has preached 
at the dedication of two hundred and thirty-nine 
churches, and raised more than a million dollars 
for church property. He has given a good 
portion of his time also to aiding church organiza- 
tions, in evangelical work in the churches, and at 
special meetings, and camp meetings. For the last 
thirty-five years he has ax'eraged one sermon or 
gospel address per day. Every year revivals 
have attended his ministry. f)n one Sunday in 
1876 he baptized forty-five persons by immersion 
and forty-five by sprinkling, in the town of Mid- 
dleborough. He has preached in all the New- 
England States and in a number of States out- 
side of New England; and in 1888 spent four 
months abroad, in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy 
Land. He has served five years (1868-73) as 
chaplain of the Third Regiment, Massachusetts 
militia, and one year (1870) as chaplain of Bristol 
County jail. He has been president of the 
Methodist Ministers' Relief Association from 1882 
to the present time ; president of the New Eng- 
land Conference Preachers' Aid Society from 1891 
to date ; was president of the Boston Methodist 
Preachers' Meeting for two years, 1871 to 1873: 
and is a director of the Lay College and of the 
New England Evangelist Association. His long 
work in East Boston was largely among seamen. 



Lie conducted the "World's Christian Mission" 
established in 187S "for seamen and all others in 
need," with which was connected a free reading- 
room and library, and through which aid in 
various forms was given and shipwrecked sailors 
helped ; and in the spacious Bethel had three ser- 
vices every Sunday forenoon, afternoon, and even- 
ing, each to crowded congregations. He received 
the degree of D.D. from ClaMin University in 
1881. He is a member of the Methodist Social 
ITnion, of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
and of the Young Men's Christian Union. Dr. 
Bates was married June 12, 1850, to Miss Louisa 
D. Field, of 'Launton. They have had five chil- 
dren : Lewis Webster, Myra Louisa (now Mrs. 
Gilchrist), John Lewis (member of Massachusetts 
House of Representati\-es for the second term, 
1895), Lillian G. (now wife of Mayor (ieorge H. 
Carter, of Chelsea ), and Emma Mav Bates. 



BINNEY, Arthur, of Boston, naval architect 
and yacht broker, was born in Boston, December 2, 
1865, son of Henry P. and Josephine 1 Hayward) 




ARTHUR BINNEY. 



Binney. His grandfathers were Dr. Amos Binney 
and Joseph H. Hayward ; and his great-grand- 
fathers, Colonel ,^mos Binney and Dr. Lemuel 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Hayward. He was educated in the Dudley 
Grammar and the Roxbury Latin Schools, and 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
taking a special course at the latter. For a 
short time after leaving the institute he was 
with the Whittier Machine Company to learn 
practical machine work. Then he was for three 
years with Hook & Hastings, church organ build- 
ers, as draughtsman : and the next year was spent 
in Germany in study. L'pon his return he ob- 
tained a position in January, i88S, with the late 
Edward Burgess, the distinguished naval architect, 
and worked and studied under him from that 
time until the latter's death in June, 189 1. In 
September following he formed a partnership 
with George A. Stewart, who had also been asso- 
ciated with Mr. Burgess, and under the firm 
name of Stewart & Binney purchased the data, 
calculations, and drawings made by Mr. Burgess, 
and continued his business. This partnership 
held until the death of Mr. Stewart. June 21, 
1894. Since the death of his partner Mr. Binney 
has conducted the business alone. He is a mem- 
ber of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 
Engineers, of the Corinthian Vacht Club of Mar- 
blehead, the Hull Vacht Club, the Massachusetts 
Yacht Club, and the Boston Athletic Association. 
He is unmarried. 



Mechanic Association, is a director of the Home 
for Destitute Catholic Children, a member of 
the Charitable Irish Society, and of the Old 



BLAKE, Christopher, of Boston, manufact- 
urer, was born in Belcamb, near Balbriggan, 
County Dublin, Ireland, December 24, 1830, son 
of Matthew and Anne (Carton) Pilake. His 
paternal grandfather was Christopher Blake, and 
his great-grandfather, Matthew Blake, of the 
same county, as were also his maternal grand- 
father, James Carton, and great-grandfather, John 
Carton. He w-as educated in private schools. 
He came to Boston in September, 1846, and 
was apprenticed to J. L. Ross, then a furniture 
manufacturer on Hawkins Street. After serving 
his time, he worked as a journeyman at his trade 
until 1854, when he entered business on his own 
account as a manufacturer of furniture, establish- 
ing himself at No. 94 I'tica Street. His enter- 
prise prospered; and in 1865 he built and 
occupied the large factory on Dorchester Ave- 
nue, South Boston. This he conducted success- 
fully for twenty-two years, and then in 1887 
retired with a competence. He has been long 
connected with the Massachusetts Charitable 




CHRISTOPHER BLAKE. 

Dorchester Club. His wife, whose maiden name 
was Catherine McMahon, died in 1875 ; and his 
children now- living are Mrs. Mary E. Merrick, 
Mrs. Caroline \'oung, Catherine F. Blake, Joseph 
Blake, and Edward F. Blake. 



BCjUTWELL, Harvey Lincoln, of Boston and 
Maiden, member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of 
Illinois, born in the town of Meredosia, April 5, 
i860, son of Eli A. and Harriet W. (Weeks) Bout- 
well. His father was a lumber manufacturer, 
held various town offices in Hopkinton, N.H., for 
twenty years, and was elected to the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature in 1879 o" ^'''s Republican ticket. 
His maternal great-grandfather, William Weeks, a 
graduate of Harvard College, was a major and 
aide-de-camp to General Washington during the 
war of the Revolution. He was educated in New 
Hampshire, in district schools, at the Hopkinton 
Academy, the Contoocook Academy, and the New 
Hampshire State College, graduating from the 
latter in 1882. His first occupation was that of a 
school-teacher, teaching as principal of the gram- 



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the Boston Asylum and Farm School in 18S4; 
and for ten jears as principal of the Eliot Evening 
School in Boston. His law studies were begun in 
the office of John V. Mugridge at Concord, N.H., 
continued in the otfice of Wilbur H. Powers, 
Boston, and completed in the ISoston University 
Law School, where he graduated niiii /<ii/ik in tiie 
class of 1 886. Admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
|uly following his graduation, he has practised 
continu(_)Usly since in Boston, engaged chiefly with 
civil causes. As a resident of Maiden, he has 
been concerned in municipal affairs, and has 
served in the Common Council ( 1893-94), elected 
as a candidate of the citizens" party. In 1894 he 
was elected as a Republican representative to the 
Legislature for the Ninth Middlesex District. He 
is a member of the Maiden Deliberative Assembly 
(president in 1890), of the College Alumni Asso- 
ciation (president in 1888), and belongs to the 
orders of Odd Fellows, Good Templars, Sons of 
Veterans, Golden Cross (representative to the 
Supreme Commandery in 1891-92), and United 
Workmen. He was married December 28, 1886, 



BOVN'l'ON, Rkv. Xkhkmiaii, 1).1)., of lioston, 
pastor of the L'nion Church, Columbus Avenue, 
was born in Medford, November 21, 1856, son of 





H. L. BOUTWELL. 

to Miss Nellie C. Booth, of Norwich, Vt. They 
have two children: Robert Dewey and Louis 
Evans Boutwell. 



N. BOYNTON. 

Eleazar and Mary (Chadbourne) Boynton. He is 
of sterling New England stock, his father a native 
of Rockport, and his mother of Lyman, Me. He 
passed through the Medford public schools, grad- 
uating from the High School in the class of 1873 ; 
was fitted for college at I'hillips (Andover) 
Academy, graduating therefrom in 1875, entered 
Amherst and graduated in the class of 1879; then 
took the regular course of the Andover Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1882. In the autumn of 
the latter year he was ordained, at Littleton, and 
installed as pastor of the Orthodox Congrega- 
tional Church in that place. In 1884 he was 
called to the associate pastorate, with the Rev. 
Dr. R. H. Seeley, of the North Church, Haver- 
hill, and a year later. Dr. Seeley dying, was made 
sole pastor. He remained in Haverhill four 
years, preaching acceptably, and then, at the age 
of thirty-one, was called to the Union Church, 
Boston, where he has met with notable success. 
In 1894 the honorary degree of D.I), w-as con- 
ferred upon him by Amherst College. Dr. Boyn- 
ton is a trustee of Bradford Academy, and of the 
LTnited Society of Christian Endeavor, and is also 



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officially connected with nianv of the Congrega- 
tional denominational enterprises. He is a mem- 
ber of the Monday Club and of the Boston Con- 
gregational Club. He was married July 5, 1882, 
to Miss Mary Ella Wilcox, daughter of D. W. 
Wilcox, of Medford. Their children are : Daniel 
Wilcox, Edward Chadbourne, Morrison Russell. 
Grace Morrison, Elizabeth, and Marjory Boynton. 



BRADY, Rev. James Boyd, B.D.. Ph.D., 
D.D., of Boston, pastor of the " People's Temple,"' 
was born in the Province of L'lster, Count\' 




J. B. BRADY. 

Antrim, Irehmd, September 7, 1S45, son of James 
and Isabella (Boyd) Brady. He is of Scotch- 
Irish ancestry, Scotch on his mother's side. His 
education was begun in local private schools, 
those of the Rev. Dr. Close and of the Rev. Mr. 
Gawn, and continued at the Belfast Model School, 
and at the Ballymena Diocesan Classic-Mathe- 
matic School. Coming to .\merica in 1867, he 
entered Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, 
N.J., and was there graduated Bachelor of Divin- 
ity in 1869. Subsequently, in 1892, he was grad- 
uated to the Doctorate of Philosophy by the New 
York University. His training for active life was 
active life itself. He entered the Newark Con- 



ference immediately after graduation from Drew, 
and at once engaged in most active w'ork, in the 
course of a few years filling, under the itinerant 
system, the leading pulpits of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church in the Newark Conference. Begin- 
ning his ministry at the Union Church in 1869 
where he served a year, he was next assigned to 
Glenwood from 1870 to 1871, then to Otisville, 
N.Y., 1871-73, next to Summit, N.J., 1873-75, 
tiien to Hoboken, 1875-78, then to Jersey City, 
1878-81, then Newark, 1881-84. to Jersey City 
again, 1884-87, to Passaic, 1888-91, to Newark 
again, 1891-93. In 1877 he made a tour through 
Europe as a wedding trip, and in 1887-88 made a 
journey round the world. 'Die chief characteristic 
of his "ministry has been progress all along the 
line, — progress in numbers, in financial condition, 
and in the moral and spiritual power of his 
churches. He has preached as a rule to overflow- 
ing houses. During his two pastoral terms in 
Newark, from which he came to Boston, he lifted 
the Central Methodist Episcopal Church (known 
there as the Cathedral Church) into a great popu- 
lar and influential institution ; and his preaching 
drew throngs. Of him and his work there it is 
said in the latest history of that city " he is proba- 
bly the most talked of preacher in Newark, be- 
cause he strikes fearlessly at modern iniquities, 
and lives for the people of these times and this 
place. . . . He stands for essentials, but tears 
down obstructions. He pursues his own diplo- 
macy, and calls no man master, although he con- 
sults with his official brethren. . . . He is a man of 
the people ; and, when roused in their behalf in 
the pulpit, he springs on his antagonists like a 
lion rushing on the prey. In response to his sym- 
pathy and uncompromising loyalty to their cause 
the people crowd his church to feel the warm glow 
of his heart. Men who go nowhere else to church 
hear him gladly : and so hundreds have been 
lifted to a new life by his ministry, while thou- 
sands upon thousands have been lifted to nobler 
habits of thought, feeling, and action." His 
work, begun October 15, 1893, in Boston is car- 
ried forward on similar lines. Under his pastoral 
administration the People's Temple has gradually 
and rapidly become, as it has been called, '■ the 
Eaneuil Hall of religious inspiration and instruc- 
tion, the great rallying place of the people." 
Something of importance is going on at the 
temple every evening. From seven to ten tliou- 
sand persons \'isit it w-eekly. As a rule, over two 



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thdus.ind seats arc all taken half an hour before 
ihe main service begins. After that frec|uentl_\- 
hundreds stand throughout, and other hundreds 
go away for want of standing room. Dr. Brady 
is a member of the American Society of Com- 
parative Religion, the seat of which is New York 
I'niversity, New York City. He was also treas- 
urer of that society before coming to lioston. In 
|5olitics he is a Republican, but now belongs to 
that "emerging class who are looking for the 
equalization of the rights of all." He is a member 
of the Connnittee of One Hundred of the t'ily of 
lioston, and of the e.xecutive committee of the 
iloston Missionary and Ciiurch Extension Society 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Hrady is 
now in the zenith of his power. He is a man of 
vigorous physique, stout heart, clear mind, and 
devotes himself witli unflagging courage to any- 
thing he undertakes. He never yet has failed. 
Such is the magnetic influence of his preaching 
that it is impossible to keep his vast audiences 
from breaking into frequent applause. He was 
married June 11, 1877, to Miss Josephine Louise 
Wood, of New York City, a lady of affluent family 
and broad culture. They have had five children, 
three of whom, Florence Isabella, Howard Wood, 
and Paul, are living: the others, James Boyd and 
Bessie Grace, died in infancy. 



l^iREED, Francis WILLIA^r, is a native of 
Lynn, born in 1846. At seventeen years of age 
he had begun business life. First employed in the 
responsible position of teller in a bank, the First 
National of Lynn, at eighteen he was engaged in 
the shoe business, and at twenty-one was a manu- 
facturer, in partnership with Philip A. Chase. 
Eight years later, in 1875, he bought out his part- 
ner, and, continuing the business alone, increased 
and enlarged it, speedily making it one of the 
largest and most important in Lynn. His present 
extensive factories, one in the city and one in the 
country, have a capacity of about six thousand 
pairs of shoes per day, and employ large numbers 
of workmen. While developing his shoe Ijusiness, 
he also earlv became prominent in other interests 
in Lvnn and elsewhere. He is now a director of 
the Central Bank of Lynn, of the Lynn histitution 
for Savings, and of the Eliot National Bank of Bos- 
ton ; member of the executive committee of the 
lioston Merchants' Association and of the Boston 
Associated Board of Trade. In politics he is Re- 



publican, a leading member of his ]ian\' in the 
State ; and his name lias been frequently men- 
tioned for a high position on the party ticket. In 
1892-93, as one of the Massachusetts members of 
the World's Columbian Connnission, he served on 
important committees of the Fair management at 
Chicago : and it was through his influence and 
exertions that the classification was so arranged 
as to bring all the shoe and leather exhibits into 
the special shoe and leather building. He was 
also one of the committee which successful 1_\- in- 
terviewed Congress on the matter of the loan to 
the Exposition. He has been an extensive trav- 




KkANCIS *'. bkhhD. 

eller in his own land and abroad, visiting every 
State of the Union and every country in Europe. 
He visited the last two Paris Expositions and the 
Brussels Exposition, spending much time at each. 
He was married in 1873 to Miss Alice Ives, of 
Illinois, and has five children : Francis M., Alice 
E., F. W., Jr., Ralph H., and Ruby Constance 
Breed. His residence on Ocean Street, in Lynn, 
overlooking the sea, is one of the most attractive 
estates on the North Shore. 



BROOKS, Jdhn Fkanki.in', of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Salem, October 5, 1838, son of 



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John and Susan E. (Vandcrford) Hrooks. Both 
parents were also natives of Salem, his father born 
June 17, 1812. and his mother November 17, 
1813. The latter was the eldest child of Captain 
Benjamin \anderford, who early in life com- 
manded a number of Salem's finest ships trading 
with India and the Fejees, and later was the pilot 
of the United States South Sea Exploring Expedi- 
tion squadron under Commander Wilkes, to whose 
merits and valuable services the commodore pays 
a high tribute of due praise. John F. Brooks ob- 
tained his education in the Salem schools, finish- 
ing at the Salem Latin School. On March 3, 




JOHN F. BROOKS. 

1853, he entered the counting-house of Edward 1). 
Kimball, of Salem, engaged in trade with the 
West Coast of Africa, and began at this early age 
to trade on his own account by sending advent- 
ures. In April, 1S58, he went to the XA'est Coast 
of Africa as supercargo of the brig •• Falmouth," 
owned by E. R. Ware & Co., of New \'ork. Upon 
his return, in 1859, he induced Matthew Barllett, of 
Boston, to extend his .\frican business to the Cold 
Coast, and in 1862 went there as Mr. Bartlett's 
agent, having the consignment of the barks " Said 
bin Sultan " and " D. Godfrey," making two very 
successful voyages. Upon his return from these 
enterprises, in 1S63, he entered into partnership 



with Matthew Bartlett : and this association con- 
tinued until the death of Mr. Bartlett in iSSo. 
Since that time he has continued the business 
alone, becoming a large exporter of .\merican 
merchandise and importing many African products, 
principally palm oil, spices, gums, and hides. He 
now owns the barks " Nineveh," " D. A. Brayton," 
and the brig "LucyW. Snow," and charters many 
vessels. He is one of the few old-style merchants 
left in Boston. In addition to his .\frican trade, 
he represents in this country the Compagnie Eran- 
(j-aise de I'Afrique Occidentale of Marseille, 
France. He was a director of the Washington 
Fire and Marine Insurance Company now gone 
out of business, and is at present a director of the 
China Mutual Marine Insurance Company. He 
was a member of the Salem city government in 
1874 and 1875. His residence is now in Boston. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a member 
of the Country, Algonquin, Nahant. and Eastern 
Vacht clubs. Mr. Brooks married Miss Rebecca 
.S. Knight, daughter of Benjamin Knight, a re- 
tired merchant of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has two 
daughters, Frances Elizabeth and Mary Bartlett. 
Mrs. IJrooks died in 1884. 



BUGBEE, J.\MKS McKellar, of I!oston, adver- 
tising manager of Walter Baker & Co., is a native 
of Maine, born in the town of Perrv, December 
17, 1837, ^"^^ o^ \\'illiam and 1 teborah (Hanscom) 
liugbee. He is a direct descendant in the sixth 
generation from Edward Bugbee. who came from 
Ipswich, England, in 1634, and settled in Rox- 
bury, Mass. His education was received in the 
public schools in Perry, Me., and Melrose, Mass. 
At the age of seventeen he became entry clerk in 
a French importing house in Boston. Four years 
later (in 1858) he was employed as reporter 
on the Boston Courier^ then a morning and even- 
ing daily. In i860 he became city editor of the 
paper. In 1862 he was appointed mayor's clerk, 
which position he held until 1866, when he was 
elected clerk of committees to the City Council. 
In 1875 he resigned that office, to accompany the 
Hon. Henry L. Pierce to Washington as his pri- 
\ate secretary. In 1878 he was appointed on the 
first Police Commission for the city of Boston. 
He was elected a representative to the General 
Court from the Ninth Suffolk District for 1880- 
Si. He served as chairman of the committee on 
engrossed bills, as a member of the committee on 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



463 



tilt; liquor law. and as a member and some time 
secretary of the special committee (which sat 
durinj; the recess) on the revision of the public 




the [iress. He has been a contributor to the 
Atlivilic Monthly, the N'ort/i American Review, and 
many other magazines and newspapers. He 
edited the Revised Ordinances of IJoston, 1876 
(pp. 1023), and the Memorials of the Massachu- 
setts Society of the Cincinnati, 1890 (pp. 573). 
He delivered an address on the " Origin and 
Development of Local Self-government in Eng- 
land and the United States "' before the .American 
Social Science .Association in 1880: contributed 
the chapter on •• lioston under the Mayors " to 
the Memorial History of IJoston ; and wrote the 
essay on the '■ City Government of Boston " for 
the Johns Hopkins University Studies. He is a 
member of the Union Club, IJoston ; of the K.\- 
change Club, Boston ; of the Reform Club, New 
York: of the Massachusetts Historical Society; 
of the American Historical .Association ; and was 
one of the founders and the first secretary of the 
St. Botolph Club, Boston. In politics he was a 
member of the Republican party until the nomina- 
tion of Blaine in 1884. He has acted indepen- 
dently since. 



JAMES M. BUGBEE. 

Statutes. -As a member of the committee on the 
liquor law, he made an elaborate minority report 
on the regulation of the liquor traffic (House Doc- 
ument 149, 1881), opposing the views of the 
majority of the committee, which favored prohib- 
itory legislation : and subsequently he reported 
and secured the adoption of the law requiring the 
publication of the names of applicants for licenses 
and preventing the granting of licenses to objec- 
tionable persons, or to be e.xercised in places 
where the owners of adjoining real estate refused 
their consent. From 1881 to 1884 he was in 
business as a law book publisher. In 1884 he 
was appointed by the governor on the first Civil 
Service Commission, and served as chairman for 
two years. He was also appointed at the same 
time by the mayor on the commission to revise 
the City Charter of Boston. In 1887-88 he was 
treasurer of the Boston Post Publishing Company. 
Shortly after he became connected with the house 
of Walter Baker & Co. as advertising manager, 
which position he now tiolds. Mr. Bugbee has 
been much engaged in literary and historical 
work since the beginning of his connection with 




JOHN F. CALLAHAN. 



CALLAHAN, John Francis, of Boston, was 
born in Boston, November 25, 1S52, son of John 
and Elizabeth (Callinanj Callahan. His parents 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



were natives of Ireland, and came to lioston 
about the year 1848. He was educated in the 
Boston public schools. .\t the age of twelve he 
was at work as a boy in a grocery and wine store ; 
and at twenty-seven was in business for himself, 
beginning on the 15th of March, 1879. He was a 
director of the public institutions of Boston during 
the years 1887-88-89. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. He is a member of several institutions and 
societies. He was married January 15, 1874, to 
Miss Mary C. Donovan, of Boston. They have 
four children : Frank J., George A., Joseph, and 
Mary Callahan. 



CAPEN, Ernest Thur.ston, of Boston, real 
estate agent, was born in Canton, August 12, 
1865, son of Ezekiel and Emma (Poelien) 
Capen. He is of old New England stock. 
His father moved from Sharon to Canton, 
and, engaging there in business, became the 
principal merchant in Norfolk County. He 
was also deacon in the Baptist church. Er- 
nest T. attended the Canton public schools, and 




months, he entered a real estate office in Boston. 
Here he remained two years: and then (1889), 
acting under the advice of his employer, en- 
gaged in the business on his own account, open- 
ing his office at No. 113 Devonshire Street, where 
he has since continued. He has pursued the 
business alone, although he has had several ad- 
vantageous offers of partner.ship. He is much 
interested in social questions and in occultism 
(not as a spiritualist, but as a student of the phe- 
nomena of hypnotism, telepathy, etc.), and has a 
fondness for literary pursuits. He was at one 
time active in amateur journalism, and still re- 
tains membership in the local club and in the 
national association ; and he has also been en- 
gaged to a slight e.xtent in professional work. 
He is a member of the board of trustees and 
chairman of the executive committee of the Bos- 
ton Young Men's Congress, an organization of 
progressive young men in various businesses and 
professions, and was clerk of the congress for two 
sessions, declining further to serve. He is prom- 
inently connected with the New South (Unitarian) 
Church, now serving on the standing committee, 
and having been church clerk since 1891. He is 
treasurer of several other organizations, and a 
member of the .\rt Club. He is interested in 
public affairs, though not actively engaged in poli- 
tics. He was a stanch supporter of the subway 
scheme for rapid transit through the " congested 
district " of Boston, and is now equally zealous 
for municipal docks. He is unmarried. 



E. T. CAPEN. 

on account of ill-health finished his education 
under private instruction. After a full course at 
a commercial college, which he completed in three 



CARPENTER, Fredkrick Banker, of Boston, 
insurance business, was born in Wakefield, .April 
21, 1862, son of George O. and Maria J. (Emer- 
son) Carpenter. He is on both sides of old New 
England stock. His paternal great-great-grand- 
father, Richard Carpenter, died a prisoner of war 
in the hands of the British ; and his maternal 
great-grandfather, Thomas Emerson, of South 
Reading (now Wakefield), took part in the battle 
of Lexington, when a young man of eighteen 
years. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Emer- 
son, was also of South Reading. His paternal 
grandfather, George Carpenter, and his grand- 
father, Samuel Carpenter, were both born in Bos- 
ton. He was educated in the Boston public 
schools, and in William ts^ichols's private school 
in Boston. He began business life in 1880, when 
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465 



father's insurance office in Boston; and in 1885 
was admitted to partnership, tlie firm name be- 
coming George O. Carpenter i<; Son. He is vice- 




V 



FRED B. CARPENTER. 

president of the Boston Protective Department, 
and president of the Insurance Library Associa- 
tion. He is also a director of the South Reading 
National Bank at Wakefield. He is interested in 
military affairs, and has for ten years been a mem- 
ber of the First Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts 
Volunteer Militia, now a non-commissioned staff 
officer. He is a member of the Boston Art, .Ath- 
letic, and Exchange clubs, and of the Sons of the 
Revolution. Mr. Carpenter was married .April 7, 
1886, to Miss -Alice Beebe, of Wakefield. They 
have two children : Morris Reebe and Marjorie 
Carpenter. 

CARPENTER, George Oliver, of Boston, 
merchant, president of the Carpenter-Morton 
Company,' is a native of Bo.ston, born at No. 63 
Charter Street, Copp's Hill, "North End," De- 
cember 26, 1827, son of George and Mary Bent- 
ley (Oliver) Carpenter. His parents were also 
natives of Boston, his mother connected with 
one of the old families of the town. His father 
was for many years an officer in the appraiser's 
department of the custom-house, there contem- 



porary with Nathaniel Hawthorne, (ieorge O. 
was educated in the Boston public schools, be- 
ginning at the age of four years in a primary 
school^ then kept at the North End near his home, 
taking the full si.\ years' course of the famous 
old Eliot School, from which he graduated in 
1840 as one of the si.\ receiving the Franklin 
medal ; then, spending part of a school year in 
the English High School, of which Thomas Sher- 
win was head-master, being unable, on account 
of ill-health, further to proceed with his studies. 
Mr. Carpenter's business career was begun im- 
mediately upon leaving the English High School. 
In June, 1841, he entered the house of John N. 
Barbour & Brother, commission merchants and 
pioneers in the Te.xas trade, then on Lewis 
Wharf. This firm failing a few years after, he 
found another position, and thereafter was va- 
riously employed as clerk or book-keeper until 
March 15, 1847, when he became connected with 
the house of Pratt, Rogers, & Co., No. 107 State 
Street, dealers in paints, oils, and varnishes, 
where he became firmly fixed. Beginning as 
book-keeper for the firm, he was, two years later, 
on the first of January, 1849, admitted to the 
business as a partner in the firm of Banker, 
Crocker, & Co., which then succeeded Pratt, 
Rogers, & Co. In November, 185 1, this firm 
name was changed to Banker & Carpenter, and 
so remained until January i, 1S64, when it be- 
came Carpenter, \\'oodward, & Morton, the name 
by which it was known until the incorporation of 
the business in 1893, under the title of the Car- 
penter-Morton Company, with Mr. Carpenter as 
president. Mr. Carpenter has also for many 
years been actively engaged in the insurance 
business and connected with banking interests. 
He was president of the Boston Fire Under- 
writers' Union, 1876-77, and has been a director 
of the Eliot National Bank of Boston for twenty- 
five years, for a long period vice-president of the 
Home Savings Bank, Boston, and for forty years 
a director of the National Bank of South Reading 
(now Wakefield), where he formerly resided. He 
has been associated with numerous local organiza- 
tions since earlv manhood, and has displayed 
much interest in the development of Boston in- 
stitutions, commercial, philanthropic, literary, and 
social. .At the age of fifteen he was made libra- 
rian of the Boston Mercantile Library Associa- 
tion, which position he held two years. He has 
been connected with the Charitable Mechanic 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Association since 1S70. and has served three 
years on its l)oard of trustees: was one of the 
incorporators of the South End Industrial School, 
and is still a member of its finance committee : 
was a member of the ]5oard of Aldermen of the 
city of Boston, and one of the trustees of the 
Boston Public Library in 1870-71; was an early 
member of the Old School Boys' Association, and 
its president in 1886-87 ; was one of the organ- 
izers and first president of "The Vowels," a club 
of past presidents of the Eliot School Association : 
is now a director of the Bostonian Society : was 
one of the original members of the Paint and Oil 




GEO. O. CARPENTER. 

Club of New England, its president in 1891-92 : 
was an early member of the Commercial Club, its 
secretary for many years, and its president in 
1872-73 ; and is now a member of the .\rt, .Algon- 
quin, and Exchange clubs. In Wakefield he is 
also vice-president of the South Reading Me- 
chanic and Agricultural Institution. In early and 
middle life lie was considerably interested in mili- 
tary aftairs, joining the Massachusetts Volunteer 
Militia as a prix-ate in the old Washington Pha- 
lanx, when but si.xteen j-ears of age. .Vt that time 
this company was under the command of John 
Kurtz, who first, it has been asserted, introduced 
the practice in this country of drilling from bugle 



notes. Mr. Carpenter removed to South Read- 
ing in 1847, and in 185 1 organized there the 
Richardson Light Guards. At this time he was 
adjutant of the Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts 
Militia; and in 1858 he became brevet major of 
the Second Brigade under General Joseph An- 
drews. Ten years after, in 1868, he was com- 
mander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company. He was also commander of the " Old 
Guard of Massachusetts," an organization com- 
posed of past and present commissioned officers 
of the State militia. He early joined the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, and has passed through all the 
degrees, including the thirty-third. Mr. Carpen- 
ter w-as married February 6, 1850, at South 
Reading, to Miss Maria Josephine Emerson. 
They have two sons : George O., Jr.. now general 
manager of the St. Louis department of the 
National Lead Company ; and Frederick IS. Car- 
penter, now a partner with his father in the fire 
insurance firm of George O. Carpenter &: Son. 



CH.\LMERS, Alexander, of Boston, insur- 
ance business, was born in Fredericton, N.B., 
July 17, 1849, son of William and Matilda (Brown) 
Chalmers. His father was a native of Aberdeen, 
and his mother of Paisley, Scotland. Both came 
to this country when young, and were married 
in New Brunswick. They were both of families 
engaged in manufacturing industries. He was 
educated in the common schools of St. Andrews, 
N.B.; and at the age of sixteen began business 
life, entering the employ of a dry-goods merchant, 
J. S. Magee, in St. .Andrews. He came to Boston 
when nineteen years old, and here first found em- 
ployment in the store of William G. Harris on 
Hanover Street. Subsequently he had charge for 
some time of the mourning-goods store of \\'illiam 
Lawson on Winter Street. In 1873 he engaged in 
business on his own account, entering into partner- 
ship with O. T. Taylor, in a dry-goods store in South 
Boston. Four years later he entered the employ 
of R. & J. Gilchrist on Winter Street, and there 
continued until 1890. Then he assumed the man- 
agement of the lioston office of the Bay State 
Beneficiary .Association of Westfield, and also en- 
gaged in a general insurance business, which he has 
since pursued. Mr. Chalmers has been an active 
leader in social circles, as well as in business life. 
He is a past regent of the Royal Arcanum, past 
leader of the Home Circle, and connected with 



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467 



nunierous other bene\ olent associations. He has 
been an active member of the I'irst Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Boston, for the past twenty-five 
years, serving as member of the official board and 
of the Board of Trustees, member also of the 
Methodist Social I'nion and of the Municipal 
League of Boston. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, with no aspirations for public place, desiring 
only to aid the advancement of good government. 
Mr. Chalmers has been twice married : first in 
.•\ugust, 1878, to Miss Lu M. Putnam, daughter of 
Rufus Putnam, of Boston. She died in 1S85, 
leaving no children. He was married a second 




A. CHALMERS. 



time in October, 1890, to Miss Evalen M. Smart, 
daughter of Samuel Smart, of Portland, Me. By 
this union there are two children : Edwin .Vtwood 
and Everett Putnam Chalmers. 



CORBETT, Peter Bri.^x, of South Boston, 
auctioneer, real estate and general insurance 
agent, also justice of the peace and notary public, 
was born in Castletown, County Kilkenny, Ire- 
land, March 29 (Good Friday), 1850, son of Nich- 
olas and .Sarah ( Loughman ) Corbett. He is of one 
of the branches of the Corbett family which traces 
back to the eleventh century. The name is of 



Norman origin : and the founder of the family was 
a knight named Corbeau, who with his two sons, 
Roger and Robert (both of whom subsequently 
assumed the name Corbett), accompanied William 
the Conqueror to England in 1066, and were given 
extensive estates in Shropshire, which are still in 
possession of their descendants. From Sibil, 
daughter of Robert, were descended the Herberts 
and Finches, Earls respectively of Pembroke and 
Winchelsea. .-\ Robert Corbett was with Richard 
Coeur de Lion at the siege of Acre, July 12. 1 191, 
where he bore for arms the two ravens, since 
borne by all his descendants, the motto being 
" Deus, pacit Corvos." At an early date some 
of the family made their way to Ireland. John 
Corbett was constable of the castle of Lim- 
erick in the time of Edward III. ; in 1675 Myles 
Corbett, called " one of the regicides," was Crom- 
well's chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; and in 
1 67 1 Samuel Corbett was given a grant of seven 
hundred and thirty-four acres of land in \\'exford. 
The descendants of these adventurers found 
homes and brought up families in several parts of 
Ireland, but principally in Clare, Limerick, and 
Tipperary, becoming in time " more Irish than 
the Irish themselves." Two of the family were 
officers in King James's army at the siege of Lim- 
erick and the battle of the Boyne. In this coun- 
try the name is found among the earliest settlers. 
Robert Corbett lived in Weymouth, Mass., and 
fought in King Philip's War. A representative 
was on the American side at the Battle of Bunker 
Hill. There are Corbetts in many parts of this 
country and in Nova Scotia. First Lieutenant 
John Corbett, of Whitehall, N.Y. (a cousin of 
Peter B. ), was killed in the late war. The Grand 
Army Post, when first established in his town, was 
named in his honor. He was the son of Michael 
of Kilcash, Tipperary. On the maternal side Mr. 
Corbett is descended from such pronouncedly 
Celtic stock as the O'Gradys, O'Connors, and 
O'Briens. His grandmother, Jane O'Brien, born 
in Limerick in 1784, daughter of John and Mary 
O'Connor O'Brien, was a descendant of the elder 
branch of the O'Briens, princes of Thomond, the 
direct descendants of Brian Borughme. He left 
Ireland with his parents, two brothers, and three 
sisters, July 12, 1S64, and landed in Quebec, Can- 
ada, September 2 of that year, which was their 
home till July, 1868, when the family came to 
Boston. With the exception of fifteen months 
spent in the West and South in 1871-72, Mr. Cor- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



bett has since resided in that citw His early edu- 
cation was acquired partly in a private school and 
partly in the national school of Whitechurch, 
County Kilkenny, in the latter taking a special 
course preparatory to entering the office of a 
large lumber house in Quebec. When, however, 
the position was offered in 1866, not liking the 
business, he declined. .Subsequently he took a 
course in a commercial college in Boston. He 
had in the meantime learned his father's trade of 
stone-cutter and general mason, but gave it up in 
1872, because, although being the best paid at the 
time of any of the mechanical trades, he could see 




p. B. CORBETT. 

in it but little opportunity for any material ad- 
vancement. In 1872 he entered the employ of 
\V. L. Richardson & Co., booksellers and pub- 
lishers' agents, of Boston, as collector, and re- 
mained with this firm until 1886, the last three 
years being in charge of the collecting department. 
Then in 1S86 he determined to enter business of 
some kind on his own account, and his taste and 
training led him naturally to the real estate and 
insurance business. Accordingly, he opened an 
office at No. 3S9 Broadway, South Boston, and 
has since continued in this business, being at the 
present time one of the best known auctioneers 
and real estate men in Boston. In 1892 he pur- 



chased the building Nos. 321 to 327 Broadway, 
and removed to his present office there. Dealing 
principally in city and suburban property, he has 
handled and negotiated the sale of many hundred 
estates, amounting to several millions of dollars. 
He also manages the Boston estates of numerous 
non-residents, and is in frequent demand as an 
expert in realty values. He is the South Boston 
representative of the Agricultural and Westchester 
Fire Insurance Companies of New York, the Lon- 
don and Lancashire and Manchester Fire Insur- 
ance Companies of England, agent for the Con- 
necticut General Life Insurance Company of 
Connecticut, and the London Guarantee and Ac- 
cident Company of England. Mr. Corbett is a 
member of numerous associations, the list includ- 
ing the South Boston Citizens' Association, tiie 
North Dorchester Improvement .Association, the 
South Boston Building Association, the Catholic 
Union of Boston, and the Charitable Irish Society 
of Boston. He is also a member of the Knights 
of Columbus, South Boston Council, of the An- 
cient Order of United A\'orkmen, Mt. Washington 
Lodge; and was State secretary of the Massachu- 
setts Independent Order of Foresters from 1879 
to 1882. He was chairman of the citizens' com- 
mittee for the P'arragut day celebration, June 28, 
1S93, when the statue of Admiral Farragut was 
unveiled at Marine Park, City Point. In politics, 
though ne\'er an aspirant for or holding an}' politi- 
cal office, he has always been a Democrat. Mr. 
Corbett was married October 22, 1874, to Miss 
Mary Frances Hurlev. They have four children ; 
Nicholas Desmond (born August 7, 1S75), Mary 
Gertrude (born July 2, 1878), Frederick Augustine 
(born August 27, 1880), and Ernest Brian Corbett 
I born August 23, 1884). His residence is at No. 
12 Pleasant Street, Dorchester District, Boston. 



CRANE. Rev. Oliver, D.D., LL.D.. of Bos- 
ton, clergyman. Oriental and classical scholar, 
poet and author, was born in Montclair, N.J., 
July 12, 1822, son of Stephen F. and Matilda H. 
(Smith) Crane. His first ancestor in America, 
Jasper Crane, came from England in 1639, and 
became one of the original founders of Newark, 
N.J. His maternal grandfather, Peter Smith, was 
private secretary of General \Vashington during 
the winter of 1779-80, at his headquarters in 
Morristown, and after the war a magistrate, and 
for many years clerk of Sussex County, New Jer- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



469 



sey. His early education was acquired in the 
common schools of his native place ; and by dint 
of energy and perseverance, preparing for college, 
he entered Yale in the sophomore year, and grad- 
uated in the class of 1845 with honor, being the 
first student who had ever been granted there the 
optional of Hebrew in the senior year. After 
graduation he taught for a year, keeping up his 
classical and Hebrew studies, and taking botany 
in the fields as a recreation. Then he entered 
Andover Theological Seminary a year advanced, 
and, lul ciituh-m, Union Theological .Seminary, 
from which he graduated in 1S4S. He was li- 




OLIVER CRANE, 

censed to preach in April, ordained by the pres- 
bytery of Newark June 18, married to Miss Marion 
I). Turnbul September 5, and sailed under ap- 
pointment of the American Board of Commis- 
sioners for Foreign Missions for Turkey the same 
year. His life in Turkey was full of duties, occu- 
pying in all about nine years. During this time 
he resided in five different cities of the empire, 
travelled extensively both in Asiatic and European 
provinces, and acquired a fluent command of the 
Turkish language in its purest as well as provin- 
cial usages. Among other work accomplished he 
organized and conducted the first theological class 
in Central Turkey, the pioneer of the present The- 



ological Seminary in Marash, taking it through a 
course of systematic theology, homiletics, and exe- 
gesis. As a missionary, his labors were inces- 
sant, arduous, and responsible. He was, more- 
over, frequently in his travels exposed to dangers, 
having been no less than six times intercepted by 
robbers in journeyings, and once shot at by a rob- 
ber, but escaped unharmed. Upon his return to 
.America he accepted a pastorate in Huron, N.Y., 
and later in \\'averly, N.V., declining calls from 
other churches. In 1864 he was elected to a 
chair of Oriental and Biblical Literature in Rut- 
gers Female College, New York, established ex- 
pressly for him, but declined it to accept a unani- 
mous call to a church in Carbondale, Penna. This 
pastorate he held until 1870, when he resigned, 
though urged to remain, and retired from acti\'e 
ministerial duties, devoting himself thereafter 
mainly to study and literary pursuits. He had 
already published numerous addresses and ser- 
mons, and articles in various magazines and 
papers, and had received numerous honors in rec- 
ognition of his scholarship. In 1855 he was 
elected a corporate member of the American Ori- 
ental Society, of which he is now a senior member. 
In 1867 the honorary degree of M.D. was con- 
ferred upon him by the New York Eclectic Medi- 
cal College in recognition of his previous medical 
study and practice of medicine while in Turkey ; 
in 1880 the degree of D.D., by the University of 
Wooster, Wooster, Ohio; and in 1888 that of 
LL.D. by the Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., — 
the latter a tribute to his scholarship shown in the 
translation of Virgil's .-Eneid in dactylic hexam- 
eter, literal and linear, a work of much discrimi- 
nation and critical study, published in 1888, and 
receiving high testimonials from some of the 
ripest scholars. The same year Dr. Crane also 
published a volume of poems. In 1880 he was 
elected secretary of his college class, and prepared 
an exhaustive class record in encyclopedic form, — 
a work of protracted labor, which was much ap- 
preciated by his classmates. For nearly four 
years (1887-91) he was, by appointment of the 
governor of New Jersey, a member of the Board 
of Examiners of the Scientific and Agricultural 
College of that State, which position he finally re- 
signed to take citizenship in Massachusetts. He 
has been elected a member of several State his- 
torical societies and literary associations, among 
them the New Jersey Historical Society, the Vir- 
ginia Historical Society, the Webster Historical 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Society of Boston, the American Society for Uni- 
versity Extension, and the Theological Library 
Society, Boston. In each case of his election to 
membership in historical and literary societies Dr. 
Crane was chosen wholly without his solicitation. 
He was married September i, 1 891, to Miss Si- 
bylla Bailey, a lady accomplished and cultured, 
proficient as a linguist and musician, as well as 
active in several educational, literary, and chnri- 
table associations in Boston, her native city. 
Their home is in Boston. 



CR.WVFORI). Fred Er.astus, of W'atertown, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born at Guildhall, 
Essex County, Vt.. July 7, 1857, youngest son of 
the Hon. Oramel and Catherine ( Bothell) Craw- 
ford. The family is of Scottish origin. Andrew 
Crawford, a Cromwellian soldier, carried the 
name to the north of Ireland, whence came most 
of the Crawfords in America. He is descended 
through John, his grandfather, — who, with several 
brothers, settled near the \\'hite Mountains at the 
close of the last centurv, giving the name to 




FRED E. CRAWFORD. 



Mount Crawford and the Crawford Notch, — from 
James Crawford, who came to Boston in 1726 
from Castle Darwason, County of Derrv, Ireland. 



He attended the district, school of his native town 
until he was thirteen years of age, then the public 
schools of Watertown, graduating from the High 
School in 1875. He fitted for college at Allen's 
English and Classical School, West Newton, en- 
tered Harvard, and graduated in 1881. He pur- 
sued his legal studies at the Harvard Law School 
and in a Boston law office, and was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1884. Since then he has 
been in the active and successful practice of his 
profession, with oflices in Watertown and Boston, 
in the latter place in connection with William E. 
Spear, United States commissioner. For some 
years he has been employed as counsel by the 
town of Watertown. In 1892 and 1893 he was 
president of the \\'atertown Board of Trade. He 
has always been interested in religious and chari- 
table matters, especially in the Young Men's 
Christian Association and Sunday-school work, 
and is now on the board of directors of the Asso- 
ciated Charities of Watertown. He is in politics 
a stanch and active Republican, but has never 
sought public position, and has held only minor 
town office. Mr. Crawford was married February 
15, 1888, to Miss Mattie Sturtevant Coolidge, 
daughter of John and Martha J. (Sturtevant) 
Coolidge, of Watertown. They have two chil- 
dren: Calvin Dinsmore (born April 27, 18S9) and 
Frederick Coolidge Crawford (born March 19, 
1891). 

CR.\THERN, Rev, Ch.arles Fr.\nk Hill, of 
Boston, pastor of the First Parish Church of 
Charlestown, is a native of England, born in 
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, September 14, 1864, 
son of George Frederick and Reubena (Parsons) 
Crathern. His paternal grandfather was William 
Crathern, professor of music in London : and his 
maternal grandfather, the Hon. Read Parsons, 
attorney, also of London. He was educated in 
England, graduating from the grammar school at 
Aylesbury, Howard College, Thame, ( ).xford, the 
Theological Seminary, Nottingham, and after- 
ward taking a special course at St. John's Col- 
lege, Cambridge LTniversity. .Vfter travelling ex- 
tensively in Europe and North ,\frica, he settled 
in this country, and was ordained and installed at 
Mason, N.H., on the first of September, 1886. 
Two years later he returned to England to finish 
his collegiate studies. .After leaving the univer- 
sity, he accepted a call to his old pastorate in 
Mason, where he labored for twelve months. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



471 



'Then, receiving' an urgent cull to tlie liiNtuiic I'irst 
Parish Church of Charlestown, he came to this 
city. His ministry here began on the first of Jan- 




C. F. HILL CRATHERN. 

uary, 1893; and he was installed on the 3d of 
May following. The First Parish Church is the 
third oldest church in the country, organized in 
1632 ; and it has had for its ministers such men 
as John Harvard, Dr. Jedediah Morse, Dr. Will- 
iam I, lluddington, and Dr. James IS. Miles. Mr. 
Crathern is a frequent contributor to the secular 
and religious press. He was married May 24, 
1893, to Miss Sadie G. Tarbell, of Brooklyn, NA'. 
Thev have one child: Alice Tarbell Oatherii. 



CURRY, Samuel Silas, of Boston, dean of tlie 
School of Expression, is a native of East Tennes- 
see, born in the town of Chatata, November 2^, 
1847, son of James Campbell Curry, a descendant 
of the Campbells of Scotland, and Nancy (Young) 
Curry, of Abingdon, Va. He is of sterling an- 
cestry. His paternal great-grandmother had eight 
brothers in one battle under Marion in the 
Revolutionary War. To his mother he is indebted 
for his perseverance, sensitive nature, and strong 
intuitions ; and to his father he owes his love of 



scholarship. During the Civil War his education 
was carried on under difficulties. He prepared 
for college in most studies without any teacher. 
He planned to enter one of the Eastern colleges, 
but through the influence of Dr. Cobleigh, presi- 
dent of the East Tennessee Wesleyan University, 
was persuaded to go to .Athens. He entered 
college in 1869, and took his A.!!, in 1872, with 
the highest honors of his class or of any previous 
class of the institution, having done four years' 
work in about two and a half years of residence. 
For one year after entering he was absent teach- 
ing, but during that time he kept up his studies. 
As a student, he was noted for originality. In 
mathematics, for e.xample, his demonstrations 
were most original. His classmates often laughed : 
but the professor, even while laughing with them, 
would say : " The process of reasoning is logical, 
and the result is true. It is all right." He has a 
highlv imaginative and artistic temperament, and 
possesses great facility in accomjjlishing various 
kinds of work. Literature, from earliest child- 
hood, has been the goal of his ambition ; and, had 
he followed Dr. Cobleigh's advice, he would have 
adopted it as a profession on leaving college. At 
that time a position of assistant editor was offered 
him, but he declined it. Instead he came to 
Boston, and entered the Boston University. Dur- 
ing the ne.xt eight years he took successively the 
degrees of B.D., A.M., and Ph.D. Much of his 
work was done in the Boston Public Library. 
He pursued many courses of reading and of inde- 
pendent investigation. Upon the death of Pro- 
fessor Lewis B. Monroe, dean of the Boston 
University School of (Oratory, in the summer of 
1879, and the consecjuent discontinuance of this 
school by the university, Mr. Curry was called to 
carry on its work in the College of Liberal .\rts 
and the School of .All Sciences ; and, to prepare 
himself more thoroughly for this service, he made 
two trips to Europe. He studied with M. James, 
for twenty years the assistant of Wachtel. with 
Requier, and others, and later with Shakespeare 
in London and the elder Lamperti on Lake Come 
in Italy. He was also the pupil for many years 
of Steele Mackaye ; and he has numerous letters 
and certificates from Mackaye, stating that he had 
gone further than any other student in studies 
with him. Subsequently Mackaye offered him 
a tempting salary to come to New York and take 
charge of the School of Acting there, and never 
forgave him for refusing. In addition to his lech- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



nical training he studied every phase of science 
and art which bore in any way upon expression. 
By the advice of William I). Howells he went 
to Italy, and studied the old masters. Oratory 
was made an elective in the School of All Sciences 
for the degree of .A.M.. and this department of the 
university under his direction became a marked 
success. In addition to the regular required work 
in the university there were a large number of 
special students organized into private classes. 
In 1883 Dr. Curry was made Snow professor of 
oratory in Boston University. In 1884 he was 
given the privilege of arranging the special classes 
into a private school. Tlie possibilities of the 
work grew; and finally, in 1S88, he presented the 
alternative to the university, — either to allow him 
to endow a separate department, offering to raise 
one hundred thousand dollars to that end, or 
to accept his resignation. .\ii increase of salary 
was offered him with other advantages, but the 
universitv declined again to recognize officially a 
School of Oratory. Thereupon he resigned his 
position, and gave himself more fully to the School 
of K.xpression. 'i'his was incorporated in 1888. 




S. S. CURRY. 



He has since sought for endowment and a perma- 
nent building, that the school might do its work 
more adequately. Its aims are to show the rela- 



tion of vocal training to education, to make the 
spoken word the exponent and servant of the 
highest literature, and thus save elocution from 
becoming merely mechanical and artificial. 
Among its most important achie\ements are its 
recitals. Over one hundred of these have been 
given, with the result of raising the standard of 
public taste and proving the possibility of reading 
the best literature in public entertainments. 
They have embodied studies in every form and 
phase of literature, such as Browning's " Mono- 
logues," studies from the Iliad. Shelley's 
" Prometheus Unbound," and from •■ Les Mise- 
rables." Dr. Curry maintains that a true study of 
nature in her processes is fundamental to a true 
method, and to this end has insisted on the tests 
of all art being applied to delivery. .Accordingly, 
a study of the best in all the arts is a part of 
the discipline afforded students in the school. 
Through friends he succeeded in interesting 
Henry Irving, who gave a recital for the benefit 
of the school in 1888, the proceeds of which en- 
dowed the Irving Lectureship. The number in 
the school has always been limited to fifty regular 
students, in order that the work may be thorough 
and systematic. Dr. Curry has also undertaken a 
series of works upon his investigations and dis- 
coveries in regard to the voice, — training, panto- 
mime, vocal expression, and delivery, and the 
relation of these to art. — and aims to publish all 
of his methods that have been embodied and 
tested in the School of Expression. The first 
work of this series. " The Province of Expres- 
sion." was published in i8gi. A " Text-"book on 
Vocal Expression" will follow in 1895, and others 
are in preparation for 1895. In the summer of 
1894 Dr. Currv made another visit to Europe 
especially to gather additional material for his art 
lectures, which have grown out of the method of 
studying the relation of all the arts to each other 
to find universal principles of art. He possesses 
probably the finest stereopticon illustrations on art 
of any one in the country. Thev have been 
gathered in every part of the world. I )r, Curry 
has also filled the position of instructor in oratory 
in Harvard Universitv since 189 1, has been act- 
ing Davis professor of elocution and oratory in 
Newton Theological Institution since 1884, and 
instructor at the \'ale Divinity School since 1892. 
He is a member of the Episcopalian Club and of 
the Boston .Vrt Club, and has served the latter for 
several years as librarian. Dr. Currv was married 



MEN OF PR0(;RKSS. 



473 



May 31, 1882, to Miss Anna Darigiit, of I'ough- 
keepsie, N.V., a graduate of the Hoston University 
Sciiool of Oratory, at the time of their marriage 
principal of tlie School of Elocution and Expres- 
sion, and previous to the death of Professor Mon- 
roe one of the latter's assistants in the School of 
Oratory. Mrs. Curry is of Quaker descent. Her 
great-grandfather, Joseph S. Dean, was a progres- 
sive thinker and was among the earliest contribu- 
tors to the Judex. Her maternal grandmother was 
the youngest daughter of General Samuel .\gustus 
ilarker, who was in the Revolution and the 
War of 181 2. 



DARLING, Linus, of Boston, proprietor of the 
.)f(nsiu-/iiisc/ts J'loiii;/imtTii, was born in Middle- 
borough, May II, 1830, son of Darius and Alice 
(Drake) Darling. He was educated in the public 
schools of Middleborough and at Adelphian .Vcad- 
emy. North Bridgewater, now Brockton, making 
his home on the farm with his parents until he 
was twenty-one years old. At that time he en- 
tered the employ of William Buckmiiister, founder 
and then proprietor of the Mtissinliiisctts Ploiigh- 
111(111. as collector, and so continued for ten years, 
when, the paper being sold, he was made by the 
new owners business manager. After fifteen 
years of service in the latter position he left the 
rioiii^liDuvi, and, with Joseph L. Keith as partner, 
bought the Nno England Farmer. This he car- 
ried on successfully for seven years, and then sold, 
his health having failed. The succeeding two 
years were devoted to rest. Then, having re- 
gained his health, he purchased the Massachusetts 
I'loiii^/unaii. and re-entered the journalistic field. 
He immediately changed the shape of the paper 
from the •' blanket sheet " to the eight-page form, 
and added numerous new and valuable depart- 
ments, which brought it into the front ranks of 
agricultural journals of the day. He has also 
made the '• Farmers' Meetings," conducted by the 
/'/o!ii;/niiaii six months of the year, a distinctive 
and notable feature, his paper being the only one 
which has ever undertaken this work. Tliese 
meetings are attended by the first farmers and 
agriculturists in the country. In politics Mr. 
Darling has always been a Republican; but he 
has had no time for political life, having put his 
wiiole energy into his newspaper work. He is a 
trustee of the New England Agricultural Society, 
the J'loiig/iniaii being the official organ of that as- 



sociation. He enjoys a wide acc|uaintance among 
farmers and agriculturists. Mr. Darling was 
married November 29, 1855, to Miss Caroline 



itT' 



k. 



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LINUS DARLING. 



Alden, of Bridgewater, a descendant of John 
Alden. They have four children : Carrie M., 
Harriet A., Annie N., and .\lbert L. Darling. 



DICKINSON, Rev. Chari.ls .Ai.hkrp, of Bos- 
ton, pastor of Berkeley Temple, is a native of 
Vermont, born in Westminster, July 4, 1849, son 
of Alvin and Elizabeth (Titcomb) Dickinson. 
On the paternal side he is a descendant of the 
Dickinsons of Revolutionary fame, and of the 
.-Vdamses who gave two Presidents to the country. 
His education was begun in the common school at 
Westminster and in Kimball L'nion Academy, 
Meriden, N.H. He was fitted for college at 
Phillips (Andover) Academy, and graduated from 
Harvard in 1876, class-day poet. His early life 
was spent on the farm : and at the age of sixteen 
he was a school-teacher, teaching the district 
school in Putney, Vt. He followed this occupa- 
tion for about five years, during the year 1869-70 
teaching in the Albany Academy at Albany, N.Y., 
and earned by it and by w-riting for young 



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people's periodicals enough money to secure his 
academic training. He began his ministry in the 
Second Parish Church of Portland, Me., in the 




CHAS. A DICKINSON. 

autumn of 1879, and remained there until Janu- 
ary, 1883, when he was settled over the ICirk 
Street Church, I^owell. Four years later he was 
called to the Berkeley Street Church of Boston, 
beginning his labors there in November, 1887. 
He was connected with the Christian Endeavor 
movement when it was first started in Portland, 
and has held an official relation to it ever since. 
The third society in the country was formed in 
his Portland church. He has been called all over 
the country to speak in the interests of this move- 
ment, and in 189 1 he went on a speaking cam- 
paign through England. In 1894 he presided at 
the great Christian pjideavor Convention in 
Cleveland, where the aggregate meetings during 
the four days numbered over two hundred and 
fifty thousand. The tierkeley Temple, into which 
the Berkeley Street Church has been transformed, 
has the honor of being the first to bear the name 
Institutional ; and Mr. Dickinson's chief work in 
life is the organizing and developing of this pio- 
neer Institutional (Tiurch, which doubtless stands 
throughout the country as the typical church of 
the new movement. It is a free church, open 



every day and all day. with many-sided activities. 
It has a Uorcastry, with reading-room and classes, 
under the superintendence of a matron ; a young 
men's institute, including a reading-room, gymna- 
sium, outing club, and various classes ; numerous 
institutions for young folk, among them a boys' 
brigade, a class in sloyd, kitchen gardens, sewing- 
schools, and kindergartens ; a relief department 
ministering to the worthy poor ; a temperance 
guild or gospel reform club ; and various religious 
and devotional meetings. During the busy sea- 
son thirty-seven gatherings are held weekly under 
the church roof, and from si.\ to ten thousand per- 
sons in the aggregate pass through its doors. 
Connected with the Temple is a floating hospital, 
in which hundreds of infants and mothers are 
cared for in the summer months, a vacation home 
for young women, and an orphanage for homeless 
boys. Under these varied institutional methods 
the Temple has grown from a membership of 
about three hundred to over a thousand. Mr. 
Dickinson was a member of the prudential com- 
mittee of the American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions in 1S86-92 ; he has been a 
trustee of the United Society of Ciiristian En- 
deavor since 1880, and a trustee of Kimball 
Union Academy since 1892 ; and he is now also 
president of the Golden Rule Company, which 
publishes the Golden Rule, the Christian Endeavor 
organ. He was married July 2, 1879, to Miss 
Esther 1 )ickinson Goodridge, of Westminster, \X. 
They have two adopted children. 



DUNN, Edward Howard, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of Boston, born August 27, 1826, son 
of James T. and Rebecca B. (Howard) Dunn. 
His father was a sea-captain, born in Richmond, 
Va., and lost at sea in 1832 ; and his mother was 
of Boston. He w-as educated in the old Eliot 
.School. Boston, and at the academy at South 
Reading. He entered a leather store at fourteen 
years of age ; and, engaging in business on his 
own account soon after reaching his majority, he 
has been a hide and leather dealer in Boston for 
fifty years. Since 1880 he has been the senior 
member of the house of Dunn, Green & Co. He 
has also been some time connected with banking 
interests and insurance matters, and is now a 
director of the Shoe & Leather National Bank of 
Boston, a director of the Hudson National Bank, 
Hudson, a trustee of the Home Savings Bank, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



475 



liostoii, ;in(l a director of the Fireman's Insur;rnce 
Company. In 1872 he served as a member of the 
E.xecutive Council through the term of Governor 
Gaston ; and he was a presidential elector, voting 
for (Jrant. .\t a later period he was inspector of 
the Massachusetts State Prison for a term of three 
years. He has served his city as a member of the 
School Board, first in 1879, and again elected in 
1S93 for the regular term of three years, receiving 
the largest vote ever cast for any candidate for 
this board, his name appearing on all the tickets 
in the field. He is prominent in the Methodist 
Kpiscopal denomination, being president of the 
jloston W'esleyan Association, ex-president of the 
Methodist Social Union, a trustee of Boston Uni- 
versity, and a trustee of the First Methodist Epis- 
copal Church of Boston ; and he is an e.\-president 
of the Young Men's Christian Association. \\'hen 
a lad of fifteen, he joined the Boston Mercantile 
Library Association, and continued an active mem- 
ber of that organization for ten years ; and he is 
now a member of the Boston Art Club, of the 
\'owel Club, composed of past presidents of the 
Eliot School Association, and of other kindred 




EDWARD H. DUNN. 



has been a justice of the peace for many years. 
Mr. Dunn was married in October, 1859, to Miss 
Jennie G. Willis, daughter of Henry P. Willis, of 
New Bedford. Their only child, Danforth Rich- 
ardson Dunn, died at the age of twenty-two years. 



He was president of the Eliot 
Association, and president of the 

Old Sihonl lioys' Association in 1SS7-88. He 



associations. 
School Bov^ 



FITZGERALD, John Fr.\nci.s, of iJoston, real 
estate and insurance business, member of Con- 
gress for the Ninth Massachusetts District, was 
born in Boston, February 11, 1865, son of Thomas 
Fitzgerald. He acquired a thorough education in 
the Boston public schools, — attending the Eliot 
Grammar, the English High, and the ]5oston Latin 
Schools, — at Boston College, and at Harvard, 
where he took a partial course. After leaving 
college, he studied medicine in the Harvard Medi- 
cal School. At the age of twenty-three he was 
appointed to a position in the Boston custom- 
house, under Collector Saltonstall, and was there 
engaged from 1886 to 1891. Then he entered 
the real estate and insurance business, which he 
has since followed. His interest in political 
atTairs was early manifested, and he soon became 
active and influential in Democratic party matters. 
In 1892 he served as a member of the Boston 
Common Council. The next two years, 1S93-94, 
he was a member of the State Senate for the 
Third Suffolk District (embracing Wards Six, 
Seven, and Eight, Boston, and Ward Three of 
Cambridge), and in that body was the recognized 
leader of his party. During his first term he held 
the chairmanship of the committee on engrossed 
bills, and was a member also of the committees on 
election laws and on liquor laws; and in 1894 he 
served on the committees on rules, on liquor law, 
on taxation, and on rapid transit. He was identi- 
fied with the legislation of the latter year directed 
against stock-watering by railway, gas, and water 
companies, with the advance of sundry labor meas- 
ures, — among them bills establishing an eight-hour 
day for laborers employed by the State, a day of 
ten hours in eleven for street-car conductors and 
drivers, and ten hours in twelve for steam rail- 
road employees, — and introduced and advocated 
numerous other measures in behalf of the people. 
He was nominated for Congress in the autumn of 
1894, and was elected after a spirited campaign, 
the only Llemocratic Congressional candidate in 
New England that year successful at the polls. 
Mr. Fitzgerald is a member of the Charitable 
Irish Society, of the Young Men's Catholic .-Xs.so- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



elation of Boston College, of Division i. Ancient water colors, and exhibiting in the principal exhi- 
Oider of Hibernians, of Fitzpatrick Court, Order bitions throughout the country. Among his most 
of Foresters, of the Knights of Columbus, of the important pictures are three painted in Brittany, 

entitled '■ La Plage at Concarneau," " A Rainy 
Day at Quimperle," and "Market Day at Con- 
carneau." and one called "Old Fish Houses at 
Port Lome." Nova Scotia. He has been most 
successful with street scenes. Of his work in 
general a well-known Boston critic has written : 
•• Mr. Flagg's street scenes possess a fine local 
feeling. They are more than memoranda, yet 
retain the graphic first impressions coupled with 
the studied phases. This same fidelity is notice- 
able in his landscape water colors. He never 
fails to give us the surface of the broad fields in 
true perspective and coloring, and one cannot but 
appreciate his artistic compositions. Besides all 
these features, so essential in good art, his paint- 
ing qualities are ever evident, so that, all told, we 
ha\e worthy results, — good pictures, poetic and 
valuable transcripts from nature." In 1892, a 
fire occurring in the building in which lie had liis 
studio, Mr. Flagg suffered the loss of all his pict- 
ures there, studio effects, and valuable sketches, 




JOHN F. FITZGERALD, 

Ancient Order of Cnited Workmen, and of the 
Young Men's Democratic and the Bay State 
clubs. He has been some time on the Demo- 
cratic Ward Committee of Ward Six, Boston, in 
which he resides ; and is now vice-president of 
the Democratic city committee, and member at 
large of the Democratic State Committee. 



PT.AGG, Hiram Peabodv, of Boston, artist, 
was born in Somerville, March 7, 1858, son of 
Hiram B. and Laura T. ( Peabodv) Flagg. His 
education was acquired in the public schools 
of Charlestown and of Wakefield. .\t the age of 
eighteen he entered the Massachusetts Normal 
Art School in Boston, where he remained two 
years. In 1881 he went abroad, and there fur- 
ther pursued his art studies for three years, study- 
ing in Paris at Julien's, under Boulanger and 
Lefebvre the first year, and the succeeding two 
years under Carolus Duran. Returning to Bos- which represented years of hard work. He has 
ton in 1884, he at once opened his studio, and been a member of the Boston Art Club since 1884, 
has since been engaged there, painting in oil and and was some time a member of tlie Paint and 




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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



477 



C'lay Club. He was married .\uj;usl 15, 1.S87, to 
Miss Julia L. Horther, of Hoston. They have no 
children. 

FLETCHER, Herbert Hervev, of Boston, 
manager of the New England Associated Press, 
was born in Granby, Hampshire County, Au- 
gust 10, 1855, son of Erastus and Klmira (Hervev) 
Fletcher. He is of English ancestry, and a de- 
scendant in the eighth generation of Robert 
Fletcher, founder of the American branch of the 
family, who settled in Concord, Mass., in 1630. 
His early life was spent on a farm ; and he acquired 
a liberal education through difficulties and not a 
little privation. Starting in district schools, at the 
age of fifteen he managed to secure one term at the 
town grammar school, and at sixteen two terms 
at W'eslevan Acadeni)', W'ilbraham. For the next 
two years he was assistant teacher in Betts Mili- 
tary Academy at Stamford. Conn., receiving for 
his services his support and instruction in the 
class preparing for Yale. At the close of this 
work he tried successfully the examination at 
W'esleyan University. Unable, however, to enter. 
being without resources, he returned to Betts 
Academy as a regular teacher for another vear. 
Then, having accumulated a small fund, he 
entered Williams College in the autumn of 1S75. 
and worked his way through, engaging in various 
business ventures, and serving as correspondent 
for various newspapers. He received numerous 
class honors, — was '"Jackson supper orator" in 
his freshman year, president of his class in the 
senior year, and ivy orator on class day, — and 
won a number of prizes, the list embracing second 
declamation, second Greek, honorable mention his- 
tory, in the sophomore year : first history, second 
German, and Warren scholarship, in the junior 
year ; and Graves essay, prize for prizes, and 
the Van Vechten prize, senior year, — the latter 
prize a cash award made at the end of the senior 
year, by vote of the Faculty and students of the 
college, to that member of the class who, in their 
opinion, had attained the greatest efficiencv in the 
art of extemporaneous speaking. He was also 
president of the Athciucinn editorial board during 
his senior year. Upon leaving college his pur- 
pose was to return to teaching; but, not finding 
at once a satisfactory position, he engaged in 
newspaper work, taking a small place in the 
office of the .Springfield i 'iiin/i. .\fter about two 
years' service on the C 'nioii he came to Boston 



(ill the winter of i<S82 1, and took a hand in organ- 
izing the United Press, at first the rival of. and 
later the succes.sor of, the New York .Associated 
Press. The succeeding five years were devoted to 
the laborious task of developing the news service 
of the United Press in New England, in which the 
older organization was strongly intrenched : and 
in 1887 this work had l)ecome so successful that a 
consolidation of the United Press and the New 
England Associated Press was effected. Two 
years later, February i, 1889, Mr. Fletcher was 
appointed manager of the New England Associa- 
tion, which position he has since held. Of the 




H. H. FLETCHER. 

value of his work in the interest of the United 
Press, Walter P. Phillips, general manager of that 
organization, has written in high praise. In an 
article in the Joiinial'nt of March 16, 1889, Mr. 
Phillips says that, when as manager he came to 
•■size up" the United Press, he found among its 
possessions " a pair of modern Napoleons in the 
persons of H. H. Fletcher, representing the New 
England States, and Henry M. Hunt, . . . who 
was supposed to stand guard on the watch towers 
of Chicago. These men furnished four-fifths of 
all the news that the Ignited Press handled. 
Where they got it was always a mysterv to me. 
... It is no exaggeration to say that between 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



thcin ihey covered the country, and often beat the church organization was dissolved. Upon his re- 



Associated Press papers on news which originated 
with that comprehensive news organization. . . . 
But it is as a writer of original matter that Mr. 
Fletcher excels, (iiven a few general facts and half 
a dozen details, a picture is at once presented to 
his ingenious imagination." Under Mr. Fletcher's 
management the news service of the New England 
Associated Press has been placed upon a high 
plane of efficiency. It has been extended to 
cover every phase of the varied interests of the 
New England press and New P2ngland people, has 
been put in intimate touch with the moving forces 
of society ; while the leaders in politics, education, 
science, religion, and reform have learned to co- 
operate with it as an indispensable adjunct to 
the proper dissemination of intelligence of their 
doings. Mr. Fletcher is a member of the New 
England Free Trade League, of the Massachu- 
setts Reform Club, of the Boston Art Club, and 
of the Boston Press Club. He was married De- 
cember 25, 1880, to Miss Alice S. Kellogg, at 
Granby. They have one child : Harold Hervey 
Fletcher. 



turn from abroad in 1881 he settled in Boston, 
and devoted himself exclusively to literary pur- 



FROTHINGHAM, Rev. Octavics Brooks, of 
Boston, is a native of Boston, born November 26, 
1822, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Froth- 
ingham, minister of the First Church from 1815 
to 1850, and Ann Gorham (Brooks) Frothingham. 
His father was son of Ebenezer Frothingham, 
a crockery merchant and appraiser of taxes in 
Marshall's Lane near "Boston Stone," a direct 
descendant from \\illiam Frothingham, who came 
over in 1630 and settled in Charlestown as a 
general carpenter, and was made a selectman in 
1634. Beyond him the line is obscure. Mr. 
Frothingham was educated in private schools, 
in the Public Latin School under Master Charles 
K. Dillaway, where he was fitted for college, and 
at Harvard, graduating in the class of 1843 with 
honors. From college he entered the Divinity 
School, pursuing his studies there under George 
R. Noyes and Convers F'rancis, and graduating 
in the class of 1846. He was first settled as 
minister of the North Church in Salem from 1847 
to 1855. Called the latter year to Jersey City, 
N.J., he remained there four years, after which 
he w-as settled in New- ^'ork for twenty years, 
from 1859 to 1879. Then, resigning on account 
of ill health, he tra\elled in Europe; and the 



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O. B. FROTHINGHAM. 

suits, in which he had been much engaged 
while occupying the pulpit. He has been a 
copious writer. Besides the numerous sermons 
and lectures he has printed, and many articles 
in prominent magazines, he is the author of 
"Stories from the Lips of the Teacher " (1862), 
"Stories of the Patriarchs" (1864J, "Religious 
History and Criticism " (translations from essays 
by Renan, 1S64), "Religion of Himianity " 
(1872), "Life of Theodore Parker" (1874). 
"Child's Book of Religion" (^1876), "Transcen- 
dentalism in New England" (1876), "Cradle of 
the Christ" (1877), "Life of Gerrit Smith" 
(1877). "Life of George Ripley" (1882), "Life 
of \\". H. Channing" (1886), "Memoir of D. A. 
W'asson " (1888), "Boston Unitarianism " (1890), 
and "Recollections and Impressions" (1891). 
The last mentioned is the latest essay he has 
published. Of late years his life has been one 
of seclusion. Mr. Frothingham is associated with 
rational as distinct from ecclesiastical and dog- 
matic religion, and is in full sympathy with the 
largest interpretation of religious ideas. He is 
not "Jew" or "Christian" or "Buddhist," or 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



479 



disciple of nny speci;il creed, hut ;i beliex'er in 
iuinuin. imivers;il, ideal faith, spiritual and fof- 
ward-looking. From 1S67 to 1.S78, diirin<; its 
most active period, he was president of the Free 
Religious Association. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, of the St. Ho- 
tolph Club, and of the 'I'hursday Evening Club 
of Boston. In politics he is a liberal Republican. 
He was married in Boston in 1847 to Miss Caro- 
line Flizalaeth Curtis, daughter of Caleb Curtis. 
Flizabeth, wife of William L. Parker of Boston, is 
his onlv child. 



CrARG.\N, Thomas J., of I'loston. member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, October 27, 
1844, son of Patrick and Rose (Garland) (Jargan. 
His paternal grandfather. Patrick Gargan, took 
part in the rebellion of 1798 in Ireland. He 
was educated in the Boston public schools and 
through private instruction from the Rev. Peter 
Ivroze, S.J., who trained him in literature and the 
classics and fitted him for college. His active 
life was begun in mercantile pursuits, starting in 
the dry-goods store of Wilkinson, Stetson & Co. ; 




THOMAS J. GARGAN. 



ing at the age of eighteen, and commissioned 
as second lieutenant of infantry. Having deter- 
mined to enter the legal profession, he retired 
from mercantile business in the early seventies, 
and de\oted himself to preparation therefor. His 
studies were pursued in the law office of Henry 
W. Paine and at the I'.oston University Law 
School, from which he graduated LL. H. in 1875. 
The same year he was admitted to the bar, and 
at once actively engaged in practice. He had 
already been prominent in local and .State politics, 
and had served two terms (1868 and 1870) as a 
Boston member of the lower house of the Legis- 
lature. In 1875 he was made a member of the 
Boston Board of Overseers of the Poor, and the 
ne.xt year again returned to the House of Repre- 
sentatives. In 1877 and 1878 he was chairman 
of the Boston license commissioners, and in 1880 
and 1 88 1 member of the Boston Board of Police. 
In 1893 he was appointed to the I5oston Subway 
Commission, that year created and placed in 
charge of the work of constructing the subway 
along Tremont Street for street-car traffic. Mr. 
Gargan is a brilliant and elociuent speaker, and 
has been frequently heard on the stump and in 
more formal addresses. He was the Fourth of July 
orator for the city by invitation of the city council 
in 1885 ; the following year delivered the oration 
at the centennial celebration of the Charitable 
Irish Society of Halifax, N.S. ; and in June, 
1894, by invitation of the city government of 
Boston, delivered the eulogy at the commemora- 
tive services in honor of the late ex-Governor 
Gaston. In politics he has always been a Demo- 
crat, of late years acting with the progressive 
wing of his party. He is a member of the Uni- 
versity Club, of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Irish Society (of which he was president in 1873 
and 1874), and of the Catholic Union. He was 
married in 1867 to Miss Catherine L. McCirath. 
.She died in 1892, leaving no children. 



and at the age of twenty he w'as Boston agent for 
the A. & W. .Sprague Manufacturing Company. 
Meantime he had served in the ("ivil War, enlist- 



GAMMONS, Isaac Wi-.^ni-.i.t., of Boston, 
manager of the Boston department of the Boots 
and S/iocs JVeek/w of New \'ork. was born in 
Wareham, February 28. 1864, son of Stephen and 
Lydia ( Dunham ) Gammons. He is descended on 
the maternal side from the Dunhams, who came 
from England to New England in the seventeenth 
century. His education w^as acquired in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town, and also of Somer- 



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MEN OF PROC.RESS. 



ville, to wliicli place his family removed during his 
boyhood. He began his business career as a 
grocer, and was with one firm for thirteen years. 




J^ i 




I. WENDELL GAMMONS. 

doing newspaper work at leisure moments. Then 
he became more directly interested in journalism, 
and after experience in various capacities was in 
1893 made New England correspondent and man- 
ager of the Boots and S/ioes Weekly, the position 
he still holds. He is considerably noted as a 
specialist in advertisement writing. Mr. Gam- 
mons is a member of numerous fraternal organiza- 
tions, including the Odd Fellow-s, the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, the Knights of Pythias, and 
the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is unmarried. 



(;0()I)ELI>, Rkv. Ch.arles Lk Roy. of Bos- 
ton, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church, 'I'emple Street, was born in Dudley, July 
31, 1854, .son of Warren and Clarinda (Healy) 
Goodell. His ancestry is Puritan in both lines. 
On the paternal side he is descended from Robert 
Goodell, who came to Salem from Yarmouth, Eng- 
land, in 1636. On his mother's side his great- 
great-grandfather had tlie distinction of being the 
first white child born in Dudley. Another note- 
worthy fact is that Mr. Goodell's mother, who 



died in Dudley a few years ago, was born, mar- 
ried, and spent her entire life in the same house. 
This homestead is now a cherished possession of 
the subject of this sketch. Frequent pilgrimages 
are made to this sacred shrine, and in summer he 
spends within its portals most of the usual vaca- 
tion. A pleasing expression of his regard for his 
mother's memory is his dainty volume, entitled 
•• My Mother's Bible," the central thought of 
which is "Christianity and the Home," a book 
which, besides being a tribute to the noble woman 
who nurtured him, has served a useful function in 
the guidance of youth. His early education was 
acquired in the common schools of his nati\'e 
town, at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and 
at the Nichols Academy, Dudley. His collegiate 
training was at Boston University, where he was 
graduated in the class of 1877. His successful 
career as a preacher began in the town of Acush- 
net, but he was soon in demand for city work. 
Providence claimed him ; and for three successive 
pastoral terms, each of the full length, that city 
enjoyed his gifted ministrations. He was ad- 
mitted to the Providence Conference (afterward 




CHAS. L, GOODELL. 



New England Southern) of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church in 1879. The year follow-ing he was 
stationed at Broadw-ay Church. His term e.xpir- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



481 



ing in 1SS3, he was then calleil 1)_\- the (hesluut 
Street C'hin-ch, his next assignment, in 1886, 
being for a three years' term at Trinity t'hurch in 
tlie same city. At all these churches he drew 
large and ever-growing audiences during the entire 
nine years; and it was his distinction, while at 
I'rinitv, to have under his care a Sundaj'-school 
ninnhering twelve hundred members, the largest 
in New England. In .April, 1889, requisition was 
laid upon him by the Methodism of Boston. 
This necessitated his transfer to the New Paigland 
Conference; and at the urgent request of the 
W'inthrop Street Church he was appointed pastor 
of that charge, remaining in this position, with 
the most successful results, for the full and now 
e.xtended term of five years. In lioston Mr. 
(ioodell has grown rapidly in public estimation. 
When he left Winthrop .Street, the membership of 
that charge was the largest of any .Methodist 
church in the city. In .\pril, 1894, he was called 
to the First Methodist Episcopal Church on Tem- 
ple Street, where his success has equalled, per- 
haps exceeded, that won in former pastorates. 
Mr. Goodell's elements of strength are marked 
and varied, and are summarized by one who best 
knows liim as follows : " His physical presence, 
suggestive of fine health and good-nature, could 
not fail to make a favorable impression ; and this 
is naturally heightened by the magnetism of his 
superb sociability. It is not hard for him to be 
amiable and helpful. It seems, indeed, to be only 
natural for him to exhibit these qualities. In his 
relations to his ministerial brethren in and around 
lioston he has shown himself to be a royal soul, 
who seems always to think of himself last ; and it 
is this characteristic, no doubt, which, more per- 
haps than his unusual ability, has caused them 
to confer upon him several positions of honor. 
He is a preacher of rare effectiveness, fine pres- 
ence, wholesome thought, polished diction, rich 
feeling, sympathetic voice, and a general style in 
the delixery of his sermons which is seldom sur- 
passed. These gifts cause him to be in frequent 
demand as a lecturer, yet his one great work is 
that of a minister of the gospel." Mr. Goodell 
has been for several years an officer of the Bos- 
ton Methodist Preachers' Meeting, was president 
of the Ro.xbury Evangelical .\lliance in 1893-94, 
and is now vice-president of the Methodist Social 
I'nion of Boston. He is also a member of the 
Twentieth Century Club. He has one son. Le 
Rov Lucius Goodell. 



HALS.VLT, Wii.i.iA.M T'oK.Miiv, of Boston, ma- 
rine painter, is a native of England, born in Kirk- 
dale, March 20, 1S41, son of John !'. and Mary 




WILLIAM F. HALSALL. 

( Formby) Halsall. Between the ages of ten and 
twelve he went to sea, and followed the life of a 
sailor for about seven years. Coming to Boston 
when a youth, he learned the trade of a fresco 
painter, and was some time with \A'illiam E. Nor- 
ton, then painting also marine views. When the 
Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the United 
States Navy, and served during 1862 and 1863 as 
master's mate. Returning to Boston after the 
expiration of his term of enlistment, he again 
took up fresco painting, but finally abandoned it, 
and devoted himself entirely to marine painting. 
He studied for several years at the Lowell In- 
stitute, and was a special student at the Institute 
of 'Technology. Beginning with painting of yachts, 
he soon applied himself to larger studies ; and in 
1878 he produced his first important work, the 
" .\rrival of the Winthrop Colony." 'This was 
shortly followed by "The MayHower," now the 
property of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. Sub- 
sequently he painted the spirited " Fight between 
the Monitor and Merrimac," now hanging in the 
Senate wing of the Capitol at Washington ; the 
historical picture of General Paine's yacht, " 'The 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



\'olunteer"; "To the Rescue," now owned b\' the 
Boston Art Chib ; and " Niagara Falls," in the pos- 
session of B. \V. Kilburn. He has also done a 
great deal of black and white work, illustration for 
books and magazines. His studio is on Atlantic 
Avenue, close by the harbor; and he takes fre- 
quent trips in pilot boats and other craft in search 
of material for his brush. He is a member of the 
Boston Art, of the Paint and Clay, and of the 
Boston Yacht clubs, and honorary member of the 
Massachusetts Yacht Club. He was married 
November 28, 1866, to Miss Josephine A. Nicker- 
son, of Ro.vbury. They have no children. 



HAMILTON, S.\MUEL Kixo, of Wakefield and 
Boston, member of the bar, is a native of Maine, 
born in W'aterborough, July 27, 1837, son of Ben- 
jamin Ricker and .Sarah (Carl) Hamilton. He is 
of Scotch descent. His ancestors emigrated to 
America in the early part of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, and settled in Berwick, Me., then a part of 
Massachusetts. His preparatory education was 
acquired in the district schools of his native town, 




ler Scientific Department in 1859. He immedi- 
ately began the study of law with the Hon. Ira T. 
Drew at Alfred, Me., and, with the exception of 
a portion of the time spent in teaching, pursued 
it until 1862, when he was admitted to the bar 
of York County. He then formed a copartner- 
ship with Mr. Drew, which continued until 1867, 
when it was dissolved by Mr. Hamilton's removal 
to Biddeford, where he remained until the latter 
part of 1872. He then removed to \Yakefield, 
Mass., and opened an office in Boston, where he 
has since been engaged in the general practice of 
his profession. While a resident of his native 
town, he served on the School Committee two 
years. In 1869 and 1870 he was a member of 
the Board of Aldermen, liiddeford, and in 1872 
represented that city in the Maine Legislature. 
Early after his settlement in Wakefield he became 
prominent in municipal affairs, serving ten years 
on the School Committee (1876 to 1886), nine of 
which he was chairman, four )-ears as chairman 
of the Board of Selectmen, and many years as 
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Beebe 
Town Library ; and he has been for twenty vears 
counsel for the tow-n. In 18S0 he was a delegate 
to the Democratic National Convention, in 1S83 
candidate for district attorney for the Northern 
District of Massachusetts, and in 1894 the Demo- 
cratic candidate for Congress in the Seventh Con- 
gressional District. He is president of the Quan- 
napowitt Club of Wakefield, treasurer of the Pine 
Tree State Club of Boston, president of Terminal 
City Company and of the Wakefield Water Com- 
pany. Mr. Hamilton was married February 13, 
1867, to Miss Annie K. Davis, of Newfield, Me. 



S. K. HAMILTON. 



at the Limerick (Me.) Academy, and at the Saco 
High School, and his collegiate training was at 
Dartmouth, where he graduated from the Chand- & Co., Springfield. Then, going to New York, he 



HANNUM, Leander Moody, of Cambridge, 
real estate and mortgage broker, was born in 
Northampton, December 22, 1837, son of Alexan- 
der C. and Laura A. (Moody) Hannum. He was 
educated in the public schools of Northampton 
and Chicopee, at Williston Seminary, Easthamp- 
ton, and at the English and Classical Institute, 
Springfield. After he had finished at Williston, 
then seventeen years old, he went to California, 
where he spent two years in the mining fields, and 
upon his return in 1856 resumed his studies at 
the Institute at Springfield, remaining there a year. 
He was employed for the next two years as sales- 
man in the wholesale grocery house of J. W. Hale 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



48: 



was there employed as cashier and correspondent 
for Mr. Howe, of the " Howe Sewing Machines," 
until 1864. Coming at that time to Cambridge, he 




Hall Association and of city as well as of State 
Republican clubs. His church connections are 
with the Third Congregational (Unitarian) Church 
of Cambridge, where he has served many years as 
chairman of the parish committee. He is con- 
nected with the Masonic fraternity, a member and 
past master of Amicable Lodge, and chairman of 
its board of trustees, member and past officer of 
the Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter, and member 
of the Boston Commandery; is a line member of 
several military organizations and Crand Army 
Posts ; a member of the Cambridge and Colonial 
clubs of Cambridge, of the Cambridge Citizens" 
Trade Association, and of the Real Estate Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Hannum was married December 15, 
1869, to Miss Anne Howard Demain. Of this 
union there are no children now living. 



HARDING, Herbert Lee, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Lancaster, 
May 10, 1852, son of Samuel Lee and Catherine 
(Bond) Harding. His early education was ac- 
quired at well-known private schools — the Allen 



LEANDER M. HANNUM. 

soon became extensively engaged in the grocery 
and ice business, and later in the business of real 
estate, which he has since followed with gratifying 
success. Mr. Hannum has been in public life for 
upwards of twenty years, and has served the com- 
munity in which he lives in various capacities. 
He was first elected to office in 1873 as a member 
of the Common Council, where he served one year. 
In 1874 and 1875 he was a member of the Board 
of Aldermen. In 1S76 and 1877 he represented 
his city in the House of Representatives, serving 
as chairman of the committees on public buildings 
and on street railways. In 18S1 and 1882 he was 
a member of the Senate, and there served as chair- 
man of the committees on prisons and on State 
House, and member of that on insurance. He 
has also served for several years as special com- 
missioner for Middlesex County, and for twelve 
years as one of the water commissioners of Cam- 
bridge. In politics he has been always a Repub- 
lican, and long active in party affairs. For seven 
years he was chairman of the Republican city English and Classical School, West Newton, and 
committee. He has been especially prominent in W. N. Eayrs's school in Boston — and under a 
municipal politics, and is a member of the Library private tutor ; and he graduated from Harvard, 




H. L. HARDING. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



A.I!., in the clas.s of 1874. From college he 
entered the Harvard Law School, from which he 
graduated LL.K. in 1876, and A.M. in 1877. His 
phy.sical as well as mental training for active life 
was admirable, as he was devoted to the best of 
athletic sports and at college given especially to 
rowing. After graduating from the law school, he 
studied iii the office of Morse, Stone, & Greenough, 
in Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in November, 1877, and the same year formed a 
partnership with Richard H. Dana, 3d, as Dana & 
Harding, with office at No. 30 Court Street, Bos- 
ton. .\ year later this partnership was dissolved; 
and he returned to Messrs. Morse &: Stone, with 
whom he made a business connection. This con- 
tinued till 1886, when he took the office with 
George Wigglesworth which had been vacated by 
Judge Bishop upon the latter's appointment to the 
bench. He is at present in the same office with 
Mr. Wigglesworth, in Fiske Building, No. 89 State 
Street. In 1887, upon the formation of the Citi- 
zens' Association of Boston, Mr. Harding became 
the secretary and counsel of that influential organ- 
ization, which positions he has since held, in his 
official capacity taking a leading part in advanc- 
ing municipal reforms and in checking unwise or 
questionable legislation. He has been actively 
interested in municipal affairs since the early 
eighties, and from 1S84 to 1886 inclusive served 
as a member of the Common Council. In politics 
he is Republican, with independent principles and 
practices. He is a member of the Union, Ex- 
change, Country, and Tiffin clubs, of the Hull 
Yacht Club, and of the Eliot Club of Jamaica 
Plain, where he resides. He was married October 
13, 1886, to Miss Lucy Austin, daughter of F. B. 
Austin, of the Charlestown District. They have 
one child: Frank Austin Harding, born October 
1, 1887. 

HARRIS, Elbridge Nelson, of Maiden, with 
office in Boston, manufacturer, was born in Ash- 
burnham, October 23, 1828, son of William and 
Hepsebeth (Flint) Harris. His education was 
obtained in the public schools of his native town 
and at the Winchendon Academy, where he spent 
three terms, and graduated in 1848. He began 
the making of water wheels when twenty years of 
age, and has been in this business ever since, 
with the manufacture of all kinds of machinery- 
pertaining to mill-work. During this period he 
has been treasurer and is now president of the 



Rodney Hunt Machine Company, manufacturers 
of turbine water wheels, horizontal and vertical, 
and other mill machinery, with shops in Orange 



( 




ELBRIDGE N. HARRIS. 

and one of the business offices in Boston. Their 
shops and foundry were all built new and 
equipped with new machinery since 1882. Mr. 
Harris is also a director of the Miller's River 
National Bank of Athol. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. He was married March ig, 1851,10 
Miss Luellyn L. Merriam, of Princeton. They 
have had two sons and one daughter: Nelson E., 
William O., and Bertha A. Harris (now Mrs. 
F. B. .Annington, of Providence, R.I.). His sons 
are both associated with him in business. Nelson 
E. being treasurer of the Rodney Hunt Company, 
and residing at Orange, and William O. secretary. 
Mr. Harris resides in Maiden. 



HARRIS, J.\.MEs Greenwood, of Boston, treas- 
urer of the LTnion Pacific Railway System and 
constituent companies, was born in Boston, No- 
vember I, 1843, son of James Watson Harris and 
Elizabeth Andrews (Nevers) Harris. He is of 
New P'.ngland descent, and several of his ancestors 
were early settlers of Boston and adjoining towns. 
He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Urann, one 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



485 



of the •• lioston '\'ci\ Party," who was a prominent 
member of St. .\ndre\v's Lodge and of the " Sons 
of Liberty." He was educated in tlic public 
ijrammar school. Li 1859, at the age of sixteen, 
he entered the service of the Cambridge Mutual 
I'ire Insurance Company, and remained there until 
I una, 1861. when he made a short trip to sea 
before the mast, returning in 1 )ecember of the 
same year. On January 29, i80j, he enlisted in 
the I'nited .States Navy, and was in that service 
(luring and after the Ci\il War, recei\ing his dis- 
charge in June, 1865, when he returned to Jioston. 
Soon after this he entered the employ of Low, 
Mersey, & Cary, leather merchants, Boston, and a 
few months later engaged with another firm in the 
same business. His connection with the LTnion 
Pacific • Railroad Company began in 1869. In 
July of that year he took the position of "office 
boy " in the company's Boston office. After a 
few^ weeks, however, he was promoted to a clerk- 
ship, and on September 15 of the following year 
was elected transfer agent. He became assist- 
ant treasurer on October i, 1885, and on .\pril 
25, 1888, was elected treasurer of the entire I'nion 




JAMES C. HARRIS. 



Pacific System, which position he still holds. .\s 
treasurer of this system, he is also treasurer of 
fifty-eight constituent companies. Mr. Harris 



lias held office in a number of secret and benevo- 
lent societies. He is a past president of the 
Brimmer School Association, a member of the 
Sons of the Revolution, of Edward W. Kinsley 
Post, No. 113, Grand Army of the Republic, of 
the United States Navy Veteran Association, of 
the Union and Cambridge clubs of Cambridge, 
and of the Algonquin Club of Boston. He has 
always been a stanch Rei^ublican, but has in- 
variably declined to accept political ofiice. He 
was married December 31, 1872, to Miss Sarah 
Louise Roberts, of Cambridge. Thev have no 
children. 



HARRIS, Nelson Ei.\'ikus, of Orange, manu- 
facturer, was born in Athol, January 20, 1852, son 
of Elbridge N. and Luellyn L. (Merriam) Harris. 
He was educated in the public schools of .\thol 
and at the Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N.\'., 
where he graduated March 24, 186S. He served 
the- next five years in the hydraulic and civil 
engineering office of the Essex Company at Law- 
rence, and left that office, on the ist of C)ctober, 
1873, to engage in the water wheel and mill engi- 
neering business. Five years more were. spent in 
practical mill work in its various branches with the 
long-established Rodney Hunt Machine Company, 
manufacturers of turbine water wheels and woollen 
machinery at Orange ; and then on December 20, 
1878, he entered the office of the company to take 
charge of the draughting and to do general office 
work, removing his family from Lawrence to 
Orange a few days previous. In January, 1882, a 
fire nearly destroyed the shops of the company, 
and he was given the charge of making plans for 
new buildings of brick. These were erected on a 
new site alongside of the tracks of the Fitchburg 
Railroad, the designing, construction, and equip- 
ment being under his supervision. After the com- 
pletion of the new works he became superintend- 
ent, and so continued until the ist of January, 
1S90, when he was elected treasurer and superin- 
tendent, which ofiice he has since held. In 1886 
he received a patent on a new water wheel, which 
has been manufactured by the Rodney Hunt .Ma- 
chine Company exclusively since that time. 
Other patents have since been received by him, 
two being for a system of mounting horizontal 
shaft water wheels: and the wheels of the company 
have been mounted in quite large and growing 
numbers from vear to vcar in accordance with his 



486 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



system. In 1S92 ^Ir. Harris superintended the Kibridge Nelson and Luellyn (Merriami Harris, 
building of a large addition to the shops and His education was begun in the common schools 
equipment, having supervised previous additions of his native town, and completed in a grammar 
to the machinery at different times. Although 
the water wheel made by the Rodney Hunt Com- 
pany previous to Mr. Harris's patent was held in 
high esteem by manufacturers, and sales had been 
quite large, the new wheel soon took a leading 
rank among the other makes of wheels, and sales 
increased from year to year, in a few years 
amounting to more than double the number per 
year over sales of the old wheel. Mr. Harris, 
while a resident of ( )range, has served on various 
town committees, but has declined to be a candi- 
date for any town office. He is not a member of 
fraternal orders or of clubs. In politics he is a 
Republican, and in religious faith a Congregation- 
alist, a member of the Congregational church of 
Orange. He was married January 25, 1873, to 





NELSON E. HARRIS. 



Miss Evie .Sophia Sawyer, of Bo.xford. They have 
had five children : Herbert N., Edward E. (died 
August 3, 1894), Evie L., Carl C, and Philip T. 
Harris. 



H.VRRIS, William Orlando, of Maiden, manu- 
facturer, was born in Athol, May 19, 1855, son of 



W. O. HARRIS. 

school and at a business college in Lawrence, to 
which place the family moved when he was a boy 
of twelve, after living two years in Boxford. He 
began work at the age of seventeen w'lth the 
Rodney Hunt Machine Company, and has been 
connected with it ever since. Beginning as an 
apprentice at the trade of mill-work, and serving 
an apprenticeship of five years, he next became 
foreman on outside work. Then, after a service 
of five years in this capacity, he travelled a num- 
ber of years as salesman for the concern, and on 
the 1st of January, 1894, was elected secretary of 
the company, the position he now holds. He is 
connected with the order of ( )dd Fellows as a 
member of the United Brothers Lodge of Law- 
rence. In politics he has been a steadfast Repub- 
lican, always voting the "straight" ticket. He 
was married .September 5, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth 
Gemmell, of Lawrence. They have had five chil- 
dren, four of whom are now living : Mertie, Bertha, 
Raymond, and Elmer Harris. After a residence 
of twenty-five years in Lawrence Mr. Harris 
moved to Maiden in the summer of 1S94. 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



487 



HARRIS(^N. Frank, of Boston, publisher and 
teacher of shorthand, is a native of ()hin, horn in 
Springfield, June 13, 1857, son of Edward and 
X'irginia Frances (Gelwicks) Harrison. He is of 
the Harrison family of \'irginia. His education 
was begun in the common schools, and developed 
in the printing-office and by self-teaching. He 
started at the age of ten as " printer's de\'il," 
studied shorthand, and at thirteen was employed 
as a stenographer ; and at eighteen, moving to 
New York, became there a general verbatim re- 
porter. His first regular work as a stenographer 
was with the Hon. John W. Bookwalter, of Ohio, 
in whose office he remained three years, 1870-73. 
In 1874-75 he was stenographer for James Leffel 
& Co., Springfield, Ohio. After his removal to 
New York he was some time in 1876 stenographer 
to the late Hon. Leon Abbett, of New Jersey; in 
1877-78-79 was stenographer in General Chester 
.\. Arthur's office ; in 1880 was private secretary 
to A. M. Palmer, theatre manager; and in 1881 
private secretary to James Redpath, journalist. 
F'rom 1S82 to 1S8S, while continuing work as a 
general verbatim reporter, he was also much in- 




has published Frank Harrisnit's Slioitltand Maga- 
zine since 1888, and Frank HarrisoiCs Family 
Magazine for two years, both publications being 
successful and enjoying large circulations. Since 
1886 he has also been largely engaged in conduct- 
ing shorthand schools in New York, Newark, N.J., 
and Boston, and at present conducts one in the 
latter city. He has trained upward of three 
thousand stenographers. He enjoys e.\cellent 
health, vigor, and energy, as a result, he is satis- 
fied, of the plain, simple life he leads, as much as 
possible in the country, and of his activity. He 
works at many things each day, is an optimist, 
and thinks the world is getting better every 
second. In politics he is an Independent. He 
is a member of the Orange, N.J., Lodge of the 
order of Elks, of the Boston Press Club, and hon- 
orary member of shorthand societies in all parts 
of the world. He has never married. 



FRANK HARRI.SON. 



terested in journalism, printing, and publishing. 
In 1 89 1 he moved his business from New York to 
Boston, where he has since been established. He 



HAYNES, Stilhtan, of F'itchburg, member of 
the bar, is a native of Townsend, born April 
17, 1833, son of Samuel and Eliza (Spaulding) 
Haynes. He is of Puritan and Revolutionary 
ancestry, whose religious belief was thoroughly 
evangelical, all firm adherents of Orthodo.x; Con- 
gregationalism, his father and mother, brothers and 
sisters, also being members of that church. After 
a preliminary training in the public and private 
schools of his native town he attended Leicester 
Academy, the Normal School at Lancaster, and 
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., where 
he graduated in 1859, ranking well, and excelling 
particularly in mathematics. During the years 
of preparatory study he taught advanced village 
schools at several places to obtain funds to en- 
able him to acquire a thorough education in lan- 
guages, literature, higher mathematics, and engi- 
neering; and, whenever the earnings from this 
occupation fell short of the needed sum, he re- 
sorted to manual labor. He was also some time 
an associate teacher at New Ipswich Academy, 
and a student with Elihu T. Quimby, afterward 
professor of mathematics and civil engineering at 
Dartmouth College. .After reading some of the 
elementary works upon law, he entered the office 
of Bonney & Marshall at Lowell, in 1859, as a 
law student, and on the 19th of June, 1861, was 
admitted to the Middlesex bar. He remained 
with Messrs. Bonney & Marshall several months 
longer, and then began practice in Ashburnham. 



488 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



A vear later, in 1863, lie retiirned to Townsend, 
and opened an office there, continuing in practice 
until 1868, when he removed to Fitchburg, where he 
has since been steadily engaged, retaining many 
of the same clients through the entire period. 
His business has been largely conveyancing, pro- 
bate, and insolvency, being especially well versed 
in everything that pertains to bankruptcy and in- 
solvency practice. Thoroughly honorable in all 
his dealings, and indefatigable in his efforts for 
those who intrust their affairs to him, he has at- 
tained a good standing and rank in his profession. 
He is devoted to his family, and of the cleanest 
private life, and has the moral courage to stand 
up for his convictions, regardless of popular clamor. 
Mr. Haynes has always taken an interest in the 
highest welfare of the community, especially in all 
things working for the general intelligence. He 
was elected to the School Board in his native 
town when twenty-one years of age, at the first 
annual meeting when a voter, and was rechosen 
several times thereafter ; and since his removal to 
Fitchburg he has served nine years on the School 
Board of that city. In Townsend also he was 



,.-«r: 




STILLMAN HAYNES. 



seers of the Poor. He is thoroughly loyal to the 
heritage which has come down to the Congrega- 
tional Church from Puritan forefathers, holding the 
Puritan faith as it has been broadened and lib- 
eralized by the remarkable scholarship of that 
church. He was very active in the founding of 
the Rollstone Congregational Church in I<ltch- 
burg, being one of the provisional board of mana- 
gers and upon its committee for pastoral supply, 
and also prepared and obtained the charter for the 
society. He is a member of the Fitchburg Con- 
gregational Club. In politics he has always been 
an adherent of the Republican party, and has fre- 
quently been a delegate to and chairman of its cau- 
cuses and conventions. He was married October 8, 
1863. to Miss Harriet M. Kimball, of Temple, N.H. 
They have five children, in whose education he 
has taken the greatest interest. The eldest, John, 
is a graduate of \\'illiams College, has studied 
economics and sociology at Johns Hopkins I'niver- 
sity, and is now a professor of sociology in the 
Woman's College of Baltimore. The Rev. Charles 
S., the second son, is now studying theology in 
the University of Berlin in Germany, being the 
holder of the Dwight Fellowship of the Vale 
Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1894 
at the head of his class. William K., the youngest 
son, is still in the city schools at home ; and the 
two daughters, Frances E. and Harriet T. Haynes, 
are now students at Mt. Holyoke College. 



frequently chosen as moderator at annual and 
other town meetings, served as a member of the 
Board of Selectmen, and (in the lioard of Over- 



HAVNES, Tii.LV. resident proprietor of the 
United States Hotel, Boston, is a native of Sud- 
bury, Middlesex County, born February 13, 1828, 
son of Lvman and Caroline (Hunt) Haynes. He 
is a lineal descendant of Walter Haynes, who 
came to America in 1635 from the parish of 
Sutton-Mandeville, Salisbury, County of Wilts, 
England, and was one of the founders of Sud- 
bury ; and on the maternal side he is descended 
from William Hunt, who came from England also 
in 1635, ^"d was one of the founders of the town 
of Concord. When he was a child of two years, 
the family moved to Billerica : and there he re- 
ceived his education in the public schools. At 
the age of fourteen he had begun active life as a 
boy in a country store at North Reading. Three 
years later he became a clerk in the first and for 
some time the only store in what is now Lawrence, 
kept by one Josiah Crosby ; and at twenty-one he 
embarked in business for himself, opening a store in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



489 



Springfield for the s;ile of men's goods. In this en- 
terprise he prospered, and subsequently engaged in 
manufacturinii. He was one of tiie original stock- 




.Mctropolitan Sewerage Commission, in 1876 he 
sold out his hotel and music hall in Springfield, 
which he had successfully conducted since the 
opening, and temporarily retired from business. 
After spending some time in travel, and estab- 
lishing himself in Boston, he accepted the invita- 
tion of the directors of the United States Hotel to 
take charge of that property, and in the autumn of 
1880 began his prosperous career as a Boston 
hotel manager. Under his management the value 
of the property considerably increased, and the 
house was early enlarged. In 1892 he extended 
his operations to New York, taking the old Grand 
Central Hotel and reopening it, reconstructed and 
modernized, as the Broadway Central Hotel. Mr. 
Haynes was married in 1853 to Miss Martha 
C. Eaton, daughter of Archelaus and Elizabeth 
(Hacket) Eaton, of Salisbury. They had no chil- 
dren. Mrs. Haynes died in 1876. 



HECKMAN, Jdhn Franklin, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Kennebunkport, Me., De- 
cember 25. 1S46, son of Jacob and Mary Ann 




TILLY HAYNES. 

holders of the Indian Orchard Mills; in connec- 
tion with others he built a small button factor)' in 
Springfield, manufactured flax machines at Mill 
River, and made sewing machines at Chicopee. 
In 1857 he built a music hall and theatre in 
Springfield; and, when this was destroyed in the 
great fire of 1864, he replaced it by the larger 
music hall and the Haynes Hotel, which was 
opened in less than twelve months after the fire. 
\\iiile a citizen of Springfield, he was prominent 
in local affairs and in State politics. He served 
in the first city go\-ernment of Springfield in 1852 ; 
was a member of the lower house of the Legislature 
four terms, 1867-70: a State senator four terms, 
1875-78 ; and a member of the executive council 
two terms. 1878-79, during the administrations of 
Governors Rice and Talbot. When in the Legis- 
lature, he served on a number of important com- 
mittees, and W'as a business member. He was 
chairman of the committee on the State House in 
1S69, when the interior of the structure was 

largely reconstructed, and in 1876 was chairman (Hutcheson) Heckman. The Heckman family 
of the committee on railroads. In 1890 he was from which he descends originally came from 
appointed by Governor Ames a member of the Amsterdam, Holland, in the sixteenth century and 




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JOHN F. HECKMAN. 



490 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



settled in New York. ( )n his father's side he is 
also a direct descendant of Ambrose Allen, cousin 
of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame, and Han- 
nah Lee, of Salem. On his mother's side he in- 
herits the Scotch blood of the Hutcheson family 
and the Cook family of Haverhill. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town. 
At the age of fourteen he left home, and went to 
r-work in a grocery store in Biddeford, Me. Com- 
ing to Boston in 1864, he entered the employ of 
Horace Billings & Co., leather merchants, as a 
boy. Not long after he became book-keeper and 
then salesman, and in the latter capacity speedily 
developed his business talent. He remained with 
the several successors of this lirm until 1882, 
when he was admitted to partnership in the firm 
of Billings & Eaton. In 1890, the firm of Billings 
& Eaton having dissolved, he became senior 
partner in that of Heckman, ]5ro\vn, & Co., which 
succeeded to the business of Billings &: Eaton ; 
and on the ist of January, 1893, on the retire- 
ment of Mr. Brown, the firm was reorganized 
under the present name of Heckman, Bissell, & 
Co. From 1869 to 1874 Mr. Heckman resided 
in Medford, and since the latter date his home 
has been in Newton Highlands, where he has 
become prominent in local, municipal, and church 
affairs. He has served two terms (1883-84) in 
the Newton city government ; was elected to the 
vestry of St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church, Newton 
Highlands, in 1883, and is still serving; is presi- 
dent of the Highland Club, first elected in Jan- 
uary, 1893, and member of the Newton Club; and 
director of the Newton Co-operative Bank. He 
was married in Boston, August 16, 1869, to Miss 
Anna W. Currier, of that city. Their children are : 
William Wallace and Marv Alice Heckman. 



HENDRY, Georce Henry, of Boston, wool 
merchant, is a native of Connecticut, born in En- 
field, May I, 1861, son of Joseph and Mary ( P'ox- 
well) Hendry. He remo\ed with his parents to 
Boston in 1863. He was educated in the Boston 
public schools, graduating from the Roxbury High 
School in 1877. Upon leaving school, he entered 
the office of a boot and shoe manufacturing house 
as clerk, and remained there four years. Then 
he became book-keeper for an oil house. He en- 
tered the wool business in 1885 on his own 
account, and has been so engaged ever since. 
He is an active member of the Boston Municipal 



League, as a representative of the Christian En- 
deavor Society. In politics he is a Republican. 




SJ^JCTM? 



GEO. H. HENDRY. 



He was married July 8, 1892, to Miss Hilma M. 
Ekman, of Boston. They have one son : Arthur 
Ekman Hendry. 



HILL, Frank Altine, secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts State Board of Education, is a native of 
Maine, born in Biddeford, October 12, 1841, son 
of Joseph S. and Nancy (Hill) Hill. On his 
father's side he traces back to Peter Hill, planter, 
who came from Plymouth, England, to what is now 
Maine, in 1633, and was a member of the court 
of the short-lived province of Lygonia in 1648, 
several of whose descendants in FSiddeford figured 
conspicuously in church and town affairs, in the 
Indian wars, in the General Court at Boston, and 
in the Revolutionary War; and on his mother's 
side he is a descendant of the Hills of Stratham, 
N.H., whose ancestors also came from Fjigland. 
Both of his parents were teachers before their 
marriage. After marriage his father was for 
several years a manufacturer of woollen goods, 
with mills on Spring's Island, Biddeford, where 
he enjoyed a prosperous business. His father 
dying young, the boy was left at the age of six 



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491 



untler the caru uf his motlK-r. She was a culti- 
vated and ambitious woman, who took great pains 
to set before him worthy ideals. His early train- 
ing was in the schools of Biddeford. At the age 
of eleven he entered the High School there under 
Horace Piper, a graduate of Bowdoin College, as 
principal, and graduated at the age of fifteen. 
He entered Bowdoin in 1858, and graduated in 
1862, near the head of his class. Since gradua- 
tion he has been secretary of his class. When he 
was ready to enter college, his share of his father's 
money was about exhausted. During his college 
course he managed to earn money enough by 
teaching schools through the long winter vacations 
to keep himself largely, but not wholly, out of 
debt. During his freshman vacation in the win- 
ter of 1858-59, and again during the fall term and 
winter vacation of his sophomore year, 1859-60, 
he served as an assistant teacher in the Biddeford 
High School. In the winter vacation of his junior 
year, 1860-61, he had charge of a district school 
in Biddeford, and in his senior vacation, 1861-62, 
of a district school in Calais. After graduation, 
in the autumn of 1862, he became principal 
of the Limington Academy, Maine. In the 
winter of 1862 he was elected principal of the 
Biddeford High School, from which he had grad- 
uated a little over four years before. In 1864 he 
resigned this position to study law with the Hon. 
John M. Goodwin, of Biddeford. He prepared 
himself for admission to the bar, but never entered 
upon the practice of the profession. In 1865 he 
was selected by the city government of Biddeford 
to pronounce a eulogy upon Abraham Lincoln. 
That year he resumed teaching, coming to Massa- 
chusetts as principal of the Milford High School. 
In 1870 he resigned this charge to become prin- 
cipal of the Chelsea High School. After sixteen 
years of service in Chelsea he was appointed head- 
master of the new English High School in Cam- 
bridge. Here he was closely associated with the 
establishment and development of the Cambridge 
Manual Training School for Boys, founded by the 
public spirit of Frederick H. Rindge, and con- 
ducted by Harry Ellis, its superintendent, — a 
school whose wealth of advantages Mr. Rindge 
generously offers to the boys of the English High 
School without expense to them or to the city. 
In July, 1893, the head-mastership of the Mechanic 
Arts School of Boston having been tendered to 
him, he resigned the Cambridge position to enter 
upon the work of organizing and equipping the 



new school. He was engaged in this work when, 
in Fel)ruary, 1894, he was appointed secretary of 
the State Board of Education ; but he did not 
assume the duties of this office until the ist of 
May following. In every station to which he has 
been called he has won commendation for the ex- 
cellence and thoroughness of his work. When he 
retired from the Chelsea High School to take the 
Cambridge appointment, a public reception was 
given him, at which the Hon. Eustace C. Fitz 
spoke for the citizens, expressing their apprecia- 
tion of his services and their regrets at his de- 
parture ; and he and his wife were both presented 
with substantial gifts. And in Cambridge, when 
the announcement of his call to Boston was pub- 
lished, the Tribune made an earnest appeal for his 
retention there, declaring that his departure would 
be " a great blow to the educational interests of 
the city." Mr. Hill is a member of the Schools 
Examination Board of Harvard University, of the 
corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, and of the Board of Trustees of the 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has served 
as president of the Worcester County Teachers' 
Association, of the Massachusetts Classical and 




FRANK A. HILL. 



High School Teachers' Association, of the Massa- 
chusetts State Teachers' Association, of the Mas- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



sachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, and was for 
three years chairman of the New F.ngland Asso- 
ciation of College and Preparatory Schools to con- 
fer with the Commission of Colleges in New Eng- 
land. He has contributed numerous articles to 
the press and to educational magazines, and has 
been associated with Professor Holmes, of the 
University of Virginia, in editing tiie Holmes 
series of school readers, and with John Fiske, the 
historian, in preparing his '• Civil (kivernment " 
and his " History of the United States " for the 
use of schools. At one time he did considerable 
lecturing on the lyceum platform, and he has given 
many educational and other addresses. In 1894 
Bowdoin College, upon the occasion of its 
hundredth anniversary, conferred upon him the 
degree of Litt. U. In politics Mr. Hill has voted 
the Republican ticket in State and national elec- 
tions, but has ignored part\- lines in local 
elections. He inclines, under present conditions, 
to moderate protection, but holds that protection 
as a principle should be gradually but steadily elim- 
inated from the policy of the government, in the 
belief that ultimately the country can get along 
with little or none of it. He belongs to the Psi 
Upsilon fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa, the Mas- 
sachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, the Cambridge 
Club, the Colonial Club of Cambridge, and 
several organizations of a less public character. 
He was married February 28, 1866. to Miss Marga- 
retta S. Brackett, of Parsonsfield, Me. They have 
three children: Myron Francis (H.C. 1890), Lewis 
Dana (H.C. 1894), and Frederick Brackett Hill 
(H.C. 1895). 

HUTCHINGS, Georce Sherburn, of 13oston, 
church organ manufacturer, was born in Salem, 
December 9, 183:;, youngest of a family of six, 
four boys and two girls, children of Ebenezer and 
Harriet (Symonds) Hutchings. He is on both 
sides of English ancestry. His education was ac- 
quired in the Salem public schools. Losing his 
parents when little more than a child, and not 
wishing to be a burden upon his relatives, he set 
about gaining his livelihood at an age when most 
lads are engaged in the absorbing occupation 
of kite-flying and other boyish games. He had a 
decided aptitude for mechanics ; but, being too 
young to find an opening for his talent, he spent 
the first two of his working years in a store. He 
then apprenticed himself to his brother, who was 
a carpenter and builder, and. while thus engaged, 



attracted the attention of \\'illiam Hook, the well- 
known furniture manufacturer of Salem, by a re- 
markable piece of cabinet work. This work so 
pleased Mr. Hook that he wrote to his sons, E. E. 
and G. G. Hook, the celebrated organ-builders of 
Boston, calling their attention to him ; and an ofter 
followed to enter their factory as a case-maker, 
which lie gladly accepted. This was in 1857. 
When he had been in the factory but a few 
months, the foreman of the case-makers left, and 
the position was offered to him. He at first de- 
clined it, feeling that it belonged to one of the 
older employees ; but his employers insisting, and 




GEO. S. HUTCHINGS. 

the men in the department joining in the request, 
he finally accepted. He continued as foreman 
until 186 1, when, upon the first call for men at the 
outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 
Thirteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and went to the front. He remained with the 
army for two years ; and then, after a long illness 
caused by e.xposure and the privations of army life, 
he re-entered the factory of the Messrs. Hook. 
Starting this time in the action department, he 
went rapidly through every department, and 
was then made superintendent of the entire fac- 
tory, which position he held until 1869, when (in 
October) he engaged in the business on his own 



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493 



account, in connection witii Dr. J. II. W'ilco.x, 
M. II. I'laistcd, and (J. V. Nordstrom, forming 
the firm of J. H, Wilco.K & Co. In 1872, Dr. 
Wilcox retiring on account of failing health, and 
the interest of Mr. Nordstrom being purchased b}- 
the two remaining partners, the firm name became 
Hutchings, Plaisted. \' Co. ; and since 1884, when 
Mr. Plaisted left the East to settle in California, 
and the hitter's interest was purchased by him, 
Mr. Hutchings has continued the business alone 
undei' the I'nni name of Ceorge S. Hutchings. In 
the twenty-five years during which the business 
has been running Mr. Hutchings and his asso- 
ciates have built over three hundred and sixty-five 
organs, which are scattered over the Ignited .States 
from Maine to California. 'J'he number includes 
some of the most noted instruments in this coun- 
try, among which may be mentioned those in the 
Old .Soutii Church, the Church of the Advent, St. 
Paul's, Park Street Church, Second Church, Em- 
manuel Church, the Spiritual Temple, and the 
Mt. Vernon Church on Peacon Street, and that 
in the private residence of J. Montgomery Sears 
(besides many smaller instruments), all in Poston ; 
a very large instrument in the New York Avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Prooklyn, N,Y., and 
that in St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City, 
one of the four or five largest instruments in the 
world, completed during the summer of 1894. 
From small beginnings Mr. Hutchings has built 
up a verv extensive business, and he has now 
the largest and best equipped organ establishment 
in the country. Mr. Hutchings is connected with 
numerous fraternal orders, being a member of the 
Amicable Lodge, Free Masons, the Warren Lodge, 
Odd Fellows, the Franklin Council, Royal Arca- 
num, the Dana Council, American Legion of 
Honor, and the Plymouth Rock Commandery, 
P^nited ( )rder Golden Cross ; and he is also a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic 
Association, In politics he is a Republican. He 
has been twice married: first, December 25, 1856, 
to Miss Lydia Augusta Foster, the issue of which 
union were two daughters, Alice Augusta and Susie 
Mabel Hutchings; and second, January 18, 1872, 
to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cook, of Salem. They 
have one daughter : Florence Cook Hutchings. 



twenty-five years has been a resident of Lexington. 
He was born in the town of Brookline, Hillsbor- 
ough County, N.H., January 6, 1856, son of John 
Q. A, and Amanda R. (Wadsworth) Hutchinson. 
He was educated in the public schools of Lexing- 
ton, the Lawrence Academy, (Jroton, and at the 
Bryant & Stratton Commercial College, Boston. 
For about twenty years he was in the wholesale 
produce business in Boston, and then entered the 
real estate business, in which he is still engaged, 
his present office being at No. 7 Water Street. 
He is now (1895) president of the Boston P'ruit 
and Produce Exchange. In Lexington affairs he 




■ J. F. HUTCHINSON. 

has for some years had a prominent part. In 
1889 he represented the town in the Legislature. 
He is president of the Senior Finance Club of 
Lexington called the Lexington .\ssociates, a 
member of the Old Belfry Club, and marshal of 
Simon W. Robinson Lodge of Masons in Lexing- 
ton. In politics he is a Republican. He was 
married March 8, 1882, to Miss Mary W. Lund. 
'I'hey have two children: John Chester and 
Bertha May Hutchinson. 



HUTCHINSON, jonx Frederick, of Lexing- 
ton, real estate broker, with ofifice in Boston, is a JENNINGS, Ch.vri.es Edwin, of Everett, real 
native of New Hampshire, but for more than estate operator, was born in .\ndover, August 13, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1853, son of Alexander E. and Clarissa A. (Stone) taken an influential part in both town and city 
Jennings. His education was acquired in public afifairs in Everett, and held numerous local offices, 
schools in West Andover and Charlestown and He was for four years auditor of the town (1879- 

80-81-82) and water commissioner (1891), served 
as the first president of the Board of Aldermen 
when the town became a city in 1892, was a 
member of the board of 1894, and a candidate for 
mayor of the city for 1895, coming within ninety- 
eight votes of election. He is treasurer of the 
Everett Co-operative Bank, and one of the largest 
tax-payers of Everett. Mr. Jennings was married 
August 13, 1874, to Miss Florence Waters, of 
Chelsea. They have had three sons, two of 
whom are now living : Charles Edwin, Jr., aged 
nineteen years, and Fred Everett Jennings, aged 
seventeen years. He resides on Pleasant Street, 
in one of the most attractive residences of the 
place, a house in the colonial style with the most 
modern improvements. 




KELLOGG, Frederick Tucker, of Spring- 
field, manufacturer, was born in Palmer, May 7, 
1S59, son of Philo Pratt and Seraph Caroline 



C. E. JENNINGS. 

at a private school in Charlestown, attending the 
latter while engaged in selling newspapers in Bos- 
ton. He became a newsboy when he was twelve 
years old, and continued to sell papers for seven 
years. Before that, however, he was at work, at 
the age of eleven employed as helper on a wagon 
of Niles & Co., Dover, N.H., express. He re- 
mained in the express business for twenty-five 
years, early occupying positions of responsibility. 
At eighteen he was agent in Boston for Morrill 
& Penniman's Lowell and Nashua Express, and 
afterward was president and manager of the 
Liternational Express Company, operating be- 
tween St. John, N.B., and New York, until the 
sale of its franchise and property to the United 
States Express Company. During his manage- 
ment of the International Company its business 
so extended and expanded that the property, for 
a half-interest in which, at the beginning, he paid 
$300, was sold out for about $50,000. Mr. Jen- 
nings moved to Everett in 1S71, and since his re- 
tirement from active participation in the express (Henshaw) Kellogg. He is of Scotch descent, 
business he has been engaged in the real estate the Kelloggs tracing their ancestry to two fami- 
business in that city and in ] Boston. He has lies, partisans of James VI. of Scotland, who 




F. T. KELLOGG. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



495 



followed that prince to Englaiul when he ascx'ndcd 
the throne as James I. They came to New Eng- 
land in 1639. His father, I'hilo Pratt Kellogg, 
belonged to the Connecticut branch of the family 
which settled in Hartford and Colchester, being 
a direct descendant of Joseph Kellogg, a captain 
in the Revolutionar)' army under General \\'ash- 
ington. Frederick T. went through the [iulilic 
schools of Springfield, graduating from the High 
School in 1S76, fitted for college at the Adams 
Academy, (,)uincy, and passed examination for 
Harvard in 1877, but, preferring business to pro- 
fessional life, did not take the college course. 
In 1S78 he entered tiie employ of the National 
I'apeterie Company of Springfield, and remained 
there five years, learning the business of making- 
envelopes and papeteries in the various depart- 
ments of that concern. In 1883 the firm of P. P. 
Kellogg & Co. being established for the manu- 
facture of envelopes, he at once became a part- 
ner, and has since devoted his time and attention 
to this business. He is now principal owner of 
the establishment, P. P. Kellogg, his father, 
having died in 1892. He is also a director of 
the Columbian Paper Company of Buena Vista, 
Va., and of the Second National Bank of Spring- 
field. He is a member of the Nyasset and 
Winthrop clubs of Springfield. In politics he 
is not interested. Mr. Kellogg is not married. 



panels for the V'anderbilt houses, most of which 
he modelled. Thus he gained valuable knowl- 
edge and experience in the handling and use 



KITSON, Henry Hudson, of Boston, sculp- 
tor, was born in England, near the town of 
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, son of John and Emma 
(Jagger) Kitson. The Kitsons were for many 
generations concerned in the woollen trade, and 
originally came from Halifax. He was one of 
a large family of which several members have 
displayed marked ability in the arts, in sculpture, 
painting, and literature. As a child, he disclosed 
a talent for drawing and carving ; and, being am- 
bitious to learn, he was sent to the evening class 
of the Mechanics' Institute in Huddersfield, when 
he was but eight years old. At twelve he had 
won several prizes, among them the first prize 
given by the Mechanics' Institute for design. 
.■\t thirteen he came to this country, and, joining 
his brother, John William, in New York, who was 
there engaged in stone carving, went to work on 
the .\stor Memorial for Trinity, then building. 
He had a hand also in other and the best work 
of his brother's shop, including the friezes and 




HENRY H. KITSON. 

of the carver's tools before he had got far in 
his teens. In 1882 he went to Paris, and there 
entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Ecole 
des Arts Decoratifs. In the former he studied 
in the ateliers Dumont and Bonnassieux, and in 
the latter with Millet and Ganter. In the Salon 
of 1883, his second year in Paris, he exhibited 
his first bust from life, that of Angelo Schiitze, 
musician and painter. The same year he exe- 
cuted a bust of "Amour," which was much 
praised. Then he opened a studio of his own, 
and broadened his studies and work. His 
"Music of the Sea," first exhibited in the Salon 
of 1884, and bringing him fame, subsequently 
receiving the gold medal of honor at the Prize 
Fund Exhibition in New- York in 1885, and a 
gold medal at the Charitable Mechanic Associa- 
tion Exhibition in Boston, was here produced. 
And soon after the " Fisherman's VN'ife " and the 
" Singing Girl " appeared. In the autumn of 
1884 Kitson returned to New York. His first 
work after his return was a bust of John McCul- 
lough, the actor, for which he took a death-mask 
at Philadelphia. Then followed the delicate bas- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



N.H. In 1S84 he went to Europe and entered 
1 alien studio in Paris, studying under Boulanger 
and Lefebvre, tlien visited Holland, Belgium, Ger- 
many, and Italy, devoting considerable time to 
painting in Venice. He has been a frequent ex- 
hibitor, and his work appears in many private col- 
lections and in various institutions. " Crossing 
the Cieorges,"' one of the earliest of his important 
paintings, is owned by the Boston Marine Insur- 
ance Company. "Fishermen Becalmed" is at 
.Smith College, Northampton ; " In Vineyard 
Sound," at Wellesley College, Wellesley ; '• Trawl- 
ers Making Port " and " Midnight .\rrival " hang 
in the Adams House, Boston ; " Dutch Ri\er 
Crafts " is owned by the Boston Art Club : " Vet- 
eran of the Heroic Fleet," by the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Association ; engagement be- 
tween the "Enterprise and Boxer, 18 13, "owned 
by the State of Massachusetts, is on the United 
States nautical training ship " Enterprise " ; 
" Waiting for the Tide " is in the private collec- 
tion of e.x-Governor Oliver Ames; "Becalmed," 
in that of the Hon. Frank M. Ames, and " -\ 
Dead C'alm " in that of Amos W. Stetson, of Bos- 



relief of " Easter," a three-quarters head and arms 
of a maiden, the portrait of Miss Theo .\lice 
Ruggles, e-xhibited in marble in the Salon of 
1888, and the statue of the late Mayor Doyle 
of Providence now in Providence. In 1888 he 
was commissioned by the Roumanian govern- 
ment to e.xecute a portrait bust of Queen Eliza- 
beth, " Carmen Sylva," and upon its completion 
received the decoration of commander of the 
Royal Order of Bene Merenti and the queen's 
medal. Among his later most notable works are 
a figure of " Christ on the Cross,'" life size, mod- 
elled for the Drexels of Philadelphia: the foun- 
tain for the Dyer Memorial in Providence ; and 
the bronze statue of Farragut, for the city of 
Boston, now in the Marine Park, South Boston, 
pronounced one of the best portrait statues in 
pose, finish, and likeness in the city. He has 
since been commissioned by the government to 
make a statue of Robert Fulton for the Congres- 
sional Library at Washington. Mr. Kitson has 
received, besides the gold medals for his "Music 
of the Sea," the only medal awarded for sculpt- 
ure in the American Section in the Universal 
Exposition at Paris in 1889. He exhibited four 
works at the World's Columbian Exhibition at 
Chicago, and was awarded four gold medals. He 
is a member of the Ethnographical Society, and of 
the Socie'td Americaine de France. He first es- 
tablished his studio in Boston in 1887. Mr. 
Kitson was married June 29, 1893, to Miss Theo 
Alice Ruggles. They have a daughter : Dorothy 
Kitson. 

LANSIL, Walter Franklin, of Boston, ma- 
rine painter, is a native of Maine, born in Bangor, 
March 30, 1846, son of .Asa P. and Betsey T. 
(Grout) Lansil. He is a descendant of Charles 
V. Lansil, a native of Havre, France, who came 
to this country in 1792, and settled in Chatham, 
Mass. ; and, on the maternal side, of Captain John 
Grout, a Puritan, who came here in 1637. Ances- 
tors of his served in the Indian, colonial, and 
Revolutionary wars. He was educated in the 
public schools of Bangor, and there also first 
studied art, taking lessons from J. P. Hardy. He 
came to Boston in 1870, opening his first studio in 
Studio Building. He at once became identified 
with the art life of the city, and painted a number 
of canvases which attracted attention. In 1883 ton; "Sunset, Vineyard Sound," is the property 
he was one of the jury of awards for the Dominion of Mrs. General Landor, of Salem. Three of his 
of Canada at the Fine Art Exhibition at St. John's, earlier works were owned by the late John Quincy 




WALTER F. LANSIL. 



MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



497 



.\claiiis ; "C'Diiiing Storiii, 1 )()r(lreclit Harbcir," is 
owned by the Old Colony Xationnl Bank, I'lyni- 
oiith ; " Nantasket Heach," by ex-Secretary Vilas 
of the Interior Department; "Departure of 
the Fishing lioats," by the Hon. Jonathan A. 
Lane, of lioston ; " In the Harbor of Venice," by 
Captain George H. Perkins, L^nited States Navy, 
of Boston; "The Enterprise at Sea," by Com- 
mander John F. Merry, United States Navy ; " Off 
Portland," by Charles G. Wood, late president 
Boston Art Club; "Near Dordrecht, Holland," 
by Colonel A. A. Pope, of Boston. He received 
medals in 1878, 1881, and 1884. Mr. Lansil is a 
member of the Boston Art Club, Boston ; presi- 
dent (1894-95) of the Unity Art Club, Boston; 
and is prominently connected with the Masonic 
order, having been master of the Lodge of Eleusis 
of Boston, 1892-93, member of St. Paul Royal 
Arch Chapter, of St. Bernard Commandery 
Knights Templar, and of Worshipful Masters' As- 
sociation. He is also a member of the Sons of 
the Revolution. Mr. Lansil is unmarried. His 
studio is at No. 56 Studio Building, Boston; and 
his home in the Dorchester District of Boston. 



of J. L. (Jrandin, lioston; "On the Seacoast," 
owned by B. C. Clark, Boston ; "The Return at 
Sundown," owned by Henry F,. Wright, Charles- 



LANSIL, Wii.p.UR Henry, of Boston, cattle 
painter, was born in Bangor, Me., February 24, 
1855, youngest son of Asa P. and Betsey T. 
(Grout) Lansil. (For ancestry, see Lansil, Walter 
Franklin.) He was educated in the Bangor pub- 
lic schools. In 1872 he removed to Boston, and 
first engaged in mercantile pursuits, entering the 
employ of Lewis Coleman & Co., commission 
merchants. But his inclinations were all toward 
a professional rather than a business life ; and, 
after twelve years" service with Messrs. Coleman & 
Co. he withdrew, and went abroad for study, sail- 
ing in August, 1884. He studied cattle painting 
exclusively, first in France, and afterward in Hol- 
land, and also visited Belgium, Germany, and 
Italy. Returning, he established his home and 
studio in the Dorchester District of Boston. Here 
he has kept a fine herd of cattle for several years, 
for subjects for his works. His paintings are 
owned principally in Boston and its neighborhood. 
Among his best known pictures are " Sundown on 
the Coast," "Repose near the Sea," and "The 
Hillside Pasture," in the private collection of 
L. C. Conant, Brookline ; " Stable Interior," in 
the collection of Mrs. B. F. Sturtevant, Jamaica 
Plain ; " Resting near the Seacoast," in that 




W. H. LANSIL. 

town; "The Return of the Herd," owned by Will- 
iam B. Kimball, Bradford ; " Banks of the Nepon- 
.set," in the collection of H. I). Dupee, Dorchester. 
Mr. Lansil is a member of the Lodge of Eleusis, 
Freemasons, of the Boston Art and L'nity Art 
clubs, and of the Sons of the Revolution. He is 
unmarried. * 

LEWIS, Isaac Newton, member of the Suf- 
folk bar, was born in Walpole, December 25, 
1848, son of William and Judith M. (Whittemore) 
Lewis. He comes of a family honored and re- 
spected from earliest colonial times, which has fur- 
nished one signer of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence and a number of jurists, statesmen, and 
military generals. His direct line is as follows : 
William and Amy Lewis from England, 1635, to 
Roxbury, Mass.; John and Hannah Lewis, Lan- 
caster, Mass., 1653; Captain Barachiah and Judith 
(Whiting) Lewis, Dedham, 1690; Isaac and Mary 
(Whiting) Lewis, Dedham, 1734; Isaac and Abi- 
gail (Bullard) Lewis, Walpole, 1774; and Isaac 
and Susannah (Ware) Lewis, Walpole, 1803. His 
early education was acquired in the Walpole High 



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and Classical School and the Eliot High School, 
Boston. He graduated A.B. from Harvard in 1873, 
LL.K. from the Boston University Law School, 
and was the first person honored by Boston Uni- 
versity with the degree of A.M. He was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar on January 31, 1876. Imme- 
diately after his graduation from Harvard College 
he went abroad for further observation and study, 
and after graduation from the law school took a 
second foreign trip. Upon his return he estab- 
lished himself at No. 82 Devonshire Street. Bos- 
ton, his present office, and entered upon the active 
practice of his profession. In 18S7 he made an 




ISAAC NEWTON LEWIS. 

extended tour around the world, scenes from 
which were made well known in his '• Pleasant 
Hours in Sunny Lands," published on his return. 
He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and 
magazines, and author of several quite popular 
books. He is also known as an enthusiastic 
artist, which led him to search after and find in 
England a portrait of Sir Robert \\'alpole, a life- 
size copy of which he presented to his native town 
at its first anniversary celebration, one hundred 
and si.xty-eight years after it received Walpole's 
name in December, 1724, arousing by his presen- 
tation address a healthy and active public spirit 
in the whole communitv. Besides occupying 



numerous trust positions, Mr. Lewis is president 
of two corporations. His first office was that of 
justice with power to hear cases, to which he was 
appointed in 1876 ; and for twenty years he has 
been justice of the peace, notary public, and in 
other like positions to which he has been appointed 
by Governor Alexander H. Rice, down to the 
present time. He has also often served as com- 
missioner, auditor, and on the School Board of 
his town, and has been active as teacher in high 
school, professor in academy, and in various other 
ways in the cause of education. He was of the 
original members of the Norfolk Bar Association, 
is president of the Middlesex Triluine Publishing 
Company, president of the Maple Grove Cemetery 
Association, member of the Eorest Hills Cemetery 
Association, Boston ; president of the Lyceum and 
Reform Club, Metropolitan Artist Club ; and 
member of the Historic Genealogical Society, 
especially interested in genealogy and historical 
matters since publishing his family history, "In 
Memoriam,"' in 1872, and the first book of the 
Records of Deeds of Suff'olk County. In politics 
he has been a life-long Republican, as his father 
was a Free Soiler, but inclined to reform and 
progress in political aft'airs. He was married in 
1895 to his cousin. Miss Etta A. Lewis, of New- 
ark, N.J. His attractive home in Walpole, of 
stone and brick, and ornamental grounds sur- 
rounding, was of his own design, and is filled with 
portraits, paintings, and other artistic work of his 
own hands. 



LINDSAY, Rev. John Summerfield, of Bos- 
ton, rector of St. Paul's Church, is a native of 
Virginia, born in Williamsburg, March 19, 1842, 
son of Thomas and Caroline 1 Martin) Lindsay. 
His father was of an ancient Scotch family, and 
his mother of English descent, some of her ances- 
tors bearing the name of Durham. His early 
education was acquired in the schools of Will- 
iamsburg, taught by graduates of American or 
English colleges; and he entered William and 
Mary College, but left in i860 without graduating, 
on account of ill-health. Afterward he was a 
student at the University of Virginia and at the 
Theological Seminary of Virginia. He was or- 
dained to the deaconate (Episcopal Church) in 
1869, by the Rev. John Johns, D.D.. LL.D.. 
bishop of Virginia, and to the priesthood in 1870 
by the Rt. Rev. F. M. Whittle, D.D., Bishop 
Johns's assistant. From i86g to 1S71 he was 



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assistant ministtr in Trinity C'luircli, Portsmouth, 
^'a., and then became rector ^of St. James's 
('luirch, Warrenton. Va. Here he remained until 
1879, when he was called to the rectorship of St. 
John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C 
From 1883 to 1885 he was chaplain of the Na- 
tional House of Representatives, as well as rector 
of St. John's Church. While at Georgetown he 
received from his Alma Mater — William and 
Mary College — the degree of D.D. (in 188 1). 
In 1887 he was elected bishop of the diocese of 
l''.aston, in the State of Maryland, but declined 
the office. The same year he accepted the call 




JOHN S. LINDSAY. 

of St. John's Church, IJridgeport, Conn., to its 
rectorship, and here remained until his call to 
St. Paul's Church, Boston, in 18S9. In 1890 
he was elected assistant bishop of Alabama, 
which position he declined. In 1892, when Dr. 
Phillips Brooks was elected bishop of Massachu- 
setts, he was chosen to the place in the standing 
committee of the diocese of Massachusetts made 
vacant by Dr. Brooks's elevation to the episco- 
pate ; and in 1S93 he was elected by the Dio- 
cesan Convention one of the four clerical deputies 
to the General Convention, which offices he still 
holds. He has had great success in holding to- 
gether a strong parish in the down-town business 



section of the city, a task by no means an easy 
one. Dr. Lindsay is a man of excellent judgment, 
and therefore of influence in council. He has 
much tact, good nature, and common sense, and 
is a hater of strife. Under his rectorship St. 
Paul's has set the example to the whole diocese 
of maintaining a religious service of great beauty, 
dignity, and simplicity, thoroughly churchly, and 
yet in no way " ritualistic." There is a fine 
vested choir of thirtj'-six men and boys under 
the direction of Warren .\. Locke, who is also 
choir-master at Harvard University. In contribu- 
tions for charitable objects and to maintain church 
work, St. Paul's parish stands second only to 
Trinity Church. Dr. Lindsay has published ser- 
mons, reviews, and other papers, and has been for 
many years a contributor to the periodical press. 
He was married June 14, 1877, to Miss Caroline 
Smith, of Baltimore. They have three children : 
Mary Fitzhugh, Thomas Poultney, and Annie 
Berkeley Ward Lindsay. 



LORD, Henry Gardner, of Boston, editor of 
the Textile World, was born in Boston, May 30, 
1865, son of Henry and Rebecca (Greenleaf) 
Lord. His paternal ancestors came to this coun- 
try from England in 1630, first settled in Ipswich, 
and afterward moved to Kennebunk, Me. His 
great-grandfather was a captain in the t^ontinen- 
tal army at Burgoyne's surrender, and his pater- 
nal grandmother was a direct descendant of Roger 
Conant. His mother was a daughter of the late 
Gardner Greenleaf, of Boston. He was educated 
in the Boston public schools, graduating from the 
English High in 188 1. It was his intention to 
follow a professional career, but circumstances 
were such that at the time he should have fitted 
for college he took a different course. Accord- 
ingly, he entered business instead, beginning as a 
clerk for J. W. Field tV Co., in the leather trade. 
Here he remained for over two years, much 
against his inclinations, which were all for profes- 
sional work of some sort, but, nevertheless, rap- 
idly advancing in the business. In October, 1883, 
he entered the employ of \\'ade iS; Miller, a bro- 
kerage firm that year formed. And Joseph M. 
\\'ade, the senior member, who had formerly been 
connected with textile journalism, soon founding 
a new trade journal in Fibre and Fal>rie, he was 
engaged from the start on that paper. A few 
months later, Mr. Miller retiring, a new firm was 



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formed, in March. 18S4, under the firm name of 
Joseph U. Wade & Company, in which Mr. Lord 
had a half-interest. Thereafter, in order thor- 




HENRY G. LORD. 

oughly to acquaint himself with the practical de- 
tails of the manufacturing business, he spent much 
time among the cotton and woollen mills. TvVvv 
(?«(/ Fabric proved successful ; but, believing that 
a textile trade journal on radically different lines 
would also meet success, he finally sold out his 
interest to his partner, and in September, 1887, 
formed a new partnership with Walter B. Guild, 
under the name of Guild & Lord, for the publica- 
tion of the Textile Worhl, an illustrated monthly 
magazine in which were to be incorporated a 
number of new features in trade journalism. ;Mr. 
Guild undertook the work of "outside man," and 
Mr. Lord that of editor and inside manager. The 
enterprise was successful from the beginning, and 
gained rapidly in circulation and advertising pat- 
ronage, early becoming a recognized leader in the 
field. It has always made a special feature of 
textile statistics, and is frequently quoted as au- 
thority in such matters. The firm of Guild & 
Lord also publish daily industrial news reports, 
the Textile Advance News, textile directories, and 
kindred publications. They have branch oflices 



city a fine chemical laboratory. Mr. Lord was 
one of the originators of the Trade Press Club, an 
association of publishers and commercial journal- 
ists, and has been its secretary since its establish- 
ment. He is also a member of the Puritan Club 
of Boston. He is interested in politics as a Re- 
publican, and when living in Boston was active in 
ward work, holding minor otfices in committees. 
He was married June 8, 1893, to Miss Adelaide 
Fargo, daughter of Charles Fargo of Chicago, 
and then established his residence in Brookline. 

LORING, George Fullington, of ]?oston, 
architect, is a native of Boston, born March 26, 
185 1, son of George and Harriet A. (Stoodley) 
Loring. His father was a native of liarnstable, 
born F'ebruary 24, 1824, second son of David 
(born April 14, 1792) and Elizabeth Kelley) 
Loring, and grandson of David (born 1750) and 
^Liry Ciray Loring, also of Barnstable. His 
mother was a daughter of James Stoodley, a 
native of Berwick, Me., and Sarah (Waldron) 
Stoodley, a native of Newington, N.H. He was 
educated in the Boston public schools. After leav- 




GEORCE F. LORING. 



ing school, he entered the city surveyor's office, 
City Hall, as draughtsman, and was the head 
in New York and Philadelphia, and in the latter draughtsman there for many years. He began 



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tiie systematic study of architecture in uSSo, and 
three years later opened an office, and engaged in 
its practice. In 18S9 he formed a partnership 
with Sanford Phipps, of W'atertown, under the firm 
name of Loring & Phipps, with office in Boston, 
which association has since continued. Among 
the more important buildings which Mr. Loring 
has designed are the Havemeyer School, Green- 
wich, Conn.; Everett High School; Athol High 
School: Montclair, N.J., High School; Miner 
Hall. Tufts College; the Glines and the Pope 
School, Somerville ; and school buildings at 
Nashua, N.H., Eraintree, Mass., Hingham, Mel- 
rose, lirookline, and Ware. Mr. Loring is a 
member of the Boston Society of Architects, a 
P'reeniason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and belongs 
to the Central Club of Somerville. He was mar- 
ried July 16, 1873, to Miss Sarah Frances John- 
son, of Charlestown, daughter of the late John B. 
Johnson, a descendant of Captain Edward John- 
son, Kent, England, who died at W'oburn, Mass., 
in 1699, and of Jotham Johnson and Eunice 
Reed, of Burlington, her grandmother being Su- 
sanna Tufts of Charlestown, daughter of Samuel 
Tufts, and her mother, Sarah Ann (Poor) Tufts, 
daughter of Samuel Poor, of Woburn, and Lydia 
Sprague, of Maiden. They have four children : 
Ernest Johnson, Ralph Stoodley, Gladys, and 
Marjorie Loring. Mr. Loring resides on High- 
land Avenue, Somerville, and has been closely 
identified with the interests of that city since 
1868. 

McDERMOTT, Charles Hubert, of Boston, 
editor of the Boot ami Shoe Recorder, is a native 
of England, born in Coventry, February 28, 1849, 
son of Hugh and Emma (Cox) McDermott. His 
father was Irish, and his mother English. The 
family came to this country in 1850, when he was 
a year old, and settled in Wisconsin, where his 
boyhood was spent. He attended the public 
schools at Kenosha, \\'is., graduating at the high 
school, and studied three years at Michigan Uni- 
versity, Ann Arbor, in the class of 1868. He first 
engaged in the tanning business at Kenosha, which 
he entered in 1868. Four years later he moved to 
Chicago, and there was employed on the daily 
press as a reporter for the Chicago Times and 
writer for other publications. In 1879 he began 
the publication of a trade paper, the Shoe and 
Leather Review. This he continued until 1884, 



when he sold out his interest and moved to Boston, 
where he joined with William L. 'I'erhune in the 
publication of the Boot and Shoe Recorder, now 




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CHAS. H. McDERMOTT. 



the largest weekly trade paper in the world. In 
politics Mr. McDermott is a Republican. He is 
a member of the Algonquin, Old Dorchester, and 
Chickatawbut clubs. He was married April i, 
1877, to Miss Carlotta Gonzalez de Susini. 'I'hey 
have two children living : Juanita Isabel and 
Charles Susini McDermott. 



MACDONALD, Rev. Loren Benj.vmix, of 
Boston, pastor of the New South Church, Tremont 
Street, is a native of Nova Scotia, born in the 
town of Newport, January 21, 1857, son of Ed- 
ward and Matilda (Mosher) Macdonald. His 
paternal grandparents were Scotch ; and on the 
maternal side he is also Scotch, but farther back. 
He came to Massachusetts when he was a lad of 
seven, and has lived in the United States ever 
since. When he was about ten years old. his 
father died ; and from that time he was obliged to 
make his way by his own efforts. By persistent 
efTort and much self-teaching he managed to ob- 
tain a liberal education, w^hile supporting himself 
through work of various kinds. He first attended 



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tlic public schools of Newton, afterward the Har- istence for thirty years, and before he took charge 
vard Divinity School, and finally Harvard College, of it had had but two pastors, — the Rev. William 
which he entered after preaching three years, P. Tilden and the Rev. George H. Young. 

The church itself is under the control of the 
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. It is a free 
church and aims to meet the needs of people 
in moderate circumstances. Under the present 
pastorate the congregations have slowly increased ; 
and it has made its presence felt in the neighbor- 
liood, in charitable work among the needy. Mr. 
Macdonald is a member of the Boston Association 
of Ministers, and is secretary of the Suffolk Con- 
ference of Unitarian Churches. He is a Royal 
Arch Mason, but belongs to no clubs. In politics 
he is an Independent. He is unmarried, and lives 
with his mother, who has kept house for him for 
twenty )'ears. 

MEEH.AN, P.VTRicK, of Boston, large real es- 
tate owner and operator, is a native of Ireland, 
born in County Fermaugh, March 15, 1834, son 
of Thomas and Katharine (McMorrow) Meehan. 
He was educated in the national schools in the 
town of Garrison, and also through private instruc- 




LOREN B. MACDONALD. 



beginning in the junior class and graduating with 
the A.B. degree in 1S86. From the age of sixteen 
to twenty-one he was clerk in a wholesale boot 
and shoe house in Boston, and during that time 
prepared himself to pass the examinations for ad- 
mission to Harvard by studying evenings ; and he 
entered the Divinity School the next day after 
leaving the store. He graduated there with the 
degree of B.l). in 1881. The next three years, 
1 88 1 to 1884, he was settled over the Unitarian 
church at Ellsworth, Me. While a student in 
college he supplied the pulpit at Shirley, Mass., 
and continued there until 1887, his service cover- 
ing two years. After graduation in 1886 his 
health gave out ; but he soon recovered, and has 
been in good physical condition since. From 
1888 to 1 89 1 he was settled over the Unitarian 
church at Wolfeboro, N.H. Then he came to 
Boston to take charge of a new society on Hunt- 
ington Avenue, called the Church of the Good 
Samaritan ; and in 1S92 minister and people went 
to the New South Church, on the corner of Tre- 
mont and Camden Streets, where he has since 
continued as pastor. This church has been in e.\- 





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PATRICK MEEHAN. 

tion. Coming to this country in 1846, his first 
work here was on a Connecticut farm. After- 
wards he was some time employed on the old 



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Boston, Hartford, & Erie Railroad, now part of was in 1840 a cow pasture, which the brothers 
the New 'i'ork & New England system, and then bought at a low price, built upon, and sold when 
went to New Orleans, where he followed steam- they could. In 1846-47 he took an active part in 
boating for several years. .Sympathizing with the 
Union cause and desiring to vote for Abraham 
Lincoln for President, he returned to Massachu- 
setts in i860. Subsequently he engaged in the 
contracting business in Boston, in which he pros- 
pered, retiring in the early eighties with a compe- 
tence. Since that time he has been an extensive 
operator in real estate, largely in the Roxbury 
1 )istrict of Boston, and is counted among the 
heavy tax-payers. He was one of the original 
owners of the Boylston Brewery. In politics he is 
classed as an independent Democrat, and he has 
been especially interested of late years in municipal 
politics. Mr. Meehan was married April 5. 1864, 
to Miss Mary Sheehan. They have nine children : 
Katie A., Thomas F., Minnie E., John J., William 
P., Annie G., Helen P., Alice M., and Florence C. 
Meehan. 



METCALF, Erastus Loveli., of Franklin, mer- 
chant and manufacturer, is a native of Franklin, 
born July 4, 18 14, son of Preston and Lucretia 
(Hill) Metcalf. He is of one of the early families 
of Norfolk County. His earliest known ancestor 
was Leonard Metcalf, bishop of Tetterford, Eng- 
land, born in 1545. Persecution caused Leonard's 
son Michael, born 1586, and wife, with nine chil- 
dren, to emigrate in 1637 ; and they settled in 
Dedham. In 16S4 Ebenezer, son of Michael, Jr., 
settled in North Franklin on the banks of the 
Charles River, on land granted for services in 
the Indian wars. This grant was held entire in 
the family until 1830, and a portion still remains 
in its possession. Erastus L. was brought up on 
the farm, and his schooling was confined to the 
common country schools of his day. His training 
for what has proved to be a most active life was 
obtained in work on the old farm for his father 
until he was sixteen years old, and in the cotton 
mills for three years. Then he engaged in the 
building, lumber, and grain trade, which was his 
business for a long period. In 1840 his brother, 
Otis F., joined him under the firm name of E. L. 
& O. F. Metcalf ; and this remained without a 
change or a break for forty years, when in 1881 he 
sold his interest to Otis F. and sons. During the 
partnership with his brother he took the outside 
business of the firm, and advanced a number of 
enterprises. \\'hat is now a village of Franklin 



ERASTUS L. METCALF. 

the promotion of the Norfolk County Railroad. 
In constructing the road and the extension to 
Putnam, Conn., he furnished the sleepers to I^lack- 
stone, built the stations and wooden bridges, and 
the engine-house at Thompson Junction. In 1854 
he bought the Frost water prixilege in Franklin, 
rebuilt the dam, and filled the mill with wood- 
working machinery, which greatly advanced the 
work of his firm. It being too far from his home, 
however, in 1867 he built the steam mills, still 
standing, in his village, embracing log-sawing and 
grain mill (the only ones in town), box, planing, 
sash, blind, doors, moulding mills, and a carpenter 
shop for all work. These have been a financial suc- 
cess, and a great benefit to the public in building 
up Franklin and adjacent towns. After the com- 
pletion of the railroad the town became a central 
point, and his business rapidly increased. In 1857 
Mr. Metcalf engaged in a more distant enterprise, 
joining others in erecting a steam mill for building 
steamboats on the Ohio River in West Virginia. 
In 1 86 1 this was entirely destroyed by the Con- 
federates. From 1864 to 1867 he was engaged in 
town affairs, and again in 1S74 and 1875 as select- 



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man and otherwise. In 1874, being vice-president 
of the Massachusetts & Rhode Island Railroad 
Company, he took an active part in building that 
road. In 1879, when president of the Farmers' 
Club, he conceived the idea of building a beet 
sugar mill in Franklin, similar to the one in Port- 
land, Me., which was said to be a success. He 
was instrumental in forming a company, of which 
he became president, built the mill, and fitted it 
with German machinery. But, after working the 
first crop of beets, the farmers refused to cultivate 
them. Consequently, the enterprise was a failure. 
The excellent machinery, which had cost $60,000, 
was useless here ; and, thinking it might be of 
some value in the cane region, in 1884 Mr. Met- 
calf went to Baton Rouge, La., organized a com- 
pany there, built a brick mill, 50X100, seven 
stories high, and placed the machinery in it. 
Then he returned home. In 18S2 he went to 
Hampton County, South Carolina, and bought 
twelve thousand acres of pine and cypress lands, 
intending to cut the wood for the market. Having 
an opportunity to sell, he embraced it, and bought 
five thousand acres in Southern Georgia. This he 
also sold soon after. In 1861 he was chosen secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Franklin Cemetery Asso- 
ciation (a corporation), which position he still 
holds. In politics he began a Jackson Democrat, 
but, when Lincoln became a candidate, voted for 
him and gave him his hearty support. He is now 
a Prohibitionist. Mr. Metcalf was first married 
April 28, 1838, to Miss Emeline Fisher, daughter 
of Perez Fisher, of Franklin. She died in 1873, 
leaving no children. His second marriage was in 
1875 to Miss Eliza H. Sawyer. They have two 
children : Herbert L. and Ernest L. Metcalf. 



MORGAN, Ernest Hall, of Boston, editor of 
the Roxbury Gazette, is a native of Connecticut, 
born in South Coventry, October 11, 1854, son of 
Miles Chandler and Eliza Philura (Hall) Morgan. 
He is of English ancestry on his father's side, a 
descendant of James Morgan, who came over in 
1692, and settled in New London, Conn., and of 
Welsh on the maternal side. His paternal grand- 
father was one of the best of the old-time district 
schoolmasters ; and it was his custom during the 
long winter evenings to drill the grandchildren 
visiting the old farm, and gathered before the 
great fireplace, in mental arithmetic, spelling, 
parsing, and reading. Both he and his wife lived 



to a great age, the latter reaching upward of 
ninety-eight years. She was a reader to the day 
of her death, and had a marvellous memory. 
They lived for seventy-five years in an isolated val- 
ley, out of sight of neighbors ; but they managed 
to keep well abreast of the times through thor- 
ough reading of many newspapers and magazines 
of that period, which they carefully preserved, 
neatly bound. Mr. Morgan's father was also at 
one time a school-teacher, and subsequently be- 
came a fine mechanic and an inventor. He was 
a wide reader, and possessed an excellent library. 
Ernest H. was educated in district schools. At 
the age of eleven he went to work in the mills in 
W'illimantic, whither he had moved, and thereafter 
worked winters in the mills and summers on the 
farms, by the month, until he was seventeen years 
old. In January, 1872, he came to Boston, and 
entered the employ of John H. Wilcox & Co., 
manufacturers of church organs. For the next 
few years he worked at various mechanical pur- 
suits, devoting all his spare time to reading and 
stud}'. Then, in 1890, he drifted quite acciden- 
tally into newspaper work. Thomas W. Bicknell, 




ERNEST H. MORGAN. 



having come into possession of the Dorchester 
Bituvii. and having no time personally to attend 
to it, was casting about for a manager or a lessee, 



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and, casually meeting Mr. Morgan, suggested that 
he should take hold of it. He thought over the 
matter one night, and the ne.\t morning, abso- 
lutely without newspaper experience or capital, 
hired the paper, and went to work. Within a few 
months he established a job office, and two years 
later purchased the entire outfit. Then he 
branched out beyond his capital, met reverses, 
and was forced out of the business, leaving it, 
howe\'er, in good shape for his successor. Dur- 
ing his management the Beacon was one of the 
best of suburban newspapers, and few could boast 
a better list of contributors. Numerous valu- 
able historical papers by writers of repute were 
published in it, many original articles from Mr. 
Morgan's own pen, and a History of Dorchester, 
which has since appeared in book form. Its tone 
was dignified, and its columns clean. Immedi- 
ately after his retirement from the Beacon Mr. 
Morgan was given the sole management of the 
Roxbury Gazette by ex-Congressman M. J. Mc- 
Ettrick, who had just come into possession of this 
property ; and the singular spectacle of a paper 
owned by a Democrat, managed by a Republican, 
and run without friction, is the result. The policy 
is the same as that adopted for the Beacon. The 
paper is something more than a vehicle for local 
gossip. Broad questions are discussed briefly, and 
cheap sensationalism is avoided. Mr. Morgan is 
a member of the Dorchester Historical Society, of 
the Roxbury Military Historical Society, of the 
Bostonian Society, of the Boston, Suburban, and 
Massachusetts Press clubs, and of the order of 
Odd Fellows. In politics he is an independent, 
with Republican tendencies. He has never held 
nor sought office. He was married January 29, 
1874, to Miss Amelia Blois, a native of Nova 
Scotia. They have had two children : Mabel 
Ernestine (living) and Alice Lincoln Morgan, who 
died at the age of seven. Mr. Morgan has two 
brothers : one, J. F., a Western business man ; and 
the other, Forrest Morgan, editor of the Travellers 
Recont, the clever little publication of the Travel- 
lers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., who 
came into wide notice a few years ago through his 
work as editor of the seven-volume edition of the 
works of the late \\'alter Bagehot, the English 
writer on political economy. 



Jeremiah and Olive (Morse) Morton. He is a 
descendant of one of the Pilgrim families, his first 
ancestor in America having been George Morton, 




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MORTON, John Dwight, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of Athol, born October 3, 1830, son of 



J. D. MORTON. 

who, as financial agent of the Pilgrims in Eng- 
land, purchased the "Mayflower," and took an 
active part in sending over that colony that 
landed at Plymouth in 1620, coming to Plymouth 
himself in 1623. Mr. Morton's great-grandfather, 
Richard Morton, was one of the first seven settlers 
of Athol. He was educated in the country schools, 
and at the age of fifteen began his business life 
in a country store in the adjoining town of 
Royalston. He came to Boston in 1853, entering 
the counting-room of Stimson & Valentine, dealers 
in paints, oils, and varnishes, remaining there 
until 1859, when he became connected with the 
house of Banker & Carpenter, in the same line of 
business, becoming a partner in that house in 
1864. In 1868 the firm name was changed to 
Carpenter, Woodward & Morton, which continued 
until January i, 1893, when the business was or- 
ganized into a corporation under the name of 
Carpenter-Morton Company, Mr. Morton becom- 
ing treasurer and general manager. This com- 
pany has become one of the largest paint and oil 
establishments in the country, largely engaged in 
both the manufacture and importation of paints, 



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varnishes, and artists' materials. Mr. Morton 
was also for many years, and until the formation 
of the National Lead Company, the New England 
manager of the St. Louis Lead & Oil Company. 
He has been especially prominent in the estab- 
lishment of business organizations, local and 
national, which have become institutions of wide 
influence and importance, having been one of the 
founders of the Paint and Oil Club of New Eng- 
land (formed in 1884), and serving as its president 
during 1886 and 1887 ; also one of the founders 
of tiie National Paint, Oil, and Varnish Associa- 
tion, organized in 1888, of which he has also been 
president. He first suggested the formation of 
the lioston Associated Board of Trade, calling the 
first meeting of the representatives of its constitu- 
ent bodies, and taking an active part in its organ- 
ization, serving as its first vice-president, and, as 
chairman of its committee on postal affairs, was 
largely instrumental in securing improved mail 
service between Boston and New York. He is 
also a member of the Boston Chamber of Com- 
merce, of the Bostonian Society, of the Boston 
Art Club, and a trustee of the Boston Penny Sav- 
ings Bank. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. 
Morton was married October 7, 1862. to Miss 
Maria E. Wesson, daughter of William C. Wes- 
son, of Hardwick, and grand-daughter of the Rev. 
William B. Wesson, a well-known Massachusetts 
clergyman in his day. They have three children ; 
Arabel (now wife of J. H. Goodspeed, treasurer of 
the West End Railroad Company), George C. 
(now associated with his father in business), and 
Clara Morton. 



ing, wiien he at once engaged in active work. He 
has developed a varied business, principally in 
cases arising out of large building contracts, many 



MURPHY, James Richard, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, July 
29, 1853, son of James and Catherine Murphy. 
His early education was accjuired in the Boston 
public schools ; and he received his college train- 
ing at Boston College and at the Georgetown 
University, Georgetown, D.C., where he was grad- 
uated in 1872. He was instructor in the classi- 
cal departments of Loyola College, Baltimore, and 
Seton Hall College, New Jersey, for three years, 
and then began his legal studies, attending the 
law school of Boston LTniversity and reading in 
the Boston offices of the Hon. Benjamin Dean 
and Judge Josiah G. Abbott. He took the de- 
gree of LL.B. at the law school in June, 1876, 
and was admitted to the bar October 16 follow- 




JAMES R. MURPHY. 

of them involving interesting questions of law 
which have been carried to the court of last re- 
sort. He has also engaged in several important 
capital cases and a number of cases of public in- 
terest. He is a firm belie\er in trials by jury. 
He has never aspired to political office, being de- 
voted entirely to his profession. He is a mem- 
ber of the Catholic Ihiion of Boston, of the Old 
Dorchester Club, of the Royal Arcanum, and of 
the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was 
married November 21, 1881, to Miss Mary Ran- 
dall, daughter of George Baker Randall, of Balti- 
more. They have two children : Gertrude E. 
and Mary Randall Murph)'. 



MURRAY, Michael Joseph, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in \\'estborough, 
June 18, 1867, son of Thomas and Elizabeth 
(Byrne) Murray. His parents and grandparents 
on both sides were natives of County Carlow, 
Ireland : his father born in the parish of Rath- 
villy, December 29, 1820; his mother, in Ouragh, 
parish of Tullow, May 24, 1829 : his paternal 



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507 



grandfather, William Murray, in Ballyhackett, 
parish of Rath\-illy; and liis paternal grand- 
mother, Judith (Lawler) Murray, in Knockana, 
same parish ; his maternal grandfather, Patrick 
Byrne, in liusherstown, parish of Furntand ; and 
his maternal grandmother, Mary (Kavanaugh) 
15vrne, in Ouragh, parish of Tullow. The edu- 
cation of his father and mother was begun in 
penal days, when English law forbade the educa- 
tion of Roman Catholics, and was mainly by pri- 
vate instructors. His parents came to this coun- 
try in the year 1852, and, when he was four years 
of age, moved to Fitchburg, where he received 
his education in the public schools. He was 
early obliged to go to work ; but he so managed 
that in 1886 he was able to enter the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, having begun his studies in 
the law olifice of the late Hon. Harris C. Hartwell, 
president of the State Senate in 1889. He was 
graduated in 1889 with honors, and was the class 
orator, the subject of his oration being " Inter- 
national Comity and Arbitration." Admitted at 
once to the bar at Fitchburg, he began practice in 
that city, but two years later, in December, 1891, 



representative in the (leneral Court, serving two 
terms, 1890 and 1891, declining a third term. In 
the session of 1890 he was house chairman of 
the committee on towns, and during his second 
term chairman of the committee on manufact- 
ures, fioth j-ears he was the youngest member 
of the Legislature, entering when but twenty-two 
years of age. He entered politics actively upon 
attaining his majority, but before that he had fre- 
quently appeared on the stump. By invitation of 
the Republican National Committee, he took part 
in the campaign of 1884, speaking in Maine, 
Michigan, Indiana, New York, Coniiecticut, and 
Massachusetts ; and since that time he has en- 
gaged in every campaign in the State, being espe- 
cially active in the canvass resulting in the first 
nomination of Governor Greenhalge. P'ond of 
public speaking, he has addressed many audiences 
on topics other than politics. He is a member of 
the Catholic Union of Boston, of the Young Men's 
Catholic Association of Boston College, of the 
Webster Chapter of Phi Delta Phi, of the Home 
Market Club, of the Middlesex Republican Club, 
and of the Boston Athletic Club. Mr. Murray 
was married May 4, 1892, in Lenox, by the Rev. 
J. H. McKechnie, of Fitchburg, to Miss Katharine 
T. Roche, daughter of I)a\'id and Hannah Roche, 
of that town. 




M. J. MURRAY. 

removed his office to Boston, where he has since 
been engaged in active and successful professional 
work. While a resident of Fitchburg, he was a 



NICHOLS, John We.ston, of Boston, publisher 
of the True Flag, was born in Hingham, June 3, 
1832, son of the Rev. John and Mary (Ewell) 
Nichols. He is descended from Thomas Nichols, 
who came to Hingham in 1638. His father was 
a Universalist clergyman, having pastorates in 
Quincy, Newton, Holliston, South Framingham, 
Lynn, and Beverly, and in Claremont, N.H. He 
was educated in public and private schools, finish- 
ing at the Mt. Hollis Seminary. He came to Bos- 
ton in May, 1848, as an apprentice to newspaper 
printing ; and, after learning his trade, he ad- 
vanced steadily in the business. For a number of 
years he held foremanships in Boston and also in 
Chicago. He was some time with the late Colonel 
W. W. Clapp on the Saturday E^ruiiig Gazette in 
Boston, and subsequently with William U. Moul- 
ton, the former proprietor of the True Flag. He 
purchased the True Flag o\\ the 31st of October, 
1886, and has published it since that time. He is 
prominent as an Odd Fellow, having held various 
otifices in subordinate lodges and in the Encamp- 
ment branch, also in the order of American Me- 



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chanics, of which he is an ex-State councillor ; and 
he is connected with various Masonic bodies. He 
is a member of the Press and the Universalist 



f 




since, with the exception of two years spent in 
New York, — part of that tune as clerk in the 
Academy of Design, — and a short period in Vir- 
ginia. From 1856 to 1863 he was director of the 
art exhibitions of the Boston Athenaium, which 
he conducted with marked success. He was a 
founder, the first secretary and treasurer, and 
later, in the si.xties, president of the Boston Art 
Club ; and was early recognized as an authority 
on art matters in the city. He has been an indus- 
trious painter, and his work in portraiture and 
landscape is to be found in numerous collections 
of private collectors. He has been a frequent ex- 
hibitor in local exhibitions, notably those of the 
Boston Art Club, the Paint and Clay Club, and 
the Charitable Mechanic Association. Mr. Ord- 
way has been called a poet painter. "There is 
much sentiment in his make-up, and tender feel- 
ing," says Frank T. Robinson. " His trees, 
which hang over the lake-side and reflect their 
tracery upon the placid surfaces, suggest repose. 
His hills of New Hampshire and Vermont, with 
intervales of trees and pastures green, are always 
charmingly simple, like the life of the painter : 



JOHN W. NICHOLS. 

clubs. In politics he is a Republican, and in re- 
ligious views a Universalist of the Hosea Ballon 
type. For fourteen years, from 1876 to i8go, he 
was superintendent of the Broadway Universalist 
Sunday-school. 



ORDWAY, Alfred, of Boston, portrait and 
landscape painter, w-as born in Ro.xbury, March 9, 
182 1, son of Thomas and Jerusha (Currier) Ord- 
way. He is of English ancestry, and of an early 
New England family. One of his ancestors, who 
lived on Tower Hill, London, was knighted ; and 
the first in this country came in 1630, settled in 
VVatertown, and afterward moved to Newbury. 
His great-grandfather was Dr. Nehemiah Ordway, 
and his grandfather, Dr. Samuel Ordway, both of 
Amesbury ; and his father and mother were both 
born there. Most of his boyhood was spent in 
Lowell, where his father was some time city clerk ; 
and he was educated in the Low'ell schools. He 
began the study of art in his youth, and was early 
making crayons and pastels. In 1845 he opened 
his first studio in Boston, on Tremont Row ; and 
he has been identified with Boston art life ever 




ALFRED ORDWAY. 



they reveal his dreams. . . . He must like his 
subjects in life and nature, or he cannot paint 
them." Since 1S61 Mr. Ordwav's studio has been 



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509 



in Studio Building, and here he has also lived in service as councilman, representing Ward Ten 
tile midst of his work. He was married March covered three years, 1889-90-91; and durino- 
19, i860, to Miss Annie Hill, of lioston. that period he was on many committees, including 



PARKER, Bow'DOiN Strong, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Conway, Frank- 
lin Count)', August 10, 1841, son of Alonzo and 
Caroline (Gunn) Parker. His paternal grand- 
]iarents were George and Betsey ( Kimball) 
I'arker; and his maternal grandparents, Levi and 
Delia (Dickinson) Gunn, of old Massachusetts 
slock. The family moving to Greenfield when 
he was a lad of ten, his education was mostly at- 
tained there in the public schools and through 
pri\ate tutors. He studied law in the offices of 
Wendell Thornton Davis, of Greenfield, and Colo- 
nel Thomas William Clarke, of Boston, and was 
graduated from the Boston University Law School 
with the degree of LL.B. in 1876. He was 
brought up to a thorough knowledge of manu- 
facturing and commercial business ; and up to 
1880, although a member of the bar since 1875, 
was largely engaged in manufacturing and as 
treasurer and manager of manufacturing corpora- 
tions. As a boy, he served an apprenticeship in 
the hardware business in a wholesale store in 
New York City. And in manufacturing he has 
served in all departments, — has bought and sold, 
served as foreman and as superintendent of mills, 
been book-keeper, treasurer, director, and busi- 
ness manager at different times. He has gained 
a practical acquaintance with machinery through 
actual working of it, and has made several in- 
ventions which have proved of merit and com- 
mercial profit. Since 1880 he has been engaged 
almost wholly in the practice of his profession at 
Boston, having previously practised in Greenfield 
while directing his manufacturing interests, which 
he sold out when he left that town and became 
permanently established in Boston. He has had 
marked success in corporation, patent, and trade- 
mark law, also in equity causes, and has been 
counsel in many important cases in the State and 
United States courts. Prior to his removal to 
]5oston he held numerous town offices iir Green- 
field, including those of chairman of the Board 
of Assessors and engineer of the fire department ; 
and he has ser\ed Boston as a member of the 
Common Council and representative in the Leg- 
islature, accomplishing much notable work, and 
occupying a leading place in both bodies. His 




BOWDOIN S. PARKER. 

that on ordinances, as a member of which he as- 
sisted, in connection with Judge Richardson, then 
corporation counsel, and .Vndrew J. Bailey, city 
solicitor, in the revision of the entire code of city 
ordinances to conform with the amendments of 
the city charter. He was also identified with 
numerous reforms, and made valuable reports 
which were the basis of subsequent legislation on 
the use of the streets by quasi-public corpora- 
tions and the cost to the city of electric lighting. 
He was in the House of Representatives from the 
same ward the next two years, 1892-93, serving 
on the committee on the judiciary both terms, 
the second its chairman, and as such the leader 
of the House. He was also a member of the 
joint special committee appointed in 1892 to re- 
vise the judicial system of probate and insolvency 
courts and inferior courts of the State. He re- 
ported and championed many measures, and dur- 
ing his second term was a leading debater upon 
nearly every important matter before the House. 
He was one of the most earnest advocates of the 
measures providing for the sale of new issues 
of stock by quasi-public corporations at auction ; 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



prohibiting free passes to members of the Legis- 
lature, State officers, and judges ; placing truant 
officers of Boston under civil service rules ; of 
numerous bills for the benefit and protection of 
workingmen ; and the notable Bay State Gas in- 
vestigation of 1893, introducing the order that 
led to it, and having an influential hand in the 
matter from the beginning. Colonel Parker's 
military career began with service in the Civil 
War, which he entered in 1862 as a member of 
Company A, Fifty-second Regiment, Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. He served in all the battles in 
which his regiment was engaged, including the 
assault, siege, and capture of Port Hudson, and 
was honorably discharged at the expiration of his 
term of enlistment. After the war he entered the 
State militia as a member of Company A, Second 
Regiment of Infantry, and was captain of his 
company in 1870-71. Upon the reorganization 
of the regiment in 1879 he was commissioned 
adjutant; in 1884 he was promoted to captain 
and judge advocate of the First Brigade : and in 
1889 he was made assistant adjutant-general of 
brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel, which 
position he still holds. In the Masonic order he 
is also prominent, being a past master, past 
high priest, past eminent commander of Knights 
Templar, and past district deputy grand master 
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts ; and he 
was founder and for many years president of the 
Connecticut Valley Masonic Relief Association. 
He holds office in numerous other societies and 
organizations, and is a member of the Edward W. 
Kinsley Post, No. 113, of Boston, Grand Army of 
the Republic, of the Massachusetts Union of 
Knights Templar Commanders, of the Boston 
Lodge Knights of Honor, of the Winthrop Yacht 
Club, of the Bostoniana and Middlesex clubs. In 
politics he is a Republican. He has written con- 
siderably for the press, and has made many ad- 
dresses on public occasions. He compiled and 
edited the Massachusetts Special Laws for the 
five years 1889-93, published by the Common- 
wealth. Colonel Parker was married June 25, 
1867, by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., D.D., at 
the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, to 
Miss Katherine Helen Eagen, of that city. They 
have one daughter : Helen Caroline Parker. 



vania, born in Spring, Crawford County, April 3, 
1827, son of James and Nancy (Holt) Patterson. 
He descends on his father's side from a Scotch- 
Irish family which settled in Central Pennsylvania 
about the middle of the eighteenth century. On 
his mother's side he is of English origin, descend- 
ing from the family to which belonged Sir John 
Holt, who was Lord Chief Justice of the Court of 
King's Bench in the time of William III., and was 
an ardent supporter of English liberty. His edu- 
cation was private, in the main, under the instruc- 
tion of his father, who was a teacher and liberal 
scholar. He was cut off from the realization of 




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PATTERSON, Rev. Adoniram Judson, of the 
Roxbury District, Boston, is a native of Pennsvl- 



A. J. PATTERSON. 

collegiate hopes and plans by his father's death. 
But he continued his studies under the instruction 
of an uncle, brother of his father (and an inmate 
of his home), who was an excellent classical 
scholar. His theological training, also private, 
was under the direction of the Rev. Ami Bond 
and the Rev. B. F. Hitchcock, of the Universalist 
Church, and Professor Huydekoper, of the Mead- 
ville Theological Seminary. While pursuing these 
studies in an earnest but irregular way, he also 
for several years taught in the public school in 
autunni and winter, attending to the management 
of the home farm in spring and summer. In the 
spring of 1853 he was offered a business partner- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



511 



ship in Cleveland, Ohio, uliicii promised alnuist 
certain fortune. lUit his heart was set upon the 
ministry: and, declining the otYer, he was licensed 
to preach by the Lake Erie Association of Ihiiver- 
salists in June of the same year. From that time 
on his services were in constant demand. He 
went near and far, preaching Sundays and week 
evenings, in churches, barns, school-houses, groves, 
— anywhere that a congregation could be gathered 
to hear him. He was ordained in June, 1854, at 
a session of the Lake Erie Association. His first 
settlement as pastor was at Girard, Penna., in 
.\ugust. 1853. Here he remained two years. 
I!ut, in giving himself to the regular work of a 
church, he did not abandon the wide field which 
he had sown. He continued to hold services on 
Sunday and week-day evenings in many towns, 
covering a wide circuit, in Erie and Crawford 
counties. In June, 1855, Mr. Patterson accepted 
a call to the Universalist chinch in Portsmouth, 
N.H. Here he was settled eleven years, not 
only doing the work of the large parish, but 
answering calls for pastoral and preaching ser- 
vice in many adjacent places in New Hampshire 
and in Maine. The Portsmouth pastorate cov- 
ered the years of the Civil War. Mr. Patterson 
gave himself to the cause of the country with 
burning devotion. He resigned his pastorate, in- 
tending to enter the army ; but his parish declined 
to accept the resignation. Then he paid the 
requisite bounty, and sent a soldier into the field. 
The spring and summer of 1864 he passed with 
the army of Virginia, serving as chaplain at large. 
During this time he ministered in various ways to 
the needs of more than ten thousand sick and 
wounded men. He also distributed in the trenches 
nearly thirty tons of sanitary stores. Returning 
from the army, he threw himself with all the 
energy of body and soul into the campaign which 
resulted in the second election of Abraham Lin- 
coln, preaching the gospel of liberty and union 
all over the State during the week, and coming 
home to give the same gospel another setting be- 
fore his congregation on Sunday. As representa- 
tive from Portsmouth, he served in the New 
Hampshire Legislature of 1866, and was not ab- 
sent from a single session from first to last, though 
he did not fail to meet his congregation at any 
service of the church while the Legislature was 
in session. The nomination for Congress was 
strongly urged upon him by his political friends, 
which nomination at that time was equivalent to 



an election. He felt its fascination, for he had 
tasted of legislation and found that he enjoyed it. 
But he could not go to Congress without sur- 
rendering, for a time at least, the work of his 
chosen profession. This he was not willing to do, 
and accordingly he positively declined to let his 
name appear before the nominating convention. 
In June, 1866, Mr. Patterson w'as called to the 
pastorate of the Roxbury L^niversalist Church. 
He accepted this call, and entered upon its duties 
in September of the same year. Here he not only 
gave himself with earnest devotion to all the work 
of his church, but he had a watchful eye to the 
affairs of the city, and a helping hand to the inter- 
ests of education and religion wherever he could 
serve. In 1874 he was elected to the presidency 
of the Massachusetts Convention of Universalists, 
which position he held for five consecutive years, 
and until he declined a re-election. He has been 
from its foundation a member of the Board of 
Trustees of Dean Academy. His interest in the 
secular and religious education of young men is 
seen in that during his Ro.xbury pastorate more 
than twenty young men, members of his church, 
took their degree at Tufts College, and entered 
the ministry. During the summer and autumn of 
187S Mr. Patterson made the tour of Europe and 
wrote a series of letters of travel, which were pub- 
lished in the Boston Hoiin- Joiinia/, and quite 
widely copied by the press of the country. He 
has published in book form a " Centennial His- 
tory of the Universalist Church in Portsmouth" 
and a " Semi-centennial History of the Roxbury 
Church,"' together with numerous pamphlets, ser- 
mons, and magazine and newspaper articles. 
Worn by incessant and long-continued applica- 
tion to the work of his profession, Mr. Patterson's 
health gave way, and he suffered a severe and 
prostrating illness. His physician assured him 
that absolute rest was needful if he could hope to 
live. Accordingly, in March, 1888, after a service 
of nearly twenty-two years, he surrendered the 
pastorate of the Ro.xbury parish. In April follow- 
ing his resignation was accepted ; and he was 
elected pastor emeritus, which position he still 
holds. The Rev. Dr. E. L. Rexford was on his 
recommendation chosen as his successor. After 
a year of rest and freedom from care he felt new 
strength returning. Then he put on the armor 
again. He had made up his mind never to 
change his home or accept another pastorate. 
Accordingly, he gave his time to pioneer and other 



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work. In 1889 he gathered and organized a 
church in Omaha, Nets. In 1890-91 he served 
the financial interests of Tufts College, securing 
many permanent scholarships and kindling new 
interest in collegiate education all over New Eng- 
land. In 1892 he carried the banner of his 
church to the remotest corners of Maine. In 
1894 he gave himself to a struggling church in 
Natick. And at the close of that year, his own 
church in Roxbury being without a pastor in the 
removal of Dr. Rexford, he resumed its care while 
it was seeking a new pastor. Mr. Patterson was 
married August 26, 185 1, to Miss Jane Lippitt, 
daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Burch) Lip- 
pitt, in Rundell, Penna. The Lippitt family emi- 
grated from Rhode Island, when it first receives 
historic mention in 1636. Mrs. Patterson has 
given sympathy and co-operation to her husband 
in all his work and plans. A woman of refined 
culture and excellent literary taste and ability, 
together with unusual religious fervor, she has 
been a real helper to him. She has often occu- 
pied his pulpit in his illness or absence, and by 
special request of the parish she took entire charge 
of Mr. Patterson's work during his absence in 
Europe. She is the author of several valuable 
books, and has been an accomplished writer in 
prose and verse for more than forty years. She 
is, and for many years has been, editor of the 
" Home Department " of the Christiati Leader. 
These earnest workers are passing the afternoon 
of a happy life in their pleasant home on Maple 
Street, near Franklin Park, one of the finest loca- 
tions in Roxbury, occupying a sunny upland, sur- 
rounded by lawns, and pear, apple, and flower 
gardens, with an outlook from their windows 
which takes in miles of city and sea. 



PERIN, Rev. George Landor, of Boston, pas- 
tor of the Every-Day Church, is a native of Iowa, 
born in Newton, Jasper County, July 31, 1854, 
son of Caleb and Mary J. (Metteer) Perin. His 
paternal grandparents were of New England birth, 
but of English extraction. His maternal grand- 
father was born in the north of Ireland (Protes- 
tant) ; and his maternal grandmother was born in 
America, but of Welsh parents. His early edu- 
cation was attained ui the district school. He 
spent four terms in Willamette University, Salem, 
Ore., but did not graduate. Subsequently he at- 
tended the Divinity School of St. Lawrence Col- 



lege, Canton, N.Y., and was graduated there in 
June, 1878. From the age of sixteen to twenty 
he was engaged in hard work on an Oregon farm. 
He was ordained to the ministry in September 
following his graduation from the divinity school 
(1878), in Kent, Ohio, and was first settled over 
a country church in Geauga County, that State, 
at an annual salary of S300. Here he remained 
two years. In August, 1880, he took charge of the 
Universalist church in Bryan, Williams County, 
Ohio; and two years later, in December, 1882, he 
was called to the pastorate of the Shawmut Uni- 
versalist Church, Boston. His service here was 
begun on the first Sunday in January, 1883, and 
closed on the last Sunday in January, 1890, his 
resignation being tendered in order to accept an 
invitation of the trustees of the Universalist Gen- 
eral Convention to take the leadership of the first 
foreign mission of the Universalist Church, — a 
mission to Japan. Almost immediately after his 
acceptance pledges of $61,000 were made to carry 
on the work for five years. Mr. Perin sailed with 
his family and coworkers from San Francisco for 
Japan on the 5th of April, 1890, and arrived in 




GEO. L, PERIN. 

Yokohama on the 2 2d of that month. Four years 
were spent in organizing the mission. A church 
building was erected in Tokyo. Outposts were 



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513 



established in Sendai, Hoden, Okitsu, Sliidzuoka, 
Nagoya, and Osaka. Two schools for girls were 
opened, also a theological school, and a monthly 
magazine started. Mr. Perin also made some con- 
siderable progress in the study of the Japanese lan- 
guage. He returned to Boston in May, 1894, and 
within a week after his arrival received a call to 
become once more the pastor of the old church on 
Shawmut Avenue. He finally accepted on con- 
dition that the name of the church should be 
changed, the methods changed to those of an "in- 
stitutional church," and the sum of $50,000 be 
secured to run the institution for a period of five 
years. The conditions were met, and the new 
movement under his leadership was promptly 
started and developed under the name of the 
" Every- Day Church." Although he was of great 
service in opening the Japan mission, he regards 
the enterprise of this church as furnishing the real 
opportunity of his life. It is his hope to build up 
a great unsectarian institution at the South End of 
Boston, with all the equipment of the best institu- 
tional churches, which shall rank with the noblest 
philanthropies of the city. To this end he has 
thrown himself into its development with charac- 
teristic energy, Mr. Perin belongs to no clubs. 
He is, however, connected with the order of Odd 
Fellows and the Masonic fraternity, a member of 
Boston Commandery, of which for two years he 
had the honor to serve as prelate. In politics he 
is an Independent, "without a grain of reverence 
for party names," as he frankly declares. He was 
married January 22, 1878, to Miss Vinnie Dan- 
forth, of Peru, Ohio. They have four children : 
Vera, Melva, Mary Metcalf, and Donald Wise 
Perin, 



reporter of the Boston Daily Nc7ijs for some time 
under E, D. Winslow ; was reporter on the Boston 
Post for five years, reporter on the P>oston Journal 



PRATT, George Henrv, of Newton, editor 
and proprietor of the Newton Journal, was born in 
Newton, March 18, 1857, son of Joseph R, and 
Elizabeth Parker (Ward) Pratt. His ancestors 
were early settlers in Boston and Chelsea ; and the 
old family homestead, dating from 1670, is still 
standing in Prattville, Chelsea. He was educated 
in the public schools of Newton. He entered the 
employ of the then publishers of the Newton Jour- 
nal when a boy of thirteen years, and learned the 
printing trade in all its branches and the general 
work of a weekly newspaper. Subsequently he 
became a stenographic reporter, and practised in 
the courts in Boston, at the State House, and 
elsewhere. He also held the position of general 




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GEO. H. PRATT. 

for thirteen years, and was employed on the Bos- 
ton Advertiser and the Evening Record as Newton 
correspondent. Meanwhile he rose from compos- 
itor to reporter and then to editor of the Newton 
Journal, and in 1882 purchased the entire news- 
paper and job printing establishment. In later 
years he added new machinery, twice enlarged 
the paper, changed it from a folio to a quarto ; 
and to-day it is considered one of the leading 
W'eeklies in the suburbs of Boston, Mr, Pratt is 
a member of the Massachusetts Suburban Press 
.Association, of the Massachusetts Republican Ed- 
itorial Association, and of several Newton organi- 
zations, including the Newton Council, American 
Legion of Honor, the Channing Council, Royal 
Arcanum, and the Newton Lodge, Ancient Order 
of United Workmen. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He was married in 1876, and has three 
daughters. He resides in Newton, where he is 
largely interested in real estate, and has a sum- 
mer residence at Winthrop, 



RANSOM, Colonel Chauncev Monroe, of 
Boston, editor and publisher of the Standard, an 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



insurance journal, is a native of New York, born 
in Lancaster, Erie County, April i8, 183 1, son of 
Robert and Orrana (Monroe) Ransom. On the 
paternal side he is of English ancestry, and on the 
maternal of Scotch. He received a good educa- 
tion, principally at the Genesee and \\'yoming 
Academy, Alexander, N.Y. At the age of seven- 
teen he became a school-teacher, teaching through 
the winter months, and from that time was hard at 
work at other occupations during the year. For a 
while after his experience at school-teaching he 
was engaged in mercantile pursuits, soliciting fire 
insurance at odd hours, until in 1856 he removed 




C. M. RANSOM. 

to Chicago, and established himself in the manu- 
facturing business. Two years later he was over- 
come by the panic, and moved to Cincinnati, where 
he soon became active as the secretary of the 
Cincinnati Home Fire Insurance Company, re- 
maining in this position until 1867, when he was 
made vice-president of the Home iSIutual Life In- 
surance Company, and two years later engaged 
with the Missouri Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
pany of St. Louis. His first entry into the jour- 
nalistic field was made in 1871. in .September of 
that year purchasing a half-interest in the Dalti- 
more Underwriter. He retained his connections 
with that journal until March, 1878, when he sold 



his interest, and purchased the Index, at that time 
published monthly in Boston. This he conducted 
on its original lines for four years, then renamed 
it the Standard, and on the first day of January, 
1883, changed it to a weekly. Under his direc- 
tion it has been a prosperous journal and one of 
the most enterprising newspapers in its special 
field. Outside of the Standard <Co\o\\<i\ Ransom's 
most notable work has been in connection with 
the organization of life underwriters' associations. 
He has been called the father of the association 
movement and " godfather of the national associa- 
tion." He was the originator of the Boston Life 
Underwriter Association, and called the meetings 
for its organization, which were held in the Stand- 
ard aiWioviaX rooms early in 1883 ; and he inspired 
the organization of the National Association of 
Life Underwriters, which was accomplished in 
1889. As the pioneer in this movement, he did 
much without compensation, travelling far and 
wide, making many addresses, and organizing 
numerous local associations ; and " that his efforts 
are appreciated by the life insurance fraternity," 
the Insnranee Post of Chicago has remarked, " is 
evident from the reception and banquet tendered 
to him by the Boston association in 189 1, and 
also from the resolutions of thanks that he has 
received from nearly every association in the 
country.'' He is distinguished as the only hono- 
rary member of the National Association. Colo- 
nel Ransom is also a member of the New York 
Insurance Club, of the New York Democratic 
Club, the Boston Press Club, and the Newton 
Club of Newton. In politics he is a Democrat. 
He was married April 22, 1852, to Miss Celina M. 
Standart. They have had three children : Robert 
\V. (now night editor of the Chicago Tri/mne), 
Julia E., and Emily A. Ransom (the latter now 
treasurer of the Standard Publishing Compan)'). 



REED, Rev. J.\mes, of Boston, minister of the 
Boston Society of the New Jerusalem for thirty- 
four years, is a native of Boston, born December 
8, 1834, son of Sampson and Catharine (Clark) 
Reed. His father was the youngest son of the 
Rev. John Reed, D.D., of Bridgewater, was gradu- 
ated at Harvard in 18 18, and was a well-known 
citizen of Boston, being for many years a member 
of the School Committee and also an alderman in 
the days when that ofiice was considered a real 
honor. He was the author of a book, " The 



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515 



Growth of the Mind," whicli has bcun widely read, 
and of many magazine articles. James Reed was 
educated in private schools till the age of twelve, 
when he entered the Boston Latin School, in which 
he remained four years. From the Latin School he 
entered Harvard, and there graduated in the class 
of 1855. After graduation he taught for one year 
as an usher in the Latin School, and at the end of 
that time began to study for the ministr\-. This was 
done privately, as there was at that time no theo- 
logical school connected with tlie Church of the 
New Jerusalem, to which he belonged. In April, 
1858, he was licensed to preach, and in the autumn 




JAMES REED. 

following entered the service of the " Boston 
Society of the New Jerusalem," — the church wor- 
shipping on Bowdoin Street, Boston, — the Rev. 
Thomas \\'orcester, pastor. In April, 1S60, he 
was ordained and installed as assistant minister. 
In 1866 Dr. Worcester resigned; and in January, 
1867, Mr. Reed became sole pastor, which position 
he has held ever since, keeping the church in 
iiealthful condition and preaching to well-filled 
pews. He has also been a frequent contributor 
to the literature of his denomination, and has been 
concerned in numerous activities. He has been a 
director of the General Theological Library, is at 
present a director of the Society for the Preven- 



tion of Cruelty to Children, and president of the 
Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women. 
For four years (1871-75) he served on the Boston 
School Board. He is a member of the Union 
Club of Boston, the Harvard Musical Association, 
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and other organizations. 
Mr. Reed was married December 19, 1858, to 
Miss Emily E. Ripley. They have had six chil- 
dren : Catharine Clark, John Sampson, Gertrude, 
Miriam, Josephine Smith, and Family Elizabeth. 
Five of them, the son and fuur daughters, are still 
living. 



REXFORD, Rev. Everett Levi, pastor of the 
First LTniversalist Church of Ro.xbury from 1888 
to 1894 inclusive, was born in Chautauqua, N.Y., 
April 24, 1842, son of Levi and Lurancy ( Doud) 
Rexford. He is of English, Scotch, and Irish 
blood. His father was a minister in the Free 
Baptist Church, and preached in tliat denomina- 
tion for upwards of fifty years. He attended 
the common schools of Western New York till 
he was ilfteen years old, then Professor Wedge's 
special school in Panama, N.Y., took the academic 
course in the Jamestown Academy, and, entering 
St. LawTcnce Lhiiversity, Canton, N.Y., graduated 
there in 1865. He was reared in the Evangelical 
faith, but became doubtful of its tenets during 
his academic years ; and, on leaving the university, 
he found himself a confirmed Universalist. He 
entered upon his ministry in 1865, at Cincinnati. 
Ohio. After being chosen to the pastorate there, 
he returned to his native county of Chautauqua, 
and married Miss Julia M. George, second daughter 
of the Hon. and Rev. Isaac George, in Dunkirk. 
He remained in Cincinnati four years, when he 
was called to the Universalist Church in Colum- 
bus, Ohio. From there he went to San Francisco, 
Cal., in 1874, where he remained four years, when 
he accepted the presidency of Buchtel College, 
and the pastorate of the Universalist church, at 
Akron, Ohio. The church and college were then 
at war with each other: and, having friends in both 
parties, he was called to the head of each, secur- 
ing harmony and building the church edifice. In 
1880 he resigned both positions to accept the 
direction of the new church movement in Detroit, 
Mich. His service in this field covered eight 
years. In 1888 he accepted the call from the 
Roxbury ITniversalist church. Toward the close 
of 1894 he visited Columbus with a view to secure 
medical treatment for his wife, who had been a 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



helpless invalid for the year past, at the sanitarium 
of Dr. Shepard, where she had once received great 
benefit ; and, the pulpit of his former parish there 
being vacant, he was recalled to it, and, accepting 
the invitation, he closed his pastorate at Roxbury 
with the year, to the great regret of his parishion- 
ers. As a preacher. Dr. Rexford is regarded by 
his friends as remarkable in many ways. " His 
peculiar charm," writes one who has given his 
work close study, " is not easily explained. It is 
made up of many parts. An attractive presence 
in the pulpit or on the platform, a voice of delicate 
sweetness and sympathy, trained and modulated 



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EVERETT L. REXFORD. 

so as easily to touch every note of feeling, pur- 
pose, or passion, an easy grasp of the central truth 
of a topic, with power to group around it its cor- 
relative truths in their natural relations and pro- 
portions, felicity of expression, and earnestness of 
conviction, together with an intense desire that 
others may see as he sees and feel as he feels, — 
all these conspire to make him one of the most 
interesting pulpit orators of our time." He is en- 
dowed with great power of work, and lends him- 
self with cheerfulness to every cause and friend 
with whose purposes and principles he is in sym- 
pathy. Of the two wings which have been devel- 
oped in the Universalist Church, the conservative 



and the radical, or liberal. Dr. Rexford is an active 
member in the latter, and is generally recognized 
as its leader. He holds that religion has its root 
in human nature, and is only one phase of the 
providential education of the world. Conse- 
quently, he recognizes the unity of all religions, 
and lays great stress upon the idea that, though 
Jesus was the greatest religious light which the 
world ever saw, yet there were teachers and proph- 
ets before he came, and that every great soul in 
any age who points to heaven and leads the way 
is a servant and prophet of God. Mr. Rexford 
received the degree of D.D. from Buchtel College 
in 1874. He was a member of the Advisory 
Committee of the World's Parliament of Religions, 
and was one of the contributors to the literature 
of that enterprise, reading a paper on " The Re- 
ligious Intent," which appears in the official re- 
ports. He has been for years a constant writer 
for the various periodicals and papers published 
by his denomination. Dr. Rexford's first wife 
died in San Francisco in 1877. Two years later 
he married Miss Amanda Pleasants, daughter of 
the late Daniel G. Pleasants, of Bowling Green, 
Ky. By his first wife he has one daughter, Maye, 
now the wife of William J. Shilliday, of Boston. 
His second wife died November 25, 1894, in 
Columbus, Ohio. 



ROBINSON, Frank Torrey, of Boston, art 
critic and author, is a native of Salem, born July 
16, 1845, son of Edward R. and Nancy L. P. 
(Tuck) Robinson. He is of English Quaker 
stock. His paternal grandfather, John R. Robin- 
son, fought against England in the War of 1812, 
and, being captured, taught school in Dartmouth 
prison. An arithmetic which he wrote is among 
his grandson's treasures. He was also quite a 
botanist. Frank T. was educated in Charlestown, 
where he attended the Harvard and Warren 
schools, — having as classmates in the former 
William E. Norton, the marine artist, and Major 
William H. Hodgkins, now mayor of Somerville, 
— and later, in Boston, taking a course in English 
literature at Professor Spear's college, situated 
next to Tremont Temple, but now extinct. In 
his sixteenth year he enlisted in the Fifth Regi- 
ment, Company H, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and served thirteen months in the Civil War, in 
North Carolina and Virginia. Returning, he en- 
tered the office of the Boston Advertiser, then 



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517 



under Charles Hale, editor, and about a year 
after took up his studies in Professor Spear's 
college. These completed, he was some time em- 
ployed in a wholesale grocery store. Falling into 
ill-health, he withdrew from business, and spent 
about two years in a blacksmith's shop, and so 
built up a line muscular system. Then he took 
up book-keeping, and also news correspondence for 
various papers. From this work the step to regu- 
lar journalism was easy ; and he soon undertook 
local reporting for the Boston Journal, the Boston 
Advertiser, and the Bunker Hill Times. In 1875 
he began art writing. From 1879 to 18S3 he was 



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FRANK T. ROBINSON. 

editor of the Boston Times. For three years he 
was art director for the New England Manufact- 
urers' Institute. Subsequently he became art 
critic for the Boston Traveller, and later for the 
Boston Post, the Art Interchange of New York, 
and other publications. He was also editor of the 
American Art Magazine during its career from 
1886 to 1888. While holding these various posi- 
tions, Mr. Robinson has been a frequent con- 
tributor to magazines and a writer of books. His 
publications embrace a " History of the Fifth 
Regiment, M. Y. M.," the " Art Year Book," " Art 
Catalogue, 1883," "Quaint New England," and 
"Living New England Artists." Of his services 



in behalf of American art, both in a literary 
way and by more direct means, one who is well 
qualified to speak says that " they have been of 
real value to the artists and to the community. 
He has shown always, but more particularly of 
recent years, a fine and unerring instinct for what 
is sound and permanent and worthy in works of 
art ; and it is this intuition, aided by patient and 
loving study in the museums and studios, that has 
made him a superior art critic." Mr. Robinson 
is now curator of literature, Metropolitan Art 
Museum, New York. After the war he continued 
his connection with the State militia for some 
years, serving as sergeant of Company A, Fifth 
Regiment, from 1869 to 1872. He is a member 
of the Melrose Highland Club, and was its vice- 
president for several terms. In politics he is a 
Republican, though not of an aggressive nature. 
He was married November i, 187 1, to Miss Mary 
Jane Tufts, of Somerville. They have three chil- 
dren : Frank Tufts, Charlotte May, and Flora 
Louise Robinson. 



ROBLIN, Rev. Stephen Herbert, of Boston, 
pastor of the Second Universalist Church, of 
which the Rev. Dr. Alonzo A. Miner is senior 
pastor, was born in Picton, Ontario, October 4, 
1S58, son of Joseph Ryerson and Rachel Louise 
(Reynolds) Roblin. He is a descendant of Daniel 
Roblin, a native of Holland, who settled in Plym- 
outh in 1620; and is connected with the Alli- 
sons, of English descent, who settled in New 
Jersey in the seventeenth century, with the Rey- 
noldses, English, settled in New York in the 
seventeenth century, and with the Clarks, English, 
settled also in New York in the same period. All 
of these families or their descendants removed to 
Canada as United Empire loyalists during the 
Revolution. Mr. Roblin was educated at the On- 
tario public schools, and at the St. Lawrence Uni- 
versity, Canton, N.Y., where he was prepared for 
the ministry, and graduated in June, 1881. The 
following July he was settled at Genoa, N.Y., and 
remained there two years, when he accepted a 
call to Victor, N.Y. In February, 1885, he be- 
came pastor of the Universalist Church at Bay 
City, Mich., and was there engaged in a successful 
ministry when called to the Second Universalist 
Church in Boston, having previously, in Novem- 
ber, 1890, received a call to the First Universalist 
Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., which he declined. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



His pastorate in Boston began on tlie ist of 
January, 1892, and has been marked by breadth 
and scholarship in pulpit work, and devotion to 



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teen. His father was born in Nova Scotia, and 
his mother in New Brunswick. His maternal 
grandfather, a native of England, was a captain 
in the English army, and sers'ed in this country in 
the war of tlie Revolution. His maternal grand- 
mother was born in St. John, N.B. He was edu- 
cated in the grammar schools of Fredericton, 
N.B. He began active life as a clerk and soon 
after proprietor of a wholesale and retail grocery 
business. Subsequently he entered the hotel 
business, and has been engaged continuously in 
that line for eighteen years. He has been propri- 
etor of the Copley Square Hotel, situated in the 
fine Back Bay quarter of Boston, since its open- 
ing in 1 89 1. Mr. Risteen has also been promi- 
nent in public affairs for a long period. In 1872 
and 1873 he was a member of the Common Coun- 
cil of Boston; in 1875-76-77 an assistant asses- 
sor ; from 1878 to 1888, inclusive, a director for 
public institutions; in 1883 and 1891 a State 
senator, representing the Fifth and Sixth Suffolk 
districts; and is now (1895) a member of the 
State Commission to build the Medfield Insane 
Asylum. He is president of the Massachusetts 



STEPHEN HERBERT ROBLIN. 

all the varied pastoral duties of a large and im- 
portant parish. His parishioners have shown 
their appreciation of his work by large increase of 
salary each year of his sojourn here. Mr. Roblin 
has been a prominent member of a body of Cana- 
dian Annexationists for many years. He is a 
member of the " Committee of One Hundred" of 
Boston, is a director of the Boston Association 
of Universalists, a trustee of the Massachusetts 
Universalist Convention, and has been on the 
Board of Visitors of Tufts College since residing 
in Boston. He is a Freemason, member of the 
Knights Templar, Consistory thirty-second de- 
gree. Mr. Roblin was married July 31, 1882, at 
Auburn, N.V., to Miss Lillian Isabel Lynes. They 
have two children : Wilbur Frederick (born at 
Victor, N.V., June 27, 1883) and Herberta Rob- 
lin (born at Bay City, Mich., November 29, 1890). 




F. S. RISTEEN. 



RISTEEN, Frederick Samuel, of Boston, 

proprietor of the Copley Square Hotel, is a native Hotel Men's Association, and first vice-president 

of New Brunswick, born in Jacksonville, August of the United States Hotel Men's Association. 

28, 1839, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Brown) Ris- He belongs to the Odd Fellows, is a member of 



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519 



the Massachusetts Lodge, and is high in tlic Ma- 
sonic order, being a thirty-second degree Mason, 
member of St. Andrew's Chapter and Boston 
Commandery Knights Templar. He is a member 
of the Boston Athletic Club. He was married 
December 6, 1865, to Miss Susan M. Cloutman, 
of Boston. They have three children : Helen E., 
Ahah C. and Susan R. Risteen. 



ROBERTS, Ev-EREST \\'ili.ia.m, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in East 
Madison, November 22, 1858, son of Orin P. and 




EVEREST W. ROBERTS. 

Eliza V. (Dean) Roberts. His ancestors on both 
sides Vk-ere among the earliest settlers of Maine. 
In 1864, when he was six years old, his parents 
removed to Charlestown, and the following year to 
Chelsea, where he has since resided. His educa- 
tion was acquired in the public schools of Charles- 
town and Chelsea and at the Highland Military 
Academy of Worcester, where he graduated in 
June, 1877. Shortly after he began the study of 
law, entering the Law School of Boston University, 
and at the same time studying in the office of the 
Hon. Ira T. Drew, ex-district attorney of York 
County, Maine. He was admitted to the bar in 
June, 188 1, immediately upon his graduation from 



the law school, and began practice the following 
autumn in Boston, where he has since continued, 
with the exception of one year (1889) in Cali- 
fornia engaged on an important land case, and 
seven months (1891-92) in Europe on legal busi- 
ness. Early in his career he became interested in 
political affairs, and from 1884 to 1888 was a 
member of the Republican city committee of Chel- 
sea, the last three years of that period serving as 
its secretary. In 1887-88 he was a member of 
the Chelsea Common Council, and in 1894-95 a 
member of the lower house of the Legislature. 
During his first term in the General Court he 
served on the committee on water supply. He is 
connected with the Masonic order, member of 
Shekiriah Chapter and Palestine Commandery, 
in both of which he has held various offices, of 
the Star of Bethlehem Lodge, and of Napthali 
Council, all of Chelsea. He is a member also of 
the Review and Alter Ego clubs of Chelsea, the 
Middlesex Club, and the Republican Club of 
Massachusetts. Mr. Roberts was married No- 
vember 13, 1 88 1, at Albany, N.Y., to Miss Nella 
L. Allen. They have no children. 



RLISSELL, Charles Albert, of Gloucester, 
member of the Essex bar, was born in Canton, 
Mass., March 18, 1855, son of Philemon R. and 
Elizabeth (Bell) Russell. His father was a native 
of Bath, Me., born in 1807 ; and his grandfather, 
Jesse Russell, was born in Cambridge, Mass., son 
of Philemon Robbins and Elizabeth (Wyman) 
Russell, who was a daughter of Deacon David 
Wyman, of Woburn. His mother was daughter 
of James and Mary Bell, of Chester, N.H. His 
early education was acquired in the public 
schools of Lynn and at Houghton Academy, 
Bolton. He was fitted for college at Colgate 
Academy, Hamilton, N.Y., and entering Colby 
Lhiiversity, \^'aterville, Me., was graduated there 
with honor in 1876. He then pursued the regular 
course at Boston University Law School, from 
which he graduated in 1878, ranking second in 
scholarship in a class of fifty-five. The next two 
years were spent as a student and assistant in the 
law office of the late Judge Charles P. Thompson 
at Gloucester. He was admitted to the bar in 
January, 1880, and has been engaged in active 
general practice since that time. In 1887 he 
assisted for the defence on the trial of Thomas 
Smith for murder. In 1892 he was junior coun- 



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sel (with the Hon. E. T. Burley) for the will in 
the trial of the famous (Samuel E.) Sawyer will 
case, which involved an estate of nearly seven 
hundred thousand dollars and consumed nearly 
four weeks, and resulted in a verdict sustaining 
the will; and in 1894 he was counsel for the city 
of Gloucester in its contest with the Gloucester 
Water Company before the Legislature for a 
water act. For the years 1892-93-94-95 he was 
city solicitor of Gloucester. He is an active 
member of several fraternal orders. In the order 
of Odd Fellows he is a past officer in lodge and 
encampment : has been for several years chair- 




CHARLES A. RUSSELL. 

man of the Board of Trustees of Ocean Lodge ; 
is now a member of the judiciary committee of 
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts ; also deputy 
grand master for lodges in Salem, Beverly, and 
Lynn, and deputy grand patriarch for encamp- 
ments in Newburyport and Beverly. In the Im- 
proved Order of Red Men he was one of the 
charter members and the first sachem of Wingaer- 
sheek Tribe of Gloucester in 1886; was chief 
marshal of the Essex County Red Men's parade, 
and commanded the second division (composed of 
fraternal societies) in the parade in celebration of 
yje two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 
settlement of Gloucester in August, 1892 ; was 



chairman for some years of the committee on law 
and usage of the Great Council of Massachusetts, 
and did the work of revising and codifying the 
laws of the Great Council and Tribes in 1892 ; 
was great sachem in 1889 ; has since been a great 
representative to the Great Council of the United 
States from Massachusetts, and is now chairman 
of the standing committee on grievances and 
appeals in that body. In the Masonic order he 
is of the Royal Arch degree and a Knight 
Templar, also a member of Aleppo Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine, Boston. He served for four years 
in the Second Corps of Cadets, Salem, and is 
now a member of the Veteran Cadet Association. 
He has been president of the Commonwealth 
Club of Gloucester, the leading social club of that 
city, from 1889 to 1894 inclusive; and he is a 
member of the Young Men's Democratic Club of 
Massachusetts and of the University Club, Boston. 
Mr. Russell is unmarried. 



SCOTT, Rev. Charles Seaver, of Marl- 
borough, was born in Rochester, N.Y., February 
15, 1855, son of the Rev. Jacob R. and Catherine 
F. (Seaver) Scott. He is of notable New England 
ancestry. The first of his father's name in this 
country was Captain James Scott, who commanded 
many )-ears the packet "Minerva" sailing betw-een 
Boston and London. His vessel was wrecked 
near Marshfield and he drowned in 1780. The 
body of Major Pitcairn was transported to Eng- 
land in Captain Scott's vessel secretly, as sailors 
then superstitiously feared to ship in a vessel 
carrying a corpse. Captain Scott's son, also a 
sea-captain, married the widow of John Hancock. 
Madam Scott (ne'e Dorothy Quincy) was a con- 
spicuous character in Boston society. Mr. Scott 
was named for his maternal grandfather, Charles 
Seaver, of the firm of Crockett &: Seaver, of Bos- 
ton, prominent in the West India trade. Ben- 
jamin Seaver, mayor of Boston 1852-54, was his 
brother. Charles Seaver was noted for his total 
abstinence and temperance principles ; and, al- 
though the liquor trade was a very profitable feat- 
ure of the West India trade in which he was 
concerned, the firm of Crockett & Seaver stead- 
fastly refused to engage in it. Mr. Scott's educa- 
tion was begun in the public schools of Cam- 
bridge, Mass. ; and he graduated from the Wash- 
ington Grammar School there, receiving a copy 
of Saxe's "Poems" as a prize from the master 



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521 



of the school for excellence in arithmetic at the 
examination for admission to the High School in 
July, 1S69. He pursued the High School course 
in Chelsea, — at the close of his first year entering 
a wholesale dry-goods store in Boston, and after 
about eighteen months returning to his studies 
and finishing the course with the class in which 
he entered, — and then entered Brown University. 
There he received the president's premium for 
excellence in Latin in the competitive examina- 
tion on studies of the preparatory course, the 
Howell premium for highest rank in mathematics 
and natural philosophy, the Dunn premium for 




CHAS. S. SCOTT. 

highest standing in rhetorical studies, one of the 
(Mover competitive scholarships ; was editor of 
the Bnimmiau in his junior and senior years, and 
salutatorian at Commencement upon graduation 
in 1877. After leaving college, he became prin- 
cipal of the High School at Wrentham, and re- 
mained there a year. Then he entered the New- 
ton Theological Institution, and took the regular 
course, graduating in 1881. That year he was 
made pastor of the Baptist church at Franklin, 
Ind., the seat of Franklin College, the chief ed- 
ucational institution for the Baptists of that State. 
During his pastorate there, which covered four 
years, a new house of worship was erected, and 



the church was largely increased in membership. 
His next charge was at Hackensack, N.J., where 
he remained until 1S87. Then he was called to 
the Union Square Baptist Church in Somerville; 
and after a service there of five and a half years 
he came to Marlborough as pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, his present settlement. He has 
frequently contributed to the denominational 
press, was for a few months assistant editor of the 
WaU/iiiian, and has done some service as scribe 
at various denominational convocations. He was 
married September 27, i88i,to Miss Jeannie T. 
Pond, of Wrentham, great-grand-daughter of a 
brother of General Joseph Warren, of Bunker 
Hill fame. They have two children living : Ros- 
coe E. and Mary S. Scott. One son, Charles 
Warren Scott, died in his fifth vear. 



SMYTH, Rev. Julian Kennedy, of Boston, 
pastor of the Boston Highlands Society of the New 
Jerusalem, is a native of New York City, born 
August 8, 1856, son of J. Kennedy aijd Julia G. 
(Ogden) Smyth. The family on his mother's 
side is lineally descended from Francis Lewis, a 
signer of the Declaration of Independence. His 
maternal grandfather, Samuel G. Ogden, was a 
much respected and influential merchant of New 
York. Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt, who was known 
to many of its best families in Boston, and who 
will be remembered as the leading actress of her 
day, but a lady of great beauty of character, and 
talented as an authoress, was his aunt. The first 
eight years of his life were spent in Paris, where 
he was early taught music ; and he received his 
early education in books of French and German. 
He graduated from the New Church College, 
Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, in June, 1876, 
at the head of a small class. While in college, he 
received prizes for reading and for composition. 
After his graduation he entered the Theological 
School connected with Urbana LTniversity, con- 
tinued his course in the New Church Theological 
School, then established in Waltham, but now in 
Cambridge, and fitted himself for the ministry in 
the New Jerusalem Church. In September, 1877, 
he was invited to preach for the New Jerusalem 
Church in Portland, Me., which he continued to 
do until January, 1879, w'hen he was unanimously 
invited to become pastor, and was ordained and in- 
stalled by the Rev. Samuel F. Dike. D.D. L'nder 
his ministration the society prospered. In June, 



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1882, lie accepted the invitation of tlie church in 
the Roxbury District of Boston, of whicli the Rev. 
Abiel Silver had been minister up to the time 
of his death by drowning in the Charles River at 
the age of eighty-four. By the unanimous wish of 
the society, Mr. Smyth w-as installed as pastor by 
the Rev. Joseph Pettee, presiding minister of the 
Massachusetts Association, May 6, 1883. The 
attendance at the church was soon doubled, and 
the house was often crowded at Sunday evening 
lectures. The society, which contains many young 
men and women, has almost outgrown its present 
edifice, — a pretty stone building on one side of 




JULIAN K. SMYTH. 

a triangle on Warren Street, which is some day to 
be marked by a statue of General Warren. Mr. 
Smyth's preaching is marked by the emphasis 
which he lays upon the life of Christ as the mani- 
fested life of God. From the first, that has been 
made central and vital to all his teaching. He 
has been spoken of as one of the first to depart 
somewhat from the use of the technical language 
of the New Church, and presenting its doctrines 
in the language of the people. He has published 
two notable books, the first, appearing in 1886, 
under the title of " Footprints of the Saviour," 
being devotional studies of the Lord. This has 
run through several editions, and has been well 



received, the late Bishop Brooks writing : " I have 
found it full of suggestion and of light. I know 
that it will grow more and more to me the longer 
that I read it"; and a denominational paper de- 
claring, "We are slow in classing any writer with 
Robertson or Sears, but we have set down the 
author of these discourses as one of the new 
writers, and one of that not large company who 
work their thought into the mental being of 
the reader." Mr. Smyth's second book, "Holy 
Names," as interpretations of the story of the 
manger and the cross, was published in 1891, 
and has also met with marked attention outside 
as well as inside of the New Church. Both books 
bear the imprint of Roberts Brothers. Mr. Smyth 
was selected as one of the speakers in the Parlia- 
ment of Religions, held in Chicago, and delivered 
an address on "The Incarnation of God in Christ." 
In the winter of 1893-94, as a "testimonial," the 
members of Mr. Smyth's society proA'ided for a trip 
for him and his wife to Egypt, Palestine, Greece, 
and Italy, which proved a most successful one. 
Mr. Smyth ha:s been president of the New Church 
Club, an organization of fifty of the most repre- 
sentative men in the New Church in I!oston and 
vicinity since 1885 ; and he is one of the three 
editors of the New Church RcTinv, a quarterly 
periodical of higli standing in the church, and 
gaining recognition in the literary world. He 
was married November 22, 1877, to Miss \\ino- 
gen (Jertrude Horr, of Urbana, Ohio. They 
have two daughters, the eldest, Gertrude (sixteen 
years), and the youngest, Miriam (thirteen years). 



SCKTWELL, Alvin Foye, of Cambridge, 
banker and railroad president, was born in Bos- 
ton, July 21, 1854, son of Daniel R. and Sophia 
Augusta (Foye) Sort well. He was educated in 
the Chauncy Hall School and at Phillips (An- 
dover) Academy, where he was fitted for college. 
Instead of entering college, however, he engaged 
actively in business, and at the age of eighteen 
was a partner in the firm of Sortwell & Co., and 
had full charge of the business in East Cambridge 
established by his father. After a successful and 
prosperous career he retired from active business 
in March, 1891. He has, however, retained his 
interests in banking and in railroad and other cor- 
porations, and is now president of the Cambridge 
National Bank, of which he has been a director 
for twelve years ; vice-president of the East Cam- 



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bridge Savings Hank ; \ice-president of the Cam- 
bridge Safe Deposit and Trust Company; presi- 
dent of the Montpelier & Wells River Railroad 
of Vermont; president of the Colonial Mining 
Corporation, doing business in New Mexico ; and 
treasurer of the Columbia Water Power Company, 
of Columbia, S.C. He has been prominent in 
Cambridge municipal affairs for many years, and 
served for a long period in the city government. 
First elected to the Common Council in 187S, he 
served during the year 1879 : then, moving into 
another ward, he was again chosen in 18S5, and 
returned in 1886, 1887, and 1888. The last year 





ALVIN F. SORTWELL. 

he served as president of the body. He was ne.\t 
elected an alderman for 1889, and re-elected for 
1890, the latter year being chosen unanimously 
president of the board. During five years of this 
long service he was member of the committee on 
finance, and chairman both on the part of the 
council and of the aldermen ; five years also on 
the committee on roads and bridges, and its 
chairman on the part of both branches ; a mem- 
ber of the committee on the Harvard Bridge; 
chairman of the committee on ordinances during 
their revision in 1S89 ; and a member of the com- 
mittee on purchase of a site for the new City Hall. 
He has been a member of the Cambridge Water 



JSoard ; was a member of the committee on the 
revision of the city charier; and has served as a 
trustee of the Cambridge Public Library for six 
years, treasurer of the board, resigning the latter 
position on the ist of January, 1895. In 1894 
he was a candidate for mayor of the city. Mr. 
Sortwell is a Freemason, member of lodge, chap- 
ter, and conimanderv ; and a member of the Al- 
gonquin and Athletic clubs of Boston, of the 
Country Club, and of tiie Union and Colonial 
clubs of Cambridge, of the latter a charter mem- 
ber. He was married December 31, 1879, to 
Miss Gertrude \\'inship Dailey, daughter of Will- 
iam and Mary Flizabeth (Winship) Dailey, of 
Cambridge. They have six children : Clara, 
l''rances Augusta, Daniel R., Marion, Edward 
Carter, and Alvin F. .Sortwell, Jr. 



SORTWELL, D.\yiKL Rijiunson, of Cam- 
bridge, manufacturer and railroad president, was 
born in ]iarton, Vt., July 10, 1820; died in Mont- 
pelier, Vt., October 4, 1894. His father was John 
Sortwell, of Barton, who was for many years 
selectman of the town. His maternal grandfather, 
Jonathan Robinson, was a soldier of the Revolu- 
tion. His mother was Percy (Robinson) Sortwell. 
His boyhood was spent on the farm and in the 
local public schools ; and at the age of seventeen 
he started out to seek his fortune. Gathering his 
worldly goods in a bundle, he worked his way to 
Boston by assisting a cattle drover, doing the en- 
tire distance on foot, and there began his business 
career in a small position in the produce trade. 
From this humble beginning, through unflagging 
industry, perseverance, and economy, he so ad- 
vanced that within a few years he was enabled to 
enter business on his own account ; and at the 
time of his death he was reported to be worth 
upward of two millions. His first venture was a 
produce store in Faneuil Hall market, in which he 
conducted a flourishing trade. In 1848 he formed 
the firm of Sortwell & Co., commission merchants, 
with the late Thomas L. Smith as partner, which 
firm continued until 1856. Then he sold out this 
business, and established the " Sortwell Distillery " 
in East Cambridge, in which he prospered from 
the start. Later he became a stockholder in the 
Connecticut cS,: Passumpsic River Railroad ; and 
subsequently, through this connection, a bond- 
holder in the Montpelier & Wells River Railroad 
at its inception. In January, 1877, he was elected 



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president of the latter road, which position he 
held at the time of his death. He was also the pro- 
moter of the Barre Railroad, Vt., the line known 




D. R. SORTWELL. 

as the " Sky Route " to the well-known Barre 
granite quarries, which was begun in July, iS88, 
and a length of five miles completed in 1889. In 
the construction of this road Mr. Sortwell took 
much interest ; and he was chiefly instrumental in 
building the branch from Montpelier to Barre, 
giving the Barre road direct connection with the 
Montpelier & Wells River Railroad. He was a 
large stockholder in both of the Barre railroads, 
and also owned nearly ninety-eight per cent, of the 
stock of the INIontpelier (\: \\'ells River Railroad, 
besides being a large real estate owner in Barre. 
He did much in upbuilding that town and for the 
advancement of Montpelier. In addition to the 
presidency of the Montpelier & Wells River Rail- 
road Mr. Sortwell, at the time of his death, held 
the positions of president of the Cambridge 
National Bank, trustee of the East Cambridge 
Five Cents Savings Bank, and treasurer of the 
Columbia (S.C.) Water Power Company. In Cam- 
bridge he served for five years as a member of the 
Board of Aldermen. He was connected with the 
Masonic order. Mr. Sortwell was married May 
19, 1850, to Miss Sophia Augusta Foye, of Wis- 



casset, Me., daughter of Moses and Sophia A. 
Foye. 'I'hey had one daughter and one son : 
Frances Augusta (born June 8, 185 1 : died August 
19, 1857) and Alvin Foye Sortwell (born July 21, 
1854). Sophia A., wife of Daniel R. Sortwell, 
died on September 26, 1890, at Cambridge. 



SOUTHWICK, Henry Lawrence, of Boston, 
secretary and senior professor of the Emerson 
College of Oratory, is a native of Boston, born 
June 21, 1863, son of John and Mary Frances 
(Lawrence) Southwick. His father, a retired phy- 
sician, took great interest in his early education, 
which was acquired in the public schools. He 
graduated from the Dorchester High School in 
1880 with high honors, being chosen the \aleclic- 
torian of his class ; and, having early displayed 
proficiency in literary work and the rhetorical 
art, then pursued special studies under private 
teachers. Deciding to adopt journalism as a pro- 
fession, he obtained a position on the staff of the 
Boston Herald, and served that journal from 1880 




H. L. SOUTHWICK. 



to 1887 in various capacities, — as reporter, ex- 
change reader, correspondent, and special writer. 
During his active journalistic work he found time 



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for historical studies and for lecturing, which 
speedily brought him into prominence. In 1S81 
he wrote an essay entitled " The Policy of the 
Massachusetts Colonists towards Quakers and 
Others whom they considered as Intruders "' 
which received the " Old South Prize '' instituted 
by the late Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of Boston ; 
and in 18S2 he made his first appearance before 
a Boston audience, having a part in the city cele- 
bration of Washington's Birthday that year. 
Shortly after he was invited to a place in the reg- 
ular Old South course of lectures, given in the Old 
South Meeting-house; and the lecture which he 
deli\'ered — on the subject of l^atrick Henry — 
was commended as one of the best in the series. 
In 1885 he entered the Monroe Conservatory of 
( )ratory as a student, and here came under the 
personal instruction of Professor Charles \V. Em- 
erson, now the president of the Emerson College. 
He soon resolved to exchange the profession of 
the journalist for that of the elocutionist and lect- 
urer, and, resigning his place on the Hirald, de- 
voted himself wholly to preparation for his new 
work. In 1888, while still a student, pursuing 
post-graduate studies, he filled an engagement of 
several weeks as teacher of elocution in Bates 
College, Lewiston, Me. ; later took charge of the 
department of elocution and oratory at the Mar- 
tha's Vineyard Institute, and in tiie autumn lect- 
ured before teachers and private classes in Provi- 
dence and Pawtucket, R.I. In the spring of 1888 
he was elected master of reading and oratory at 
the William Penn Charter School of Philadelphia, 
and in the autumn following introduced the Em- 
erson system in that city. The next autumn he 
returned to Boston, having accepted a call from 
President Emerson to the secretaryship, and the 
professorship of dramatic expression in the col- 
lege, and has since remained there, meeting with 
marked success in his work. His regular de- 
partments now are " Principles of Oratory,"' 
" Shaksperian Interpretation," and '• Dramatic 
Action "' ; and he is a regular lecturer in the col- 
lege course on history and literature. Professor 
Southwick also carries on work in summer schools, 
having charge of the department of reading and 
oratory at the National School of Methods, at 
Glen's Falls, N.Y., and the Virginia School of 
Methods. He is a frequent lecturer in winter 
lyceum courses on such subjects as '' Hamlet, the 
Man of Will," " Sir Walter Raleigh," and the 
"Life and Times of Patrick Henry,'' and occa- 



sionally gives recitals. He is president of the 
Dorchester High School .\lumni Association, to 
which position he has been four times re-elected ; 
is president of the Emerson College Alumni Asso- 
ciation, an ex-president of the Old South His- 
torical Society, member of the Boston Press Club, 
and a Freemason, member of Mount Lebanon 
Lodge of Boston. He was married May 30, 1889, 
to Miss Jessie Eldridge, distinguished as a dra- 
matic reader and teacher. They have one child : 
Ruth Southwick. Mrs. Southwick is also con- 
nected with the Emerson College of Oratory as 
teacher of dramatic expression, rendering of 
Shakspere, and voice culture. 



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WM. B. SPROUT. 

SPROUT, William Bradfokd, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Enfield, 
Hampshire County, born July 10, 1859, son of 
Bradford E. and Lucia A. (Train) Sprout. He re- 
ceived his early training in the public schools of 
Worcester. Graduating from the High School, he 
entered Amherst College in 1879, and took his 
degree in 1S83. He read law in the office of 
Bacon, Hopkins, & Bacon in Worcester, and was 
admitted to the Worcester County bar in 1885. 
He practised in the city of Worcester during the 
following five or six years, when he removed to 



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Boston, where he has since been estabUshed. A 
Republican in politics, he has served his party on 
the stump, and has made many a telling speech in 
behalf of his political principles. He was a mem- 
ber of the Legislature of 1889 for Ward Seven, 
Worcester, and was re-elected and served during 
the following year. Since 1890 he has been coun- 
sel for the claim department of the West End 
Street Railway Company of Boston, and in this 
position has shown his ability to conduct cases 
continuously day after day and week after week 
during the judicial year. Many lawyers in Bos- 
ton have more or less business with the West 
End Company on the legal side, thus bringing its 
attorneys into the closest of personal relations 
with the professional fraternity. Such a test, 
especially for a very busy man, is likely to develop 
the abrupt side of character ; but during the years 
of Mr. Sprout's connection with this company he 
has become one of the most popular men at the 
Suffolk bar. He makes his home at Natick, where 
he has a well-kept farm on which he finds the 
recreation which is so necessary to the mental and 
physical well-being of the hard-worked lawyer. 
Although now retired from political activity, his 
townspeople have chosen him to serve on impor- 
tant committees to look after local affairs ; and he 
is otherwise prominent socially at Wellesle)'. He 
is a member of the Worcester Continentals, of the 
University Club and the Middlesex Club of Bos- 
ton. He was married May 10, 1886, to Miss Nel- 
lie L. Fisk, who died in 1892. He has one child, 
a daughter : Ethelwin C. Sprout. 



this worked natural!)- into the lumber business 
which, with manufacturing, has been the principal 
occupation of his life. He started in this business 



STEARNS, Albert Thoma.s, of Neponset, 
lumber merchant and manufacturer, was born in 
Billerica, April 23, 182 1, son of Abner and Annie 
(Russell) Stearns. He is a direct descendant of 
Isaac Stearns, who came to New England from 
England in 1636. His grandfather. Lieutenant 
Edward Stearns, was in the Concord fight of 1775, 
and took the place of Captain Wilson who was 
killed. His uncle Solomon Stearns, then a lad of 
seventeen, was also there. He was educated in 
the public schools and at Phillips (Andover) 
Academy, which he attended one year, about 
1834. He was trained for active life at home, in 
farming, carpentering, and in saw and grist mills. 
Leaving home at the age of eighteen, he engaged 
in a variety of pursuits the next few years, at 
length settling into that of a builder ; and from 







A. T. STEARNS. 

in 1843, in Waltham, where F. Butrick's lumber- 
yard nowis, and, leaving there in 1849, came to Ne- 
ponset, where he has since remained. During this 
long period he has been engaged in a large and 
prosperous trade, and has become widely known 
among lumber men. He is a member of the 
Home Market Club and of the Norfolk Club. In 
politics he was first a Free Soiler, and since its 
organization has been associated with the Repub- 
lican party. He has not been ambitious for polit- 
ical honors, and his only public service has been 
as a member of the Boston Common Council one 
term, 1879. Mr. Stearns was married in June, 
1843, to Miss Salome Maynard, of Sudbury. 
They have had seven children : Albert Henry, 
Waldo Harrison, Frank Maynard (deceased), 
Anne Russell (deceased), Frederick Maynard, 
Salome (deceased), and Ardelle Augusta Stearns. 



STRATTON, Charles Edwin, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, 
November 17, 1846, son of Charles Edwin and 
Sarah Hollis (Piper) Stratton. His ancestors on 



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527 



both sides were among the early settlers of New 
England. His father was a Boston merchant 
prominent in the iron and steel trade. He was 
educated in Boston private and public schools, the 
Quincy Grammar, and the Public Latin School, 
where he was fitted for college, and at Harvard, 
graduating in the class of 1866. He then entered 
the Harvard Law School, and graduated there- 
from in 1868. In October of the following year 
he was admitted to the bar, and has since prac- 
tised his profession in Boston. His practice has 
been general, with the handling of numerous trusts. 
He has been for a number of years an influential 
member of the progressive wing of the Democratic 
party, exerting his influence in a quiet but effec- 
tive way in behalf of tariff and other reform is- 
sues with which it is identified; and in 1894 he 
was nominated by the Democratic State Conven- 
tion by acclamation for lieutenant governor on the 
ticket with John E. Russell. In the campaign 
following he took an active part on the stump, 
speaking in different parts of the State. He was 
one of the founders of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts, and is now its presi- 




CHARLES E. STRATTON. 



dent, elected to that position in 1893 and 1894, 
having previously served on the executive com- 
mittee. Mr. Stratton is unmarried. 



S'I'RONG, Homer Chester, of Palmer, mem- 
ber of the Hampden C'ounty bar, was born in 
Palmer, September 5, 1850, son of Chester and 
Lucia P^lizabeth (Cooke) Strong. He is ninth in 
descent from Richard Strong, born in Wales, 
his family having gone there from England, in 
1 56 1, and in 1590 removed to Taunton, Somer- 
setshire, England, the order running : John- (Elder) 
of London, England, first a citizen of I )orchester, 
Mass., and one of the founders of Northampton ; 
Jedediah'', Preserved^ Aaron", Asahel", Aaron', 
Chester", Homer Chester'. Chester Strong (born 
in Southampton, Mass., March 16, 181 1, married 
May 22, 1844, died March i, 1863) was a lead- 
ing citizen of Palmer, and prominent in developing 
Palmer village ; was postmaster under Harrison 
and Tyler ; second agent of the old Western 
Railroad Company; built in 1847 Strong's Block, 
and after the fire of 1852 built Strong's Block, 
now Cross's Block, and the Nassowanno House. 
Lucia E. Strong (born in West Springfield. 
December 26, 182 1), a daughter of Elizur Cooke 
and Marcia Ely (Denison) Cooke, of the Nathaniel 
Ely branch of the Ely family, was a woman 
of marked executive ability, magnetic presence, 
greatly loved by the poor, and a leader in the 
social life of Palmer. Homer C. Strong was 
educated in the public schools of Palmer, at 
Monson Academy (two years, 1865 to 1867), Wes- 
leyan Academy (two years, being graduated in 
the class of 1S69), and at Amherst College, where 
he was graduated in the class of 1875. Before 
entering college, he taught school, and was princi- 
pal of the grammar school at Three Rivers, 
Palmer (1871); and, after leaving college ( 1876- 
77), was acting principal of the Everett School in 
the Dorchester District, Pioston, and principal of 
the Brooks School in Medford. His law studies 
were pursued in the office of Charles L. Gardner, 
Palmer, and for two years (1877-79) ^t ^^^ Har- 
vard Law School. He was admitted to the 
bar at Springfield, June 30, 1879. Mr. Strong 
has mingled business with law practice, having 
been concerned in insurance and real estate 
matters, and has had charge of important cases 
and the settlement of numerous trust and other 
estates; has managed real estate, hotels, stores, 
tenements, and farms since 1867, and is now one 
of the largest holders of real estate in Palmer. 
Strong's Block, adjoining his Nassowanno House, 
was built by him in 1883. From 1883 to 1886 
he lived and practised in Springfield, with offices 



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in the Agawam I'.ank Building, and then returned 
to Pahner to attend more closely to his private in- 
terests there. During 1892 and 1893 he had 




Select Masters, the Springfield Comniandery, 
Knights Templar, and of the Palmer Business 
and Social Club, the Palmer Board of Trade, 
and the Quaboag Literary Circle. Mr. Strong 
was married at Thorndike, Palmer, January 10, 
1883, by President Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst 
College, to Miss Lizzie M. Wilson, daughter of 
Cornelius Wilson, agent of the Thorndike Mills, 
and Sarah T. (Emery) \\'ilson. They have one 
daughter : Grace Cooke Strong (born in Spring- 
field, January 26, 1884). 



TAPLEY, Amos Preston, of Lynn, shoe dealer, 
is a native of Lynn, born March 25, 18 17, son 
of Amos and Elizabeth (Lye) Tapley. His edu- 
cation was acquired in the public schools and at 
the old Lynn Academy. He began business life 
when a lad of fourteen, employed in the boot and 
shoe warehouse of Josiah Peirce, of Boston ; and 
he has been in the trade ever since, one of the 
oldest of Boston's boot and shoe dealers. He re- 
mained with Mr. Peirce till 1837, when he entered 
business on his own account, establishing the firm 



HOMER C. STRONG. 

charge of the editorial department of the Palmer 
Herald. Interested and active in politics, but not 
as a candidate or aspirant for office, he has gen- 
erally been a delegate to political conventions for 
many years, and often served on town, county, 
and senatorial committees. He is in demand as 
a campaign orator, and was especially active on 
the stump in the campaign of 1888, speaking fre- 
quently in various parts of his section of the 
State. A Republican until 1886, he became a 
Cleveland Democrat through dissatisfaction at the 
treatment of James G. Blaine by his party, and 
also at its high tariff tendencies, and, having little 
sympathy with that independence called " Mug- 
wumpery," has acted since entirely with the 
Democratic party. He has been active in en- 
couraging the literary and educational interests 
and the business growth of Palmer, and has been 
a frequent contributor to newspapers and other 
periodicals. From 18S0 to 1883 he served on 
the School Committee of Palmer. He is a mem- 
ber of the Springfield Hampden Lodge of Free- 
masons and the Morning Star Chapter, Royal 
Arch Masons, the Springfield Council Royal and 




AMOS p. TAPLEY. 



of Bingham & Tapley, wholesale boot and shoe 
dealers and jobbers. This continued till 1S46, 
when Mr. Bingham retired on account of ill- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



529 



health. Since that date the firm name has been 
Amos P. Tapley & Co., and for the past twenty 
years Mr. Tapley's son (Henry F.) has been as- 
sociated witii liim. Mr. 'I'apley was also presi- 
dent of the National City Bank of Lynn for a 
period of thirty-five years, from 1858 to 1893 in- 
clusive, when he retired ; and for more than 
twenty years he was president of the Board of 
Commissioners of Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn. 
He was prominently connected with the McKay 
Sewing Machine Association of Boston, from its 
inception as a director, which machine revolu- 
tionized the manufacture of shoes, and is now 
president of the Stanley Manufacturing Company 
of Lawrence, which has a branch house in Ger- 
many. He has been long a trustee for numerous 
important estates, and has had the care of large 
interests. He was married in December, 1842, 
to Miss Adaline E. Fuller, of Lynn. She died 
in December, 1851, leaving one son: Henry F. 
Tapley. Mr. Tapley was married second in June, 
1856, to Miss Anna S. Ireson, also of Lynn. By 
this union was one daughter : Alice Preston 
Tapley. 

TERHUNE, WiLLiAir Lewis, of Boston, pub- 
lisher of the Boot and Shoe Recorder, is a native of 
New Jersey, born in Newark, October 30, 1850, 
son of Daniel J. and Maria L. (Wood) Terhune. 
On the paternal side he is of Huguenot stock, 
from a family which, after the revocation of the 
edict of Nantes, fled to Holland. His ancestor 
Albert Terhune came to this country, some time 
in 1642, and settled at Gravesend, Long Island, 
N.Y. On both sides the family took an active 
part in the War of the Revolution. He was edu- 
cated in public and private schools in his native 
place, and there also began the study of law, first 
intending to follow the legal profession. But his 
inclinations towards journalism were stronger ; and 
before he had attained his majority lie was fairly 
at work in it. In 1870 he was manager of the 
Merry Muscnin of Boston; from 1873 to 1874, 
one year, publisher of the New Hampshire Iiide- 
pciident : in 1877 editor of the Auburn (Me.) Dailv 
Herald: in 1878-79 on the Boston Globe. In 
1882 he began the publication of the Boot and 
Shoe Recorder as a monthly, bringing out the first 
number on the first day of April. It was a small 
sheet of eight pages. Within the first year it was 
enlarged to twelve, sixteen, twenty, and twent)-- 
four pages. On its first birthday it was made a 



weekly publication with its own outfit of type. 
Two years later the first cylinder press was put 
in, and shortly after two more cylinders. It now 
has six cylinder presses. Its first office consisted 
of desk room at a rental of $75 a year; its sec- 
ond, a small room of its own ; its third, four large 
rooms. In 1887 four floors were required for its 
accommodation, the equipment then including 
five presses, a binding and a mailing plant. In 
1892 the present Boot and Shoe Recorder Build- 
ing on Columbia Street was erected, — a structure 
of six stories, all of which the establishment oc- 
cupies with the exception of the store floor. The 



) 




W. L. TERHUNE. 

paper has become the largest weekly trade jour- 
nal published in the world, and its circulation ex- 
tends over the country and abroad. Besides the 
Boston office, it has organized offices and man- 
agers in leading American cities, and branch 
offices in London, Paris, and Frankfort. Mr. 
Terhune has associated with him Charles H. Mc- 
Dermott. In politics Mr. Terhune is a Repub- 
lican, and has served as chairman of the Ward 
Twenty-four Republican Committee since 1893. 
He is president of the Royal Arcanum Club, vice- 
president of the American Trade Press Associa- 
tion, secretary of the Chickatawbut Club, and a 
member of the Middlesex, Algonquin, Old Dor- 



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Chester, Shawmut, and lioot and Shoe clubs ; an 
Odd Fellow, and member of the Knights of Pythias, 
the Red Men, Royal Arcanum, Home Circle, 
Royal Society of Good Fellows, and the Ancient 
Order of United \\'orkmen. He was married 
January 7, 1873, to Miss Nellie E. Littlefield, 
daugliter of the late Deacon Daniel Littlefield, of 
Dover, N.H. They have one son and two daugh- 
ters : Everit B. (Boston Latin School, 1894, to 
enter Harvard 1895), Inez M., and Lillian H. 
Terhune. 

VINTON, Frederic Porter, of Boston, por- 
trait painter, was born in Bangor, Me., January 
29, 1846, son of William Henry and Sarah Ward 
(Goodhue) Vinton. His father was a native of 
Providence, R.I., and his mother of Plymouth, 
N.H. He is of New England ancestry, the origi- 
nal stock probably French Huguenot. His edu- 
cation was acquired in the public schools of 
Chicago, 111., to which city his parents moved 
when he was a child. He began active life at the 
age of fifteen as a clerk in the Boston business 
house of Gardner Brewer & Co., and remained in 
business until 1875 ; from 1862 to 1865 in the 
employ of C. F. Hovey & Co., from 1865 to 1870 
in the National Bank of Redemption, and from 
1870 to 1875 ^s book-keeper of the Massachu- 
setts National Bank, meanwhile studying art and 
painting pictures. His artistic studies were se- 
riously begun about the year 1S63, by the ad- 
vice of the late William M. Hunt, who saw merit 
in his early drawings and crayons : and after 
some time spent in the classes of the Lowell In- 
stitute he became a pupil of the late Dr. William 
Rimmer, also at Hunt's suggestion, and followed 
three full courses of art anatomy under his in- 
struction. With this training and his natural tal- 
ents Vinton's progress was steady and sure ; and 
between the years 1865 and 1875, although still 
in mercantile pursuits, he became well known in 
Boston as an artist. In 1875 he first went abroad, 
and soon entered the atelier of Le'on Bonnat in 
Paris, where he studied from the figure. The fol- 
lowing year he was a pupil of the Royal Academy 
of Munich, Bavaria; and in 1877-78 a pupil of 
Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. In the Salon of the 
latter year he exhibited a figure piece, " Little 
Gypsy," which was painted for the late Thomas G. 
Appleton, and given by him to the city of Lowell, 
Mass. The French government also purchased 
a boy's head at the same exposition from Mr. 



Vinton for the lottery. On his return from 
Europe in the autumn of 1878 he opened a studio 
in Winter Street, Boston, and soon after Thomas 
(t. Appleton gave liim his first conmiission for a 
portrait. Then followed portraits of Samuel H. 
Russell, Wendell Phillips, Causten Browne, and 
others, which added to his growing fame. In 
1 88 1 he took Hunt's studio in the quaint old 
building on the east corner of Park Square and 
Boylston Street, since removed, and here did 
some of his most notable work, including the 
Warren executed for a committee of citizens of 
Boston on the occasion of the retirement of the 




FREDERIC P. VINTON. 

beloved comedian from the stage. In 1882 he 
again visited Europe, spending about four months 
in Spain, copying Velasquez. The year of the 
last Exposition in Paris (1889) he went abroad 
for a longer period, — eighteen months, — visiting 
Italy, Holland, England, and France. \Miile in 
Paris, he painted a portrait of his wife, which was 
exhibited in the Salon of 1890, and was awarded 
" honorable mention " by the jury. The same 
portrait, with those of Professor C. C. Langdell, 
Augustus Flagg, and the late Theodore Chase, 
shown at the World's Columbian Exhibition, at 
Chicago, in 1893, was awarded a gold medal. 
'I'he list of Mr. Vinton's principal portraits in- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



531 



elude : Thomas C. Applcton, Francis I'arkman 
(now in the "St. liotolph Clul) House), Lord Play- 
fair, Wendell Phillips (original now in possession 
of Mrs. John C. Phillips, and a copy in Faneuil 
Hall, ordered by the city of Boston), Judge Otis P. 
Lord (now in the Salem Court House), General 
Charles Devens (in the Department of Justice, 
Washington, D.C), Dr. A. P. Peabody (in posses- 
sion of his family). Professor C. C. Langdell (in 
Austin Hall, Harvard University), Dr. Henry J. 
Bigelow, Charles Francis Adams, William Warren 
(in the .Vrt Museum, Boston), Dr. Samuel A. 
Creen (in the Groton Public Library), George F. 
Hoar (in the Worcester Law Library), and many 
men prominent in business and in social circles in 
Boston. In 18S2 Mr. Vinton was elected "Asso- 
ciate," and in iSgi ''Academician" (National 
Academy of Design, New York). He was 
elected a member of the Society of American 
Artists, New York, in i88o. He was one of the 
original members of the St. Botolph Club and of 
the Tavern Club, and is also a member of the 
Papyrus Club, the Thursday Evening Club, and 
the Examiner Club, all of Boston. He was mar- 
ried in Newport, R.I., June 27, 1883, to Miss 
Annie M. Peirce, daughter of George Peirce, of 
that city. They have no children. 



WAGNER, Jacob, of Boston, artist, is a native 
of Germany, born in Duthweiler, Bavaria, January 
27, 1852, son of Frederick Wilhelm and Kath- 
erine (Tyring) Wagner. His father's parents, 
well-to-do farmers, died young. His mother's 
parents also were prosperous farmers, and her 
father and ancestors were prominent men in the 
town where he was born. He came to this coun- 
try with his parents when he was a child of four, 
and was educated in the public schools until 
twelve years of age, when on account of the death 
of his father in the Ci\il War he was obliged to 
leave school and go to work. As he displayed in 
childhood a decided talent for drawing, he natu- 
rally desired to become an artist ; but circumstances 
prevented the carrying out of plans of study of 
that kind, and he entered the art store of A. A. 
Childs & Co. to learn the trade of picture frame- 
making. After a year spent here, he left to 
accompany his mother to Germany to visit her 
parents. After an absence of about a year abroad, 
where he began art studies, he returned to Boston, 
and continued his trade with J. N. Lombard. 



From there he soon after went to the store of Doll 
& Richards, where he found more time to pursue 
his studies in art. From the ordinary work of a 
frame-making establishment he gradually worked 
into restoring paintings, a step nearer to that 
upon which his heart was bent. Meanwhile he 
found a good friend in Mr. Doll, of the firm, who 
bought his first painting, — a dog's head. About 
the year 1874 he entered the school in the Lowell 
Institute; and, after two years of study here two 
evenings a week, joined the life class at the Art 
Museum, where he studied and drew evenings, 
still working in the daytime at his trade for his 




JACOB WAGNER. 

living. At about this time he devoted every leis- 
ure moment to painting, taking the best teacher. 
Nature, as William M. Hunt advised him to do. 
He continued his drawing at the Zepho Club for 
several years, and finally at the Boston Art 
Club. After Mr. Doll's death he left the estab- 
lishment of Doll & Richards to start the art store 
of J. Eastman Chase on Hamilton Place, where 
he had charge of the manufacturing department 
and of the work of restoring paintings. In 1883 
he finally started out for himself in a little room in 
the Phillips Building, Hamilton Place, where he 
devoted himself more directly to art, while getting 
his livelihood as a restorer of paintings, having 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



now gained some reputation in this branch of 
work. It was a struggle for a while to support a 
family of six from his slender earnings ; but he 
persevered, painting landscapes and occasionally 
taking a portrait. His first e.xhibition was of 
landscapes and portraits in 1885 at Williams & 
Everett's, which gave him great encouragement, 
being well received by the press, although finan- 
cially a failure. His first portrait of any note was 
of Henry Sayles, a gentleman of high standing in 
art ; and its success gave him a start in his career 
as a portrait painter, by which he is now best 
known. He has never, however, made portrait 
painting a specialty, because he feels that an 
artist should do landscape as well, or anything 
that is beautiful. His latest and best work in 
portraiture are portraits of Mr. and Mrs. George 
H. Hood, Thomas H. Lord, Dr. George Lyman, 
Arthur Dexter, William Amor_\-, Mrs. Dr. Warren, 
and other Bostonians. He has exhibited in all 
the prominent exhibitions in the leading cities of 
the country; and at the \\'orld's Fair in Chicago 
he had three pictures, — a portrait, a landscape, 
and a figure painting. He is a member of the 
Boston Art Club and of the Boston Water Color 
Society, and has served many times on commit- 
tees for selection of pictures for e.xhibitions. Mr. 
Wagner was married May 10, 1876, to Miss Ama- 
lia Hank. They have had four children : Carl 
F. \y., Eva Katherine, Bertha Marie, and Irving 
Jacob Wagner (deceased). His home is in 
Dedham. 

WHITAKER, George M.a.son, of Boston, edi- 
tor and publisher of the vVt'Tiv England Farmer, is 
a native of Southbridge, born July 30, 185 1, son 
of Thomas and Harriet A. (Mason) Whitaker. 
His father was born at Bingley, P'.ngland ; and his 
mother is of the Mason family, which traces back to 
the early days of Medfield, Dedham, and Roxbury. 
Of this family was the eminent musical leader, 
Dr. Lowell Mason, of Boston. Mr. Whitaker was 
fitted for college at the Nichols Academy in Dud- 
ley, and was graduated from Bowdoin in the class 
of 1872, three years later receiving the degree 
of A.M. He learned the trade of a printer, and 
before leaving college was at professional work 
as editor of the Southbridge Journal, ha\'ing in 
187 1 bought a half-interest in that paper. He 
continued as editor of the Journal, subsequently 
purchasing the second half of the property, till 
1886, when he purchased the New England 



Farmer, which he has since edited and published 
with marked success. He was one of the founders 
of the Bowdoin College Orient. In 1877 he 
founded the Temple Star, the organ of the 
Temple of Honor, a temperance fraternal order, 
which he published for ten years ; and for five 
years he has published Our Grange Homes, an 
edition of the Xe7i.< England Farmer devoted es- 
pecially to the grange. He is much interested in 
educational work, and for several years did good 
service on the School lioard of Southbridge and on 
the library committee there. He holds at present 
by appointment of the governor (first appointed 




GEO. M. WHITAKER. 

in 1 89 1 and reappointed in 1S93) the position de- 
fined by statute as " assistant to the secretary of 
the State Board of Agriculture in the work of the 
dairy bureau," which is substantially what in 
other. States would be called •' Dairy Commis- 
sioner." He has been the State head of the 
Temple of Honor ; was secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts Press Association four years (1881-85), 
\ice-president one year (1886), and president two 
years (1886-87); ^^^^ treasurer of the Suburban 
Press Association for ten terms, and president 
three terms (1891-92-93); and is serving his 
fourth term as treasurer of the Boston Press Club. 
He was married in 187 1 to Miss Allie E. Weld, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



who is an ex-vice-prcsidcnt and now secretary of 
the New England Woman's Press Association, 
editor of Hca/t/i, and a well-known newspaper 
writer. They have two children ; Lillian and 
Ethel Whitaker. 



WILLIS, Charles \V., of Boston, associate 
editor of the iVt'Tc England Grocer, is a native of 
Maine, born in Leeds, October 31, 1S64, son of 
Amos H. and Almira A. \Mllis. He is of English 
and Dutch families who settled in Maine prior to 
the Revolution. He was educated in the High 
School, and early entered upon professional work, 
beginning as a correspondent for various news- 
papers. LTpon coming to Boston in 1885, he be- 
came connected with the Boston Globe, for which 
he did general w'ork, and for a time had charge 
of the marine department. In January, 1888, he 
joined the staff of the A'nv England Grocer as 
associate editor, which position he still holds. In 
1S90 he went to Jamaica, West Indies, in the inter- 
ests of the Xcw England Grocer, and tra\'elled 
extensively over the island, exploring the interior 
and making a careful and systematic study of the 
banana and cocoanut culture, as pursued on the 
great plantations there, and also of the coffee and 
pimento industry. While in Kingston, he was re- 
ceived by the governor. Sir Henry Arthur Blake, 
K.C.M.G., and by the colonial treasurer, the Hon. 
H. W. Livingston. Returning to Boston, he 
wrote a long series of articles from material col- 
lected on this trip, which gave to the IVe7o Eng- 
land Grocer additional popularity. Subsequently, 
in July, 1893, Mr. \\'illis was elected by the board 
of governors a member of the Institute of Ja- 
maica, an institution under the patronage of the 
colonial government for the promotion of liter- 
ature, science, and art. He is an active mem- 
ber and a director of the Boston Fruit and 
Produce Exchange, which is the largest and most 
influential chamber of its kind in the country, 
a member of the New England Railroad Club 
of Boston, and of the Boston Press Club. In 
politics he is a Republican, and believes in a 
protective tariff for protection only, but would 
have free iron, coal, and w^ool, and free ships. 
As an editor on the A^civ England Grocer 
(which started in 1879, was the pioneer in the 
journalistic field in the interest of the grocery, 
produce, provision, and fruit trades), he pursues 
a progressive, conservative policy, combined with 



a moderate amount of aggressiveness, which tend 
to carry weight to editorial utterances. As a fre- 
quent contributor to contemporary literature under 
the nom-de-plume of " Allan Eric," he is also 
known outside the ranks of trade journalism. 
Among the magazines in which his contributions 
appear are Goldf/nuaite's Geographical Magazine, 
Outing, the Home Maker, the Chicago Magazine, 
and the Canadian Magazine. He is also Ameri- 
can correspondent for journals in the West Indies 
and the Hawaiian Islands, and " The Town 
Crier" of the Boston Sunday Courier. Mr. W'illis 
was married September 19, 1887, to Miss Lillian 




C. W. WILLIS. 

S. Winterton, of Boston, of English parentage and 
descended from old English families. He resides 
in Somerville, where he is surrounded by things 
congenial, among which are a fine library and in- 
teresting collections made during his travels. 



WOOD, Ei>i;ak Mantelburt, of Pittstield, 
member of the Berkshire bar, was born in Chesh- 
ire, Berkshire County, March 19, 1834, son of 
Simeon and Reliance E. (Brown) Wood. He 
obtained a thorough education, and was well fitted 
for his profession entirely through his own efforts, 
his parents, worthy, but poor, being unable to give 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



him the tiainini; he earnestly desiretl. He at- 
tended the common schools and several acad- 
emies, — the Connecticut Literary Institute at 
Sufifield, Conn., the W'estfield Academy. Westtield, 
Mass.. and the New York Conference .Seminary, 
Charlotteville, N.V., — and entered \\'illiams Col- 
lege, third term freshman, in the class of 185S, 
remaining there till the close of the first term 
junior, when he entered Union College in the 
same class, and graduated in 1S58. In college 
he stood well, excelling especially in literary work 
and in debates. He began the study of law dur- 
ing the latter part of his senior year in the office 






,^« ^ 




E. M. WOOD. 

of John C. VVolcntt, of Cheshire. Subsequently, 
in May, 1859, he entered the law office of M. K. 
Lanckton in Pittsfield, and there continued his 
reading until December following, when he was 
e.xamined in open court by the late Judge Putnam, 
of the Superior Bench, and, successfully passing, 
was admitted to the bar. He opened his office in 
Pittsfield on the ist of April, 1S60, and has been 
in active practice there ever since, one of the 
busiest lawyers in Berkshire County during his 
entire professional life. He has been retained in 
many important causes, and has probably tried 
more cases in court than any other attorney in the 
county. He is conscientious in the management 



of his cases, a strong fighter for what he believes 
to be right, and has always striven earnestly to 
protect the rights of his clients. Early in his 
career he was elected commissioner of insolvency 
three times, serving in all nine years. In 1868 
he was appointed commissioner of the Circuit 
Court of the United States for the District of 
Massachusetts, which office he still holds ; and in 
1880 he was selected by the Hon. A. J. Water- 
man, then district attorney, to assist him in the 
duties of that office, since which time he has been 
assistant district attorney for Berkshire County. 
It has been said that indictments prepared by him 
are never '• quashed." In politics Mr. Wood is 
an Independent, voting for the best man and the 
best measures irrespective of party. He has held 
no public office other than legal, his life having 
been devoted to his profession. A genial gentle- 
man, with a high sense of honor, successful in his 
professional work, he is a good specimen of a self- 
made man. He was married November 17, 1S58, 
to Miss Mary C. Hubbard, of Pittsfield, daughter 
of William Hubbard, one of Pittsfield's prominent 
men. They have a daughter and a son : M. 
Anna (now a teacher in ^^■ellesley College) and 
Arthur Hubbard Wood (graduate, 1894, of the 
Yale Law School). 



WYMAN, Isaac Chauncv, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born January 31, 1S2S, 
near Salem, at "Forest River," then called " Wy- 
man's Mills," from the owner's name. He is of 
Puritan descent. His mother's maiden name was 
Elizabeth Ingalls, and she was married in 1820. 
She was daughter of Henry Ingalls (U.S.N.) and 
Susan (lirown) Ingalls. His father, Isaac Wy- 
man, born on the ist of January, 1762, at Cam- 
bridge, Second Parish, died at Salem in 1836, was 
in the engagements of Le.xington and Bunker Hill, 
at the siege of Boston acted in place of Reed 
who was Stark's lieutenant colonel, and thereafter 
served until the peace. The rest of his life was 
passed in active business. He was the son of 
Hezekiah Wyman, a soldier b)' profession, serving 
in Wolfe's campaign and elsewhere. Hezekiah 
Wyman was born in Woburn, son of Captain 
Wyman, memorable for the conduct of " Love- 
well's Fight," and who finally died of his wounds. 
His father was Lieutenant Seth M'ynian, of Wo- 
burn. who died in 17 15, son of Lieutenant John 
Wyman, who was born about the year 162 1 in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



535 



England, immigrated to New Knglaiid aliout 1640, 
and died at W'oliurn. He was third son of Fran- 
cis W'yman, of the manor of W'estmill, Herts, 



* 

il 




"Wanderer," the hist of tiie African slave-traders, 
was captured, convicted, and condemned. 'J'he 
famous fugitive slave cases of Sinims and Burns 
were also of this period; and he was variously 
employed in the conduct of these and other 
causes. In 1862 the Thomas connection was dis- 
solved, and Mr. W'yman entered upon business 
alone. The practice before that time had been 
mostly in the branches of shipping and mercantile 
law. Having become a bank president (elected 
in about the year i860 president of the Marble- 
head National Bank, one of the oldest banks in 
the country, and one of the three that survived the 
troubles of 1835), he thenceforward engaged more 
particularly in banking, real estate, and finance, 
with the law of those branches. A sufficiency of 
success has attended his pursuits first and last, 
and adequately rewarded the effort and industry 
employed. 



YOUNG, James Harvev, of Boston, portrait 
painter, was born in Salem, June 14, 1830, son of 
William and Hannah (Harvey) Young. He w-as 



ISAAC C. WYMAN. 

F.ngland, where Francis died in 1658. Such is 
the American lineage of the subject of this sketch. 
The name is of Norse origin, and quite common 
with Norse peoples. It is spelled with / and j' in- 
discriminately, and often after the ancient form of 
Wymund or Wymounth. Isaac C. Wyman's early 
life was passed at public boarding-school. After 
that he was four years at Princeton in the College 
of New Jersey, graduating there in 1S48 with the 
degree of A.B., and receiving, in 1858 the degree 
of A.M. He took the regular law course and the 
degree of LL.B. at Harvard in 1850, and after 
the law school read in Boston with the old law 
firm of Hallett & Thomas; then in 185 1 was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Suffolk County. Thereafter 
he served for a while as assistant to the United 
States commissioner and the United States dis- 
trict attorney during the incumbency of the Hon. 
B. F. Hallett (Brown University). Afterwards 
forming a connection with Charles G. Thomas 
(Harvard University), he was engaged exclusively 
in the practice of law' for eleven years. During 
his term with Mr. Hallett occurred some notable 
trials. Captain Oaksmith, with his vessel, the 




J. HARVEY YOUNG. 

educated in the private school of Jonathan Fo.x 
Worcester in Salem, and began the study and 
practice of painting when a boy. At the age of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fourteen he had a sign hung out as a portrait 
painter, and was executing portraits at five dollars 
each. His teacher was John Pope, of Boston, a 
popular portrait painter there until iS6o, and 
after that date of New York. In 184S he en- 
tered an architect's office in Boston as a draughts- 
man, and was so employed for four years, with 
intervals of painting when he could get a chance 
with an order. Then he opened a studio again 
as a professional artist, and devoted himself ex- 
clusively to portrait painting. It was not long 
before he was accorded a leading position among 
the artists of the city. He was one of the 
founders of the Boston Art Club, organized in 
1854, and from 1S61 to 187 1 was director of 
Fine Arts at the Boston Athena:^um. The long 
list of notable works from his brush includes por- 
traits of Edward Everett (the original belonging to 
Mrs. E. B. Everett), of William Warren (now in 
Chicago in the possession of the Rice family, 
relatives of Warren, taken at the time of his death 
from Miss Fisher's famous house in Bulfinch 
place, which was so long his home), of William H. 
Prescott and Horace Mann (both in the Salem 
Normal School), Colonel Ellsworth, and liis 
avenger, Lieutenant Brownell (belonging to the 
Salem Cadets), General Townsend (in the Sol- 
diers' Home, Washington, D.C.), Thacher Magoun 
(for the city of Medford, in the Medford Public 
Library), ISarnas Sears and Professors Whitney 
and Hackett (at Newton Theological Institute), 



Peter C. Brooks and Rev. Dr. Peabody (for 
Exeter Academy), Professor Mulford (for Har- 
vard College), Rev. Dr. Hedge (for the family), 
John Ward Dean (New England Historic Genea- 
logical Society), General Wilde (for the Brookline 
Public Library), the Hon. M. P. Kennard, and of 
many other public and private individuals. A 
half-length, cabinet-size portrait of Everett by him 
is owned by Mrs. George Livermore, of Cam- 
bridge : and a copy of the original head is in the 
Boston Public Library. In the great Boston fire 
of November, 1872, Mr. Young's studio in the 
Mercantile Building, where he had long been 
established, was burned out with its contents. 
Since that time he has occupied a studio in West 
Street. Mr. ^'oung is prominent in the Masonic 
order, having been commander-in-chief of Massa- 
chusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish 
Rite for three years, — from 1891 101894, — and 
now secretary of the Massachusetts Lodge of De- 
liberation, an honorary member of the Supreme 
Council of the thirty-third degree, and president 
of the Ancient Accepted Association. He is a 
member of the Boston Art Club and of the 
Twentieth Century Club. He was first married 
in Leominster, in 1853, to Miss Francena M. 
Wilder, daughter of Luke and Clarissa Wilder. 
The only child by this marriage is Charles Harvey 
Young. He married second, in 1884, Miss Louisa 
C. Knight, daughter of Joel and Susan C. Knight, 
of Boston. 



PART VII. 



ADAMS, George Smith, M.D., of Westbor- 
ough, superintendent of the Westborough Insane 
Hospital, was born in Norwicli, Conn., February 
7, 1848, son of Joseplr and Ann (Smith) Adams. 
His father and mother were both natives of Pais- 




h 



GEO. S. ADAMS. 

ley, Scotland. He attended the public schools of 
his native place till he was twelve years old, and 
then went to work in a factor}-, where he was 
employed for three years. .At the age of fifteen 
he went to Worcester, Mass., where he learned 
the machinist's trade, and for the ne.xt ten years 
worked at that trade. His medical studies were 
begun in 1873 at the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege, Philadelphia, for which he thoroughly titted 
himself; and after three years there he was gradu- 
ated with highest honors March 9, 1876. He 
remained in Philadelphia one year after gradua- 



tion ; then was for two years in successful prac- 
tice in Wilmington, N.C ; the ne.xt two years 
in Maynard, Mass., and the next five years in 
Worcester. He first became connected with the 
Westborough Insane Hospital in December, 1886, 
as first assistant physician. This position he 
held until 1892, when in February he was pro- 
moted to the superintendency. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, of the 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
and of the Worcester County Homceopathic Med- 
ical Society. He is also a member of the 
Worcester Society of Antiquity. He is an Odd 
Fellow, connected with the Quinsigamond Lodge 
of Worcester. In politics originally a Republican, 
of late years he has been an Independent. Dr. 
Adams was married May 30, 1878, to Miss Mary 
Wilco.x, daughter of Francis E. Wilcox, of Phila- 
delphia. They have one son : Francis Joseph 
Adams (born December 17, i88o). 



AMORY, Charles Bean, of Boston, treasurer 
of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Lowell, 
was born in New York, July 30, 1841, son of 
Jonathan and Letitia (.Vustin) Amory. His pater- 
nal grandparents were Jonathan Amory of Boston 
and Hetty Sullivan .Amory, daughter of Governor 
James Sullivan of Massachusetts ; and his mater- 
nal grandparents. Dr. John Austin, of Demerara, 
and Mary Redding Austin. He was educated in 
the public schools, grammar and high, at Jamaica 
Plain. He began business life in May, 1857, 
entering the counting-room of B. C. Clark & Co., 
Commercial Wharf, Boston, and remained there 
until the Civil War period, when he entered the 
army, having previously served in 1860-61 as a 
private in the New England Guards. He was first 
lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, from September 2, 1861, to 
July, 1862, and captain from July, 1862, to May, 
1864; then became captain and assistant adjutant- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



general, Lhiited States N'ulunteers, staff of Gen- 
eral \\'illiam F. Bartlett ; and brevet major for 
gallantry in front of Petersburg, May 13, 1865. 
He served with his regiment in the following 
engagements : the Rurnside expedition to North 
Carolina, Roanoke Island, capture of Newberne, 
Tarboro, Kinston, A\'hitehall, (joldsborough, the 
siege of Morris Island and Fort Sumter, the 
charge on rifle-pits in front of Battery Wagner, 
Drewr3''s Bluff, and then on the stafif of General 
W. F. I!artlett in front of Petersburg, and at the 
explosion of Petersburg mine. At the latter he 
w-as captured and taken to Danville, Va., thence 




CHAS. B. AMORY. 

to Richland Jail, Columbia, S.C., and thence to 
Charlotte, N.C., where he escaped with Lieu- 
tenant Hoppin, Second Massachusetts Heavy 
Artillery. They were out five weeks, tramping 
over the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains, 
striking the pickets of General Thomas's army at 
Greenville, East Tennessee. Then they received 
leave of absence for thirty days, at the end of 
which time Richmond had fallen and the war was 
practically over. Consequently Major Amory re- 
signed. After the war he was for two years, 
1865-66, confidential clerk to Burnham &: Dexter, 
cotton buyers in New Orleans. The next two 
years. 1867-68, he was a member of the firm of 



Tabary & Amory, cotton brokers in New Orleans; 
from 1869 to 1878, a member of the firm of Jno. 
A. Burnham & Co., cotton buyers; and from 1878 
to 1885, of the firm of Appleton, Amory, & Co., in 
the same business. Then, leaving New Orleans 
and coming North, he w-as in 18S6 elected treas- 
urer of the Hamilton Company of Lowell, with 
office in Boston, the position he now holds. Mr. 
Amory is a member of the Massachusetts Military 
Historical Society, of the Loyal Legion, and of 
the Somerset and Country Clubs. His residence 
is in Milton, where he is warden of the Church of 
the Holy Spirit, Mattapan. He was married June 
9, 1867, to Miss Emily A. Ferriday, of Concordia 
Parish, La., who died July 31, 1879, leaving no 
children. He married second, April 30, i88i, 
Miss Lily Clajjp, of New Orleans. By this union 
are four children : Charles Bean, Jr., Leita Mont- 
gomery, John Austin, and Roger Amory. 



ANDERSON, George Weston, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Ac worth, September i, 1861, 
son of David Campbell and Martha L. (Brigham) 
.A.nderson. Of his four grandparents, three, An- 
derson and Campbell on the paternal side, and 
Duncan on the maternal side, were of the Scotch- 
Irish stock that settled in Londonderry, N.H. 
His grandfather Brigham was of English descent. 
He attended the village school in Acworth until 
he reached the age of seventeen, then began 
teaching in district schools, thus making his way 
through the academy at Meriden, N.H., and at 
Ashburnham, Mass. He entered Williams Col- 
lege in 1882, and graduated with high honors in 
1886. While in college he was a leader in the 
debating societies, devoted much time to literary 
work, and read widely in history and economics, 
as well as in general literature. After his grad- 
uation he taught for a time, then entered the 
Boston University Law School, where he was 
graduated in 1890, and was immediately ad- 
mitted to the Suft'olk bar. Born and reared on 
a farm, and under the necessity of earning the 
means for his education, he was made self- 
reliant and practical, and, while an indefati- 
gable student, was no less vigorous in execution. 
Intense and persistent industry is perhaps his 
most marked characteristic. Success at the bar 
would naturally follow such a training producing 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



539 



sucli haliits. Shortly after he began practice he itics he has been a steadfast Democrat, thoujjii 
became the partner of George Fred VVilhams, reared a Repubhcan. He is unmarried, 
then just elected to Congress, and was thrown 




G. W. ANDERSON. 

immediately into active business and with a num- 
ber of important cases. He was especially active 
in opposition to the endowment order schemes, 
both in the courts and before committees of the 
Legislature. In 1893 he was associated with Mr. 
Williams as counsel for the city of Boston in 
the investigation, before a special committee of 
the Legislature, of the Bay State Gas Trust, the 
result of which was the passage of an act reduc- 
ing the nominal capital of the company on which 
dividends were payable by three millions of dol- 
lars, and making a reduction in the price of gas 
to consumers in Boston of about four to five hun- 
dred thousand dollars a year. From 1S91 until 
the spring of 1894, when he was compelled to re- 
sign by pressure of business, Mr. Anderson was 
an instructor in equity in the Boston University 
Law School. He is now (1895) a member of the 
Boston School Committee. He is a member of 
the LTniversity Club, of the Twentieth Century 
Club, the Massachusetts Reform Club, the Minot 
J. Savage Club, the Young Men's Democratic 
Club of Massachusetts, the Free Trade League, 
and the Immigration Restriction League. In pol- 



ANDERSSON, Andrew, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of Sweden, born in Suterby, Socken, 
June I, 1852, son of Andrew and Annabrita 
(Johhanson) Andersson. He is of Swedish de- 
scent through many generations. His father was 
a wealthy real estate owner in his native place. 
He received a good academic education, and be- 
gan business as a clerk in a grocery store in 
Goteborg. In 1869 he came to this country, and 
some years after was followed by his father and 
five brothers, his mother having died in Sweden 
in April, 1882. Subsequently the brothers en- 
gaged in business hi Boston, where they are still 
established. The father died March 28, 1888. 
Mr. Andersson joined the bark " R. A. Allan" the 
year of his coming to the United States, and fol- 
lowed its fortunes for three years as second officer. 
Then he engaged in the restaurant business in 
Boston, and continued in this line, with a prosper- 
ous trade, until 18S3, when he became established 




ANDREW ANDERSSON. 

in the wholesale liquor business, which he has 
since followed. He is connected with the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, member of the Mount Taber, E. B. 



54° 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Lodge ; with tlie order of Odd Fellows, member 
of Siloam Lodge; and with the Elks, Boston 
Lodge No. lo. He is a lover of fine horses, of 
which he owns a number, and is often met on tlie 
boulevards in the driving and sleighing seasons. 



ATWOOD, George Edwin, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Wellfieet, October 5, 1843, son 
of Eleazer H. and Susan (Freeman) Atwood. He 
was educated in the common schools of his native 
town. He came to Boston in May, 1863, when 
twenty years of age, and there began his business 




GEORGE E. ATWOOD. 

career as a clerk in the store of Childs, Crosby, iS; 
Lane. In January of the following year he en- 
tered the employ of Rich & Putnam, trunk and 
bag manufacturers, one of the largest firms in that 
line in New England, and has ever since been 
connected with this establishment. In January, 
1S74, he became a member of the firm, succeeding 
to the business under the name of Young, Reed, 
& Atwood ; and in May following, the present 
quarters, No. 32 Federal Street, were occupied. 
F"ive years later the firm name was changed to 
the present style of Rich, Reed, & Atwood. Mr. 
Atwood has long been prominent in Methodist 
denominational alifairs and in the Boston Youn"; 



Men's Christian Association. He is a member 
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Bos- 
ton, and of its board of trustees ; a member of 
the board of managers and the treasurer of the 
Methodist City Missionary Society of Boston; and 
member of the board of managers of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. He is connected 
with the Masonic fraternity, a member of Mt. 
Lebanon Lodge, and was master of the lodge 
through the years 1S81 to 1S83. Mr. Atwood is 
unmarried. 

BARNARD, Edward Hekhert, of Boston, 
artist, was born in Belmont, July 10, 1855, son 
of Samuel and Sarah A. (Crafts) Barnard. He 
is descended on the paternal side from the Eng- 
lish family of Barnards and a French family of 
Vilas : and on the maternal side he descends 
from Lieutenant Grifiin Crafts of England. He 
was educated in the public schools of Belmont 
and in private schools, those of David Mack in 
Belmont and of Charles \\'are in Boston. He 
became a special student of architecture in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1873, 
and later took the prize offered by the American 
Society of Architects in 1875. ^" October of 
the latter year he entered the office of Cum- 
mings & Sears, where his training for this branch 
of professional work continued. Having, how- 
ever, a strong desire for more artistic work, he 
became a pupil of John B. Johnston in 1S76, 
and upon the opening of the School of Drawing 
and Tainting of the Museum of Fine Arts entered 
the antique and life class, where he remained 
under the instruction of the late Otto Grundmann 
until 1880, meantime studying landscape with Afr. 
Johnston. In 1882, being compelled to earn a 
living, he secured a position as figure designer 
in a well-known decorative and stained-glass house 
of Boston, and to this work entirely devoted four 
years. In 1886 he went to France, and studied 
a )'ear in Paris under Boulanger and Lefebvre. 
Then, wishing less academic and more personal 
instruction, he entered the atelier of Raphael C(,)I- 
lin, and remained there two years. \\'hile in 
Paris he e.xhibited portraits in the Salon of 1888 
and 1889 and a ,!:;i-ii/r picture, a pastime of the 
Middle Ages, in the Paris E.xposition of the latter 
year. Returning to America in July, 1889, he ob- 
tained a position as instructor of drawing at the 
Bradford Academy. Since his return from abroad 
he has devoted himself mostl\' to portraits and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



541 



landscape, working at Plymoulh, Clialliani, and 
Mystic, Conn. " Surf, Ciiatliam," and " Mid- 
day," exhibited at the Coknnhian l'',xposition, and 



*^^^- ^^'! 



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also some life insurance. In 1878 he succeeded 
to the general real estate business of the late 
Alden Bartlett in the offices in Bartlett's Building, 
Jamaica Plain, continuing his Boston office, and 
since that time has conducted both offices, making 
twenty-five years in the same Boston office. He 
has made Jamaica Plain and other West Roxbury 
property a specialty, and his sales have reached 
large amounts. He has built thirty or more 
houses in the best sections of Jamaica Plain, 
several of them models of architectural beauty. 
He is also proprietor of the Jamaica Plain, Roslin- 
dale, and West Roxbury A'iic's. He is at present 
(1895) employed in the settlement of claims aris- 
ing from elevating the tracks of the Providence 
Division of the New York, New Haven & Hart- 
ford Railroad in the West Roxbury District. Mr. 
Barrows is an active worker in politics on the 
Republican side ; but he has never aspired to 
office, repeatedly declining to accept nominations 
for alderman and other positions. He is a mem- 
ber of the Jamaica and Eliot clubs, and of the 
Masonic order. He was married, April 30, 1872, 
to Miss Maria Louise Baker, daughter of Elijah C. 



EDWD. H. BARNARD. 

" 'I'he River Weeders " are among his later works. 
He is a member of the Boston Art Club. 



BARROWS, Rt^iswELL Storrs, of Jamaica Plain, 
Boston, real estate operator in the West Roxbury 
District and insurance agent, is a native of Rliode 
Island, born in Providence, June 11, 1848, son 
of Experience Storrs and Maria (Searles) Barrows. 
His father, born in Mansfield, Conn., died in 
1875, was son of the late Robert ISarrous, a well- 
known and influential farmer in Mansfield and 
for twenty-five years a wholesale grocer in Provi- 
dence. His mother was born in Warwick, R.I., 
and is still living at the ripe age of eighty-three 
years. He was educated in the Providence public 
schools. His business life was begun as a clerk 
for his father in Providence, with whom he 
remained several years. In 1869 he came to 
Boston, and began work with the .-Etna Life In- 
surance Company, establisiiing his office at No. 
227 Washington Street. After an experience of 
three years with this company he engaged in the 
fire insurance business on his own account, doing 




R. S. BARROWS. 

Baker, of Providence, R.I. They have three 
daughters : Louise B., .Mice P2arle, and Cecelia A. 
Barrows. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



BEAN, Jacoi! Walter, M.D., of West Medford, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Sutton, 
June 7, 1855, son of William Taylor and Saliy D. 
(Felch) Bean. His ancestors on both sides 
were New England people, of strong character- 
istics and religious belief. He was horn on the 
same farm as his father and grandfather. His 
great-grandfather, Samuel Bean, Jr., had twelve 
children ; and Jacob, his grandfather, for whom he 
was named, was the second of these. His grand- 
father also had a large family of eleven children, 
of whom his father, William '1'., was the ninth, 
born July 29, 1S13, and still living. He himself 




J. W. BEAN. 

was the si.xth of seven children. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at Colby Academy, 
New London, N.H. Reared on the farm until 
fourteen years of age, he was early trained to 
habits of industry and frugality ; and, when he felt 
the desire for more education tiian the common 
schools and home reading could afford, he w^as 
ready to engage in any occupation which would 
enable him to obtain means for continuing his 
studies. After nearly three years in grammar and 
high schools he secured a position as assistant 
superintendent in the Rockingham County Alms- 
house and House of Correction, and here was 
employed for three years. Then he was able to 



pursue his studies in Colby Academv. He began 
the study of medicine in 1878 with Dr. Moses 
W. Russell, his brother-in-law, in Concord, N.H. 
Subsequently he worked some time in Boston to 
secure funds to meet the expense of further study, 
and in the spring of 1880 he attended his first 
course of lectures, at the University of Vermont. 
A course w-as ne.xt taken at the University of 
New York ; and then returning to the Vermont 
University, he was graduated there in July, 1882. 
He began practice the following September, set- 
tled in Lyme, N.H., forming a partnership with 
Dr. Charles F. Kingsbury, who, being one of the 
oldest practitioners in that section, had an extended 
business. The following May, being elected to 
the office of county commissioner. Dr. Kingsbury 
was frequently called from his professional work 
into active public service ; but the hitter's influ- 
ence, combined with energy and ambition on Dr. 
Bean's own part, brought to him a business far 
beyond what an)' young practitioner might natu- 
rally expect. He remained in Lyme until Novem- 
ber, 1889, when the business was sold. The 
following winter was spent in New York in the 
hospitals and in private study with several leading- 
specialists. Then, in the spring of 1890, he came 
to Massachusetts, and established himself in West 
Medford, where he was soon engaged in a suc- 
cessful practice, which has since steadily increased. 
In April, 1894. he w^as made a member of the 
local Board of Health. He is a member of the 
New Hampshire State Medical Society and of 
the White River Medical Association. He belongs 
to the Mt. Hermon Lodge of Masons and the Mt. 
\'ernon Lodge of Odd Fellows, is connected also 
with the Golden Cross and the Royal Arcanum 
as member and medical examiner, and is a member 
of the Medford Club. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. In the autunni of 1888 he was elected for 
two years to the New Hampshire Legislature, 
where he was an active and influential member, 
serving on several important committees. He is 
a member of the Congregational cliurch of \\'est 
Medford. Dr. Bean was married June 7, 1884, to 
Miss Ella S. Kingsbury, daughter of Charles F. 
Kingsbury, M.D. (Dartmouth, 1855). They have 
one child : Charles Franklin Kingsbury Bean. 



BENSON, Frank Weston, artist, instructor 
of life drawing in the Boston Museum of Fine 
Arts, was born in Salem, March 24, 1862, son of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



543 



(leorge W. and Elizabeth (Poole) Benson. He of American Artists, New York, and of the Tavern 
was educated in the public schools of Salem. At Club, Boston. He was married October 17, 1888, 
the age of eighteen, in 1S80, he entered the School to Miss Ellen Perry Peirson, of Salem. They 

have three children : Eleanor Perry, George V.m- 

ery, and Elisabeth. 




FRANK W. BENSON. 

of Drawing and Painting, Boston Art Museum, 
and studied there three j'ears ; then went to Paris, 
where he studied two years in Julien Academy, 
under Jules Lefebvre and Gustav Boulanger. Re- 
turning to America in 1885, he has since been 
established in Boston. During 1886 and 1887 he 
was instructor of drawing and painting to the 
Portland School of Art. In May, 1889, he was 
appointed instructor of drawing to the school of 
the Boston Art Museum, and became instructor 
of life drawing, the position he now holds, in 
1892. He has received numerous prizes for his 
work, the list including : the third Hallqarten 
prize. National Academy of Design, for picture 
'• Orpheus " ; the Clarke prize, National Academy 
of Design, for "Twilight"; the Ellsworth prize, 
Chicago, '"Twilight": the World's Fair medal. 
Chicago, " Portrait in White " ; the silver medal. 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. 
Boston, " In an Old Garden " ; the first Jordan 
prize, Boston, 1894, "Lamplight"; first Jordan 
prize, Boston, 1895, "Mother and Children " ; and 
third Art Club prize, Boston, 1895, "Winter 
Storm." Mr. Benson is a member of the Society 



BL.XKE, Harrison Gray, M.D., of Woburn. 
is a native of Woburn, born January 26, 1864, 
son of Ebenezer Norton and Harriet (Cummings) 
Blake. He is a descendant in the eighth gener- 
ation from William Blake, who came to this 
country in 1630 from Essex, England, and settled 
in Dorchester. His paternal great-grandfather 
was a tinsmith on King, now State, Street in 
Boston at the time of the occupation of the town 
by the British troops, and was obliged to remove 
to Worcester, owing to his refusal to supply them 
with canteens. His grandfather was a practising 
physician for forty years at Farmington Falls, 
Me. ; and there his father was born. ( )n the 
maternal side he is of Scotch descent, in the 
eighth generation from Isaac Cummings, who was 
living in Watertown in 1642, and afterward 
removed to Topsfield, which was the home of the 




HARRISON G. BLAKE. 

family for several generations. His maternal 
grandfather was a tanner in Woburn. Dr. Blake 
was educated in the Woburn public schools, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



graduating from the High School in the class of 
1882, and at Harvard where he spent three years. 
Then, leaving college, he entered the Harvard 
Medical School, and graduated there in 1888. 
For three months of the same year he was assist- 
ant in the out-patient surgical department of the 
Boston City Hospital, and after graduation from 
the medical school took special courses of in- 
struction at the Children's Hospital in diseases 
of children and at the Massachusetts General 
Hospital in gynecology. Meanwhile he began 
practice in W'oburn in August, 18S8, and has 
been actively engaged there since. During the 
summer of 1894 he studied special cases at 
the Boston Dispensary. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, and has served 
twice as censor of the East Middlesex division of 
the society. He is a director of the Mishawam 
Club, the leading social club of Woburn. Dr. 
Blake was married, February g, 1890, to Miss 
Lizzie Batchelder Dodge. They have two chil- 
dren : Dorothy (born April 4, 1891) and Mar- 
gery Blake (born January i, 1893). 



BRECK, Charles H. B., of Boston, head of 
the house of Joseph Breck & Sons, seeds and 
agricultural implements, the oldest in its line in 
the country, was born in Pepperell, August 23, 
1820. He is son of Joseph Breck, the founder of 
the house (in 1836) and Sarah (Bullard) Breck. 
His education was acquired in the Lancaster 
Academy, ^^'hen yet a boy, he began assisting 
his father, and, entering the store, early dis- 
played e.xceptional aptitude for the business. 
His progress was steady and substantial ; and in 
1850 he became a partner, taking the place of 
Edward Chamberlin, of the original firm of Joseph 
Breck & Co., whose interest he purchased, the 
firm name then becoming Joseph Breck & Son. 
This firm name was retained for twenty-two years, 
when the slight change was made to the present 
style of Joseph Breck & Sons upon the admission, 
in 1872, of his son Charles H. to the partnership. 
In 1885 his second son, Joseph F., was admitted, the 
firm name, however, remaining unchanged. Mr. 
Breck has been the senior member and head of 
the house since June, 1873, when Joseph lireck 
died, full of years. During his long connection 
with the business it has developed and expanded 
to large proportions, and he has become widely 
known throughout the country as a representative 



man in the trade. He has also done much in 
various practical ways to encourage agriculture in 
New England. In the Brighton District of Bos- 
ton, where he resides, he held numerous positions 
of trust before its annexation to the city, among 
them those of selectman for three years and 
member of the School Committee for six years ; 
and, after annexation, he was four terms, 1876- 
78-79-80, a member of the Boston Board of Al- 
dermen, and six years, 1878-84, member of the 
Board of Directors of the East Boston ferries. 
He has been long a jjrominent member of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Societv, having held 




CHAS. H. B. BRECK. 

the position of chairman of the committee of 
arrangements for seventeen years, and being now 
a vice-president of the institution. His only out- 
side business interest is the Metropolitan National 
Bank of Boston, of which he is a director. Mr. 
Breck was married in 1848. He has three chil- 
dren : Charles Henry, Joseph F., and Fannie E., 
who married W'illard G. Brackett, of the firm of 
Lilly, Brackett, & Co. 



BRIGHAM, Hup.ri.\RD Hammcind, M.D., of 
Fitchburg, was born in Shutesbury, October 31, 
18 19, son of Lyscomb B. and Betsy (Hammond) 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



545 



Brighaiu. His father was a native of Westbor- 
ough, and his mother of Dana. His mother had 
two brothers, both of whom early went South, one 




the first abolition presidential candidate, then be- 
came a Free Soiler, and afterward a Republican. 
He has been an active member of the Sons of 
Temperance and a Good Templar. He was 
married first, July 21, 1840, to Miss Deborah 
'I'homas, of Shutesbury, by whom he had three 
children : George (born October 9, 1841 ), Leo- 
nella (born August 22, 1844), and Howard Brig- 
ham (born March 10, 1846) ; and married second, 
March 21, 1851, Miss Sarah C. Reed, of Brattle- 
boro, Vt., who is still li\ing. He has many 
friends, not only in the city, but in all the adjoin- 
ing towns, and is an especial favorite among the 
children, who delis,"ht to call him " Santa Claus." 



BROOKS, Walter Curtis, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Hanover, November 3, 1854, 
son of Levi Curtis and Angeline Stetson (Curtis) 
Brooks. He is descended from William Brooks, 
who came from England to New England in 
1635 in the ship " Blessing," and on the maternal 
side from \\'illiam Curtis, who came in 1632 in 
the ship '• I>ion." He was educated in the dis- 



H. H. BRIGHAM. 

going to South Carolina, where he afterward be- 
came governor, and the other to Mississippi, 
subsequently becoming there a celebrated physi- 
cian. Dr. Brigham was educated in the common 
and select schools of his native and adjoining 
towns. He began his medical studies with Hor- 
ace and Sumner Jacobs, of Chicopee, and gradu- 
ated from the Worcester Eclectic Medical College, 
and joined the Eclectic Medical Society of Hart- 
ford, Conn. He settled in Fitchburg in the spring 
of 1845, and after the first year, which was a sea- 
son of struggle, had an abundance of business 
with good success. In December, 1S85, he suf- 
fered a severe accident, being struck by a locomo- 
tive and thrown si.xty-five feet against a telegraph 
pole, breaking several ribs and injuring his hip and 
back, which confined him to his bed and house for 
four months : but, making a good recovery, he has 
enjoyed good health ever since. He is a member 
of the local. State, and national eclectic medical 
associations. In religious faith Dr. Brigham was 
brought up a P.aptist, but subsequently he embraced 
Spiritualism and Naturalism ; and in politics he 
began as an abolitionist, casting his first vote for 




WALTER C. BROOKS. 



trict school of his native town and in the English 
High School, Boston. His business career was 
begun in 1871, at the age of sixteen, in the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



employ of John Curtis, clothier, at No. 6 North 
Street. Six years later he entered into partner- 
ship with Mr. Curtis, their store being then at 
No. 8 Union Street; and in 1884 he became sole 
proprietor of the business. In 189 1 he removed 
to his present quarters, at No. 15 Milk Street 
(the old Boston Post Building), and here devel- 
oped one of the largest and best known clothing 
establishments in the city. He is a member of 
the Art, Appalachian Mountain, and Athletic 
clubs of Boston, and of the Newton club of 
Newton. He was married October 13, 1880, to 
Miss Alice M. Harris, daughter of the Hon. 
William G. Harris, of Boston. They have three 
children : Walter C, Jr., Amy, and Phyllis Brooks. 
Mr. Brooks resides in Newton Centre ; and his 
summer place is " The Overlook," at Pocasset, 
embracing fifty acres of high land, commanding 
one of the most delightful and extensive views on 
the upper part of Buzzard's Bay. 




W. A. BROOKS, Jr. 

BROOKS, William Allen, Jr., M.D., of 
Boston, was born in Haverhill, August 15, 1864, 
son of William Allen and Nancy (Connor) Brooks. 
His great-great-grandfather, Robert Brooks, held 
a commission under King George in the French 
and Indian wars. His great-grandfather, also 



Robert, served in the war of the Revolution ; and 
his grandfather, Aaron Brooks, served in the War 
of 181 2. His early education was acquired in 
the Haverhill public schools. He was fitted for 
college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, graduating 
in 1883, and entering Harvard, graduated there 
in the class of 1887. His medical studies were 
pursued at the Harvard Medical School, where he 
took the degrees of A.M. and M.D. in 1891. From 
the first of August, 1890, until the first of Feb- 
ruary, 1892, he was connected with the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital as house pupil. Then 
he opened an office in Boston, and has since been 
engaged in general practice. He is now out- 
patient surgeon to the Massachusetts General 
Hospital, having been appointed in June, 1894. 
Since 1893 he has been an assistant in anatomy 
in the Harvard Medical School. He was some 
time a member of the Puritan Club, and now 
belongs to the Country, the Boston Athletic, and 
the Union Boat clubs. He is a member also of 
the Sons of the Revolution. Dr. Brooks was 
married November 9, 1892, to Miss Helen \\'in- 
chell, of New Haven, Conn. 



BURR, Rev. Everett Dduchtv, of Boston, 
pastor of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church, was 
born at Nyack-on-the-Hudson, N.V., January 15. 
1 86 1, son of Stephen Henry and Sarah Eliza 
(Doughty) Burr. His mother was the daughter 
of Anna Maria Randell, who was the daughter of 
John Randell, who owned and tilled " Randell's 
Island" in the East River, near New York City, 
and was one of the early makers of upper New 
York. His mother's father, Isaac Doughty, was 
squire for many years in the settlement of Harlem, 
a sagacious, judicious man, of broad horizon. He 
attended the public schools of New \'ork City, 
beginning at five years of age, and prepared for 
college under Dr. John F. Pingry, of Elizabeth, 
N.J. First entering Yale, in September, 1879, 
he was obliged partly to suspend his studies on 
account of illness one year. Then he eijtered 
Brown University in the sophomore class in 
September, 188 1, and graduated there in June, 
1884. His theological studies were pursued at 
the Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Penna., 
from whicli he was graduated in June, 1887. He 
was first settled as pastor of the Memorial Baptist 
Church in Chicago. 111., in January, 1888; and 
he came to Boston as pastor of the Ruggles Street 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



547 



liaplist Church in January, 1892. His \vorl< here 
is on liroad Hnes, and he is engaged in many 
actixitios. He defines his business as humanity, 




natural science, received a Hcentiate certificate. 
Subsequently entering the Harvard Medical 
School, he received his degree of M.D. in 1874. 
Before leaving the medical school, he was house 
surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. 
In 1876 he was appointed district physician to 
the Boston Dispensary, and for a number of years 
was surgeon to that institution. He has also been 
physician to the Children's Mission, and one of 
the directors of that institution for a number of 
years. He is a councillor of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society and a member of the Boston 
Society of Medical Observation and of the Boston 
Medical Improvement Society. He is much in- 
terested in fraternal society matters, and has for 
some time occupied the position of medical e.\- 
aminer-in-chief of the American Legion of Honor. 
He is an active Mason, being a member of the 
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and of the Grand 
Comniandery Knights Templar of Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island. He has published a number 
of articles in various medical journals which have 
attracted attention and been quoted by authori- 
ties, and has compiled valuable statistics and 



EVERETT D. BURR. 



and his life task the problem of the modern city. 
He is a student of social science, a friend of the 
working people, and an advocate of applied and 
practical Christianity, as evidenced in the educa- 
tional, philanthropic, and benevolent work of his 
church. In college Mr. Burr was a member of 
the Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. He 
was married February 9, 1888, at Rochester, N.Y., 
to Miss Frances Austine Cole, of that city. They 
have three children : Dorothy, Frances, and Carle- 
ton Maurice Burr. 




BUSH, John St.a.ndish Foster, M.D., of 
Boston, is a native of Vermont, born in Burling- 
ton, June, 1850, son of Solon Wanton and Theoda 
Davis (Foster) Bush. He is descended on the 
paternal side from Governor Wanton, the first 
governor of Rhode Island, and on the maternal 
side from Myles Standish. His early education j. foster bush. 

was acquired in the Roxbury Latin School, and 

after graduating therefrom he took a chemical reports in relation to fraternal insurance, upon 
course at the Institute of Technology. Then he which subject he is regarded as an authority, 
entered Cornell University, and, taking a course of Besides his active membership in medical socie- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ties, he is an inleicsted niembtr of tiie Uostonian 
Society ; and his ckib associations are with the 
St. Botolph, University, Country, and Athletic 
clubs. ])r. IJusIi was married June 2, 1875, to 
Miss Josephine M. Nason, of Coventry. R.I. 
They have two children : Klla Agnes and Theoda 
Foster liusii. 



CARPENTER, William Henrv, M.I)., of 
Boston, was born in U.xbridge, February 21, 1837, 
son of Joseph and Kernace (Miller) Carpenter. 
He is on both sides of sturdy old English stock, 
from which have descended eminent physicians, 




WILLIAM H. CARPENTER. 

physiologists, and lawyers. His great-grand- 
father Carpenter fought in the Revolutionary War 
on the English side, and his great-grandfather 
Miller deserted from the British army and fought 
in the same war for American independence. His 
education was acquired in the public schools and 
at the academy in Uxbridge, and later at a private 
school for fitting students for teachers and col- 
leges, conducted by the Rev. Henry Rawson, at 
Thompson, Conn. Subsequently he taught dis- 
trict schools in Rhode Island and Connecticut for 
some time to obtain funds for acquiring a medical 
education, and then entered the University of 
Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1864. A 



dangerous malad)' affecting ears, nose, and throat, 
resulting from scarlet fever in childhood, brought 
him in contact with many medical men, which, 
while developing his taste for medicine, demon- 
strated the need of more and abler specialists ; 
and, after taking his degree, he decided to fit him- 
self for successful treatment of diseases of the 
eye, ear, nose, throat, and chest. He began prac- 
tice in the State of Maine, remaining there until 
i86g, and then removed to Boston, where he has 
since been established. After ten years' practice 
he decided to devote a few more years to study 
and practice in colleges, hospitals, and infirm- 
aries, to perfect his knowledge as far as possible 
in the chosen branches of his profession. He 
spent a year in Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege of New York ; a spring term at the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons of New York ; took 
a diploma from Dartmouth Medical College, a 
post-graduate diploma from the Ophthalmic and 
Aural Institute of New York, and another from 
the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; meanwhile 
attending clinics at the Manhattan Eye and Ear 
Hospital and lectures at the Homceopathic Medi- 
cal College and Hospital. His instructors during 
this period embraced the following eminent list, 
names widely known to medical and scientific 
men: Professors Herman Knapp, M.I)., Austin 
Flint, M.D., Sr., E. R. Peasley, M.L)., LL.D., 
A. B. Crosby, A.M., M.D., William A. Hammond, 
M.D., William H. Van Buren, M.D., Austin Flint, 
Jr., Lewis A. Sayre, M.D., James R. Wood, 
M.D., LL.D., R. Ogden Doremus, M.D., Henry 
D. Noyes, M.D., Alexander B. Mott, M.D., E. 
Grenening, M.D., and others. With the admira- 
ble equipment thus acquired he returned to his 
practice in Boston, and has since been promi- 
nently engaged in his special field, with office at 
No. 2 1 2 Boylston Street and residence in Brook- 
line. He is a member of the New England Medi- 
cal Society of Specialists, and its present presi- 
dent. 

C.\RVILL, Alphonso Holland, M.D., of 
Somerville, is a native of Maine, born in Lewis- 
ton, February 4, 1843, son of Sewall and Tamar 
(Higgins) Carvill. He is of English and Scotch 
descent. His paternal great-grandfather served 
in the Revolutionary War, and his father in 
the War of 18 12. He was reared on a farm, and 
remained there until he reached the age of 
eighteen, doing farm work during the farming 



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549 



seasons, attending the district school during the ical Society, and of the Massachusetts Surgical 
winter months, and sometimes a private school in and Gynjecological Society. He has always 
the autumn and spring months. From 1858 to taken an active interest in politics and in tem- 
perance movements, seeking to secure the nom- 
ination and election of good and trustworthy 
men to office. For twelve years he has served on 
the School Board, and has been much interested 
-,.>v in educational matters. Dr. Carvill was married 

in Cambridge, August 18, i86g, to Miss Minna 
S. Gray, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Swan- 
son) Gray. They have two children : Sewall Al- 
bert (born July 31, 1870) and Lizzie Maud Car- 
I vill (born April 27, 1873). 




CHOATE, Charles Francis, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, and long president of the 
Old Colony Railroad, was born in Salem, May 16, 
1828, son of George and Margaret Manning 
(Hodges) Choate. He is descended from one of 
the oldest and best known families of Esse.\ 
County, a direct descendant of John Choate, the 
first of the name in the country, who settled at 
Chebacco, now Esse.x, in 1645, and died there 



A. H. CARVILL. 



1861 he spent several terms at the Maine State 
Seminary; and in 186 1 entered the Edward Little 
Listitute at Auburn, Me., where he was fitted for 
college. Entering Tufts College, he was gradu- 
ated there in the class of 1866 with the regular 
degree, and in 1869 received the degree of A.M. 
His medical studies w^ere pursued in the Harvard 
Medical School, and after graduation therefrom in 
1869 continued in New York, Philadelphia, and 
Chicago. He began practice in 1869 as a physi- 
cian and surgeon in Minnesota, where he re- 
mained until March, 1873. Then, returning to 
the East, he settled in Somerville in May, 1873, 
and has since been engaged there in general prac- 
tice. He served as city physician of Somerville 
for two years, and was instrumental in the estab- 
lishment of the Somerville Hospital. He was on 
the building committee of that institution ; and 
from the beginning has been a member of the 
Board of Trustees, the executive committee, the 
medical board, and the hospital staff. He is a 
member of the .\merican Institute of Hom(i.o]3- 
athy, of the Massachusetts Homctopathic Med- 
ical Society, of the Boston Homoeopathic Med- 




CHARLES F. CHOATE. 



December 4, 1695, ^'^^' """^ running as follows: 
Thomas, son of John, called governor, died April 
1745 ; Francis, son of Thomas, ruling elder of the 



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church, died October 13, 1777; William, son of 
Francis, born September 5, 1730, died April 23, 
1785, grandfather of the Hon. Riifus Choate ; 
George, son of William, born July 24, 1762, died 
1826 ; George, son of George, born November, 
1796, died 1880, a prominent physician of Salem ; 
Charles F. Choate, his son. Mr. Joseph H. 
Choate, of New York, is a younger brother. Mr. 
Choate's education was begun in the Salem public 
schools, and he fitted for college at the Salem 
Latin School. He entered Harvard, and gradu- 
ated in the class of 1849, then, taking the course 
of the Harvard Law School, was graduated there- 
from in 1852. From 1850 to 1853 he was tutor in 
mathematics in the college. He was admitted to 
the bar in September, 1854, and at once began 
the practice of law in Boston. From that time 
until 1877 he was actively engaged in professional 
work, largely as counsel for railroad corporations, 
among them the Boston & Maine and the Old 
Colony. He became the regular counsel for the 
Old Colony in 1864, and his connection with that 
corporation has continued unbroken from that 
time to the present. He was first elected a di- 
rector of the company in 1872, and president in 
1877, remaining in the latter position since 
through annual elections. He was also president 
of the Old Colony Steamboat Company from 1S77 
to 1894. ])uring his presidency of the Old Col- 
ony Railroad Company the policy of consolidating 
under one control the railroads of South-eastern 
Massachusetts was successfully carried out ; and 
the consolidated property was leased. May i , 
1893, to the New York. New Haven & Hartford 
Railroad Company. Mr. Choate has since be- 
come a director of that corporation. During his 
presidency of the Old Colony Steamboat Com- 
pany, which in connection with the Old Colony 
Railroad Company forms the Fall River Line 
between Boston and New York, the company 
built the fleet of steamboats which are unequalled 
for beauty and convenience, and which have 
given to the Fall River Line a world-wide fame. 
Mr. Choate is also a director and vice-president 
of the New Fngland Trust Company. He w-as 
chosen actuary of the Massachusetts Hospital 
Life Insurance Company on June 15, 1893, and 
now holds that oiifice. He has served in the 
General Court, a member from Cambridge in 
1863; and was a member of the Cambridge City 
government in 1864-65. He married, November 
7, 1855, Miss Elizabeth W. Carlile, of Providence, 



R.L I'hey have had five children : Edward C, 
Sarah C. (wife of J. M. Sears), Margaret ^L (wife 
of N. L Bowditch), Helen T. (deceased), and 
Charles F. Choate, Jr., a member of the Suffolk 
bar. 

CHOATE, David, M.D., of Salem, was born 
in the town of Esse.x, Essex County, November 
27. 1828, son of David and Elizabeth (Wade) 
Choate. He is a lineal descendant in the 
seventh generation from John Choate, who came 
from England about 1645, settled in Ipswich, 
Chebacco Parish, now Essex, and died in the 




DAVID CHOATE. 

same place in 1695. t'^^ ''"'^ running as follows: 
second generation, Thomas Choate, born about 
1670, died 1745 ; third generation, Francis, 1701- 
77; fourth, William, 1730-85; fifth, David, 1757- 
180S; and, sixth, David, 1796-1872. He was ed- 
ucated in the common schools of his native town 
and at the Phillips (.\nclover) Academy, and 
fitted for his profession at the Harvard Medical 
School, where he was graduated in 1854. Be- 
ginning practice that year in April, he was estab- 
lished in Topsfield until June, 1857, when he 
moved to Salem, where he has since resided. 
During the Civil War, from 1861 to 1864, he was 
examiniii"" surgeon for volunteers and drafted 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



551 



men ; and from 1863 to 1869 examining surgeon 
for pensions. He was on the staff of the Salem 
Hospital from 1873 (date of its organization) to 
1887. He is a member of the Essex South 
District Branch of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society and of the Congregational Cliib of Essex 
South. 1 )r. Choate has contributed numerous 
papers to the societies with which he is connected. 
Of the latter one on " Haematuria " was subse- 
quently published in the Boston Medical and 
Surgical Joiinial, and one on " Some Peculiar 
Cases of Cancer " in the Cincinnati Lancet. He 
also prepared and read before the Essex South 
Congregational Club a paper on the " Faith Cure 
from a Biblical Point of View," and before the 
Salem Association of Ministers one on the 
" Diseases of the Bible." In politics he is 
reckoned a Republican, but is not active in politi- 
cal affairs. He was married January i, 1856, to 
Miss Susan E. Kimball, of Ipswich. They have 
had two daughters : Helen Stanley and Susan 
Elizabeth Choate. 



CHURCH, Bknjamin Taylor, M.D., of Win- 
chester, was born in Providence, R.I., November 
10, 1839, son of Benjamin Taylor and Sarah 
Chace (Peck) Church. On the paternal side he 
is a direct descendant of Richard Church who 
came over with Governor Wiuthrop in the fleet of 
1630, and married Elizabeth Warren, daughter of 
Richard Warren, one of the " Mayflower " passen- 
gers landing at Plymouth in 1620; also a blood 
relation of Colonel Benjamin Church the Indian 
fighter against King Philip in 1675, and in the 
French and Indian war of 1689. On the maternal 
side he is a direct descendant of Philip Peck, who 
came from Hinghani, England, about 1630. His 
early education was received in the public schools 
of Providence. He was first engaged in the drug 
business, beginning as a clerk in the drug store of 
Henry A. Choate under the Revere House, Bos- 
ton, in 1857, and afterwards entering into partner- 
ship with Mr. Choate, under the firm name of 
Choate & Church, in the conduct of the drug store 
on the corner of Beacon and Tremont Streets, in 
the old Albion Building which formerly stood 
there. ( Mr. Choate retired from this firm in 
1863.) He sold out this business in 1867, and 
took up the study of medicine at Bowdoin Col- 
lege, and subsequently went to Dartmouth College, 
where he graduated. L pon the completion of his 



studies he settled in Boston, but soon after moved 
to Winchester, and has since been engaged there, 
with an extensive practice extending into the 
neighboring towns. He has always taken a deep 
interest in the health of the town, and has been 
for some years secretary of the Winchester lioard 
of Health. He is a member of the iMassachusetts 
State Homoeopathic Society, of the Boston Homoe- 
opathic Society, and of the Calumet Club of Win- 
chester. His politics are Republican, but he is 
not active in political affairs. He was man led 
January 27, 1866, to Miss Adaline Barnard, of 
Boston. They have no children. Mrs. Church is 




BENJ. T. CHURCH. 

a lady of much prominence, a physician, liberally 
educated abroad, and now professor of diseases of 
women in the Boston University School of Medi- 
cine. 

CHURCHILL, WiLLiA.M Worcester, of Bos- 
ton, artist, is a native of Boston, born .\ugust 29, 
1858, son of ^^'illiam W. and Caroline (^ Woodman) 
Churchill. He is of pure New England stock for 
many generations, originally English on both sides. 
He was educated in Boston private schools, and 
at the age of nineteen went to Paris to study 
painting. He studied abroad for three and a half 
years, in October, 1878, entering Bonnat's atelier 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ill Paris: and in 1881 he exhibited in tiie Salon. 
Returning to Boston in 18S3. he opened his studio 
here, and exhibited in the local exhibitions. His 




His earlv education was acquired in the common 
schools of his native town. He fitted for college 
in the Montague High School and at Williston 
Seminary, Easthampton. He graduated from 
Harvard in the class of 1879, and from the Law 
School of the Ihiiversity in 1882. He supported 
himself from the day of graduating from college, 
working his way through the law school by 
tutoring, newspaper writing, and other occupa- 
tions. Having acquired a thorough and practical 
acquaintance with shorthand, he did a good deal 
of verbatim stenographic work, reporting speeches 
and sermons for newspapers, testimony, and other 
matters, and later, in 1882-83 and 1883-84, 
taught the principles of shorthand in the Boston 
Evening High School. He was also reporter to 
the Boston Daily Advertiser of the college and 
Cambridge news during the years of his law 
school course: and afterward, in the year 1884, 
contributed articles to the editorial page of that 
paper. Interested in civil service reform, he be- 
came in 1885 secretary of the board of managers 
of the Civil Service Reeonl, and in 1886-87-88 
had editorial charge of that publication. He was 



W. W. CHURCHILL. 

principal line in art has been portraiture, and he 
has painted many well-known Bostonians. He has 
also painted numerous figure pictures. Among 
his notable portraits are those of (leneral Stephen 
M. Weld, Colonels Kdmands, Holmes, and Jeffries, 
of the Cadets, the Rev. Dr. A. A. Miner, Samuel 
Little, the Hon. F. B. Hayes, Herman Curtis, and 
a portrait of a lady, exhibited at the World's Fair, 
Chicago. It is his ambition to paint pictures of a 
decorative character, not of a mere realistic nature. 
Mr. Churchill is a member of the Boston Art 
Club. He has been identified with tiie State 
militia for eight years as a member of the First 
Corps of Cadets. Although not active in politics, 
he is much interested in political matters, and is 
classed as a Nationalist. Mr. Churchill is un- 
married. 




CLAPP, RoRERT Parker, of Lexington, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Montague, 
October 21, 1855, son of George A. and Irene 
Franklin (Parker) Clapp. He is a lineal descend- 
ant (in the ninth generation) of Captain Roger 
Clap, one of the founders of Dorchester in 1630. 



ROBERT p. CLAPP. 

admitted to the bar in February, 1883, and a 
month before became engaged in the law office of 
the late Bainbridge Wadleigh in Boston. He re- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



553 



inained tliere until the (irst of January, 1886, wlien 
he began practice on his own account. lie was 
appointed by Governor Ames an associate justice 
of the District Court of Central Middlesex in 
18S7. wiiich position he subsequently resigned. 
An early client, the Thomson- Houston Klectric 
Company, absorbed a good part of his time until 
the summer of 18S9, after which he devoted his 
whole time to its law department, in the capacity 
of office counsel, until the company was merged 
in the (Jeneral Electric Company in 1S92. There- 
after, throughout 1893 and until August, 1894, 
his time was given to the law business of the latter 
company. Early in 1894, upon the removal of its 
main office to Schenectady, N.V., he organized 
and took charge of at that place a central law de- 
partment, having the general direction of all of 
the company's legal affairs outside of patent suits. 
In .August, 1894, he resigned this position and re- 
sumed general practice, forming two months later, 
with lienjamin X. Johnson and \\". t)rison Under- 
wood, the law firm of Johnson, Clapp, &: Under- 
wood, office at No. 50 State Street, Boston. In 
politics Mr. Clapp has been a Democrat since 
1884, and he is now a member of the Young 
Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts and of 
the Massachusetts Reform Club. He ha.s lived in 
Le.xington since April, 1886, and has taken an 
interest in the affairs of the town. He ser\ed 
on the School Committee for over two years, re- 
signing from the board in March, 1894. He was 
one of the charter members of the ( )Id Belfry 
Club, a social club in the town for both men and 
women, became its first president in 1892, and has 
twice been re-elected. The organization opened 
its large and attractive new club house in January, 
1894, and has thus far achieved a pronounced 
social and financial success. Mr. Clapp was mar- 
ried October 28, 1886. to Miss Mary Lizzie Saun- 
ders, daughter of the Hon. Charles H. Saunders, 
of Cambridge. They have one child : Lilian Saun- 
ders Clapp. 

CLARK. Julius Sti:vips(_>n, M.D., of Melrose, 
is a native of Maine, born in the town of Bristol, 
March 22, 1838, son of Dr. Albert S. and Ann 
(Herbert) Clark. His paternal grandfather was a 
lieutenant commissary and paj-master-general of 
V'ermont in the war of the Revolution, and com- 
manded the first detachment that entered the 
enemy's works at Bennington ; and was previously 
at the siege of Quebec. At the close of the war 



of 18 1 2 he was commissary-general of Vermont, 
and for nineteen years was judge of probate of 
Rutland County. He also had two brothers in 
the Revolutionary War, and a son in the War of 
1812. His wife was Edna Mattocks, of a family 
distinguished in civil life. Dr. Clark's father was 
an eminent physician in ^Lline and a surgeon in 
the army during the Ci\il War. His mother was 
of English birth and lineage. He was educated in 
the public schools, at Yarmouth and Auburn acad- 
emies, and at Water\ille College. He studied for 
his profession at the Georgetown, D.C, Medical 
College, where he graduated in 1869. P'rom 1870 




JULIUS S. CLARK. 

to 1878 he was respectively health officer, police 
surgeon, and city physician of New Orleans, also 
visiting physician to the Charity Hospital of New- 
Orleans, and resident quarantine physician of 
Louisiana ; and here he demonstrated that yellow- 
fever could be kept from our shores. He had 
previously served throughout the Civil War, hav- 
ing entered the service as an enlisted man in 1861, 
and continuing in it until 1867. First attaining 
the rank of captain, he was subsequently bre- 
vetted major for meritorious service. While in 
New Orleans, he was some time a member of 
the School Committee, and vice-president of the 
board. In Melrose he has also served on the 



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School Committee for several years. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; of 
the East Middlesex Medical Society, of which he 
was president from 1891 to 1893; of the Loyal 
Legion ; and of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
He has contributed to Grand Army meetings and 
on other occasions numerous verses on war and 
patriotic subjects. From 1878 to i88.-! he was 
United States district medical examiner for pen- 
sions. Dr. Clark was married November 19. 
1873, to Miss Eliza Isabel Vennard, daughter of 
the late Judge H. T. Vennard, of New Orleans. 
They have three children: Anita P... Julius \'., 
and E. Greely Clark. 



CLARKE, AuGU.STUS Peck, M.D., of Cam- 
bridge, was born in Pawtucket, R.L, Sep- 
tember 24, 1833, son of Seth Darling and 
Fanny (Peck) Clarke. His father was of the 
eighth generation in descent from Joseph Clarke 
(Seth," Edward,' Icliabod," Joseph,^ Joseph,' Jo- 
seph,' Joseph,- Joseph '), who with his wife, Alice 
(Pepper) Clarke, came with the first settlers com- 
prising the Dorchester Company that embarked 
at Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the 
" Mary and John." This Joseph Clarke was born 
in Suffolk County, England, where the family had 
been one of great antiquity. A direct ancestor, 
Thomas Clarke, of Bury St. Edmunds, gentleman, 
mentioned in his will of 1506 "a Seynt Antony 
crosse, a tau crosse of gold weyng iij li," which 
was borne in an armorial coat, and was assumed 
as an augmentation in consequence of having 
been worn by his maternal great-grandsire, Nich- 
olas Drury, in the expedition to Spain with John 
of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, in 1386. Dr. 
Clarke's great-grandfather, Ichabod Clarke, was 
a captain in the War of the Revolution ; and his 
grandfather, Edward Clarke, served in the War of 
1812. His mother, Fanny Peck Clarke, was of 
the sixth generation in descent from Joseph Peck, 
who came in the ship " Diligent" from old Hing- 
ham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. She 
was also of the twenty-sixth generation in descent 
from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, knight. 
Her father, Joel Peck, was with General Washing- 
ton, and participated in the battle of Rhode 
Island, August 27, 1778. Dr. Clarke completed 
his preparatory course in the University Grammar 
School, Providence, entered Brown University in 
September, 1856, and received the degree of 



A.M. in the class of i860. Before leaving col- 
lege, he began the study of medicine under the 
direction of Lewis L. Miller, ALD., of Provi- 
dence, who at that time was by far the most emi- 
nent surgeon of Rhode Island ; and, entering the 
Harvard Medical .School, he graduated there with 
the degree of M.D. in the class of 1S62. In 
August, 1 86 1, after an examination as to his pro- 
fessional qualifications by a medical bo.ard, he 
was appointed assistant surgeon of the Sixth New 
\'ork Cavalry, and immediately entered the ser- 
vice. He served in the Peninsular campaign con- 
ducted by General McClellan in 1862, was at the 
siege of Yorktown, and in subsequent engage- 
ments, including those at Mechanicsville, Gaines's 
Mill, and Peach Orchard in the seven days' 
battle. At the battle of Savage's Station, Va., 
June 29, 1862, he was made a prisoner, but was 
allow^ed to continue his professional service ; and 
he remained with the wounded until all were ex- 
changed. On May 5, 1863, he was promoted to 
the rank of surgeon of the same regiment, and 
served with the cavalry corps in the Rappalian- 
nock campaign and in other operations of the 
Army of the Potomac undertaken by General 
Meade during that year. At the opening of the 
campaign of General Grant in the spring of 1864, 
he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Second 
Brigade of the First Cavalry Division, and was 
present with his command, and took an active 
part in the movements conducted by General 
Sheridan. During the campaign of 1864-65 he 
was appointed surgeon-in-chief of all the First 
Cavalry Division, and accompanied General Sher- 
idan in his colossal raid from Winchester to 
Petersburg, and was in the battle of Five Forks, 
and in other engagements until the surrender at 
Appomattox. His arduous labors w'ere continued 
until the division was disbanded. July i, 1865. 
During this service of four years he participated 
in upwards of eighty-two battles and engagements, 
was frequently complimented in orders and re- 
ports made by his superior officers, who united 
also in recommending him for brevet appointment 
as lieutenant colonel and as colonel '■ for faithful 
and meritorious conduct during the eventful term 
of his service." After the completion of his mili- 
tary service, in 1865, Dr. Clarke travelled abroad, 
and spent much time in the various medical 
schools and hospitals in London, Paris, Leipzig, 
and in other great medical centres, for the pur- 
pose of fitting himself more particularly for obstet- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



555 



rical. gynecological, and surgical work. Upon his 
return in 1866 he removed to Cambridge, where 
he soon established a reputation in the general 
practice of his profession, in which he has since 
continued. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and has been one of its council- 
lors ; a member of the .Vmerican Academy of 
Medicine, of the American Medical Association, 
of the American Association of Obstetricians and 
Gynecologists ; was president of the Gyna-cological 
Society of Boston, 189 1 and 1892; a vice-presi- 
dent of the Pan-American Medical Congress, 
1893 ; member of the Ninth International Med- 




AUG, P. CLARKE. 

ical Congress, Washington, D.C, and of the Tenth, 
at Berlin, before each of which he read papers ; 
a delegate to the British Medical Association in 
1890, and to medical societies at Paris in the 
same year. He was one of the founders of the 
Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement in 
1868, and was its secretary from 1870 to 1875 ; 
and. a member of the American Public Health 
Association. He is also a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 
and of its board of officers, 1894-95. Dr. Clarke 
still enjoys a high reputation in general practice, 
though he has for a long time been especially en- 
gaged in the practice of the more important 



branches of surgery and of gynecology. After the 
close of the congress in Berlin he again visited 
the leading cities of Europe, including London, 
Kdinburgh, Paris, and Vienna, and devoted him- 
self to the study of their hospital service. While 
pursuing in 1865-66 his medical studies under 
Messieurs Lemaire of Paris, Crede of Leipzig, 
and Sir James T. Simpson, he became impressed 
with the importance of adopting antiseptic meas- 
ures for carrying on successful surgical work, and 
thus became one of the earliest advocates of this 
method of procedure. Dr. Clarke is noted for his 
scholarly productions and for his facile pen. In 
the midst of the multitudinous duties of his pro- 
fessional work he has been able to make impor- 
tant researches relating to gynecology and to 
abdominal surgery. He has frequently contrib- 
uted articles to the public press and to different 
medical societies and journals. Following are the 
titles of some of his many papers : " Perforating 
Ulcer of the Duodenum," Boston Medical and 
Surgical Journal, 1881 ; "Removal of Intra- 
uterine Fibroids," //W., 1882; "Cerebral Erysip- 
elas," ibid., 1883 ; " Hemiplegia," Journal of the 
American Aledical Association, 1884; "Uterine 
Displacements," ibid., 1884; "Obstinate Vomit- 
ing of Pregnancy," ibid., 1885; "Induced Pre- 
mature Labor," ibid., 1885; "Pelvic Cellulitis," 
ibid., 1886; "Early and Repeated Tapping in 
Ascites," ibid., 1886; "Abortion for Uncontrol- 
lable Vomiting of Pregnancy," ibid., 1888 ; "Ante- 
partum Hour-glass Constriction of the Uterus," 
//'/(/., 1888; "Chronic Cystitis in the Female," 
ibid., 1889; " Management of the Perineum dur- 
ing Labor," //'/(/., 1889 ; " On the Tenth Interna- 
tional Medical Congress at Berlin," ibid., 1890; 
" The Influence of the Position of the Patient in 
Labor, in causing Uterine Inertia and Pelvic Dis- 
turbances," ibid., 189 1 ; "Some of the Lesions 
induced by Typhoid Fever," ibid., 189 1 ; "A Cer- 
tain Class of Obstetric Cases in which the Use 
of the Forceps is imperatively demanded," //'/(/., 
1891 ; "Some Points in the Surgical Treatment 
for the Radical Cure of Hernia," ibid., 189 1 ; 
"Origin and Development of Modern Gynecol- 
ogy," ibid., 1892 ; " On the Importance of Surgical 
Treatment for Laceration of the Cervix Uteri," 
ibid., 1892; "Diet in its Relation to the Treat- 
ment and Prevention of Disease," ibid., 1892 ; 
" Vesico-vaginal Fistula : Its Etiology and Surgi- 
cal Treatment," ibid., 1S93 ; "A Consideration of 
Some of the Operative Measures employed in 



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Gynecology," ibid., 1893: ■'The Pan-American 
Medical Congress," ibid., 1893; •'Vascular 
Growths of the Female Meatus Urinarius," Med- 
ical Press and Circular, London, England, 1887, 
also published in Transactions of the Ninth In- 
ternational Medical Congress, 1887; "Dilatation 
of the Cervix Uteri," Transactions of the Gynae- 
cological Society of Boston, 1889; '• Faradism in 
the Practice of Gynecology," ibid., 1889; "The 
Treatment of Placenta Prx-via," Medical Times 
and Register, 1890; ''Adherent Placenta: Its 
Causes and Management," Transactions of the 
American Association of ( )bstetricians and Gyne- 
cologists, 1890; "Post-partum Hemorrhage: Its 
Etiology and Management," ibid., 1891 ; "Ueber 
die Wichtigkeit der friihzeitigen Erkenntniss des 
Pyosalpin als Ursache der eitrigen Beckenent- 
ziindung," Centralblatt fiir Gyiiekologie, Leipzig, 
1890, also in Deiitschen Medicinischeu Wochen- 
schrift, Berlin, 189 1; "Parametritis: Its Etiology 
and Pathology," Journal of Gynecology, 189 1 ; 
" The Advantages of Version in a Certain Class 
of Obstetric Cases," American Jou?-nal of Obstetrics, 
1892; "Puerperal Eclampsia: Its Causation and 
Treatment," ^-/;;/t77((?« Gynecological Journal, 1893 ; 
" Some Observations respecting Tubo-Overian 
Disease," //'/,/., 1893; "Some Points in the Sur- 
gical Treatment of Appendicitis," llie Canada 
Medical Record, 1893; "On the Value of Certain 
Methods of Surgical Treatment for Chronic Pro- 
cidentia Uteri," Annals of Gynecology and J\edia- 
try, 1893; "On the Relation of Pelvic Suppura- 
tion to Uterine Disease," Transactions of the 
Eleventh International Medical Congress, Rome, 
Italy, 1894, also published in Gazette Hebdoma- 
daire ct Mcrcredi, Paris, France, 1S94, and Annali 
di Ostetricia e Ginecologia, Milan, Italy, 1894; 
" Recto-vaginal Fistula : Its Etiology and Surgi- 
cal Treatment," Journal of the American Medical 
Association, 1S94: "The Relation of Hysteria to 
Structural Changes in the Uterus and its Adnexa," 
.Imerican Journal of Obstetrics, 1894. Dr. Clarke 
has been consulting physician to the Middlesex 
Hospital and Dispensary since 1S92, and profes- 
sor of gynecology and abdominal surgery in the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston 
since 1893, and dean of the faculty since 1894. 
He was president of the Cambridge Art Circle in 
1890 and in 1891, and member of Cambridge 
City Council 1871^73-74, for the last year an 
alderman ; and, during his service in the City 
Council, chairman of the health department and 



member of the finance and of other important 
committees. Among other societies to which he 
belongs are the Cambridge Club, the Grand Army 
of the Republic, several fraternal and Masonic 
bodies, including the Boston Commandery of 
Knights Templar, the Boston Brown Alumni 
Association, and the Harvard Medical Alumni 
Association. His political affiliations have always 
been with the Republican party ; and he is a mem- 
ber of the standing committee of the First Baptist 
Church of Cambridge, where he holds his church 
connection. Dr. Clarke was married October 23, 
1 86 1, to Miss Mary H. Gray, author and poet, 
daughter of the late Gideon and Hannah Orne 
(Metcalf) Gray, and of the seventh generation in 
descent from Edward Gray, who settled in Plym- 
outh in 1643. I'hey have two daughters: Inez 
Louise, A.B. of Harvard Annex (now Radclilife 
College) 189 1, and Gene\ie\e Clarke, also a mem- 
ber of Radcliffe. 



CLEVELAND, Leonidas Sidney, of Boston, 
merchant, was born in West Camden, Me., Au- 




L. SIDNEY CLEVELAND. 

gust 12, 1848, son of Samuel S. and Caroline 
Rachael (Pottle) Cleveland. He is a descendant 
of the first Clevelands in the country, early settled 



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557 



in W'oburn, Mas.s., and of the branch of the fam- 
ily founded in what is now Maine by one of five 
brothers who went from Woburn there. He was 
educated in the town grammar school. At the 
age of fifteen he enlisted in the Civil War, and 
was mustered in on the 22d of February, 1864, 
as a private in Company E, Thirty-second Maine 
Volunteers. The regiment was assigned to the 
Second Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army 
Corps ; and he was with it in active service from 
the battle of the Wilderness to the surrender at 
Appomattox. Mustered out in July, 1865, he fin- 
ished his education at Eastman's Business Col- 
lege in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then began busi- 
ness life as a clerk in Leavenworth. In i856 he 
secured a clerkship in Bangor, Maine, where he 
remained through 1867. The next year he was in 
a similar position in Portland. Then in January, 
1869, he came to Boston, and secured a position 
as a commercial traveller. He was principally in 
the employ of Damon, Temple, & Co. till January, 
1S82, when he formed the firm of Cleveland, 
Brown, & Co., and engaged in the business of im- 
porting silks and manufacturing men's neckwear. 
The house is now established in Otis Street, Win- 
throp Square. Mr. Cleveland has lived in \\'ater- 
town for nearly twenty years, and has been active 
in all movements for the benefit and progress 
of the town. He originated and organized the 
Young Men's Assembly of ^Vatertown, with a 
Board of Trade department, in October, 1888, 
which now has a membership of one hundred and 
fifty, and was elected its president for five terms. 
He is also president of the Union Market Na- 
tional Bank, succeeding the late Hon. Oliver 
Shaw. He is interested in politics, on the Re- 
publican side, and has served on important town 
committees, but has invariably declined political 
office. He is a trustee of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, and chairman of its new church build- 
ing committee. Mr. Cleveland was married No- 
vember 17, 187 I, to Miss Mary Alice Roberts, of 
Portland, Me. They have three children : .\lice 
Mabel, Lulu Blanche, and Edith May Cleveland. 
They occupy a substantial colonial house, which 
Mr. Cleveland recently built on Russell Avenue, 
on elevated ground, commanding one of the finest 
views to be found in anv inland town. 



born in Bedford, ^^ay 3, 1854, son of William and 
Margaret Louisa (Wile)') Cushing. His father 
was a Unitarian clergyman, a brother of the 




CUSHING, Josi.\H Stearns, of Norwood, 
president of the Norwood Press Company, was 



J. S. GUSHING. 

author of Cushing's "Manual," and of Edmund 
L. Cushing, a judge of the Supreme Court of 
New Hampshire. He was educated in the public 
schools of Clinton and at the Clinton and 
Medford high schools. He began to learn the 
printer's trade when a boy of fourteen, taking a 
case at the University Press in Cambridge. Later 
he worked at type-setting in the offices of Rock- 
well & Churchill, Rand, Avery, & Co., and Alfred 
Mudge & Son in Boston, and at the Riverside 
Press, Cambridge, following the trade for several 
)'ears, becoming an e.xpert workman. Then in 
1878, with a very modest capital saved from his 
earnings, he ventured into business on his own 
account, establishing his book-printing office in a 
small room on the corner of Milk and Federal 
Streets, Boston. He began with a single book 
given him as a trial, with a promise of more if the 
work were satisfactory. Its excellence promptly 
brought in other orders, and he was early obliged 
to enlarge his quarters. In 1889, when he had 
been in business but a little over ten years, he 
took a floor in the Estes Press Building on Sum- 
mer Street, and increased his force to about one 



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hundred and twent)'-five compositors; and in 1895 
he occupied the newly erected Norwood Press 
Building, Norwood, in association with Berwick & 
Smith, printers, and George C. Scott & Sons, elec- 
trotypers, one of the largest and best equipped 
book printing houses in the country. Mr. Gushing 
IS the designer of several styles of type now in 
general use by book-makers. His special line of 
work is college text-books and standard educa- 
tional books in various languages ; and his fonts 
of Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Spanish, and 
other alphabets, and of mathematical formulae 
(made under his immediate supervision), are of 
the best. His house also prints the reports of 
the United States Supreme Court and of the 
United States Courts of Appeal. He is at pres- 
ent the sole member of the firm of J. S. Cushing 
& Co. ; but at one time, for a period of four 
years, he had as partner George A. W'entworth, 
professor of Phillips (Exeter) Academy, well 
known as author of a series of mathematical text- 
books. Mr. Cushing is president of the Boston 
Master Printers' Club, vice-president of the 
United Typothetix; of America, and president of 
the Norwood Business Association. He is an 
enthusiastic yachtsman, and his yachts " ( )wl " 
and " Nimbus " have won for him a wide reputa- 
tion in the yachting world. He is ex-commodore 
of the Winthrop Yacht Club, and until recently 
was a member of the Massachusetts, Hull, Jeffries, 
Corinthian, and Atlantic \'acht clubs ; is now a 
member of the Boston Athletic Association and of 
the Aldine Club of New York City; lieutenant in 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; 
and a thirty-second degree Mason. He was mar- 
ried March 30, 1876, to Miss Lilias Jean Ross, of 
Cambridge. They have one child li\ing: Lilias 
Stearns Cushing, born February 9, 1891. 



to which city his family removed when he was a 
child, graduating in 1S52. The next year, remov- 
ing to Boston, he went to work, first finding 



DAVIS, j\L\j(iR Charles Griffin, of Boston, 
of the sergeant-at-arms department. State House, 
is a native of New York, born in New York City, 
November 25. 1839, ^'^^ of John William and 
Martha (Dewland) Davis. His father was born 
in Boston in 1807, son of John Davies, a native 
of Wales, and of Elizabeth (Little) Davis, of New- 
buryport ; and his mother was born in London, 
England, in 18 10, daughter of John Dewland and 
Martha (Bond) Dewland, both of England. He 
was educated in the public schools of Lowell, 




CHAS. G. DAVIS. 

employment from Benjamin P. Shillaber ( Mrs. 
Partington) as newsboy on the Lowell Railroad, 
and afterward selling papers on the Fitchburg 
Railroad. In 1854 he obtained a place in the 
Quincy Market, and thereafter, with the excep- 
tion of the Civil War period, when he served in 
the field, he was continuously for twenty-seven 
years in the wholesale and retail provision busi- 
ness. In 1883-84 he was inspector of provisions 
for the city of Boston, under Mayors Palmer and 
Martin ; and he has held his present position, as 
first clerk in the department of the sergeant-at- 
arms. State House, for ten successive years. Major 
Davis's war record began with the opening year of 
the Civil War, and continued to the end of the 
contest. He enlisted September 4, 1861, being 
then a member of the National Lancers of Boston, 
in Company C, First Massachusetts Cavalry, and 
was mustered in on September 16. He was made 
first sergeant the next day, commissioned second 
lieutenant February 4, 1862, first lieutenant Janu- 
ary 3, 1863, captain January 6, 1864, and major 
September 30, 1864. He was wounded in the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



559 



right arm, ;ind his hcusc killed, fulling upon him, 
so that he was captured at Aldie, V^a., June 17, 
1863. He was thereafter a prisoner of war for 
seventeen months and nineteen days at Libby 
Prison, Richmond, and Danville, Va., Macon, Ga., 
Charleston (where he was kept under fire) and 
Columbia, S.C., finally escaping from the latter 
place November 4, 1864, and reaching Knoxville, 
Tenn., after travelling thirty-one nights. He 
was then in the hospital on Lookout Mountain 
eleven days, reached Washington January 3, 1865, 
and was mustered out as major. Major Davis 
is president of the National Association of Union 
ex-Prisoners of War, serving now his second term, 
1894-95 ; president of the Massachusetts Associa- 
tion of Union ex-Prisoners of War, having served 
since i8gi; first vice-president of the Cavalry 
Societies of the I'nited States (1893-94, 1894-95) ; 
secretary and treasurer of the Boys of '61-65 
of the Massachusetts Legislature ; a member of 
the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal 
Legion; was comnrander of Post 15. Grand Army 
of the Republic, in 187 1; president of the First 
Massachusetts Cavalry Association from 1883 to 
1891, and again in 1893-94 ; adjutant in 1875, ^^'^'^^ 
first lieutenant in 1883, of the Ancient and Honor- 
able Artillery Company ; and is past commander of 
the Roxbury City Guard, Company D, First Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He is 
also prominent in the Masonic fraternity, a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-sec- 
ond degree, and of the Washington Lodge, Free 
and Accepted Masons : is a member of the Royal 
Arcanum, the Knights of Honor, and a Master 
Workman. He has served two terms in the Bos- 
ton Common Council, 1873-74, during his second 
term chairman of the committee on military 
affairs, hi politics he is a Republican. His 
father before him was a Free Soiler, and a dele- 
gate from Lowell to the Free Soil Convention 
that nominated John P. Hale for President. He 
is a member of the Highland Club of West Ro.k- 
bury. and its first president, serving in 1888-89. 
Major Davis was first married in May, 1867, to 
Miss Josephine Elizabeth Walker, of Worces- 
ter, by whom he had two children : Frederick 
Appleton (born in Boston, May, 1869) and 
Charles Griffin Davis, Jr. (born November, 1871). 
Mrs. Davis died in February, 1873. He married 
second in October, 1877, Miss Martha A. H. 
Sautelle, of Boston. They have one child: George 
Gilman Davis (born August 13, 1881J. 



DKAKDORN, Ai.vah Berton, M.D., of Somer- 
ville, is a native of Maine, born in 'Jopsham, 
August 3, 1842, son of Frederick W. and .\lvira 
(Daly) Dearborn. He is a descendant of (lodfrey 
Dearborn, who came from England to Hampton, 
N.H., about the year 1637. .Vfler the Revolution 
his great-grandfather with two lirothers went from 
Hampton, and settled in what is now Monmouth, 
Me. : and there his father was born April 1 1, 1809. 
His maternal grandfather, 1 )r. Daly, was a promi- 
nent physician at Monmouth for many years. 
His early education was acquired in the district 
school of Topsham. He was fitted for college at 
the Maine State Seminary (now Piates College) at 
Lewiston, and, entering liowdoin, graduated there 
.V.B. in 1863 and M.D. in 1870. He began the 
practice of medicine at Salisbury, Mass., subse- 
quently, in 1874, removing to Newburyport, and 
coming to Somerville in 1884. Five years after 
his establishment in Somerville, in 1889, he was 
appointed city physician ; and this office he has 
held since. In Newburyport he served on the 
School Board nine years ; and he is now serving 
on the Somerville School Board, in his second 




ALVAH ti. DhARBOHN. 



term of three years, which expires in 1S98. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 
ety and of the American .Academy of Medicine, 



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MEN OK PROGRESS. 



and is connected with the Masonic fraternity as a 
member of the John Abbot Lodge of Somerville. 
In politics he is an Independent. 



DE NORMANDIE, Rev. Jame.s, of Boston, 
pastor of the First Chnrch in Roxbury (Unita- 
rian), is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Newtown, 
June 9, 1836, son of James and Sarah B. (Yard- 
ley) De Norniandie. The De Normandie family, 
with Andr^ De Normandie its head, came from 
Geneva, and settled at Bristol, Penna., in 1706. 
Their home for several generations was at Noyon, 
France. The Yardley family came from England 
with William Penn, among the founders of Penn- 
sylvania. Mr. De Normandie received his prepar- 
atory education at home, and his collegiate training 
at Antioch College, under Horace Mann, where 
he was graduated in 1858. After leaving college, 
he taught a year in Washington University, St. 
Louis, Mo. Then he entered the Harvard Divin- 
ity School at Cambridge, and graduated therefrom 
in 1862. Six months before graduation he was 
called to the South Parish, Portsmouth, N.H.; and 




JAMES DE NORMANDIE, 



toric First Church of Roxbury. While at Ports- 
mouth, he was invited to the Church of the 
Messiah in St. Louis, the Unity Church and 
Second Parish in Worcester, and to several other 
leading LTnitarian churches, but declined all these 
calls. During his long residence in that city he 
took an influential part in educational and philan- 
thropic work, and became prominent in denomi- 
national affairs. He was for several years chair- 
man of the National Conference of Unitarian 
Churches, and for a long term director in the 
American Unitarian Association Board ; and was 
early a contributor to the denominational periodi- 
cal publications. For seven years, from 1882, he 
was editor of the Unitarian Review. In Roxbury 
Dr. De Normandie's work has been a most faithful 
and earnest pulpit administration. He is almost 
always to be found on Sunday at his own church, 
preaching to a very intelligent congregation. The 
pastoral duties which have fallen to him include 
services far and wide outside of his own church. 
In this respect he is one to whom the sorrowing 
as well as the joyful turn in times of bereavement 
and when the wedding event occurs. Dr. De Nor- 
mandie is allied with philanthropic work, and 
maintains a personal co-operation with various 
activities of this kind in Roxbur\- and the city 
proper. He is often called upon to give installa- 
tion sermons and to lecture. He has been presi- 
dent of the Board of Trustees of the Roxbury 
Latin School, one of the oldest schools in the 
country, since 1884; and in 1895 was made a 
trustee of the Boston Public Librar\'. In politics 
he is a Republican. He was married October 27, 
1S64, to Miss Emily Farnum Jones, daughter of 
William Jones, of Portsmouth. Their children are : 
Albert Lunt. Philip Yardley, Charles Lunt, Will- 
iam Jones, and Robert Laurent De Normandie. 



here began a long and successful pastorate, cover- 
ing a period of twenty-one years, until 1883, when 
he succeeded the late 1 )r. Putnam over the his- 



DEVVEY, Henry Sweetser, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Hanover, November 9, 1856, son of 
Major Israel Otis Dewey and Susan Augusta 
(Sweetser) Dewey. His ancestors were among 
the earliest settlers of Massachusetts. On the 
paternal side he is a lineal descendant of Thomas 
Dewey from Sandwich, county of Kent, England, 
who settled in Dorchester, Mass., as early as 
1633 ; and on the maternal side he is a de- 
scendant of Seth Sweetser, from Tring, Hertford- 
shire, England, who was settled in Charlestown in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



561 



1657. His father was in early life a merchant in since 1882; since 1891 one of the lioard of liar 
Hanover, where he held numerous positions of Examiners for Suffolk County, appointed by the 
honor, both State and Federal, and afterward a justices of the Supreme Judicial Court ; and since 

February, 1893, a master in chancery for the 
county of Suffolk. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and from 1884 to 1888 was a member of the 
Republican ward and city committee of Boston. 
He has served three terms in tiie Boston Common 
Coilncil (1885-S6-87), and three terms in the 
State House of Representatives (1889-90-91) for 
the Twenty-first SufTolk District. During his first 
term in the House he was a member of the com- 
mittee on the judiciary, and his second and third 
terms chairman of that committee. He has also 
served for some time in the State militia, having 
been a member of the First Corps of Cadets from 
June II. 1880, to February 26, 1889, when he was 
commissioned judge advocate on the staff of the 
First Brigade, with rank of captain, which position 
he now holds. He is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion. His club associations 
are with the Algonquin, Athletic, Roxbury, and 
Curtis clubs of Boston. 




HENRY S. DEWEY. 



paymaster in the United States Army. His 
mother was a daughter of General Henry Sweet- 
ser, of Concord, N.H. Mr. Dewey's boyhood and 
youth were passed principally in the Southern and 
Western States, at various places where his father 
was stationed. He was fitted for college under 
private tutors at Salt Lake City, and, entering 
Dartmouth, was graduated there in 1878 with the 
regular degree of A.B. Three years later he re- 
ceived the degree of A.M. from the same institu- 
tion. In college he w'as a member of the Alpha 
Delta Phi Society. Soon after his graduation he 
was appointed paymaster's clerk, United States 
Army, and while serving in this capacity came to 
Boston in August, 1878, where he has since re- 
sided. In 1880 he resigned his position of pay- 
master's clerk, and then took up the study of law, 
attending the Boston University Law School and 
reading in the office of the Hon. Ambrose A. 
Ranney. He received his degree of LL.B. from 
the law school in June, 1882, and, at once ad- 
mitted to the bar, has since been actively engaged 
in the practice of his profession in Boston. He 
has been justice of the peace and notary public 




JOHN F. DOWSLEY. 

DOWSLEV, John Fraxcis, D.D.S., of Boston, 
is a native of Newfoundland, born in St. John, 
February 14, 1854, son of Felix and Margaret 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



(Bates) Dowsley. His early education was at- 
tained in the local schools ; and he attended St. 
Bonaventure College until 1868, when the sudden 
death of his father necessitated his withdrawal 
from school. The family then removed to Bos- 
ton, and he found employment in the Western 
Union Telegraph office. Here he was engaged 
several years, at the same time pursuing studies 
in an evening school. At length, deciding to 
adopt dentistry as a profession, he entered the 
Boston Dental College in 1882, and after a 
year's study here went to the Baltimore College of 
Dental Surgery, where he graduated March 6, 
1884. He has since practised in Boston. In 
April, 1 88 7, he was appointed by Governor Ames 
a member of the ISoard of Registration in Den- 
tistry; was reappointed in 1888, again reappointed 
by Governor Russell in 189 1, resigned in Decem- 
ber, 1893 ; but, being urgentl)' requested to re- 
consider, did so, and in April, 1894, was for the 
third time reappointed, this time by Governor 
Greenhalge. Dr. Dowsley is a member of the 
Massachusetts and New England Dental Socie- 
ties and of the National Association of Dental 
Examiners; also of the Young Men's ])emocratic 
Club of Massachusetts, of the Boston Cricket 
Club, and of the Royal Arcanum. He was mar- 
ried February 4, 1885, to Miss Mary A. Cloney, 
of Roxbury. They have three children : Katha- 
rine Sydney, John Francis, Jr., and Margaret 
Bates Dowsley. 

DUTTON, Samuel L.^ne, M.D., of Boston, was 
born in .\cton, July 15. 1835. *0" "^ Solomon 
L. and Olive C. (Hutchinson) Dutton. His pa- 
ternal grandparents were Samuel and Anna (Lane) 
Dutton ; and his maternal grandparents, Nathan- 
iel and Susannah (Wheeler) Hutchinson. Both 
branches came early to this country. His gen- 
eral education was accjuired at public school and 
at the Appleton and Francestown academies. He 
was fitted for his profession at the Harvard Med- 
ical School, graduating in the class of i860, and 
has followed it continuousl)' since graduation. 
He served in the Union army during the Civil 
War, from 1862 to 1865, first as assistant surgeon 
of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and 
early promoted to the rank of surgeon of the 
Fortieth Massachusetts \'olunteer Infantry: and 
then surgeon in chief. First Brigade, Third Di- 
vision, Eighteenth Army Corps. After the war he 
resumed general practice in Boston, but in course 



of time, on account of an old army trouble, was 
obliged to abandon it ; and for several years past 
he has devoted his attention exclusively to the 
duties of medical director of the Massachusetts 
Benefit Life Association of Boston. During the 
Harrison administration he was pension examin- 
ing surgeon for the Boston District. Dr. Dutton 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 
ety and of the district society, past member of 
the Boston Society for Medical Observation, and 
a charter member of the Boston Gyna'cological 
Society. In politics he is a Republican. He be- 
longs to the Grand Army of the Republic, niem- 







.> 



^ 




x» 



S. L DUTTON. 

ber of Post 113, and to the Loyal Legion, He is 
also a member of the ISoston Piaptist Social Pinion. 
He was married September 25, i860, to Miss Sur- 
viah P. Stevens, of Chelmsford. They have had 
four children : Edgar F., Grace S. (deceased^, 
Bertha H., and Mary ii. Dutton. 



DYER, Benj.^min Fr.'\nklin, of Boston, insur- 
ance agent, was born in West Hawley, May 15, 
1841, son of the Rev. Anson and Mercie (Howes) 
Dyer. His father was a clergyman of the Ortho- 
dox Congregational denomination. His ancestors 
on both sides were early settlers of Cape Cod. 



^EN OF PROGRESS. 



563 



He was educated in the common school and at 
the Shelburne Falls Academy. His boyhood, 
until the age of twelve, was spent on a Western 




BENJ. F. DYER. 

Massachusetts farm ; and from twelve to seven- 
teen years of age, when not at school or academy, 
he was employed part of the time by the Lamson 
& Goodnow Manufacturing Company (cutlery), 
Shelburne Falls. After leaving the academy, 
in 1857, he continued with the Lamson &: Good- 
now Company until 1862, in their office in New 
York City. From 1862 to 1867 he was with 
Giles, Wales & Co., Maiden Lane, New York, 
wholesale dealers in watches and jewelry, and 
watch manufacturers, as book-keeper and cashier. 
Then he returned to Shelburne Falls, and for the 
ne.xt three years engaged there in the retail 
grocery business for the purpose of regaining his 
health, which had become impaired through too 
close application to his work in New \'ork. In 
1870 he came to fSoston, and has since been en- 
gaged in business here, first in real estate and 
insurance brokerage, and since 1S84 in accident 
insurance alone. During the early part of his 
residence in New York he was connected with 
the New York State National Guard, a member of 
the Twenty-second Regiment : and at the outbreak 
of the Civil War he was with his regiment when 



the State troops were called into service to relieve 
regulars stationed near Washington, that the latter 
might be made available at the front. In politics 
he is a Republican. He is much interested in 
music, and has been an active member of the 
Apollo Club of Boston for twenty years. Mr. 
Dyer was married June 6, 1866, to Miss Annie D. 
McChesney, of Trenton, N.J. They have had a 
son and daughter : Benjamin Raymond (deceased 
at the age of twelve) and Winnifred May Dyer. 



EMERV, WiNFRED Newell, M.I)., of Wal- 
tham, was born in South Chatham, June 11, 1866, 
son of George Newell and Phebe Wilman (Rog- 
ers) Emery. His ancestry has been traced back 
to John Emery, born in 1598, in Romsey, Hamp- 
shire County, England, who landed in Boston, 
June 3, 1635, from the ship "James," of London. 
The line runs as follows : John Emery's son, John, 
Jr., born in England, 1628; his son, the Rev. 
Samuel, born in 1670, graduated from Harvard 
College in 1671 ; his son, the Rev. Stephen, born 
1707, graduated H.C. 1730; his son, John, born 




W. N. EMERY. 



1747, became lieutenant in Colonel Dike's regi- 
ment, and was among the officers sent to guard 
Dorchester Heights in March, 1777; his son, Ste- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS* 



phen, born 1783; his son, Stephen, Jr., born 
1817 ; his son, George Newell, born 1841 : his 
son, the present Winfred Newell. Dr. Emery 
was educated in the Boston public grammar and 
high schools, taking classics in the Berkeley In- 
stitute ; and his medical studies were pursued at 
the Boston University School of Medicine, where 
he graduated in 1891. For a year, from April i, 
1890, to April I, 1891, he was resident surgeon 
in the Boston Homoeopathic Dispensary. He 
began regular practice in June, 1891, settled in 
East Boston. He continued there until the ist 
of January, 1S94, when he removed to Waltham, 
his present field. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Homceopathic Medical Society, of the 
Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, of the 
Massachusetts Surgical and Gynx-cological Soci- 
ety, and of the New England Hahnemann Asso- 
ciation. He is connected with the order of Odd 
Fellows, a member of the Prospect Lodge, Wal- 
tham ; and is a member of the Citizens' Club. 
While at school, he was first lieutenant in Com- 
pany I of the Highland Battalion, Boston School 
Regiment, 1884-S5, and took the prize for excel- 
lence in company drill. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and in religion a Methodist. 



FAELTEN, Carl, of Boston, director of the 
New England Conservatory of Music, was born 
in Ilmenau, Thuringia, December 21, 1846, son 
of Carl G. and Friederike (Moller) Faelten. His 
father was in the civil service as city clerk of 
Ilmenau. He was educated in the Latin School 
at Weimar, Germany. Early evincing a marked 
aptitude for music, he was given in his boyhood 
thorough elementary instruction in piano and the- 
ory, and at the age of fifteen entered an orchestral 
school at Arnstadt, where he remained until his 
nineteenth year, during this period also pursu- 
ing a variety of hard orchestral work, and be- 
coming proficient in a number of instruments, 
especially the violin and clarinet. After this 
training, which was attained mainly through his 
own exertions, he was for a while engaged as a 
violin-player in orchestras in various places in his 
own country and in Switzerland, and at length 
settled in Frankfort-on-the-Main, as a member of 
a small orchestra there established. While at 
Frankfort, he resumed his studies in the piano- 
forte under the friendly advice of Herr Julius 
Schock and other prominent musicians, whose at- 



tention he had attracted by his work, and was 
making notable progress when he was called into 
military service by the outbreak of the Franco- 
Prussian war of 1870-71. He served through- 
out that war in the German army as a private in 
the Eighty-first Regiment, and at its close re- 
turned to his old work and studies at Frankfort 
with fresh ardor. His advance wms so rapid and 
substantial that he soon ranked among the fore- 
most musicians of that exceptionally musical com- 
munity. From 1S74 to 1877 he spent much time 
in successful teaching, and also appeared occa- 
sionally in symphony and in special concerts with 




CARL FAELTEN. 

leading artists, or in his own recitals at Berlin, 
Bremen, Cassel, Haag, Schwerin, Wiesbaden, 
Vienna, and London. When at Wiesbaden, it was 
his good fortune to make the acquaintance and 
win the friendship of Joachim Raff, the celebrated 
composer. And later on, in 1877, when Raff was 
engaged to organize and direct a conservatory of 
music in Frankfort, one of the first appointments 
to his staff of teachers w-as that of Faelten, who 
was especially assigned to the training of teachers, 
in association with Mme. Clara Schumann. This 
work he prosecuted with marked success, gradu- 
ating, during his connection with the institution, 
a large number of students well equipped for 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



565 



the profession of teaching. He also delivered a 
series of lectures each year on the theoretical and 
practical requirements of the teacher of the piano- 
forte. After the death of Rail", in 1882, he de- 
cided to come to America, and settle here. His 
first engagement was at Baltimore with the Pea- 
body Institute, which he made soon after his ar- 
rival in the autumn of 1882. Here he remained 
for three years, and then, accepting an appoint- 
ment as professor of the New England Conserv- 
atory, came to Boston, which has since been his 
home. He had not been long in the conservatory 
when he was given a part in its management. In 
the autumn of i88g, upon the retirement, on ac- 
count of illness, of the late Dr. Eben Tourje'e, 
the founder and first director, he was made chair- 
man of the directory committee, and shortly after 
acting director ; and upon the death of Dr. Tour- 
je'e, in the spring of i8gi, he became director, 
which position he has held from that time. Dur- 
ing his administration numerous changes in the 
system have been introduced, and additional ad- 
vantages to students ofTered, which have raised 
the standard and increased the reputation of the 
institution. He has continued his work as a con- 
cert pianist, playing each season in symphony 
concerts or giving recitals, fully maintaining his 
position as a musician of the first rank. He has 
published a number of musical text-books, the 
list of his publications including the following : 
" Technische Uebungen " (Schott & Sons), "Pre- 
paratory Exercises" (A. P. Schmidt), "Piano- 
forte Course of the New England Conservatory," 
four volumes : " Fundamental Training," of the 
same series, together with his brother Reinhold 
Faelten, and some transcriptions of Schubert's 
songs. He is a member of the St. Botolph Club 
and of the Harvard Musical Association. He was 
married in 1877, to Miss Adele Schloesser, of 
Liibeck, Germany. They have three children : 
Otto, aged twelve years ; Anne E., aged eight ; 
and W'illibald C. Faelten, aged six years. 



FISK, Everett Olin, of Boston, president of 
the Fisk Teachers' Agencies, was born in Marl- 
boro, August I, 1850, son of the Rev. Franklin 
and Chloe Catherine (Stone) Fisk. His father 
was a Methodist minister. Both parents were of 
English stock ; and his mother was a grand- 
daughter of Captain John Cobb, a soldier of the 
Revolution. He received his early education at 



the high school in (Jrafton (Mass.), the Caze- 
novia (N.Y.) Seminary, and Wilbraham (Mass.) 
Academy ; and his collegiate training at Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., where he gradu- 
ated .\.B. in 1873, and A.M. in 1876. From [873 
to 1875 he taught high schools in Wallingford and 
Enfield, Conn.; and then, entering business, was for 
the next ten years New England agent for Ginn & 
Co., Boston, educational book publishers, in which 
work he met with gratifying success. Leaving 
this in 1885 to establish the Fisk Teachers' 
Agency, he has since been engaged as the presi- 
dent of that institution in its development and 




EVERETT O. FISK. 

management. In its third year branch offices 
were opened in New York and in Chicago ; and 
subsequently others were established in Washing- 
ton, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Toronto, thus 
covering the country and forming the most exten- 
sive and important system of teachers' agencies in 
the world. Mr. Fisk is also actively connected 
with Methodist denominational interests. He is 
president of the Boston Missionary Society of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a delegate 
to the General Conference of 1892. He is a 
member of the executive committee of the Boston 
Municipal League, and a director of the Boston 
Young Men's Christian Association. His club 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



affiliations are with tiie University, the Boston 
Art, and the Twentieth Centur)' clubs. He was 
married September 12, 1882, to Miss Helen Chase 
Steele, of Boston. They have one child : Harriette 
Storer Fisk (born October 14, 1S84). 



FLOYD, David, 2d, of Winthrop and Boston, 
real estate and insurance broker, was born in 
Winthrop, October 26, 1854, son of Edward and 
Lucretia (Tewksbury) Floyd. He is on both 
sides of old New England families. The Floyds 
came early to this country from Wales, and lived 




DAVID FLOYD, 2d. 



estate and insurance business. In 1S91 Mr. 
Tucker withdrew ; and he has since continued the 
business alone, with offices in Winthrop and at 
No. 34 School Street, Boston. He has been es- 
pecially identified with the history of Winthrop 
during the past fifteen years, holding numerous 
town positions, and also serving on committees 
which have accomplished much for the place, 
such as : the present by-laws, which govern town 
affairs : the sewerage system now being com- 
pleted ; the improved method of keeping the as- 
sessors' and other records of the town ; the ob- 
taining of a location from private owners of lands, 
and from the different commissions, which has 
given Winthrop its present excellent railroad ser- 
vice ; and in enforcing the sentiment of the town 
against liquor-selling. He was for six years, from 
1883 to 1889, an assessor; for eleven years, to 
1S94. town treasurer; has been a trustee of the 
Public Library from its founding in 1885 ; and in 
1887 and 1889 represented the district, including 
Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop, in the General 
Court. He was one of the incorporators of the 
County Savings Bank of Chelsea, and its vice- 
president. He belongs to the Masonic order, 
member of the Winthrop Lodge, and to the Bos- 
ton Council of the Royal Arcanum ; is a member 
of the Boston Methodist Social Union, and was its 
president in 1893 ; and is a trustee of the Win- 
throp Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics 
he is a Republican, and active in party affairs. 
For five years prior to 1893 he was chairman of 
the \\'inthrop Republican town committee ; and 
he has served as a member of the Congressional 
and other committees for ten years. Mr. Floyd 
was married June 9, 1886, to Miss Belle .\. 
Seavey, of Winthrop. They have no children. 



for many generations in that part of the original 
town of Chelsea which is now Revere ; and the 
Tewksburys have been residents of what is now 
Winthrop for about two centuries. His grand- 
mother Tewksbury was a Sturgis, a family who 
lived in Boston for many years. The remotest 
ancestor known lived in Barnstable. He was 
educated in the Winthrop public schools and at a 
Boston commercial college. After the death of 
his father in 1879 he devoted his time to the care 
of his real estate interests, and also of those of 
other members of his family, for the next ten 
years. Then in 1889, forming a partnership with 
Frank W. Tucker, he entered the general real 



FLOYD, Fredericic Clark, of Boston, editor 
of the South Boston Bulletin, is a native of Maine, 
born in Saco, May 21, 1837, son of John and 
Pauline (Graffam) Floyd. His grandfather, Sam- 
uel Floyd, was a direct descendant of William 
Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of 
Independence, and of Thomas Lloyd, who emi- 
grated from Wales in 1684, with William Penn. 
He was educated mainly in the Saco English High 
School, and relinquished a college course in 1861 
to engage in the defence of the Union. Previous 
to that date he had acquired the trade of a ma- 
chinist, and had taught school three years. He 



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567 



enlisted in April, 1S61, as a private in Company 
H, Fortieth (Mozart) Regiment of New York Vol- 
unteers, and served as sergeant of his company 
from November 4, 1861, until 1863. W'iiile at 
the front he served as correspondent for the New 
York Times and tlie Maine Democrat of Saco. 
He participated in the siege of Yorktown, and in 
the battles of Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, 
White Oak Swamp, Glendale, and Malvern Hill. 
In the latter engagement, being wounded, he was 
sent to Annapolis Hospital, and was subsequently 
honorably discharged from the army. Nearly 
twenty-five years later, in 1889, he was granted a 




FRED C. FLOYD. 

pension for disability contracted in the service. 
His regiment was one of the " fighting regiments " 
of the war, and stands twelfth in the list for num- 
ber of casualties. Over four thousand names are 
borne on its rolls, and it took part in thirty-two 
engagenxents and scores of skirmishes. Its losses 
numbered twelve hundred and sixty-five killed, 
wounded, and missing, two hundred and thirty- 
eight of whom were killed in battle. It was one 
of the few regiments which re-enlisted and held 
its organization until the end of the war. The 
losses of the regiment at Gettysburg were one hun- 
dred and fifty, twenty-three of whom were killed. 
Mr. Floyd returned from the war incapacitated for 



physical labor, and conseciuently engaged in cleri- 
cal work. He was book-keeper and clerk until 
1S79, when he became the publisher and editor of 
the South Boston Inquirer, which he continued to 
publish until 1890. He then established the 
South Boston Bulletin, of which he is at present 
the editor and publisher. He is a member of 
the Mozart Regiment Association ; of Dahlgren 
I'ost, Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army 
of the Republic ; of Archimedes Lodge, United 
American Workmen ; of the Suburban Press Asso- 
ciation, the Bostonian Society, the South Boston 
Citizens' Association, the Pine Tree State Club, 
and the Grand Army Club. In 1878 he was 
adjutant of N. B. Shurtleff, Jr., Post, No. 125, of 
the Grand Army. In politics he is a Republican : 
but, while he has attended many conventions as a 
delegate and been active at other political gather- 
ings, he has been too busy otherwise to accept 
public office. He was married in Boston, March 
19, 1863, to Miss Anna Belinda Luce, daughter of 
Oliver and Rebecca Luce, of Hermon, Me. They 
have had four children : Frederick Lincoln (who 
died in infancy), Frederick Gillan. Ira \\'aldo, and 
Edna Alice Floyd. 



FREEMAN, Georc.e Edward, M.D., of Brock- 
ton, is a native of Maine, born in Brewer, June 
22, 1841. He was the second son of Reuben and 
Nancy (Clarke) Freeman, in a family of six chil- 
dren, all of whom have filled positions of useful- 
ness and honor. He inherited from his parents 
a strong and vigorous constitution and a high 
ideal of what should constitute true manhood, two 
things that have been a great help to him in his 
life-work. His ancestry is traced, on his father's 
side, to three English brothers who came o\er to 
this country in the eighteenth century, one set- 
tling in C)hio and the other two in Eastern Massa- 
chusetts. A marked characteristic of their de- 
scendants has been a strong love for educational 
and professional life. Reuben Freeman, Dr. 
Freeman's father, was a successful teacher for 
many years, and a zealous advocate of educational 
progress and religious interests all his life. His 
services on the School Board and as justice of the 
peace where he resided for over twenty years made 
his opinions valuable, often to be sought and 
adopted. Dr. Freeman's mother was a daughter 
of Nathan and Nancy Clarke, of Brewer, Me., a 
highly esteemed and worthy family, from whom 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



she inherited superior qualities of character. By 
her strong sympathies and faithful teachings she 
early impressed upon her children the importance 
of making the most of life. 1 )r. Freeman made 
choice of his profession when a boy, and his 
studies were directed to this end. From boyhood 
he has manifested a noticeable degree of energy 
and perseverance ; and he took high rank, not only 
in the public schools of his native town, which he 
first attended, but through all his career as a stu- 
dent. At seventeen years of age he began teach- 
ing, and met with marked success. His prepara- 
tory course was completed at Hampden Academy, 



j^MMJL. 






ton, he established himself in that city in 1868. 
His practice has been large and remunerative ; 
and, as he is not among those who have neglected 
to multiply their talents, he is well-to-do, a large 
holder of real estate in Brockton. He is public- 
spirited, liberal in his treatment of the poor and 
unfortunate, and has often freely given the benefit 
of his skill. If he had not become a physician, 
he would have made an admirable lawyer. He 
has an analytical turn of mind, and nothing more 
delights him than the unravelling of some intricate 
question of law or politics. Politics especially is 
one of his most enjoyed diversions. He is a 
Republican "from start to finish," as he himself 
defines his political doctrine, and has always stood 
high in the council of his party in his neighbor- 
hood, as evidenced by his influence in frequently 
directing the local party policy in municipal 
affairs, and in the selection of Republican can- 
didates in the broader field of State and national 
politics. He was elected presidential elector from 
his Congressional district in 18S8, to vote for Har- 
rison, and represented the Second Plymouth Con- 
gressional District in the Republican National 
Convention at Minneapolis in 1892. He never 
accepts public oflice, finding more satisfaction in 
acting as director in political affairs than as one 
directed. Next to politics Dr. Freeman enjoys 
whist, into the playing of which noble game he 
enters with characteristic zeal, earnestness, under- 
standing, and success. He was married, November 
17, 1880, to Miss Edith Merriam Howard, daughter 
of Franklin Otis Howard, a prominent shoe manu- 
facturer. 



GEO. E. FREEMAN. 

Me., after which he began his professional studies, 
starting with Dr. McRuer, an eminent surgeon of 
FJangor, Me. Soon after he entered the medical 
department of Bowdoin College. He was a dili- 
gent and faithful student, with a natural inclina- 
tion toward investigations for himself. He was 
of a keen mathematical and argumentative turn of 
mind, and a promoter of enthusiasm among his 
fellow-students. In 1864 he took up the course 
at Bellevue Hospital. New York, and there grad- 
uated with high honors in 1866. He began prac- 
tice soon after as an associate with a physician in 
Fielmont, Me. 'Iliere he remained two years ; and 
then, receiving encouragement to come to Brock- 



G.\LLISON, Ambrose John, M.D., of Frank- 
lin, is a native of Maine, born in Woodstock, O.v- 
ford County, August 29, 1856, son of John M. 
and Sarah A. (French) Gallison. His paternal 
ancestors were first settlers of Marblehead, where 
many of his relatives are buried in the old burial- 
ground. His maternal ancestors were of the 
Scotch-Irish colonv which earlv came to New 
Londonderry, N.H. His grandfather, Joseph 
Gallison, of Marblehead, descended from the 
Winslow family of the '■Mayflower," through 
Kenelni Winslow, of Marshfield. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, the 
High School of Bridgton, Me., and Gould's 
Academy of Bethel, Me. ; and his degree was re- 
ceived from the Dartmouth Medical College, 
where he graduated November 22, 1887. .\t the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



569 



age of seventeen he was teaching- in the puhhc 
schools of Oxford County, Maine, and continued 
at this occupation most of the time for twelve 




AMBROSE JOHN GALLISON. 

years. His medical studies were begun four years 
l^rior to his graduation from Dartmouth, under 
Dr. J. C. (lallison, of Franklin, with whom he has 
since been in partnership in practice. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
of the Thurber Medical Society of Milford, and 
of numerous fraternal organizations, — the latter 
including the Excelsior Lodge, Freemasons, the 
King David Lodge, Odd Fellows, the Wonewok 
Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men (of which 
he was sachem in 1893), the Benjamin Franklin 
Council, United Order of American Mechanics, 
and the Governor VVinslow Colony, United Order 
of Pilgrim Fathers, all of Franklin. In politics 
Dr. Gallison has been a lifelong Republican. He 
was married June 24, 189 1, to Miss Mary E. 
Thayer, only daughter of Davis Thayer, Jr., of 
Franklin. They have one child: Davis Thayer 
CallisDn (born September 8, 1893). 



GARDNER, Harrison, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Roxbury, April 9, 1841, son of 
Joseph Henry and Harriet (Gardner) Gardner. 



He was educated in the Roxbury public schools. 
His business career was begun soon after leaving 
school as clerk for Hill, Burrage, & Co., woollen 
house. He was next connected with the house of 
.\. & A. Lawrence & Co. ; and, after some time 
spent there he entered that of George C. Richard- 
son & Co., which later became George C. Richard- 
son, Smith, & Co., and on July i, 1885, Smith, 
Hogg, & Gardner, Mr. Gardner having been ad- 
mitted to the firm on July i, 187 i. He served in 
the Civil War as first lieutenant of Company C, 
I'orty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. 
He is a member of the St. Bernard Commandery, 
of the Loyal Legion, member of the Bostonian 
Society, of the Boston Athletic Association, and of 
the Commercial, Country, and Longwood clubs. 
In politics he is Republican. He married first, 
November 23, 1865, Miss Caroline C. Mullin ; 
and second, June 3, 1868, Miss Laura E. Perkins. 




HARRISON GARDNER. 



His children are : 
Ethel Gardner. 



Mary Blasdel, 



'hilit 



GOODELL, Jonathan Woodward. M.D., of 
Lynn, was born in Orange, Franklin County, 
Augu.st 2, 1830, son of Zina and Polly (Wood- 
ward) Goodell. He comes of families noted for 
longevity. His paternal grandmother lived to the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



age of ninety-five years, and saw two of the fifth 
generation. His maternal grandfather Hved to 
ninety-three years, and his maternal grandmother 
to the age of eighty-seven. His father was one 
of ten children, all living to be over fifty years of 
age, and two to over ninety ; and his mother was 
one of nine, eight living to be over sixty years, 
and si.\ to over eighty. And he is himself one of 
eight children, seven living to upwards of fifty 
years. He was educated in the public schools of 
Orange, at the Melrose Seminary, West Brattle- 
borough, and at Sa.xton's River Academy, Rock- 
ingham, Vt. ; and his medical studies were pursued 
at the Berkshire Medical School one year, at the 
\\'oodstock (Vt.) Medical College one year, and 
the Pierkshire Medical College again another year, 
graduating from the latter in 1855. He began at 
eighteen years of age to earn the necessary funds 
for his medical education, mostly by teaching, 
but taking advantage of every other honorable 
means by which an honest dollar could be ob- 
tained ; and he emphasizes the fact that he never 
spent much time in foot-ball practice. He en- 
tered upon the practice of medicine at Greenwich 




J. W. COODELL. 



in February. 1866, he moved to I^vnn. and gave 
his undi\ided attention to his professional calling, 
going whenever and wherever desired without 
questions, sleeping out of the city only two nights 
in the first ten years. After one-half a century 
had passed over his head, he concluded that 
nature had some claims which should be re- 
spected. Accordingly, he began to recreate with 
the Esse.x Institute: and in 18S2 he joined the 
first Raymond-Whitcomb excursion to California. 
He also became much interested in horticulture in 
Massachusetts and in Florida, establishing in the 
latter State his winter home. He has been presi- 
dent of the Houghton Horticultural Society for 
the past nine years, and has spent his leisiu'e 
hours in striving to encourage the general cultiva- 
tion of fruits and fiowers, believing that the culti- 
vation and the harvest are alike healthful to mind, 
heart, and body. Dr. Goodell was a school super- 
intendent from 1859 to 1866; was president of 
the Essex District Medical Society for two years; 
councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society 
several years ; and consulting physician to the 
Lynn Hospital three years. He is now a member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the 
Houghton Horticultural Society, of the Golden 
Fleece Lodge, Freemasons, and of the Home 
Market Club. He is also still consulting physi- 
cian of the Lynn Hospital. In politics he defines 
himself as a Republican always. He w'as married 
November i, 1858, to Miss Martha J. Abbott, of 
Enfield, Mass. They have one daughter : Addie 
B. Goodell (born in Lynn, February 3, 1870). 



in 1856, and remained there ten years, having an 
extensi\e country practice, and for seven years 
also the charge of all the public schools. Then, 



GROVER, Tho.m.a.s Eli. woe id, of Canton, mem- 
ber of the bar, was born in Mansfield, February 9, 
1846, son of Thomas and Roana Williams (Perry) 
Grover. His father was a minister in the Society 
of Friends. He is of early New England ances- 
try in both lines : and his paternal ancestors 
were among the first settlers of Mansfield. The 
first of the faniilv in the country was Tiiomas 
Grover, who came in 1635, and settled in Maiden. 
He married Mary Chadwick, and had three sons, 
Ephraim. Andrew, and 'I'homas. These sons be- 
came settlers of Mansfield in 1698, buying one 
hundred acres of land and ten of meadow, as the 
ancient deed, which is still preserxed, runs. Mr. 
Grover is in the direct line from Thomas, the 
eldest of the three brothers. The family early 
scattered, Thomas's descendants only remaining 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



571 



steadfastly in ^[a^stiL•ltl. some ijoing to lictliel, 
^[e., others to New York. Of tlie former branch 
was General Ciivicr Grover, of IJethel, Me., a 




THOMAS E. GROVER. 

j^raduate of West Point in the chiss of 1856, com- 
manding a division in the Army of the Potomac, 
and also at New Orleans during the Civil War. 
Mr. Grover's mother was a Perry, of Attleboroiigh, 
her mother a Williams, and her grandfather a 
Lincoln, all early Eastern Massachusetts families. 
He was educated in the common schools of Mans- 
field and at the English and Classical Academy of 
Eoxborough, the adjoining town, and read law 
with Ellis Ames, in Canton, .\dmitted to the 
bar in Bristol County, September 7, 1869, he at 
once began practice, dividing his time between 
Canton and Boston, having offices in both places. 
In 187 1 he was admitted to the United States 
Circuit Court. He has been engaged in general 
practice, and has acted as counsel for many towns 
in Norfolk County. In 1870 he was made trial 
justice of Norfolk County, which position he held 
continuously for twenty years. He has also held a 
number of town offices, including those of superin- 
tendent of schools, first in Mansfield and afterward 
in Canton, member of the School Committee in 
both places, and member of the Canton Board of 
Water Commissioners; and in 1894 and 1895 was 



a representative for the Eourth Norfolk District 
(comprising the towns of Canton and Milton) in 
the State J,egislature. In the latter body he 
served during both terms on the committee on 
railroads, the second term its chairman; and he 
had an infiuenlial hand in shaping some of the 
most important legislation of the sessions bearing 
on railroad (|uestions. Since 1890 he has been 
a trustee of the Canton Institution for Savings. 
Mr. Grover's politics are Republican. He has 
delivered a number of occasional addresses, the 
list including the address on the occasion of the 
centennial celebration of Canton in 1876, thirteen 
Memorial Day addresses, and several before liter- 
ary associations. He is a Freemason, member of 
the Blue Hill Lodge. He was married Septem- 
ber 17, 1871, to Miss Frances L. Williams, daugh- 
ter of Francis D. Williams, of Eoxborough. They 
have one child : Gregory Williams Grover. Mr. 
Grover's main office is now in Boston, that in 
Canton being a branch oflice. 



HARRIS, Henrv Sever.anck, of Boston, real 
estate agent and manager of estates and trusts, is 
a native of Maine, born in the town of St. George, 
Knox County, June 16, 1850, son of James and 
Abigail (Wall) Harris. He was educated in the 
village or district schools ; and at the age of four- 
teen, in August, 1864, left home and came to 
Boston to find work. A week after his arrival in 
the city he found a place as boy in a book and 
stationery store, in which he was employed for 
about four years. Then in January, 1869, he took 
a situation as salesman in a hardware and house- 
furnishing store, and here remained for two years, 
when he left to engage in business on his own 
account, opening a retail hardware store on Janu- 
ary 26, 1871. This business was continued suc- 
cessfully for four years ; and then, selling out on 
March 27, 1875. he went to St. Louis, Mo., with 
the intention of entering business in that city. 
After looking over the field, however, he changed 
his mind, and returning to Boston, in May, 1876, 
opened another retail hardware store there, with 
a house-furnishing department added, which he 
conducted until the first of January, 1S83. Then, 
selling out this business, he entered the real 
estate, mortgage, and insurance business, with 
which he has since been occupied. This now in- 
cludes the general management of estates and 
trusts, Mr. Harris acting as executor, administra- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tor, and trustL-e ; and he has also the care and 
conduct of numerous estates in the city and 
suburljs. Since 1888 Mr. Harris has also been 




Edward B. and Anna F. (Goodspeed) Hayden. 
He is descended from John Hayden, who came to 
this country from England with two brothers, 
William and James, in 1630, and in 1640 was liv- 
ing in Rraintree. His great-grandfather was Isaac 
Hayden, born in Pawtucket, Mass. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Plymouth. He 
began the study of painting with John B. Johnston, 
the landscape and cattle painter ; and upon the 
opening of the school at the Boston Museum of 
Fine Arts entered that institution, where he re- 
mained under the instruction of Otto Grundmann 
the greater part of three years. For the next five 
years he was occupied in designing for stained- 
glass decoration. Then in the autumn of 1886 he 
went abroad, and studied in Paris some time, 
first in the Academy Julien under Boulanger and 
Lefebvre, and afterward with Raphael Collin. 
He exhibited in the Salon of iSSg and at the 
Paris Universal Exposition of the same year, re- 
ceiving at the latter an " Honorable mention " for 
his picture called "Morning on the Plain." Re- 
turning to America in 1889, he settled in Boston, 
taking a studio in the Harcourt Building, Irving- 



HENRY S. HARRIS. 

connected with the assessing department of the 
city of Boston, as assistant and local assessor. In 
politics he is a Republican, and is a member of 
the Republican Club of Massachusetts. He be- 
lieves strongly in proper out-of-door recreation to 
keep in good health for business, and endeavors 
to take a few hours each week away from his 
desk. Bicycle-riding, rifle and pistol shooting, 
are his favorite pursuits for pleasure. He was 
one of the organizers, and has been for many 
years a director, of the Massachusetts Rifle Asso- 
ciation, serving also as its secretary for the past 
ten years. He is also a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association 
and of the League of .American Wheelmen. Other 
organizations to which he belongs include the Pine 
Tree State Club of Boston, the Mercantile Library 
Association, and several religious associations. 
He was married in Boston, November 23, 189 1, 
to Mrs. Mary J. Jackson, formerly Miss Belknap. 




CHARLES H. HAYDEN. 



ton Street. In 1895 he received the Jordan prize 

HAYDEN, Chari.ks Hk.vrv, of Boston, artist, of $1,500 for his picture, "Turkey Pasture, New 

was born in Plymouth, August 4, 1856, son of England," now in the Museum of Fine Arts. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



573 



Other not.iblc piiiuings from his brush since his 
return from Paris are: "Pasture-land and Hills," 
purchased by the lioston Art Club from the Kx- 
hibition of 1891 : and "A Quiet Morning, Octo- 
ber," " Landscape with Cattle," and "Pasture- 
land in Connecticut," which were exhibited at the 
World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Ha\den is a member 
of the Boston Art Club. He is unmarried. 



HAYNES, John Cummixos, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Oliver Ditson Company, was born in 
Brighton, now Brighton District, Boston, .Septem- 
ber 9, 1829, and is the son of John Dearborn and 
Eliza Walker (Stevens) Haynes. He is a de- 
scendant, on the paternal side, of Samuel Haynes. 
who came from Shropshire, F^ngland, in 1635, and 
settled at Strawberry Bank, now Portsmouth, 
N.H., becoming deacon of the First Congrega- 
tional churcli of the settlement. On the maternal 
side Mr. Haynes is of Scotch-Irish descent, from 
the Gilpatrick family, which appeared among the 
early settlers of what is now Biddeford, Me. He 
was educated in the Boston public schools, finish- 
ing in the F^nglish High School. .\t the age of 
fifteen he began business life as boy in the em- 
ploy of Oliver Ditson, and is now the head of the 
old and well-known Ditson music-publishing busi- 
ness. In his younger business. life with Mr. Dit- 
son he rose steadily to responsible positions, and 
at the age of twenty-one was given an interest in 
the business, receiving a percentage of the sales. 
Six years later, on the first of January, 1857, he 
became a full partner; and the firm name was 
then changed to Oliver Ditson & Co. This rela- 
tion held until December, 1888, a period of thirty 
years, when the death of Mr. Ditson dissolved the 
firm. The surviving partners, Mr. Haynes and 
Charles H. Ditson, son of Oliver Ditson, and the 
executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson, then or- 
ganized the present corporation, admitting as 
stockholders several of the most useful young 
men who had grown up with the business, under 
the title of " The Oliver Ditson Company," with 
Mr. Haynes as president, and Mr. Dit.son as 
treasurer. During Mr. Haynes's connection with 
the house it has grown from a small store em- 
ploying only two clerks to an establishment occu- 
pying a large building in Boston, Nos. 453 to 465 
Washington Street, with brancii houses in Boston, 
New York, and Philadelphia, and employing sev- 
eral hundred persons. The Boston house, known 



as Oliver Ditson Company, is the headc|uarters of 
the business ; and the Boston branch house is 
conducted under the name of John C. Haynes & 
Co. The New \ork house bears the firm name 
of Charles H. Ditson & Co., and the Philadelphia 
house that of J. E. Ditson ^: Co. But all are of 
the corporation. Mr. Haynes is also a director 
of the Massachusetts 'I'itle Insurance Company, a 
director of the Prudential Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank of 
Boston : and is largely interested in real estate, 
having engaged in numerous successful ventures 
that have materially added to the assessed valua- 




JOHN C. HAYNES. 

tion of Boston. In early life Mr. Haynes w-as in- 
strumental in organizing the Franklin Library 
Association, of which he was long an active mem- 
ber, taking part in its debates and literary exer- 
cises ; and he has since been connected with 
numerous literary and philanthropic institutions of 
the city. He is a life member of the Mercantile 
Library Association, of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Union, of the Woman's Educational and In- 
dustrial Union, and of the Aged Couples' Home 
Society, all of Boston. He is also a member and 
president of the Music Publishers' Association of 
the L'uited States, a member of the Boston Mer- 
chants' Association, the Home Market Club, and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Massachusetts Club. From 1862 to 1S65, in- 
clusive, he was a member of the Boston Common 
Council, and in that bocl\- was interested in the 
advancement of a number of liberal measures. In 
politics he was originally a Free Soiler, having 
cast his first presidential vote, in 1852, for John 
P. Hale ; and he afterwards joined the Republi- 
can party, with which he has since been identified. 
In 1848, after having been for some time a pupil 
in a Baptist Sunday-school, he became interested 
in the preaching of Theodore Parker, and from 
that time was prominently associated with the 
'I'wenty-eighth Congregational Society, which was 
organized "to give Theodore Parker a chance to 
be heard in Boston." Mr. Haynes served for 
many years as chairman of the standing commit- 
tee of this society. He was one of the organizers 
of the Parker Fraternity of Boston, for a long 
period an influential social and religious society, 
which sustained the " Parker Fraternity Course of 
Lectures," remarkable for their influence in mould- 
ing public opinion, especially during the Ci\il 
War and the years of reconstruction following ; 
and in the first course of these lectures (in 1858) 
Mr. Parker delivered his celebrated discourse 
on Washington, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson. 
Mr. Haynes was active also in the erection of the 
Parker Memorial Building, and at a later period 
(in 1892) was interested in its transfer to the 
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches (the object of 
this transfer being to perpetuate the memory of 
Theodore I\irker in practical, charitable, educa- 
tional, and religious work). Of late years he has 
been connected with the Church of the Unity, of 
which the Rev. Minot J. Savage is the minister. 
Mr. Haynes was married by Theodore Parker, 
May I, 1S55, to Miss Fann)' S. Spear, daughter of 
the Rev. Charles and Frances (Seabury) Spear. 
They have had seven children : Alice Fanny (now 
Mrs. M. Morton Holmes), Theodore Parker (de- 
ceased), Lizzie Gray (^Mrs. (J. Gordon Rankine), 
Jennie F'iiza (Mrs. Fred (). Hurd), Cora Marie 
(Mrs. E. Harte Day), Mabel Stevens, and FMith 
Margaret Havnes. 



HILDRETH, John Lewis, M.D., of Cam- 
bridge, was born in North Chelmsford, November 
29, 1838, son of John Caldwell and Harriet Maria 
(Blanchard) Hildreth. His father was sixth in 
descent from Richard Hildreth, who came to Cam- 
bridge from England in 1642 or 1643. tie was 



educated at the New Ipswich .\ppleton Academy, 
graduating therefrom in i860, and at Dartmouth 
College, which he entered the same year. Leav- 
ing college in the autumn of his junior year, he 
entered the employ of the United States Sanitary 
Commission, and served in the field. He was 
with liurnside at F'redericksburg and with lianks 
upon the Red River Flxpedition, and subsequently 
was inspector of camps and hospitals for the 
Department of the Gulf. He received his degree 
from Dartmouth, being graduated in July, 1864, al- 
though not present at commencement. He was 
some time a school-teacher, beginning the teaching 




JOHN L. HILDRETH. 

of district schools in New Hampshire in the 
autumn of 1857. The next autunui he was prin- 
cipal of the High School in Ashby. Mass. From 
this time he taught regularly winters, and some- 
times in the autumn, till the spring of 1862. In 
the spring of 1865 he became the principal of the 
Peterborough Academy, and held this position for 
nearly three years, at the same time studying 
medicine at the Harvard Medical School and at 
the Dartmouth Medical College. Graduated from 
the latter in November, 1867, with the first prize 
for scholarship, he began the practice of medicine 
the following month, established in the town of 
Townsend, Mass. In 1870 he removed to Cam- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



575 



bridge, wliere he has since resided. He was 
made surgeon of the Fourth Battalion, Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, in 1874, and medical director 
of the First Brigade in 1877 ; and was appointed 
medical examiner for Middlese.x County in 
1877. He organized the Cambridge Dispensary 
in 1873, and was its clerk for six years; was visit- 
ing physician to Avon Home from 1873 to 1879 ; 
and has been visiting physician and surgeon to 
the Cambridge Hospital since the opening of that 
institution. He is also professor of clinical medi- 
cine in Tufts College Medical School. In Town- 
send, and afterward in Cambridge for a long 
period, Dr. Hildreth rendered most efficient ser- 
vice on school committees. He was a member of 
the Townsend School Board from 1868 until his 
removal to Cambridge, and served on the Cam- 
bridge School Board from 1873 almost continu- 
ously to 1889, being chairman of the High School 
committee the last three years. Among the 
notable things accomplished by Dr. Hildreth as a 
member of the Cambridge School Board were : the 
establishment of the rule that scholars coming from 
homes where there were contagious diseases, espe- 
cially scarlet fever and diphtheria, could not be al- 
lowed to attend school, — a rule now in force in all 
the cities and towns of New England and probably 
in the United States, and which Cambridge was 
the first in the country to make ; the securing of a 
systematic and thorough inspection of the sanitary 
condition of all the school-houses in the city, with 
an elaborate report of the committee, of which 
he was chairman, in large part his work, which 
brought afterward some good fruit for better 
school-houses; the introduction of the laboratory 
methods in the High School for the teaching of 
chemistry and physics with a completeness not 
before attained ; and securing the division of the 
High School into a Latin School and an English 
High, and the building of probably the most com- 
plete high school building, as far as lighting, heat- 
ing, and ventilation are concerned, in the country. 
He is a trustee of the Boston Dental College; a 
trustee of the New Ipswich Public Library ; presi- 
dent of the Boston Alumni of Dartmouth College; 
chairman of the executive committee of the 
(General .\lunini Association of Dartmouth Col- 
lege ; president of the Board of Trustees of the 
permanent funds of the Social Lfnion of Cam- 
bridge, an organization similar to those in other 
cities called the \'oung Men's Christian Associa- 
tion ; president of the Society for the Study of the 



Cienealogy of the Hildreth l-amily ; member of 
the St. Botolph Club of Boston and of the Colo- 
nial Club of Cambridge. As chairman of the 
advisory committee of the executive board of the 
alumni of Dartmouth, Dr. Hildreth made an 
elaborate report, which was regarded by friends of 
the college as the best work he has done outside 
of strictly professional work ; and he has had the 
satisfaction of seeing two of the three things recom- 
mended by his committee constructed, and in 
active operation with much benefit to the college, 
— the athletic field and grand stand and the 
water-works for the town of Hanover. In 1885 
he prepared a careful and interesting history of 
the gifts from the estate of P^dward Hopkins, and 
in recognition of this work was the next year 
made one of the trustees administering them, hav- 
ing as associates President Eliot, Roger Wolcott, 
and others of similar standing and note. In 1895 
he was appointed by Governor Greenhalge a 
member of the State Board of Lunacy and 
Charity. Dr. Hildreth was married March 2, 
1864, to Miss Achsah Beulah Colburn, of Temple, 
N.H. They have two sons and a daughter : John 
Lewis, Jr., Beulah Gertrude (now Mrs. Barrett), 
and Alfred Hitchcock Hildreth. 



HOBART, Arthur, of Boston, treasurer and 
director of manufacturing and other corporations, 
is a native of Boston, born March 2, 1844, son of 
Aaron and Anna Mann (Brown) Hobart. His 
ancestry on the Hobart side is traced to Thomas 
Hobart, brother of the Rev. Peter Hobart, the 
first minister of the Old Ship Church in Hing- 
ham, and on the side of his father's mother to 
Kenelm Winslow, brother of Governor Edward 
Winslow of the " Mayflower " party ; on his 
mother's side, to Colonel Nathan Tyler, an officer 
of the army of the Revolution. He was educated 
in the Boston public schools, primary, grammar, 
and English High. He graduated from the 
Dwight Grammar School in 1859, and from 
the English High in 1862, receiving from each 
the Franklin medal. He began business life as a 
clerk in the counting-room of William F. Freeman 
& Co., Boston, which he entered in 1862, and in 
1863 was transferred to the service of the .'Etna 
Mills, a corporation organized in that year by 
Messrs. Freeman & Co. to do a woollen manu- 
facturing business at Watertown, Mass. Subse- 
quently, in 1888, he was made treasurer of the 



576 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



mills, which position he still holds. He is also at 
the present time a director of the West Point 
Manufacturing Company and the Lanett Cotton 




ARTHUR HOBART. 

Mills of West Point, Ga. ; a director of the Win- 
throp National Bank of Boston and of the Boston 
Wharf Company ; and a trustee and member of 
the investment board of the Franklin Savings 
Bank, Boston. In politics Mr. Hobart is an In- 
dependent Republican ; and, while he has held no 
public office, he has been active in public affairs, 
having given much attention to political reforms, 
such as those of the civil service, the Australian 
ballot, corrupt practice legislation, and caucus re- 
form, and aided materially in their advancement. 
He has been secretary of the Boston Civil Service 
Reform Association since its organization, and 
was one of the early members of the Boston Mu- 
nicipal League. He is a member of the Union 
Club and of the Unitarian Club. He was mar- 
ried November 2, 1881, to Miss Anna E. Turner, 
of Vineland, N.J. 



dred years. He was reared on a farm, and edu- 
cated in the district school. At the age of nine- 
teen he came to Boston, and engaged with the firm 
of Brown & Wilcox in the hatter's trade. Here 
he remained for fourteen years, working in the 
manufacture of silk hats, and then (1884) entered 
business on his own account, establishing the firm 
of Lamson & Hubbard, in the hat and fur busi- 
ness, wholesale and retail. At the beginning the 
firm employed but a few hands ; but its business 
steadily expanded, and the force increased until 
now upward of one hundred and fifty persons are 
required to do the work of the establishment. 
It is an extensive manufacturer of Knights Tem- 
plar regalia. Mr. Hubbard is connected with the 
Masonic fraternity, a past high priest of the Som- 
erville Royal Arch Chapter ; and is a member of 
the Central Club of Somerville. In politics he is 
a Republican. He was married February 10. 




O. C. HUBBARD. 



1876, to Miss Amaryllis F. Faulkner, of Boston. 
They have one child : Amy Louise Hubbard. 



HUBBARD, Orrin Calvin, of Boston, mer- HUMPHREYS, Richard Clapp, of Boston, 

chant, was born in Rowley, May 13, 185 1, son of trustee of estates, was born in Dorchester, June 

Calvin and Mary E. (Chaplin) Hubbard. He is 10, 1836, son of Henry and Sarah Blake (Clapp) 

of New England ancestry, tracing back two hun- Humphreys. He has the distinction, rare in this 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



577 



couiUiy, of haxiiig been born on a family home- 
stead dating back to the early seventeenth cen- 
tur\'. His first ancestors in America, James and 
Toseph Humphreys, father and son, came from 
iMigland in 1634, and, settling in Dorchester, 
erected a house on their farm on the spot where 
their descendants in the direct line have ever 
since lived. The house has been twice rebuilt, 
but a portion of the original one is yet preserved 
in the present structure. Mr. Humphreys is of 
the seventh generation born on this historic spot. 
The Humphreys farm, occupying a large territory, 
has been so subdivided from time to time with 
the growth of Dorchester that within its original 
limits are to-day the dwellings of three hundred 
families. Henry Humphreys, the father of Rich- 
ard C, born April 8, 1801, and still living in the 
old house, carried on the tanning business in Dor- 
chester, which had descended in the family from 
the first Humphreys, until his retirement from 
active pursuits. Mr. Humphreys's mother, also 
a native of Dorchester, was born near the spot 
where the first free public school in this country 
stood. He is the oldest survivor of a family of 
thirteen children. He attended school, beginning 
at the age of four, in a wooden school-house still 
standing, which then occupied the site now covered 
by the Edward Everett School-house, but was 
afterward moved to another lot. This accommo- 
dated a primary and grammar school; and he 
passed through both grades, graduating in 1851. 
The following year he entered the grocery store of 
J. H. Upham & Co. at Upham's Corner, Dorches- 
ter, as a boy, and nine years later became a part- 
ner. He continued in this business for twenty- 
years, and ne.xt entered the real estate business in 
Boston, associated with Holbrook & Fo.x, where 
he remained eight years. Then retiring, he en- 
gaged in his present occupation, that of trustee of 
estates, receiving in course of time more than fifty 
appointments from the courts as executor, admin- 
istrator, trustee, or guardian. Much of his time 
for the past twelve or fifteen years has also been 
given to charitable, philanthropic, and educational 
work. During the greater part of this period he 
has been president of the ])orchester Branch of 
the Associated Charities of Boston, president of 
the Dorchester Employment and Relief Society, 
and an overseer of the poor ; and he is now- 
connected with upward of twenty beneficent and 
religious organizations, the list including the Mas- 
sachusetts School for E'eeble-minded, the New 



England Hospital for Women and Children, the 
Boston Home for Incurables, the Municipal Re- 
form League, the Unitarian Sunday School Union, 
the Christian Register Association, the Dorche.ster 
First Parish Sunday-school, and others. Since 
1888 he has been a member of the Boston School 
Committee, in that body serving as chairman of 
the committees on nominations, supplies, school- 
houses, and annual report, and having a part in 
much of its important work ; and has interested 
himself meanwhile in various municipal reforms. 
He is prominently connected with the First Parish 
Church of Dorchester, — now the oldest religious 




RICHARD C. HUMPHREYS. 

society in Boston, with which the Humphreys 
family have worshipped since the first coming of 
James and Joseph in 1634, — being treasurer of 
the society and associated in the diaconate with 
his father, who has held the ofiice for sixty years ; 
he is president of the Norfolk Unitarian Confer- 
ence, having held that position for more than ten 
years, treasurer of the Unitarian Sunday School 
Society for the past ten years ; and is at present 
associated w-ith various activities of the Unitarian 
denomination. In politics he is an Independent 
Republican, conservative in his views, strong in 
his convictions, quick to "bolt" a bad nomination 
and to lead or join an unpopular movement in the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



principles of which he liuliexes. Mr. Humphreys 
was married March 5, 1863, to Miss Sarah E. 
Eeals, of Dorchester, by whom he had one son : 
Clarence B. Humphreys. She died in 1889. He 
married second, June 30, 1892, Mrs. Susan M. 
Clapp, daughter of Alexander Campbell, of Cherrj^- 
field. Me. 

J.\CKSON, William Benjamin, M.D., of 
Lowell, was born in Dracut, February 28, 1853, 
son of Henry and Elizabeth ( Butterworth) Jack- 
son. His parents were middle-class English peo- 
ple who came to this country in the forties. 




WILLIAM B. JACKSON. 

After a few years in the mills in Lowell his 
father moved the family to Stowe, Vt., where 
they lived on a farm till 1871; and in 1875 they 
returned to Lowell. He was educated in com- 
mon and high school in Vermont, at the State 
Normal School in Plymouth, N.H., and at the 
New Hampshire Conference Seminary in Tilton, 
N.H. He taught school three years in Vermont 
and New Hampshire, and then took up the study 
of medicine. One year was spent in the office of 
Dr. Pinkham in Lowell, and three years at the 
Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 
1880; and subsequently, in 1892, he took a post- 
graduate course in anatomy in the medical school. 



He began practice immediately upon his gradua- 
tion in 1S80, established in Lowell, and has since 
continued there. He has been a member of the 
staff of the Lowell Hospital since about 1886 ; 
surgeon to the Lowell General Hospital since its 
organization in 1894; gyna;cologist to St. John's 
Hospital since 1893: surgeon to out-patients at 
St. John's since 1894; and agent of the Board 
of Health of the town of Tewksbury since 1894. 
He has no specialty, doing a general practice. 
But he is most interested in surgery and bacteri- 
ology. He has performed, either in the hospitals 
or in private practice, about all the major opera- 
tions. About the year 1886 he began to make 
e.xaminations of sputa for tubercle bacilU for diag- 
nostic purposes. He was the first in Lowell to 
make a bacteriological diagnosis of diphtheria. 
For several years he has made microscopical e.x- 
aminations of tumors for other physicians. He is 
prominent in medical organizations, having been 
a councillor in the Massachusetts Medical Society 
since about 1892 ; and treasurer of the Middlesex 
North District Medical Society for seven years, 
beginning about 1884. He was one of the organ- 
izers of the Lowell Medical Club and its presi- 
dent in 1894; and is a member of the Harvard 
Medical Alumni Association. Dr. Jackson is 
priiminentl}' connected also with fraternal organi- 
zations. He is a member of Waverly Lodge, 
Sons of St. George, was the first grand president 
of tiiat order in this State, has been a representa- 
tive to the Supreme Lodge, and is now a member 
of that body; is senior deacon of Kilwinning 
Lodge of Freemasons, member of Mt. Horeb 
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and member of 
Pilgrim Commanderv of Knights Templar. In 
politics he has never done anything more than to 
vote. He was a Republican until 1884, since 
which time he has been a 1 )emocrat. He was 
married I\Liy 10, 1882, to Miss Clara T. Clark, 
of Plymouth, N.H. They have had four chil- 
dren: William C. (born in 1883), Harry F. (born 
in 1885, died in 1887), Helen (born in i88g), and 
Lawrence M. Jackson (born in 1891). 



JENKS, William Samuel, of Adams, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Adams, born December 
I, 1855, son of Edwin F. and Nancy S. (Fisk) 
Tenks. His paternal great -great -grandparents 
were Edmund and Kesiah (Olney) Jenks, of 
Rhode Island; his great-grandparents, Samuel and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



579 



Lur;\ni;i (Ballou) Jenks ; and his grandparents, 
Daniel and Lucy (lirown) Jenks. He was the 
youngest of a family of four, the others being 




elected, is now serving his second term. During 
his first term he was a member of the committee 
on printing, and in his second term on the com- 
mittee on roads and bridges, active as clerk of the 
committee. In politics he has always been a Re- 
publican and a Protectionist. He belongs to the 
Masonic fraternity, a member of the Berkshire 
Lodge, the Corinthian Chapter, the St. Paul 
Commandery, Knights Templar, and the Aleppo 
Temple, Mystic Shrine ; and he is also a Knight 
of Pythias, member of Adams Lodge, No. 67. 
He was married October 13, iStSi, to Miss Cor- 
nelia Bliss Dean. They have two children : 
Mildred Dean and Jessica Estelle Jenks. 



JONES, LoMB.\RD CARTER, M.D., of Melrose, 
was born in Sandwich, February 17, 1865, son of 
Isaiah T. and Hannah C. (Weeks) Jones. He is 
descended on the paternal side from William 
Bradford, the second governor of the Plymouth 
Colony. On the maternal side the male members 
of the family were almost all seamen, and among 



W. S. JENKS. 

Edmund D., Charles C, and Lucy B. His edu- 
cation was acquired in public and private schools, 
attending the former until nine years of age, then 
a boarding-school at Clinton, N.Y., for two years, 
and Mills Institute, South Williamstown, where he 
was prepared to enter Williams College in 1873. 
From 1S75 to 1880 he made a thorough study of 
the manufacture of paper at Holyoke, under the 
supervision of his brother, Charles C. Jenks, who 
is now president of the Whiting Paper Company 
of Holyoke, and the L. L. Brown Paper Company 
of Adams. Subsequently he was associated with 
Charles E. Legate in the merchant tailoring and 
ready-made clothing business, under the firm name 
of Jenks & Legate, at Adams for a period of eight 
years. He is now a director of the L. L. Brown 
Paper Company, also a director of the First 
National Bank of Adam.s, and clerk of the South 
Adams Savings Bank of Adams. Mr. Jenks has 
served his town as chief of the fire department for 
four years, and is now serving a second three 
years' term of the prudential committee of the 
.\dams fire district. In 1893 he was first elected 
to the Legislature for the term of 1894, and, re- 



I 




LOMBARD C. JONES. 



them were some of the most successful whaling 
captains who ever sailed from New Bedford. His 
preparatory education was acquired in the public 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



schools of Sandwich, graduating from the high 
school in 1882, and his collegiate training at Har- 
vard, where he graduated '■'■cum himic" in 1887. 
Entering the Harvard Medical School in Septem- 
ber following his graduation from the college, he 
graduated there in June, 1890, and at the begin- 
ning of the next year entered the Boston City 
Hospital as first surgical house officer, where he 
served until July, 1892. Then in September of 
that year he began the regular practice of his pro- 
fession in Fall River. Three months later, how- 
ever, he moved to Melrose, where he has since 
been established. While in college, he was a 
member of the Pi Eta Society, of the Harvard 
Athletic Association, and of Theta Delta Chi ; at 
the medical school, of the Hoylston Medical So- 
ciety and of the Doctors' Club. He is now a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of 
the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, and of 
the Boston City Hospital Club ; and is connected 
with the Masonic fraternity as a master Mason. 



KELLEY, Seth Wight, M.D., of Woburn, is a 
native of Maine, born in C)xford, June 26, 1848, 
son of Cyrus Kingsbury Kelley, M.l)., and Mary 
Moore (Wight) Kelley. On the paternal side he 
is a descendant of John Kellie, of the parish of 
Kellie, Devonshire, England, who came to Amer- 
ica in 17 10, and settled in New Hampshire; and 
on the maternal side he descends from Seth Wight, 
of the Isle of W'ight, who was one of the first 
settlers of Western Maine. He was educated at 
the Plymouth (N.H.) Academy, graduating in 
1862, at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., 
graduating in 1865, and at Dartmouth College, 
graduating in 1869, with the degree of A.M.; and 
his preparation for his profession was at the Har- 
vard Medical School, where he graduated M.D. 
in 1874. During the latter part of his course at 
Dartmouth he was also engaged in teaching, as 
principal of the Haverhill (N.H.) Academy (1868- 
69); and in 1869-70 he was assistant principal 
of the Monson (Mass.) Academy. \\'hile at the 
medical school, he was an assistant in the Boston 
Dispensary, 1872-73, and hospital interne in the 
United States Marine Hospital, 1873-74. He 
began regular practice in Cambridge in 1S74, 
removing to Woburn the following year. In 
1893-94 he was chairman of the Woburn Board 
of Health. He has served two terms (1876-77) 
as a member of the School Committee. Dr. 



Kelley belongs to a number of professional and 
other associations, in several of which he holds or 
has held official position. He was president of 
the East Middlesex Medical Society in 1884-85- 
86 ; is a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, having served since 1887 ; was president 
of the Pine Tree Club of Woburn in 1890-91 ; 
has been vice-president of the Woburn Suffrage 
League since 1885 ; and is also a member of the 
Boylston Medical Society, of the Handel and 
Haydn Society, Boston, of Phi Beta Kappa (Dart- 
mouth), of the Dartmouth, Harvard Medical, and 
Kimball Union Academy .Mumni associations. 




SETH W. KELLEY. 

and of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. He belongs to 
the Masonic fraternity, a member of Mt. Horeb 
Lodge ; and to the Ancient Order of United \\ork- 
men, member of the Mishawum Lodge. He was 
married July 26, 1883, to Miss Emma Amanda 
Putnam. She died in 1890, leaving one child : 
Christine Putnam Kelley (born June 17, 1885). 



KRAUS, AnoLPH Robert, of Boston, sculptor, 
is a native of Germany, born in Zeulenroda, Au- 
gust 5, 1850, only son of Adolph and Amalie 
(Krause) Kraus. He attended public school in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



581 



his native placu, and began practical work in liie 
line of his profession when not quite fourteen 
years of age, in car\ing stone and wood, model- 
ling and designing for art industry and for decora- 
tive purposes generally. Before long he ex- 
changed the workshops for studios, becoming an 
assistant to sculptors of note. He was well paid 
for his labors, and through the practice of econ- 
omy was enabled at the age of twenty-three to go 
to Rome and pursue his art studies there. He 
first studied tlie antique under Professor Kmilio 
Wolf (Thorwaldsen's intimate friend). When he 
had been but a year in the Kternal Cit\', he re- 
ceived tlie first prize in the newly established 
Royal Institute of Fine Arts, founded by the Ital- 
ian government, which had a few years before oc- 
cupied Rome, reformed all educational institutes, 
and closed the Papal Accademia di San Luca, 
opening this institute in its place, with Professors 
Monte Verde, Masini, and other sculptors of the 
modern realistic school as teachers. His work 
for which the prize was awarded represented " A 
Puritan." In consequence of this achievement 
he received a small pension from the Prussian 
government (C'ultus ministerium) by order of Em- 
peror William. Then, believing in Fortune's 
smile, he opened a studio and undertook ambi- 
tious work, — modelling an ¥.ve, an Indian in 
combat with a snake, and " The Last Moments of 
a Condemned," in the latter expressing his abhor- 
rence of capital punishment and the destruction 
of a beautiful human being. These, however, 
proved to be too great undertakings for a slender 
purse; and in 1876, in the hope of earning money 
sufficient to complete them, he returned to Ger- 
many, where he engaged in teaching in a large 
school of architecture, modelling meanwhile por- 
traits and doing other work. A desire to see 
London drew him to that city in 1877 ; but, after 
in vain struggling to establish a studio there, he 
decided to come to this country. He had then 
married an English lady, Miss Annie CuUimore. 
They arrived first in Philadelphia, in 1881 ; and 
his observations in that city gave him the impres- 
sion that a sculptor could not speedily prosper in 
America. But before returning to Germany he 
wished to visit New York, Boston, and other 
cities. Boston with its surroundings, the finest 
of any great city he had seen, impressed him most 
favorably ; and he decided to remain here, for a 
while at least. At this time Carl Fehmer, the 
architect, was building the house of Governor 



Olixer Ames in Commonwealth Avenue; and 
Kraus was persuaded by him to model the deco- 
rative statuary for the interior. Thereafter, Mr. 
Fehmer and Mr. Ames were both helpful in ad- 
vancing him as a Boston sculptor. L'pon his suc- 
cess in a competition for a bust of the poet Karl 
Heinzen (now in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury) 
he opened his studio here. His next important 
success was in the competition for the Theodore 
Parker monument, for which there were twenty- 
two competitors. Reliefs on this work, which he 
subset|uently produced, — " Awakening," " Truth 
unmasking Error," and " Humanity" taking to her 




ROBERT KRAUS. 

breast a slave's child, — are characteristic of his 
tendencies. Then followed the " Boston Massa- 
cre " monument (now on Boston Common) ; the 
Iowa State soldiers' monument, which received 
the second prize, with forty-seven competitors ; a 
statue of "Grief" and that of '"Eternal Rest" on 
the Randidge tomb (both in Forest Hills Ceme- 
tery) ; portraits of Governor Ames and family and 
of others ; and statues for the buildings of the 
World's Fair. Mr. Kraus was married, as above 
stated, in London, January 5, 1880, to Miss 
Annie Cullimore. They have five children : three 
boys, Wilfrid, Herbert, and Alfred ; and two girls, 
Nellie and Roberta Kraus. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



KRESS, Georce, of Westfield, member of the 
bar, was born in the village of Broad Brook, in 
the town of East Windsor, Conn., December 24, 
1848, son of George and Mary Kress. His early 
life was spent on the farm, attending the public 
schools of the town during the regular school sea- 
sons, and subsequently teaching several winters in 
the same schools. He fitted for college at Wes- 
leyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and, entering 
Amherst, graduated there in the class of 1877. 
While at college, during the latter part of the 
course he began reading law in the office of E. E. 
Webster, then in .Vmherst, and continued his 




CEO. KRESS. 

studies after graduation in the office of the Hon. 
E. H. Lathrop in Springfield, from which he was 
admitted to the bar of Hampden County in June, 
1878. He began practice the following month, 
established himself in the town of Huntington, 
Hampshire County, and remained there until 
May 22, 1893, when he opened an office in West- 
field, at first going back and forth on the trains, 
but in the following November removing his fam- 
ily to Westfield. While living in Huntington, he 
was prominent in local affairs, serving for. several 
years as chairman of the School Committee and 
chairman of the Republican town committee, re- 
signing the latter position just before his removal 



from the place. He was also for some years 
chairman of the trustees of the Second Congrega- 
tional Society i and at the time of his removal 
was clerk of the society and superintendent of the 
Sunday-school. In his law business at Hunting- 
ton he was associated from April 14, 1885, to 
November 11, 1893, when he moved to Westfield, 
with Schuyler Clark, under the firm name of 
Kress & Clark, which became w-ell known in the 
county. Mr. Kress is a hard worker in his pro- 
fession. His favorite recreation in its season is 
that of trout fishing, which he considers superior 
to any other for relaxation of body and mind 
from the pressure of care and business. In poli- 
tics he is always a Republican. He was married 
January 21, 1879, ^^ Broad Brook, Conn., to 
Georgetta Adams, of that place. They have one 
child: Eva J. Kress (born April 5, 1881). 



LANCASTER, Sherm.^n Russell, M.D., of 
Cambridge, is a native of Maine, born in the 
town of Newport, October 14, 1861, son of Icha- 
bod Russell and M. Ellen (Ireland) Lancaster. 
He is of English descent on the paternal side, 
and on the maternal side of Scotch. His pater- 
nal great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary 
War. He was brought up on a farm, and edu- 
cated in the town schools of Newport, at the Co- 
rinna Union Academy, and at the Maine Central 
Institute, where he graduated in 1S81. After 
leaving the academy, and while at the institute, he 
taught winters to earn money to defray his ex- 
penses at the latter institution. Always having 
a desire to follow the medical profession, he 
began medical studies, immediately after his 
graduation from the institute, in the office of the 
late Dr. O. H. Merrill, of Corinna, Me., and sub- 
sequently attended lectures at the Medical Col- 
lege of the University of the City of New York. 
Graduating therefrom March 7, 1887, he estab- 
lished himself in Cambridge, and began regular 
practice the following June. .V stranger in the 
city, without even acquaintances, he was obliged 
to depend entirely on his own efforts for success ; 
and the result has been a gradual and healthy 
growth of his practice from the first year, quite 
exceeding his expectations when he selected 
Cambridge for his field. He counts his success 
as due in a great measure to his close application 
to business, improving in a legitimate way every 
opportunity that has presented itself, and his con- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



583 



scientious care of every case that falls to him for did ijood work in iioston, to which city he early 
treatment. From the beginning of his academic moved his family. He helped to build the first 
and professional training he has depended on his fence around Boston Common : and he put the 

venerable "Old Elm," which long stood near 
the Frog Pond, in condition, — binding it with 
iron bands and fi.xing rods to support its droop- 
ing branches, — so that it was kept intact for 
twenty-eight years. Hosea W'aite was educated 
in the public schools of lioston. F^arly determin- 
ing to become a physician, he attended two 
courses of lectures, and, being too poor to grad- 
uate, struck out in independent studies, espe- 
cially of natural laws, and of nature's remedies 
found in flowers, leaves, barks, roots, and gums of 
the wild woods. He began practice in 1854, and 
has continued without interruption from that time, 
steadily increasing his field. Being independent 
of the " regulars," he met many obstacles ; but 
these have been one by one overcome through 
the exercise of an indomitable will, perseverance, 
and his faith in his theories. In 1880 he estab- 
lished two Hygienetariums, one in Boston, on 
Rutland Square, and the otiier in Cleveland, 
Ohio. Besides his professional work he has in- 




S. R. LANCASTER. 



own efforts and resources, meeting every expense 
from his own earnings. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, of the County 
Medical Society, and of the Cambridge Society 
for Medical Improvement. He is also connected 
with the order of Odd Fellows, a member of 
Dunster Lodge ; with the Knights of Pythias, a 
member of St. Omer's Lodge ; and he is a mem- 
ber of the Citizens' Trade Association of Cam- 
bridge and of the Cambridge Real Estate Asso- 
ciates. He is unmarried. 



LIBBEY, Hosea Waite, M.D., of Boston, is a 
native of Maine, born in the town of Lebanon, 
June 28, 1835, son of Moses and Huldah Jane 
(Langton) Libbey. He is of English descent on 
both sides. On the paternal side he traces back 
to T574, the earliest mention of the name being 
found in Oxfordshire, England, and to early 
settlers of that part of Massachusetts which after- 
wards became Maine ; and on the maternal side 
he descends from Sir John Langton, of London, 
England. His father was a skilful mechanic, and 




HOSEA W. LIBBEY. 



dulged in invention ; and he has produced a great 
variety of ingenious devices, from a meat-boiler 
to a steam and electric bicycle. As early as 187 1 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



he invented the " no-hoise-to-feed buggy," pro- 
pelled by the feet with an endless chain, from 
which the bicycle of to-day developed. He was 
the first to spring a rubber tire into a periphery 
of a wheel, the first also to use the sprocket wheel 
and endless chain and tension wheel. His steam 
and electric bicycles are designed to run at a 
speed of from fifteen to twenty miles an hour, with 
a supply of steam for a journey of twelve hours, 
and a constant supply of electricity from a primary 
battery of his own invention. Fully fitted, they 
will weigh each but a little more than one hundred 
pounds. The number of his inventions for which 
he has obtained patents had reached eighty in 
1893. Among the latest are an automatic aerial 
railroad, a two-story street car, and an electric 
locomotive. In politics and in religion Dr. Lib- 
bey classes himself as a liberal, having " never 
been creed-bound to anything." He was a Re- 
publican until the failure of the party to follow 
the leadership of Blaine, since which time he has 
been an Independent. He has published a num- 
ber of journals, and has for thirty-five years issued 
Boston Hys^icnia. He was married November 8, 
1856, to Lavinia R. Hollister, of Marblehead, 
Ohio. They have had one daughter, Vinnietta 
June Libbey, a graduate of Wellesley College in 
the class of 1892. 



Arlington Boat Club. He is a strong advocate 
of physical training for young men, and, as a mem- 
ber of the boat club, takes great pleasure in its 



LIBBY, Charles Adelhert, M.D., of Arling- 
ton, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Lim- 
ington, August 15, 1851, son of Shirley and Mary 
(Sinclare) Libby. He was educated in the com- 
mon school and at the Limington Academy. 
After leaving the academy, he began the study of 
medicine in Melrose, Mass., with J. Heber Smith, 
M.D., who was then physician of that tow-n, and 
subsequently entered the Homceopathic Medical 
College of New York, where he graduated in 
March, 1873. Upon leaving college, he took 
charge of the practice of Dr. J. A. Burpee, of 
Maiden, for a few weeks, and then in May settled 
in Arlington, where he has been in active prac- 
tice ever since, his field extending into adjoining 
towns. He has won a reputation for ability and 
conscientious devotion to the interests of his pa- 
tients. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Homoeopathic Medical Society. He belongs to 
the Masonic fraternity, a member of Hiram 
Lodge, and of the Boston Commandery, Knights 
Templar ; and his club associations are with the 




C. A. LIBBY. 



athletic sports and practice. Dr. Libby was 
married December 16, 1874, to Miss Maria S. 
Small, of Scarborough Me., daughter of Captain 
James and Susan (Parker) Small. 



LOCKWOOD, Rev. John Hoyt, of Westfield, 
pastor of the First Congregational Church, is a 
native of New York, born in Troy, January 17, 
1848, son of Charles N. and Mary Elizabeth (Fry) 
Lockwood. The first of his ancestors on the pa- 
ternal side, in the country, came from Northamp- 
tonshire, England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., 
in 1630 ; and he is in the si.xth generation from 
Ephraim Lockwood, who came from \\'atertown 
to Norwalk, Conn., in 1650. His paternal great- 
grandfather, Isaac Lockwood, was a soldier of 
the Revolution through the entire war. His 
grandparents, Hanford N. and Rachael (Wildman) 
Lockwood, went from Danbury, Conn., to Troy, 
N.Y., in 18 10, where the former was a leading 
merchant for many years, and for a time mayor 
of the city. His mother's parents were Deacon 
John Fry and Eliza Wildman Fry, of Danbury, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



585 



Conn. His education was begun in tiic public 
scliools of Troy, wliich lie attended till i860. 
Tlien lie was a student at tlie Troy Academy for 
four years, wliere lie fitted for college ; and, enter- 
ing Williams at the age of sixteen, graduated 
there in the class of 1868 with the degree of A.I'., 
to which was added in 187 1 that of A.M. for a 
three years' course of literary study. Meanwhile 
he took the full course at the Princeton Theolog- 
ical Seminary, graduating in the class of 187 1. 
He was licensed to preach in the spring of 1870 
by the Presbytery of New York in New York 
City, and in the following summer, at the end of 
Ills second year in the seminary, was in Southern 
Minnesota, doing home missionary work, also or- 
ganizing a Presbyterian church at Wells. The fol- 
lowing year, on November 15, he was ordained to 
the ministry, and installed pastor of the Reformed 
Church of Canastota, N.Y., by the C'lassis of Ca- 
yuga. His pastorate there closed on April 28, 
1873 ; and he was soon afterward installed pastor 
of the New England Congregational Church of 
lirooklyn, N.Y. Resigning that position December 
31, 1878, on the first of April, 1879, he assumed the 




year the church celebrated its bicentennial : and 
he preached the historical sermon, wiiicii was sub- 
sequently printed in book form. During his ad- 
ministration the memlsership of the church has 
steadily increased, and it has become one of the 
leading organizations of its denomination in the 
western part of the State. Mr. Lockwood is es- 
pecially interested in the Sunday-school, of whicii 
he is the superintendent, and has so increased its 
numbers that it is now considerably larger than 
the church membership. In 1894 a chapel cost- 
ing about $20,000 was added to the church build- 
ing, which was largely the result of his efforts. 
He is a fluent and forcible preacher and a model 
pastor. Outside of his parochial duties Mr. Lock- 
wood is much concerned in educational, mission- 
ary, and benevolent matters, and in the various 
activities of the town, in which he is counted a 
foremost citizen. He has been a member of the 
Westfield School Committee for five years, the 
last two years chairman of the board ; has served 
for a long period as a director of the Westfield 
Athenx'um (the public library); and has been, 
since early in his pastorate, on the ISoard of 
Trustees of the Westfield Academy Fund. He is 
a member of the Kappa Alpha Society at Will- 
iams, the oldest Greek letter society in the United 
States ; a charter member of the Connecticut Val- 
ley Congregational Club, an organization com- 
posed of leading Congregational clergymen and 
laymen of the valley, of which he was president in 
1888; and a member of the Connecticut River 
Valley Theological Club, to which he was elected 
18S2. He has served a three years" term as alumni 
visitor at Williams College, and is one of the nom- 
inees for alumni trustees to be voted for at the 
next commencement (1895). In politics he is an 
Independent Republican. Mr. Lockwood was 
married July ig, 1871, to Miss Sarah L. Bennett, 
daughter of Dr. Ezra P. and Sarah M. Bennett, of 
Danbury, Conn. They have three children liv- 
ing : William A. (class of '96, Williams), .\nnie 
E., and Lucy B. Lockwood (^in school at Westfield). 



JOHN H. LOCKWOOD. 

duties of the pastorate of the First Congregational 
Church of Westfield, his present charge, and was 
formally installed May 14 following. The same 



LUND, Rodney, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Vermont, born in Cor- 
inth, Orange County, .\pril 28, 1830, son of 
Thomas and Anna (Marks) Lund. His grand- 
father, Noah Lund, was one of the first settlers of 
Corinth, going there from Dunstable, now Nashua, 
N.H. He was educated in the common schools 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and at tlie Corinth and Bradford academies. 
After two years in a printing-office he entered the 
law office of Judge Spencer, of Corinth, to prepare 




itics as a Republican, in the Fremont campaign, 
and for several years after was quite active ; but, 
finding that politics and law did not work well 
together, he finally gave up the former. He was 
married September 13, 1854, to Miss Myra M. 
Chubb, of Hardvvick, \'t. They have no children. 



RODNEY LUND. 

for his profession, meanwliile pursuing studies in 
the classics and in other branches evenings, as he 
had done from tlie time of leaving the academy. 
He subsequently read with Robert McOrmsby, of 
Bradford. He was admitted to the bar at the 
December term of the Orange County ( Vt.) court 
in 185 1, and began practice in December of the 
following year at White River Junction, Vt., in 
association with Lewis R. Morris, under the firm 
name of Lund & Morris. In the autumn of i860 
he moved to Montpelier, \'t., and there formed a 
partnership with Joseph A. ^^'ing, which continued 
until the autumn of 1867, when he removed to 
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
Very soon after his establishment in the latter 
city he became a partner of Judge Robert L Bur- 
bank, and this relation continued for about fif- 
teen years. Then he entered into partnership 
with Charles H. \\"elch, under the firm name of 
Lund & Welch, which has since continued. Their 
business has been a general law practice and 
patent cases. While residing in Vermont, Mr. 
Lund held the office of deputy secretary of St.ate 
for three years, ending in 1867. He entered pol- 



LYMAN, George Hixcki.ev, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar. was born in Boston, 
December 13, 1850, son of George H. and Maria 
C. R. (Austin) Lyman. He is a great-grandson of 
Elbridge Gerry. He was educated in the Boston 
Latin School, at the St. Paul's School, Concord, 
N.H., where he spent four and a half years, and 
at Harvard, graduating A. 15. in 1873. Subse- 
quently he entered the Harvard Law School, and 
graduated LL.B. in 1877, and was further fitted 
for his profession by eighteen months' study in 
Germany, one year in the law office of Ropes & 
Gray, Boston, and one year in the office of Thorn- 
ton K. Lothrop, Boston. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in the spring of 1878, and has since 
been engaged in general practice in Boston and 




GEO. H. LYMAN. 

in the care of private trusts. He also holds a 
number of directorships. In politics Mr. Lyman 
has always been a Republican, and has for some 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



587 



time been proniiiiL'ntly conncclcd with the party 
organization. He was treasurer of tlic Repulilican 
city committee of Boston one year(iS92), cliair- 
man of tlie finance committee of the Republican 
State Committee two years (1893 and 1894), and 
is now chairman of the State Committee, having 
been elected to the headship in January, 1895. 
He is a member of the Somerset, Country, and 
St. Botolph clubs. He was married April 26, 
1881, to Miss Caroline 1!. .\mory, daughter of 
William .\mor\-, of Boston. Their children are : 
Kllen 1!., .Maria C, and (George H. L\'man, Jr. 



West End Street Railway investigation. He has 
fretpiently been mentioned for senator for the 
Second Bristol District and for mayor of Fail 



Mcdonough, John J.vmes, of Fail River, 
judge of the Second District Court of Bristol, is 
a native of Fall River, born March 15, 1857, son 
of Michael and Ellen ( Hayes) McDonough. He 
is of Irish descent, his ancestors of Sligo and 
Clare counties. His early education was acquired 
in the F'all River public schools, and after grad- 
uating therefrom he entered Holy Cross College, 
Worcester, where he took a si.\ years' course, and 
graduated second in a class of twenty-si.\, with the 
degree of A.B., in June, 1880. He ne.xt studied a 
year and a half at the Grand Seminary in Mon- 
treal, P.Q., taking a course in philosophy and 
moral and dogmatic theology ; and then entered 
the Boston University Law School, from which 
he was graduated with the regular degree of 
LL.B. in the class of 1884. Admitted to the 
Bristol bar in September following, he early en- 
tered upon a lucrative practice in Bristol and 
Barnstable counties. He was appointed to his 
present position as judge of the Second District 
Court of Bristol in 1893, first nominated in March 
that year a special justice, by Governor Russell, 
and on May 13 following nominated and unani- 
mously confirmed as justice. Upon becoming 
judge, he discontinued the practice of law in ac- 
cordance with his sense of propriety. In politics 
Judge McDonough is a Democrat, and in 1890-gi 
was a member of the Democratic State Central 
Committee. He served in the lower house of the 
Legislature as representative for the Eighth Bris- 
tol District in 1889-90. During his first term he 
was a member of the committees on taxation and 
on probate and insolvency, clerk of the former, 
and during his second term of the committee on 
the judiciary, acting as its clerk. In the session 
of 1890 he championed the cause of George Fred 
Williams in the latter's advocacy of the famous 




JNO. J. Mcdonough. 

River. Mr. McDonough has also given some 
attention to journalism, having been for a time 
editor of the Fall River Herald and of the Catho- 
lic Advoiate of Fall River. He is not a society or 
club man. He was married November 4, 1890, 
to Miss Elizabeth Frances McCarthy, of Province- 
town. They have one daughter : Mary Eustelle 
McDonough. 

MOORE, Ir.\ L0RI.STON, M.I)., of Boston, for 
more than twenty years one of the largest opera- 
tors in vacant land in Boston, and prominent in a 
number of improvements, is a nativ-e of New 
Hampshire, born in Raymond, November 24, 
1824, eldest son of Ira and Mary Gorden (Brown) 
Moore. On his father's side he is descended 
from General Moore, one of Washington's 
generals ; and on his mother's side he traces his 
lineage back to the Browns, London linen mer- 
chants, who came to this country in 1635, and 
settled at Hampton, N.H. When he was a lad of 
si.vteen, his family moved to Lowell. After attend- 
ing the public schools there for a few terms, he 
fitted for college under the late Harvey Jewell and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tlie Rev. Dr. Cyrus Mann, and entered Amherst in 
the class of 1847. Completing the college course, 
he began the study of medicine with Dr. John 
Wheelock Graves, of Lowell, shortly after entering 
the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. 
There he was graduated at the head of his class 
of two hundred and twenty-seven members. Re- 
turning to Lowell, he went into copartnership with 
Dr. Graves, which relation was continued for a 
year or more. Then pursuing his profession 
alone, in which he displayed remarkable skill, he 
soon attained a practice equal to that of any phy- 
sician in his city. He was particularly successful 




IRA L. MOORE. 

in the treatment of typhoid fever, cholera, and 
cholera infantum. In i860 he removed to Boston, 
where for nearly ten years he continued in prac- 
tice. Then he retired with a competence, and de- 
voted himself to speculation in real estate on a 
large scale. Dr. Moore was a member of the 
Legislature, representing Lowell in 1857, and 
from Boston in 1866-67, 1871-72. When elected 
from Lowell, he was the first Republican elected 
in Middlese.x County who had not been a member 
of the American party. During his first term he 
was the chief advocate of the filling of the Back 
Bay District of the city of Boston. In 1858 he 
received the nomination for State senator, but 



was defeated in the election by General B. F. 
Butler by a small vote. While a resident of 
Lowell he was twice elected director of the Lowell 
Public Library ; and the year after his removal to 
Boston he was elected a member of the Boston 
School Committee for the term of three years. 
In 18S9 he was a member of the Common 
Council. F'or thirty years Dr. Moore has been an 
active member of the order of Odd Fellows, and 
has tilled all the high offices, both in the lodge 
and the encampment. Dr. Moore was first 
married on January i, 1873, to Charlotte Maria, 
daughter of the late Daniel Chamberlin, long 
proprietor of the first Adams House ; and the 
issue of this marriage were two children : 
Charlotte Lillian and Daniel Loriston Moore, the 
latter living but two years. Mrs. Moore died 
September 9, 1887. Upon the death of her 
father, which occurred in 1879, Dr. Moore was 
appointed, under the will, chairman of the e.xec- 
utors and trustees of the Chamberlin estate ; and 
with other trustees he soon decided to demolish 
the old Adams House and to build the present 
fine hotel on its site. Dr. Moore's second wife, 
to whom he was married on October 4, 1893, was 
Mrs. Harriet N. Warner, widow of the late Hon. 
Oliver Warner, secretary of the Commonwealth 
from 1858 to 1876. 



MORRIS, Michael .Aucu.stine, M.D.. of 
Charlestown District, Boston, is a native of New 
Brunswick, born in St. John, December 13, 1850, 
son of Hugh and Margaret Morris. His parents 
were also natives of St. John. He received a 
thorough education in the Mill's Training School 
of St. John, the Lancaster Superior School at 
Lancaster, N.B., and from private tutor; and 
began the study of medicine just before his 
eighteenth year, in October, 1868, under Dr. John 
Berryman, of St. John. At the end of that year 
he came to Boston, and entered the Harvard Med- 
ical School. While a student, he was appointed, 
after a competitive examination, house surgeon at 
the Boston City Hospital, and was there from 
May 5, 1872, to May 5, 1873. He was graduated 
from the Medical School the following June, and 
in October established himself in Charlestown, 
where he has since remained engaged in general 
practice. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, of the Boston Society for Medi- 
cal Observation, of the Massachusetts Medical 



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589 



Iknevolent Society, of the Harvard Medical of Dr. Alonzo Garceloii, at tiiat time governor of 
Alumni Association, and of the lioston City the State, and subsequently attended the medical 
Hospital Medical Club. He belongs also to the department of the University of the City of New 

\ork, from which he graduated March 8, 1881. 
He began practice, soon after graduation and a 
short time spent in I'.ellevue Hospital, New York, 
in Lisbon, Me. ; but, that being a factory town 
with a transient population, he early sought a more 
settled field, and in 1883 removed to Newton, N.H. 
There he at once began a busy life, his practice 
extending into several towns and villages. It was, 
however, a hard country practice with long drives ; 
and in March, 1885, while convalescing from an 
attack of pneumonia, he decided to withdraw from 
it, although he had been very successful, had built 
a house in the town, was superintendent of schools, 
and generally well established. As he was the 
only physician in the place, he found no difficulty 
in selling both house and practice ; and this being 
accomplished, the purchaser being a doctor from 
Vermont, in September, 1885, he removed to Mel- 
rose, Mass., where he has since been engaged in 
active practice. In 18S8 he became interested, 
through the writings of prominent medical men at 




■•^spfF^^^ir^ 



M. A. MORRIS. 

L'niversity Club of Boston and the Charlestown 
Club of Charlestown District. He has prepared 
papers on various medical and surgical topics, 
which have appeared in the Boston Medical and 
SiDx'iial Joiintal. He has never married. 



MORSE, Fred Harris, M.D., of Melrose and 
Boston, is a native of Maine, born in Wilton, May 
4, 1857, son of Russell S. and Susan A. (Frost) 
Morse. His father was well known throughout 
Maine, and New England generally, by his numer- 
ous patents and inventions. His early education 
was acquired through the usual attendance at 
country schools two terms a year, then two years 
were spent at the Wilton Academy ; and he finished 
at the Lewiston (Me.) High School, from which 
he graduated in 1876. After leaving the High 
School, he taught for a while in different parts of 
Maine, at one time being principal of a school in 
Lewiston. In 1877, going to Ravenna, Ohio, to 
assist his father in the latter's business, he was 
a student in a dentist's office there for a year. 
Then, returning, he became a student at Lewiston 




F. H. MORSE. 



home and abroad, in the newer theories of elec- 
tricity as applied to medicine : and after much in- 
vestigation of the subject, making frequent trips 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to New York and visiting some of his old college 
professors who had become specialists in this 
method of treating many diseases, he fitted his 
office with all the best appliances he could find in 
the country. In 1892 he went to Europe still 
further to study the subject, and spent the greater 
part of his time abroad in Paris, where the best 
opportunities were offered. Upon his return he 
opened an office in Boston on Boylston Street, 
and is now established on Beacon Street as an 
electro-therapeutic specialist. He is also lecturer 
of electro-therapeutics in the Tufts College 
Medical School. Dr. Morse is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Gynaeco- 
logical Society of Boston, and of the American 
Electro-therapeutic Association. He is connected 
with the Masonic fraternity, a member of the 
Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights Templar, 
and with the Odd Fellows, belonging to the Mel- 
rose Lodge. He is a member also of the Melrose 
Club. He was married October 31, 1881, to 
Miss Mary Elmira Maxwell, of Lewiston, Me., 
only daughter of O. M. Ma.xwell, a prominent mer- 
chant of that city. They have one child : Mildred 
M. Morse (born in 1884). 



MORSE, Nathan Ransun, A.M., M.D., of 
Salem, was born in the town of Stoddard, N.H., 
February 20, 1831, being the first-born child to 
Nathan and Jane (Robb) Morse, well known 
and honored in the community, who reared a 
large family of eight children, — four sons and 
four daughters, — all of whom are ali\e and in 
good health (1895), and alike honored in the 
community in which they reside, not one of whom 
has ever used tobacco or alcoholic stimulants. 
He is, on his mother's side, grandson of Captain 
Samuel Robb, of Stoddard, who served in the 
Revolution under General Stark ; and, on his 
father's side, great-grandson of Deacon Eli Morse, 
of Dublin, N.H., who was the second son of 
Nathaniel Morse, of Medford, Mass., and he a 
great-grandson of Samuel Morse, the distintruished 
Puritan ancestor who emigrated from England to 
America with his family in 1635 at the age of 
fifty, in the ship "Increase," and settled in Ded- 
ham, Mass., where he was one of the most promi- 
nent among the leading spirits in the settlement, 
and its town treasurer for many years. The early 
life of Dr. Morse, like that of most country boys, 
was spent upon the farm, with such limited in- 



struction as the conuuon schools of his native 
town then afforded. At the age of twenty-one 
he resolved that he would fit himself for college, 
and, if possible, work his way through. This he 
successfully accomplished by teaching school in 
the winter, selling books, and canvassing for sub- 
scriptions during the summer vacations. He 
attended two terms at 'I'ubbs Union Academy, 
Washington, N.H., under Professor Dyer H. San- 
born, and completed his preparatory fitting at 
Nashua, N.H., as a private pupil, in connection 
with the late Dr. J. H. Woodbury, of Boston, 
under the tuition uf that classical scholar and dis- 




NATHAN R. MORSE. 

tinguished instructor, the late M. C. Stebbins, 
A.M., of Springfield, Mass., who later was the in- 
structor and mentor of the Rev. Dr. Charles H. 
Parkhurst, of New York, and now of world-wide 
renown. Entering Amherst College in 1853, at 
the urgent request of Mr. Stebbins, he was gradu- 
ated there in 1857. During his senior year he 
was publisher of the Amherst Co/h-giafi: Magazine. 
He was one of the best known students in col- 
lege, — prominent in the famous foot-ball game of 
the freshmen in 1853, also in assisting President 
Edward Hitchcock in securing some of the most 
noted bird-tracks in the Connecticut valley, and 
in other geological work ; but more especially 



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591 



known through liis prominence in political life, 
he beiny; the only Democrat in his class during 
the Kansas-Nebraska excitement of 1854-55, 
under the ailministration of Franklin Pierce. 
After graduation Dr. Morse taught school in 
Marion and Du.xbury, was principal of the High 
School, Holyoke, in 1859 and i860, and spent the 
ever-memorable winter of 1860-61 as private 
tutor in the families of W. A. Parks, Ouachita 
t'ity, and his father, the Rev. Levi Parks, Bas- 
trop, La. Returning north in June of 1861, after 
the Civil War had begun, he entered the Harvard 
Medical School, and, continuing his studies at the 
medical department of the University of Vermont, 
graduated from the latter in June, 1862, the first 
in his class. In August, the same year, he lo- 
cated in the town of Reading, Mass., and there 
engaged in the successful practice of medicine. 
After a few montlis' residence in the town, upon 
the resignation of Master Batchelder, chairman of 
the .School Committee, he was appointed a mem- 
ber of the board, and was at once elected chair- 
man, to which position he was re-elected eacli suc- 
ceeding year till his resignation in July, 1865, 
upon his removal to Salem, where he also subse- 
quently served on the School Committee for a 
period of six years. He has resided in Salem 
since 1865, and for se\eral years enjoved one of 
the largest clientage in his profession in that his- 
toric city. Dr. Morse has a kind word and a 
large heart, full of sympathy for all in distress; 
and no worthy applicant comes to him for aid or 
assistance and goes away empty-handed. He is 
genial in his intercourse with others, but firm and 
independent in his conviction of duty. He is 
never idle, a man of great energy, large enthusi- 
asm, and strict integrity, who never shirks respon- 
sibility in the discharge of any duty. He has 
been repeatedly urged to accept offices of honor 
and trust in his adopted city, but has finiilv re- 
fused all, save that of membership in the School 
Committee. He stands high in his profession as 
a physician, his services being often required in 
consultation outside of his immediate practice. 
He was professor of diseases of children in the 
medical department of Boston University from 
1874 to 1879, and one of the founders of the in- 
stitution. He was secretary of the Massachusetts 
Homoeopathic Medical Society during 1878-79, 
edited volumes IX. and \'. of the society's Transac- 
tions, and was its orator in 1874. He was secre- 
tary of the Essex County Homoeopathic Medical 



Society from 1S72 to 1S79, '"''' 'lie" 'ts presi- 
dent, and he was also president of the Massachu- 
setts Surgical and (iyna'cological Society ; and he 
is a senior member of the American Institute of 
Honueopathy. In 1S54 he first joined a secret 
society in college during his freshman year; but 
the •' Know Nothings " appeared the same year, 
and, being disgusted with much of their political 
work, he renounced all affiliation with secret or- 
ganizations till the year 1866, when, forming a 
favorable opinion of Masonry, he made application 
to P^ssex Lodge of Salem, and was made a master 
Mason the same year. A few years later he 
joined the Odd Fellows, and he was a charter 
member of the North Star Lodge of the Knights 
of Pythias. He is a member of the thirty-second 
degree Ancient and .\ccepted Scottish Rite and 
a ninety-fifth degree of the Royal Masonic Rite, 
and past most wise of Boston Rose Croix Chap- 
ter. In September, 1878, he was requested to 
examine a copy of the constitution and by-laws of 
the Royal Arcanum, and then give his opinion 
upon that form of graded fraternal insurance. 
His opinion being favorable, he at once became 
interested in forming Salem Council, No. 14, of 
the order. He was elected its past regent, and 
upon the institution of the Grand Council to 
Massachusetts was elected grand vice-regent. In 
F'ebruary, 1879, '^^ .secured seventy-five charter 
members for a council of the American Legion of 
Honor. He was elected past commander of 
Naumkeag Council, No. 8, and upon the organiza- 
tion of the Grand Council of Massachusetts was 
selected for its grand commander, but, declining 
the honor, was elected the first representative to 
the Supreme Council of the order. He was 
honored in that body by being successively 
elected to the office of chaplain, sentry, and chair- 
man of the finance committee for three successive 
years. In March, 1880, after much solicitation, 
he organized John Endicott Colony, No. 9, United 
Order of the Pilgrim Fathers, in Salem, and be- 
came its first ex-governor, admitting him to the 
supreme colony. He was at once elected to the 
board of directors in that body, and subsequently 
supreme medical examiner, supreme lieutenant 
governor, and supreme governor in 1885-86-87. 
He is given the credit of having made the Pilgrim 
Fathers one of the best of the fraternal insurance 
associations now in New England during his long 
official connection with the order. In politics 
Dr. Morse has been a lifelong Jeffersonian Demo- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



crat. He has served as a member and chairman 
of the Democratic city committee and as presi- 
dent of the National Democratic Club of Salem. 
In 1886 he was the Democratic candidate for 
the Governor's Council, Fifth District, running 
some five hundred votes ahead of the ticket ; 
and he was suggested by a leading Democratic 
journal, the New Hampshire Patriot, as a suitable 
candidate, in every way qualified, for governor of 
the Commonwealth in 1889. In 1887 he pur- 
chased Baker's Island in Salem Harbor, and 
erected a hotel thereon, which he has since en- 
larged several times, making it one of the 
pleasantest of summer resorts on our beautiful 
New England coast. The island is reached by 
steamboats from Boston, Salem \\'illo\vs, and 
Beverly ; and the sail from Boston is one of the 
finest excursions on the coast. Dr. Morse is 
sixty-four years of age, but he is as active and 
vigorous as most men at forty. He has been 
twice married. In 1859 he married Miss Lottie 
L. Barden, second daughter of the late Captain 
Frederick Barden, of Marion, formerly of Charles- 
ton, S.C, who for twenty years before the Civil 
War was the owner of the steamers now known as 
the "Gordon'' and " Sumpter," famous Confeder- 
ate privateers. His first wife died in May, 1862, 
leaving two sons, Frederick L. and William N. 
Morse. In December, 1864, he married Miss 
Rebecca H. Brown, preceptress of Powars Insti- 
tute, Bernardston, Mass., only daughter of the 
late Joshua L. Brown, of Gorham, Me., by whom 
he has three sons : Charles Wheeler, George A., 
and Henry V\'. Morse ; and one daughter, 
Helen B. Morse. The eldest son by his second 
wife is a young and promising physician and sur- 
geon in Salem, who spent the winter of 1893-94 
in Vienna, perfecting himself for his life-work. 
George A. is a graduate of Amherst College, 
class of '91, and at present student in the Har- 
vard Law School ; and Henry W., the younger, 
is in the scientific department of Harvard Uni- 
versity. 

MORTON, Charles, of Boston, civil engineer 
and landscape architect, is a native of Boston, 
born July 19, 1841, son of Josephus and Sarah 
(Lewis) Morton. He is a descendant of George 
Morton, who came from England to the Plymouth 
Colony in the ship " Ann '" in 162 i. His educa- 
tion was acquired in the Boston public schools, 
including the I'lanklin, Dwight. and English High 



schools, and at the Norwich University, Norwich, 
Vt. (now at Northfield, \'t.), where he graduated 
in i860. Upon leaving the military college, he 
was immediately employed in Southern Minnesota 
and Northern Iowa, engaged in surveying govern- 
ment lands. Then, returning East, from 1862 to 
1865 he was employed on the Boston Back Bay 
Improvement, assisting in the development of the 
Commonwealtli and Boston Water Power Com- 
pany's lands from Arlington Street to Chester 
Park (now Massachusetts Avenue), and Tremont 
Street to the same thoroughfare. In 1865 he be- 
came connected with the office of the Boston city 
engineer, and after a service here of two years as 
assistant entered the city surveyor's office, where 
he remained for eighteen years (1867-85), en- 
gaged during that period in much important work. 
He was next in ciiarge of the street and bridge 
departments of the city as acting and deputy 
superintendent for two years, 1886 and 1887. 
The following year he was general superintendent 
of the Boston Heating Company. Then he re- 
turned to the service of the city as superintendent 
of sewers, which position he held through 1889 




CHAS. MORTON. 



and 1S90. In iSgi he was appointed a member 
of the Board of Survey of the City of Boston, 
upon which he is still serving. He also continues 



Men Of pkoGRESS. 



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tlic guiicral piMctice of his profession as a nK'iiibi.-r 
of the firm of Morton & ( hiiiiihy. civil engineers 
and landscape architects. Mr. Morton is promi- 
nently connected with the Masonic fraternity, 
being a member of the Aberdour Lodge. St. 
Paul's Chapter, Roxbury Council, and Joseph 
Warren Conimandery; is a member of the Wash- 
ington Lodge, Odd Fellows, of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Associatitm, and of the Bos- 
ton and Roxbury clubs. In politics he is not a 
partisan. He is generally a Republican, but votes 
for the best man according to his judgment. He 
was married December 25, 1865, to Miss Annie 
H. Hunt, of Dorchester. They have no children. 



ized the Workmen's IJenefit Association, and asso- 
ciated with himself as incorporators Charles E. 
Spencer, Thomas F. Temple, Fred C". Ingalis, and 



MOTT, Joseph VAR.\arM, M.D., of lioston, is a 
native of New York, born in New York City, Sep- 
tember 5, 1849, eldest son of the late Henry A. 
Mott, a noted lawyer of New York City, and Mary 
Varnum Mott, daughter of Joseph B. Varnum. 
He is a grandson of Dr. Valentine Mott, of New- 
York, known in his day as the " king of sur- 
geons." He was educated in the Lyons Institute 
and by private tutors, and graduated from the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York 
in 1872. Thereafter he was connected with vari- 
ous hospitals and dispensaries. He was a mem- 
ber of the New York County Medical Society, of 
the Harlem Medical Association, of the Physi- 
cians' Mutual Aid Association, and of other medi- 
cal societies. He continued in general practice 
in New York until 1882, when he devoted two 
years to foreign travel, visiting Australia, Philip- 
pine Islands, China, Europe, and other parts of 
the world; and on his return in 18S4, at the 
solicitation of friends, established himself in Bos- 
ton. Here he early enjoyed an extensive prac- 
tice. ( )f late years he has devoted his time to 
fraternal work, and holds official positions in a 
large number of philanthropic organizations. He 
is eminently qualified as a public speaker, and the 
subject of fraternity as presented by him never 
fails to interest and entertain the large audiences 
he often addresses. He is medical examiner for 
the Ancient Order of LTnited Workmen, the New 
England Order of Protection, the Royal Society 
of Good Fellows, the American Legion of Honor, 
and the Bay State Beneficiary Association. In 
June, 1893, appreciating the desires of many of 
the members of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen for an additional insurance, he organ- 




J. VARNUM MOTT. 

other well-known Workmen. He is the supreme 
secretary and supreme medical examiner of the 
association ; and through his earnest eftorts and 
liberal financial support it was enabled in less 
than ten months to pay the full benefit of one 
thousand dollars. Dr. Mott is also treasurer of 
the Good Fellows' Club, past grand ruler of the 
Royal Society of Good Fellows, chairman of the 
trustees of the Twenty-five Associates, and a jus- 
tice of the peace for this t/ommonwealth. He has 
been twice married, and has two children li\ ing : 
Marie Louise and J. Varnum Mott. Dr. Mott 
resides with his wife at Hotel Ericson, No. 373 
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 



MILES, Ch.\rles Edwin, M.D., of Boston, 
chairman of the State Board of Registration in 
Medicine, was born in Stow, December 31, 1830, 
son of Charles and Sophia J. (Brown) Miles. He 
is of English ancestry, a descendant of John Miles, 
— then Myles, — settled in Concord in 1637, and 
made a freeman of Massachusetts Colony in 



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1638. I'he family has continuously resided in 
Concord to the present time. His boyhood was 
spent on a farm in Marlborough, to which his par- 
ents removed soon after his birth. He attended the 
common schools till he was old enough to deter- 
mine his course in life ; and, choosing the profes- 
sion of medicine, he sought the wider training 
which the academy afforded. He first became a 
student in the Academical fJoarding School, Berlin, 
Mass., and afterward took the course of the Prov- 
idence Conference Seminary at Fast Greenwich, 
R.I., interspersing his studies with teaching, as he 
relied largely upon his own resources for his edu- 



I 




C. EDWIN MILES. 

cation. In 1S56 he began the study of medicine 
in the office of Dr. Charles Putnam, of Marl- 
borough, and continued with Dr. F. H. Kelley, of 
Worcester, also studying at the \^'orcester Medical 
College, from which he graduated February 16, 
1859. He began practice the following June in 
Ro.xbury, and has remained there continuously to 
the present time. He has always proclaimed his 
adherence to the principles of eclectic medicine, 
but has displayed a catholic spu'it toward those 
of other views. It has been said of him, in a 
sketch of his professional life, that, while he is 
" a firm believer in the fundamental principles of 
modern eclecticism, and is recognized as one of 



its ablest exponents, he has always advocated the 
broadest liberality in medical thought and prac- 
tice, and encouraged the fullest investigation 
among the different schools of medicine, deprecat- 
ing partisan strife and arrogant e.xclusiveness, 
and, regardless of isms and pathies, sought to 
establish the closest fraternal relations among all 
reputable members of the profession." He at- 
tained early in his career a superior position in 
his profession. In 1867 the Eclectic Medical In- 
stitute conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 
medicine upon him. In 1872 he was elected 
president of the National Eclectic Medical Associa- 
tion at its annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind.. 
and re-elected at Columbus, r)hio, in 1873, an 
honor which has never before been bestowed on any 
member. In June, 1894, he was appointed to the 
new State Board of Registration in Medicine, and 
in July was elected chairman of the board. He 
was a charter member of the Massachusetts Eclec- 
tic Medical Society, of the Boston District Eclec- 
tic Medical Society, and of the Boston Eclectic 
Gyna;cological and Obstetrical Society, and has 
been president of each of these organizations. 
He has contributed much to the periodical and 
other literature of eclectic medicine, and is at 
present one of the associate editors of the Afassa- 
r/ii/sr//s Afi-dical Journal. Among liis principal 
pufilished papers are ; " Glimpses at the Medical 
Art and Profession of the Present Day," the 
annual address before the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, June 6, 1867 : " Reminiscences and Con- 
clusions drawn from an Obstetric Practice of 
Twenty-two years," read before the Jioston Eclec- 
tic Gynajcological and Obstetrical Society ; '■ Chlo- 
rosis," read before the National Eclectic Medical 
Association, June, 1883; " Re'sume of Typhoid 
Fever," read before the Boston District Eclectic 
Medical Society, September 13, 1S92 ; and "La 
Grippe and its Treatment," read before the Mas- 
sachusetts Eclectic Medical Society, June, 1S93. 
Dr. Miles is also prominent in the Metiiodist 
Episcopal Church, which he joined in 184S, and 
is an active mover in all its organizations as a lay- 
man. He was elected president of the Methodist 
Social Union in December, 1891. In politics he 
has pronounced opinions, but has never sought 
office. For two years he served in the Boston 
School Committee. He was married in 1866 to 
Miss Eunice Peirce Dyer, of Boston. They have 
had one daughter (born January 25, 1S68 ; died, 
July 28, 187 I). 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



595 



MUDGE, Frank Herbert, of Boston, printer, PARKMAN, Henry, of Boston, member of 

was born in Boston, February lo, 1859, son of tlie Suffolk bar, is a native of Boston, born May 
Alfred A. and Abby C. (King) Mudge. He is 23, 1850, son of Samuel and Mary Eliot (I)wight) 

Parkman. The I'arkmans were early settlers in 
Massachusetts, and his great-great-grandfather, 
Ebenezer, was pastor of Westborough, Mass., for 
over fifty years ; and on his mother's side he is 
descended from the Eliols, Atkins, and from Gov- 
ernor Dudley, at one time governor of the Prov- 
ince. He was educated at Chauncy Hall, in Mr. 
Dixwell's school, under private tutors, and at Har- 
vard College, graduating in the class of 1870. 
Subsequentlv he studied law in the Harvard I, aw 
School and in the office of Russell iV Putnam, 
Boston, and was admitted to the bar in June, 
1874. He has practised in P.dston from that time. 
He has performed much public service, beginning 
in the Common Council of Boston, of which he 
was a member for six years, — from 1879 to 18S4, 
inclusive, — and continuing in both branches of 
the Legislature. He was a representative in the 
lower house for Ward Nine of JJoston in 1886 
-87-88, and a senator in 1892-93. During his 
service in the House he was a member of the 



FRANK H. MUDGE. 




descended from the Mudges coming from England 
in 1640, and settled in Boston ; and on the mater- 
nal side from Governor Bradford of the Plymouth 
Colony. He was educated in the Boston schools. 
Learning the printer's trade, he entered the print- 
ing business in 1875, and five years later was ad- 
mitted to the firm of Alfred Mudge & Son. For 
the past ten years he has been the sole proprietor 
of the business. He now employs about two hun- 
dred hands, and is engaged in the general print- 
ing business of high grade. He has served as 
vice-president of the LTnited Typotheta; of Amer- 
ica and as president for two years of the Boston 
Master Printers' Club. He was connected with 
the Massachusetts Militia for several years, serv- 
ing as lieutenant in Battery A, and in 1892 was 
adjutant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, 
the Odd Fellows, the order of Red Men, the 
Knights of Pythias, the United Order of Work- 
men, and the Elks, and is a member of the Boston 
Athletic Club and of the Orpheus Musical Society. 
Mr. Mudge was married in 1882 to Miss Agnes V. 
Green, of Boston. They have no children. 




HENRY PARKMAN. 

committees on rules, labor, bills in the third read- 
ing, cities, street railways, and constitutional 
amendments ; and in the Senate chairman of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



committees on cities and on rules, and member of 
those on election laws and on parishes and relig- 
ious societies. In 1894 he was a member of the 
Prison Commission. In politics Mr. Parkman is 
a Republican, active in the party organization. 
He has been president of the Republican city 
committee of Boston at various times. He is a 
member of the Union Club, of the Boston Ath- 
letic Association, of the St. Botolph, E.xchange, 
Country, Puritan, and Eastern Yacht clubs. He 
was married .August 21, 1890, to Miss Mary Fran- 
ces Parker, of Newark, N.J. They have three 
children : Mary Elizabeth, Edith Wolcott, and 
Henry Parkman. 



PARKS, John Henrv, of Du.xbury, manufact- 
urer, is a native of Missouri, but of old New Eng- 
land stock, — on the paternal side of Connecticut, 
and on the maternal side of Maine. He was 
born in St. Loiiis, July 25, 1849, son of John C. 
and Mary McClellan (Drew) Parks. His father 
was a native of Meadville, Penna., and his mother 
of Newfield, Me. His paternal grandmother was 




JOHN H. PARKS. 

Lucretia Kirby, of Great Barrington, Mass. ; and 
his paternal grandfather, James Parks, of (_'linton, 
Mich., both of old Connecticut stock, originally of 



Middletown, Conn. The Drews were early Maine 
settlers, the present generation being prominent 
and highly connected in that section. Mr. Parks 
was educated at the Notre Dame University, 
South Bend, Ind., the Partridge Academy, Dux- 
bury, Mass., the McKendree College, Lebanon, 
111., and at Allen's English and Classical School, 
\\'est Newton, Mass., where he finished. He 
began business life about 1866, witii Woodward, 
Brown, i\: Co., commission merchants, then at No. 
28 South Market Street, Boston, where he re- 
mained initil 1869. In that year he married at 
Du.xbury the only child of Samuel Loring, and 
entered the employ of Mr. Loring, in the latter's 
business at Plymouth, where he remained until 
1882. In 1882 he became treasurer of the Cen- 
tral Manufacturing Company of Boston, and oc- 
cupied that position until August, 1886. This 
corporation then being dissolved, he returned to 
Plymouth, and in September that year became 
partner of Mr. Loring, under the firm name of 
Loring & Parks. Mr. Loring died in May, 1S87 : 
and Mrs. Loring continued with Mr. Parks under 
the same firm title until 1891. In May, 1891, the 
business was sold out to the Atlas Tack Corpora- 
tion of Boston, of which Mr. Parks was the prin- 
cipal promoter and organizer, and became its 
treasurer. This position he still retains. The 
corporation is the oldest and several times the 
largest maker of tacks and small nails in the 
world. Its business was founded in 18 10, and 
consolidated in 189 1. It has large works in 
Taunton. Whitman, Fairhaven, and Plymouth re- 
spectively, its mills at Taunton and Whitman 
being unapproached anywhere in the world, of 
their kind, in size and capacity. The company 
also has extensive warehouses, where it carries 
large stocks of goods, at New York, Philadelphia, 
Baltimore, Chicago, Lynn, Boston, and San Fran- 
cisco ; and its trade reaches to all civilized na- 
tions. Mr. Parks is also a director of the Old 
Colony National Bank of Plymouth. In the com- 
munity in which he lives he has been prominent 
and influential in many ways. He is a trustee of 
the Partridge .\cademy, Du.xbury ; trustee of the 
Partridge Ministerial Fund, Du.xbury; was for two 
years president of the .Marshfield .Agricultural So- 
ciety of Marshfield ; and has been a justice of 
the peace for fourteen years. He has declined 
all public offices, though several times requested 
to accept prominent nominations. His politics 
are Republican. He is connected with the Ma- 



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sonic fraternity, a member of tiie lUue Lodj^e and 
Samoset Chapter of Pl)'nioutli ; and is a mendjer 
of the Merchants' Ali^onquin, and Exchange clubs 
of Boston and the Commercial Club of Plymouth. 
He was married May 27, iS6g, to Miss Nancy 
Sprague Loring, daughter of Samuel and Laura 
A. B. Loring, of Duxbury, grand-niece of the Hon. 
Seth Sprague and Judge Peleg Sprague. 'I'heir 
children are: Laura Loring (born May 27, 1870, 
married September 19, 1S94, to Thomas Russell, 
ex-representative to the General Court, son of 
William G. Russell, of the law firm of Russell & 
Putnam, Boston), Samuel Loring (born in 1S72), 
John Ward (born in 1879), and Bettina Loring 
Parks (born in 1S84). Mr. Parks resides in Dux- 
bury on the Loring homestead, which lias been in 
the Loring family since about 1707, and has from 
that time never been passed by deed, always by 
will. The old manor house on the homestead, 
still in an excellent state of preservation, was 
built in 1738. Mr. Parks's family occupy the 
commodious modern brick house on the old place, 
built by Samuel I^oring in 1879. 



lie found wise and kind teachers. He entered 
the Cambridge High School in 1863. and gradu- 
ated therefrom in 1866, delivering the salutatory in 



PERRIN, Rev. Willard T.wlor, of Boston, 
pastor of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South Boston, is a native of Cambridge, born 
June 2, 1850, son of Noah and Philenia ^^'. 
(Stone) Perrin. He is of the eighth generation of 
American Perrins, whose ancestor, John Perryn, 
came to this country from London, England, in 
the ship "Safety" in August, 1635, and landed at 
Braintree, where he resided until with others he 
founded Rehoboth, where his body lies buried. 
Samuel Perrin, of the fourth generation, bought 
land of the Indians at Pomfret, Conn. ; and upon 
this estate Perrins of six generations occupied 
the same homestead. Noah Perrin, the father of 
Willard P., came to Boston in 1832, and entered 
the wholesale grocery business, and was later a 
provision dealer. He retired from business in 
1859, and spent the latter part of his life in what 
is now Wellesley Hills. He died January 15, 
1S94. On the jnaternal side Mr. Perrin belongs to 
the tenth generation of American Stones, whose 
ancestor, Gregory Stone, came over from England 
in the ship " Increase," and landed in Boston 
about 1634, settled in Cambridge, and owned 
lands north-west of the college grounds. Mr. 
Perrin attained his early education in the district 
schools of Grantville (now Wellesley Hills), where 




WILLARD T. PERRIN, 

Latin, and then entered Harvard, where he was 
graduated in 1870, in the same class with Lieuten- 
ant Governor Wolcott. He stood number twelve in 
scholarship in his class, which was eminent for its 
high rank. He was honored by his classmates 
with the position of third marshal on Class Day. 
He was also a member of the Harvard base ball 
nine for the two seasons of 1869 and 1870, in 
which it did not lose a game to any nine in the 
country which was strictly amateur. As a mem- 
ber of the nine, he visited the principal cities 
of the North and West. After graduation Mr. 
Perrin was sub-master in the Boston Latin School 
for one year. Then in 187 1 he began his theo- 
logical studies, entering the School of Theology 
of Boston University, and was graduated there in 
1874 with the degree of S.T.B. During his 
course he was instructor in Greek for one year ; 
and he spent the summer of 1873 in the employ of 
the United States Fish Commission, visiting Cali- 
fornia in this service. Mr. Perrin was born of 
Methodist parents, and was received into the 
church when fifteen years of age. He was ad- 
mitted into the ministry of the Methodist Episco- 



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pal Church in the New England Conference in 
1874, being settled in Allston in April that year. 
He was ordained deacon in 1876 by the honored 
Bishop Matthew Simpson, and elder by ]!ishop 
W. L. Harris in 1S78. His services at Allston 
covered two years. He was next assigned to 
Wilbraham, the site of Wesleyan Academy, where 
he spent three years, April, 1876, to April, 1879 ; 
then to the State Street Church, Springfield, serv- 
ing from April, 1879, to April, 1882 ; then to the 
Monument Square Church, Charlestown, Boston, 
1882-85 ; to Trinity, Worcester, 1885-88 ; 
\\'orthen Street, Lowell, 1888-91 ; and to St. 
John's, South Boston, his present pastorate, in 
1S92. His ability and strength ha\e been chiefly 
devoted to the pressing calls of large parishes, — 
connected with preaching, pastoral visiting, pay- 
ing church debts, remodelling church edifices. 
He has, however, occasionally appeared on the 
lecture platform, and has been called to various 
responsibilities in the general work of his denomi- 
nation and in reform movements. In 1885, upon 
the nomination of the alumni of the School of 
Theology, he was elected a trustee of Boston Uni- 
versity, as the first representative of the alumni 
upon the board, and has been twice re-elected for 
the term of five years. Mr. Perrin was married 
April 12, 1876, to Miss Lucy Ellen Denton, of 
Newton. In 1S91 Mrs. Perrin and himself spent 
nine months abroad, visiting England and Scot- 
land ; the continent of Europe, including Greece 
and Constantinople ; Egypt, going up the Nile 
to the first cataract ; the Holy Land, travelling 
through the country on horseback in winter ; 
Malta and Sicily. Mr. Perrin's only brother, 
Marshall Livingston Perrin, is a professor in Bos- 
ton LTniversity and superintendent of schools in 
the town of W'ellesley. 



RAMSAY, Rev. William Warwick, D.l)., of 
Boston, is a native of Ohio, born at A\'inchester, 
Adams County, September 11, 1S35, son of the 
Hon. Richard and Priscilla (Reese) Ramsay. 
His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Reese, 
a major in the War of 1812. His father occupied 
many positions of trust, and the great esteem in 
which he was held was evinced by his having been 
chosen a member of the Ohio Legislature when 
among his constituency the political party with 
which he was identified was in the minority. Dr. 
Ramsay's early education was acquired in the 



common schools of his native village, and his col- 
legiate training was in the Ohio Wesleyan LTniver- 
sity at Delaware, then under the presidency of 
that eminent educator, afterward a bishop of the 
Metliodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Edward 
Thompson, LL.D. Here he enjoyed most con- 
genial and helpful educational advantages, which, 
however, because of ill-liealth, he was obliged to 
terminate before graduation. Subsequently, in 
1 87 1, he received from the university the honor- 
ary degree of A.M.; and in 1880 the honorary 
degree of I). D. was conferred upon him by Alle- 
gheny College at Meadville, Pa. The earlier 
years of his active life were devoted to teaching, 
and during part of these years lie was engaged in 
superintending the Union Schools of Manchester 
and Aberdeen in Southern Ohio. But, being 
deeply impressed with the conviction that the 
Christian ministry was to be his real vocation 
in life, he joined the Cincinnati Conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He began 
preaching in the year 1863 ; and, owing to the 
limited pastoral term in the church of his choice, 
he has served quite a nimiber of churches in the 




W. W. RAMSAY. 



thirty years of his ministerial experience. During 
that period he has been connected with the Cin- 
cinnati, Erie, Kentucky, Pittsburg, Detroit, and 



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New England conferences, and has been stationed 
at the most prominent churches in Cincinnati, 
Dayton, and Akron, Ohio ; Erie and Pittsburg, 
Penna. ; Covington, Ky. : Detroit and Ann Arbor, 
Mich.; and in Boston, Mass. He is now (1895) 
in the fifth year of a most prosperous pastorate 
at the Tremont Street Church, Pioston, one of the 
oldest and strongest Methodist churclies in that 
city, and the most prominent church in its de- 
nomination in New England. He has also made 
a successful venture in authorship, having pub- 
lished through Lee & Shepard a little book en- 
titled ".Sky Wonders," presenting the features of 
astronomy in popular and inviting fashion, which 
has received warm praise from the press. As a 
man, Dr. Ramsay is modest, unassuming, a devout 
Christian, and a faithful friend. As a preacher, he 
is forceful, logical, and oftentimes eloquent in a 
high degree. His pulpit preparation is alw-ays 
most thorough, and gives evidence to the hearer 
of a cultured mind and a warm, sympathetic heart. 
For many years he has ranked as one of the fore- 
most preachers of his denomination, and, largely 
because of his reputation in this direction, has 
been earnestly sought after by the most prominent 
churches of the country. In every instance thus 
far in his ministerial experience he has gone to 
the churches he has served at their urgent request, 
and in one instance, that of Central Church, 
Detroit, was returned for a second pastorate in 
the same manner. While he thus e.xcels as a 
preacher, he is also a model pastor. He is in the 
very prime of his physical and mental pow'ers, 
and will undoubtedly be able to give yet many 
years of service to the church he loves and w'hose 
growth he has advanced by his ministry. Dr. 
Ramsay was married April 6, 1857, to Miss Lida 
A. Gabriel, of Winchester, Ohio, a daughter of the 
Rev. James Gabriel, a Baptist minister, and a 
woman of high intelligence and devotion, who has 
proved a worthy helpmate to her husband in all 
the work of his ministry. They have had two 
bright and promising sons, one of whom died 
in 1872, aged ten years; and the other, W. B. 
Ramsay, in 1891, at the age of twenty-three, soon 
after his graduation from the law school of the 
University of Michigan, having previously grad- 
uated from the College of Liberal Arts of the same 
university. 

REED, Charles Andrew, of Taunton, member 
of the bar, mayor of the city 1895, was born in 



^\■eymouth, June 16, 1836, son of Samuel and 
Caroline (Nash) Reed. He is of the eighth gen- 
eration in direct line from \\illiam Readc, of Wey- 




CHARLES A. REED. 

mouth, who is said to have sailed from Gravesend, 
Kent, England, in the " Assurance de Lo," Brom- 
well, master, in 1635, '-•po" h's arrival settled in 
^\'eymouth, and made a freeman September 2, 
1635, ^^'"^ l'"6 running as follows: (i) \\'illiam, 
born 1605, supposed to be son of William; (2) 
William of Weymouth', eldest son of \\'illiam of 
Weymouth ; (3) John of Abington, eldest son of 
William of Weymouth ; (4) John of Weymouth, 
eldest son of John of Abington ; (5) Samuel of 
Weymouth, eldest son of John of Weymouth ; (6) 
Samuel of Hull, eldest son of Samuel of Wey- 
mouth ; (7) Samuel, eldest son of Samuel of Hull ; 
(8) Charles A., eldest son of Samuel of Weymouth. 
He was educated in the public schools of Wey- 
mouth, fitting for college at Fore River High 
School, Weymouth Landing, and at Amherst Col- 
lege, from which he graduated in the class of 1856. 
After graduating he was principal of Hanover 
Academy, Hanover, until March, 1859. Then he 
studied law with Ellis Ames, of Canton, and was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar July 15, 1S61. Im- 
mediately after his admission he began practice, 
established in Taunton, where he has since re- 



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mained. His first partnership was witir James 
Brown, of Taunton, formed in February, 1862, 
under the title of Brown & Reed. This was dis- 
solved in 1870: and in 1878 he formed a second 
partnership with James H. Dean, under the style 
of Reed & Dean, which continued till the first of 
June, 1893. Since that time he has been alone. 
His practice began in the Supreme Judicial Court, 
October term, 1862, the cases then argued being 
reported in 5 Allen ; and from that date to the 
present he has been engaged in many cases in 
various departments jf law, but quite largely of 
late in municipal law, reported in 5 Allen to 160 
Massachusetts Law Reports. From 1880 to 1894, 
with the exception of a few years, he was city 
solicitor of Taunton, his terms covering the years 
1880-81, 83-84, 90-94. His public service began 
as a member of the Taunton Common Council in 
1879. In 188 1 and 1882 he was a representative 
in the General Court, serving on the committee 
on the judiciary both years, and on the com- 
mittee on revision of the statutes in 18S2 ; and 
in 1886 and 1887 a senator, serving during his 
terms on the committees on the judiciary, on pro- 
bate and insolvency, on cities, and on taxation. 
He was elected mayor of Taunton for the year 
1895 on the Republican ticket. In general 
politics he is a Republican. Mr. Reed is much 
interested in historical matters, and has been 
secretary of the Old Colony Historical Society 
since 1880. He has also been a director and the 
auditor of the Bristol County Agricultural Society 
for many years. He is vestryman of St. Thomas 
Episcopal Church, Taunton, whicii position he 
has held since 1870. He was first married in 
187 1 to Weltha V. Dean, daughter of Silas Dean, 
by whom he had two children: Silas Dean and 
Frances Augustina Reed. The first Mrs. Reed 
died June 30, 1884. He married second in 1889, 
Miss Myra L. Dean, also daughter of Silas Dean. 



RICE, Marshall Olin, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Newton Centre, July 12, 1S42, son 
of Marshall S. and Mary (Livermore) Rice. He 
is of the early New England Rice family, founded 
by Edmund Rice, who emigrated to this country 
from Berkhampstead, England, in 1638, and set- 
tled in Sudbury, Mass. His education was at- 
tained entirely in the public schools of Newton, 
and his training for active life was in hard practi- 
cal work. He came to Boston in i860, and began 



his business career at eighteen years of age, as boy 
with Leland & Mason, then at No. 6 1 Milk Street, 
in the wholesale clothing trade. In 1862, this 
firm being dissolved, Mr. J. D. Leland and himself 
went with the firm of Philip W'adsworth & Co., at 
No. 95 Devonshire Street ; and three years later 
(1866) he was admitted a partner in the firm, 
which did a large business in Boston and Chicago. 
In 1869 this firm dissolved, Mr. ^\"adsworth tak- 
ing the Chicago part of the business and Mr. 
Leland and himself the Boston part, forming a 
partnership under the firm name of Leland, Rice, 
& Co. The business thus organized steadilv in- 




MARSHALL 0. RICE. 

creased, and in 187 1 the firm took a larger store 
at No. 105 Devonshire Street. Here they were 
burned out in the great fire of 1872, making 
nearl\- a total loss. Starting again, they con- 
tinued successfully till December 31, 18S9, when 
the partnership was terminated by the death of 
Mr. Leland. Thereafter Mr. Rice continued the 
business for one year with William S. Sayward 
under the old name of Leland, Rice, & Co., liqui- 
dating all the affairs of the firm, and on Jan- 
uary I, 1 89 1, with Mr. Sayward, Mr. Whitten, 
and George M. Rice, his son, formed the present 
firm of Rice, Sayward, & Whitten. Mr. Rice is 
vice-president of the Clothing Manufacturers' As- 



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60 1 



sociatioii of Boston, and \'ice-presklent of the 
Plymouth Clothing House of Minneapolis, Minn. 
In ]-)olitics he is and always has been a Repub- 
lican. He has nev'er held or desired any political 
office, and his public life has been always among 
his associates and competitors in business. He 
belongs to the Newton Club, and has served one 
term on its executive committee. Mr. Rice was 
married June i, 1864, to Miss Mary E. Rand, 
daughter of George C. Rand, of Rand, Avery, & 
Co., Boston. The only child of this marriage 
was George M. Rice, now his partner in busi- 
ness. Mrs. Rice died January 3, 1866; and on 
September 15, 1867, he married Miss Mary Paul, 
daughter of Deacon Luther Paul, of Newton. The 
children by this union were: Helen R. and \\'ill- 
iam H. Rice. Helen R. is a graduate of Smith 
College, and Williain H. is employed in Mr. Rice's 
business. 



ST. DENNIS, Joseph Nelson, M.D., of Med- 
ford, was born in St. Philippe, P.Q., October 16, 
1865. He is the second of ten sons of Napoleon 
and Rose Delima (Peladeau) St. Dennis. His 
father is the eldest of three sons of Paul and 
Lucie (Senecal) St. Dennis. Paul St. Dennis 
descended from early French settlers in Canada ; 
and Lucie St. Dennis's parents were natives of 
France. His mother is the fourth daughter of 
Edward and Mary (Bunker) Peladeau, the father 
of Edward Peladeau a native of France and his 
mother of English descent, his wife's father, John 
Bunker, a native of Boston, Mass., having settled 
in Chambly, P.O., at the age of twenty. Her 
mother was of Irish and Scotch descent. Dr. 
St. Dennis was educated in Massachusetts, in 
the public schools of Somerville and Medford, 
finishing with a complete business course at 
Comer's Commercial College in Boston. He en- 
tered a wholesale business house on State Street, 
Boston, at the age of nineteen, and remained 
there for about three years, displaying much 
ability in the positions in which he was placed. 
But, preferring professional to commercial life, he 
finally withdrew, and went to Montreal to secure 
the proper training. Being admitted to McCJill's 
Medical College, he began with two courses there ; 
and, as it required at least four years' study to 
obtain a degree at Montreal, and desiring to 
economize time, immediately at the close of each 
of these he entered the Burleigh Medical College, 
thus taking two courses each year. Then, as Bur- 



leigh did not graduate students till July, 1892, he 
entered Baltimore University School of Medicine, 
and graduated there with high honors in March 
that year, having taken five courses in less than 
three years' time. LTpon his graduation Dr. St. 
Dennis established himself at his home in Med- 
ford, and early earned a reputation as a skilful 
physician, after only a few months' practice be- 
coming recognized as one of the busiest and 
most successful practitioners in his town. He 
is active, conscientious, of excellent judgment, 
broad and liberal in his view-s. In politics he is 
Independent. He is a member of many societies, 




NELSON ST. DENNIS. 

fraternal and social, for several of which he is 
medical examiner. He is also examiner for a 
number of insurance companies. He is a contrib- 
utory member of the '• Lawrence Light Guard," 
Company E, Fifth Regiment Infantr)-, Massachu- 
setts Militia, in which he served three years, re- 
signing, after having been appointed first sergeant, 
by reason of his firm sending him out as a com- 
mercial traveller. While a soldier, he was awarded 
badges as a qualified third, second, and first class 
inarksman ; and he holds several medals and 
prizes won at target shooting, competitive drills, 
and for efficiency as a soldier. On two occasions 
he declined election to a lieutenancy. He is also 



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a contributory member of St. Lawrence Post, No. 
66, Grand Army of the Republic. He was ad- 
mitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society in October, 1894. He is unmarried. 




engineer on the construction of Basin N^o. 4 of 
the Boston Water-works. He resigned the latter 
position in 1883, to accept an appointment as as- 
sistant engineer in charge of hydrographic work 
on surveys for a new supply of water for the city 
of Philadelphia. Upon the completion of this 
work, in 1S86, he returned to Boston, and was 
appointed assistant ' engineer in charge of con- 
struction of Basin No. 5 of the Boston Water 
Works. In 1887 he was made executive engineer 
of the Boston Main Drainage Works, and in this 
position continued until the formation of the new 
street department by consolidation in 1S91, when 
he was appointed to his present position of deputy 
superintendent of the sewer division. Mr. San- 
born is a member of the Engineers' Club of Phila- 
delphia, of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association, and of the Megantic Fish 
and Game Club. He was married in 1887 to 
Miss Ella A. Sanborn, of Chicago, 111. They 
have three children : Herbert Warren, Lillian 
Esther Washington, and Grace Marion Sanborn. 



H. W. SANBORN. 

SANBORN, Henrv Warren, of Boston, dep- 
uty superintendent of sewer division of the street 
department of the city, was born in Brighton, 
March 16, 1853, son of Noah Warren and Eliza- 
beth (Earwell) Sanborn. He was educated in the 
public schools of Brighton, graduating from the 
High School in 1870. While at the latter, he made 
a specialty of the higher mathematics, and after 
graduation took a short course at Bryant & Strat- 
ton's Commercial College, Boston. He began 
professional work in 187 1, when he entered the 
office of Fuller & Whitney, civil engineers, Boston. 
His principal work for the next two years was on 
the filling and laying out of the Back Bay District, 
and in the city proper after the great fire of 1872. 
In 1873 he entered the employ of the city in the 
office of the city engineer. In 1874-75 he was of 
the firm of Smilie & Sanborn, civil engineers, in 
Newton. In 1876 he became one of the engineer- 
ing force engaged on the construction of the Bos- 
ton Main Drainage Works, and continued on this 
work till 1881, when he was appointed assistant 




WILLIAM SCHOFIELD. 



SCHOFIPXD, William, of Boston, member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in Dudley, Worcester 
County, February 14, 1857, son of John and Mar- 
garet (Thompson) Schofield. His early education 



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w;is acquired in the common schools ; and he was 
lilted for college at the Nichols Academy, Dud- 
ley. He entered Harvard, and graduated in the 
class of 1879, afterwards spent a year on special 
studies, principally the Roman Law ; and then, 
entering the Harvard Law School, was graduated 
there in June, 1883. For the two years following 
he was secretary of Mr. Justice Gray at Wasliing- 
ton, meanwhile being admitted to the Suffolk bar 
in the spring of 1884. He began to practise law 
in the autumn of 1885 in Boston, and has been 
established there ever since. He was for three 
years, 1886-89, instructor in Torts at the Harvard 
Law School ; and, after the death of Professor 
Ernest Voung, was instructor in Roman Law for 
two years, 1890-92, in Harvard College. Since 
the latter date his whole attention has been given 
to his law business. Mr. Schofield has written a 
number of articles on legal subjects, which have 
appeared in the Harvard Law Review. He was 
married December i, 1892, to Miss Kdnah AL 
Green, of Rutland, Vt. 



SIDNEY, Austin Wiliujk, M.D., of Fitch- 
burg, was born in Westminster, February 27, 
1824, son of Leonard and Lucinda (Sawin) Hoar, 
liy an act of the Massachusetts State Legislature 
in 1846 his name was changed from Hoar to 
Sidney. He traces his lineage on the paternal 
side back to John Hoar, who was connected with 
the early history of New England, and down to 
the late Judge Hoar, of Concord, and Senator 
Hoar, of Worcester. His grandfather was of Con- 
cord, and moved from that town, when a young 
man, to Westminster, where he afterward lived, 
married, and reared a family of nine or ten chil- 
dren. Dr. Sidney's parents were both natives of 
Westminster. They had ten children, seven still 
living, of whom he was the oldest. He received 
his early education in the common schools of his 
native town, and finished at the Westminster 
Academy. He took up the study of medicine first 
with Dr. John Andrews, late of Taunton, and 
subsequently attended the Eclectic Medical Col- 
lege of Pennsylvania, graduating there in i860. 
Later in life he studied at the Dartmouth Medical 
College, and graduated there in 1880. He began 
the practice of medicine in 1861, settled in the 
town of Sterling, where he remained until 1866, 
when he removed to Fitchburg, which has since 
been his field of successful labor. He became a 



member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 
i8Sr, of the Fitchburg Society for Medical Im- 
provement the same year, and of the American 
Medical Association in 1883, and he was a mem- 
ber of the Ninth Medical International C"ongress 
in 18S7. In 189 1 he was president of the Fitch- 
burg Society for Medical Improvement ; and was 
one of the censors of the Worcester North Medi- 
cal Society during the year 1892. In E'itchburg 
he is much interested in local affairs, being a 
member of the I'itchburg ISoard of Trade and 
serving on the School Connnittee. He was a 
charter member of the corporation of the Fitch- 




A. W. SIDNEY. 

burg Home for Old Ladies, incorporated in 1883, 
and held the office of president and physician of 
the corporation for several years, resigning in 
1892. He became a member of the Baptist 
Church in 1844, and was early identified with 
local church matters. He was for many years one 
of the prudential committee of the First Baptist 
Church of Fitchburg; and in 1891, when the 
Highland Baptist Church of Fitchburg was organ- 
ized, he united with that society, and was duly 
elected one of its deacons and chairman of its 
prudential committee. He has been prominently 
connected with the building and repairing of the 
four Baptist church buildings in his city. Dr. 



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Sidney is connected witii the Masonic fraternity 
and witli the order of Odd Fellows. In politics 
he is a stanch Republican, in favor of prohibi- 
tion. He was first married April 15, 1845, to 
Miss Esther Whitaker, of \\'est Boylston. He 
married second, January 6, 1875, Miss Mandana 
M. Walker, of Clinton. He has one child (adopted), 
Laura M., now wife of the Rev. \\'. L. Stone, pas- 
tor of the liaptist church of South Penobscot, 
Me. 




A. J. STEVENS. 

STEVENS, Andrew Jackson, M.D., of Mai- 
den, is a native of New Hampshire, born in War- 
ren, .April 24, 1846, son of Robert Burns and 
Charity (Sly) Stevens. His ancestors on both 
sides were among the first settlers of New Eng- 
land. On the paternal side, beginning with Han- 
nah Dustin, of Haverhill, Mass., they have sus- 
tained every important general movement for 
liberty and the uplifting of the race ; were at 
the battle of Bunker Hill and through the Revo- 
lution. On the maternal side the earliest record 
is of George .Abbott, from the vicinity of York- 
shire, England, who was one of the first settlers in 
Andover. The descendants number many who 
have been eminent as scholars and members of 
the professions. Dr. Stevens was educated in 
the grammar and high schools of Haverhill, 



Mass., and by private tutor ; and wa.s fitted for 
his profession at the Harvard Medical School, 
from which he received his diploma March 10, 
i86g. More than twenty years of his professional 
life have been spent in Holliston and in Maiden. 
Thirteen years of active country practice gave him 
a wide e.xperience and training, which contributed 
much toward developing the elements of profes- 
sional success. Taking up the profession both 
as a duty and a privilege, the claims of the unfort- 
unate have always been heeded by him ; and the 
question of poverty or riches has never affected 
the careful attention given to cases coming under 
his treatment. In the spring of 1889, being called 
to care for and superintend the transporting to 
the Boston hospitals, under great difficulties, of 
several workmen who had been severely injured 
in Maiden, he determined not to cease working 
for a Maiden hospital until one was built. .As 
a result of this resolve, the leading citizens of 
the city were interested. The Maiden Hospital 
was erected, and its doors opened to the public 
in a little more than three years. Dr. Stevens is 
now consulting physician and surgeon to this 
hospital, and a member of the medical board. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, of the Maiden Medical Improvement So- 
ciety, and of the Harvard Medical School Associ- 
ation. He has never sought office ; but in the 
earlier years of his practice, when in Holliston, he 
served several terms on the Board of Health and 
on the School Committee of that town. He has 
also filled a number of official positions in medical 
societies to which he belongs, but of late years 
has declined all such places. Although born 
with a love of music, art, and nature, and a 
student of a wide range of literature and history, 
the especial bent and effort of his life has been in 
his profession ; and the success which he has at- 
tained is attributed to the entire thoroughness of 
the work done, and an unfailing energy and hope 
which have often turned an impending defeat into 
victory. Upon political questions and principles 
Dr. Stevens has decided opinions, and always 
votes ; but he does not participate further in 
politics. He was married November i, 187 1, to 
Mrs. Jennie (Stone) Powers. They have one son : 
Edward Stone Stevens. 



STEVENS, Oliver Crocker, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Boston, born 



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|une 3, US55, son of CaUin Stevens, M.I)., and 
Sophia Toppan (Crocker) Stevens. His ancestry 
is in all its branches Pilgrim anil Puritan, and 




Supreme Judicial Court of the Coninuniwealth 
July 8, 1879, to practice in the United States Cir- 
cuit Court July 26, 1880, and to the United States 
Supreme Court March 4, 18S4. He was elected 
a member of the J'.oard of Overseers of Bowdoin 
College in 1891. He is a member of the Univer- 
sity Club, Boston, and in college was a member 
of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the I'hi Beta 
Kappa. In politics he is Republican. Mr. 
Stevens was married June 10, 1885, at St. Albans, 
Vt., to Miss Julia Burnett Sniitii, daughter of the 
Hon. J. Gregory Smith and .\nn Kliza n'rainerdl 
Smith. 

STURTEVANT, Charles, M.D., of Hyde 
Park, was born in Wrentham, Norfolk County, 
July 28, 1839, son of Captain William and Emily 
Frances ( Fisk) Sturtevant. He is a direct descend- 
ant of Samuel Sturtevant, born in 1622 in Roches- 
ter, Kent, England, came to Plymouth Colony 
about the year 1640, was drafted and bore arms in 
1643, the line running as follows: Samuel Stur- 
tevant, Jr., born April 19, 1654, at Plymouth; 
Josiah Sturtevant, seventh child of Samuel Stur- 



OLIVER C. STEVENS. 



notably from the following : Richard Stevens of 
Ipswich and Marlborough, Abraham Toppan of 
Newbury, James Hosmer and George Hayward 
of Concord, Kenelm Winslow of Plymouth, Henry 
Sewall of Newbury, Roger Conant of Salem, Ed- 
ward Bangs of Eastham, John Stow of Roxbury, 
John Poore of Newbury, Edward Wigglesworth of 
Charlestown and New Haven, William Hartwell of 
Concord, and William Crocker of Scituate. His 
preparatory education was attained in the Bos- 
ton public schools, finishing at the Public Latin 
School ; and his collegiate training was at Bow- 
doin College, where he graduated A.B. in the class 
of 1876, his commencement part being a " philo- 
sophical disquisition " on " Electoral Rights," 
and received in 1884 the degree of A.M. He 
studied law at the Boston University Law School, 
graduating in 1879, and delivering on commence- 
ment day one of the two commencement parts, 
the other being by William E. Russell, afterward 
Governor Russell, taking for his subject " Legal 
Ethics." He also read law in the office of the 
Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, ex-attorney-general of 
the State. He was admitted to the bar in the 




CHAS. STURTEVANT. 



tevant, Jr., born in 1690, married Hannah, sister 
of Captain Church who captured King Philip; 
Charles Sturtevant, born 172T ; Charles Stur- 



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tevant, Jr., born 1755, responded to the " Le.xin>;- 
ton alarm call," April 19, 1775 (as corporal in 
the Second Company of Rochester Militia), died 
1816; and William Sturtevant, son of Charles, Jr., 
born September 1802, died 1881. Dr. Sturtevant 
is also descended on the Sturtevant side from 
Richard Bourne, born in England iGog, came to 
Sandwich, Mass., in 1637, ^'^^ instructor to the 
Mashpee Indians in 1658, was ordained by Eliot 
and Cotton in 1670, and died 1682; also from 
Samuel Arnold, born in England 1623, bore arms 
in Sandwich, Mass., in 1643, was representative 
in 1654-55-56, ordained minister at Marshfield, 
1693; and from Samuel Arnold, Jr., born in 
Sandwich in 1653, ordained as minister in 1684, 
began preaching in Rochester in 1687, and was 
settled over the First Congregational Church in 
Rochester in 1703, and died in 1709. On his 
mother's side Dr. Sturtevant is descended from 
the Sheppards of liristol, England, and the Fisks, 
who are of Welsh descent. He was educated 
in the primary school, at Day's Academy, Wren- 
tham, and at a private school in Newton Centre. 
His professional training was at the Harvard 
Medical School, where he graduated March 12, 
1862. Entering the United States Navy imme- 
diately after graduation, he served therein until the 
close of the Civil War. He began the practice of 
medicine in the village of Marion, where he re- 
mained until 187 I, when he removed his residence 
and practice to Hyde Park. In 1S75 he was ap- 
pointed coroner, and held this office until the sys- 
tem was abolished. Then he was made medical ex- 
aminer for the Second Norfolk District, embracing 
the towns of Milton and Hyde Park, whicli position 
he still holds, having been twice reappointed, the 
date of his latest commission being June 30, 1891. 
He is a member of the American Institute of 
Homceopathy, of the Massachusetts Honneopathic 
Medical Society, and of the Pioston Homoeopathic 
Medical Society. He is a member and surgeon 
of Timothy Ingraham Post, No. 121, of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and member also of the 
Hyde Park Lodge of Freemasons, of the Norfolk 
Royal Arch Chapter, of the Hyde Park Council, 
Royal and Select Masters, of the Cyprus Com- 
mandery. Knights Templar, and of the Kearsarge 
Association of Naval Veterans. Dr. Sturtevant 
was married June 15, 187 1, to Miss liethiah 
Hadley Delano, of Marion, daughter of Captain 
Obed and Verona (Hadley) Delano. They have 
two daughters : Emily Frances Sturtevant (born 



October 17, 1872) and Verona Hadley Sturtevant 
(born November 9, 1878). 




J. LANGDON SULLIVAN. 

SULLIVAN, John Langddn, M.D., of Mai- 
den, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Keene, March 8, 1827, son of Thomas Russell and 
Charlotte Caldwell (Blake) Sullivan. He is of 
distinguished Massachusetts ancestry, on the pa- 
ternal side tiiird in descent from James Sullivan, 
governor of the State in 1807, and on the mater- 
nal side grandson of Francis Blake, an eminent 
PJay State jurist. His education was acquired in 
the Boston Latin School and at the Cambridge 
Scientific School, and his training for his profes- 
sion was at the Harvard Medical School, where 
he graduated in July, 1847, supplemented, after 
some years practice, by European study. He has 
practised medicine in Maiden and vicinity for 
nearly forty-six years as a general practitioner. 
1 )uring the Civil \\'ar he served as surgeon of the 
Board of Enrolment, Sixth Congressional Dis- 
trict ; and after the close of the war he became 
I'uited States examining surgeon for pensions, 
and later, by appointment of Governor Rice, medi- 
cal examiner for Middlesex Count)-, w'hich office 
he held for eight years. Dr. Sullivan is a Fellow 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, an honor- 



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ary nieiiiher of the Canadian Medical Association, 
a member of the American Medical Association, 
a member of the ^[assachusetts Medico-legal So- 
ciety, and honorary member of the (gynaecological 
Society of Boston. He was married lirst, April 
2, 1850, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Lynde (eldest 
child of J. S. Lynde, of New York), who died in 
1856, and two years later to his present wife, 
Helen, second daughter of the aforesaid Lynde. 
He had two children by his first wife, one of 
whom, Mrs. Alexander Cochrane (No. 257 Com- 
monwealth Avenue, IJoston ), is .still living: the 
other died in early boyhood. I!y his second wife 
he has had four children, three of whom are 
living. 

S\\'.\N, \\'iLLr.A.M DoNNi.soN, M.I)., of Cam- 
bridge, was born in Kennebunk, Me., January i, 
1859, son of Rev. Joshua A. Sw'an, Unitarian 
minister at Kennebunk for eighteen years, and 
Sarah, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Richard M. 
Hodges, Unitarian minister at Bridgewater, ALass. 
His mother's maternal grandfather, William 
Donnison, was an officer in the Revolution, and 




WILLIAM D. SWAN. 



afterwards adjutant-general to Governor Han- 
cock and judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 
He was fitted for college at the Cambridge High 



School, entered Harvard, and graduated \n the 
class of 1881. His professional training followed 
at the Harvard Medical School, from which he 
graduated M.l). in 1885. After two years of 
study in the hospitals of Boston and one year in 
Vienna and Frankfort-on-the-Main, he began 
practice in Cambridge in 1888. Three years 
later he was appointed medical examiner for the 
l''irst District of Middlesex County (Cambridge, 
Belmont, and .Arlington) by Governor lirackett. 
He is now also visiting physician to the Cam- 
bridge Hospital and to the .Vvon Home of Cam- 
bridge. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and of the Massachusetts 
Medico-Legal Society. His club connections are 
with the Union and University clubs of Boston 
and the Colonial Club of Cambridge. Dr. Swan 
was married April 30, 1890, to Miss Mary 
W'inthrop Hubbard, daughter of Samuel Hubbard, 
of Oakland, Cal. They have two children : 
Marian Hubbard (born February 22, 1891) and 
William Donnison Swan, Jr. (born October g, 
•894). 

TAYLOR, Rev. EnwAun Matihkw, of Bos- 
ton, pastor of the Winthrop Street Methodist 
Church, was born in Washington, Penna., Febru- 
ary 25, 1852, son of William H. and Jane Eliza- 
beth (Jones) Taylor. His ancestors on his 
father's side came from Flngland early in the his- 
tory of the country, and his great-grandfather was 
the first judge of Washington County, Pennsylva- 
nia. On the maternal side he is also of English 
descent, the family appearing in this country early 
in the present century. His maternal great-grand- 
father was an officer in the British army, and was in 
several engagements against Napoleon. He was 
educated in Pennsylvania public schools, and at 
the Washington and Jefferson College, graduating 
therefrom in July, 1873. Subsequently he took 
the course of the Boston University School of 
Theology, and graduated in 1877 with the degree 
of S.T.B. He entered the ministry of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church immediately upon gradua- 
tion from the theological school, and was first 
assigned to South Braintree. He was there 
settled three years ; then at Norwich, Conn., over 
the East Main Street Church, three years; next 
at St. Paul's, Fall River, Mass., three years ; then 
at Stafford Springs, Conn., three years ; at 
Flint Street, East Somerville, Mass., one year ; at 
Trinity, Charlestown District, Boston, the length- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ened term of five years ; and next at the Winthrop 
Street, Boston, his present settlement. He was 
appointed presiding elder of the Lynn District in 
1892, and president of the first General Confer- 
ence District of the Epworth League in 1894. 
Zion's Herald, the Methodist newspaper of New 
England, in speaking of Mr. Taylor's appointment 
to the latter position, says : " Mr. Taylor is one of 
the most popular and promising men in our 
patronizing conferences, a man of unusual pul- 
pit power and particularly eloquent and impres- 
sive upon the platform, in hearty sympathy with 
the movements of the time, and peculiarly quali- 




E. M. TAYLOR. 

fied to fill with marked credit and success the 
position to which he has been elected." In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and cast liis first vote for 
General Grant for President. 1 )r. Taylor was 
married June 13, 1882, to Miss Mary E. Bradford, 
of South Braintree. They have two children : 
Frank Bradford (aged eleven years) and Mar- 
guerite L. Taylor (aged nine years.) 



TUTTLE, Albert Henry, M.D., S.B., of Bos- 
ton, was born in South Boston, August 14, 1861, 
son of Joel White and Adelia Melissa (Palmer) 
Tuttle. He is on both sides of English ancestry. 



and descended from early settlers of New Eng- 
land. On the paternal side he is of the ninth 
generation from William and Elizabeth Tuttle, 
the line running as follows : Joel White Tuttle, 
his father, eighth generation, born in Dummers- 
ton, Vt., 1830; Joel, seventh, born in Winchester, 
N.H., died in Boston; Joseph, si.xth, born in 
Hebron, Conn., August 17, 1762, died in Dum- 
merston, Vt., a veteran of the War of 1S12, who 
married Annie White, a lineal descendant of 
Peregrine White, the first white child born in New 
England ; Joseph, fifth, born in Connecticut, died 
in Winchester, N.H., December, 1820 ; Nathan, 
fourth, born in New Haven, January 20, 1694; 
John, third, born September 15, 1657; John, sec- 
ond, born in England, 1631. His mother, Adelia 
Melissa, third, is a daughter of Lemuel, second, 
and grand-daughter of Lemuel Palmer. His early 
education was acquired in a grammar school in 
Boston, at the English High School, where he 
spent a year, and through private tutoring for a 
year. Then he was for a year at the Bussey In- 
stitute, and two years at the Lawrence Scientific 
School of Harvard University, graduating with 
the degree of S.B. in 1S83. A portion of the 
summer of 1883 was spent in the Marine Labora- 
tory of Professor Alexander Agassiz at Newport, 
in the study of marine fauna, especially some of 
the pelagic forms of life. The following season 
he entered the Harvard Medical School ; and, 
after graduating with the regular degree in 1886, 
he went abroad, spending the winter following, 
1886-87, '^t ''i*^ University of \'ienna in advanced 
medical study. Upon his return from Europe 
Dr. Tuttle settled in Cambridge in the spring of 
1887, and engaged in general practice. At the 
same time he took up painting in oils as an avoca- 
tion, and developed further an ability in illustra- 
tion that had already been manifest while in 
college, and which was destined to aid him mate- 
rially in after life. During the academic seasons 
of 1889-90 and 1S90-91 he was instructor of en- 
tomology at the Bussey Institute. By this time 
he had shown a strong tendency toward surgerj', 
and had begun the development of his surgical 
career. The universal success that followed his 
work gave him great confidence in his own ability ; 
and he did not hesitate to undertake any surgical 
problem that was presented, first carefully weigh- 
ing the chances for successful operation. In the 
early part of 1894 he was enabled to throw off 
general practice, and follow exclusively the spe- 



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cialty of surgery. Realizing llic necessity, in tile 
development of a s|)ecial business, of having liis 
ofifice in a railroad centre, he removed to Roston 
in the spring of 1892. In the autumn of 1893 he 
accepted a position in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, Boston, as didactic lecturer on 
theory and practice of surgery ; but after some 
twelve or fourteen lectures he resigned, feeling 
dissatisfied with the management of the institu- 
tion. He then became an incorporator and sur- 
geon of the St. Omer Hospital, ISoston, which, by 
his invariably good operative results, he rapidly 




ALBERT H. TUTTLE. 

developed into one of the most prominent institu- 
tions of its kind. Dr. Tuttle has been a frequent 
contributor to medical and surgical publications 
and to scientific associations, among his many 
papers being the following : " The Relation of the 
External Meatus, Tympanum, and Eustachian 
Tube to the First Visceral Cleft " (Proceedings of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
Boston, 1883); "Life History of Lunatia Heros" 
(unpublished) (first Walker Prize, 1884) ; " A Case 
of ])ermatitis lodoformi " {Boston Medical and 
Siii-gical Journal, October, 1891); "A New Use 
of an Old Remedy" (same, April, 1892) ; " Animal 
Ligatures and Sutures, their Variety, Preparation, 
and Uses " (Journal of the American Alcdical As- 



socia/iiiii, ]u\y, 1892); "A Rapidly Fatal Case of 
.Vlipeiidicitis " {Boston Medical and Surgical Jour- 
nal November, 1892); '-The Surgical Anatomy 
and Surgery of the Ear," one hundred and nine 
Images, twenty-seven original illustrations, drawn 
by the author from nature (George S. Davis, pub- 
lisher, Detroit, Mich.) ; " Some Observations bear- 
ing on the Treatment of Nasal and Middle Ear 
.MTections " {Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 
.\pril, 1893); "A Study of the Radical Cure of 
Hernia by Marcy's Method" (Journal of the 
American Medical Association, August, 1 893) ; 
'■Chronic Disease of the Middle Ear, its Prognosis 
and Surgical Treatment" (Transactions, First Pan- 
American Congress, held at Washington, D.C., 
September, 1893); "An Unusual Accident" {In- 
ternational Journal of Surgery. January, 1894); 
" Total Extirpation of the Uterus by a New- 
Method " {Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 
October, 1S94), eight illustrations; "A Case of 
Concealed Uterine Hemorrhage " {Boston Medical 
and Surgical Journal, January 10, 1894). Besides 
the above are the reports of the Gynecological 
Society of Boston and the Cambridge Society of 
Medical Improvement, of which he was secretary 
(of the former, 1893-94; of the latter, 1892 to 
October, 1894), including over thirty papers, with 
discussions, in a period of two years, many of 
which have been quoted. His studies and plates 
on the anatomy of the ear are extensively referred 
to, and his work on the removal of the uterus is 
especially noteworthy. He is a member also of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American 
Medical Association, the American Academy of 
Medicine, the Boston Medical Library Association, 
the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, the 
Lawrence Scientific School Association, and of 
other social and literary societies. He was married 
June 5, 1889, to Miss Margaret Priscilla Davis, 
daughter of Edw-ard A. and grand-daughter of 
Thomas Davis. They have one daughter : Elsa 
Davis Tuttle. 

TUTTLE, Luciu-S, of Boston, president of the 
Boston & Maine Railroad, was born in Hartford, 
Conn., March 11, 1846, son of George and Mary 
(Jaylord (Loomis) Tuttle. He is a descendant of 
William Tuttle, who came to Boston in the ship 
" Planter" in 1635, and who in 1636 removed to 
Charlestown, and again, about 1639, as one of 
the earliest settlers, to New Haven, Conn. His 
homestead of ten acres in the latter place was a 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



part of the ground now occupied by Osborn Hall 
and other Vale College buildings. On the mater- 
nal side iNIr. Tuttle's ancestors were among the 




of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with office at 
Montreal. On the ist of May, i88g, he was 
made commissioner of the Trunk Lines Associa- 
tion, passenger department, New York City. One 
year later, May i, 1890, he became general man- 
ager of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford 
Railroad, with office at New Haven. In February. 
1892, he was elected director and vice-president 
of that company. In 1893 he resigned these 
positions to accept the presidency of the Boston 
& Maine Railroad, which office he assumed on 
October 11, that year, and has since held. Mr. 
Tuttle is a member of the Commercial Club, of 
the Algonquin Club, and of the Beacon Societ}', 
all of Boston ; and he is connected with the Ma- 
sonic order, member of Soley Lodge of Somer- 
ville. In politics he is Republican. He married 
in Springfield, July 11, 1867, Miss Etta F. Mar- 
tin, who died at Hartford in 1873. He was again 
married to Miss Estelle H. Martin at Norwich, 
Conn., October 14, 1875. ^^ '''^^ three children : 
Jennie I)., Etta M, and Effie E. Tuttle. 



LUCIUS TUTTLE. 

settlers of Windsor, Conn., in 1635. ^^ ^^'"^s edu- 
cated in the common schools and at the Public 
High School of Hartford. After leaving school, 
he was for one year, 1865-66, clerk of the Pro- 
bate Court for the District of Hartford. Then, in 
July, t866, he entered the service of the Hartford, 
Providence, & Fishkill Railroad as clerk in the 
ticket department at the general office of the 
company at Hartford. Soon after he was pro- 
moted to the office of general ticket agent, and 
continued in that position until 187S, when the 
road was consolidated with the New York &: New 
England Railroad ; and he was made assistant 
general passenger agent of that company at Bos- 
ton. On the I St of February, 1879, he was ap- 
pointed general passenger agent of the Eastern 
Railroad, with oflice in Boston, and so remained 
until December, 1884, and the lease of the road to 
the Boston & Maine Railroad. He was then ap- 
pointed assistant to the general manager of the 
latter company, but resigned January, 1885, to 
accept (February i) the general passenger agency 
of the Boston & Lowell Railroad. In January, 
1887, he was appointed passenger traffic manager 




CHARLE.S H. VEO. 



VEO, Ch.\rles Henry, D.M.D., of Boston, is 
a native of Lowell, born August 27, 1861, son of 
Peter and Almira (Tetreau) Veo. He is of 
French descent, the family name in France being 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



6ll 



Viaux. Ho was educated in tlic pulilic schools of 
Lowell, and prepared for his profession at the 
Harvard Dental School, where he graduated with 
the degree of doctor of dental medicine in 1S87. 
After leaving the High School at Lowell in 1879, 
he went West, and was some time book-keeper for 
the contractor building the Leadville, Col., di\ision 
of the Denver, South Park, & Pacific Railroad. 
Then, returning to Lowell in 1880, he was there en- 
gaged as book-keeper for the firm of T. R. Garity 
& Co., plumbers, steam and gas fitters, until 1883, 
when he began the study of dentistry. Upon 
graduation from the Dental School in 1887 he 
went to England, and studied the latest methods 
in crown and bridge work. He remained abroad 
about four years, practising in London while pur- 
suing his studies; and upon his return in 1S91 he 
established himself in Pioston, opening his dental 
office in the Hotel Pelham. Dr. Veo was mar- 
ried in 1887 to Miss Margaret M. View, of ^^'ood- 
stock, Vt. 

WADSWORTH, Peleg, M.D., of Maiden, is 
a native of Maine, born in the town of Hiram, 
October 10, 1S34, son of Peleg and Lusanna 
(Wadsworth) W'adsworth. He is a grandson of 
General Peleg Wadsworth of Revolutionary dis- 
tinction, who was also a member of Congress 
in Philadelphia ; a lineal descendant, fourth gen- 
eration, of Christopher \\'adsworth, who came 
from England to Duxbury, Mass., in the year 
1632. His great-grandfather was also named 
Peleg Wadsworth. He was fitted for college at 
Gilmanton, N.H., and at Phillips (Andover) Acad- 
emy, spending two years at each place ; entered 
Dartmouth, and graduated in 1859. For a year 
after graduation he was teacher of the Mclndoe's 
Falls (Vt.) Academy. Then he studied med- 
icine at the Dartmouth Medical School and at the 
National Medical College in \\'ashington, D.C., 
graduating from the latter in 1863. Service in 
the army followed, in 1863 as acting assistant 
surgeon (contract) at Frederick City, Md., and at 
Annapolis, and in 1863-65, one and a half years, 
as resident surgeon at the Quartermaster's Hos- 
pital, Washington, D.C. ; and in 1865 service in 
the navy, also acting assistant surgeon. After 
the war Dr. Wadsworth entered general practice 
at Portland, -Me., and after a year in that city re- 
moved to Maiden, where he has been established 
since. For twelve years, from 1876 to 1888, he 
was town and city physician. He has been a 



member of the Massachusetts Medical Society 
since 1872, and a member of the Maiden Medical 
Improvement Society since its organization. In 
politics he is a Republican. He has served the 
city as a member of the School Committee for two 
years. He was married September 3, 1 861, to 
Miss Hannah Halch Corey, by which union was 
one child : Anne Cora Wadsworth, who died at 
an early age. In October, 1865, he married Miss 
R. E. H. Willard, and the children of this union 
were Winnifred and lames Stevenson Wadsworth. 




p. WADSWORTH. 



He married next in December, 1877, Miss Ellen 
Silvester, and by this union is one child : Louise 
Elizabeth Wadsworth. 



WARREN, Albert Cyrus, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, was born in St. Louis, Mo., March 18, 
1852, son of Herbert M. and Eliza C. (Copp) 
Warren. On the paternal side he is from an old 
English family, one of whom was among the ear- 
liest settlers in Pilgrim days ; and on the maternal 
side is also English, James Copp, the father of 
Eliza C. Copp, coming to this country about the 
year 1845. He was educated in the New Church 
School at Waltham, Mass., at the Union Hall 
Academy, Jamaica, L.I., and at the Newton, Mass., 



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High School, tinishin_i; with two years at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaving 
the institute in 1871 to go into business, from 
July that year until iSSo he was employed in the 
manufacture of soap, the business being owned 
by his father. Of this time two years were spent 
at the works in learning the details of soap-mak- 
ing, three years as salesman, and the remainder, 
from 1876 to 1880, in charge of the business, his 
father then giving his attention to asphalt paving. 
During the latter period the business was changed 
from the manufacture of laundry soaps to that of 
special soaps for use in silk, woollen, and cotton 




ALBERT C. WARREiM. 

mills, and by calico printers, dye-houses, and the 
like. After the death of his father in June, 1S80, 
Mr. Warren formed a partnership with one of the 
salesmen and the superintendent of the works, 
under the style of Albert C. Warren & Co. ; and 
this was retained for about a year, when the 
change was made to the Warren Soap Manufact- 
uring Company, which has since continued. In 
1890 the business was incorporated, with Mr. 
Warren as treasurer, the position he still holds. 
Being unknown to the trade which it wished to 
reach, — the manufacturers of te.xtile fabrics, — 
when the change in the business was made in 
1876, tile firm found it up-hill work at first to 



establish its trade with tile mills ; and the kinds 
of soaps required for use on different kinds of 
fabrics and with different qualities of water had 
all to be learned. liut by careful attention to the 
details of the business, and the application of the 
principles of chemistry to obtain the necessary 
elements for different uses, the works steadily 
developed, and the company became one of the 
best known in its specialty of any in the country, 
a result largely attributable to Mr. Warren's efforts. 
Mr. Warren has never held civil or political office, 
but has served in the Massachusetts Volunteer 
Militia for twenty years. He first enlisted in 
Company L, First Regiment, October 10, 1870, 
and served four years as a private. Then in the 
latter part of 1879 '^'^ became a member of 
Company C, Fifth Regiment, in which he served 
four years as private, corporal, and sergeant. In 
June, 1883, he was appointed quartermaster ser- 
geant of the Fifth Regiment, and held that position 
for seven years, when he was appointed paymaster 
of the regiment, which position he has since held. 
He is a member of the Royal .\rcanum (Natick 
Council, No. 126), of the Home Circle (Loyal 
Council, No. 104), and of the Newton Club. In 
politics he is a Republican. He was married No- 
vember 2, 1876, to Miss Flora E. Joy, of Welles- 
ley. They have one child, a daughter. Mr. War- 
ren resides in West Newton in a house built and 
for some years occupied by Horace Mann, where 
also Hawthorne lived for a year and where he 
wrote the " Blithedale Romance." Mr. Warren's 
father bought the place in 1862 ; and his family 
occupied it until a year or tw'o after his death, 
when it was sold. Mr. Warren bought it back in 
1891. 

WELLMAN, Arthur Hoi.brckik, member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in East Randolph (now 
Holbrook), October 30, 1855, son of the Rev. 
Joshua \\'yman \\'elhnan, D.I)., and Ellen Maria 
('Holbrook) \\'elhnan. On his father's side he is 
a descendant in the eighth generation of William 
Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, and is 
also descended from William Brewster, of Plym- 
outh, and from Abraham Wellman, who perished 
at the siege of Louisburg, under General Pepper- 
ell in 1745. On his mother's side he is a de- 
scendant of the Hon. Thomas Durfee, of Free- 
town, for many years a State senator, a member 
of the Governor's Council, and judge of the Court 
of Sessions ; and his maternal "randfather was 



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613 



the late Caleb S. Holbrook, of Holbrook. Arthur 
II. was educated in the Newton public schools 
and at Amherst Colleire, where he trraduated in 




den, where he has resided a number of years, he 
was a member of the Common Council in 1885, 
and is now a trustee of the Maiden Hospital and 
of the Maiden Public Library. He is connected 
with the Masonic order, as a member of the Con- 
verse Lodge of Maiden. He is a member also 
of the Boston Congregational Club, of the Boston 
liar Association, of the American Bar Association, 
and of the Maiden Historical Society. Mr. Well- 
man was married October 11, 1887, to Miss Jen- 
nie L. Faulkner. They have two children : Sar- 
gent Holbrook and Katharine l''aulkuer Wellman. 



WETMORE, Stephen Albert, of fioston, of 
the Boston Hcrahl editorial staff, is a native of 
St. John, N.B., born February 25, 1862, son 
of Edwin J. and Margaret A. (Drake) Wetmore. 
The family originally belonged in New York, and 
moved to New Brunswick, all the members of it 
being engaged in lumbering and kimber manufact- 
ure before there was a realization of the fact that 
the forests could be exhausted. He was educated 
in the Advanced School at St. John. Before 



A. H. WELLMAN. 

the class of 187S, delivering the valedictory. He 
studied law in the Harvard Law School (1879-80 
and 1880-81), in the Boston University Law 
School (1881-82), graduating from the latter 
sumina iiiin laiufc in 1882, and in the office of 
the late Lyman Mason. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1882, and has since practised his 
profession in Boston. He served for three years 
as city solicitor of Maiden, 18S9-90-91. Since 
1 89 1 he has been professor of equity jurispru- 
dence and equit)- pleading in the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, succeeding the late Elias Mer- 
win, having previously (from 18S6) been an 
instructor in that institution. In politics he is 
Republican. He has served three terms in the 
lower house of the Legislature (1892-93-94), — 
the first year a member of the committee on the 
judiciary ; the second, House chairman of the 
committee on cities ; the third, again House chair- 
man of the committee on cities, also House chair- 
man of a special committee on the unemployed, 
and a member of the committee on ta.vation, — 
and is a member of the Senate of 1895, being 
chairman of the committee on railroads. In Mal- 



■^''jr\ 




S. A. WETMORE. 



coming of age, he engaged in newspaper work, 
and has since had experience in nearly all 
branches of the profession. He has been con- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



neclcd witli the Jiostun Ihialil for nearly twelve 
years, serving as " assignment reporter," city 
editor, and special article writer, treating a great 
variety of subjects, and having been identified 
with the leading news undertakings of the paper 
during a good part of this period. He was one 
of those who represented the paper at the national 
conventions which nominated Mr. Cleveland and 
Mr. Harrison for the presidency; he managed 
the reporting of the international yacht race of 
October, 1893, — a great work, necessitating the 
employment of special wires along the New Jersey 
and Long Island coasts, besides despatch boats 
for artists and the carrying ashore of reports, — 
and throughout the contest the Boston service was 
ahead of the New York newspaper service, not- 
withstanding that the New York newspaper men 
were on their own ground ; and, among various 
local enterprises, he at one time secured a com- 
plete canvass of the property owners and ten- 
ants of Washington and Tremont Streets, which, 
upon its publication, led the Legislature to 
amend the rapid transit act of 1894, exempting 
these streets within the "congested district" of 
the city from overhead structure. He has en- 
deavored to make his newspaper work useful ; and 
'•if it has been useful," he says, "it has usually 
been the thoughtfulness of the chief editor, and 
always the enterprise of the paper, which has made 
it so." Mr. Wetmore was elected a member of 
the Boston School Committee in 1893 for the 
years 1894-95-96, and has taken a deep interest, 
in that work, striving whenever occasion offered 
to awaken a better public interest in the public 
schools. Early in 1895 he prepared a statement 
of the pressing needs of the schools, which was 
accepted as the basis of an appeal to the Legislat- 
ure then in session. He is a member of the Mu- 
nicipal League. He was married in 1883 to Miss 
Jeannette Blair Elder, of Boston. 



WHITCHER, William Frederick, of Bos- 
ton, literary editor of the Boston Advertiser, is a 
native of New Hampshire, born in the town of 
Benton, August :o, 1845, son of Ira and Lucy 
(Royce) \\'hitcher. His ancestry is traced to 
Thomas Whittier, born 1622, and settled in New- 
bury, Mass., coming from England in 1638, the 
names of whose descendants have been variously 
spelled Whittier, Whitcher, and Whicher. He is 
descended from Thomas through Nathaniel, born 



August II, 1658; Reuben, born May 17, 1686; 
Joseph, born May 2, 1721 ; Chase, born October 
6, 1753; William, born May 23, 1783; and Ira, 
Isorn December 2, 1815. He acquired his educa- 
tion in the district schools of his native town, at 
the Haverhill Academy, the New Hampshire Con- 
ference Seminary, Tilton, N.H., and \\'esleyan 
University, Middletown, Conn., graduating from 
the latter in the class of 1871. Then he took up 
the study of theology in the Boston University 
School of Theology, spending there the years 
1871-73, and upon graduation entered the minis- 
try of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was 




W. F. WHITCHER. 

pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Newport, R.I., for three years, 1874-77 ; ne.xt of 
the County Street Church, New Bedford, from 
1877 to 1879; and of the Matthenson Street 
Church, Providence, R.I., in 1879-81. The latter 
year he engaged in journalism, becoming an edito- 
rial writer on the Boston Evening Traveller. Four 
years later he was made editor-in-chief of that 
paper, and, after service some time in this capac- 
ity, became in 1891 literary editor and editorial 
writer. His connection with the Boston Advertiser 
as literary editor, the position he now holds, was 
begun in 1893. During his newspaper life Mr. 
Whitcher has taken pastorates for a few months 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



6l. 



each linit, in iSgi at Maiden, where he resides, 
aiul in 1892-93 at Everett, to fill vacancies thai 
have occurred. He has been a member of the 
Maiden School Committee since 1S88, and was 
ciiairman of the board through 1891-94, declinine; 
longer service. In politics he was a Democrat 
with strong protectionist views till 1886, when he 
joined the Republican party. He has taken great 
interest in American political history and biog- 
raphy, and has a library of upward of five thou- 
sand volumes and si.x thousand pamphlets, largely 
devoted to these and cognate subjects. He has 
published several articles in periodicals on genea- 
logical and biographical subjects, antl has nearly 
completed a work on American political history. 
Mr. \\'hitcher is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa ; 
of several other college and literary associations 
and clubs; and of the Masonic fraternity, the 
Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. He was married December 4, 1872, 
to Miss Jeannette Maria Burr. She died Septem- 
ber 25, 1894, leaving one child: Burr Royce 
W'hitcher (born November 6, 1878). 



WHITE, Horace C.^rr, M.D., of Somerville. 
is a native of Maine, born in liowdoin, January 
26, 1836, son of Gideon and Rhoda (Springer) 
White. His great-grandfather was one of the 
first settlers of P.ath, Me. ; and the house which he 
built, of hewed timber walls, and port-holes for 
defence against the Indians, stood until about a 
quarter of a century ago. This ancestor came 
from Esse.N, Mass., and was said to be a descend- 
ant of Peregrine White. Dr. White was educated 
at the Litchfield Liberal Institute, and fitted for 
his profession at the medical department of 
Bowdoin College, graduating in 1859. He was 
obliged to leave school temporarily, when he 
was seventeen years old, on account of trouble 
with his eyes; and for about three years he 
was engaged in business occupations, first as a 
clerk in a bookstore in Gardiner, Me., and after- 
ward in a ship-broker's office in Boston. He 
was in Boston most of this period, and improved 
his leisure time while there by attending the 
Lowell Institute and other lectures. He returned 
to school in 1855. For about a third of the time 
between the latter date and i860 he taught school. 
In January, i860, he settled in Lisbon Falls, Me., 
and began practice. In March of the following 
year he entered the army for service in the Civil 



War, as assistant surgeon of the Eighth Maine 
Regiment. Sixteen months later, in July, 1863, 
he returned to Lisbon Falls, broken down in 
health. There he remained until October, 1874, 
when he removed to Somerville, where he has since 
been engaged in the enjoyment of a large jjractice. 
Dr. \\'hite has been active and iniluential in edu- 
cational matters for a number of years. At 
Lisbon he was supervisor of schools for four 
years, and in Somerville he has been a member of 
the School Board for twelve years. While a resi- 
dent of Lisbon, he was also a member of the 
Board of Selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the 




HORACE C. WHITE. 

poor, for three years ; and postmaster of the town 
from 1869 to 1874. In Somerville he has been a 
trustee of the Somerville Hospital since its organ- 
ization, a member of the medical board and of 
the medical and surgical staff. He is a member 
and e.x-president of tlie Boston Gynaecological 
Society, member and e.x-president of the Somer- 
ville Medical Society, fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Association, member of the Maine Medi- 
cal Association, and of the American Medical 
Association ; and was a member of the Ninth 
International Medical Congress. He belongs to 
the Masonic order, a member of the De Molay 
Commandery, Knights Templar, of the Soley 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Lodge, and of Orient Council. He is con- 
nected with the Loyal Legion and the Grand 
Army of the Republic, is ex-president of the Sons 
of Maine of Somer\ille. and a member of the 
Mystic Valley and other clubs. In politics Dr. 
White is a steadfast Republican, always taking an 
active interest in party matters ; but he has held 
no political office. He was married June 4, i860, 
to Miss Mary Lithgow Randall, daughter of 
Captain Paul and Nancy Randall, of Harpswell, 
Me. They have two daughters and one son : 
Lucy Francis, Bessie Randall, and William 
Horace White. 



president and orator, the subject of his oration 
being " The Value of Objective Symptoms in the 
Treatment of Disease." His contributions to 
medical literature have been frequent and varied, 
the. list including papers on "Neglect of Injuries 
in (Growing Girls," "Chronic Cellulitis," "Chronic 
Peritonitis and Complications," "Psychical Ad- 
juvants in Neurasthenia," " Tubercular Menin- 
gitis," and " Immunities in Contagion." Dr. 
Whittier has been a member of the School Board 
of Fitchburg, serving three years, 1877 to 1880, 
and has in other ways shown his interest in edu- 
cational matters. In politics he is a Republican. 



WHITTIER, Daniel Brainard, M.D., of 
Fitchburg, member of the State Board of Regis- 
tration in Medicine, was born in Goffstown, 
N.H., October 21, 1834, son of Isaac and Fanny 
Parker (McQuestion) Whittier. His father was of 
English descent and of the fifth generation from 
Thomas Whittier. who was the first of the family 
in this country ; his mother, of Scotch descent, 
daughter of William and Sally (Potter) McQues- 
tion and grand-daughter of Captain David Potter. 
He was educated in the New Hampshire Confer- 
ence Seminary, Tilton, N.H., and studied for his 
profession in the office of Dr. William B. Cham- 
berlain, late of Worcester, Mass., at the Harvard 
Medical School, and at the New York Homoeo- 
pathic College and Hospital, graduating from the 
latter in March, 1863. Establishing himself in 
Fitchburg immediately upon graduation, he has 
practised there steadily since, in a wide field and 
with much success, attaining a prominent place in 
the profession. In 1895 he became a member 
of the board of consulting physicians and sur- 
geons of the Westborough Insane Hospital. He 
was appointed to the Board of Registration in 
Medicine in Massachusetts in 1894, for the term 
of five years, as one of the representatives on this 
board of the Massachusetts Homceopathic Medi- 
cal Society, by which he was unanimously in- 
dorsed. He is a senior member, by virtue of a 
continuous membership of upward of twenty-five 
years, of the American Institute of Homteopathy ; 
was president in 188 1 of the Massachusetts Sur- 
gical and (iynaicological Society ; president in 
1873-74 of the Worcester County Homeopathic 
Medical Society ; and has long been prominent in 
the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, 
serving in 1877 as vice-president, and in 1878 as 




D. B. WHITTIER. 



He was married October 14, 185S, to Miss Mary 
Chamberlain, of Tilton, N.H. They have had 
three children : Ida E., Lucius B., and Walter C. 
Whittier. The latter two have died. 



WHITTINGTON. Hiram, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Cohasset, No\-ember 5, 1843, 
son of Alfred and Ruth (Delano) \\'liiitington. 
He is a descendant of Sir Richard Whittington, 
"thrice lord mayor of London." He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native town, 
graduating from the High School. He entered 
the business in which he is still engaged, that of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



617 



saddlery and c;iniage-\vares, as a boy, and estab- 
lislicd the present house of Hiram \\'hittint;ton Ov: 
Co., for the importation, manufacture, and sale of 




he is interested to a considerable extent in real 
estate. He served in the Civil War, in the naval 
branch of the service, entering in 1862, as a boy. 
He was under Farragut at Mobile and on the 
ship " Montgomery," Lieutenant Hunter com- 
manding. Having been something of an oarsman, 
he rowed stroke oar of the gig, and was afterward 
coxswain. His ship cruised about the (Uilf, mak- 
ing Pensacola its coaling station, and captured a 
number of prizes. He served his full time, and 
was honorably discharged in 1863. He is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Ed- 
ward Kinsley Post, No. 113; of the Algonquin 
and Athletic clubs, lioston, of the Bostonian So- 
ciety, and of other organizations. In politics he 
usually takes an inde]5endent course, voting as his 
judgment dictates, and inclined toward Democ- 
racy. He was married November 5, 1872, to 
Miss Alice Parker Streeter, daughter of the late 
Nathan H. Streeter and niece of the late Harvey 
1). Parker, of the Parker House, Pjoston. He 
was called home from his wedding trip by the 
great lire of 1872, and upon his arrival found 
the building occupied by his business entirely 
destroyed. 



HIRAM WHITTINGTON. 

horse blankets and carriage robes, saddlery and 
carriage hardware, and harness and carriage 
leather, in 187 1, on Kilby Street. The firm was 
burned out in the great fire of 1872, and received 
light insurance : but it immediately found tem- 
porary quarters, and by hard struggle paid its 
creditors in full. It has been established in 
its present quarters on Federal and Congress 
Streets since the first of Januar)', 1874. Though 
not the oldest house in years, it is the oldest con- 
cern now in its special line of business in Boston ; 
and by living up to the times, promptly changing 
the styles as demanded by the market, it continues 
to be a leader. In 1891, at the close of twenty 
years of the firm's life, Mr. W'hittington thought 
of retiring altogether from this business ; but he 
finally concluded to continue, associating with 
him Francis M. Morgan and Robert J. Bond, and 
giving up to them the details of the business. 
Since that time the concern has continued to 
prosper, and has enjoyed the good will of the 
trade. Mr. Whittington was also one of the 
organizers of the Beacon Trust Company, and has 
since been a member of its executive board ; and 




L. J. YOUNG. 



YOUNG, Levandk.r 
is a native of New Ham 



John-, M.D., of 
pshire, born in 



Haverhill, 

liarnstead, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



February 9, 1850, son of Oliver H. I', and Kmily 
J. (Tuttle) Young. He is of sterling New Eng- 
land stock. Three of his great-grandfathers were 
in the war of the Revolution, one of them, Lieu- 
tenant Samuel Pitman, with Stark at the battle of 
Bennington. His father served in the Civil War 
as a member of the Twelfth New Hampshire 
Regiment. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native town, at the Pittsfield 
(N.H.) Academy, and the Northwood (N.H.) 
Seminary, and studied medicine under the direc- 
tion of Dr. John Wheeler of Pittsfield, N.H., and 
at the Dartmouth ami University of Vermont 
Medical Schools, graduating from the latter in 
1877. His medical studies were begun in 1869, 
but were interrupted after one course of lectures 
at Dartmouth by sickness and the necessity of 
earning money to pay his way. Some time was 
then spent in school-teaching, also in working at 
shoemaking; and in 1876 he resumed his studies, 
beginning at the point where he had left off. He 
took the lectures at the University of Vermont 
School in the spring of that year, attended the 
Dartmouth school through the fall term, and in 



the spring of 1877 returned to the University of 
Vermont, and there completed his course. He 
began regular practice in Candia, N.H., in Jan- 
uary, 1878, and remained there until October, 
1883, when he removed to Haverhill, where he 
has since been established. During 1888 and 
1889 he was one of the attending physicians 
and surgeons to the Haverhill City Hospital, and 
was subsequently reappointed for a term of five 
years, beginning on January i, 1895. From 1889 
to 1892 he was a member of the Haverhill School 
Roard. He is a member of the New Hampshire 
and Massachusetts State Medical Societies and 
of the Medical Club of Haverhill. He belongs to 
the Masonic order, a Knight Templar of the Ha- 
verhill Commandery ; also to the Odd Fellows, 
the Knights of Pythias, the .\ncient Order of 
United Workmen, and other fraternal organiza- 
tions ; and is a member of the Pentucket Club of 
Haverhill. He was married August 29, 1877, to 
Miss Abbie A. Ring, of Pittsfield, N.H. Two of 
their children, Velma M. and Lester R., died in 
infancy, and the others are : \"wa N.. Lestie I., 
and Merton P. Young. 



PART VIII. 



ALLEN, Louis Edmund, M.l)., of Ai'lington, 
was born in New York City, April 22, 1852, son 
of William C. and Charlotte K. ( I Hood) Alk-n. 



^ ^^^ 




L. E. ALLEN. 

He is great-grandson of Dr. Charles W'hitman, 
son of Dr. Charles Whitman, senior, son of Squire 
John Whitman who received grants of land direct 
from the crown, and great-great-great-great-grand- 
son of the Rev. John and Mary Gardner, married 
in 1720. Their wedding ring, bearnig this quaint 
inscription, is still kept in the family : — 

" As God decreed 
So Wee agreed." 

Their son, Henry Gardner, was treasurer of the 
colonial moneys; and his slave, York, guarded 
the treasure buried during the Revolution in the 
swamps near Concord, Mass. Henry Gardner 



was a member of the I'irst Continenlal Congress, 
and had two sons, both of them physicians in 
Boston. Dr. Allen is descended also from the 
old Virginian family founded by Thomas Rolfe, 
son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. On his 
mother's side he descends from Colonel Blood, 
who was famous in the reign of Charles II., and 
whose descendants had immense grants of land in 
Chelmsford and Concord, which are called the 
"Blood Farms" to this day. And he is a direct 
descendant of the Rev. John Fiske, who came to 
this country in 1632, bringing provisions for three 
years. Some of the household goods they 
brought over still remain in the family. Dr. 
Allen's early education was acquired through 
tutors and at a preparatory school in Pittsfield, 
Mass. He graduated from Williams College in 
the class of 1874. He studied medicine at the 
Harvard Medical School, and graduated there in 
1883. A year was next spent in the out-patient 
department of the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital. Meanwhile he began general practice, 
established on Temple Street in the old West 
End, Boston. After leaving the General Hos- 
pital, he became physician to the out-patient de- 
partment of the West End Nursery, and so served 
for ten years. He continued practice in Boston 
for seven years, and then removed to Arlington, 
where he has been actively engaged for five years. 
Dr. Allen is a member of the Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society and of the Arlington Boat Club. He 
is unmarried. 

ALLEN, Thom.as, of Boston, artist, was born 
in St. Louis, Mo., October 19, 1849, .son of 
Thomas and Ann C. (Russell) Allen. He is of 
notable New England ancestry on the paternal 
side, and of Virginian on the maternal side. His 
great-grandfather, Thomas .Allen, native of North- 
ampton, Mass., was the first ordained minister in 
Pittsfield, beginning his ministry there in 1764, 
and continuing until his death in 18 10. He 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



served in the War of the Revokition as a cliap- 
lain, and took active part in the battle of Benning- 
ton, thereby becoming- known as the " Fighting 
Parson of Bennington Fields.'' His wife, Eliza- 
beth, was a daughter of Jonathan Lee, of Salis- 
bury, Conn., a descendant of William Bradford, 
governor of the Plymouth colony. Jonathan, 
grandfather of the present Thomas Allen, was one 
of nine sons of the Rev. Thomas, and became a 
leading Berkshire farmer. He was some time 
member of the Legislature, one of the founders 
and an early president of the Berkshire County 
Agricultural Society, the pioneer society of ■ its 




THOMAS ALLEN. 

class, and among the first to import merino sheep. 
Jonathan's son Thomas, father of the subject of 
this sketch, born in Pittsfield, was a graduate 
of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. (1832); a 
lawyer, journalist, railroad president, and Con- 
gressman, and identified witii the development of 
Western railroads and the resources of Missouri. 
He was founder of the Madisonian in Washington, 
D.C., the government organ during President 
Tyler's administration, and subsequently, in 1842, 
settling in St. Louis, became the undertaker of the 
great internal improvements of Missouri, served 
as State senator in 1850 and 1854, was the first 
president of the Missouri Pacific, and put on that 



line the first locomotive that ever crossed the 
Mississippi, later engaged in building railways in 
the South-west and in opening up the extensive 
mineral wealth of his adopted State, and was a 
representative in Congress for the Second Con- 
gressional District of Missouri at the time of his 
death in \\''ashington, in 18S2. His wife, mother 
of Thomas, was only daughter of William Russell, 
of St. Louis, and formerly of Virginia, civil engi- 
neer. She was a woman of rare cultivation and 
artistic temperament, and gave to her son his 
taste for the fine arts. Mr. Allen was educated in 
the High School of Pittsfield, at Williston Sem- 
inary, Easthampton, and at the Washington Uni- 
versity, St. Louis. In iS6g he accompanied 
Professor J. W. Pattison of the Washington Uni- 
versity on an extended sketching expedition into 
the Rocky Mountains, making sketches himself 
merely as notes of the trip, with no thought then 
of following art as a profession ; but his interest 
in this work led him, upon his return, to perfect 
himself in drawing, and from that he was drawn 
into the artist's life. In 187 i lie went abroad for 
systematic study in the art schools, intending to 
make a protracted stay in Paris. But, finding- 
affairs there unsettled and the painters scattered, 
he went to Diisseklorf. Entering- the Royal Acad- 
emy in the spring of 1872, he passed through the 
several classes, and graduated in 1877, having 
spent the vacations of each year in travel and 
study in various cities, visiting Holland, Belgium, 
France, England, and Bavaria. After finishing 
at Diisseldorf, he returned to Paris, and, settling 
in the artist colony in the suburb of Flcouen, re- 
mained there two or three years, painting indus- 
triously and producing notable work. In 1876 he 
sent over his first canvas for exhibition at the 
National Academy of Design in New York, — 
"The Bridge at Lissengen," — which was well re- 
ceived by the critics. After nearly ten years 
abroad he returned to America in the spring of 
1880, and established himself in a studio in Bos- 
ton. That year he was made a member of the 
Society of American Artists, and in 1884 he be- 
came an Associate of the National Academy. 
Two years before he had first exhibited in the 
Paris Salon, sho.ving his "Evening in the Market 
Place, San Antonio," now owned by J. A Newton, 
of Holyoke. In the Salon of 1887 he was repre- 
sented by " On Guard," showing a majestic bull 
in the left foreground, with cattle grazing near by, 
and others lying among the field daisies. His 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



62 I 



first iiuporlant cxhibilion in IjOsIoh was in the 
winter of 1S83. Since that time iiis canvases 
have appeared in leading exhibitions there and in 
other cities from season to season. At the World's 
Fair, Chicago, he had four oil and three water- 
color paintings, — namely, " Moonrise," "Thor- 
oughbreds," " lender the Willows," " Coming 
through the Wood," " Portal of Ruined Mission of 
San Jose, Texas," " Pasture by the Sea," and 
"Changing Pasture, Dartmoor, England," — but 
was out of the competition, being a member of the 
National Jury and of the International Poard of 
Judges of Award. Among his best known works, 
besides those already mentioned, are : " Moonrise : 
Over all the Hill-tops is Rest," now at the Museum 
of Fine Arts, Boston ; " Maplehurst at Noon," 
owned by T. B. Clarke, New York; "Toilers of 
the Plain," owned by the Berkshire Atheneeum ; 
" Maplehurst Herd " and " Upland Pasture," 
owned by J. Montgomery Sears, Boston; "Guern- 
sey Water Lane," owned by Arthur Little, Boston ; 
"A Berkshire Idyl," owned by J. L. Graves, Bos- 
ton; "Woodland Glade," in the collection of the 
late Professor Horsford, Cambridge; "Calm 
Evening, Gulf of Mexico," owned by Professor 
Whitney, Cambridge; "Grasmere Meadow," 
owned by the Boston Art Club ; and " Market 
Place, San Antonio," owned in Worcester. Mr. 
Allen is president of the Boston Society of Water- 
color Painters, president of the Paint and Clay 
Club, vice-president of the Boston Art Club, 1889 
to 1894, and member of the permanent committee 
of the School of Drawing of the Boston Art 
Museum. He was married first, at Northampton, 
June 30, 1880, to Miss Eleanor G. ^\'hitney, 
daughter of Professor J. I). Whitney, of Cam- 
bridge. She died at Ecouen, France, May 14, 
1882, leaving one child: Eleanor Whitney Allen. 
He married second, October 23, 1884, at Boston, 
Miss Alice Ranney, daughter of the Hon. Am- 
brose A. Ranney. They have two children : 
Thomas .Allen, Jr., and Robert Fletcher .\llen. 



AUSTIN, James Walker, of Boston, member 
of the bar, was born in Charlestown, January 8, 
1829, son of William and Lucy (Jones) Austin. 
His father, a graduate of Harvard College of the 
class of 1 798, was some time senator and repre- 
sentative for Middlesex County in the (General 
Court and a member of the Suffolk Bar. He 



Man," and other New England tales, and of "Let- 
ters from London." Thomas Wentworth Higgin- 
son in one of his essays has called him "the 
precursor of Hawthorne." A volume containing 
his writings under the title of "The Literary 
Papers of William Austin, with a Biographical 
Sketch by his Son, James Walker Austin," was 
published by Messrs. Little & Brown of Boston 
in 1890. The Austin family of Charlestown are 
descended from Richard Austin, who became a 
freeman of that town in 1651, and from him 
descended Benjamin .\ustin, commonly called 
" Honestus," Jonathan Loring Austin, secretary 




was the author of 



Peter Rugg, the .Missins; 



JAMES W. AUSTIN. 

to Dr. Franklin in Paris, and afterward secretary 
of state and treasurer of Massachusetts, and the 
late Attorney-general James Trecothick Austin. 
Mr. Austin was educated at the Frainingfield 
School, and at Chauncy Hall School in Boston, 
when Gideon F. Thayer and Thomas Cushing, of 
fragrant memory, were the principals. He entered 
Harvard College, and was graduated in the class 
of 1849. He studied law at the Dane Law School, 
Cambridge, and received the degree of LL.B. in 
1851. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Janu- 
ary 22, 1 85 1. In February of that year he sailed 
for California, and in August visited the Hawaiian 
or Sandwich Islands, where bv the advice of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Chief Justice William L. Lee he was induced to 
remain. He was admitted to the Hawaiian bar in 
September, 185 i. In 1852 he was appointed dis- 
trict attorney for the .Second Judicial District, 
holding that office for several years. He was 
three times elected a member of the Hawaiian 
Parliament, and was for a time the speaker of that 
body. ]!y special act of the Legislature he was 
appointed one of the commissioners for the codifi- 
cation of the laws; and the Civil Code and the 
Penal Code of the Hawaiian Islands, the former 
published at Honolulu in 1859, and the latter in 
1869, were the result of that commission. They 
were modelled largely from our Massachusetts 
Statutes. Judge Austin-was also for some years 
the guardian of Lunalilo, who afterward became 
king; and in 1868 he was appointed justice of the 
Supreme Court, which position he held with 
Elisha H. Allen, formerly a member of Congress 
from Maine, and afterward Hawaiian minister at 
Washington. He returned to Boston for the edu- 
cation of his children after a residence of twenty- 
one years in the Hawaiian Islands. Mr. Austin 
is a member of the New England Historic-Gene- 
alogical Society, of the Colonial Society of Mas- 
sachusetts, of the Unitarian Club, and an honorary 
member of the Hawaiian Historical Society. He 
was married to Miss Ariana E. Sleeper, daughter 
of the Hon. John S. Sleeper, late mayor of Rox- 
bury, July 18, 1857, and their children were : Her- 
bert, Charles, Walter, class of 1887 H.U., LL.B. 
Dane Law School, admitted to the Suffolk bar, 
1890, William Francis (all born in HonolukO, and 
Edith (born in Boston). 



Sawyer, & Co., 1857; Prentiss & Deland, 1S60; 
W. L. Deland & Son, 1877. Speaking of the 
diversity of the capacity of the Barta Press, the 



BARTA, Louis, of Boston, printer, head of the 
firm of L. Barta & Co., the Barta Press, is a 
native of Boston, born November 24, 1854. He 
began as clerk in the commission house of Gard- 
ner Brewer .S: Co., and subsequently became 
connected with the Forbes Lithograph Company. 
In 1884 he, with Lorin F. Deland, organized the. 
printing house of Deland & Barta, as successors to 
W. L. Deland & Son. This partnership continued 
until 1886, when Mr. Barta purchased Mr. De- 
land's interest, and has since been the sole owner 
of the establishment. The firm of L. Barta & Co. 
is a direct descendant of the Boston printing-office 
of Andrews, Prentiss, & Studley, founded over half 
a century ago, the line of succession including 
Prentiss & Sawyer, founded in 185 1; Prentiss, 




L. BARTA. 

leading advertising and printing expert has writ- 
ten : "There is no class of work from a visiting- 
card to a dictionary, from a newspaper to a book 
of plate engravings, that the Barta Press cannot 
handle as well as any establishment in the United 
States ; and there are few, if any, printing houses 
which have the material and originality to create 
the highest of high-grade display and press work. 
There is not an old press or a dead piece of type 
under the roof." Mr. Barta is a member of the 
Master Printers' Club, and was its secretary in 
1889 and 1890. He is a member of the Calumet 
Club of Winchester, and was its president in 1891 
and 1892. 

BARTON, Charles Cl.^rence, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Con- 
necticut, born in the town of Salisbury, September 
4, 1844, son of Pliny L. and Mary Ann (Lock- 
wood) Barton. His father, still living in his 
eighty-seventh year, filled many town offices, 
served three terms in the Connecticut House of 
Representatives and one in the Senate. Mr. 
Barton was educated in the public and private 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



623 



schools of S;ilisbury, at the Amenia .Seminary, 
N.Y., and at Trinity College, Hartford, where he 
graduated in 1869. He passed his early life on 
his father's farm. During 1864-65 he taught 
school in Salisbury to obtain means to pay for 
his college education, and in his junior year 
taught in Nfilford, Del., at the same time doing 
the junior college work. After graduation he 
continued teaching for three years, from i86g to 
1871 having charge of a school in VVatertown, 
Conn., and one year being master of the Cireat 
Harrington High School. He began the study of 
law in 1872 in the office of Ira T. Drew, and in the 
autumn of the same year entered the first class in 
the Boston University Law School, where he grad- 
uated in 1873. He was admitted to the Middle- 
sex County bar in April that year, before the close 
of the college season, and at once began practice 
in Boston. As a lawyer, his business has been 
largely in real estate and corporation law. From 
1873 to 1875 he resided in Boston, from 1875 to 
1893 in Newton Centre, and in 1893 returned to 
Boston. While living in Newton, he served as a 
member of the Common Council for the years 




C. C. BARTON. 



Mr. Barton is now a member of the Boston 
Chamber of Commerce and of the University and 
Art clubs. He was married first, .A.ugust 24, 
1870, to Miss Emma Conant Drew, daughter of 
Dr. E. C. Drew, of Boston, who died November 
24, 1886, leaving five children: C'harles Clarence, 
Jr. (now in Boston University Law School), Che.s- 
ley Drew, Katharine Louise. I'liilip Lockwood, 
and Elizabeth Conant Barton. He married sec- 
ond, April 5, 1893, Miss Katharine Haynes Drew, 
sister of his first wife. 



1878-79, president of the body the last year, and 
as member of the School fioard from 1883 to 
1889, chairman of the board the last two years. 



BATES, John Lewis, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in North Easton, September 
18, 1859, son of the Rev. Lewis B., D.D., and 
Louisa D. (Field) Bates. He is a descendant of 
John Rogers, the martyr. His father is the pres- 
ent pastor of the Bromfield Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church of Boston. His preparatory educa- 
tion was acquired in the public schools of Taun- 
ton and Chelsea and at the Boston Latin School, 
where he graduated in the class of 1878. F.nter- 
ing Boston University, he graduated from the 
academic department in 1882 with the degree of 
A.B. ; and then, taking the law school course, 
graduated LL.B. in 1885. After graduating from 
the college, and part of the time while a law stu- 
dent, he taught school, in Western New York in 
the years 1882 and 1883, and in the Boston even- 
ing schools during 1883 and 1884. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1885, and from that 
time has been engaged in active practice in Bos- 
ton. He has served in the Boston Common 
Council two terms (1891-92) and in the lower 
house of the Legislature: at present (1895) a rep- 
resentative for East Boston, having served also 
in 1894. In the latter body he served on the 
committees on insurance and revision of cor- 
poration laws in 1894, and in 1895 on the 
committee on insurance, and as chairman of that 
on metropolitan affairs. He has taken an ear- 
nest interest in local affairs, and in 1893-94 was 
president of the East Boston Citizens' Trade As- 
sociation. In politics Mr. Bates is Republican. 
He is connected with the Masonic fraternity as a 
member of I'.aalbec Lodge, with the order of Odd 
Fellows, member of the Zenith Lodge, and witli 
the ITnited Order of the Pilgrim Fathers, presi- 
dent of the latter organization in 1892-93-94. 
He is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church Bethel of East Boston and of the lirom- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



field Street Church in the city proper. He is sec- 
retary and a director of the Cokunbia Trust Com- 
pany of Boston. Mr. Bates married July 12, 




J. L. BATES. 



1887, Miss Clara Elizabeth .Smith. They have 
had two children : Lewis B., 2d (born July 9. 
18S9, died December 31, i8gi), and Jolm Harold 
Bates (born May 10, 1893). 



BICKNELL, Albion Harris, artist, was born 
at Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, March 
18, 1837, son of Nehemiah Bosson and Louise 
(Drew) Bicknell. On both sides he descends 
from ancestors who bore an honorable part in 
the settlement and defence of New England. 
He is a lineal descendant of Captain John Bick- 
nell, of the British Navy, who came to this country 
with his family, and settled in Weymouth, Mass., 
in 1636. On the maternal side he is a lineal de- 
scendant of Thomas Bisbredge (the common an- 
cestor of the New England family of Bisbee), who 
came to America early in 1634, and settled in 
Plymouth. He is a great-grandson of Luke Bick- 
nell, of Abington, who was a private in Captain 
Reed's company, Colonel Bailey's regiment, at the 
Lexington alarm ; later corporal in Captain Reed's 
company. Colonel Thomas's regiment, at the siege 



of Boston, eight months' service ; adjutant of the 
regiment raised to re-enforce the Continental army 
for three months from July, 1780; captain in Colo- 
nel Putnam's regiment in 1781 ; and for si.x years 
after the Revolution representative of the town of 
Abington in the Massachusetts General Court. 
Mr. Bicknell's early education was acquired in the 
public schools of Turner, Hartford, and Buckfield, 
Me. He began to study art at the age of four- 
teen, soon after coming to Boston with his father. 
He became a student at the Lowell Institute, and 
for a short time was under the instruction of Will- 
iam T. Carlton. In the Lowell Institute and in 
the .\thenaum he continued his studies from life 
and from the antique until he went abroad in 
1861, and entered the atelier of Thomas Couture 
and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he 
remained, working indefatigably for two years. 
After the close of his student life in Paris he 
visited the principal art centres of other European 
countries, making a long stay in Venice. He re- 
turned home in the autumn of 1863, and opened 
a studio in Boston. Among his fellow-students in 
Paris with whom he was specially intimate had 
been D. Ridgway Knight, Thomas Robinson, 
J. Foxcroft Cole, George H. Boughton, and Sis- 
ley, the impressionist landscape painter. In Bos- 
ton Mr. Bicknell soon became intimately associated 
with William Morris Hunt, Joseph Ames, Elihu 
Vedder, Foxcroft Cole, and Thomas Robinson, 
and was among the foremost in laboring for the 
advancement of art. He was particularly con- 
spicuous in the formation of the once famous 
Allston Club, which, though of a brief life, had a 
positive influence in shaping the course of art in 
Boston. Mr. Bicknell was in the full tide of suc- 
cess, when his health failed, and forced him to 
seek the repose and quietude of the country ; and 
for the last twenty years his home and studio have 
been in Maiden, where he has continued to apply 
himself to his profession with all the ardor of his 
youth. The range of subjects which he has 
painted is exceptionally wide, embracing marines, 
flowers, still-life, genre, landscape, portraits, his- 
torical compositions, and cattle pieces. The num- 
ber of his portraits is very large, and includes 
many distinguished public men. His " Lincoln at 
(Gettysburg" and "The Battle of Lexington " are 
his two best known historical works, and rank 
high among American productions of this class. 
Both of these are very large canvases. The 
" Lincoln at Gettysburg '' is of historical worth, as 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



625 



it contains twenty-two life-size portraits of the 
statesmen and generals of the period. It is now 
the property of the city of Maiden, through the 
generosity of the Hon. E. S. Converse. As an 
etcher and black-and-white artist, Mr. Bicknell is 
well known. His portfolio of etchings published 
by Dodd, Mead, & Co., New York, in 1887, gives 
a fair idea of his talent as an etcher. .\s an illus- 
trator, he is not without e.\perience, having pro- 
fusely illustrated " Arcadian Days," by William 
Howe Downes (Boston, 1891). As a landscape 
painter, and more recently as a cattle painter, Mr. 
DickncU takes a high rank for the originality of 
his observation, the competence of his workman- 
ship, and the sympathetic and scholarly character 
of his interpretations. The essentially American 
quality and atmosphere of his pictures have been 
frequently remarked. Among his impressions of 
natiue in New England there are some masterly 
pages of landscape art, conceived in a noble vein, 
and having a dignity, breadth, and grandeur of 
design as unusual as they are impressive. In 
person Mr. Bicknell is most interesting, genial, 
and delightful. He has been a great reader, and 




A. H. BICKNELL. 



for getting books have been of the best, and his 
knowledge of the best literature is as broad as his 
memory is phenomenal. As a student, Mr. Bick- 
nell has been possessed of a life-long persistency 
and an untiring passion for learning, not only in 
the technical branches of the artist's profession, 
but in all other directions, .so that he has kept 
in touch with the literary, political, and business 
movement of the time as few artists are able or 
willing to do. Mr. Bicknell's intimacy with the 
late William M. Hunt was truly exceptional, and in 
many ways the two men were of great service to 
each other. 'I'he honorary degree of A.M. was 
conferred upon him by Colby University in 1884. 
Mr. Bicknell was married July 20, 1875, in Somer- 
ville, to Miss Margaret Elizabeth Peabody, daugh- 
ter of Oliver W. and Sarah (Simpson) Peabody. 



the quiet and retired life he has led for .so many 
years has given him uncommon opportunities to 
gratify his literary proclivities. His opportunities 



BOYDEN, Albert Gardner, of Bridgewater, 
principal of the State Normal School, was born in 
South Walpole, Norfolk County, February 5, 1827, 
son of Phineas and Harriet (Carroll) Boyden. 
He attended the district school summer and 
winter until ten years of age, and in winter until 
eighteen. At fourteen years of age he decided to 
be a teacher, and strongly desired to go to college, 
but could not command the funds. He gave his 
evenings to study, determined to do the best he 
could for himself. He worked on the farm and 
in his father's blacksmith shop until he had mas- 
tered the trade at twenty-one years of age, and in 
the mean time had taught school three winters. 
( )n reaching his majority, he had good health, 
good habits, his trade, and the assurance of suc- 
cess in teaching, .\fter earning a part of the 
requisite funds, he entered the State Normal 
School at Bridgewater. paying the remainder of 
his expenses by serving as janitor of the school. 
He was graduated from the school in November, 
1849; taught a grammar scho(jl in Hingham dur- 
ing the following winter; received the appoint- 
ment of assistant teacher in the State Normal 
School at Bridgewater in July, 1850. and held 
the position three years under the distinguished 
founder of the school, Nicholas Tillinghast ; was 
principal of the English High School in Salem 
from 1853 to 1856; ne.xt submaster in the Chap- 
man Grammar School, Boston, from September, 
1856, to September, 1857; then first assistant 
again in the State Normal School at Bridgewater 
three years under the second principal. Marshall 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Conant : and appointed principal of the school in 
August, iS6o. That year he received the honor- 
ary degree of A.M. from Amherst College. He 
was a diligent student, studying under private 
tutors ; and during the time he was assistant in 
the Normal School he was called upon to teach 
nearly all the studies in the course, and to make 
a careful stud}' of the principles of teaching. 
Under his principalship the institution has ex- 
panded, the pupils have greatly increased, its 
methods of instruction have been improved and 
developed ; additions and improvements have 
been made from year to year to its buildings and 




A. G. BOYDEN. 

grounds, and it is now one of the best appointed 
normal schools in this country, enjoying a na- 
tional reputation. Mr. Boyden has long been 
prominent in educational matters, and has con- 
tributed much to the advancement of the teacher's 
art. From 1865 to 1870 he was editor of the 
Massachusetts Teacher, and he is author of numer- 
ous educational addresses. He has been presi- 
dent of the Plymouth County Teachers' Associa- 
tion, was president of the Massachusetts Teachers' 
Association in 1872-73, and of the Massachusetts 
Schoolmasters' Club in 1888-89. -He is a mem- 
ber also of the Old Colony Congregational Club, 
and was its president from 1883 to 1888; mem- 



ber of the Boston Congregational Club, and of the 
fSridgewater Normal Alumni Club. He is con- 
nected with the Central Square Congregational 
Society in Bridgewater, and has held the position 
of clerk of the organization since 1863, a period 
of thirty-two years. He has been a trustee of 
the Bridgewater Savings Bank since 1890. In 
politics he is a "straight" Republican. Mr. 
Boyden was married in Newport, Me., Novem- 
ber 18, 185 1, to Miss Isabella Whitten Clarke, 
daughter of 'j'homas and Martha Louise (Whitten) 
Clarke. They have had three sons: Arthur 
Clarke Boyden, A.M., now the teacher of history 
and natural science in the Bridgewater Normal 
School ; Walter Clarke Boyden, deceased ; and 
Wallace Clarke Boyden. .A.M.. submaster in the 
Boston Normal School. 



BOYLE, Edward J.iVMEs, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Millville, May 14, 1857, son of 
James H. and Isabella (Lord) Boyle. He is of 
Irish parentage. His general education was ac- 
quired in the grammar school of Millville and 
the High School of Blackstone ; and he took the 
regular course of the Piryant and Stratton Busi- 
ness College in Providence. R.I., from which he 
graduated January 30, 1875. Immediately after 
graduation he started out as a canvasser, and 
travelled over New England for different com- 
panies, always on commission, never on salary. 
He had natural selling ability, a pleasing address, 
was a good talker, patient, persevering; and he 
made a success of everything he handled. He 
received tempting offers from several houses, 
which had heard of his success in disposing of 
goods, to manage their business. He preferred, 
however, doing business for himself, and, after 
four years' travelling, organized troupes of can- 
vassers, whom he trained to sell his goods on his 
plan. As his business increased, he placed com- 
petent managers in charge of these travelling 
salesmen, and opened an office in Providence, 
R.I., as his headquarters, where he engaged his 
canvassers, instructed them thoroughly, and sent 
them to various parts. Next, placing a manager 
in charge of this office, he opened a Boston office, 
which became his permanent headquarters. Sub- 
sequently he had thirty branch offices in New 
England, employing hundreds of salesmen on the 
road, and eventually worked up the largest busi- 
ness of its kind in this section of the country. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



627 



111' h;i,s always sold his goods on the credit, or 
iiislalnieiU, plan ; and at one time had twenty-five 
lliousand open accounts on his Ijooks. requiring 




E. J. BOYLE. 

an otfice force of sixty-six clerks to follow, and a 
large number of collectors. Mr. Boyle is also 
interested in the credit clothing business, having 
a store at No. 851 Washington Street, Boston. 
His brother, Thomas F. Boyle, five years younger, 
was early associated with him, under the firm 
name of Boyle Brothers. He is not connected 
with societies or clubs, nor active in politics, 
giving his undi\ided attention to his business. 
He is unmarried. 



IlR.\(.'KKI"r, William Davis, of Boston, 
manufacturer, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Londonderry, June 9, 1S40, son of Will- 
iam D. and Almeria (Brown) lirackett, both 
natives of Eastham, Mass. When a child, his 
parents removed to Swampscott, Mass. ; and 
there he was educated in the public schools, and 
began his business career. He left school at the 
age of tweKe, and took a place in a general store 
kejH by his father. .\t twenty he became propri- 
etor of the store, purchasing his father's interest, 
and conducted a successful business there until 



1865. Then, coming to Boston, he formed a 
partnership with J. L. Goldthwait, under the firm 
name of Goldthwait, Brackett, & Co., and engaged 
in the wholesale and retail boot and shoe trade. 
In 1868, upon the death of Mr. Goldthwait, the 
firm of Cressey & Brackett was formed, composed 
of T. E. Cressey and Mr. Brackett, as manufact- 
urers and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes. 
Two years later Mr. Cressey retired, and the firm 
became Mann & Brackett. In 1880 Mr. Mann's 
interest was purchased by Mr. Brackett, and the 
firm name was changed to W. D. Brackett & Co., 
the present style. In 1889 W. H. Emerson and 
Mr. Brackett's son, Forrest G. Brackett, were ad- 
mitted as partners. The firm have several fac- 
tories, and do a large manufacturing business, to 
the general oversight of which Mr. Brackett gives 
his entire attention. He has held no public office 
other than that of town clerk of Swampscott for 
a number of years ; and, although a strong Re- 
publican, he has taken no public part in politics. 
He served in the Civil War as corporal of Com- 
pany E, Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers, during its term of service. He is a mem- 




W. D. BRACKETT. 



ber of the Home Market Club, of the Boot and 
Shoe Club, and of the Hugh de Payne Command- 
ery. Freemasons. He was married January 1, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1865, to Miss Sarah A. Lee, of Lowell. 'I'hey 
have had one son and one daughter : Forrest G. 
(born November 3, 1868) and Blanche E. 
Brackett (born August 3, 1870). He resides in 
Stoneham. 



BUTLP:R, Willia.m Morg.an, of New Bedford, 
member of the bar, president of the State Senate 
in 1894 and 1895, is a native of New Bedford, 
born January 29, 1861, son of James D. and 
Eliza B. (Place) Butler. He is lineally descended 
from Thomas Butler, who came to Lynn in 1629, 
and removed to Sandwich in 1637. Benjamin, 




practised in New Bedford from that time. He 
early came forward in public life : and, after serv- 
ing one year in the New Bedford Common Coun- 
cil (1S86), he was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1889, and has served continuously 
in the Legislature, two terms in the House of 
Representatives (1890-91), and four in the Senate 
(1892-95), the last two years as president of the 
Senate. During both years of his service in 
the House he was a member of the committee on 
the judiciary of that branch ; and during his first 
two years of the Senate he served on the Senate 
committee on the judiciary, the second year as its 
chairman. He was also ciiairman of the joint 
special committee on administrative boards and 
commissions, and a member of the connnittee on 
mercantile affairs in 1892, chairman of the Sen- 
ate special committee to investigate the penal in- 
stitutions in 1893, and member of the committees 
on probate and insolvency, bills in the third read- 
ing, and printing. He was also a member of the 
joint special committee of inquiry into the 'i'orrens 
system of land transfer, the connnittee to revise 
the corporation laws, and the committee upon the 
revision of the judiciary system. He is one of the 
youngest presidents the Senate has ever had, and 
was chosen to the position both years without op- 
position and by a unanimous \ote. In polilics, 
Mr. Butler is a Republican. He belongs to the 
local clubs of New Bedford, the \\'amsutta and 
the DartnK.iuth, and is connected with the Ma- 
sonic fraternity and the order of Odd Fellows. 
He was married July 15, 1886, to Miss Minnie F. 
Norton, of Edgartuwn. They have three chil- 
dren: Morgan, (lladvs, and I/awrence Butler. 



WM. M. BUTLER. 

the great-grandson of Thomas, went to New Bed- 
ford in 1750, in which place the family of the sub- 
ject of this sketch has since lived. His grand- 
father, 1 )aniel Butler, was prominent in the early 
business life of New Bedford ; and his father, the 
Rev. James D. Butler, was for many years con- 
nected with the ministry of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church in the New England Southern and 
Providence Conferences. William H. Piutler re- 
ceived his education in the public schools of New 
Bedford, and fitted for his profession at the Bos- 
ton LTniversity Law School, where he was grad- 
uated in June, 1884. He was admitted to the bar 
in September preceding his graduation, and has 



CAMP, Samuel, M.D., of Great Barrington, is 
a native of Connecticut, born in Winsted, Litch- 
field County, May 5, 1829, son of Samuel 
Sheldon and Betsey (Mallery) Camp. His 
father and mother were also natives of Win- 
sted. He is of F^nglish descent and Puritan 
stock, who came to America from 1630-1640, and 
settled in Boston, New Haven, and Wethersfield, 
Conn. He is a direct descendant of Nicholas 
Camp who came from Nasing, Essex County, Eng- 
land, in 1638, married Catherine, widow of An- 
thony 'Phompson, and settled in Milford, Conn. 
He is also a descendant of Henry Buck, Nathan- 
iel Foote, John Robbins, Josiah Churchill, and 
Richard Treat, who were among the first settlers 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



629 



of Wetln-rslicld, aiul Ihoiiias Carter, first minister 
at Woburn, Mass. His great-great-grandfathers 
were Lieutenant Samuel Gaylord and (Captain) 
Dr. Abraliam Camp, wiio married Martha, 
daughter of Moses Parsons, and practised medi- 
cine in \\'indham. Conn., afterward moving to 
New- Milford, thence to Norfolk, Conn. His 
great-grandfather was Moses Camp, wiio married 
Thankful Gaylord. He was a private in Captain 
IJostwick's company, Charles Webb's regiment, 
which crossed the Delaware on the eve of Decem- 
ber 25. 1776. Other members of the family 
served in the Revolutionary War, among whom 




SAMUEL CAMP. 

was Colonel Giles Jackson on Gates's staff. 
Ancestors of Dr. Camp were also more or less 
identified with the other wars of the country. 
The professions followed w^ere those of ministry 
and medicine. Samuel Camp obtained his pre- 
liminary education in Norfolk, Conn., and began 
the study of medicine there at the age of fifteen 
years with Dr. William Welch. His collegiate 
training was at \\'oodstock, Vt., and at the Uni- 
versity of New \'ork, where he was graduated 
March 5, 1851. He established himself first in 
New Marlborough, Mass., immediately after his 
graduation. Four years later he removed to St. 
Joseph, Mich. Then, returning to Berkshire 



County in 1S59, he settled in (Jreat Harrington, 
and has resided there from that time, engaged in 
active practice as physician and surgeon. At the 
opening of the Civil War he was appointed by 
Governor Andrew to examine excepts from draft, 
and as recruiting agent; and on the 21st of Sep- 
tember, 1 86 1, he was made assistant surgeon of the 
Twenty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
teers. In the following May, however, on the 
:!7th he resigned the latter commission on 
account of ill-health. When his health was re- 
stored, he renewed his interest in procuring re- 
cruits; and on October 17, 1863, when the call for 
three hundred thousand men for three years was 
made, he was again appointed at a special town 
meeting to enlist men. This agency he held until 
January, 1865. Dr. Camp has been surgeon of 
the D. G. x\nderson Post, No. 196, of the Grand 
.\rmy of the Republic, since its organization ; from 
1877 to 1S92 he was medical examiner for South- 
ern Berkshire; and from 1889-93 was United 
States pension examiner, under appointment of 
I'resident Harrison. He was admitted to member- 
ship in the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of 
the Berkshire County Medical Society in 1852. 
In politics he has been a lifelong Republican. 
Dr. Camp was married August 12, 1852, to Miss 
Sarah J. Jones, of New York City. They have 
had four children: H. Isabel, Charles Morton, 
Frank Barnum, and Mary Emily Camp. 



CHAGNON, W. John Baptiste, M.D., of Fall 
River, was born at St. Jean Baptiste, in the 
county of Rouville, Province of Quebec, Decem- 
ber 28, 1837, son of Antoine and Marie Anne 
(Bernard) Chagnon. His first ancestor in Amer- 
ica was Francois Chagnon, who emigrated to 
Canada, then the New France, in the latter half 
of the seventeenth century, a wool-carder by trade, 
and the first to build on the St. Lawrence River one 
of those round stone windmills such as that now 
seen in Newport. John B. attended the element- 
ary and grammar schools of his native place, and 
then went to the Chambly Commercial College to 
take a business course. Not satisfied with this, 
however, he turned his attention to classical studies, 
and devoted some time to their pursuit in the 
college of St. Hyacinthe and St. Assomption. 
The study of medicine was begun in May. 1S58, 
first under Dr. F. X. Bi^igue, the local physician 
in his native town, who is still living at the age of 



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eighty, and continued with Dr. M. Turcot, the 
leading physician of the city of St. Hyacinthe 
at that time. With this preparatory training he 
came to New York, and, entering the Medical 
College of the University of the City of New 
York, graduated there April 12, i860. Upon his 
return to his native country to practise his pro- 
fession, he was obliged, on account of a protec- 
tive medical law just enacted there, to pass a new 
examination in order to insure his license ; and 
this he did the following year before the medical 
board of the University of McGill, receiving not 
only the regular degree of doctor in medicine, but 




J. B. CHAGNON. 

also that of master in surgery. For some years 
thereafter he practised in the town or parish of 
St. Dominique, a countiy place, with the ordinary 
success of all beginners. In 1S67 he went to 
St. Pie, where he enjoyed a wider field, with an 
increase of his professional labors. Equally pat- 
ronized by French Canadians and by the numer- 
ous w'ealthy English settlers of Abbotsford, he soon 
achieved a popularity which brought him to a 
position among the foremost of citizens. Besides 
his professional duties he devoted some of his 
time to the education of the children of the town, 
and to the maintenance of order in cases of 
trouble and contention, acting in this respect as 



justice of the peace. He also organized a company 
of fifty militia men, instructing them in his leisure 
hours, which body proved effective on the frontier 
against the Fenian raid in 1870. In the autumn 
of 1878 Dr. Chagnon became a candidate under 
the McKenzie government on the issue of revenue 
tarift" against high protection, having secured the 
nomination from his party in preference to the 
late ex-Premier Mercier. He opposed the Hon. 
A. Mousseau, and was beaten by a small majority 
in that memorable contest in which the Liberal 
Party was swept off. After this campaign, dis- 
gusted with the ungratefulness of both his friends 
and his own relatives, who had most opposed his 
election, Dr. Chagnon decided to seek another 
field of action. He then came to Fall River, 
bought a house in the suburbs, and opened a drug 
store in the city. A few years later he e-\tended 
his business, taking another store in the centre 
of the city. In December, 1884, he went abroad, 
and spent the succeeding six months in Paris, 
attending there the lectures of able specialists, in 
branches which he proposed to practise upon his 
return. Meanwhile his business in Fall River had 
been left under the superintendence of his clerk, 
Aime ISarry : and he had intrusted the education 
and care of his daughters (his wife having died in 
May, 1883) to Sister H. Alphonse, the superior 
of the convent of Marieville in Canada, and the 
instruction of his sons to the college of the same 
place. After a brief vacation in Germany and 
Italy, he returned, and, selling his interests in 
pharm.icy, concentrated his attention again upon 
the practice of his regular profession, with suc- 
cess fully up to his expectations. Dr. Chagnon 
has trained several young men as pharmacists and 
physicians, among the number being Dr. .\. W. 
Petit, now of Nashua, N.H.; Dr. A. Petit, of 
Phenix, R.I. ; Dr. L. Keaudry, of Pawtucket, R.I.; 
Dr. A. Langevin, of Millbury, Mass. ; Dr. E. Car- 
din, of Swanton, Vt. ; and Dr. N. Normand, lately 
graduated ; and, as pharmacists, Aime Barry, now 
one of the leaders among the druggists of Fall 
River, his brother Aladin Barry, to-day a busy 
physician, and D. Jarry, one of the firm of Dan- 
durand, Pease, &: Co., of New Bedford. In 
Canada Dr. Chagnon held the offices of justice of 
the peace, commissioner of the court of equity, 
president of the board of school committee in 
1875; and was a member of the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec. 
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C'dinu il ill 18S3. He was one of the foumlers of 
the ( loot! Samaritan Hospital of !-'all River, now 
a prosperous institution. He is a member of the 
Histological Society of Paris, of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society, of the Medical Association 
of Fall River, and of the South Bristol Medical 
Association. He has contributed a number of 
articles to medical publications. His single liusi- 
ness interests outside of his profession are now 
the Lafayette Hank of Fall River, of which he 
is president, and the Fall Rixer People Steam- 
boat Company, in which he is acting as director. 
|)r. ('hagnfui is a cosmopolitan practitioner, in 
the full sense of the term. He is patronized 
by all nationalities of his city. Dr. C'hagnon 
married June 17, 1861, Miss Marie Victorine 
I )esnoyers, by whom he had ten children, 
all of whom are yet living : Maria, Charles Kmile 
(now a physician at Artie Centre, R.I.), Rosa 
Anna (now wife of Dr. A. W. Petit), L. Alfred 
(phvsician, practising in Mizola, Mont.), Marie 
Victoria (wife of Fanery Paneton, druggist in Fall 
Kiver), Marie Louise (wife of A. E. Lafond, editor 
of the Tribune of Woonsocket, R.I.), Concorde 
(wife of Dr. A. Petit, of Pheni.x, R.I.), Martha 
Zoe, Eugc'nie, and Planche Chagnon. Dr. Chag- 
luin is already grandfather of twelve children, 
lie married second, in 1885, Mrs. Mary Ann 
(ligault I'haneuf. widow of D. Phaneuf, formerly 
a merchant of Canada, and sister of (leorge 
(ligaedt, the deputy minister of agriculture in the 
( 'anatlian <:o\ernment. 



CHASE, Aniiukw Jackson, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Chase Refrigerator Company, is a 
native of Maine, born in Hallowell, July 25, 1836, 
son of Oliver A. and Rachael (Trask) Chase, 
daughter of Elder Samuel Trask. His maternal 
great-grandfather, when a lad, was captured, and 
made to serve as cabin-boy with the notorious 
pirate, Kidd, until the latter's craft and crew 
were taken by the English ; and it is said that the 
crew pleaded with their executioners to spare the 
boy"s life, which was the only one spared. His 
education was limited to the country school. At 
the age of seventeen he came to Boston, and 
there was first employed in the manufacture of 
what w'as then known as mineral waters and 
syrups. L'pon the outbreak of the Civil War he 
was among the earliest to enlist, joining the 
Twelfth Massachusetts, Webster Regiment. He 



served through the principal battles of liie Poto- 
mac ; and on May 23, 1864, was severely 
wounded at Jericho Ford, North .Anna River, on 
the last march of Grant toward Richmond. For 
a year thereafter he was dependent upon crutches. 
Returning from the war, he resumed his former 
occupation. He first became engaged in the cold 
blast refrigerator business in Januar)-, 1866, 
under the first patent. 'I'his was subsequently 
greatly improved until the scientific cold-blast 
system was fully perfected, aiul the business 
meanwhile largely extended. 'I'here are now nf)t 
less than ten thousand of the Chase Cold-biasl 




A. J. CHASE. 

Refrigerator cars engaged in the fresh meat trade 
alone. The first successful shipment of fresh beef 
to Europe was made from Chicago to Boston in cold- 
blast cars, and then by steamship, fitted in like 
manner, by Mr. Chase in 1878 or 1879 ; and since 
that time large shipments have been regularly 
made by means of cold-blast preservation. Mr. 
Chase is also the well-known inventor of the scien- 
tific process for distilling pure water. Among other 
valuable discoveries of his is a method for extract- 
ing a meat and fish preserving and baconizing 
Huid from the sugar maple tree. He attributes 
his present youthful state to the constant use of 
aero-distilled water, which has been freely used 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



for the past six years. He has never used 
tobacco or liquors of any kind. Mr. Chase is a 
member of the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanic Association. In politics he has always 
been a practical reformer and Republican. He 
was married January 15, 1856, to Miss Sarah 
Harny, daughter of Captain John Harny, of Hali- 
fax, N.S. They have had a family of four chil- 
dren : Ella F., Warren A., Sarah Edith (deceased), 
and Confucius Chase. 



CHASE, Caleb, of r.oston, merchant, was born 
in Harwich, December 11, 1S31, son of Job and 
Pha'be (VMnslow) Chase. His father was a ship- 
owner and a sea-faring man in early life, and 
afterward kept a general store in Harwich until 
about twenty years previous to his death, which 
occurred at the ripe age of eighty-nine. He was 
a public-spirited man, much interested and influ- 
ential in affairs, one of the original stockholders 
in the old Yarmouth liank. and prominent in 
public enterprises of his day. Caleb Chase was 
educated in the public schools of Harwich, and 



of .Anderson, Sargent, (\: Co., at that time a lead- 
ing dry-goods house of the city. After about five 
years with this firm, during which period he trav- 
elled in its interest, first through Cape Cod towns, 
and later in the West, he became connected with 
the wholesale grocery house of Cloflin, Saville, & 
Co., beginning in September, 1859, This con- 
nection continued until the first of January, 1864, 
shortly after which he engaged in the business on 
his own account as a member of the firm of Carr. 
Chase, & Raymond then formed. In 187 1 this 
firm was succeeded by Chase, Raymond, & Ayer ; 
and in 187S the present house of Chase lV San- 
born was organized for the importation of teas 
and coffees e.xclusively. Mr. Chase is now the 
head of the house, which ranks as the largest 
importing and distributing tea and coft'ee house in 
the country. Large branch houses are also estab- 
lished in Montreal and in Chicago. In politics 
Mr. Chase is a Republican. He has often been 
solicited to enter the field for public service, but 
he has invariably declined, preferring to devote 
his energies to his extensive business interests. 
He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery Company, and of the Algonquin Club. 
He was married in 1864 to Miss Salome lioyles, 
of Thurston, Me. They have no children. 







COLE, John Nelson, of Andover, editor and 
publisher of the Ttm'iisnian, was born in Grove- 
land, November 4, 1S63, son of George S. and 
Nancy Emeline (Bodwell) Cole. His first ances- 
t<ir in America on the maternal side came in 
1670. On his father's side he traces back four 
generations to settlers in New Hampshire. He 
was educated in .\ndover public schools and at 
the I'unchard High School. His business career 
was begun as clerk and paymaster in the office of 
the well-known Andover Woollen Mills of M. T. 
Stevens (S: Sons. In 1887 he purchased the An- 
dover Rookstore, and, as treasurer of a stock com- 
pany called the .\ndover Press, began the publica- 
tion of the Andover llnviisiimn. and the conduct 
of a general printing and publishing business. 
He assumed the editorship of the lownsniaii in 
1890. LInder his direction the paper has been 
prosperous from the start ; and he holds that its 
success has come, in a large measure, from a 
early went to work in his father's store, where he strict adherence to two rules, — (i) that the local 
remained until he reached his twenty-fourth year, paper has only a local mission, and (2) that it is 
Then, coming to Boston, he entered the employ more important to leave out the wrong than to put 



CALEB CHASE. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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in ihu rii;lit, in a home paper. It is now the only 
journal puljlished in the town. The printing- 
office of the .\ndover I'res.s has all the work in 




JOHN N. COLE. 

foreign languages as well as English for Phillips 
(Andover) Academy, the x\ndover Seminary, and 
other schools in Andover ; and in the last five 
years its business has more than doubled. Mr. 
Cole is a member of the Andover School Board, 
and has served in that body since 1893. He is 
connected with the Masonic fraternity, the Odd 
Fellows, the Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen. In politics he is 
Republican. He was married September 21, 
1886, to Miss Minnie Poor, of Andover. Their 
children are: Abby, Beth, Margaret, and Philip 
Poor Cole. 

CONVERSE, James Wheaton, of Boston, mer- 
chant, manufacturer, banker, benefactor, was born 
in Thompson, Conn., January 11, 1808; died in 
Swampscott, August 26, 1894. He was son of 
Elisha Converse, farmer, and his wife, Betsey 
(Wheaton) Converse. His opportunities for an 
education were confined to the country schools, 
which he attended until he was thirteen, and to 
night schools and lectures in Boston afterward. 
When he was si.x years old, his parents removed 



to Woodstock, Conn., two years later to Dover, 
Mass., and not long after to Needham. One day 
in 1 82 1, then thirteen years of age, while hoeing 
with his father, he suddenly looked up into his 
father's face, and asked for his time, saying that 
he would like to go to Boston, believing that he 
could help the family more by so doing than by 
remaining on the farm. His father consenting, he 
started oiif with his belongings in a bundle, and 
upon his arrival in town at once found employ- 
ment with his uncles, Joseph and Benjamin Con- 
verse, who were then occupying a stall in the 
Boylston Market. He began for five dollars a 
month and board as wages, and worked with such 
energy and faithfulness that within a few years 
he had made substantial progress. In 1828 he 
started out for himself, his uncles selling him part 
of the business upon his agreement to pay them 
for it as fast as he could. He worked regularly 
from four in the morning to ten at night, and by 
assiduity and prudence he was enabled to pay ofT 
his debt with such rapidity as to astonish his 
uncles. In 1831 he sold out this busines.s, and 
on January i, 1832, formed a partnership with 
William Hardwick, under the firm name of Hard- 
wick & Converse, to engage in the boot and shoe 
business, on the corner of Milk and Broad Streets. 
Just a year later he joined Isaac Field, and, under 
the firm name of Field & Converse, founded the 
hide and leather house with which he continued 
actively connected for nearly forty years. In 
1838 Mr. Field retired; and his brother, John 
Field, took his place. The first store of the firm 
was on Broad Street. Thence removal was made 
to ISlackstone Street, from there to North Street, 
next to Pearl, and thence to High Street, where 
the house was long established. Mr. Converse 
finally retired from this business January i, 1870. 
In 1836, upon the organization of the old Me- 
chanics" Bank of Boston, Mr. Converse was 
elected one of the directors of that institution ; 
and in 1847 he was made its president, which po- 
sition he held continuously until January, 1888, 
when he resigned. I'he Mechanics' was one of 
the few banks that went safely through the panics 
of 1837 and 1857, and its high standing was fully 
maintained throughout Mr. Converse's administra- 
tion of forty-one years. In 1850 Mr. Converse 
first went to Grand Rapids, Mich., making the 
journey partly by canal boat and partly by stage, 
his mission being to save the rights of the Amer- 
ican Baptist Missionary Union in what was at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



thnt time known as tliu liaptist Indian Resurve 
on the west side of the (liand River. In this he 
was successful. Subsequently he purchased the 
property, then almost a wilderness : and in its 
subsequent development into the present thriving 
place he had a leading part. In 1856 he pur- 
chased an interest in the Gypsum Quarries, and 
was largely instrumental in developing the plaster 
industry. In 1868 he furnished the means to 
build a railroad from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids, 
which was the first road to enter the centre of the 
city. It was promised to be finished to Grand 
Rapids on a certain day ; and at six o'clock on 




J. W, CONVERSE. 

that day the first engine over the completed road 
entered the city amid great rejoicings, the ringing 
of bells, and the booming of cannon. Later on he 
helped to establish many of the now thriving man- 
ufacturing companies there, and served as presi- 
dent and director of a number of them. He also 
aided in the building of churches and in founding 
various religious enterprises. In 1S61 Mr. Con- 
verse was chosen a director of the Boston Rubber 
Shoe Company, and in 1S63 became its president, 
which ofifice he held till his death. In 1867 he 
was one of the organizers of the Boston & Col- 
orado Smelting Company of Denver, Col., and 
was its president from that time until his death, 



a period of twenty-seven years. Upon his retire- 
ment from the firm of Field & Converse, in 1870, 
he had more outside interests than ever before ; 
and these increased in the succeeding years. His 
energy and recuperative powers were a marvel to 
all who knew him. " It was his habit," one of his 
near friends has related, " of retiring at about nine 
o'clock ; of awaking at about three ; of thinking 
out the plans of the day until about five, when he 
would dress, go to his writing-table, and there do 
a large amount of work before breakfast. Though 
at times very tired at night he would rise with all 
the energy and enthusiasm possible for the busi- 
ness activity of another day. His faith and 
tenacity for carrying through an enterprise were 
very remarkable ; and, the more care and business 
activity in hand, the happier he was." \\'ith all 
his great and varied interests Mr. Converse found 
time fully to attend to religious and benevolent 
enterprises in fields all over the world, to which 
he also gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
a very modest way. He was an ardent and prom- 
inent member of the Baptist denomination from 
early manhood, first joining the Charles Street 
Baptist Church, Dr. Daniel Sharp then pastor, in 
( )ctober, 182 1, when he first came to Boston, a 
lad of thirteen. He was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Federal Street Baptist Church, organ- 
ized in 1827. For nearly fifty years he served in 
\arious churches as deacon, being first elected to 
litis office July 5, 1837, by the Federal Street 
Church. In December, 1845, he moved his place 
of residence to Jamaica Plain, and joined the Bap- 
tist Church there. Returning to Boston in 1865, 
he united with the Shawmut .Vvenue Baptist 
Church, afterward the First Baptist Church. 
During his stay in Jamaica Plain he was part of 
the time connected with the Tremont Temple, 
Boston. He also changed his membership later 
on from the Shawmut Avenue Church to Tremont 
Temple, and subsequently back again to the First 
Church, of which he was a member at the time of 
his death. For many years he was an honored 
and able member of the executive committee of 
the .'\merican Baptist Missionary Union. 



CUMNER. Arthur B.-vrtlkt, of Boston, mer- 
chant, of the firm of Cumner, Craig, & Co., was 
born in Manchester, N.H., July 30, 1871, son of 
Nathaniel Wentworth and Harriet Elizabeth (Wad- 
ley) Cumner. He is of the fourth generation in 



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direct descent from Robert Francis Cunnier, 
seized ijy a press gang in 1774 in London, and 
carried on board H. ^t. S, '■ Somerset." His 
fatiicr was a prominent tailor in Manchester, 
\.II., and was one of the proprietors of the 
.National Hotel, Washington, D.C, during the 
Civil War; founder of the tirm of Cunmer, Jones, 
\- Co., tailors' trimmings, Boston. His mother 
was of Bradford, N.H. Both parents are dead. 
He was educated in the public schools of Man- 
chester and of Boston. Always interested in 
machinery and in electricit}-, he joined the Holtzer- 
Cabot Electric Company in 1892, and in January, 



Jordan, of the American Loan \- I'rust Company, 
Boston. He has two children: a daughter, Mil- 
dred (born January 7, 1S94), and a son, Jordan 
Cumner (born March 14, 1895). 




A. B. CUMNER. 

1893, formed the present partnership with J. Hally 
Craig. 'I'he firm now represents the Crocker- 
Wheeler Electric Company in New England. Mr. 
( umner has been devoted from boyhood to all 
kinds of athletics, — bic)'cling, canoeing, and driv- 
ing, — and is much interested in the breeding of 
dogs. He is a member of the Boston .\thletic 
Club, of the Massachusetts Vacht Club, of the 
Framingham Boat Club, and of the Cridiron Club, 
one of the founders and a director of the last men- 
tioned. In 1S95 he received his election to the 
American institute of Electrical Engineers. Mr. 
Cumner was married in Boston, October iS, 
1892, to Miss Mabel Jordan, daughter of N. W. 



GUSHING, Ai.viN M.VTTHKW. M.I)., of Spring- 
held, is a native of Vermont, born in llie town of 
Burke, September 28, 1829, son of .Matthew and 
Risia (Woodruff) Cushing. His grandfather, 
Noah Cushing, was of Putney, Vt., and his great- 
grandfather, Matthew Cushing, of Rehoboth, 
Mass., a son of Jacob Cushing, of Hingham, 
Mass., direct descendant of Matthew Cushing, 
who settled in Hingham in 1639. Dr. Cushing 
was educated in district and private schools and 
at the Newbury (Vt.) Seminary. His preparation 
for his profession was most thorough, beginning 
with attendance upon lectures at the Dartmouth 
Medical School, and continuing at the Ver- 
mont Medical College at Woodstock, Vt., the 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, the 
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and at 
the Homteopathic Medical College, Philadelphia, 
where he graduated March i, 1856. He also took 
special lectures on Materia Medica under Con- 
stantine Herring before entering the Homceo- 
pathic Medical College. He began practice in 
Bradford, Vt., and remained there five years. 
Then he was for four years in Lansingburg, N.Y., 
then si.xteen in Lynn, Mass., three in Boston, and 
then in Springfield, moving each time on account 
of sickness in his family. He has been estab- 
lished in Springfield for eleven years steadily in 
active practice, and holding a leading position 
among practitioners of Western Massachusetts. 
He is the author of " Diseases of Females, and 
their Homceopathic Treatment,"' in two editions ; 
and a monograph on " Dioscorea Villosa," having 
made an exhaustive proving on himself of the 
same. He has also proved upon himself and pre- 
sented to the profession bromide of ammonium, 
artemesia abrotanuni, morphine, rhatany, salicylic 
acid, verbascum oleum, homarus and phaseolus 
diversiflora; and he introduced to the profession 
mullen oil, now recommended by all schools of 
medicine as a remedy for deafness and earache 
and urinary troubles. He was the first homcvo- 
pathic physician invited to talk to •' old school " 
students. He is often called long distances in 
consultation, and is a firm believer in Similia. 
He is a member of the American Institute 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of Homoeopathy and the Society of Seniors of the 
Institute ; a nieniljer and an ex-president of the 
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society ; an 
ex-vice-president of the Massachusetts Surgical 
and Gyna'cological Society, and member of the 
Hahnemanian Club of ISoston : an ex-member and 
ex-president of the Essex County Homoeopathic 
Medical Society ; ex-member of the Boston 
Homifopathic Medical Society ; was twice presi- 
dent of the Boston Academy of Medicine ; is a 
member of the Homceopathic Medical Society of 
Western Massachusetts ; member of the Worces- 
ter Coiuitv Medical Society ; and an hon(_)rarv 




A. M. GUSHING. 

member of the ^'ermont Homieopathic Medical 
Association and of the Connecticut River Medi- 
cal Association. Dr. Cushing was married Febru- 
ary 14, i860, at Hartford, Vt., t<» ]\Iiss Hannah 
Elizabeth Pearsons. She died January 17, 1880. 
They had three sons : John Pearsons,* Alvin 
Matthew, Jr., and Harry Alonzo Cushing. The 
eldest son was born in Lansingburg, N.Y., Sep- 
tember 5, 1861. He graduated from Amherst in 
1882, taught ten years as vice-principal in the 
Holyoke High School, received the degree of 
Ph.D. in the l^niversity of Leipzig, Germany, in 
1894, and is now a professor of economics and 
history in Knox Colleije, Galesbur^, 111. Alvin 



M., Jr.. was born in Lynn, January 10, 1866, grad- 
uated from the Boston Latin School in 1885, and 
died soon after. Harry Alonzo was also born in 
L\nn, September 15, 1870, graduated from 
Amherst in 1891, taught two years in Beloit 
(Wis.) College, received the degree of A.iSL from 
Columbia College in 1894, and is now (1895) tak- 
ing a post-graduate course there. He has been 
elected prize lecturer for three years in Columbia 
and Barnard Colleges. He is president of Col- 
lege Graduate clubs. Dr. Cushing's wife was a 
sister of Dr. D. K. Pearsons, formerly of Chico- 
pee, Mass., Chicago's generous millionaire, who 
has already given nearly two million dollars to 
hospitals, colleges, and schools. John P. Cush- 
ing married Miss Alice Bullions, grand-daughter 
of Rev. Mr. Bullions, author of Bullions's " Latin 
Grammar " and other educational books. 



CUTLER, Cecil Stevens, M.D., of Northamp- 
ton, was born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, June 
12, 1 85 1, son of Rodolphus J. and Sarah P. 
(Stevens) Cutler. His grandfather, Benjamin 
Cutler, born in Vermont, lived to the remarkable 
age of one hundred and one years, six months, 
and three days. He comes of a family of phy- 
sicians, an uncle and four cousins having followed 
the profession of medicine. He was educated in 
the Cooperstovvn Seminary, Cooperstown, N.V., 
and took a business course at Brown's Business 
College, of Brooklyn, N.Y. After graduation 
therefrom he was cashier for Charles Knox, " The 
Hatter," corner of Broadway and Fulton Street, 
New York, for a while, and thence was called to 
the Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn, as assistant re- 
ceiving teller, which position he subsequently 
left to study medicine. His medical studies were 
pursued in the University Medical College of the 
City of New York, and he was graduated there in 
the class of 1877. During his college course and 
subsequently he was connected with various hos- 
pitals, among them the Bellevue, Jersey City, 
Roosevelt. ■ St. Luke's, the Charity, and the 
Woman's Hospital of New York. In 1876 he 
wasappointed surgeon of the First Company of 
the Governor's Horse Guard of Hartford, Conn., 
under Governor Ingersoll. He has been estab- 
lished in Northampton since 1880 as a physician, 
surgeon, and specialist, engaged in a large prac- 
tice extending over a wide field, and has intro- 
duced a number of new methods of treating 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



M/ 



chniiiir diseases. He is connected witii the 
Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Klks, the Inipro\ed ()rder of Red Men, 




at the Institute of Technology, and became a 
student of the Massachusetts Normal Art School. 
In September, 1876, he went to Indiana as art 
instructor at the I'urdue University in Lafayette. 
Returning East in 1877, he decided to devote all 
his day-time to painting, but taught drawing in 
the Boston free evening drawing school for two 
seasons. In 1878 he was appointed teacher of 
drawing in the Boston free evening drawing 
school. He spent a year in study with M. Achille 
Oudinot, an accomplished landscape painter, then 
resident in Boston, and next went to Paris, where 
he studied another year figure drawing and paint- 
ing in the Julien Academy, under Lefebvre and 
Boulanger. These studies completed, he gave 
a year and a half to sketching trips through 
Brittany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and England, 
meanwhile painting a number of pictures, mostly 
of coast or sea subjects. Coming back to Bo.s- 
ton in the fall of 1884, in 1885, he fitted up a 
yacht of twenty-six tons, and set out on a four 
months' sketching cruise along the New England 
coast, visiting every port between Boston and 
Eastport, acting as his own skipper and pilot. 



C. S. CUTLER. 



and the Knights of Pythias, captain and assistant 
surgeon of the First Massachusetts Regiment, 
uniform rank of the latter order. Dr. Cutler was 
married February g, 1876, to Miss Isadore P. 
Holcomb, and has two children : Mina A. and 
Edna M. Cutler. 



DE.\N, Walter Lokthou.sk, of Boston, artist, 
was born in Lowell, June 4, 1854. His parents 
moved to Boston when he was a child, and his 
general education was attained there in the public 
grammar and high schools and in evening draw- 
ing schools. After leaving school, he entered a 
mill in Tilton, N.H., to learn the business of 
cotton manufacture; and, in order to gain a thor- 
ough knowledge of all of its details, he worked 
in succession at every machine in the factory and 
in every branch of the establishment. But this 
occupation was not to his liking, and, finally, he 
determined to abandon it for art. Accordingly, 
he returned to Boston in January, 1873, entered 
an evening drawing school, and studied archi- 
tecture awhile, under Professor William R. Ware, 




W. L. DEAN. 



Later he made more extended voyages on the 
barkentine " Christiana Redman " and the bark 
" Woodside," for the purpose of becoming famil- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



iar with square-rigged vessels. He had. however, 
been used to the sea and acquainted with ships 
from boyhood, so that this was no new experience 
with him. Early in his teens, through his love 
of adventure and fondness for the sea, he had 
made a cruise of a month on a Gloucester fishing- 
vessel to the Banks ; and, when a school-boy, he 
passed every possible moment out of school hours 
on the w-ater. His cat-boat, " Fannie," was long 
the fastest boat of her size, and took first prize 
in many races. He has for many years been an 
ardent yachtsman, and is now rear commodore 
and on the regatta committee of the Boston Yacht 
Club, of which he is a life member. His principal 
paintings include "I^eace," a large canvas repre- 
senting the White Squadron at anchor in Boston 
Harbor, "The Open Sea," and "Return of the 
Seiners," which were exhibited at the Chicago 
Exposition; "The Dutch Fishing Fleet," "Sum- 
mer Day on the Dutch Shore," " Stormy Day, 
North Sea," "Grand Banker Homeward Bound," 
"Little Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester," "The 
Market Boat, Capri," " Racing Home," " Beach 
at Scheveningen," "Old Ferry Landing," "In the 
Yacht's Cabin," "Breton Interior," and "The 
Game Warden." He has received medals at 
Boston and Philadelphia. The " In the Break- 
ers " was purchased by the Boston Art Club 
from its annual exhibition in 1888. Mr. Dean 
is an officer of the Boston Society of Water-color 
Painters and of the Paint and Clay Club, and 
he has served on the board of management of 
the Boston Art Club for three years. For sev- 
eral years he was also a member of the Fish 
and Game Association. 



DEARING, Henry Lincoln, M.D., of Brain- 
tree, is a native of Braintree, born February 16, 
i866, son of Dr. T. Haven and Mary Jane (Jen- 
kins) Dearing. His father is a physician of 
prominence, having a very large practice in Brain- 
tree, who for several years was dean and profes- 
sor of surgery; and his grandfatlier. Captain 
Roger Dearing, was long engaged in commercial 
business at Kittery Point, Me. His mother 
was a daughter of Deacon Solon Jenkins, of 
Boston. On the paternal side he descends from 
a family among the early settlers of what is now 
Maine, coming to this country from England, and 
for whom the town of Deering, N.H., was named. 
Into this family Governor Wentworth, of New- 



Hampshire, married. Members of the family in 
England have sat in Parliament, and held high 
offices. Dr. Dearing received his academic and 
classical education at the Thayer Academy, Brain- 
tree, and at Boston L^niversity ; and his medical 
education in Boston, New York, and Germany, 
graduating from the Bellevue Hospital Medical 
College, New York, in March, 1890. He has now 
a large and successful practice in Braintree, where 
he began immediately after his graduation from 
the medical college, and is examiner for several 
insurance companies, associations, and orders. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, of the American Medical Association, of 
the Boston Gyna;cological Society, and of the 
Norfolk South District Medical Society. He is 
also interested in town affairs, and is at present 
serving on the School Board. For some years 
he was connected with the State militia, some 
time first lieutenant of Company K, F'ifth Regi- 
ment. He is musical in taste and training, 
and has held the position of tenor singer in the 
choir of the First Congregational Church of 
Braintree for several years. In politics he is 




H. L. DEARING. 

a stanch Republican, and is a member of the 
Norfolk (political dining) Club. Dr. Dearing is 
not married. 



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639 



DOIXIK. [oHX Lanoixin', of (ileal I'.anington, 
hanker, was horn in New .Marlhoronj;li. October 
7, 1S14, son of |ohn and I.ucy (l.an^doni I )od<^e. 



P «i& 



r 




J. L. DODGE. 

His great-grandfather, Abraham Dodge, and his 
grandfather, moved from Eastern Massachusetts 
to New Marlborough, with which town the famil)' 
have since been identified. Abraham Dodge was 
f)orn in 1730. and died in 18 10, aged eighty 
years; and John Dodge died in 1814, aged fifty- 
nine years and ten months. Abigail Dodge, 
grandmother of John Langdon Dodge, was a rela- 
tive of (Jeneral Joseph Warren ; and Mr. Dodge 
had a brother named \\'arren 'rrumbull Dodge. 
His mother, Lucy Langdon, was a near relative 
of (lovernor Trumbull, of Connecticut; and Mr. 
1 )odge has in his possession some silverware 
m;irked "Sara Trumbull." His grandmother 
Dodge died October 10, 1827, aged seventy- 
three years. His father died .\pril 9, 1862, at 
the age of seventy-si.x ; and his mother died .Vpril 
5, 1846, aged fifty-four years. His grandfathers 
and grandmother, as well as his father and 
mother, are all buried in New Marlborough. Mr. 
Dodge was educated in common and select 
schools, and remained on the home farm until 
nearly twentv-one years old. Then he went West, 
and was there ten years, a portion of the time en- 



gaged in mercantile business. Returning to Herk- 
shire County, he subsequently engaged in l)ank- 
ing. He is now- president of the Oreat Harrington 
Water Company, president of the Everett Woollen 
Company of Great Harrington, and president of 
the Great Barrington Gas Company, and has for 
over fifteen years been treasurer of the Peters & 
Calhauln Company of Newark, N.J. He has 
also been president of the National Mahaiwe 
Bank of Great Barrington for upwards of forty 
years, and a director forty-seven years. In poli- 
tics, Mr. Dodge is a steady Republican. He 
was married April 17, 1839, to Miss Laura 
Stevens, of New Marlborough. She died August 
30, 1870, aged fifty-five years. Their children 
were : Henry Langdon (born in Greenfield, Ohio, 
in 1841, died August 25, 1856), Lucy Langdon 
(born in Sheffield, Mass., December 2, 1850, mar- 
ried to G. Willis Peters, of Newark, N.J., No- 
vember 15, 1876), and John Stevens Dodge (born 
in Great Barrington, February 27, 1853, died Feb- 
ruary 21, 1892). Lucy L. (Dodge) Peters has 
four children: Sara Dodge (born December 31, 
1877), John Dodge (born November 19, 1879), 
George Willis (born October 7, 188 1), and Aline 
Laura Peters (born August 22, 1883). John 
Stevens Dodge left one child : Laura Stevens 
Dodge (born March 27, 1886); Emily Lindley 
Dodge (born March i, 1887, died September 11, 
1889). 

EDGERLY, Julien Campbell, of Boston, pro- 
prietor and manager of the Boston College of 
Oratory, is a native of New Hampshire, torn in 
the town of Haverhill, April 22. 1865. He was 
the son of General Andrew J. Edgerly, and a 
nephew of the late Colonel M. V. B. Edgerly, 
president of the Massachusetts Mutual Life In- 
surance Company. He is of English ancestry. 
His early education was acquired in the common 
schools, and he fitted for college at Haverhill 
Academy. He was graduated from the classical 
course at Tufts College with the class of 1888. 
While in college, he manifested much interest in 
oratorical matters, and in his junior year won the 
Greenwood prize scholarship for the greatest im- 
provement in oratory. ISefore leaving college, he 
became interested in newspaper work, and gave 
his spare time to work as a reporter on the Boston 
GMn: About this time he became acquainted 
with Miss Clara Tileston Power, then the head of 
the department of Delsarte in the Boston School 



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of Oi;Uorv. Tlieir acc[uaint;ince resulted in mar- to-day many young men and women are fitting 
riage in 1891, shortly after which Mrs. Kdgerly themselves for the life-work to which they are 
resigned her position in the Boston School of best adapted at this college without any cost to 

themselves. 




J. C. EDGERLY. 

Oratory, and joined with her husband in found- 
ing a new school, which was called the ISoston 
College of Oratory. This school has flourished 
from the start, and in the first three years of its 
existence attained a size which e.\ceeded that of 
many schools four or five times its age. It took 
its place at once as a high - class national insti- 
tution. Mr. and Mrs. Edgerly drew about them 
some of the leading teachers of New England, 
men and women who stood at the head of their 
profession. Pupils have been drawn from nearly 
every State of the l^nion, and even from F.urope. 
One of the special attractions of the school is the 
prominence which has been given to the teach- 
ings of the French philosopher, Fran<j-ois Delsarte. 
Much of the mystery which has attached to this 
subject heretofore has, through the work done at 
this school, been cleared away. Mr. Edgerly is 
deeply interested in the advancement of the 
standard of elocutionary work. In 1892 he es- 
tablished a series of contests in ever\- State in 
New England, open to the best speakers in the 
public schools, the prizes consisting of scholar- 
ships in the Ijoston College of Oratory: and 



EDMONDS, Louis, M.I)., of Harwich, is a 
native of England, born in Manchester, February 
18, 1846, son of James and Jane (Price) Edmonds. 
He was educated in the English national schools. 
At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the 
trade of a printer, and at nineteen went to Lon- 
don, where he worked in various printing-offices 
for three years. At twenty-tw'o he went to Paris, 
France, and remained there about seven years. 
He came to the United States the year after the 
close of the Franco-Prussian War. For ten years 
he held the position of a proof-reader on the 
Boston Herald. Then, entering the Harvard 
Medical School, he continued this occupation 
during his medical training three nights a week, 
— F'riday. Saturday, and Sunday, — devoting the 
remainder of each week to his studies. He took 
the regular four years' course, graduating in 1893. 
For twelve months he was medical and surgical 




LOUIS EDMONDS, 

house otificer of the Worcester City Hospital, and 
began practice in Boston in February, 1894. He 
moved to Harwich the following July.rand is now 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



641 



actively following his profession there, to which stitution of Savings, of which he had previously 



he is ardently devoted. He is prominent in the 
Masonic fraternity, being a Scottish Rite Mason, 
a Royal Arch Mason (member of St. Andrew's 
Chapter. Boston), and member of Aleppo Temple, 
noble order of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he 
is an Independent, preferring principles and men 
to party. 

ENDICOTT, Charlks, of Canton, State tax 
commissioner and also commissioner of corpora- 
tions, was born in Canton, October 28, 1822, son 
of Elijah and Cynthia (Child) Endicott. He was 
educated in the local common schools, and trained 
for active life in work on his father's farm and at 
boot-making. In 1846, when he was but twenty- 
four years of age, he was appointed a deputy 
sheriff of Norfolk County, and thus began a career 
in the public service notable for length and char- 
acter. After serving as deputy sheriff for seven 
years, he took up the study of law in the office of 
the late Ellis Ames, of Canton, and in 1857 was 
admitted to the bar. Soon after, in 1859, he was 
elected county commissioner, which office he held 
for si.x years; in 1855 he was appointed by the 
governor a commissioner of insolvency, and later 
elected to the otfice by the people; in 1S51, and 
again in 1857 and 1858, was a representative for 
Canton in the General Court; in 1866 and 1867 
a State senator for his senatorial district ; and in 
1868 and 1869 a member of the Blxecutive Coun- 
cil. While serving his second term in the latter 
capacity, he was nominated on the Republican 
State ticket for State auditor, and elected in the 
ensuing election ; and thereafter his name regu- 
larly appeared on that ticket for nearly a dozen 
years, si.x years of this period as candidate for 
the auditorship, and five for treasurer and re- 
ceiver-general of the Commonwealth, his election 
following invariably with a generous majority. 
His services as auditor, therefore, covered the 
years 1870-71-72-73-74-75, and as treasurer 
1876-77-78-79-80, the constitutional limit of five 
years. He was appointed deputy tax commis- 
sioner and commissioner of corporations upon his 
retirement from the treasurership in 188 1. His 
experience in these several financial offices made 
him a recognized authority on all matters relating 
to the finances of the State. Mr. Endicott is also 
a director of the Norfolk Mutual Eire Insurance 
Company, a director of the Neponset National 
ISank of Canton, and president of the Canton In- 



been a trustee for forty years. He was married 
first, .September 30, 1845, to Miss Miriam Webb, 




CHARLES ENDICOTT. 

of Canton, by which union was one son : Charles 
W. Endicott. His second marriage was on Octo- 
ber 2, 1848, at Charlestown, N.H., to Miss 
Augusta G. Dinsmore. Their children are:. 
Edward D. and Cynthia .A. Endicott, the latter 
now wife of R. M. Eield, of Boston. 



FARNHAM, Rev. LtTTHER, of Boston, clergy- 
man, librarian, and author, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Concord, February 5, 1816, 
son of Ephraim and Sarah (Brown) Farnham. 
He is of English origin, his .'\merican ancestor 
having been Ralph Farnham, who sailed from 
Southampton, England, April 6, 1635, in the brig 
"James," and after a voyage of forty-eight days 
landed in Boston, June 6, 1635. He settled in 
North .\ndover, and to him were born five chil- 
dren. The father of Mr. Farnham had fifteen 
brothers and sisters, thirteen of whom were mar- 
ried. In his ow-n family Mr. Farnham was the 
youngest of nine children. He was educated in 
common and private schools of Concord, at Kim- 
ball Union Academv, Meriden, N.H., and at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Dartmoutli College, graduating in 1837. After 
graduation he was for a year the principal of 
Limerick Academy in Maine, and for a time an 
assistant in Pembroke Academy, New Hampshire. 
Then he studied theology at the Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary, and graduated there in 1841. The 
same year he was licensed to preach the gospel by 
the Hopkinton Association of New Hampshire. 
He was ordained and installed as pastor of the 
Congregational church in Northtield, November 
20, 1844. From 1847 to 1849 ^^ '^^'^s '" charge 
of the First Congregational Church of Marshfield 
(where Daniel Webster was his parishioner), and 




LUTHER FARNHAM. 

later of the First Congregational Church of New 
Bedford. In other years he was in charge of the 
Congregational churches of Everett, Concord, 
West Gloucester, Magnolia, Manchester-by-the- 
Sea, and West Newbury. For briefer periods he 
ministered to Congregational churches in Plym- 
outh, Kingston, North Weymouth, Burlington, and 
several others in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 
For a considerable time he was chaplain of the 
House of Correction in Boston, wliere on very 
stormy Sundays he had the largest congregation 
in the city, of eight hundred souls. From 1855 to 
1 86 1 he was one of the secretaries of the Southern 
Aid Society which aided missionaries in preaching 



the gospel to the poor whites and the blacks in the 
South. He was a chief founder of the General 
Theological Library, and has been the only secre- 
tary and librarian from its formation in 1861 to 
the present time. During this long period he has 
never been absent from one of its meetings. In 
the early history of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society he held the office of libra-. 
rian of that institution for several years, and was 
most active in promoting its interests. Mr. 
Farnham has also for a long series of years con- 
tributed much to the periodical press, and has 
published several volumes. In his early life he 
prepared for Ghurson's J'ictorial Newspaper histor- 
ical and biographical sketches of the leading 
churches of Boston, together with their pastors, 
with accurate pictures for that period, which at- 
tracted wide attention. In 1855 he published a 
small volume entitled " .V Glance at Private Libra- 
ries," the first work of the kind issued in this 
country. About that time a Thanksgiving sermon 
delivered by him in the First Congregational 
Church in West Newbury was published by re- 
quest. In 1876 he published a volume of the 
Documentary History of the (General Theological 
Library, which was placed in the Centennial E.x- 
position in Philadelphia in 1876. The history of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society published 
in 1880 was largely his work. Subsequently he 
wrote a history of the Handel and Haydn Society, 
not yet published. Another useful volume of his 
is the Documentary History and Proceedings of 
the General Theological Library for the past nine- 
teen years. He was the Boston correspondent 
for the New York Jouinal of Co in me ire from 1849 
to 1 86 1, and at an earlier date was assistant editor 
of the Christian Allianee of Boston. From 1848 
to 1865 he published many editorial articles, let- 
ters, and other contributions in the Puritan Re- 
eonler of Boston, the New York Observer, the 
Boston Post, Hiint^ s Magazine, and several other 
publications. He has raised in his lifetime at 
least $130,000 for religious and bene\olent ob- 
jects, and has travelled no less than one hundred 
and fifty thousand miles in fulfilling engagements 
as a preacher and lecturer. He is a member of 
the new club, the "Sons of New Hampshire"; 
of the Dartmouth Club of Boston, of which he was 
for several years first vice-president ; the Granite 
State Social Club, now its president ; the Dart- 
mouth College Alumni Association, the first of 
the kind in this country, which was established at 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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his suggestion; and an Ik moraiy member of tlie 
Historical Society of Dallas, Tex., and of sev- 
eral other societies. He thought out the idea 
of the University Club, and at a later date pre- 
sented the plan to the Dartmouth Club, from 
whence grew the University Club of Boston. He 
earlier projected the Kimball Union Academy As- 
sociation of Boston, and was for a time its vice- 
president. Mr. Farnham's career has been most 
favorably influenced by his birthplace, on a beau- 
tiful spot on a high bluff above the picturesque 
Merrimac River, in the midst of a large farm, near 
the base of Rattlesnake Hill, famous for its gran- 
ite, and in one of the finest towns of New Eng- 
land, now a city of nearly twenty thousand inhabi- 
tants. His early life was largely spent in the 
open air, upon the farm, in hunting, fishing, boat- 
ing on the Merrimac, swimming in its waters, and 
in walking a mile or two to school and to church. 
His career has also been influenced by a Christian 
home, by the academy, college, and theological 
seminary; but no single influence, he holds, has 
(lone so much for him as that of a good wife with 
whom he journeyed for many years. The minis- 
try to which his mother devoted him, and to 
which he gave himself, was evidently the right 
calling for him in the broad way in which he has 
followed it. As so intimately connected with the 
Theological Library for thirty-four years, he has 
come to know one denomination about as well as 
another, and thus to be tolerant ; and yet he holds 
his own religious convictions as strongly as ever. 
Other influences that have rendered his life happy 
and useful have been heredity, a good constitution, 
health, regular habits, temperance in all things, 
a pleasant home in his own house, agreeable com- 
pany, and especially that of books, and constant 
occupation in pursuits that he has loved. Mr. 
Farnham married June 23, 1845, in Northfield, 
Mrs. Eugenia Fay Alexander, daughter of Deacon 
Levi and Lucretia (Scott) Fay. They had one 
son, born in 1846 : Francis Edward Farnham. 



FAY, John S.awvek, of Marlborough, post- 
master, was born in ESerlin, January 15, 1840, 
son of Samuel Chandler and Nancy (Warren) 
Fay. When he was about one year old, his par- 
ents moved to Marlborough, which town has been 
his home ever since. He is of the Fay family 
whose ancestry is thus traced by Hudson in the 
History of Marlborough; -'John Fay was born 



in England about 1648. He embarked on ^Lay 
30, 1656, at Gravesend, on the ship 'Speedwell,' 
Robert Lock, master, and arrived in Boston June 
27, 1656. Among the passengers were Thomas 
Barnes, aged twenty years ; Shadrock Hapgood, 
aged fourteen years ; Thomas Goodnow, aged 
sixteen years ; and John Fay, aged eight years. 
They were bound for Sudbury, where some of 
them had relatives ; and, considering the tender 
age of John Fay, we may naturally suppose the 
same was true of him. In 1669 he was in ^h^rl- 
borough, where the births of his eight children 
were afterwards recorded. The records do not 




JOHN S, FAY. 

show whom he married for his first wife. The 
family were driven from Marlborough in 1675, 
during King Philip's War. They went to Water- 
town, where he buried his wife and one son. He 
married for his second wife Mrs. Susannah Morse, 
widow of Joseph Morse. She was a daughter of 
William Shattuck, of Watertown. After King 
Philip's War John Fay returned to Marlborough, 
where he died December 5, 1690." One of John 
Fay's sons was (Jershom, born October ig, 168 1, 
and died in 1720; one of Gershom's sons was 
Gershom, Jr., born in 1703, and died in 1784; 
one of the latter's sons was Adam, born in 1736, 
died in 18 10; one of Adam's sons was Baxter, 



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born in 1775, died in 1S54; and one of Baxter's 
sons is Samuel Cliandler Fay, born in 1819, the 
father of John S. Fay. Mr. Fay was educated in 
the public schools of Marlborough and at a com- 
mercial college in Worcester. At the outbreak of 
the Civil War he enlisted in Company F, Thir- 
teenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, on 
July 16, 1 86 1. He was on duty with his com- 
pany in all of its marches and battles until April 
30, 1863, when, while in action near Fredericks- 
burg, Va., he received wounds from a rebel shell 
which necessitated the amputation of his right 
arm and leg. Before this occurred, he had been 
promoted to the rank of sergeant. While in the 
field hospital, on June 15, 1863, he was captured 
by the Confederates, and held prisoner until July 
17, 1863, being confined in Libby Prison at 
Richmond. ( )n being paroled, he was sent to 
the hospital at Annapolis, from which place he 
was discharged. He reached his home in Octo- 
ber of the same year, the most mutilated and 
crippled of all who survived of the eight hundred 
and thirty-one who enlisted for the war from the 
old town of Marlborough. In May, 1865, he was 
appointed postmaster of Marlborough by Presi- 
dent Johnson, and by successive appointments 
has held the office ever since, having received 
his ninth commission in January, 1895. The 
office, when he took charge of it, had just 
emerged from the fourth class, requiring but one 
clerk. Now it is a second-class office, employing 
seven letter carriers and four clerks. Mr. Fay 
was ta.x collector for the town of Marlborough 
in 1867 and 1868. He was a member of the 
committee chosen by the town to erect the sol- 
diers' monument. He is an active Grand Army 
man, and has held many positions in Post 43, 
which he helped to organize in January, 1868. 
He was elected junior vice-commander of the 
department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of 
the Republic, in 1874. He is also a prominent 
Odd Fellow and a member of Marlborough 
Lodge, No. 85. He has passed through all of 
the chairs of his lodge, and is now a member 
of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. For some 
years he has been a notary public. He has been 
closely identified with the Marlborough Co-oper- 
ative Bank from its organization, and is chairman 
of the security committee of its board of directors. 
He has been an active member of the Unitarian 
church for many years. He was married Novem- 
ber 20, 1869, to Miss Lizzie Ingalls, daughter of 



James Monroe and Elizabeth (Pratt) Ingalls. 
They have one son : Frederic Harold Fay. 



FLETCHER, Haruld, of Boston, artist, was 
born in Haverhill, September 21, 1843, son of Ed- 
mund and Elizabeth Chandler (Plummer) Fletcher. 
He is descended from Robert Fletcher of York- 
shire County, England, and from Samuel Plummer 
of \\'oohvich, England, who came to this country 
in 1630 and 1633, respectively. Robert Fletcher 
settled in Concord, Mass. ; and his name appears 
often in its earliest records. His grant of land 
embraced what is now the city of Lowell and 
much of the town of Chelmsford. Part of this 
grant is still occupied by descendants, as it has 
been for one or two centuries. Harold Fletcher 
was educated in the schools of his native State. 
He was fitted for college, but did not enter, choos- 
ing an artistic career. In i86g he went to Europe 
and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 
Antwerp, and at the Royal Acadeni}*, Munich. 
Since his return to Boston he has taught drawing 
and painting, has painted many portraits, and has 




HAROLD FLETCHER. 



also given much attention to the treatment and 
restoration of paintings, in which department of 
art he is widely known. His studio in the Law- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



645 



rence lUiiUliiig, lioston, is always fillctl wiili valu- 
able paintings in all stages of restoration, and is a 
place of much interest to art lovers. Our principal 
picture-owners, colleges, and institutions are his 
patrons. He has always been a stanch Republi- 
can, and his first vote was cast for Lincoln. He 
is unmarried. 



I'f 




JAMES B. FORSYTH. 

FORSYTH, James Brander, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Chelsea,- October 6, 1856, son 
of George and Rebecca B. (Richardson) Forsyth. 
He was educated in the common and high schools 
of Chelsea. .After leaving school, he engaged 
with his father in the furniture business, and con- 
tinued in this occupation for about a year. Then, 
in 1S72, he took a place as errand boy with 
Wilder ..S; Co., of Boston, at that time large whole- 
sale paper dealers, and remained with this firm 
nine years, receiving a thorough training and fill- 
ing in a satisfactory manner various positions of 
responsibility and trust. In November, 1881, 
having obtained a full knowledge of the paper and 
twine business, he formed with Edward H. Stone 
the firm of Stone & Forsyth to engage in the 
same business, leasing a small store on Federal 
Street. The business of the new firm so devel- 
oped that within a few years it became necessary 
to obtain larger quarters at No. 268 Devonshire 



Street, and later a building was added at No. 5 
and 7 F'ederal Court, still further to accommodate 
its increasing demands ; and it has now grown to 
be one of the largest in its line in the country. 
Mr. F"orsyth has been secretary of the Boston 
Paper Trade Association since 1888, and delegate 
from that body for six years to the Boston Asso- 
ciated Board of Trade. He is interested in ath- 
letics and yachting, and is an active member of 
the Boston Athletic Association, of the Hull and 
the Corinthian Yacht clubs, and of the Masti- 
gouche Fishing Club of Montreal. In politics he 
is a Republican, holding membership in the Re- 
publican Club of Massachusetts. He was married 
December 17, 1886, to Miss Ruth Klla Blanchard, 
of Chelsea. They have no children. 



F'RENCH, Charles Linddi,, M.D., of Clinton, 
is a native of \'ermont, born in the town of 
Glover, February 24, 1845, son of Lindol and 
Nancy (McLellan) French. His grandparents re- 
moved from Keene, N.H., to Glox'er in 1804, 
which was thereafter the familv home. He is of 




C. L. FRENCH. 

English ancestry. His education was acquired 
in district schools and at the Orleans Liberal 
Institute. He studied medicine first under the 



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i 



tuition of Dr. F. \V. Goodall, of Glover, afterward 
under Dr. Frank Bugbee, of Lancaster, N.H., and 
then at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia College, New York, where he graduated 
in March, 1869. Subsequently, in 1885, he took 
a post-graduate course at the Post Graduate 
Medical School in New \ork. He practiced in 
his native town from the time of his graduation 
until 1S78, when he removed to Clinton, where he 
has been in active practice since. He is also on 
the staff of the Clinton Hospital. He has been 
a member of the Clinton Board of Health since 
its organization in 1885, and has served as its 
chairman and secretary. He was for some time 
president of the Orleans County (Vt.) Medical So- 
ciety, secretary for several years of the White 
Mountain Medical Society, an organization com- 
posed of a number of Vermont and New Hamp- 
shire societies, and is now a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. French was 
married June 25, 1872, to Miss Nella Burleigh, of 
Concord, N.H. They have two children : Harold 
Lindol and Helen Elizabeth French. 



GILBF".RT, Lewis Newton, of Ware, woollen 
manufacturer, is a native of Connecticut, born in 
Pomfret, January 25, 1836, son of Joseph and 
Harriet (Williams) Gilbert. He is in the eighth 
generation in the line of John Gilbert, who came 
from Devonshire County, England, about 1630, and 
who was in Dorchester, Mass., January 18, 1635, 
made freeman of the Plymouth Colony in Decem- 
ber, 1638, and elected deputy to the first general 
court assembled at Plymouth, June, 1639, from 
Cohannet (now Taunton). His education was 
acquired chiefly in the common schools of his 
native town till the autumn of 1849. when he went 
to \\'oodstock Academy, and later to an academy 
in Danielsonville, Conn. His training for active 
life was on his father's farm and in the business 
in which he is still engaged. The latter was 
begun in 185 1, w^hen at the age of fifteen he 
entered the counting-room of his uncle, the late 
Hon. George H. Gilbert, of \\'are. Here he 
started as an office boy, and grew up with the busi- 
ness, working in and learning every detail of all 
the departments, till at the age of twenty-one he 
was given an interest in it. At that time the firm 
name of George H. Gilbert & Co. was taken, 
which held until 1868, when the firm was organ- 
ized as a corporation under the name of the 



George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Company, with 
George H. as president and Lewis N. as treasurer. 
Upon the death of his uncle in 1869 Mr. Gilbert 
became president, which position he still holds. 
The company manufacture dress goods and 
flannels ; and its business has grown from four sets 
of machinery in 1 85 1, when Mr. Gilbert entered 
the concern, to seven sets in 1857, when he be- 
came a partner, nineteen sets in 1868, and forty- 
seven sets at the present time. The capital stock 
of the company is now a million dollars. It em- 
ploys nine hundred and fifty persons, and manu- 
factures goods to the value of a million and a half 




LEWIS N. GILBERT. 

dollars per annum. In June, iS6g, Mr, Gilbert 
was chosen a trustee of the Ware Savings Bank ; 
and in June, 1892, he was made its president, both 
of which offices he continues to hold. He has 
been and still is a director in other banks, manu- 
facturing corporations, and insurance companies. 
He has been one of the leading men of his town 
for years, and for the past fifteen years has served 
as moderator of its annual town meetings. In 
1877 and 1878 he was a State senator, serving 
during his first term on the committees on public 
charitable institutions and on prisons, and the 
second term as chairman of the committee on 
manufactures, and a member of that on railroads. 



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IIo was for tlve years a iiieiiil>L-r of llie board of 
trustees of tlie State Primary School at Monson, 
three of wliicli he was chairman of the board, ap- 
|)()iiite(l first by Governor Washburn, and later by 
(Jovernor Rice. In 1876 he was one of the board 
of managers for the State at the Centennial Kx- 
position in Philadelphia. In politics Mr. Ciilbert 
is a Republican, and has served three years on 
the Republican State Central Committee. He 
was a delegate to the National Council of Congre- 
gational Churches held in Chicago in 1886, and 
has been chosen again a delegate to the above- 
named council to be held the present year (1895). 
lie belongs to the Masonic fraternity, member of 
Kden I,odge of Ware. He was married 1 )eceni- 
ber 21, 1864, to Miss Mary I). Lane, of Ware, 
daughter of the late Otis Lane, who for thirty 
years was treasurer of the Ware Savings ISank. 
Thev have no children. 



GLEASON, Ch.arles Shermax, M.I)., of Ware- 
ham, is a native of Maine, born in the town of 
Oakland, Februarys, 1865, son of Benjamin and 
Caroline V. (Mclntire) Gleason. He is a de- 
scendant of Thomas Gleason, who came from Eng- 
land to this country in 1760. His great-grand- 
father, Elijah Gleason, was born in Pomfret, Conn., 
in 1771. His grandfather, Bryant Gleason, a 
soldier of the War of 18 12, was born in Water- 
ville. Me., in 1793: and his father, Benjamin 
(Jleason, was born at Canaan, Me., March 8, 1828. 
He attended the district school until he reached 
the age of fourteen, when he entered the Oakland 
Higli School, where he remained two years. He 
next received a commercial training at Oak Grove 
Seminary, Vassalborough, Me., then in 1884 en- 
tered the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Readfield, 
Me., and graduated there in 1888, and afterward 
took the regular course of the Boston University 
School of Medicine, receiving his degree in June, 
1892. During the four years' course of the 
seminary he taught school several terms ; and 
at other times he was farmer, meciianic, house 
painter, book agent, working at any occupation 
that he could find to earn money for his school 
expenses. He made his own way through the 
seminary and through the medical school, without 
financial aid from anybody. During the last two 
years at the Boston University he was resident 
|)hysician at the Consumptives' Home in the Rox- 
bury District, Boston. Buying the business of 



Dr. George H. Earle, he entered upon tile regular 
practice of medicine in Wareham on the ist of 
October, 1892, and has been actively engaged 
from that time. Beginning life with no capital 
but his energy, he is today a leading citizen in 
the town where he resides. He is a thinker and 
a worker. Amid the pressing demands of the 
largest practice in his vicinity he finds time to en- 
rich his mind in his library, and to keep in touch 
with important jjroblems of the hour. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Homceopathic Med- 
ical Society, of the Massachusetts Surgical and 
Gynaecological Society, of the Boston Homcio- 




pathic Medical Society, of the Hahnemann Soci- 
ety, and of the New England Hahnemann Asso- 
ciation. In March, 1895, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Board of Health of Wareham. 



GOWING, Henry Augustus, of Boston, was 
born in Weston, August 2, 1834; died in Boston, 
December 14, 1894. He was a son of John Hill 
and Sophia Viles (Bigelow) Gowing, and on both 
sides from early New England stock. He was in 
the seventh generation from Robert Gowing, born 
in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 16 18, and settled in 
Dedham, Mass., in 1638, who signed the call and 



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attended the meeting at Dedhani which estal> 
lished what is held to have been the first free 
school in America ; and on the maternal side he 
was the great-great-grandson of Josiah ]!igeIow, 
of Weston, lieutenant in Captain W'hittemore's 
militia company of artillery, which marched from 
Weston to Concord, April 19, 1775. After com- 
pleting his studies, he entered the wholesale dry- 
goods business. He was a partner in the firm of 
Dodge Brothers at the outbreak of the Ci\il War, 
and thereafter was for many years a well-known 
figure in the business life of Fioston. The firm of 
Dodge Brothers did a large and successful busi- 



oM. \ 




HENRY A. COWING. 

ness during and after the war, until 1871, when 
the Messrs. Dodge retired, and were succeeded by 
the firm of Gowing & Grew. This firm became 
Gowing, Crrew, & Co. and later (iowing, Sawyer, 
& Co., and so continues at present. Aside 
from his regular business, Mr. Gowing for many 
years administered important trusts for several 
large estates ; and he was for a long time a 
director of the State National Bank of Boston. 
He was a steadfast Republican, \oting for 
Fremont for President, and was always actively 
interested in the welfare of his party and in the 
questions of the day. He was a member of the 
Boston Art Club, of the Historic Genealogical 



Society, and of the Sons of the Revolution. In 
all the relations of life he was true to every duty. 
A thorough Christian gentleman, those who knew 
him best knew his worth. He married September 
S, 1859, Miss Clara Elizabeth Patch, daughter of 
Dr. Franklin F. Patch, and had two children : 
Mary S. and Franklin P. Gowing : and one grand- 
child : Cle\es Gowing Richardson. 



GRADY, Thomas Benjamin Joseph Levi, of 
Boston, discoverer of the science of speech, prin- 
cipal and founder of the lioston Stanunerers' 
Institute and Training School, was born near 
Halifax, N.S., March 15, 1847, son of Captain 
John W. and Mary Ann (McCoy) Grady. He is 
a descendant of Major Thomas B. Grady of the 
"clan Grady" of the north of Ireland, men noted 
for large stature, great strength, and long lived. 
His mother was a daughter of the Rev. William 
McCoy, known as the " sweet singer " of Nova 
Scotia, revered and loved by all in the community 
in which he lived, a son of a minister of the same 
name, and descended from the " clan McCoy "' of 
the Highlands of Scotland. Thomas B. J. L., like 
his progenitors, is over six feet in height, weighing 
nearly three hundred pounds, and is one of the 
largest and strongest men in ISoston. He attrib- 
utes his strength to farm life and exercise when 
a boy, as well as being well born, with, as a birth- 
right, a good set of digestive organs. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and also, on account 
of deafness, by private tutors. His father being 
in early life a seafaring man. as were all of the 
latter's brothers, he was inclined to the sea, but, 
being too deaf to hear orders, was unable to follow 
it. Turning therefore to other pursuits, he was 
ambitious to study for the ministry. Meanwhile, 
in the course of his studies, discovering the 
"science of speech," or why human beings talk, 
he reduced the science to practice, and has ever 
since been " unloosing the stammering tongue," 
becoming widely known as " the stammerer's 
friend." He established the Boston Stammerers" 
Institute and Training School in 1880. His hope 
and desire is to live long enough to found a free 
institute and training school for all poor boys and 
girls afflicted in speech who are unable to pay for 
their relief. The late Bishop Phillips Brooks was 
much interested in this matter; and through his 
help and infiuence the project was almost estab- 
lished, the plans laid, the amount necessary 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



649 



proiniscil, and success assured, wlicn his death (twenty), Margaret Rebecca (eighteen), 'I'honias 
occurred. Mr. (xrady is now and has been a Taimage (sixteen), and Walhice Garfield Grady 
justice of tlie peace for a number of years. He (fourteen). 

GUMBART, Adolph S.-vmuel, of Boston, 
pastor of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, 
is a native of Boston, born November 25, 1853, 
son of William and Mary Gumbart. He is a 
descendant of French Huguenots who escaped 
to Germany during the Huguenot persecutions. 
His education was acquired in the public schools 
of New York City, at Cooper Union, and through 
private instruction in special courses in Hebrew, 
Greek, Latin, and German. Although he is a son 
of parents in modest circumstances, by dint of 
earnest study and a supreme love of books there 
are few sciences in which he is not versed. 
Among his professional brethren he is regarded 
as specially qualified along the lines of general 
science. He is also an excellent German scholar, 
and familiar with German theology and philosophy. 
He was ordained to the ministry in 1878 at Port 
Richmond, Staten Island, where he preached for 
some time, always to crowded congregations. 




T. B. J. L. GRADY. 



is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the 
Methodist Ministers' Social Union. His family 
are firm adherents of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, he himself being one of the stewards 
in the same. In politics, while a subject of the 
queen of England, he was a Reformer ; and 
during his fifteen years as a resident in the 
United States he has been a Republican. He is 
a strong advocate of shorter hours of labor for 
the workingman, and fully persuaded that eight 
hours for sleep, eight hours for labor, and eight 
hours for pleasure, recreation, and getting ac- 
quainted with one's family, is the proper division of 
time, and will of itself help to solve the difficulty 
between capital and labor, by equalizing matters. 
Mr. Grady is an author and also a writer of 
verses, having produced, among other poems, 
" How I Like the South," which was widely 
copied a few years ago. He was married March 
24, 1870, to Miss Margaret Arthurs, of 'I'oronlo, 
Ontario, grand-daughter of Colonel William 
Ramsey, of her Majesty's service. They have 
six children : Albert Arthur (twenty-four years), 
Alice Harriet (twenty-two years), Mary KUen 




A. S. GUMBART. 



Other pastorates followed, in which Mr. Gumbart 
was always successful and popular. In 1890 he 
came to Boston as pastor of the Dudley Street Bap- 



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tist Churcli, hi.s present charge, one of tlie largest 
Baptist churches in the city, and embracing in its 
membership some of the most influential of Bap- 
tist la\men there. He is zealous in pastoral and 
denominational work as well as a popular pulpit 
orator, always preaching to full pews. Under his 
active leadership his church carries on many char- 
ities and performs much other work. Scarcely a 
day passes but he is in receipt of invitations to 
deliver addresses and sermons before associations 
or conventions ; and he conducted for several 
years with much ability the Sunday-school depart- 
ment of the WaUhmaii, giving full and suggestive 
explanations of the lessons each week. Of his 
pulpit work the Rev. Dr. F. R. Morse, of New 
York, has written, in a series of papers on " Noted 
Preachers " : " His sermons show the results of 
faithful and careful study, and are marked by 
freshness of ideas and eloquence of thought. It 
is his habit to dictate the substance of each dis- 
course to a shorthand writer, but he never uses a 
manuscript in the pulpit. He speaks with marked 
ease, is attractive in manner, often dramatic, — 
never offensively so, — is forcible in utterance, is 
suggestive in statement, is apt in illustration, clear 
in diction." At various times Mr. Gumbart has 
held important and honorable offices in societies 
connected with the denomination to which he be- 
longs. He was married September 4, 1876, to 
Miss Lucinda B. Parkinson, of Keyport, N.J., 
who is ardently devoted to the duties of a minis- 
ter's wife. They have two daughters : Dora and 
Carrie Gumbart. 



GUPTILL, Ira Clark, M.D., of Northbor- 
ough, is a native of Maine, born in Cornish, York 
County, April 9, 1844, son of Obadiah True and 
Harriet Newell (Cilley) Guptill. His ancestors 
on both sides were closely connected with the 
early history of the Pine Tree State. His great- 
grandfather, Daniel Guptill, was a native of North 
Berwick, Me., where he married Miss Sarah Mor- 
rill ; and they reared a large family of children. 
His maternal grandfather was Benjamin Cilley, of 
Limerick, Me. Dr. Guptill's early education was 
obtained from the common, high schools, and the 
classical institutes, and his collegiate training at 
Bowdoin and Dartmouth. He graduated from 
the medical department of Dartmouth College 
November 4, 1874, and further fitted for his pro- 
fession through clinical practice in connection 
with the office of his instructor. Dr. Alvin Brawn, 



who was citv physician of Biddeford, Me. Soon 
after his graduation he settled in IManchesler, 
N.H., and was in active practice in Manchester 
and Auburn for three years, when on account of 
poor health he travelled for a while. Upon his 
return he resumed practice in his native State, 
and in October, 1879, removed to Northborough, 
where he has since remained in the enjoyment of 
an extensive practice and a very pleasant home. 
He is a member of the Worcester District Medi- 
cal Society and a Fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society. He has read several papers be- 
fore the societies, has been concerned in a num- 
ber of literary works, and ha^ also contributed 
poems to magazines and newspapers, which have 
been quite extensively copied. He belongs to the 
Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, to the Royal 
Society of Good Fellows, and is president of the 
Fredonia Club of Social Fellows. He has been a 
lifelong Republican, and has served on the town 
committee. In his professional work, by offices 
of kindness and gratuitous service, he has done 
much, often at a sacrifice, to ameliorate the con- 
dition of the poor and unfortunate, which has 




I. C. GUPTILL. 



been the pleasure of his ambition. Dr. Guptill 
was married November 4, 187 1, to Miss Jennie 
J. Jones, of North Lebanon, Me., a graduate of 



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651 



the West Lebanon Seminary, and a very success- the Foresters, and ilie Red Men. Dr. Ilarriinan 
fill teacher. No children have been born to them, was married October 18, 1877, to Miss Servilla 

Marion Jones, of Goffstown, N.H. They have 

one ciiild : \\'illis Warren Harriman, aged si.xteen 
years. 

H.VRRl.M W, HiR.VM P., of Bo.ston, judge of 
the Probate and Insolvency Court for Parnstable 
County, was born in Groveland, February 6, 1846, 
son of Samuel and Sally (Adams Milliard) Harri- 
man. His father and mother were both natives 
of Georgetown ; and their ancestors were among 
liie earliest settlers of that part of Esse.x County, 
farmers by occupation. He was educated in the 
common schools of his native town, at Phillips 
(Exeter) Academy, where he was fitted for college, 
and at Dartmouth, graduating tiiere in the class of 
1869 with honors. His law studies were pursued 
at the Albany Law School ; and he was admitted 
to the bar immediately upon his graduation, in 
June, 1S71. From that time he has been engaged 
in active practice, for a number of years having 
his office in Boston. He was appointed to his 
present position of judge of probate and insol- 




CHAS. H. HARRIMAN. 



HARRIMAN, Charles Henry, M.D., of 

Whitinsville (Northbridge), is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Goffstown, November 16, 
1852, son of Warren and Sarah A. (Whipple) 
Harriman. His early education was acquired in 
the public schools of Goffstown, and he graduated 
from the Norwich (Vt.) University. He was fitted 
for his profession through practical instruction 
and work with Professor L. B. How, of Manches- 
ter, N.H., and at the Dartmouth Medical College, 
where he graduated in 1877. He began practice 
that year, established in Hopkinton, N.H., and 
continued there until 1882, when he came to 
Whitinsville. He has served some time on the 
Northbridge School Committee, and was repre- 
sentative in the General Court for the Tenth 
Worcester District in 1891, being the only Demo- 
crat ever elected from that district. He is promi- 
nent in the Masonic order, being a member of 
the Granite Lodge, Whitinsville, and St. Elmo 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Whitinsville, of 
the Jjodge l^erfection, Worcester, and the Shrine 
Aleppo Temple, Boston. He belongs also to the 
Knights of Pvthias, the Knights of Golden ISagles, 




H. P. HARRIMAN. 



vency for Barnstable County in June, 1882. Dur- 
ing the illness of Judge McKim in 1892 he also 
held the Probate and Insolvency Court of Suffolk 



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for several months; and in 1893, at the time of 
the ilhiess and death of Judge George M. Brooks, 
he held the Middlesex County Probate Court. He 
has been the leading lawyer in Barnstable County 
for many years, and since he opened a law office 
in Boston has had a large practice there. In 
politics he has always been a Republican ; but he 
has never held or stood for political office. He is 
a member of the Boston Art Club. Judge Harri- 
man was married September 20, 1870, to Miss 
Betsey F. Nickerson. They have one child : 
Olivia C. Harriman. 




B. F. HASTINGS. 

HASTINGS, Bexj.amin P"r.\nklin, M.D., of 
Whitman, was born in Richmond, Berkshire 
County, August 23, 1S36, son of Ozial \\'. and 
Ruth S. (Stevens) Hastings. His early education 
was acquired in the common schools of Lenox. 
He was fitted for college at the Lenox Academy, 
and, entering Williams, graduated there in the class 
of 1861. Then he took the regular course of the 
New York University Medical College, graduating 
in March, 1863. He at once entered the army 
for service in the Civil War, becoming assistant 
surgeon of the Eighteenth Regiment, Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, and remained with his regiment 
from March 13, 1863, to September 2, 1864, the 



expiration of its term of service. Upon his return 
he first settled as a general physician in the town 
of Rockland, but two years later removed to Whit- 
man (formerly South Abington), where he has 
since been established in active practice. For 
the past twenty years he has been United States 
examining surgeon for pensions. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He 
has been a member of the School Committee of 
the tow-n since its incorporation (twenty years), 
most of the time chairman of the board. He is 
connected with the Masonic fraternity, member 
of the Puritan Lodge, with the order of Odd Fel- 
lows, member of Webster Lodge, and with the 
Grand Army, member of Post 78. In politics he 
is a Republican. He was married November 29, 
1866, to Miss Miranda Torrey, of Rockland. 
They have no children. 



HENDERSON, Charles Russell, M.D., of 
Reading, is a native of England, born at Bushy 
Heath, Hertfordshire, July 24, 1867, son of 
Charles Alan and Helen Elizabeth (Power) Hen- 




CHAS. R. HENDERSON. 



derson. Coming to this country when a child, he 
was educated in a private school in Brookline and 
at the Roxbury Latin School from 1880 to 1886, 



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653 



having previously, in 1S78, spent a year in Eng- 
land and France. He entered the Boston Uni- 
versity School of Medicine, and graduated with 
the regular degree in June, i88g. The following 
September he began active practice at Reading, 
where he has since remained. For a year, from 
November, 1888, he was house surgeon in the 
Massachusetts Homceopathic Hospital. From 
1892 to 1895 he was chairman of the Reading 
Board of Health. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society. He 
has been a Freemason since 1892, member of the 
Good Samaritan Lodge of Reading. Dr. Hender- 
son is unmarried. 



clerk of Company .V, Forty-seventh. This com- 
pany was known as the ' Harvard University 
Company': and First Lieutenant — as I now call 



HEYMER, John Casper, of Boston, founder 
of the electrotyping and stereoptyping house of 
J. C. Heymer & Son, was born in New York City, 
June 20, 1825 ; died in Boston, February 4, 1895. 
He was son of John Jacob and Sarah Ann (Wal- 
lace) Heymer, the second of a family of five chil- 
dren. His father and mother were also natives 
of New York, the former born January 28, 1797, 
and the latter, August 26, 1804; and they were 
married in that city July 2, 1822, by the Right 
Rev. Bishop Connelly. On the maternal side he 
is of Scottish descent. His parents being well 
off in worldly goods during his early boyhood, he 
received a good education ; but, his father dying 
young and his mother meeting with reverses, and 
losing all of her property, he was apprenticed to 
the printer's trade when still a lad. At the age of 
eighteen he was foreman of a stereotype foun- 
dry in New York. When the art of electrotyping 
was discovered, being in the same line, he of 
course adopted that ; and he followed its growth 
from the crude plating of its infancy to the skilled 
productions of the present day. He continued 
as foreman, having charge of some of the larg- 
est offices in the country, until about 1877, when 
he started in business for himself, founding the 
present house. Brusque and impetuous in his ac- 
tions, all his faults were on the surface ; and he 
was widely respected for his honesty, good work, 
and kindness of heart. He served in the Civil 
War as a member of the " Merchant's Guard," 
Forty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
teers ; and the high character of his services is 
thus referred to in a letter from Colonel Lucius B. 
Marsh, the commander of the regiment : " I first 
became acquainted with him as a member and 




J. C. HEYMER. 

him — J. C. Heymer sent to Harvard, monthly, a 
report of it. Recognizing his worth and ability, I 
appointed him commissary sergeant of the regi- 
ment. He greatly assisted me in settling up each 
company's account with the government ; and so 
accurate and careful was he to follow in the line 
of the government's requirements that the Forty- 
seventh Regiment was, I believe, the first regi- 
ment which settled fully with it. When the Sixti- 
eth Regiment was raised, I had considerable to do 
in preparing it for the field. I had appointed 
John C. Heymer quartermaster, with the rank of 
first lieutenant. . . . .\t the close of the service of 
this regiment he settled its accounts with the gov- 
ernment. The Si.xty-second Regiment was being 
recruited at my office, and was nearly completed, 
when the war ceased. The most active man was 
Lieutenant Heymer. The colonel was to be 
Ansel D. Wass, and Lieutenant Heymer was to be 
quartermaster ; and he was fully qualified for that 
position. I valued his services very highly. He 
was very useful to me, and to the government, 
which needs in time of war for every regiment, 
every brigade, division, and army corps, men of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



his capacity and peculiar ability, with his sterling 
integrity. In him I had the fullest confidence, so 
that, when I had retired from active service in the 
army, it was my pleasure to recommend him ; and 
he was placed in position of responsibility and 
trust. Company A was recruited under the au- 
spices of Harvard College. . . . The late Governor 
Washburn marched in with the company from 
Cambridge, and made some remarks as he turned 
it over to me in front of my store. . . . When I 
began to recruit my regiment, it was called the 
' Merchant's Guard ' ; and it bore that name until 
the number was given to me at the State House. 
It was so named because I was the only merchant 
up to that time who had commanded a regiment 
in the war." Charles Beck also wrote in a letter 
to Governor Andrew, under date of February, 
1865, respecting Lieutenant Heymer : "He is a 
man of intelligence, good education, and irre- 
proachable character. Nearly three years ago he 
enlisted in the Forty-seventh Regiment ; and his 
intelligence pointed him out, during his connection 
w'ith that regiment, as a suitable person for the 
performance of administrative duties." Mr. Hey- 
mer was a member of Charles Beck Post, No. 56, 
Cambridge. He was' married December 27, 1849, 
to Miss Caroline M. Stevens, of Cairo, N.Y. 
They had two sons : Frederic W. and John E. 
Heymer, the latter associated with his father 
in the electrotyping business. 



HODGKINS, David Webb, M.D., of East 
Brookfield, is a native of Maine, born in Jefferson, 
July 31, 1834, son of David and Catherine Webb 
(Hussey) Hodgkins. On the paternal side he 
is descended, in the seventh generation, from 
Kenelm Winslow, of the Plymouth Colony, and 
on the maternal side from the Webb family, who 
for many generations have filled an honorable 
place in Maine history, one of whose kindred oc- 
cupied the White House in the person of Lucy 
Webb Hayes. His great-great-grandfather, David 
Hodgkins, was a soldier of the Revolution ; and 
his grandfather was in the War of 18 12. His 
education was acquired in the public schools, 
at the Newcastle Academy and through private 
study. He first followed teaching for several 
years in Maine, and was afterward some time 
connected with the business department of Rut- 
gers Female Institute, New York City. In 1859 
he began the study of medicine with Dr. William 



Newman, of New York, subsequently entering the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which 
he graduated in March, 1862. Immediately after 
graduation he entered the hospital service of a 
large city institution, where he remained two 
years, leaving to enter the United States service 
as acting assistant surgeon United States army. 
He served in the latter capacity from May, 1862, 
until discharged July 31, 1S65. After his return 
from the army he began regular practice, estab- 
lishing himself in Waldoborough, Me. He met 
with good success; but, an advantageous opening 
appearing in East Brookfield, he removed thither 




DAVID W- HODGKINS. 

in the spring of 1868. Here he has since re- 
mained. He has been one of the medical exami- 
ners for the county of ^^'orcester for the past 
eighteen years, or since his first appointment in 
1877. Dr. Hodgkins has served his town as a 
selectman, a member of the School Committee for 
twenty years, and one of the Board of Trustees of 
the Merrick Public Library (a munificent gift to 
the town from the late Judge Merrick) for twenty- 
five years. He represented his district in the 
State Legislature in 1881-82. He has been a 
justice of the peace since 1874. In politics, he 
has always been a Republican, and in religious 
faith a Baptist, having been a communicant of the 



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Baptist Church since early manhood. He is an 
active citizen, and interested in all things affect- 
ing the prosperity of the community, whether 
physical, intellectual, or moral. He is a member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the 
AA'orcester District Medical Society ; and he be- 
longs to the Masonic fraternity. Dr. Hodgkins 
was married first, (Dctober 15, 1857, to Miss 
Clara S. Noyes, of Jefferson, Me. She died in 
1S59, leaving an infant son, Fred Pierce Hodg- 
kins. He married second. May 17, 1866, Miss 
Martha A. Browning, of New York. By this 
union were five children, three of whom survive : 
Isabelle Marion, David Harwood, and Chester 
Hussev Hodgkins. 



one. All of his education, aside from the instruc- 
tion received from the common schools of Siur- 
bridge, which he attended summers until ten 
years old, winters until si.xteen years old, was 
obtained after that time, and through his own in- 
dividual effort without any outside assistance. 
He was a pupil first in the Quaboag Seminary in 
Warren, and afterward at Monson Academy, 
Monson ; and, while teaching school for five 
winters, he continued his studies, giving all his 
spare time to them. He began his medical 
studies with Dr. Alvan Smith, of Monson, and 
continued them in the Berkshire Medical College, 



HOLBROOK, William, M.D., of Palmer, was 
born in Sturbridge, Worcester County, June 23, 
1S23, son of Erasmus and Betsey (Smith) Hol- 
brook. He is a descendant in the eighth genera- 
tion of Thomas Holbrook, of Brantry, England, 
who at the age of thirty-four sailed in the ship 
"Record'' from Weymouth, England, "ye 20th of 
March, 1635-6, bound for New England," with 
" Jane, his wife, aged thirty-four years, and 
children, — John, his sonne, aged eleven years, 
Thomas, Jr., his sonne, aged ten years," — and 
settled in Weymouth, his name appearing on the 
record in 1640. Thomas. Jr., settled in Braintree 
in 1653. married Johanna , had five chil- 
dren, and died in July, 1697. Deacon Peter, son 
of Thomas, 2d, married t^lizabeth Pool, settled in 
Mendon in 1680, and had eleven children. The 
lands he distributed to his sons were mostly 
in Bellingham. John, fourtli generation, son of 
Deacon Peter, married Hannah Pool, had eight 
children, died in 1765, aged eighty-si.K. Fifth 
generation, John, son of John, born 172 i, married 
Patience Fisher in 1747, settled in Sturbridge, 
had nine children. Si.xth generation. Lieutenant 
John, son of John, born 1751, a lieutenant in the 
Revolution, married Lucretia Babbett, had ten 
children, died in 1830, eighty-seven years old. 
Seventh generation, Erasmus, son of Lieutenant 
John, born in 1793, married Betsey Smith in i8ig, 
had ten children, died in 1849, fifty-si.x years old. 
Eighth generation, William Holbrook, his son, the 
subject of this sketch. Dr. Holbrook was born 
on a farm owned by his father, and which had be- 
longed to his grandfather and great-grandfather, 
and lived and worked there until he was twenty- 




WM. HOLBROOK. 

where he spent the summer and autumn of 1846. 
In the autumn of 1847 he entered the New York 
Medical University, and was there graduated in 
the spring of 1848. Immediately thereafter he 
entered upon the practice of his profession in 
Bondsville (a village in the town of Palmer). 
Here, however, he remained but a short time, re- 
moving in July, 1849, to "Palmer Depot," where 
he established a drug store in connection with his 
practice. In 1858 he was appointed consulting 
physician and surgeon at the State Almshouse in 
Monson. Early in the Ci\'il War period he was 
commissioned by Governor John A. Andrew as- 
sistant surgeon of the Tenth Massachusetts In- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fantry (June 21, 1861, date of the muster), and 
on January 13, 1862, was promoted to the rank 
of surgeon, and assigned to the Eighteenth 
Massachusetts Regiment. Soon after he was 
appointed surgeon in chief of the First Brigade, 
First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the 
Potomac, and subsequently chief operator in the 
brigade; and he also had charge of the Brigade 
Hospital at Beverly Ford, Va., through the winter 
of 1863 and 1864. While in the service, he par- 
ticipated in nearly all the principal battles in 
which the Army of the Potomac was engaged up 
to the time that Petersburg was invested. He 
was mustered out in September, 1864, and re- 
turned to his practice in Palmer. In April, 
1876, he was appointed physician to the State 
Primary School at Monson, and continued in 
that position until August, 1886. He is still 
consulting physician there. He was pension ex- 
aminer from 1865 to 1892, when he resigned. 
Since 1877 he has been one of the medical 
examiners of Hampden County, first appointed 
by Governor Rice. While holding these posi- 
tions, he has been actively engaged in extensive 
general practice in medicine and surgery. He 
has been a member of the Hampden District and 
Massachusetts Medical societies since 1854. Dr. 
Holbrook has also been active in public affairs. 
After returning from the war, he was appointed in 
the autumn of 1864 to fill a vacancy in the School 
Board of Palmer, and continued on the board for 
about twelve years. At different times he has 
been a member of the Board of Health of the 
town. In 1882 he was a representative in the 
Legislature for the Second Hampden District. 
In politics, originally a Whig, he is now a Repub- 
lican. Under President Fillmore he was post- 
master of Palmer Depot in 1850. He has served 
on various Republican town and county commit- 
tees. He is a leading member of the Eastern 
Hampden Agricultural Society, having been sec- 
retary from soon after the granting of its charter, 
and president of the organization many times. 
From 1884 to 1893 he was a member also of the 
State Board of Agriculture. He has been con- 
nected with the Masonic fraternity since 1858, 
and is a charter member and past commander of 
L. L. Merrick Post, No. 107, Grand Army of the 
Republic. Dr. Holbrook was married February 
24, 1850, to Miss Clara Belknap, of Sturbridge. 
They have a son and two daughters : William 
Edward (born July 25, 1852), Clara B. (born 



August 20, 1856), and Idella Louise Holbrook 
(born July 20, 1865). 




CHAS. J. HOLMES. 

HOLMES, Charles Jarvis, of Fall River, 
banker, was born in Rochester, March 4, 1834, 
son of Charles J. and Louisa (Haskell) Holmes. 
His ancestry is traced back to times in early Eng- 
lish history. The founder of the Holmes family 
is said to have been one John Holmes, wiio took 
his surname from Stockholm, the capital of his 
native country. He came to England as a volun- 
teer, with the army of William, Duke of Nor- 
mandy, in the year 1066. " Being of ancient fam- 
ily and of handsome conduct, he was noticed by 
William himself, and made a captain in his army ; 
and, having performed his part to the satisfaction 
of the Conqueror, he was rewarded by him with 
an estate in Yorkshire. He and his descendants 
continued in possession of this estate until the 
reign of King John, in the beginning of the thir- 
teenth century, at which time Hugh Holmes was 
the head of the family. Incurring the displeas- 
ure of King John in the controversies of that 
turbulent period, Hugh fled to the northward, and 
found safety at Mardale, having for refuge a cave, 
still known as ' Hugh's Cave.' He subsequently 
purchased the Dalesmans estate, which is still in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



657 



possession of his descendants." Mr. Holmes's 
first ancestor in America, from wlioni lie directly 
descends, was William Holmes, of Scituate, born 
in 1592, died at Marshfield, 1678. His eldest 
son, John, was ordained pastor of the chnrch in 
Duxbury in 1659, being the second pastor of the 
second church in Plymouth Colony. Three other 
sons — Josiah, Abraham, and Isaac — with others, 
were the early settlers of Rochester ; and Abra- 
ham became town treasurer in 1698. Abraham, 
Ills son Experience, his grandson Experience, his 
great-grandson Abraham, and his great-great- 
grandson Charles J. Holmes, five generations, lie 
buried in the Holmes family lot in the cemetery 
at Rochester. The subject of this sketch was 
educated at the academy at Rochester and the 
public and private schools of Eall River. He 
left the High School at the age of nineteen, to 
enter the Massasoit Bank as a clerk. When twen- 
ty-one, he was elected treasurer of the Eall River 
Eive Cents Savings Bank, then just organized, 
and within a year was elected cashier of the 
Wamsutta Bank, now the Second National Bank, 
which had just obtained a charter from the Legis- 
lature. These positions he has continuously held. 
Upon the establishment of the Eall River I'ublic 
Library, in i860, he was elected one of the si.x 
trustees of that institution, and has since filled 
that position with the exception of the year 1879. 
Mr. Holmes has also served the city in various 
other capacities, and represented it, and the sena- 
torial district in both branches of the Legislature. 
He was alderman during the years 1S85-88 and 
1889, member of the School Committee fifteen 
years, member of the House of Representatives in 
1873, and of the Senate in 1877 and 1878, serv- 
ing as chairman of the committees on banking 
and on labor. He is chairman of the Civil Ser- 
vice Commission, president of several manufact- 
uring corporations, and personally identified with 
many of the religious and benevolent societies and 
associations of his city. At the age of twenty- 
three he connected himself with the Central Con- 
gregational Church of Fall River, and has ever 
since been an active member, and for a number 
of years the senior deacon of that church. When 
a young man, Mr. Holmes was very fond of and 
excelled in all athletic games and sports, playing 
in cricket and base-ball matches for more than 
twenty years. Mr. Holmes is widely known in 
banking circles throughout the State from the 
position he has held for many years as chairman 



of the committee of the Associated Savings Banks 
of Massachusetts. I'o this committee is assigned 
the duty of a general supervision of all matters 
of legislation, national and State, affecting the in- 
terests of savings-banks. Eor the last thirty 
years in the discharge of these duties, it has been 
assigned to him to appear before the committee of 
ways and means and the banking committee of 
the House of Representatives, and the committee 
of finance on the part of the United -States Senate, 
and present the claims of sa\'ings-banks for favor- 
able consideration ; and marked success has at- 
tended his efforts in that direction. Mr. Holmes 
was married May 4, 1858, to Miss Mary A. 
Remington, daughter of Joshua and Joanna Rem- 
ington, of Fall River. They have three children : 
Mary L., Anna ("., and Charles L. Holmes. 



HOLMES, Horace Marshall, M.D., of 
.\dams, is a native of Vermont, born in Water- 
ville, November 2, 1826, son of Jesse C. and 
Orinda (Oakes) Holmes. His ancestors emi- 
grated early in the history of the country from 




H. M. HOLMES. 



Scotland, and settled in Beterborough, N.H., 
where his father was born. He received his earl)- 
education in the schools of his native town, and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



finished at the Bakersfield Academical Institute at 
Bakersfield, Vt. His medical studies were pur- 
sued with the late Drs. H. H. and T. Childs, and 
at the Berkshire Medical College, where he grad- 
uated in 1852. Settling in Adams, he began prac- 
tice soon after his graduation, and has been 
actively engaged in his profession there ever since. 
He has never sought public honors nor aspired to 
public life, having found his chosen calling, with 
such influence as pertains to it, more congenial to 
his taste ; but he has been called to various posi- 
tions in which he has done good service. He was 
for several years a member of the Adams School 
Committee and chairman of the Board of Health, 
and in 1878 and 1879 represented his district, 
composed of Adams and North Adams, in the 
State Legislature, both terms serving on the com- 
mittee on public health. Dr. Holmes became a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 
1857, and was for two years president of the 
Berkshire Medical Society. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Berkshire Lodge of Free and Accepted 
Masons, and was two years master of the lodge ; 
and he is also connected with other Masonic 
organizations. He was married October 1 1 , 
1855, to Miss Helen C. Ross, daughter of 
Merrick Ross, of Pittsfield, and has a daughter 
and son : Jesse R., now wife of Charles E. Legate, 
of Adams ; and Dr. Harry Bigelow Holmes, now 
associated with him in his practice. Mrs. Holmes 
died in 1880. 

HOMER, THO.\rAS Johnston, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Roxbury (now 
Boston), July iS, 1858, in the house in which he 
lives. His father was Thomas Johnston Homer, 
of Boston, for many years a merchant in St. 
Louis ; and his mother is Mary Elizabeth Homer, 
daughter of Jabez Fisher, of Boston. He is de- 
scended in the eighth generation from Edward 
Homer, of Ettingshall, parish of Sedgley, Stafford- 
shire, England ; in the si.\th from Captain John 
Homer, who came to Boston in a vessel, of which 
he was a part-owner, in 1690, and was the 
founder of the American branch of the family ; 
in the eighth generation also, on the paternal side, 
from Samuel Green of Cambridge, about 1635, 
and Boston, 1686, first printer of America, who 
printed Eliot's translations into the Indian lan- 
guage, and was "college and colony printer" for 
about fifty years ; in the fifth generation from 
Michael Homer, of Boston, one of the master- 



builders of the Old South Meeting-house, and 
from Thomas Johnston, of Boston, who made the 
first organ made in the town, for old Christ 
Church ; is grandson of Joseph \\'arren Homer, 
of Boston, a custom-house officer, and for sev- 
eral years president of the Massachusetts Chari- 
table Society, of whicii he was a member for sixty- 
two years. On the maternal side he is descended 
in the fourth generation from Thomas Fisher, of 
Sharon (then Stoughtonham), who enlisted in the 
Revolutionary War in 1776, at the age of fifteen. 
Mr. Homer is a graduate of the Roxbury Latin 
School, of Harvard College in the class of 1879, 
and of the Harvard Law School in the class of 
1882. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
January, 1883, in the following June to practice 
in the Circuit Court of the United States, and 
in April, 1885, to practice in the United States 
Court of Claims in Washington. During his col- 
lege days he spent a summer in Europe, and 
after graduation he made the tour of the Pacific 
slope, visiting Alaska ; and his business has since 
taken him on various occasions West and South. 
His practice is a general one, but in recent years 




THOS. J. HOMER. 



has been largely connected with real estate trusts 
and the settlement of estates. For several years 
he has been one of the examining counsel of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



659 



('onvey^ncers' Title Insurance Company of Bos- 
ton, and a manager of the Home for Children 
and Aged Women in Roxbury. He is a member 
of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and 
of the Titfin and Abstract Clubs, and a former 
member of the University Club and the Boston 
Athletic Association. His favorite sport for many 
vears past has been canoeing down the more rapid 
rivers of the New England and Middle States and 
of Canada, and he was one of the " .American 
Crew" of the "Viking" upon its journey by water 
from New York to the World's P'air in Chicago 
in 1893. He has written occasionally for pub- 
lication. In politics he is a Democrat. .Mr. 
Homer is unmarried. 



tis," read before the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety in Boston, June 7, 1887; "Treatment of 
Uterine Myo-fibromata by .\bdominal Hystere- 




IRISH, John Carroll, M.D., of Lowell, is a 
native of Maine, born in Buckfield, September 30, 
1843, son of Cyrus and Catherine (Davis) Irish. 
He was educated at Waterville College, Maine, 
and at Dartmouth College, where he received the 
degree of .\.B. in 1S68. His medical studies were 
pursued at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College 
in New York, from which he graduated with his 
degree in 1S72. He began practice in his native 
town immediately after graduation, and remained 
there until November, 1874, when he removed to 
Lowell, where he has since been engaged in the 
practice of surgery almost e.xclusively, giving 
especial attention to abdominal surgery. While 
practising in Buckfield, he was a member of the 
board of examining surgeons of pensions in Maine. 
He has been medical examiner for the district 
since 1877, first by appointment of Governor Rice, 
at the expiration of his term of seven years, by re- 
appointment of Governor Robinson and subse- 
quently of Governor Russell. He is a member of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the .\meri- 
can -Vcademy of Medicine, and honorary member 
of the Vermont State Medical Society. Dr. Irish 
has been a frequent contributor of papers on 
medical topics to various societies which have 
been published in the journals of the profession. 
The most noteworthy in the list are : " Reasons 
for the Early Removal of Ovarian Tumors," pub- 
lished in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 
April 10, 1884; "A Discussion of the Statistics 
of Ovariotomy," Ibid., August 19, 1886; "Two 
and One-half Years' Experience in Abdominal Sur- 
gery," Ibid.. December 27, 1888; "Laparotomy 
for Pus in the Abdominal Cavitv and for Peritoni- 



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J. C. IRISH. 

otomy," read before the Massachussetts Medical 
Society, June 10, 1890. Since 1890, as the range 
of cases to the treatment of which abdominal sur- 
gery has been applied has greatly enlarged. I )r. 
Irish's work has been largely confined to this 
branch of surgery, so that in this specialty he is 
one of the .\merican authorities, who have recently 
contributed much to its advancement. Dr. Irish 
was married July 17, 1872, to Miss .\nnie March 
Frye, daughter of Major \\'illiam R. Frye, of Lew- 
iston, Me. 

JACKSON, J.AMES Frederick, of Fall River, 
member of the bar, was born in Taunton, Novem- 
ber 13, 185 1, son of Elisha T. and Caroline S. 
(Fobes) Jackson. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Harvard College, graduating in the 
class of 1873 ; and his law studies were pursued 
in the Boston University Law School and in the 
office of the Hon. Edward H. Bennett. .Admitted 
to the bar in 1875, he began practice at Fall River 
in the autumn of that year. He held the position 
of city solicitor for eight years, ending December. 
1888, and then was made mayor of the city, in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



which office he served two terms, 1889 and 1890. 
He is now (1895) associated with David F. Slade 
and Richard P. Borden in the law firm of Jack- 




JAMES F. JACKSON. 

son, Slade, & Borden, which has one of the largest 
clientages in South-eastern Massachusetts. He 
has served as a line, staff, and field officer of the 
First Regiment Infantry of the State militia, leav- 
ing the service in 1891 as lieutenant colonel. In 
politics he is Republican. He is a member of the 
University Club of Boston, of the Wamsutta Club 
of New Bedford, of the Quequechan Club, and of 
the Harvard Club of Fall River, being now presi- 
dent of the latter. Mr. Jackson was married June 
15, 1882, to Miss Caroline S. Thurston, of Fall 
River, daughter of Eli Thurston, U.D. They have 
one child : Edith Jackson, aged eleven 3-ears. 



J.\CKSON, WiLLi.\M Henry, of Boston, artist, 
was born in Watertown, August 13, 1832, son of 
Antipas and Mary (Clapp) Jackson. He is on 
the paternal side of the eighth generation born 
in America. He was educated in the common 
schools of his native town. After learning con- 
struction and the use of tools with a carpenter in 
the village, he entered the office of Whitwell & 
Henck, civil engineers, in Boston, and studied en- 



gineering. While with this firm he was employed 
on the original surveys for the improvement of 
the Back Bay. He was ne.xt engaged as assistant 
in the city engineer's office, under Mr. Cheesboro, 
and remained in the city's employ until April, 1861, 
when the Civil War broke out. Then he left the 
profession of engineering, and trained a company 
for the service, being elected first lieutenant of 
Company C, Fourth Battalion of Rifles, Major 
Leonard commanding. He had previously been 
connected with the Boston Light Infantry, Com- 
]3any A, First Regiment, Massachusetts militia, 
having joined that organization in May, 1858. 
The Fourth Battalion was soon sent down the 
harbor to garrison Fort Independence ; and he was 
detailed and attached to the staff of General Bul- 
lock, and sent to Long Island to prepare camps 
for the Ninth and Eleventh Massachusetts Regi- 
ments. On the 1 6th of July he was mustered into 
the service of the United States with his regiment 
as first lieutenant Company C, Thirteenth Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel Leonard 
commanding. The regiment was at once sent to 
the front, landing at Hagerstown, Md., and picketed 
the Potomac River from Darnestown to Hancock. 
In September, 1861, Lieutenant Jackson was pro- 
moted to a captaincy. He was in the battles of 
Bolivar, Falling Waters, Dam No. 5, Hancock, 
Martinsburg, Winchester, Newtown, Sugar Moun- 
tain, Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, 
Bull Run, and Chantille. In October, 1862, he 
was promoted to major of the Second Regiment, 
Cavalry, Colonel Lowell, and recruited the Third 
Battalion in Worcester. He resigned from the 
service, disabled, and was mustered out in March, 
1863. Thereupon he returned to the profession 
of engineering, opening an office in Niles Block, 
School Street, Boston. In the autumn of 1864 he 
was sent to Colorado to examine and report upon 
some mining property there. Subsequently the 
Mammoth Gold Mining Company was organized, 
and in the spring of 1865 he was sent out to 
Colorado to manage the property as agent. Like 
most of the gold mining companies, this company 
failed, being unable to work the ores by the proc- 
esses then in existence, and was closed out. Major 
Jackson then went into the lumber business, hav- 
ing a water-mill at Platte Canyon. In the spring 
of 1868 he sold out this property, and returned to 
Boston, where he again opened an engineer's 
office. In 1878 he sold the business of this office 
to his brother, Charles F. Jackson, and devoted 



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66 1 



himself to the study of art, having ahx'ady i;ivcn 
sonic time, in 1874-75, to drawing studies with 
the late l*r. W'ilHam Rimmer. He was the pupil 
at different times of J. J. Enneking, Du Rlois, 
Thomaso Juglais, and Otto Grundmann. In the 
autumn of 1875 he assisted in organizing the 
Massachusetts Rifle Association, which did its 
shooting for some time at Spy Pond, and after- 
ward purchased the property and laid out W'alnut 
Hill Range in W'oburn, which is one of the most 
successful ranges in the country. On November 
.:o, 1875, Major Jackson for the first time shot a 
target rilie in a match, using the rilie of a friend. 
Then he purchased and shot a Maynard rifle. 
Shooting off-hand two hundred yards, on .\ugust 
iG, 1876, he won his first prize, a Remington long- 
range rifle, shooting against all comers. He prac- 
tised long range with William Gerrish on the 
marshes of Chelsea until the range at Walnut Hill 
was opened for long range. Entering the com- 
petitions for a place upon the American Team, he 
won the position. He shot in the match on 
September 13 and 14, 1877, America against 
Great Ilritain, when the .-Vmericans beat the 




the highest score, 433 out of a possible 450, which 
was four points better than the highest score of 
the previous year's shooting. In the three con- 
secutive days' shooting in the tournament at 
Creedmore for the championship, in 1879, he won 
against all America, making 206-213-214, total 
633, four points above Sumner, the next man. 
He won first place on the team to go to Ireland in 
the spring of 1870. The team shot the match at 
Dolymount, Dublin, the last of June, and beat the 
Irishmen. After the match there were individual 
matches the following tiiree days, and Major Jack- 
son won the Abercorn Cup and a number of 
minor prizes. The team then went over to Eng- 
land, and attended the Wimbledon meeting, where 
Major Jackson was very successful, winning many 
prizes and medals. Upon his return to America 
the long-range rifle practice began to wane and the 
interest to die out, until 1885 there was no long- 
range practice with the small bore. With the 
military arm long-distance practice has taken the 
place of the small bore, not making such good 
scores, but being more practical. The small-bore 
practice was only a gentleinanly amusement, while 
the military is for real service. Major Jackson has 
not shot in matches for a number of years, but 
has devoted his whole attention to art matters. 
He is a member of the lioston Art Club, chosen 
to the board of managetiient in 1894, and member 
of the Megantic Fish and Game Club. He was 
married March 9, 1865, to Miss .\lice Holmes, of 
Boston. They have no children. 



W. H. JACKSON. 

ISritish ninety-two points in the two days. He 
was captain of the American Team in 1878, when 
the "walk-over" was shot in September, making 



JEWETT, Henry Alfred, M.I)., of North- 
borough, was born in Pepperell, January 14, 
1820, son of Henry and Rebecca (Blood) Jewett. 
Mis paternal grandfather was Edmund Jewett, and 
his maternal grandfather John Blood, both also of 
Pepperell. He was educated at the Pepperell 
Academy. His training for his profession was 
largely under the tuition of Dr. Nehemiah Cutter 
of Pepperell and at the Pennsylvania Medical 
College in Philadelphia, where he was graduated 
in 1847. He began the practice of his profession 
in 1847 at Hampton, N.H., and, after remaining 
there a year, removed to Northborough, where 
he has been established ever since in the enjoy- 
ment of a successful business. On Jifly 1 i. 1877, 
he was appointed medical examiner for his dis- 
trict, and still holds the office. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Worcester 1 )istrict Medical Society. He be- 
longs to the United Order of the Golden Cross, 
member of the Unity Commandery of that institu- 



^: 




Salem as a practitioner of medicine. In October, 
1869, he went abroad, and further pursued medical 
studies in Berlin during the two succeeding win- 
ters, and in Vienna through the spring and early 
summer of 1870. In April, 187 1, he resumed his 
practice in Salem. He became secretary for 
many years, and for two years president, of the 
Essex South District Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety. He also became correspondent, and con- 
tributor to the Reports, of the Massachusetts 
State Board of Health, and so continued for 
several years. In 1873 he read an essay on the 
'' Physiological Limitations of Religious Experi- 
ence " before the Essex South Congregational 
Club, which led, by invitation, to the delivery of 
nine lectures on the " Physiological Control of 
Religious Teachings " before the students of the 
Andover Theological Seminary. In 1876 he was 
a delegate from the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety to the International Medical Congress in 
Philadelphia. In 1877 he served on a commis- 
sion of three persons to examine and report upon 
the sewerage system needed for Salem. During 
the same year, upon the formation of the Massa- 



H. A. JEWETT. 

tion. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Jewett 
was married in May, 1849, to Miss Sarah Abbie 
Lawrence, of Hampton, N.H. They have one son 
and two daughters : Henry Lawrence, Annie Re- 
becca, and Plorence Leavitt (Jewett) Hatch. 



JOHNSON, Amos Howe, M.D., of Salem, was 
born in Boston, August 4, 1831, son of Samuel 
Johnson, merchant, of the firm of J. C. Howe & 
Co., and of Charlotte Abigail (Howe) Johnson, 
daughter of Captain William Howe, of Brook- 
field. His preparatory education was acquired at 
the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, at Brookfield 
Family School from 1843 to 1847, ^"d ^t Phillips 
(Andover) Academy from 1847 to 1849. He 
graduated from Harvard College in 1853, and 
from Andover Theological Seminary in 1856. For 
nearly five years, from January, 1857, to October, 
1 86 1, he was pastor of the Congregational Church 
in the town of Middleton, Essex County. In the 
spring of 1862 he entered the Harvard Medical 
School, received his degree of M.D. in 1865, and 
in the autumn of the following year settled in 




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A. H. JOHNSON. 

chusetts Medico-Legal Society, he was elected, 
and still continues to be, an associate member. 
He was for fifteen years a member of the medical 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



663 



staff of the Salem Hospital. He has been a 
member of the consulting board of physicians of 
the Danvers Asylum for the Insane since its for- 
mation, and is at present its chairman. He was 
appointed orator of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society for its anniversary in June, 1883, and 
later was elected president of the society for two 
years from June, 1890. Dr. Johnson has served 
in the State Legislature : as a representative for 
the towns of Middleton, Saugus, and Lynnfield 
in 1862 ; and was for three years on the Salem 
School Committee. In 1868, two years after he 
began practice in Salem, he was made secretary 
of the Essex Institute, a position he resigned on 
going abroad in 1869. He has held the office of 
deacon of the South Church, Salem, for many 
years, and was president of the Essex Congrega- 
tional Club from 1889 to 1891. He was vice- 
president of the Alumni Association of the Har- 
vard Medical School for 1892 and 1893. Dr. 
(ohnson was married September 22, 1857, to Miss 
Frances Seymour Benjamin, daughter of Nathan 
Benjamin, of Williamstown, and Mary A. (Wheeler) 
Benjamin, of New York, missionaries to Athens, 
(Greece, and to Constantinople. His children are : 
Samuel Johnson, 2d, now a member of the firm of 
C. F. Hovey & Co., Boston ; Meta Benjamin, wife 
of Francis H. Bergen, of Staten Island, N.Y. ; 
Amy H. ; Captain Charles A., of Colorado Na- 
tional Cuard, and real estate and rental broker, 
Denver; Philip S., agent in New York for the 
commission house of Foster Brothers, Boston ; 
and Ralph S. Johnson, student. 



JOHNSON, Edward Francis, of Marlborough 
and Boston, member of the bar, is a native of 
New Hampshire, born in the town of Hollis, Octo- 
ber 21, 1842, son of Noah and Letitia M. (Clag- 
gett) Johnson. His great-great-grandfather on 
the paternal side settled in Hollis, buying the 
homestead which has been in the family since, 
and which Mr. Johnson now owns. The family 
is connected with the Johnsons of W'oburn and 
Salem. His mother was of the Claggett family 
of Londonderry, N.H., and related to the Mc- 
Questions of that section. Both families are 
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. He was educated in 
the district school, at Crosby's Academical School, 
Nashua, N.H., and at Dartmouth College, grad- 
uating in July, 1864. His law studies were pur- 
sued at the Harvard Law School and at Mr. 



Barrett's otVice, Nashua, N.ii., till October, i866, 
when he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County. 
He established himself in Marlborough in April, 
1867, and has since continued there, having also 
an office in Boston, which he first opened in 1872, 
dividing his time between the two places. He 
has served as judge of the Police Court of Marl- 
borough since its establishment in 1885. He has 
held no political office or been a candidate for 
such office, his time having been fully occupied 
with his professional work in Marlborough and 
Boston. Though having a general practice, he 
has been especially concerned with real estate law. 




E. F. JOHNSON. 

probate matters, and land cases. He is also a 
director of the First National Bank of Marlborough. 
In politics he is a Republican, and has served on 
various State, county. Congressional, and town 
committees. He is connected with the Masonic 
fraternity, a member of United Brethren Lodge, 
Marlborough, and of Houghton Royal Arch Chap- 
ter. Mr. Johnson was married June i, 1870, to 
Miss Arabella G. Carleton, of Lynn. They have 
three daughters : Mabel, Elizabeth, and Grace 
Johnson. 

JOHNSON, William Louis, M.D., of Uxbridge, 
was born in Southborough, October 23, 1856, son 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of Henry Flavel and PLvmice Sophia (Fay) John- 
son. He is a descendant of William Johnson who 
came from Canterbury, Kent County, England. 




Johnson was married September 12, 1883, to Miss 
Catherine Adelaide Capron, of Uxbridge. They 
have had three children: Dora Lucille (born Jan- 
uary 22, 18S6), Grace Capron (born July 16, 
1887), and Beulah Messinger Johnson (born 
August 26, 1892). 



KENDAIjL, EnwARH, of Cambridge, head of 
the Charles River Iron Works, was born in the 
town of Holden, Worcester County, December 3, 
1821, son of Caleb and Dolly (Sawyer) Kendall. 
His parents were of Boylston. His boyhood was 
spent on his father's farm, between farm work and 
study in the village school. When he became of 
age, he made his first business venture, starting 
out in the lumber trade. This, however, was not 
successful; and in 1847, removing to Boston, he 
became an apprentice in the West Boston Machine 
Shop. Here he made rapid progress, nine months 
after entering being transferred to the boiler de- 
partment, and soon after becoming its superin- 
tendent. He held the latter position for eleven 
years, during that time paying off the debts he had 



W. L. JOHNSON. 

and settled in Charlestown in 1634. William's 
children were active in the Indian wars of 1744 
and 1755, and his descendants freely offered their 
lives and several gained distinction in the Revo- 
lution. Two were present at the surrender of 
Burgoyne, October 17, 1777. William Louis was 
educated in the public schools of Cambridge. He 
studied medicine with his father, a noted and suc- 
ces.sful Boston physician, and at the Harvard 
Medical School, entering in 1875, and graduating 
in 1878. He began practice in Cambridge, but 
in 1879 removed to U.xbridge, where he has since 
resided. He served on the School Committee of 
the town from 18S3 to 18S6, and has been a 
trustee of the LLxbridge Public Library since 1888, 
president of the board since 1893. He was presi- 
dent of the Thurber Medical Society in 1892 and 
1893, and has been a member of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society since 1878. He is a Free- 
mason, member of Solomon's Temple Lodge of 
Uxbridge, and its master in 1889 and 1890. In 

politics he is a Republican, and has served on the contracted in his venture in the lumber trade, and 
Republican town committee for several years, then in i860 entered the business on his own ac- 
being chairman of the organization in 1S89. Dr. count, establishing the firm of Kendalls Davis, 




EDWARD KENDALL. 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



665 



with nuichiuc shop at Cambiidycport, and giving 
attention principally to boiler-making. This was 
the beginning of the present extensive Charles 
River Iron Works, of which he is still the head. 
In 1.S65 the tirm name was changed to Kendall 
iV Roberts ; and subsequently, upon the admission 
of Mr. Kendall's sons to partnership, it became 
Edward Kendall & Sons. During his long suc- 
cessful career as a manufacturer Mr. Kendall has 
made numerous improvements and inventions in 
boiler manufacture, and has become widely known 
in his trade. As a leader in the temperance 
cause, to which he has been devoted from his 
youth, he has long been prominent. In 1886 and 
18S7 he was the Prohibitory candidate for Con- 
gress in the old Fifth District, and in 1893 candi- 
date on the Prohibitory State ticket for lieutenant 
governor. He has been a director of the Massa- 
chusetts Temperance Alliance since 1888, and 
was for two years president of the Cambridge 
Temperance Reform Association. He has served 
in the Genera! Court as a representative for Cam- 
bridge two terms, 1875 and 1876, and three 
terms, 1871-72-73, in the Cambridge Board of 
Aldermen. Since 1890 he has been a trustee of 
the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. In religious 
faith he is a Congregationalist, and was one of the 
founders and the first deacon of the Pilgrim Con- 
gregational Church of Cambridgeport. He is a 
member of the Congregational Club of Boston 
and of the Cambridge Club of Cambridge. Mr. 
Kendall was married December 16, 1847, ^^ P^^" 
ton, to Miss Reliance Crocker, daughter of 
Solomon and Abigail (Warren) Crocker. They 
have had four children : Edward (deceased), 
Emma (deceased), George Frederick, and James 
Henry Kendall. 



LEWIS, EnwiN Charles, of Boston, electri- 
cian, was born in the Charlestown District, April 
2, 1866, son of Charles E. and Jeanette (Rogers) 
Lewis. He is of English descent, and his first an- 
cestors in America settled in Virginia early in the 
present century. His paternal grandfather was 
captain of a Mississippi steamer which was blown 
up in 1841 while racing on the river. He was 
educated in the Bunker Hill School, Charlestown, 
and at evening school, where he took a two years' 
course. After leaving school, he entered the ser- 
vice of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, 
and remained with that company until it consoli- 



dated with the Western Union 'I'elegraph Com- 
pany. Then he continued with the latter until 
1884, when he decided to study architecture, and 
entered the office of Cabot & Chandler, architects. 
After four years there he returned to the elec- 
trical field, and entered the employ of a large 
electrical company of Boston, beginning at the 
bottom, and working up in two years to the head 
of the estimating department. In 1892 he took 
all the contracts which that firm had on hand, also 
the men, and carried the work to successful com- 
pletion. Since that time he has had much large 
work, especially in the fitting of office buildings, 




EDWIN C. LEWIS. 

his contracts including the buildings of the Mas- 
sachusetts (jeneral Hospital corporation in Bos- 
ton and at Waverley for the McLean Asylum, to 
complete the electrical installation of which has 
taken two years ; the .\mes Building, Devonshire 
Building, and Jefferson Building, among the largest 
in the city. Mr. Lewis was married July 20, 1891, 
to Miss Alice G. Canterbury. 



LINCOLN, Leontine, of Fall River, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Fall River, born December 
26, 1846, son of Jonathan Thayer and Abby 
(Luscomb) Lincoln. He is a descendant of 



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MEN OF PR0(;KKSS. 



Thomas Lincoln, who settled in Taunton in 1652, the PubUc Library since 1878, secretary and 
having previously settled in Hingham. He was treasurer of the board since 1879; a member and 
educated in the public schools of Fall River the secretary of the Board of Trustees of the 

B. M. C. Durfee High School since 18S7, and a 
trustee of the Home for Aged People for some 
time. He has taken a warm interest in popular 
education, and has written and spoken much on 
educational subjects. His politics are Repub- 
lican, and he has contributed to the discussion of 
political and economic questions in articles in the 
periodical press and in occasional addresses. He 
is a member of the Old Colony Historical Society. 
In 1889 he received the honorary degree of A.IVL 
from Brown Llniversity. Mr. Lincoln was mar- 
ried May 12, 1868, to Miss Amelia Sanford Dun- 
can, daughter of the Rev. John and ^Liry A. 
1 )uncan. They have two sons : Jonathan Thayer 
(born November 6, 1869) and Leontine Lincoln, 
Jr. (born August 6, 1872). 




LOVELL, Charles Edward, M.D., of Whit- 
man, is a native of Vermont, born in Woodstock. 
April 13, 1861, son of Edward .Sparrow and 



LEONTINE LINCOLN. 

and at a private school in Providence, R.L He 
began business life at the age of nineteen, enter- 
ing the counting-room of Kilburn, Lincoln, &: Co., 
a concern of which his father was one of the 
founders. In 1872 he became treasurer of the 
company, succeeding E. C. Kilburn, who then 
retired from the business, which position he has 
since held. This company is now among the 
largest loom-builders in the country. Mr. Lin- 
coln is also connected with numerous other im- 
portant interests. He is president of the Sea- 
connet Mills ; director of the Tecumseh Mills, the 
King Philip Mills, the Hargraves Mills, the Bar- 
nard Manufacturing Company, and the Crystal 
Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company; presi- 
dent of the Second National Bank, and vice- 
president of the Fall River Five Cents Savings 
Bank. He has served for many years in various 
public positions in Fall River, and since February, 
1894, has been a member of the State Board of 
Lunacy and Charity by appointment of Governor 
Greenhalge. He has been a member of the 
School Committee of Fall River since 1879, and 




C. E. LOVELL. 



Mary A. (Taft) Lovell. He is descended from 
Robert Lovell, who was admitted freeman in 1635. 
chairman of the board since 1888 ; a trustee of His mother was of the branch of the Taft family 



MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 



667 



which settled 'I'aftsville, Xi., aiul built up the 
scythe industry in that place. He was educated 
in schools in his nati\e place and at the High 
School in Middleborough, Mass., where he gradu- 
ated in the English and Latin course in 1881. 
Subsequently he studied medicine at Dartmouth 
College, and graduated there in 1884. Upon 
leaving college, he obtained a position in the 
Massachusetts State Almshouse Hospital at 
Tewksbury, where he remained two and a half 
years. Then, on August, 1887, he began general 
practice, settled in Whitman, where he has since 
been actively engaged. He has served the town 
on the ISoard of Health, occupying the position 
of .secretary of the board of 1893, and those of 
chairman and secretary of the present board. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society 
and of the Whitman Club. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, favoring radical reforms in all branches 
of the government. He has taken an active in- 
terest in political affairs of late years, and in 1893 
served as president of the Republican Club of 
Whitman. Dr. Lovell was married September 11, 
1SS9, to Miss Eugenia F. Bartlett, of Middle- 
borough. They have one child : Lathrop Bartlett 
Lo\ell. 

MARION, Horace Euoene, M.D., of the 
Brighton District, Boston, was born in Burling- 
ton, August 3, 1843, son of Abner and Sarah 
(Prescott) Marion. He is a grandson of John C. 
Marion of \\'oburn, great-grandson of Isaac Ma- 
rion, and great-great-grandson of Isaac Marion, 
both of Boston ; and, on the maternal side, grand- 
son of Samuel P. Prescott, great-grandson of John 
Prescott, eldest brother of Dr. Samuel Prescott 
who joined and rode with Paul Revere, and great- 
great-grandson of Dr. Abel Prescott, all of Con- 
cord. Dr. Marion received his education at the 
Warren Academy, Woburn, the Howe School, Bil- 
lerica, the Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, N.H., and 
at Dartmouth College, graduating from the college 
in 1866, with the degree of M.D. in 1869. Dur- 
ing the Civil War period he served as a private 
in the Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 
through its nine months' campaign of 1862-63, 
and as sergeant in the same regiment for a three 
months' campaign in 1S64. He began the regular 
practice of his profession at Brighton in 1870, and 
has remained there ever since with the exception 
of about fifteen months in Europe. He served as 
coroner the last two years before the adoption of 



the present system, and was physician to the over- 
seers of the poor of Boston for twenty years, re- 
signing that post in 1895. He has served also in 
the State militia, as assistant surgeon of the Fifth 
Regiment Massachusetts Militia in 1876, surgeon 
of the Fourth Battalion in 1877, and as the medi- 
cal director of the First Brigade from 1879 'o '88' • 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, is now president of tlie Middlese.x South 
District Medical Society, and member of the Cam- 
bridge Medical Improvement Society ; member of 
the University and Art clubs of lioston, of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and 



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H. E. MARION. 

of the Sons of the Revolution. Dr. Marion was 
married January 14, 18S0, to Miss Catherine 
Louise Sparhawk. Their children are : Eva Pres- 
cott, Gardner Sparhawk, and Benjamin Cobb 
Marion. 

McKENNEY, Willia.m Augustus, of Boston, 
merchant, is a native of Boston, born October 9, 
1855, son of Charles H. and Susan A. McKenney. 
He was educated in the Boston public schools. 
He began active life soon after leaving school, 
and since his twenty-second year, 1877, has been 
connected w'ith a single line of business, that of 
the manufacture and sale of gas fixtures and 



668 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



lamps, engaged in it on his own account since 
September, 1888, when the present house of 
McKenney & Waterbury was established. For 




WM. A. McKENNEY. 

fifteen years he was a commercial traveller, his 
field being New England ; and subsequently he 
made frequent trips abroad for information re- 
garding the business, becoming thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the foreign market and the develop- 
ment of his special branch of trade. He is a 
member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Commercial 
Travellers" Association, and of the' Algonquin, 
Boston Art, and Roxbury clubs. He has avoided 
official positions of all kinds, devoting himself e.x- 
clusively to his business, and in politics is unpar- 
tisan. Mr. McKenney is unmarried. 



MOORE, Beverly Kenn.\n, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Mercantile Law Company, is a native 
of Maine, born in Biddeford, November 25, 1847, 
son of Jeremiah and Juliet (Kendal) Moore. He 
is a descendant on his father's side of Captain 
Samuel Moore, who settled in Kittery, Me., in 
i6go, and a direct descendant of William Black- 
stone, the first settler of Boston ; and on his 
mother's side of Francis Kendal, who settled in 
Ipswich, Mass., in 1640, and of Captain George 



Rogers, one of the early settlers of Georgetown, 
Me. He was educated in the public schools. 
After reading law in Boston for about two years, 
in i86g and 1870, he accepted a responsible posi- 
tion with a leading mercantile agency in New 
York, to establish and promote a law and collec- 
tion department. For the next five years he trav- 
elled in its interest through the West and South, 
and afterward in 1876 established a branch in 
Boston, of which he was manager for about two 
\ears. Then he went to Louisville, Ky., as super- 
intendent of the branch in that city of Brad- 
street's Agency, and continued in that capacity 
for two years. Returning again to Boston in 
1881, he established a law and collection business, 
which rapidly expanded to large proportions, and 
developed into the present Mercantile Law Com- 
pany, incorporated in 1889, with associate offices 
in all the large cities of the country, of which he 
is, as president, the head. The company has 
entire charge of the law and collection department 
of the Boston Merchants' Association, which 
department was established by Mr. Moore in 
1883, when he first became secretary of that or- 




BEVERLY K. MOORE. 



ganization, the office he still holds, 
member of the law firm of Kendall, 
Burbank, president of the Associated 



He is a 

Moore, & 

Law and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



669 



Collection Offices, elected to that position in June, 
1 89 1, treasurer of the Home Market Club, and 
officially connected with other organizations. Mr. 
Moore has been and is an earnest worker in 
endeavoring to secure the enactment of a proper 
national bankruptcy law, and is always interested 
in matters of public concern. Mr. Moore was 
married January 5, 1876, to Miss Annie T. Hooper, 
daughter of Colonel E. H. C. Hooper, of Bidde- 
ford. They have five children. 




GEO. H. MORRILL. Jr. 



terested in all movements for the welfare of his 
town. He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, 
being a thirty-second degree Mason, and mem- 
ber of the Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, 
and of Aleppo 'l"emple, Mystic Shrine. He is 
also an active member of the Ancient and Hon- 
orable Artillery Company, of the Boston Athletic 
Association, and of the ]5oston Club. He was 
married May 9, 1878, to Miss Mary Elizabeth 
Gilbert. They have one child living : Leon G. 
Morrill, aged twelve years. Mr. Morrill's resi- 
dence in Norwood is one of the finest in Norfolk 
County, and is much admired for its architectural 
beauty. 

MORSE, Charles Ei.LswdRrn, M.D., of Ware- 
ham, is a native of Wareham, born January i, 
1867, son of Seth Chatham and Mary Savery 
(Swift) Morse. He is of Erench descent; and 
his ancestors first in .America came about the 
middle of the seventeenth century. Several of 
them took part in the early wars. He was edu- 
cated in the common and high schools of Ware- 
ham and at the Adams Academv, Quincv. His 



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MORRILL, George Henrv, Jr., of Norwood, 
manufacturer, was born in Woburn, October 18, 
1855, son of George Henry and Sarah Bond 
(Tidd) Morrill. He was educated in the common 
schools of his native town, and at the English 
and Classical School at West Newton, which he 
entered at the age of fourteen, and attended for 
four years. Then, being eighteen years old, he 
began to learn the printing-ink business with his 
father at Norwood ; and he has continued in this 
business from that time, becoming in 1888 a 
member of the firm of George H. Morrill & Co., 
established by his grandfather in 1845, and now 

ranking first among the printing-ink manufacturers medical studies were pursued at the Harvard 
of the United States. Mr. Morrill belongs to the Medical School, where he graduated in 1S89. 
Norwood Business Men's Association, and is in- That year he became assistant physician to the 




CHAS. E. MORSE. 



670 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Adams Nervine Asylum, Jamaica Plain, Boston, 
and continued in that position till 1892, when he 
engaged in private practice in Jamaica Plain. In 
December, 1894, he removed to Wareham to 
enter into partnership with the late Frederic A. 
Sawyer, M.D., and subsequently succeeded to 
the latter's practice. Dr. Morse is a member of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the 
Boston Medical Library Association. He is con- 
nected with the Masonic fraternity, a member of 
Eliot Lodge of Jamaica Plain, Boston, and with 
the order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Quinobe- 
quin Lodge, Jamaica Plain. He is unmarried. 






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HENRY C. MORSE. 

MORSE, Henry Curtis, of Boston, treasurer 
and manager of the Revere Rubber Company, 
was born in South Dedham, now Norwood, July 
31, 1838, son of Curtis (J. and Fanny (Boyden) 
Morse. He is of the tenth generation from 
Samuel Morse, born in England in 1585, died in 
Medfield 1654, the line running: Samuel Morse'; 
John Morse,- born 161 1, died 1657 ; Ezra Morse,'' 
1643-1697 ; Ezra Morse, ^ 1671-1760; Ezra 
Morse,'"^ 1694-; Ezra Morse,'' 17 1S-1755 ; Oliver 
Morse,' 1748-1802; Oliver Morse," 1769-1832; 
Curtis Morse," 1805-1874; Henry C. Morse,'" 
1838. He was educated in the public school of 



his native town and at Pierce Academy, Middle- 
borough, where he finished in 1856. He first en- 
tered business in 1858 as clerk in his father's furni- 
ture manufacturing establishment, under the firm 
name of Morse & Webb, South Dedham, and fol- 
lowed this line of business for twenty-three years 
as a partner in the firms of Haley, Morse, & Boy- 
den, Morse &: Boyden, and Henry C. Morse & Co. 
Then in 18S1 he engaged in rubber manufacture, 
and three years later was elected treasurer and 
manager of the Revere Rubber Company, which 
position he has since held. Mr. Morse is also a 
director of the Rubber Manufacturers' Mutual In- 
surance Company, of the Cotton and Woollen 
Mutual Lisurance Company, and of the Industrial 
Mutual Insurance Company, and also a director 
of the Eliot National Bank and a trustee of the 
Home Savings Bank. He was married January 
6, 1869, to Miss Kate Millicent Stetson, of New 
York. They have no ciiildren. 



MUNSELL, George Nelson, M.I)., of Har- 
wich, is a native of Maine, born in the town of 
Jiurlington, December 14, 1835, son of the Rev. 
Joseph R. and Louisa (Rider) Munsell. His gen- 
eral education was acquired in the Hampden and 
Belfast academies ; and he fitted for his profes- 
sion at the Harvard Medical School, graduating 
in April, i860. He first practised for a year in 
Bradford, Me., and then in 186 1 came to Har- 
wich. In 1862 he entered the Civil War, being 
commissioned in July that year first assistant sur- 
geon of the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers. He served till April, 1863, when he 
resigned on account of ill-health, and returned to 
Harwich. Since that time he has steadily en- 
gaged there in active practice. For seventeen 
years he has served as medical examiner for Barn- 
stable County. He has long been interested in 
educational matters, and has served his town as 
chairman of the School Board for twenty-seven 
years. In i88g, also, he was elected representa- 
tive for the Second Barnstable District in the Gen- 
eral Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and has served one year as its 
vice-president. He is prominently connected with 
the Grand Army of the Republic, having served 
seven years as commander of F. D. Hammond 
Post, No. 141, and on the staff of the National 
Department. For a year he has been medical di- 
rector of the State department of the organization. 



MEN OF I'ROCiRESS. 



671 



His politics arc RL-puhlican. Dr. Munsell was mar- Coldshorough, and oliiers. He eiUcred iIkj prinl- 
ricd in June, 1S60, to Miss Elizahetli K. Nicker- uv^ business, upon iiis return from llic war. in 

Providence, R.I. The next jear, i866, he be- 
came connected with the firm of Sampson, Daven- 
port, & Co. in Koston, and ten years later was 



son, of South Dennis. They have two dauj:;hters : 







r 



s» m 





GEO. N. MUNSELL. 

Louise H., now the wife of ('harles W. Megathlin, 
residins; in Hvannis, and Lizzie T. Munsell. 



MURDOCK, William Edwards, of Boston, 
publisher of directories, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Candia, September 15, 1844, son 
of the Rev. William and Mary J. (Read) Mnrdock. 
He is of Scotch descent. His great-grandfather, 
William Murdock, was of Westminster, Mass., and 
liis grandfather, Artemas Murdock, of West Boyl- 
ston. He was educated in Massachusetts, attend- 
ing the Howe Academy in Billerica and the 
Lancaster Institute, Lancaster. He entered the 
army the first year of the Civil War as a member 
of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers, and served throughout the contest, his 
term extending from September 17, 1S61, to Au- 
gust I, 1865. Part of this time he was on de- 
tached service at headquarters. Department of 
North Carolina, and headquarters. Army of the 
James, and the remainder in the field. Eighteenth 
.Vrmy Corps, taking part in the battles of Roa- 
noke Lsland, Newbern, Kingston, Whitehall, 



admitted to partnership. In 1S85 the firm name 
was changed to Sampson. Murdock, & Co., the 
present style. Mr. Murdock is prominent in the 
Masonic fraternity, being past master of Joseph 
Webb Lodge, and member of the St. Paul's 
Royal Arch Chapter and of De Molay Conimand- 
ery. Knights Templar. He is a member also of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, Post 68 ; treas- 
urer of the Pilgrim Association, member of the 
Municipal League of Boston, and of the Master 
Printers', Boston Art, and Congregational clubs. 
In politics he is a Republican. He takes a deep 
interest in matters of public welfare, but has never 
entered public life, his preference being for the 
quietness of his home in the Dorchester District 
of lioston. Mr. Murdock was married Novemljer 




WM. E. MURDOCK. 



29, 1S77, to Miss Ilattie E. Marcy, of Boston. 
They have no children living. 



M\'ERS, James Jefferson, of Cambridge, 
member of the Suffolk bar, practising law in Bos- 



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ton, was born in P"re\vsl)urg in the western part 
of the State of New York, November 20, 1842, 
son of Robert and Sabra (Stevens) Myers. He is 




J. J. MYERS. 

on the paternal side of the Mohawk Dutch stock 
of Myers and Van Valkenburg, and on the mater- 
nal side of the New England families of Tracy 
and Stevens. His grandparents on both sides 
were among the pioneer settlers in Western New 
York : and he still owns the farm where he was 
born, and which was bought by his grandfather of 
the Holland Land Company early in this century. 
He received his early education in the public 
school of Frewsburg, and at Fredonia and at Ran- 
dolph academies, both in Western New York, where 
he fitted for college. He entered Harvard in :865, 
and was graduated in the class of 1869. While 
preparing for college, he spent a portion of the 
time each year in lumbering on the Alleghany and 
Ohio rivers, making one or two long trips on a 
raft each year, thus building up a strong physique 
and accptiring a personal knowledge of the lives 
and hardships of the Western lumbermen. In 
college, while doing good work as a student and 
winning Boylston prizes for speaking for two suc- 
cessive years, he rowed in his class crews and took 
an active interest in all college sports. From 
college he entered the Harvard Law School, 



from which he was graduated in 1872, having 
spent one year in Europe in the mean time and 
taught mathematics one year at the university 
while prosecuting his law studies. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1872, 
but before beginning practice here he passed a 
year in a law office in New York City. In the 
autumn of 1874 he established himself in ISoston, 
forming a partnership with J. 15. Warner, under the 
firm name of Myers & \\'arner; and since that 
time he has been constantly in active practice in 
Boston. In Cambridge, where he has resided for 
the past twenty years, he has for many years been 
a member of the e.xecutive committee of the Cam- 
bridge Civil Service Reform Association, treasurer 
for a number of years of the Cambridge Branch of 
the Indian Rights .Association, treasurer of the 
Citizens" Committee for raising funds for the Pub- 
lic Library ; was president of the Library Hall As- 
sociation in 1892, has been an officer of various 
clubs at different times, and at the present time 
(1895) is president of the Colonial Club of Cam- 
bridge. In 1892 he was elected to the Legislature 
for the First Middlese.x Representative District, 
and has been twice re-elected, each time by a un- 
animous nomination. During his first term (1893) 
he served on the committees on rules, on elections, 
and on probate and insolvenc)', and became a 
recognized leader in committee-room and on the 
floor of the House. He took a conspicuous part 
in some of the most notable debates of the session, 
and was instrumental in securing much important 
legislation. He was the chief champion of the 
bill creating a commission to inquire into the Nor- 
wegian liquor system, and was one of the most 
effective supporters of the Metropolitan Parks bill ; 
spoke for the measure to protect the interest of 
the State in the Fitchburg Railroad, and for the 
bill to abolish double taxation, and was one of 
the active members in the Bay State gas investiga- 
tion, one of the most striking features of the 
session. He also assisted in securing the appoint- 
ment of a special committee on revision of the 
corporation laws, to sit during the recess, and as 
a member of this committee took a leading hand 
in its work and in preparing its able report. In 
the Legislature of 1894 he was House chairman 
of the special committee on revision of corpora- 
tion laws and a member of the committees on the 
judiciary and on rules: and was especially identi- 
fied with the several measures for the pre\ention 
of stock-watering by quasi-public corporations, — 



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railways, gas, electric light, water, telephone and 
telegraph companies, — which came from the first- 
mentioned committee and were passed that ses- 
sion. He also had a hand in drafting a munici- 
pal conduit bill, authorizing any municipality to 
construct conduits for electric wires in its own 
streets, which he advocated with much force, but 
which was finally defeated. In the Legislature of 
1S95 he was appointed House chairman of the 
committee on the judiciary, and remained still a 
member of the committee on rules, and of course 
took an active part in the laborious work of that 
committee during the session. In politics Mr. 
Myers is a Republican. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Republican Club, of the Middlese,\ 
Club, the Massachusetts Reform Club, the Mer- 
chants' Club, the Union, St. Botolph, and I'ni- 
versity clubs of Boston ; of the University and 
Zeta Psi clubs of New York City and of the Cam- 
bridge and Colonial clubs of Cambridge. He is 
also a member of the Citizens" Trade Associa- 
tion of Cambridge, and a trustee of the Prospect 
Union. He is unmarried. 




J, A. NEWHALL. 



NEWHALL, Joseph Ai.i.stun, of Boston, 
leather merchant, was born in Saugus, May 29, 
1847, son of Joseph Stocker and Emeline Augusta 



(Ware) Newhall. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native town and at Chauncy Hall, 
Boston. He began business life in Boston the 
first of January, 1870, as a salesman for George 
F. Breed, High Street, in the leather trade, and 
remained in his employ for two years. The next 
three years he was with B. F. Thompson & Co., 
in the same business and on the same street. 
Then he entered the business on his own account, 
forming a partnership with E. H. Keith, under 
the firm name of Newhall & Keith, and also 
established on High Street. This partnership 
continued until 1880, when it was dissolved, and 
the present firm organized under the name of 
J. Allston Newhall & Co., with no change in 
location. Mr. Newhall, therefore, has been on 
High Street continuously for twenty-five years. 
He is now also president of the Connnon- 
wealth Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and 
treasurer and manager of the Allston Company. 
In Saugus he has served on the Board of Select- 
men three terms, 1878-79-80, and was the repre- 
sentative of his district in the State Legislature in 
1880. For four years he w-as adjutant of the 
First Battalion of Artillery. He is a member of 
the Veteran Association of the First Corps of 
Cadets, of the Algonquin and Athletic clubs of 
Boston, and of the Reform Club of New York. 
He was married December 24, 1873, to Miss 
Amelia B. Westermann, of Saugus. They have 
one child. 

NICKERSON, William Lombard, of Chat- 
ham, special marine news reporter from Cape 
Cod, is a native of Chatham, born November 28, 
1856, son of Ziba and Sarah (Payne) Nickerson. 
He is a direct descendant through nine genera- 
tions from the original Puritan William Nickerson, 
who was the first white man to own and settle in 
what is now Chatham, in 1665. He was educated 
in . the Chatham schools, graduating from the 
High School in 1873. He began business life in 
the wholesale boot and shoe business in Boston 
in 1874, and continued in this trade till 1879. 
The latter j-ear he returned to Chatham to assist 
his father in the post-office and telegraph office 
there, and also in the boot and shoe business. In 
1 88 1 his father retired from the post-oflnce, and 
the two added to their other business that of 
lumber and coal. In 1886 Mr. Nickerson began 
systematic reporting of passing steamers to their 
owners in Boston, New York, Portland, and other 



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ports, and afterward extended his service to news- 
papers and to the Boston Chamber of Commerce. 
In 1887 he entered the service of the Boston 




officer in Sylvester Baxter Royal Arch Chapter, 
West Harwich ; and member of Hyde Park Coun- 
cil, Royal Select Masons of Hyde Park, Cyprus 
Commandery, Knights Templar, Hyde Park, 
and Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine, Boston. In religious faith he is a Lhii- 
versalist, and has been chairman of the trustees 
of the Universalist church, Chatham, for thirteen 
years, and assistant superintendent of the Sunday- 
school for the past eight years. He was married 
January 12, 1886, to Miss Euphemia Crowell, of 
East Harwich. They have one daughter : Rhoda 
Lombard Nickerson (born August 24, 1887). 



NOYES, RuFus King, M.D., of Boston, was 
born in New Hampshire, in the town of Hamp- 
stead. May 24, 1853, son of Joshua Flint and 
Lois Ann (Noyes) Noyes. Joseph Noyes on 
his father's side and Humphrey Noyes on his 
mother's side both served in the war of the Revo- 
lution. His maternal grandfather was a soldier 
in the War of 18 12. His general education was 
acquired at the Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, 



W. L. NICKERSON. 

Globe as special correspondent at Chatham. Four 
years later he was put in charge of Cape news 
service from FJarnstable to Truro for that paper, 
and is still in that position. He is a prac- 
tical telegraph operator, and telegraphs his own 
reports mostly, having a special wire to his 
Marine Observatory, connecting direct with the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Globe 
office. In 1880 he was appointed displayman 
of the United States Signal Service, which posi- 
tion he still holds. Mr. Nickerson is prominent 
in politics, an active working Republican, and 
has served as chairman of the Republican town 
committee, resigning in 1893, and as member of 
the Thirteenth District Republican Congressional 
Committee. He seeks no office, but works for 
the nomination and election of those he considers 
the worthiest for positions. He is a member of 
the Chatham School Committee, elected in 1894, 
and a trustee of the Public Library. He is offi- 
cially connected with numerous fraternal organi- 
zations, — treasurer of St. Martin's Lodge, Free 
Masons, of Chatham ; treasurer of Monomoit 
Council, American Legion of Honor, Chatham ; 




RUFUS K. NOYES. 

N.H. ; and he studied for his profession at the 
Dartmouth Medical College, where he graduated 
in 1875. From 1876 to 1877 he was house 



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675 



surgeon in the Iloston City Hospital, and then 
entered upon general practice in medicine and 
surgery, wliich he has since pursued with success 
in iJoston and vicinity. He has been active in 
modifying the law which required vaccination of 
all children before entering the public schools, on 
the ground that isolation, notification, c|uarantine, 
disinfection, and sanitation are the only means of 
preventing and " stamping out " small-pox. He 
holds that vaccination has no intluence to prevent 
or mitigate small-pox, while it has often produced 
ill -health, devitalization, and sometimes death. 
In politics Dr. Noyes, though born a Democrat, is 
now an Independent. He is agnostic, scientific, 
and materialistic in philosophy and belief. He is 
quite a voluminous contributor to the press of the 
State and a forcible essayist on scientific and 
philosophic subjects, appearing before literary 
societies and clubs, and frequently on the public 
rostrum. Dr. Noyes is a candidate for the So- 
ciety for the Sons of American Revolution. He is 
not married. 

PADDOCK, Franklin Kittredce, M.D., of 
Pittsfield, is a native of New York, born in Ham- 
ilton, December 19, 1841, son of Hiram C. and 
Eunice C. (Kittredge) Paddock. His maternal 
grandfather. Dr. Abel Kittredge, of Hinsdale, 
Mass., was a surgeon in the Massachusetts mili- 
tia in 1800. The late Dr. Benjamin Franklin Kit- 
tredge, of Hinsdale, was his uncle. He was edu- 
cated in the Normal School at Hamilton, N.Y. 
It was his intention to complete his studies at 
Madison University, but several years' invalidism 
from inflammatory rheumatism after the age of 
sixteen prevented. He attended one course at 
the Albany Medical College and two at the Berk- 
shire Medical College in Pittsfield, and graduated 
from the latter in November, 1864. He then 
spent six months in New York, attending lectures 
and the hospitals. In 1865 he entered into part- 
nership with his former preceptor. Dr. William 
Warren Greene, of Pittsfield, and began active 
practice there. Five years later, in 1870, he 
formed a partnership with Dr. J. F. A. Adams, 
which continued for fourteen years. He was dean 
and professor in the Berkshire Medical College 
at the time of its discontinuance in 1868. He 
has been medical examiner for the Second Berk- 
shire District since 188 1, consulting surgeon of 
the Pittsfield House of Mercy Hospital since its 
foundation in 1874, and medical director of the 



Berkshire Life Insurance Company since 1870. 
Dr. Paddock is a member of the .American Medi- 
cal Association, of the Massachusetts and New 




F, K. PADDOCK. 

York Medico-legal societies, and of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society, elected president of the lat- 
ter in June, 1894. He has belonged to the Pitts- 
field Monday Evening Club since its organization. 
He has held no political offices. He was married 
March 11, 1867, to Miss .Vnna Danforth Todd, 
daughter of the late Rev. Dr. John 'I'odd. Tlieir 
children living are : Mrs. Frederic G. Crane, of 
Dalton, Alice, and Brace W. Paddock. Three 
have died : Mary, an infant : Mary 'I'odd, three 
years of age, of diphtheria ; and Franklin Eugene, 
drowned at the age of seventeen. 



PARKER, Fr.\ncis St.anlev, merchant, was 
born in Hong Kong, China, September i, 1863, 
son of Ebenezer Francis and Elizabeth Clapp 
(Stone) Parker. His first ancestor in the L'nited 
States, originator of his branch of the Parker 
family, was William Parker, who married Zeruia 
Stanley at Portsmouth, N.H., in 1703. His pa- 
ternal grandparents were Matthew Stanley and 
"Nancy" (or Anne) (Quincy) Parker, the former 
son of Matthew^ Stanley Gibson and Anne (Rust) 



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Parker, and the latter daughter of Henry and 
Eunice (Xewell) (^uincy, and a niece of " Dorothy 
Q." who married John Hancock. His maternal 




FRANCIS S. PARKER. 

grandparents were Henry Baldwin Stone, son of 
Jonas and Lucretia (Baldwin) Stone, and Eliza- 
beth (Clapp) Stone, daughter of Ezra and Grace 
(Mather) Clapp. Mr. Parker was educated in 
private schools at Jamaica Plain, Mass. (now West 
Roxbury District, Boston) from 1869 to 1876, in 
G. W. C. Noble's private school, Boston, from 
1876 to 1882, and at Harvard College, which he 
entered in the autumn of 1882 with the class of 
1886. Leaving college to enter business in April, 
1885, he began as clerk in the office of Gay & 
Parker, Boston, wholesale coal merchants, and so 
continued until October, 1887, when the firm was 
incorporated as the Gay & Parker Company ; and 
he was elected clerk of the corporation and also a 
director. In August, 1889, he was elected presi- 
dent, still retaining the office of clerk, which posi- 
tions he still holds. Mr. Parker has been con- 
nected with the State militia for several years, 
first enlisting as a private in Company A, First 
Corps of Cadets, August 14, 1885, and serving 
until August 14, 1 888, when he was discharged. 
On April 21, 189 1, he was appointed sergeant 
and color-bearer on the staff of the Second Bri- 



gade, and on July 9, 1894, commissioned captain 
and engineer of the Second Brigade staff, which 
position he continues to occupy. While in college 
he was a director of the Harvard Co-operation 
Society, a steward from the class of 1886 for the 
Harvard Athletic Association, and secretary and 
for a short time assistant treasurer of the Harvard 
Boat Club. He also belonged to the Porcellian 
Club, the Hasty Pudding Club, the Delta Kappa 
Epsilon Society, Alpha Delta Phi Society, and 
the Rabbit Club. He is now a member of the 
Somerset, the Country, the Athletic, the Ex- 
change, and the Nahant clubs, and of the Mili- 
tary Service Institution of the United States. He 
was married in Boston, December 27, 1888, to 
Miss Harriet Amory Anderson. They have two 
children : John Stanley (born January 15, 1890) 
and William Amory Parker (born December 31, 
1892). Mr. Parker has been a resident of the 
town of Nahant since he became of age. 



PARKER, Frederick Wesley, of Boston, 
banker and broker, is a native of Boston, born 




F. W. PARKER. 



May 9, 1863, son of Jerome W. and Ann Eliza 
(Wright) Parker. He is of sturdy Revolutionary 
stock, his great-grandfathers on both sides having 



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677 



held commissions under Wasiiington ; and his 
paternal grandfather was with Ethan Allen at 
'I'iconderoga. He received a good common- 
school education. When he was a lad of fourteen, 
his father having met with business reverses, he 
was obliged to enter commercial life. Beginning 
at the lowest round of the ladder in the whole- 
sale millinery establishment of Davis, Roundy, 
& Cole, Boston, at si.xteen he was representing 
the firm " on the road.'' At the age of seventeen 
he went to New York, and there engaged with 
Bannberg, Hill, & Co., Broadway, in the same 
business, as commercial traveller for the house in 
the New England States. Not being satisfied 
with this business, although successful in his 
work, he left it after a few years, and, returning to 
Boston, took a minor clerkship in the banking 
and brokerage house of Perkins, Diipee, & Co., 
No. 40 State Street. He rose rapidly, and in 
1888 engaged in business on his own account, 
forming with Arthur \V. Sawyer and Hazen 
Clement the firm of Saw-yer, Clement, & Co. 
In 1892, Mr. Sawyer retiring, the firm be- 
came Clement, Parker, & Co., as at present. 
Their house is now at No. 53 Devonshire 
Street. Mr. Parker is a member of the Boston 
Stock Exchange. In Somerville, where he re- 
sides, he is a member of the Common Council, 
having been first elected for 1894, serving on the 
committees on finance and public property. He 
is also a director of the Somerville National 
Bank. He is connected with the Masonic fra- 
ternity, belonging to the John Abbott Lodge, 
the Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, the Orient 
Council, Somerville, and the De Molay Com- 
mandery, Boston ; and he is a member of the 
Exchange Club, Boston, and the Central Club, 
Somerville, a director of the latter. From 1885 
to 1 888 Mr. Parker was a member of the First 
Corps of Cadets. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. Mr. Parker was married June 15, 1887, 
to Miss Nellie Elizabeth Blodgett, of Cambridge. 
They have one child : Mildred Blodgett Parker 
(born March 22, 1889). 



Crammar School, and afterward attending the 
High School; and privately for four years, under 
the late Professor John B. Torricelli, following a 
general college cour.se. Then he entered the Bos- 
ton University Law School, and graduated there, 
a/w laiide, in June, 1888. He was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar on July 1 7 following, and immedi- 
ately opened his law office in Boston. Here he 
has since been established and engaged in gen- 
eral practice, more particularly connected with 
ci\il and probate matters. He was appointed a 
public administrator for Suffolk County April 29, 
1 89 1. He is a member of the lioston University 




J. N. PASTENE. 

Law School Alumni Association, and was presi- 
dent of that organization in 1894. In politics 
Mr. Pastene is a Democrat, but he has never en- 
tered public life. He was married in Boston, 
April 21, 1889, to Miss Pauline M. Ceppi. They 
have one child : Alexander Pastene (born July 
13, 1892). 



PASTENE, Joseph Nicholas, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, Octo- 
ber 3, 1863, son of Louis and Clara C. (Moltedo) 
Pastene. His parents were natives of Rapallo, 
province of Genoa, Italy. He was educated in 
Boston public schools, graduating from the Eliot 



PHIPPS, Walter Andrus, M.D., of Hopkin- 
ton, is a native of Hopkinton, born February 8, 
1854, son of Marcus C. and Amey (Wheelock) 
Phipps. He is a lineal descendant of Sir William 
Phipps, royal governor of Massachusetts in 1692. 
His education was attained at the West Newton 



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English and Classical School, at Phillips (Exeter) 
Academy, and at Amherst College, where he spent 
one year. He then studied medicine at Harvard 
Medical School, graduating in 1878. Immedi- 
ately after his graduation he settled in his native 
town, and has practised his profession there ever 
since. Dr. Phipps is a member of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society, of the Thurber Medical So- 
ciety, and of the Harvard Medical Alumni Asso- 
ciation. He was married February 3, 1880, to 



the winter seasons in the city, pursuing his profes- 
sion, and his summers on his farm in Peterbor- 





WALTER A. PHIPPS. 



CHAS. F. PIERCE. 

ough, N.H. His work is in numerous private 
collections ; and examples of it are also in the 
Boston Art Club, the Newton Club, and the Penn- 
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is a member 
of the Boston Art Club and of other art associa- 
tions in Boston. He was married August 3, 1876, 
to Miss Luena R. Wilder, of Peterborough, N.H. 



Miss Hattie Anna Corthell, of \\'hitman. They 
have three children : Marcus Lawrence, Mary 
Avis, and Roland Corthell Phipps. 



PIERCE, Charles Frank, of Boston, artist, is 
a native of New Hampshire, born in Hillsborough 
County in 1844, son of John A. and I'hila .\. 
(Warner) Pierce. He is of English ancestry. 
He was educated in the common schools. In 
1866, at the age of twenty-two, he came to Boston, 
and began the study of art under the best in- 
structors to be found at that time ; but the greater 
part of his art education was acquired through ob- 
servation and practice at home and in Europe, 
having studied abroad through the years 1878 and 
1879. Since his return to Boston he has spent 



PROCTOR, Thomas Emerson, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in South Danvers (now Peabody), 
Essex County, August 29, 1834; died in Boston, 
December 7, 1894. He was the son of Abel and 
Lydia Porter (Emerson) Proctor, both of early 
Essex ancestry. On his paternal side his ances- 
tors came from England about 1630 in the " Susan 
and Ellen"; and he was sixth in descent from 
John Proctor, the martyr to the "witchcraft delu- 
sion," and one of the last to be hanged on account 
of that superstition in Massachusetts. His mater- 
nal ancestor, John Emerson, was an early minister 
in Topsfield; and through this branch he was re- 
lated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, his great-grand- 
father and the latter's grandfather having been 
brothers. It was possibly through this connec- 



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tion that Mr. Proctor inherited his scholarly tastes, 
which even his extensive business affairs did not 
prevent his indulging. He was widely read, and 
had a large acquaintance with the best literature 
of the time. When having completed the ordinary 
public school course and prepared himself to enter 
college, his father's poor health obliged him to 
give up his college aspirations and enter the lat- 
ter's office, which was one of the great crosses of 
his life. At the age of eighteen he was made a 
full partner in the concern, which then became 
Abel Proctor iV- Son, with offices in Boston and 
tanneries at South Danvers. " War times '' created 
a demand for leather of which Mr. Proctor was 
quick to avail himself, this being in a large meas- 
ure the foundation of his subsequent fortune. 
About this time the firm's name was changed to 
Thomas E. Proctor. In 1887 Mr. Proctor organ- 
ized his affairs into a stock company, the Thomas 
E. Proctor Leather Company, which in turn was 
merged into the United States Leather Company 
(the Leather Trust) in 1893. Mr. Proctor was the 
master spirit of the trust, and it was his hand 
which steadied it through its various crises to a 
well-established basis. The fact that this great 
organization was launched successfully in a time 
of intense business depression emphasizes his 
wonderful executive ability, shrewdness, nerve, 
and grit. He was thoroughly self-reliant ; yet, 
while he pursued his occupation with great cour- 
age, his spirit of enterprise was blended with a 
conservatism that always kept him within the lines 
of safety. He seldom sought the counsel of his 
contemporaries, but felt perfectly competent to 
manage his own affairs, great as they came to be. 
For more than a generation the Proctor Tannery 
was a landmark in the town of Peabody and one 
of the chief industries of the place. He volunta- 
rily chose the quiet, unostentatious side of life, 
declining always the allurements of conspicuous 
public place. Political preferment was easily 
within his reach ; but, without abating one jot in 
his intensity of feeling on political issues or in 
true public spirit of the broader kind, he preferred 
the private station. In politics he was a Demo- 
crat, though not in any sense an aggressive poli- 
tician. His public offices were confined to the 
position of commissioner at large from Massachu- 
setts to the World's Columbian E.xhibition at 
Chicago in 1893, an appointment at the hands of 
President Harrison, and a trusteeship of the Mas- 
sachusetts General Hospital, in which institution 



he became intensely interested, as he was in every 
worthy practical movement for the welfare of 
Pioston, leaving it at his death the generous be- 
quest of $100,000 with which to erect a building 
for the care of the insane (of the McLean Asylum). 
He was a director of the P'-liot National Bank, a 
foremost member of the New England Shoe and 
Leather Association, and president of the United 
Electric Securities Company. A great capacity 
and love for work, a keen and accurate power of 
analysis, an ability to grasp and retain minutia', 
unflagging energy, and great tact were his fore- 
most characteristics. The most comple-x of busi- 



^^ 




THOMAS E. PROCTOR. 

ness problems were placed in orderly clearness 
under his keen analysis. His alert, retentive 
mind, his participation in many affairs, and his 
affable and unaffected manners made him a most 
agreeable companion. He was married in 1865 
to Miss Emily Howe, of New York, who survives 
him with two sons and tw'o daughters : James H., 
.\nne P. (Mrs. Charles G. Rice), Emily W., and 
Thomas E. Proctor, Jr. 



PUSHEE, John Clark, of Boston, manufact- 
urer, was born in Lansingburgh, Rensselaer 
County, N.Y., March 11, 1832, son of John and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Rosanna (Clark) Pushee. The Pushees were de- 
scendants of the Huguenots, and for nearly two 
hundred years lived at and near Littleton, Mass. ; 
and the Clarks were English, and among the early 
settlers of Rensselaer County, New York. He 
was educated in the common schools. Immedi- 
ately after leaving school he learned practical 
brush-making, and in 1864 established at Lansing- 
burgh the brush manufacturing business of which 
he has since been the head. He moved to Boston 
in December, 1879, the change being made to 
meet the demand for greater facilities, in order to 
keep pace with the increasing popularity of the 




J. C. PUSHEE. 

goods manufactured by him. The present factory, 
on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Randolph 
Street, covering an area of eighty-five hundred 
feet with a floor space of thirty-five thousand feet, 
was occupied in March, 1892. It is equipped 
with the most modern machinery, and a number 
of labor-saving devices not known on the market, 
which enable the firm to meet the requirements 
of their steadily increasing trade with a facility 
that few concerns of like manufacture possess. 
The motive power used is both steam and elec- 
tricity ; and two hundred and forty experienced 
hands are employed. The goods now manufact- 
ured are practical brushes for artists, painters, 



and varnishers ; and shaving brushes, of which 
the firm are also leading manufacturers. The 
present style of the firm, J. C. Pushee &: Sons, 
was adopted when Mr. Pushee's two sons, George 
D. and John E., were admitted to partnership. 
Each member of the firm has a practical knowl- 
edge of the business, and under their combined 
energy and skilful management its founder has 
the satisfaction of seeing it in the foremost posi- 
tion in its line of manufacture in the country. 
He is still in the prime of life, and with unim- 
paired energy devotes his mature skill and experi- 
ence to keeping his works abreast the times. 
While a resident of Lansingburgh Mr. Pushee was 
prominent in local affairs. For nine years, from 
1870 to 1879, he held the position of police com- 
missioner ; and he was a supervisor from 1874 to 
1877. He is a member of the Sans Souci Club 
of Lansingburgh, and of the Masonic lodge, 
Phttnix 58. In politics he is Republican. He 
was married November, 1853, to Miss Eliza 
Arnold Hunt, of Lansingburgh. They have three 
sons and two daughters : George Durant, John E., 
Elizabeth, Anna, and Leslie D. Pushee. 



RICHARDS, Dexter Nathan, of Boston, 
manufacturer, was born in Enfield, May 18, 1823, 
son of Ephraim and Susanna (Chenery) Richards. 
He is a descendant in the se\enth generation of 
Edward Richards, who came from England in the 
ship "Lion" in 1632, settled with his brother 
first in Cambridge, and in 1636 became one of 
tile proprietors of Dedham, and the sixty-second 
signer of the social compact. Edward Richards 
married Susan Hunting, daughter of Elder John 
Hunting of Watertown, and was one of the prin- 
cipal men of the new township of Dedham. De.x- 
ter N. was educated in common and private 
schools in his native town and at W'estfield Acad- 
emy, where he spent two years. At the age of 
eighteen he began business on his own account 
in a general merchandise store in the town of 
Prescott, which he successfully conducted for 
three years. Then he sold out, and came to 
Boston to settle an estate for Archibald D. Bab- 
cock, a relative. This accomplished, he entered 
the dry-goods jobbing house of H. Ammidown & 
Co. as a clerk, and two years later was admitted 
to the partnership. His connection with this 
house covered about eight years. He ne.xt be- 
came a member of a new firm under the name of 



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68 1 




F.dwards, Nichols, lV Richards, which succeeded years. His politics are Independent. Mr. Rich- 
Animidown eS; Co. This continued until 1867, ards was married October i8, 1859, to Miss 
and with marked success, Mr. Richards then Louise M. Appleton, of Boston, daughter of Ben- 
jamin B. and Catherine Appleton. They have 
had four children, two of whom are now living : 
Helen (now Mrs. William C. Hunneman) and 
Alice Appleton Richards. He resides in I-ong- 
wood, Brookline. 



RICHARDSON, \Vii.i,i..\.m SnEiin, M.I)., of 
Marlborough, is a native of Maine, born in the 
town of Woolwich, July 11, i860, son of the Rev. 
Martin Luther and Angeletta (Wilson) Richardson. 
He is of the ninth generation from Ezekiel Richard- 
son, of Charlestown, one of the first board of se- 
lectmen in 1634, serving four years, member of 
the General Court two years, and in 1640, with his 
two brothers and four other townsmen, appointed 
commissioner to found the new town of Woburn, 
where at the first election he was chosen a select- 
man and rechosen three years following. Nathan 
R., of the fourth generation, was also a selectman 
of Woburn for five successive years. Dr. Richard- 



DEXTER N. RICHARDS. 

retired, and spent a year and a half in foreign 
travel. Upon his return he entered the banking 
and note business. About two years later he 
turned his attention to manufacturing interests, 
taking the treasurership of the Bates Manufactur- 
ing Company of Lewiston, Me., which position 
he has held continuously ever since. He is also 
president of the Manchester Mills. Manchester, 
N.H., and of the Edwards Mills, Augusta, Me., 
and director of the Lewiston (Me.) Bleachery. 
He has been a director of the Dank of Redemp- 
tion, Boston, for about fifteen years, was long a 
trustee of the Penny Savings Bank, and was one 
of the original incorporators and is now a direc- 
tor of the Boston Electric Light Company. For 
thirty years or more he was connected as a di- 
rector with one of the oldest horse railroad com- 
panies in Boston. He has been trustee of many 
large estates during his long business career. In 
1888 he was one of the trustees for the sale of the 
Boston Gas Company. In religious faith he is 

a Unitarian, and has been aftiliated with the son graduated in the college preparatory course 
Rev. Dr. Edward E. Hale's church in Boston, and at the Hitchcock Free High School in lirimfield, 
a member of its standing committee for thirty Mass., and studied for his profession at the Har- 




W. S. RICHARDSON. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



yard Medical School, graduating in 1884. He 
began practice in Marlborough in December fol- 
lowing his graduation, and has since been actively 
engaged there. He has been a member of the 
city Board of Health for five years, serving as 
chairman of the board the last two years of this 
period. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, the Massachusetts Association 
of Boards of Health, the Harvard Alumni Associa- 
tion, and the Union Club : and is connected with 
the Knights of Pythias and the order of Red Men. 
Dr. Richardson was married May 12, 1892, to 
Miss Mary Hubbard Morse, of Marlborough. 
They have one son : Stephen Morse Richardson. 



several respects this observatory has served as 
a model for the Government Weather Bureau. 
Some of the self-recording instruments which had 
proved successful at Blue Hill were supplied to 
the government stations, and the international 
form of publication was used for the Blue Hill 
observations several years before it was adopted 
by the United States Weather Bureau. Local 
weather forecasts at Blue Hill proved superior to 
the general forecasts of the Signal Service, which 
ultimately adopted the former in many cities in 
connection with the issue, in these cities, of 
" cyclo style " weather maps, originated in Boston 



ROTCH, Abbott Lawrence, of Boston and 
Milton, was born in Boston, January 6, 1861. 
His ancestors on both sides were English, and 
were early settlers of New England, the Rotches, 
an old Quaker family, having founded the town of 
New Bedford. His father was Benjamin Smith 
Rotch ; and his mother, ncc Annie Bigelow Law- 
rence, was the daughter of the Hon. Abbott Law- 
rence, a prominent merchant of Boston, and at one 
time minister to England. A. Lawrence Rotch, 
after spending several years of his boyhood in 
Europe, prepared at Chauncy Hall School for 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 
whose department of mechanical engineering he 
graduated in 1884 with the degree of Batchelor of 
Science. By reason of property inherited from 
his father, he was not obliged to practise as an 
engineer, but was free to carry out a project of 
establishing a private meteorological observatory. 
In the autumn of 1884 the erection of this ob- 
servatory was begun upon Great Blue Hill, the 
highest point on the Atlantic coast south of New 
Hampshire, and hence well adapted for the study 
of atmospheric phenomena. Regular observa- 
tions were commenced February i, 1885, and 
have been continued until the present time. 
Three observers are now employed, and many 
self-recording instruments used, so that the Blue 
Hill Observatory has become one of the most 
complete and best known establishments of its 
kind in the world. The observations and investi- 
gations have been published annually in the 
" Annals of the Harvard College Observatory " ; 
and the former give the most detailed records of 
hourly values, including cloud observations, which 
have been published in the United States. In 




A. LAWRENCE ROTCH. 

by Messrs. Cole and Rotch, in 1886. In 1885 
and subsequent years Mr. Rotch visited most of 
the mountain meteorological stations of Europe 
and America. They were described in the Atneri- 
liin Meteorological Journal, as editor of which Mr. 
Rotch became associated with Professor M. W. 
Harrington in 1886. For several years he con- 
tributed to the financial support of the Journal, 
and is still an associate editor. In 1887 he ob- 
served the total solar eclipse in Russia with Pro- 
fessors Koeppen and Upton, and in 1S89 he again 
co-operated with the latter in a study of the 
meteorological phenomena attending the total 
solar eclipse in California. In 1893 he acconi- 



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panicd the Harvard College Observatory expedi- 
tion to Chile to observe another similar eclipse. 
During the summer of 18S9 he served on the in- 
ternational jury of awards for instruments of pre- 
cision at the Paris Exposition, and received from 
the French government for his services the deco- 
ration of chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He 
took part in the International Meteorological and 
Climatological Congresses held at I'aris during the 
Exposition, and during the winter of 1889-1890, 
with M. L. Teisserenc de Bort, he made magneti- 
cal and meteorological observations in the north- 
ern portion of the Algerian desert. In 1891 he 
delivered a course of lectures on " Mountain 
Meteorology " before the Lowell Institute of Bos- 
ton, and the same year the degree of Master of 
Arts was conferred upon him by Harvard Univer- 
sity, where he had already been appointed assist- 
ant at the Observatory. In August, 1891, Mr. 
Rotch attended, by invitation, the International 
Meteorological Conference held in Munich, and 
was appointed the American member of a commit- 
tee to report on a cloud atlas. He met with this 
committee at Upsala, Sweden, in August, 1894, 
when this report was presented to and accepted 
by the Permanent Committee. Mr. Rotch is 
a member of the German and French meteoro- 
logical societies, a fellow of the London Royal 
Meteorological Society, a councillor of the New 
England Meteorological Society, a corresponding 
member of the British Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and a fellow of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a 
member of the corporation of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, and a trustee, in behalf 
of that institution, of the Museum of Fine Arts, 
and is also a trustee of the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History. He belongs to several clubs in 
Boston, among them the Somerset and St. Bo- 
tolph, to the LTniversity Club of New York, and 
to the Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C. He 
was married in 1893 at Savannah, Ga., to Miss 
Margaret Randolph Anderson, a lineal descendant 
of President 'I'homas Jefferson, and has one 
daughter. 

SAWYER, Edward, of Boston, civil engineer, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Warner, 
June 24, 1828, son of Jacob and Laura (Bartlett) 
Sawyer. He is of English ancestry, a descendant 
in the eighth generation of William Sawyer, who 
probably was born in England about the year 



1613, and subsequently lived in or near what is 
now West Newbury, Mass. The name is often 
spelled " Saver " in old records. On the mater- 
nal side he is a descendant of Richard Bartlett, 
who came from England to "Old Newbury" in 
1634. His education was acquired in common 
and high schools. He lived on the New Hamp- 
shire farm and assisted in the farm work until 
he reached the age of fifteen years. During the 
last five years of his minority he spent more than 
half of his time out of school, acquiring practical 
working acquaintance with manufacturing and 
mechanical operations in the mills and shops at 




EDWARD SAWYER. 

Manchester, N.H. \ little later he was head 
draughtsman for a year or more at the Amoskeag 
Machine Shop, then engaged in making locomo- 
tives, textile, and other machinery. He then 
began at the bottom of the ladder in railroad en- 
gineering on the construction of the Manchester 
& Lawrence Railroad, under Samuel Nott, civil 
engineer. For a few years after that he was 
assistant engineer on surveys and construction 
of several railroads in New England and the 
West. In 1854 he came to Boston, and entered 
the office of the late Uriah A. Boyden, the emi- 
nent engineer and scientist. He remained with 
Mr. Boyden most of the time for the next eight 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



years, but gradually worked into business on his 
own account, mainly in hydraulic and mill en- 
gineering. He was sole expert for the Assabet 
Company in important and successful fiowage liti- 
gation, and later was engaged in many other 
cases. In 1869 he entered into a copartnership 
with J. Herbert Shedd, civil engineer, under which 
he managed their combined business in Boston, 
while Mr. Shedd was engaged on the water supply 
and sewerage works of Providence, R.I., and in 
similar work in other places. This partnership 
continued with entire harmony for about fifteen 
years. At its beginning, in 1869, very few places 
had any public water supply or anything worthy 
to be called a system of sewerage. But majorities 
of voters were beginning to turn in favor of obtain- 
ing public water supplies. The most important 
factor in securing such majorities was that the 
engineers should find sources of supply, of good 
quality, and large enough for many years in the 
future, and should design works which could be 
built and operated at small cost. In most cases 
several different schemes were proposed ; and it 
was often difficult to satisfy a majority of the 
voters that any one was the best, due weight 
being given to considerations of quality and quan- 
tity, present and future, and cost. In this work 
Mr. Sawyer took a leading and useful part. For 
the municipalities around Boston on the west and 
south the difficulties were especially great. Cam- 
bridge had a supply from Fresh Pond which was 
not very satisfactory in any respect. Charlestown 
had just taken a supply from the upper Mystic 
Pond, which soon proved disappointing, and be- 
came a source of almost constant anxiety both as 
to quantity and quality. Mr. Sawyer was an inter- 
ested observer from the outside of these move- 
ments, and foresaw much of their unsatisfactory 
outcome. He appreciated the difficulties of the 
situation, turned his thoughts to the solution of 
the problems involved, and was soon called upon 
to take a prominent part either as consulting or 
chief engineer for many places around Boston and 
elsewhere. There was a common notion that the 
water of ponds was better than that of streams. 
The State Board of Health, then recently estab- 
lished, took up this matter with more zeal than 
discretion, and advocated this notion for several 
years, with a plentiful lack both of good observa- 
tion and good reasoning. The truth is that toler- 
ably good supplies of water can be obtained witii 
care and skill from some ponds and some streams. 



and that other ponds and streams are of various de- 
grees of badness from objectionable to positively 
unfit. The board listed many ponds, presumably 
as possible sources of supply, in which the water 
was poor or bad, also many with yields insuffi- 
cient for the wants of any town of moderate size. 
The board had among its members medical men 
of high reputation ; but it ought not to have 
undertaken to advise upon the whole question 
of sources of water supply without the aid of good 
engineering knowledge and skill, such as later 
boards have had. These bygone errors of judg- 
ment are mentioned to show some of the diffi- 
culties against which the sanitary engineers of 
twenty-five years ago had to contend, and did 
contend successfully. Engineering investigation 
soon showed that for the southerly and westerly 
parts of the Metropolitan District pond supply 
was impracticable for various reasons of quality, 
quantity, and cost ; and the common sense of the 
people soon began to accept this conclusion, 
though in some places this followed later after 
acrimonious discussion. After careful consider- 
ation Mr. Sawyer came to the opinion that suffi- 
cient supplies of ground water, equivalent to 
spring water of the best quality, hence much bet- 
ter than good pond water, — like the Cochituate, 
for instance, — could be obtained at moderate costs 
by means of basins or galleries to be made in the 
gravels and sands alongside of and underlying 
Charles River. Many objections to such schemes 
were urged by different parties, all of which had 
been anticipated and given due weight, as the 
results proved. This way of obtaining water on 
a large scale had been adopted before in several 
places in this country and abroad ; but it is beset 
with many uncertainties, and not unfrequently the 
results have been far from satisfactory. The 
adoption and successful working of this method 
proved to be of incalculable value for the muni- 
cipalities along Charles River. Mr. Sawyer has 
continued to give much attention to manufactur- 
ing and the branches of engineering more directly 
connected therewith. He has designed, organ- 
ized, and built some of the largest, best, and most 
successful mills in the country, notably for the 
Chicopee Company, the Arlington Company, and 
the Boston Rubber Shoe Company. In 1872 he 
inaugurated something of a new departure in the 
building of the Chicopee Mill, No. i, demonstrat- 
ing that a mill about one hundred feet wide could 
easily be well lighted from the sides, — better, in 



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685 



fact, tlian llif old nurrow mills usually were, — and 
could be operated with great convenience, effi- 
ciency, and economy. He has frequently been 
called upon to advise on cjuestions of difficult or 
doubtful constructions, of strength of materials, 
stability of foundations, etc. For the last few 
years a large part of his time has been devoted 
to the different manufacturing businesses in which 
he is interested ; but he still does considerable 
work for some of his old friends and clients, and 
he retains the position of engineer to the Union 
Water Power Company of Lewiston, Me. Mr. 
Sawyer has been a voluminous writer of profes- 
sional reports, and has written a few papers for 
publication. He has made or partly completed 
many investigations in regard to matters of general 
engineering interest, some of which he hopes to 
complete and publish. He is glad to be able to 
believe that he has done his share in maintaining 
the honor and interests of the profession by pains- 
taking work, by insisting upon something like fair 
remuneration for services, while urging upon the 
public the great truth that there is nothing which 
is more profitable to the employer than good en- 
gineering, and finally by helping to maintain the 
high standard of integrity which e.xisted among 
the honored and beloved chiefs of the profession 
when he came into it. Mr. Sawyer has never 
desired public office ; and the only position of this 
sort which he has held has been that of member 
of the City Council of Newton, where he now 
resides. He has always been a Republican in 
politics, but has occasionally bolted whenever he 
thought there was good reason for such action. 
He is a member of the Tuesday Club of Newton, 
a literary organization, and has been its president 
for several years. He was married February, 
1864, to Miss Frances E. Everett, of Charlestown, 
a descendant of Richard Everett, who came from 
England, and settled in Dedham, Mass., in 1636. 
They have one child : Frances Sawyer Pratt (born 
June 18, 1865), married to Herbert G. Pratt, of 
Newton. 

SEDGWICK, Henkv Dwkiht, of Stockbridge, 
member of the bar, is a native of Stockbridge, 
born August 16, 1824, son of Henry Dvvight and 
Jane (Minot) Sedgwick. He was seventh in 
direct descent from Major-General Robert Sedg- 
wick, who came to this country in 1636, and was 
appointed by Cromwell to the supreme command 
in the island of Jamaica. His paternal grand- 



father was Theodore Sedgwick, a member of the 
Continental Congress and of the first Congress 
under the Federal Constitution, speaker of the 
National House of Representatives, and judge of 
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. His ma- 
ternal grandfather was Judge George Richards 
Minot, the historian of the Shays Rebellion and of 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Sedg- 
wick was prepared for college at a private school in 
Stockbridge under the care of the Rev. Dr. S. P. 
Parker; was educated at Harvard, and graduated 
in 1843. He was admitted to the bar of New 
York State three years later, and practised law 




H. D. SEDGWICK. 

there alone and in partnership with the late 
James H. Storrs upwards of forty years. In 1868 
he published with voluminous notes the fourth 
edition of " Sedgwick on Damages." This work 
was written by the late Mr. Theodore Sedgwick in 
1847, and the third edition, which had appeared 
in 1858, had been out of print for some years. 
A fifth edition, substantially a republication of the 
fourth, followed within a year; and in 1874 ap- 
peared under his editorship a si.xth edition, with 
copious original additions. In 1878 he published 
in an imperial octavo Sedgwick's Leading Cases 
on Damages. Mr. Sedgwick has delivered nu- 
merous occasional addresses, among which may 
be mentioned that on the dedication of the sol- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



diers' monument in Stockbridge in 1866; "The 
Relation and Duty of tlie Lawyer to the State," 
delivered before the Law School of the University 
of New York in 1872; and "The I,ayman's De- 
mand on the Ministry," read before the Na- 
tional Conference of Unitarian Churches in Sep- 
tember, 18S0. He has never entered into poli- 
tics, but has devoted himself to his profession and 
a domestic and literary life. Through retaining 
an office in New York City, he has within the past 
few years retired from active professional practice, 
and established his legal residence in the town of 
his birth in this Commonwealth. With the excep- 
tion of the secretaryship of the New York Law 
Listitute, the only offices he has held have been 
in local and village organizations. He is at pres- 
ent president of the Laurel Hill Association (the 
village improvement society of Stockbridge), pres- 
ident of the Library Association of Stockbridge, 
and president of the Stockbridge Casino. He 
was one of the founders of the Union League 
Club of New York City, and is a member of the 
University and Century clubs of that city and 
of the Colonial .Society of Massachusetts. He 
has lately resigned from the New York Historical 
Society and the Harvard Club of New York, of 
both of which he had been many years a member. 
Li politics he was originally a Free Soil Demo- 
crat, afterwards an Independent Republican, and 
later became an Independent Democrat. Mr. 
Sedgwick was married October 15, 1857, to Miss 
Henrietta EUery Sedgwick. Their children are : 
Henry Dwight, Jr., the Rev. Theodore, Jane 
Minot, Alexander, and Ellery Sedgwick. 



graduated there in March, 1877. The following 1 
August he came to Great Barrington, and at once f ' 
entered upon the practice of his profession. In 



SMALL, Whitmell Plkih, M.D., of Great 
Barrington, is a native of North Carolina, born 
in Washington, Beaufort County, December 29, 
1850, son of John H. and Sallie A. (Sanderson) 
Small. On the paternal side he is descended 
from early settlers in Chowan County, N.C., who 
were prominent as large planters in that section 
of the State, and on the maternal side is of early 
Scotch stock, from which have come many who 
have been prominent in the affairs of state politi- 
cally and otherwise. He was educated in his 
native town, and began the study of medicine in 
1873 under the preceptorship of David S. Tayloe, 
M.D., a physician of considerable local renown. 
Subsequently he entered the medical department 
of the University of the City of New York, and 




W. p. SMALL. 

November, 18S3, he returned to his old home in 
North Carolina, and practised there for two years, 
until October, 1885. Then, coming back to 
Great Barrington, he has since remained here, en- 
gaged in general practice. From March, 1887, to 
March, 1893, he was chairman of the Great Bar- 
rington Board of Health ; and he has been medical 
examiner for the Fourth Berkshire District since 
189 1, appointed June 30 that year. He has 
taken an active part in affairs of the town, and is 
now secretary of the Great Barrington Board of 
Trade. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, of the Massachusetts Medico- 
legal Society, and of the Medical Society of the 
State of North Carolina. In politics Dr. Small 
has always been a Democrat, but independent 
rather than party bound. In religion he is an 
Episcopalian, and holds the position of treasurer 
of the St. James Episcopal Church, Great Barring- 
ton. He was married November 17, 1881, to 
Miss Elizabeth M. Ray, daughter of Guy C. and 
Anna M. Ray, her father a man of sterling integ- 
rity, a soldier in the Forty-ninth Massachusetts 
Regiment, who gave his life to the Ihiion cause. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



687 



;aml her mother the daughler of parents who came 
from England in 1820. They have four sons: 
(aiy Carleton, John Sanderson, Ray Moore, and 
Robert. Dr. Small resides on Castle Street in a 
new and modern house, completed in 1894. 



STODDKR, Charles Frederick, of Boston, 
manufacturer, is a native of Boston, born Au- 
i;ust 30, 1859, son of Frederick Mortimer and 
Eliza Parker (Kimball) Stodder. On the paternal 
side he is of the Hingham Stodders, dating back 
to 1649 ; and on the maternal side he is from the 
Kimballs, of Bradford. His education was ac- 
quired in the public schools ; and he graduated 
from the old Eliot School, Boston, in 1872, and 
the High School, Somerville. He began his 
business career in 1876 as a clerk with Masury, 
Young, & Co., wholesale oil house, and remained 
with this house until 1884. Then the following 
year he became connected with the India Al- 
kali Works as manager, and has since been de- 
\ oted to this business. He continued as manager 
until 1887, and was then vice-president and man- 




CHAS. F. STODDER. 

ager until 1892, when he became president and 
general manager. The company deals in heavy 
chemicals ; but the larger part of its business 



at the present time is the manufacture of " Savo- 
gran," an article used extensively among the 
textile mills, both woollen and cotton, by the va- 
rious city corporations in the country, the 
United States Departments, and in institutions 
and office buildings. It was adopted and used 
exclusively by the World's Fair Commission in 
1893. The company has agencies in Chicago, 
Denver, and San F'rancisco. Mr. Stodder is a 
member of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, of the Boston Athletic Association, and 
of the Central Club of Somerville. He was 
married November 26, 1889, to Miss Helen 
de Forrest Carpenter, only child of the Rev. 
C. C. Carpenter. 



THAYER, Charles -Nathaxiel, M.D., of 
Falmouth, was born in Attleborough, November 
26, 1828, son of Simeon and Polly (Fuller) 
Thayer. He is on both sides of English stock. 
His grandfather, Nathaniel Thayer, served in the 
Revolutionary War for six years, was wounded 
and died from his wounds ; and his father was in 
the War of 18 12. His maternal grandfather, 
Isaac Fuller, was a descendant of Dr. Samuel 
Fuller, whose name is enrolled on the monument 
to the Pilgrims at Plymouth ; and his grand- 
mother, Huldah Fuller, was an Alden of the Pil- 
grim family. His childhood was passed in the 
town of Mansfield, where he received a public- 
school education. He began active life as a com- 
mercial agent, travelling through most of the 
States and the British Provinces. Afterward he 
was for six years in the lumber business, for a 
while established in Pembroke, then in Hanover, 
and later in Hanson. During this time he sup- 
plied the late Mr. Forristall, then superintendent 
of streets in Boston, with lumber, and in 1863 
sold lumber to the government for battery car- 
riages. In the autumn of 1862 he joined the 
army, enlisting on September 20 in Company 
I, Fourth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. 
He was immediately appointed first sergeant and 
company clerk, and in these positions served 
to the end of his term. He was in the battles 
of Camp Bisland, Clinton Four Corners, Port 
Hudson, and Brashear City, and a number of 
skirmishes, in the department of the Gulf, under 
General Banks, and with his regiment saw much 
hard service. The regiment was discharged Au- 
gust 28, 1863 ; and upon his return to the North 



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he began the study of medicine. His studies Club. Dr. Thayer has inherited nianv of the 
were pursued with E. R. Sission, M.I)., at the traits of his Puritan ancestors, among them per- 
time a prominent physician of New Bedford, and severance, energy, and indomitable will, which 

have enabled him to overcome obstacles and 
achieve success. As a physician, he has been 
more than ordinarily successful, holding a large 
practice for many years, until his health failed. 
He is a self-made, self-educated man, fond of 
study and of scientific research, enjoying debate, 
social and genial in his nature, keeping in touch 
with the age. During the winter of 1894-95 he 
■jM.UiW attended a course of lectures at Boston Univer- 

^^ r t H^' ^''-y* '^^hs''^ h^s son is a student. Dr. Thayer was 

'ii married January 12, 1873, to Miss Zibbie S. Hew- 

ins. They have one son : William H. Thayer. 





THOMPSON, John Joseph, MT)., of Web- 
ster, is a native of Webster, born February 9, 
1859, son of Richard and Bridget (Farrell) 
Thompson. His father settled in Webster in 
1849. H's early education was obtained in the 
public schools of his native place, and he was 
fitted for college at Nichols Academy, in Dudley. 



CHAS. N. THAYER. 

in Boston, where he attended a course of medical 
lectures. He entered upon the practice of his 
profession in January, 1869, opening an oflice in 
Falmouth, and within a comparatively short time 
had established an extensive lucrative business. 
In 1875 he started a drug and fancy-goods store 
in Falmouth, which became one of the largest in 
the county. When living in Pembroke, he was 
a representative for the town in the Massachu- 
setts House of Representatives, serving through 
the winter of 1855. In politics he has always 
been a Republican, and before the war he was 
an officer of the " underground railroad " for the 
aid of slaves seeking freedom. He was an active 
member of the Sons of Temperance for several 
years, serving some time as worthy patriarch and 
as deputy grand worthy patriarch. He joined 
the Masonic fraternity in 1877, and acted for 
nine years as secretary of Marine Lodge, the 
charter of which dates back to 1798. He was a 
charter member of B. F. Jones Post, Grand Army 
of the Republic, and commander of the post for 
years. He is a member also of the Republican 
Club of Falmouth and of the Succanasset Social 




J. J. THOMPSON. 



Entering Holy Cross College, Worcester, he grad- 
uated there in 1882. He began the study of 
medicine two years later at the Jeflferson Medical 



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689 



College in I'hiladelphia, and graduated with the 
class of 1887. He has been engaged in active 
practice since his graduation, established in Web- 
ster. He holds the position of town physician, 
entering in 1895 on his fourth term; and he is 
medical examiner for the lien Franklin Council, 
Royal .\rcanuni, and the Metropolitan Life In- 
surance Company. He is a member of Ben 
Franklin Council, Royal Arcanum, and of the An- 
cient Order of Hibernians. He is unmarried. 



HoUingsworth, the firm being appointed manager 
for the Middlesex County and Seaboard depart- 
ment of Massachusetts of the Home Life Insur- 



TOBEY, Edward Silas, of Boston, insurance 
broker, is a native of Boston, born September 24, 
1855, second son of the late Hon. Edward S. 
Tobey and Hannah Brown (Sprague) Tobey. 
He is descended from Rev. Samuel Tobey, Judge 
Tobey, and Silas Tobey, all of Berkeley. His 
paternal ancestry also is traced back directly to 
Dr. Samuel Fuller and John and Priscilla Alden, 
of the "Mayflower." On the maternal side he 
descends through the Hon. Phineas Sprague and 
the Hon. Seth Sprague from Francis Sprague, 
who came from England in the ship " Anne " in 
1623. He received a private-school education in 
Boston, and an early mercantile training in the 
Boston wholesale house of A. T. Stewart & Co., 
of New York. In April, 1876, he was appointed 
private secretary to his father, who was then post- 
master of Boston, and was in 1883 promoted to 
the assistant postmastership, which office he filled 
to the highest satisfaction of both the government 
and the public, originating and establishing nu- 
merous new features in the department, and so 
systematizing the work as greatly to facilitate the 
service. One distinctly novel feature, especially 
beneficial to the public, which he introduced was 
that of forw-arding to their destination, at his own 
personal expense, letters which had been held for 
postage instead of sending them to the "dead 
letter office" at Washington. Such letters aver- 
aged about one hundred and fifty a day. l^pon 
the retirement of the postmaster in 1887, by 
President Cleveland, Mr. Tobey, after eleven 
years in the postal service under five Presidents 
and nine postmaster-generals, resigned, and took 
up the sale of Western investment securities and 
connnercial paper, in which he was largely suc- 
cessful. In 1892 he associated himself with the 
New York Life Insurance Company, and a year 
and a half later formed a partnersiiip with Mark 
HoUingswiirlh, under the firm name of Tobey iS: 




E. S. TOBEY. 

ance Company of New York, in which business 
it is still successfully engaged. Mr. Tobey is a 
member of the Massachusetts Society of Sons of 
the Revolution, of the Republican Club of Massa- 
chusetts, of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 
Protective Association, its secretary for six years, 
and of the Boston Club. He has never taken 
an especially active interest in politics, but has 
always been a staunch Republican. He is un- 
married, and resides with his mother in Brookline. 



TRAIN, Charles Ru.ssell, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the bar, Congressman, and attorney-general 
of the Commonwealth, for forty years taking a 
prominent part in political affairs, both local and 
national, was born in Framinghara, October i8, 
1817; died in North Conway, N.H., July 29, 
1885. He was a son of the Rev. Charles and 
Hepzibah (Harrington) Train. His father was a 
native of Weston, born January 7, 1783, son of 
Deacon Samuel and Deborah (Savage) Train, 
and became a Baptist clergyman in 1804. He 
died September 17, 1847. Charles R. Train re- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ceived his early education in the common schools 
of his native place, and was fitted for college at 
the Framinghani Academy, meanwhile working on 
his father's farm until he reached the age of 
fifteen. He entered Brown University in his si.x- 
teenth year, and graduated in 1837. He taught 
school until 1840, when he began his law studies, 
entering the Dane (now the Harvard) Law School. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in August, 
1841, and, returning to Framingham, there en- 
gaged actively in the practice of his profession. 
Subsequently he received at the hands of his 
fellow-citizens all the offices of the town that from 




CHARLES R. TRAIN. 

time to time he could accept. In 1847 '1"^ 1848 
he represented Framingham in the Legislature ; 
and in the summer of the latter year he was ap- 
pointed by Governor George N. Briggs attorney 
for the Northern District, a position which he 
held until 1851. In 1852 he was appointed by 
President Fillmore an associate justice of the 
Supreme Court of the LTnited States in Oregon, 
but declined the appointment. He was again 
attorney for the Northern District during 1853- 
55. He was a delegate to the State Constitu- 
tional Convention in 1853, and member of the 
Executive Council in 1857 and 1858, a member 
of Congress from 1857 to 1863. In September, 



1862, immediately after the second battle of Bull 
Run, he volunteered upon the staff of his friend, 
Brigadier-General George H. Gordon, then com- 
manding a division in Banks's Corps, and served 
as assistant adjutant-general, taking part in the 
battle of Antietam : and he resigned in season to 
resume his seat in the second session of the 
Thirty-seventh Congress. In 1864 he was a del- 
egate to the National Republican Convention. 
He removed to Boston not long after his retire- 
ment from Congress, and in the years 1S67 and 
1868 served in the Common Council of the city 
and as a member of the Water Board. In 1870 
and 187 1 he was a representative for Boston in 
the Legislature, serving as chairman of the com- 
mittee on the judiciary. In the mean time Mr. 
Train had devoted himself to his profession, and 
had acquired a large and lucrative practice. In 
the annual election of 187 1 he was chosen attor- 
ney-general of the Commonwealth, and thereafter 
was elected every year until 1879, when he de- 
clined further service, and resumed practice. 
During his incumbency of the attorney-general- 
ship he conducted the trial of several capital 
cases, the Piper case, the Alley case, and the 
Costley case being among those which are best 
known. As a criminal lawyer he unquestionably 
stood at the head of his profession, while as an 
attorney in civil cases he ranked among the most 
eminent lawyers in the State. His principal con- 
tribution to legal literature was " Precedents of 
Indictments, Special Pleas, etc., Adapted to 
American Practice,'" which he published in 1855, 
jointly with Franklin F. Head. He held numer- 
ous offices of trust other than political. He was 
junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Massachusetts Freemasons and a member of the 
De Molay Encampment. In religious faith he 
was an Episcopalian, and for many years was a 
member of the vestry of St. Paul's Church, Bos- 
ton. His club affiliations were with the Union 
and St. Botolph clubs. Mr. Train was twice 
married, first, October 27, 1841, to Miss Mar- 
tha A. Jackson, of Ashland; and second, June 14, 
1869, to Miss Sarah M. Cheney, of Boston. He 
had si.x children : four sons and two daughters. 



TREWORGY, William Harris, of Boston, 
lumber merchant, is a native of Maine, born in 
the town of Surry, October 17, 185 1, son of Will- 
iam G. and Nancy (Jarvis) Treworgy. The Tre- 



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691 



\vorg)'s raiiic to this country from Cornwall, I'.ng- 
land, in 1636. His mother is a descendant of the 
Head family of Boston on her mother's side. 
When he was but a boy. his father, a sea captain, 
was wrecked, and perished during a heavy gale. 
His early education was acquired at the Surry 
town school, which he attended until he reached 
the age of thirteen, after which he was a pupil in 
the lUicksport (Me.) Seminary, and later at the 
Hebron (Me.) Academy. Early in life he set 
about earning his own living, beginning acti\e 
work in a general country store at Orland, Me. 
This occupation, however, was too narrow for his 
ambition ; and he soon started out into the 
broader world, his stock in trade being good 
liealth and pluck. Coming to Massachusetts at 
the age of eighteen, he found employment in an 
extensive furniture factory in Haverhill. After 
three years spent there, during which time he 
developed marked ability as a salesman, he came 
to Boston, and shortly after engaged in the whole- 
sale lumber business. He was then but twenty- 
two years of age, and without capital, though well 
equipped in other respects, having e.\perience, 
energy, and capacity, ^^'ith this business he has 
ever since been identified, and he has been in 
his present location for twenty-one years. At first 
he formed a partnership with Henry M. Clark, a 
practical lumber man, and engaged in selling in 
the East on commission white pine cut in Michi- 
gan. In less than a year Mr. Treworgy had 
so grasped the details of the business that he be- 
came not only a successful seller of lumber, but 
a shrew^d buyer. The partnership of Clark &: 
I'reworgy continued for two years, during which 
time a large amount of lumber was handled by 
the firm, and its trade was most prosperous. In 
the autumn of 1876 Mr. Treworgy formed a sec- 
ond partnership with A. C. Putnam, then of Dav- 
enport, under the firm name of Putnam & Tre- 
worgy, which had a prosperous career of five 
years, during each year of which period the sales 
and profits showed a steady increase, the last 
year amounting to over $800,000. In 1881 this 
firm was dissolved by the failure of Mr. Putnam's 
health, Mr. Treworgy purchasing his partner's 
interest, since which time he has conducted the 
business alone. His average yearly sales since 
his assumption of the entire control of the busi- 
ness have exceeded $500,000. Until 1S89 or 
1890 his specialty was hard woods from Indiana. 
Thereafter his operations included high grade 



lumber grown in Kentucky and Tennessee. His 
operations in white pine have been mostly con- 
fined to the purchase of entire cuts of leading 
manufacturers in Michigan and Wisconsin. He 
has built up his trade through correspondence and 
without the employment of salesmen in the mar- 
ket, retaining his patrons through the reputation 
he has earned of not shipping anything but the 
best qualities of lumber. Of late years he has 
invested much of his surplus in valuable real 
estate, and now owns a number of pieces of 
property yielding a good annual income and 
steadily increasing in value. Mr. Treworgy mar- 




W. H. TREWORvji 

ried Miss Emma Croft, of the Roxbury District, 
Boston, a native of Boston. They have three 
daughters : Bessie Warren (sixteen years), Marion 
Croft (thirteen years), and Helen Howard Tre- 
worgy (ten years.) 



USHER, S.\.MUEL, of Boston, printer, was born 
in New Brunswick, July 9, 1855, son of Daniel 
and Jane (Simon) Usher. He was educated in 
the public schools of St. John. In 1871 he came 
to Boston, and entered the printing business, with 
which he has ever since been identified. In 1S81 
he formed a partnership with Edward O. Stanley, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



under the tirm name of Stanley .S: Usher, for the 
prosecution of the book and job printing business 
at No. 299 Washington Street. Mr. Usher was 




is also a trustee of the North Avenue Savings 
Bank. In politics he is a Repubhcan, but has 
never held nor sought public office. He was mar- 
ried October 21, 1880, to Miss Ella J. Shaw, daugh- 
ter of the late Dan. Shaw, of Cambridge. They 
have one son : Kenneth Shaw Usher. Mr. Usher 
resides in Cambridge, and is prominent in the North 
Avenue Congregational Church, having been the 
chairman of its prudential committee for several 
years. 

VAUGHAN, Francis Walks, of Doston, libra- 
rian of the Social Law Library, was born in Hal- 
lowell, Me., June 5, 1833, son of Charles and 
Mary Susan (Abbot) Vaughan. His great-grand- 
father, Samuel Vaughan, was a London merchant 
and \\'est India planter, whose son Charles, born 
in England, came to this country in 1786, was for 
some years a merchant in Boston, and after- 
ward removed to Hallowell. His mother was a 
daughter of the Rev. Dr. Abiel Abbot, of Beverly, 
a descendant of George Abbot, of Andover, who 
came to this country from England about 1640. 
He was fitted for college partly at the Hallowell 



SAMUEL USHER. 



the practical man of the concern, and under his 
excellent management the firm very soon gained 
prominence for the quality of its work. Owing to 
the rapid increase of its business, it was in a short 
time found necessary to seek larger quarters ; and 
in 1883 the office was moved to No. 171 Devon- 
shire Street, its present location. In 1888 Mr. 
Stanley withdrew, and the business has since 
been conducted by Mr. Usher alone, in his own 
name. As a result of his wise conduct and his 
thorough knowledge of details, the business has 
enjoyed uninterrupted growth until it now ranks 
among the largest in the city. Mr. L'sher is a 
member of the Master Printers' Club of Boston, 
and was its treasurer for several years ; is a 
member of the Boston Congregational and Cam- 
bridge Congregational clubs (vice-president of 
the latter in 1894), and of the Colonial Club of 
Cambridge. For eight years he was treasurer 
of the Congregational Sunday School Superintend- 
ents" LTnion of Boston and vicinity, and is at 
present its president; and he is a director of the 
Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association 
and of the Boston Seaman's Friend Societv. He 




FRANCIS W. VAUGHAN. 



Academy, partly at the Hopkins Classical School 
in Cambridge, whither his father had removed in 
1847. He entered Harvard College in 1849, and 



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693 



graduated in 1S53. After spending a year in liic 
Harvard Law School, he entered the office of 
Henry Vose, of Springfield, afterward a justice 
of the Superior Court, with whom he remained 
for fifteen months. Completing his studies in the 
office of George M. Browne, of Boston, he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in December, 1856, and 
opened an office in fioston, but practised only a 
few months. From July, 1857, to the winter of 
1861-62, he was employed as civil assistant and 
computer by Captain A. A. Humphreys and Lieu- 
tenant H. L. Abbot, of the Corps of Topograph- 
ical Engineers, LT.S.A., in Washington, being 
engaged upon work connected with the Pacific 
Railroad Surveys and the so-called Mississippi 
Delta Survey. On the appointment of Major 
Humphreys as chief topographical engineer of 
the Army of the Potomac in 1862, he accom- 
panied him to the Peninsula as civil assistant, 
and remained with him and with the officers who 
succeeded him till 1S64. Spending two years in 
\\'ashington, he returned to Pjoston in 1866, and 
in January, 1870, was appointed to the position 
— which he still holds — of librarian of the Social 
Law Library, succeeding James Boyle, whose ser- 
vice of forty years had been terminated by his 
sudden death. This library, now one of the best 
law libraries of New England, was founded in 
1S04 by some of the most eminent lawyers of 
that day ; and its present membership includes 
the leading men at the Suffolk bar. Within the 
past twenty-five years the number of proprietors 
and annual subscribers has increased from two 
hundred and fifty to eight hundred and fifty, and 
the number of volumes from ten thousand to more 
than twenty-seven thousand. Mr. Vaughan has 
never held office other than that of librarian, and 
has never married. He is a member of the P)ar 
Association of the City of Boston, of the Boston 
Library Society, the Bostonian Society, the Har- 
vard Musical Association, the Harvard Law School 
Association, and the Colonial Club, Cambridge. 



WALES, Geor(;e Oliver, of Boston, iron mer- 
chant, was born in Braintree, April i, 1S48, son 
of George and Isabella C. (Moulton) Wales. He 
was educated in the public schools of Braintree, 
graduating from the High School. Choosing a 
mercantile career, he came to Boston in 1867, and 
began as entry clerk for the wholesale millinery 
house of Sleeper, Fisk, & Co. From this modest 



position he soon worked his way up to that of 
book-keeper. After a service of three years here 
he became book-keeper in the wholesale leather 
house of .\lbert Thompson & Co. A year later, 
in 1871, then twenty-three years of age, he left 
that occupation, and started in business for him- 
self, establishing in a small way the house of 
George O. Wales iV Co., which has since grown to 
large proportions, and become widely known in 
the iron trade. Beginning with the New England 
agency of several Pennsylvania iron mills, the 
house now represents many of the largest and 
most important of the iron mills of that region. 




GEO. O. WALES. 

Its specialties are steel and iron plates and sheets, 
boiler tubes, boiler tank and stack rivets, steam, 
gas, and water pipe, and corrugated sheet iron. 
Mr. Wales still resides at Braintree, where he has a 
beautiful estate, comprising twenty well-cultivated 
acres. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society and of the Boston Art, Algon- 
quin, and Exchange clubs. He was married No- 
vember 9, 1870, to Miss A. F. P. Howard, of 
Braintree. They have five children : George H., 
Ernest de Wolfe, Mary H., Louise F.. and Na- 
thaniel ]!. Wales. The elder son is in business 
with his father, and the second son is a student 
at Harvard College. Mrs. Wales died in 1886. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



WASHBURN, Nathan, of Middlt-borough, 
special justice of the Fourth District Court of 
Plymouth, is a native of Middleborough, born 




Governor Russell, contending that there should 
be some ])emocratic judges in the State, refused 
to appoint him to that position, he being a Re- 
publican, and appointed (leorge D. Alden. 'l"he 
Executive Council rejected Alden's nomination 
eight to one (the council standing eight Republi- 
cans to one Democrat). Governor Russell there- 
upon renewed the appointment ; and the council 
again rejected it, by the same vote. Meanwhile 
Judge \\'ashburn, as special justice, held court 
under the vacancy for si.xteen months, being sup- 
ported all that time by the Executive Council. 
The next year Mr. Alden was confirmed by a 
new council. Judge Washburn is a member of 
the Odd Fellows, of lodge and encampment. He 
was married November jy, iS88, to Miss Etta 
F'lorence Mendall. 'I'hey have one child : Ken- 
drick H. Washburn. 



WEBBER, George Clark, M.D., of Millbury, 
is a native of Maine, born in Hallowell, Novem- 
ber 15, I S3 7, son of the Rev. George Web- 
ber, D.D., and Fhebe (Clark) Webber. He is 



NATHAN WASHBURN. 



April 18, 1862, son of Bradford S. and Elizabeth 
S. (Harlow) Washburn. His paternal grand- 
father, Cyrus Washburn, was connected with the 
celebrated Washburn family, which had its origin 
eight miles from Middleborough ; and his ma- 
ternal grandfather, Major Branch Harlow, was 
once high sheriff of Plymouth County and a 
major in the Massachusetts State militia. He 
was educated in the Middleborough public 
schools, graduating from the High School in 
1 88 1, and at Dartmouth College, where he was 
graduated in 1885. He was admitted to the 
Plymouth County bar in 1887, and at once en- 
tered upon the practice of his profession, with 
offices in Middleborough and Boston, which he 
has since continued. He was appointed special 
justice of the Plymouth Fourth District Court, the 
position he still holds, by Governor .\mes, De- 
cember 21, 1887. Upon the death of Judge 
Vaughan in F'ebruary, 1891, he presented a peti- 
tion from all the towns in the district for appoint- 
ment to the position of justice of this court, which 
was the cause of the first disagreement between 
Governor Russell and the Executive Council. 




GEO. C. WEBBER. 

a direct descendant of Edward Webber, who 
settled in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1732, in line run- 
ning as follows : John (his great-grandfather), son 



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695 



of Edward and Deborah ( I'ercher) Webber, 
John, 2d (his grandfather), son of John and AHce 
(Hasty) Webber, and (ieorge (his father), son of 
|ohn and Dorcas ( Elwell) Weblier. All are sup- 
posed to have descended from Thomas Webber, 
who left England for the Kennebec River region in 
1607. Dr. Webber was educated in Maine com- 
mon schools, at the ^[aine Wesleyan Seminary, at 
Readtield, there fitting for college, and at Wes- 
leyan l^niversity, Middletown, Conn., graduating 
in 1S60. Seven years later he took the degree 
of A.M. from the same college. He studied medi- 
cine at the Harvard Medical School, taking his 
degree of M.D. in 1863. That year he entered 
the Civil War, attached to the navy as acting 
assistant surgeon, and served for nearly three 
years, being honorably discharged in July, 1865. 
.\fter the war he was for two years principal 
of a large school in Portland, Me. Then he 
returned to the practice of medicine, beginning 
at Kennebunkport. After practising here one 
year, he moved to Massachusetts, first establishing 
himself in Newton, where he remained about a 
year, and in 1870 removed to Millbury, which 
has since been his field of work, in which he has 
attained a leading position. He has served on 
the Millbury Board of Health, chairman of that 
body from 1891 to 1894, and was a member of 
the School Committee of the town from 1875 to 
1S84 and from 1891 to 1894, being chairman of 
the board for several years. He was president 
of the \\'orcester District Medical Society from 
1886 to 1888 ; has been a councillor of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society since 1886, and a fellow 
of the latter society since 1S70, and was a mem- 
ber of the Maine Medical Society from 1865 to 
1869. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, a 
member of Olive Branch Lodge, of Tyrian Chap- 
ter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was high 
priest in 1884-85-86, and of the Worcester Lodge 
of Perfection ; and is a member of the George A. 
Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He 
is much interested in natural history, and has 
been president of the Millbury Natural History 
Society since 1883. He has never sought politi- 
cal honors or been active in public affairs, e.vcept 
in educational matters in the town of his resi- 
dence. Dr. Webber was married November 25, 
1863, to Miss Sarah P. Leavitt, of Portland, Me. 
They have had four children : Howard Marshall 
(born January 15, 1868), Alice Carleton (born 
April 24, 1869, died September 4, 1869), Frank 



Hartley (born April 
1875), and Carrie 
May 29, 1S77). 



!7, 1 87 4, died September 6, 
Spaulding Webber (born 



WHITCOMB, Joseph, of Provincetown. sher- 
iff of Barnstable County, was born in Yarmouth, 
Maine, May 29, 1841, son of Levi and Sarah 
(Young) Whitcomb. He is grand.son of Zadick 
and Rachel Whitcomb, descended from the Whit- 
combs who came from England and settled in 
Scituate in 1640. He was educated in the \'ar- 
mouth public schools. He went to Provincetown 




JOS. WHITCOMB. 

in 1865, and first worked there in a ship-3'ard for 
nine years. Then he became assistant to Robert 
Knowles in the undertaking business, and was so 
employed for ten years, when upon the death of 
Mr. Knowles. in 1880, he succeeded to the busi- 
ness, which he has since continued. He was 
made a deputy sheriff in 1876, and held that posi- 
tion imti! his election to the post of high sherilT 
in 1889. For the years 1S76-77-78 he was 
chief of police in Provincetown. He is connected 
with numerous fraternal organization.s, being a 
member of the King Hiram Lodge, Freemasons, 
of the Joseph Warren Royal Arch Chapter ; of 
the Marine Lodge, Odd Fellows ; the Charity 



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Lodge, Daughters of Rebecca ; the Knights of 
Honor, No. 2029 ; the Miles Standish Assembly, 
No. 143; and the Mayflower Council, No. loii, 
Royal Arcanum. He is also a member of the 
Seamen's Relief Society. He has been chairman 
of the parish committee of the Central Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Provincetown for ten years, 
and superintendent of the Provincetown Cemetery 
for fifteen years. Sheriff Whitcomb has been 
twice married, first in May, i86g, to Miss Susan 
E. Knowles, who died November 26, 1876, leav- 
ing two children : Flossie M. and Susie E. Whit- 
comb ; and second, in December, 1881, to Miss 
Levenia C. Mullen, b\' whom he iias one son : 
Joseph Warren Whitcomb. 



WHITINCJ, \\'lLI,IAM PUTTKRWDR rH, of RoS- 

ton, late vice-president of the Boston Manufact- 
urers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, was born 
in Wrentham, March i, 1817 ; died in Chelsea, 
January 30, 1894. He was a son of Jesse and 
Sarah (Fuller) Whiting. He was born of old 
Puritan stock, the two families coming to this 




was cleared by his grandfather, and is still owned 
by the latter's descendants. Both grandfathers of 
Mr. Whiting were in the American army in the 
Revolutionary War. His early education was that 
of the common district school ; but, having a 
desire for more than such schools offered, he 
acquired, by private study and reading, a very 
thorough knowledge of English literature, and, 
having an exceptional memory, was able to retain 
and use what he had read. He possessed a 
large and well-selected library, with the contents 
of which he was thoroughly familiar. He began 
active life as a boy in a cotton mill in the Black- 
stone Valley. Then he worked as a machinist, 
and afterward was an agent of cotton factories, 
covering a period of thirty years. Finally he 
became connected with the Boston Manufact- 
urers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, first 
serving as secretary and afterward as vice-presi- 
dent of the company, which office he held up to 
the time of his death. As a result of his earlier 
business experience, he contributed largely to the 
success of the mutual system of factory insurance 
by his practical knowledge of manufacturing, and 
its application in the conduct of the insurance 
business. Mr. Whiting commanded the respect 
of the large body of textile and other manufact- 
urers of New England, by whom he was well 
known. In politics he was a thorough Republi- 
can, but never held public office. He was 
married October 15, 1839, to Miss Laxina D. 
Walcott, of Cumberland, R.I. Their children 
were : N. Semantha (now Mrs. George H. Spar- 
hawk), Amy Ann (died in \'outh), \\'illiam H. H., 
Frances W. (died February 3, 1895), ^'^<^1 Freder- 
ick M. Whiting. 



^^^B ^ jfmPBHIj ^sa^ WILBUR, Edward Pavson, of Boston, mer- 

■^KK^Kk . I- ^/ ^^^^Jl chant, was born in Newburyport, December 23, 

"'*■''' 1 83 1, son of Hervey and Ann (Toppan) Wilbur, 

the former quite a noted astronomer in his day. 

His mother belonged to the old 'J'oppan family, 

which originally settled in Old Newbur)-, and was 

long identified with that town. He was educated 

in the Newburyport grammar and high schools, 

graduating from the latter in 1845. His business 

career was begun in the fancy-goods trade, with 

which he was connected for twelve years ; and for 

country in early years of the colony. The place the past thirty years he has been engaged in the 

of his birth was the house of his grandfather, dry-goods commission business in Boston. He 

Elkanah Whiting. The land on which it stood has served the city in the Common Council, the 



WM. B. WHITING. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



697 



School Committee, on tlie Water Hoard, and in 
hotii l)ranclies of the Legislature, and has been 
prominent and influential in other ways in mu- 




chants' Association, and has been for five years 
on the board of management, one of the directors, 
and for the last three years treasurer. He has 
also been for three years on the board of man- 
agement of the Art Club and a member of the 
Beacon Society for two years. Mr. Wilbur was 
married September 7, 1S54, to Mi.ss .Anna Lin- 
coln, of Boston. They have one daughter : Eli- 
nor L. Wilbur. 



WILLIS, George I)ai,i,.\s, of Braintree. man- 
ufacturer, is a native of Braintree, born June 25, 
1844, son of George Washington and Alniira 
(Arnold) Willis. He was educated in the com- 
mon and high schools of Braintree, and at Co- 
mer's Commercial College, ]5oston. He began 
business life in 186 1 as a salesman in the employ 
of Blake & Alden, furniture dealers, Boston. He 
remained with this house for ten years, meanwhile 
engaging in the business of nail and tack manu- 
facturing, which he has since followed. This 
business was started under the firm name of [. T. 
Stevens & Co.; but soon after, in 1870, the pres- 



E. p. WILBUR, 

nicipal and State afTairs. His service in the 
Common Council began in 1872, and continued 
through 1873-74. He was a member of the 
School Committee one year (1875), on the Co- 
chituate Water Board two years (1873-74), in the 
lower house of the Legislature, representative for 
W'ard Eleven, in 1884 and 1885 ; and in the 
Senate, for the Fourth Suffolk District in 1886, 
and the Fifth in 1887. His committee service in 
the Legislature was ; House, 1884, committee on 
street railways; House, 1885, committee on 
railroads; Senate, 1886, chairman of commit- 
tee on cities, and member of those on library 
and street railways; Senate, 1887, the same. 
From 1889 to 1895 he was a member of the 
State Board of Civil Service Commissions. .\n 
earnest and active Republican, he has served in 
the Republican city committee, holding the treas- 
urership for three years ; and he was a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention in 1888. 
Mr. Wilbur has been a director of the Central 
National Ijank for five years, and was in 1895 
elected a director in the United States Trust 
Company. He is a member of the Boston Mer- 



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^ ^ 



i 




CEO. D. WILLIS. 



ent name of Stevens & Willis was adopted. Mr. 
Willis has been associated with his present part- 
ner since 1868. The house has met with notable 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



success, having long been recognized as among 
the first in its line, and enjoyed a large local 
trade. Mr. Willis has been prominent in town 
matters for a number of years, and has held sev- 
eral of its important positions. He was town 
clerk in 1872 and 1873, declining a re-election 
for a third term ; town auditor for several years, 
and member of the School Committee in 1891-92. 
He has served repeatedly as moderator at town 
meetings and on important town committees. He 
was chairman of the building committee on alms- 
house in 1884, and was also a member of the 
committees on the Monatiquot and Jonas Perkins 
school-houses. In 1S80 he represented the towns 
of Braintree and Holbrook in the State Legisla- 
ture. He served in the Civil War, member of 
Company I, Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers, General Isaac S. ISurrell commanding. 
After the war he was for some time connected 
with the State militia, and was quartermaster of 
the First Battalion Infantry, First Brigade, First 
Division. He has been a leader in the Crand 
Army of the Republic, serving as commander of 
General Sylvanus Thayer Post, No. 87, for three 
years, and on the staff of department commanders 
Adams and Churchill. He is also a charter mem- 
ber of Post No. 87. He is connected with the 
Masonic fraternity, a member of the Bay State 
Commandery, Knights Templar, Brockton, and of 
Rural Lodge, C^uincy. He was the first president 
of the Ihaintree Commercial and Social Club of 
Braintree, and is vice-president, trustee, and audi- 
tor of the Braintree Savings Bank. Among other 
offices of trust and responsibility he has held the 
position of corporation clerk and director of the 
Central Manufacturing Company, Boston, and is 
to-day vice-president of the Tack Manufacturers' 
Association of the United States. Mr. \\'illis first 
married July 3, 1872, Miss Mary Eliza Barrett, 
eldest daughter of the Rev. Fiske Barrett. She 
died July 5, 1878, leaving a daughter, Annie Mira, 
who died two years after, si.x years old. His 
present wife was Miss .Susan Flla, only daughter 
of the Hon. P'rancis A. and Susan (Holbrook) 
Hobart. They have one son, George Dallas Wil- 
lis, Jr., thirteen years of age. 



generation of William Wilson who was in Concord 
in 1680, town clerk eight years, selectman seven- 
teen consecutive years, and representative ten 
years. His great-great-grandfather, William Wil- 
son, grandson of the first William Wilson, joined 
the army early in the Revolution, and died in camp 
at Winter Hill during the siege of Boston. His 
great-grandfather, Samuel, was also in the Revolu- 
tionary War during the year 1776, and died at 
Stoddard, N.H., in 1844, aged eighty-five. His 
grandfather, William Wilson, was a prominent 
citizen of Stoddard, being a selectman thirteen 
years, and died at eighty-seven. Mr. A\'ilson is 
also in the eighth generation from Thomas Gould, 
of Charlestown. there settled before 1640. He 
was pastor of the first Baptist church in the 
colony. On the maternal side Mr. Wilson is 
descended from a family of the so-called Scotch- 
Irish settlers of Londonderry, N.H. His early 
education was acquired in the district schools in 
Cheshire County, N.H., and at a select school 
for a few months in the autumn seasons for three 
or four years. He was graduated at Cornell Uni- 
versity in 1872. For a year after graduation he 




E. V. WILSON. 

WILSON, pjicAR Vinton, of Athol, member 

of the bar, was born in Winchendon, July i, 1847, taught school in New York State, and then entered 

son of Frederic A. and Cordelia R. (Mack) the law office of Wheeler & Faulkner in Keene, 

Wilson. He is a descendant in the seventh N.H. He was admitted to the bar at Keene in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



699 



April, 1875, and at Greciilicjlcl, Mass., in Marcli, 
1876. He began practice in Keene, where he re- 
mained until January, 1876, then was in Orange, 
Mass., for a few months, and thence removed to 
Athoi, where he has been established ever since, 
with the exception of three months in Newport, 
N.H., in the winter of 187S. From 1887 to 1893 
Mr. Wilson was a member of the Athol School 
Committee, and a library trustee for the same 
years. While a member of the School Board he 
exerted himself to introduce modern methods into 
the schools, and three model buildings were 
erected in that lime ; and while on the library 
committee he reclassified the books, and was active 
in the selection of books that the institution might 
be helpful to the schools. He was appointed a 
member of the committee to consider a system of 
sewers for the town ; was a member of the com- 
mittee which procured plans ; and is now chair- 
man of the sewer commissioners, having charge of 
the construction of a full system. He is a Free- 
mason, member of Star Lodge of which he was 
for three years master, of Union Royal Arch Chap- 
ter, two years high priest, and of Athol Comman- 
dery, Knights Templar. He is also past chancellor 
of Corinthian Lodge No. 76, Knights of Pythias, 
past master workman of Artisan Lodge, Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, and a member of the 
order of the Eastern Star. In politics he is Inde- 
pendent ; and he has never been a candidate for 
any political office. Mr. Wilson was married in 
Cambridge, July 23, 1879, to Miss Emma M. 
Pollard, of Woodstock, Yt. They have no chil- 
dren. 



there in February, 1872, he settled in Springfield 
the following May, and fnmi that lime to the 
present has been engaged in a large and success- 



YOUNG, William Huri Antonio, M.L)., of 
Springfield, was born in Lowell, September 15, 
1836, son of Hezekiah and Mahala (Dame) 
Young. Roth parents were natives of New Hamp- 
shire, his father born in Gilmanton, and his mother 
in Meredith Bridge. His grandparents on both 
sides were also of the Granite State, Joseph and 
Sarah Young having been born in Gilmanton, 
and James and Susan Dame in Meredith Bridge 
(Laconia). He was educated in the public 
schools of Lowell and in (jilmanton, N.H. He 
began the study of medicine in 1S61 with Dr. 
James Monroe Templeton, an eminent physician 
and surgeon of Montpelier, Vt., and studied and 
practised in Montpelier and the adjoining towns 
for eight years. Then he went to New York, and 
entered the Eclectic Medical College. Graduating 




W. H. A. YOUNG. 

ful practice there, his patients including some of 
the best known people of the city. He has been 
a member of the Massachusetts Eclectic Medical 
Society since January, 1881, and of the National 
Eclectic Medical Society since June, 1882. Dr. 
Young was married in Springfield, November 6, 
1879, to Miss Jane M. Rice, daughter of Charles 
G. Rice, of that city. 



ZIFXJLER, ALi'REn .\rthur, of Boston, elec- 
trician and manufacturer, is a native of Switzer- 
land, born at .Arbon (Lake Constance), Canton 
Thurgau, October 15, 1864, son of J. Jacob and 
Emilie (Habisreutinger) Ziegler. His grand- 
parents were steadfastly interested in agriculture, 
besides being large manufacturers of cotton and 
worsted goods, which were exported to Italy, Tur- 
key, and America, and employing about one thou- 
sand hands, men and women. His father was 
active for many years in the same business. The 
latter was also in public life, serving fifteen years 
in the Legislature in his native State, and holding 



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various offices in town and districts. In 1847 ^e 
was in the military service of Switzerland as lieu- 
tenant, during a short war in behalf of an un- 




ALFRED ARTHUR ZIEGLER. 

divided confederation against the secessionistic 
cantons. An eye trouble prevented him from 
taking a higher rank than captain. Alfred A. 
spent a short time in the public schools of St. 
Gall, Switzerland, and then coming to America 
with his parents after the Franco-Prussian war, 
in 1S70, they having decided to join their rela- 
tives in Boston, continued his education in the 
Boston and Maiden public schools. After finish- 
ing at school, he took a special course in electri- 
cal engineering with an expert, covering about a 
year and a quarter. In 1880 he began an ap- 
prenticeship with Charles Williams, Jr., manufact- 
urer of scientific apparatus, model and experi- 
mental work, in Boston. .Vfter a four years' 
training there, he worked as a journeyman for 
one year, and then spent some time in the South 
Boston Iron Works to get the benefit of handling 
large machinery, studying electrical engineering 
evenings and at other spare times, which course 
he continued for two years. In 1886 he entered 
the electric lighting business, starting, and mak- 
ing the first experiments, with the Schaefer Elec- 



tric Manufacturing Company, on its incandescent 
lamps and other apparatus. A year later he re- 
turned to the old works of Charles Williams, who 
had been succeeded by Albert L. Russell, and 
remained there until the establishment was burned 
out early in 1889, and Mr. Russell retired from 
the manufacture of apparatus. He then started 
in business for himself in the same line, — the 
manufacture of fine electrical and mechanical 
instruments, — forming a partnership with his 
brother, J. Oscar Ziegler, under the firm name of 
Ziegler Brothers, at No. 73 Federal Street. The 
business was carried on successfully here for five 
years, the number of employees increasing from 
one employed at the beginning to twenty-two and 
at times thirty. In the spring of 1894 removal 
was made to new and much larger quarters, giving 
three times the floor space of the former place ; 
and the entire stock and good will of the firm 
of A. P. Gage & Son, dealers chiefly in physical 
and chemical apparatus, and for whom the Ziegler 
Brothers had previously manufactured the most 
of such apparatus, were bought out. In August 
following the Ziegler Electric Company was 
formed, and incorporated under the laws of Mas- 
sachusetts, with a capital of twenty-five thousand 
dollars ; and Mr. Ziegler was elected the president 
and general manager. This company, combining 
the entire trade of Ziegler Brothers and A. P. 
Gage & Son, so extensively extended its facilities 
in the manufacture and sales department that it 
now has the finest workshops and selling depart- 
ment in this branch of trade in New England. 
It is stocked with apparatus fully to equip the 
highest grade of colleges, high schools, grammar 
or graded schools, besides other apparatus, in- 
cluding fire and burglar alarm, electric lighting, 
telephone and telegraph instruments, and also 
dynamos for power and hand use. The manu- 
facture of all apparatus called for in Professor 
A. P. Gage's series of text-books on Physics is one 
of its specialties, as well as the so-called Harvard 
apparatus. Its business extends all over North 
America, but is chiefly in the Middle and Western 
States of the Union. Several men are steadily 
employed in designing and producing new appa- 
ratus for the company, to keep up with the rapid 
development of this electrical age. Mr. Ziegler 
was married October 18, 1892, to Miss Magde- 
line Elizabeth Dorr, born and educated in Boston. 
They have one son : Alfred Arthur Ziegler. 



PART IX. 



ABBOTT, John Hammill, M.D., of Fall RivL-r, 
is a native of Fall River, born August ii, 1848, 
son of James and Catharine (Henry) Abbott. His 
fatiicr was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1813, 
and died in Fall River, February 17, 1875; and 
his mother was a native of Lancashire, England, 
born in 1810: she died in Fall River, July 15, 
1S93. Dr. Abbott was educated in the public 
schools of Rhode Island and at the Providence 
Conference Seminary, East Greenwich, and the 
Fruit Hill Seminary, North Providence, R.I. His 
studies for his profession were at the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was 
graduated March 9, 1872. He began practice 




JOHN H. ABBOTT. 

inunediately after his graduation in the town of 
Centreville, R.I., and continued there until Sep- 
tember, 1873, when he returned to Fall River, 



where he has been established since. During the 
Civil War he served in the United States Signal 
Corps, and was honorably discharged therefrom 
as sergeant in July, 1865 ; and a few years later, 
in 1868-69, li*^ ^^'^s '" ''^s United States navy as 
apothecary on board the United States monitor 
"Saugus." Dr. Abbott is prominent in fraternal 
organizations, being a thirty-second degree Mason, 
a foremost Knight of Pythias, a member of the 
Odd F'ellows, of the Order of Elks, and of numer- 
ous beneficiary orders. In the Knights of Pyth- 
ias, beginning as a charter member of Mt. Ver- 
non Lodge, No. 157, Fall River, he has passed 
through all the chairs, and was elected grand 
chancellor of Massachusetts February, 1891. 
He has been brigadier-general of the uniform 
rank of the order of this State since July 24, 1889, 
having been on July 24, 1893, re-elected to the 
command for four years. At the session of the 
Grand Lodge in 1895 he was elected supreme 
representative for four years from January, 1896. 
Dr. Abbott has also held prominent place in the 
Grand Army of the Republic. He was com- 
mander of Richard Borden Post, No. 46, for four 
successive years ; served as inspector on the staff 
of Department Commander Billings in 1880; and 
has been twice elected national delegate, first at 
Portland, Me., and the last time at Indianapolis, 
Ind. For three years he served as colonel and 
assistant quartermaster-general on the staff' of 
Governor Oliver .\mes. In politics he is a 
stanch Republican, always ready to give and 
take blows in political fights, but feeling no re- 
sentment after the contest toward those who were 
lined up against his side. He was chairman of 
the Fall River Republican city committee for 
three years, and represented the Second Bristol 
District on the Republican State Central (..'ommit- 
tee for a similar period. He went to the National 
Republican Convention at Chicago as an alter- 
nate, and as delegate to the Minneapolis Conven- 
tion. In F'all River he has served in the Com- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



mon Council as a representative for Ward ( )ne in 
1877. Dr. Abljott was married April 27, 1878, 
to Miss Lizzie Reynolds, of St. John, Newfound- 
land. They have no children. 



ADAMS, Rev. Wu.liam W'isner, of Fall River, 
pastor of the First Congregational Church for up- 
ward of thirty years, is a native of Ohio, born in 
Fainesville, August 15, 1831, son of the Rev. Will- 
iam Murphy Adams, a Fresbyterian clergyman, 
and Sophia Cooley (F'arnsworth) Adams. He is 
remotely connected with the presidential famil}-. 
His early education was acquired in Illinois from 
September, 1837, to August, 185 1. He attended 
pri\'ate school in Rockton, \\'innebago County, 
through 1841-44 (there were no public schools 
of any account there at that time), and, while liv- 
ing in Chicago, 1845-51, attended an academy 
for two terms. Most of his fitting for college was 
by private study in an office, after nine o'clock 
P.M., when his day's work was done. He entered 
Williams College, and graduated in 1855, having 
the " metaphysical oration " at Connnencement. 




WM. W. ADAMS. 



Eighteen years after, in 1873, he received the 
degree of D.D. from his alma mafcr. After grad- 
uation from the college he took the regular course 



of the LTnion Theological Seminary, New York 
City, from 1855 to 1858. He was licensed to 
preach by the Fresbytery of Chicago in the sum- 
mer of 1858. He first preached in Burlington, 
La., for about si.x months in 1858-59, to a newly 
organized Fresbyterian church, which died of 
financial debility soon after he left it. 'Fhe only 
man of any means who was member of the church 
was the late Hon. John ]\L Corse, then a book- 
seller, general in the federal army during the Civil 
\\'ar (the hero of Allatoona) and still later post- 
master of Boston. Mr. Corse loaned Mr. Adams 
money enough comfortably to fit up a large room 
in a business block for his "study." Some 
months after he was obliged to sell the furnishings 
of the room at auction in order to pa\- his bills 
and get back to the home of his brother-in-law in 
Chicago (who had been his foster-father). The 
loan from Mr. Corse was paid some time after. 
From April i to December i, 1859, Mr. Adams 
was preaching for little or nothing in the way of 
pay. Then an opening appeared, and he became 
a Congregational home missionary at Como, 
Whitesides County, 111. In this occupation he 
spent a pleasant and profitable year, from Decem- 
ber, 1859, to December, i860. On the 26th of 
January, i860, he was ordained at Como by a 
Congregational council, composed of representa- 
tives of four different denominations. From the 
I St of January, 1861, to the ist of April, 1863, he 
was acting pastor of the First Fresbyterian Church 
of Beloit, Wis., and while there was also for a 
few months acting professor of German in Beloit 
College. On the 8th of November, 1863, he 
preached a second Sunday as a " candidate " in 
the First Congregational Church, Fall River ; and 
he has been in the ser\ice of that church from 
that day to this. He was not installed, however, 
until September 14, 1864. iM'om the beginning 
of July, 1 88 1, to September, 1S82, the church gave 
him leave of absence for a foreign tour, paying all 
his expenses and supplying his pulpit meanwhile. 
During his journeyings he \'isited England, .Switzer- 
land, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Constantinople, 
Greece, and spent a little time in other countries. 
In 1875 he was elected professor of homiletics in 
the Hartford Theological Seminary, but a precari- 
ous condition of his health at that time forbade 
him to undertake work which would require con- 
stant application. He was afterward asked to 
consider the professorship of theology in the same 
institution, but was not elected because he was 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



/'-'J 



loo •' achanccd." Dr. Adams has written sonic 
magazine articles, — chiefly for the Andovcr Kt- 
vit-w, — and has had quite a number of sermons 
pubhshed. He has been closely a stayer at home, 
and by taste as well as necessity a student. The 
only club he has ever been a member of is the 
Congregational Club of Fall River, of which he 
was the first president. Dr. Adams was married 
October i8, 1S64, to Miss Mary Augusta Cooper, 
of Beloit, \Ms. They had no children. Mrs. 
Adams died, after a lingering and painful disease, 
September 2, 1891. 



the army, first as assistant siugeon of the Seventh 
Massachusetts Volunteers (appointed to that po- 
sition in May, 186 1 ), and subsequently as surgeon 



ADAMS, Zaudiel Boylston, M.D., of Fram- 
inghani, is a native of Boston, born October 25, 
1829, son of Zabdiel Bo\-lston and Sarah May 
(Holland) Adams. He is a direct descendant of 
Henry Adams, settled in Wollaston 1620-30. 
Henry's youngest son Joseph had a son Joseph, 
Jr., who married for his second wife Hannah 
Bass. Of their children, John, the fourth child, 
married Susannah Boylston, and Ebenezer, the 
youngest, married Annie Boylston, both nieces of 
Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. John and Susannah were 
parents of John Adams, President of the United 
States. Colonel Ebenezer Adams was the great- 
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
Dr. Adams's maternal grandmother was Sarah 
May, daugliter of Samuel May and Abigail Will- 
iams (descendants of John May, of Mayfield, Sus- 
sex, in Ro.xbury in 1640), parents of Colonel Joiin 
and Colonel Joseph May and of SamuelAIay, of 
Boston. Dr. Adams attended the Boston public 
schools, receiving a Franklin medal at the Boylston 
School, and also at the Public Latin school ; 
matriculated and spent three years at Harvard, 
1846-48; graduated at Bowdoin in 1S49. He 
studied medicine in the Tremont Medical School 
and at Harvard Medical School, and was further 
trained for his profession by experience in the 
hospital at Deer Island. After taking his degree 
of M.D. at the Harvard Medical School in 1853, 
he went abroad, and studied some time in Paris. 
Lpon his return lie became assistant physician in 
the Taunton Insane Hospital, and afterward set- 
tled in Boston on the death of his father in Janu- 
ary, 1855, and was attached to the Boston Dis- 
pensary. He removed to Roxbury after the Civil 
War, and settled in Framingham two years later, 
where he has since been prominently engaged in 
practice. During the war Dr. Adams served in 




Z. BOYLSTON ADAMS. 

of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment, ap- 
pointed in May, 1S62. While with the Seventh 
Massachusetts Regiment, he took part in the bat- 
tles of Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1S62, and Fair 
( )aks, or Seven Pines ; and, while surgeon of the 
Thirty-second Regiment, he was at Harrison 
Landing and in the second battle of Bull Run and 
battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 
ville, and Gettysburg. In 1864 he was made cap- 
tain and subsequently brevet major of the Fifty- 
sixth Massachusetts Regiment, being brevetted 
" for gallantry and meritorious conduct in the 
assault before Petersburg, Va.," April 2, 1865. 
While captain, he was in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness. He was wounded three times, and w-as 
a prisoner (w'ounded) in Lynchburg and Libby 
prisons. Dr. Adams has been president of the 
Middlesex South District .Medical Society (1883- 
84), vice-president of the ^Llssachusetts Medical 
Society (1894), and president of the Medico-Legal 
Society of Massachusetts (1892-93-94-95). He 
has also been a member of the Medical Improve- 
ment, Medical Observation, Obstetrical, .Medical 
Benevolent, Natural History, and other societies 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in Boston. He became a member of the Militaiy 
Order of the Loyal Legion in 1867, and has been 
junior vice-commander of that organization. He 
is also a member of the L^nion Veterans' L^nion. 
Dr. Adams was married December 8, 1870, to 
Miss Frances Ann Kidder, of Boston, daughter of 
Francis Dana Kidder. They have two children : 
Frances I'oylston and Zabdiel Boylston Adams. 



AMORY, Robert, M.D., of Brookline, is a 
native of F!oston, born May 3. 1842, son of James 
Sullivan and Mary Copley (Greene) Amory. His 




ROBERT AMORY. 

paternal grandparents were Jonathan Amory and 
Mehitable (Sullivan) Amory, daughter of Gover- 
nor James Sullivan of Massachusetts, who was the 
only governor who died during his term of office 
(namely, 1787). On the maternal side he is a de- 
scendant of John Singleton Copley, through his 
grandmother, daughter of Elizabeth Clark (Copley) 
and Gardiner Greene. His early education was 
acquired at the old Epes Sargent Di.Ywell's school. 
He w'as graduated at Harvard College, A.K., in 
1863, from the Medical School in 1866, then also 
receiving the degree of A.M. from the college. 
In the spring of the same year he was interne 
at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Subse- 



quently he studied in Professor Tardieu's labora- 
tory at Paris and at Dublin Rotunda Lying-in 
Hospital. In 1868 he became lecturer in physio- 
logical medicine at the Harvard Medical School, 
and later professor of physiology in the Bowdoin 
College Medical School in Maine. He has been 
medical examiner for Norfolk County for six 
years, and has served as assistant surgeon, sur- 
geon, and medical director of the Massachusetts 
militia. He is the author of a number of notable 
contributions to the medical literature of the day, 
his works including : " Physiological and Thera- 
peutical Action of Bromides of Potassium and 
Ammonium," published in Boston in 1872, written 
in conjunction with Dr. Edward H. Clarke; "Whar- 
ton and Stille's Medical Jurisprudence," fourth 
and fifth editions, Philadelphia, 1882, prepared 
with Professor Edward S. \\'ood ; " A Treatise on 
Electrolysis in Medicine," New York, 1886 : and 
several articles in medical journals in London, 
New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. He was 
also the editor and translator of Professor Kiiss's 
" Lectures on Physiology," published in Boston in 
1875. He has held leading positions in medical 
societies, having been a trial commissioner of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, secretary and 
afterward president of the Massachusetts Medico- 
Legal Society, treasurer of the Society of Medical 
Sciences, secretary and afterward president of the 
Norfolk Medical Society ; and he has for some 
years been a member of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences. In Brookline town affairs 
I )r. Amory has served nine years as secretary of 
tiie School Committee, and six years as a trustee 
of the Public Library. He has been and is also 
now concerned in business afifairs as president 
and manager of the Brookline Gas Light Com- 
pany. He is a member of the St. Botolph, Algon- 
quin, Somerset, and University clubs of Boston, 
and of the University club of New York. Dr. 
Amory was married first, in May, 1864, to Miss 
Mary Appleton Lawrence. She died in 1882, 
leaving a daughter, Alice, born in May, 1865. 
He married second, in September, 1884, Miss 
Katharine Leighton Crehore. Their children are : 
Robert, Jr., Mary Copley, and Katharine Amory. 



APPLETON, Francis Henry, of Peabody 
and Boston, connected with manufacturing and 
business corporations and with agricultural in- 
terests, is a native of Boston, born June 17, 1847, 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



705 



soil of Francis Henr_v Applt-loii (A. II., LL.l!., 
Ilar\ar<l) and (ieorgiana C'rowninshicld ( Sils- 
bce) .\ppleton. His paternal grandfather, Will- 
iam .\ppleton, was born in the North Parish of 
llnioktielil. Xo\-ember 16, 1786; was lirst in busi- 
ness as a clerk in a store at Temple, N.H., in 
I So I ; came to Boston in 1802 : was representa- 
tive in Congress from ISoston 1851-54, and also 
in 1861, until ill-health compelled him to resign; 
died February 15, 1862 ; married in 1815 to Mary 
Ann Culler, who died March 29, i860. Mr. 
Appleton's grandfather on his mother's side was 
Nathaniel Silsbee, who was born in Salem, Janu- 
ary 14, 1773; was a merchant there; representa- 
tive in Congress from Essex County 1816-20; 
representative in the State Legislature 1821-22; 
State senator from Essex County 1823-25, and 
president during those three years ; United States 
senator from Massachusetts 1826-35; delegate to 
the national convention to nominate President in 
1S40 ; died July 15. 1S50; married in 1802 to 
Mary Crowninshield, of Salem: she died Septem- 
ber 20, 1835. Francis H. Appleton was educated 
at Salem in Henry V. Waters's school, at Mr. Sul- 
livan's school in Boston, at Newton one year with 
the Rev. S. F. Smith, at St. Paul's School, Con- 
cord, N.H., over five years, and at Harvard Col- 
lege, graduating in the class of 1S69. He was 
also for a short time at the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, but withdrew to become a 
special student at the Bussey (agricultural) Insti- 
tute of Harvard University. Immediately after 
leaving college, Mr. Appleton began life on a farm 
in Peabody in connection with studies and work 
at Bussey Institute, and he has since done much 
toward developing farming to a higher degree of 
perfection. He has held the plough and driven 
haying tools over almost all of his cultivable lands. 
His farm is situated on the banks of Suntang 
Lake, twelve and a half miles, in a bee-line, north- 
erly from Boston, and four and a half miles from 
the seashore, with post-offices at Lynnfield, and 
stations at West Peabody, one and a half miles, 
and Lynnfield, one mile. It embraces about two 
hundred acres, with over one-half in trees, over 
one-quarter of pasture, and the balance in cultiva- 
tion, with homestead and buildings and many or- 
namental trees, all in the township of Peabody. 
Mr. Appleton's business has been general and per- 
sonal, as well as in trusteeships in varied forms of 
responsibility. He has been for many years a 
director of several manufacturing and business 



corporations, and has been largely occupied with 
the affairs of agricultural organizations. He has 
been a member of the Essex Agricultural Society 
since 1869, a tru.stee from the town of Peabody 
for several years until 1892, and ])resident 1892- 
95 ; was a member of the Board of C^ontrol of 
the Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment 
Station from 1888 until its con.solidation with 
the trustees of the State Agricultural College in 
1895 ; was a member of the Massachusetts lioard 
of .Agriculture from the Bay State Agricultural 
Society from 1887 to 1890, and is now member 
from the Essex Agricultural Society, 1890 to 1896, 



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FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 

second vice-president 1894 and 1895 : was a 
trustee from 1870 to 1875, and is now president 
of the New England Agricultural Societ)- ; has 
been a trustee of the State Agricultural College 
since 1887 ; and is now president of the Boston 
Poultry Association, incorporated in 1895. He 
has also been a trustee (elected for two six-year 
terms), and was president at the time of his resig- 
nation, of the Peabody Institute of Peabody, 
founded by George Peabody as a library and for 
lectures; a trustee since 1883 and secretary and 
librarian of the Massachusetts Society for Promot- 
ing Agriculture, incorporated in 1792 at the re- 
quest of leading business men of that day, who 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



were also agriculturists ; vice-president for Massa- 
chusetts of tile American Forestry Association 
since 1892; vice-president of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society since 1892 ; a life member 
of the New York State Agricultural Society from 
1872; and for some time a member of the Field 
Meeting committee of the Essex Institute of 
Salem. From 1873 to 1875 he was curator of the 
Bussey Institution (agricultural) of Harvard Uni- 
versity. He was the writer of the Report on 
Agriculture at the Vienna E.xposition in 1873, for 
the Massachusetts Commission. In politics Mr. 
Appleton is a Republican, and active in party 
service. He was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention in 1892 from the Fifth 
Massachusetts Congressional District, and in 
1894 was elected president of the Republican 
Club of Massachusetts. In 1891 and 1892 he 
was a member of the lower house of the I^egislat- 
ure for Peabody. He has long been connected 
with the First Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts 
Militia, holding the rank of Captain of Company 
A since 1879. He is a member of the following 
clubs at Harvard University, — Institute of 1770, 
Delta Kappa Epsilon (chapter A), Porcellian, 
A.D., and Hasty Pudding; a member of the Som- 
erset and University clubs of Boston ; and is pres- 
ident of the Alumni Association of St. Paul's 
School at Concord, N.H. Mr. Appleton was 
married June 2, 1874, to Miss Fanny Rollins 
Tappan. They have had five children : Marian. 
John (died young). Amy Silsbee, F'rancis Henry, 
Jr., and Henry Saltonstall Appleton. Mr. Apple- 
ton resides in Boston a portion of the year. 



While in this office, he completed the legacies of 
unfinished w^ork left by former administrations, — 
namely, the Horace .Mann School for Deaf-mutes 



.ATWOOI), H.-^RRisoN Henry, of Boston, 
architect, is a native of Vermont, born in North 
Londonderry, .\ugust 26, 1863. son of Peter 
Clark and Helen Marion (.\ldrich) Atwood. His 
parents removed to Massachusetts when he was 
a child, and he was educated in the public schools 
of Charlestown and of Boston proper, .\fter 
leaving school, he was for some time in the law 
office of Godfrey Morse and John R. Bullard in 
Boston, and then took up the study of archi- 
tecture. He was for four years with the late 
Samuel J. F. Thayer, and a year with George A. 
Clough, the first city architect of IJoston, there- 
after practising successfully until May, 1889, when 
he was appointed by Mayor Hart to the position 
of city architect, succeeding Charles J. Bateman. 




H. H. ATWOOD. 

on the Back Bay, the South Boston Grammar 
School, the Roxbury High School, and several 
minor buildings, — and laid out, completed, or con- 
tracted for much important work. The list of his 
buildings comprises four of the finest public school- 
houses in New England, — namely, the Henry L. 
Pierce Grammar School, Dorchester District, the 
Prince Primary School, St. Botolph Street, Back 
Bay, the Bowditch Grammar School, Jamaica Plain 
District, and the Adams Primary School, Fast 
Boston (all of these buildings placed in one single 
contract, a method of doing the public work never 
before or since attempted by the architect's de- 
partment), — four or five engine-houses erected for 
the fire department in East Boston, Jamaica 
Plain District, South Boston, the Brighton District, 
and the city proper, and several structures for the 
police, water, sewer, and park departments. Mr. 
Atwood's service as city architect covered the two 
years of Mayor Hart's administration. During the 
previous three years, 1887-89, he was a member 
of the lower house of the Legislature for the 
F.ighth Suffolk District, serving on the committees 
on State House, liquor law. mercantile aft'airs, and 



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cities. In 1888 he was nii aUcninte dciuj;atc 
from tiie old Fourth Congressional District to the 
National Republican Convention at Chicago ; in 
1892, a delegate from the new 'I'entii District to 
the convention at Minneapolis, and the nominee of 
his party for Congress in the autumn of the same 
year, but defeated at the polls by si.x hundred and 
eighty-four votes. Again nominated in the autumn 
of 1894, he was elected by a thousand plurality, 
after one of the most extraordinary and exciting 
campaigns ever witnessed in the Commonwealth, 
to represent the Tenth Congressional District, 
being tlie youngest member of the Fifty-fourth 
House. Mr. Atwood has been a member of the 
Boston Republican ward and city committee since 
1884, serving four years as secretary of the organ- 
ization ; and he was for two years a member of 
the Republican State Central Committee. He is 
a member of St. John's Lodge, F'reemason, of 
St. Paul's Chapter, and lioston Commandery, and 
is also an Odd Fellow. He was married in Bos- 
ton, September 11, 1889, to Miss Clara Stein, 
eldest daughter of John August and Sophia 
Johann (Kupferj Stein. They have two sons: 
Harrison Henry, Jr., and August Stein Atwood. 



During the succeeding years he has been engaged 
in a large and extensive business. His practice 
is almost wholly confined to the courts, where he 
has been employed as chief counsel in many im- 
portant trials. Among his notable cases were the 
conspiracy suit of the Rev. VV. \V. Downs f. 
Joseph Story ct a/., in which, being counsel for 
the plaintiff, he obtained a verdict of ten thou- 
sand dollars for his client, before a jury ; the suit 
of Whelton v. West End Street Railway Com- 
pany, tried in 1895, being a suit for personal in- 
juries, in which the jury found a verdict for him 
for seventy-one hundred dollars : and the State of 
Connecticut r. Dr. George E. Whitten, charged 
with murder in the second degree, 1895, in 
which he succeeded in getting his client released 
on a writ of habeas corpus in the United .States 
Circuit Court, in a writ directed to the sheriff of 
the county court at New Haven claiming that the 
defendant was detained of his liberty "without 
due process of law and in violation of the Consti- 
tution of the United States." This latter case is 
noted because it attracted the attention of both 
States. Mr. Baker makes it a point never to go 



B.'VKER, \\'iLLiAM Henry, of Boston, member 
of the bar, is a native of Maine, born in the town 
of Cornville, Somerset County, July 22, 1865, son 
of Jarvis E. and Eliza Ann (McKinney) Baker. 
His paternal grandfather, William Baker, resided in 
New Brunswick, about twelve miles from Houllon, 
Me., and was a farmer ; and his maternal grand- 
father, Henry McKinney, of Madison, Me., was 
also a farmer. The latter came originally from 
the vicinity of Portland, Me., and was of Scotch- 
Irish descent. William H. was reared on a farm, 
and educated first in the common schools of Nor- 
ridgewock. Me., and later at the Eaton School, in 
the same place, then well known through the 
country as a family school for boys, from which 
he graduated June 22. 1S83. The next two years 
he spent in Boston, engaged as a book-keeper, 
and part of the time reading law evenings. In Oc- 
tober, 1885, he entered the Boston University 
Law School, and, taking the full course, graduated 
therefrom with the regular degree of LL.B. in 
June, 1887. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
on the 6th of August following, and in September 
to the Somerset County bar, in Maine, and 
began practice in Boston on October 16, 1887. 




WILLIAM H. BAKER. 



into any trial without being thoroughly informed 
as to the law in the case. He has w'on numerous 
cases by keen cross-examination, but where he 



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has succeeded best has been in his closing ad- 
dress to the jury. In politics he is an earnest 
Republican, but the only political work that he 
has done has been in making speeches for the 
Republican party in the campaign of 1892. He 
was married October 11, 1893, to Miss Lottie E. 
Stevens, of Oakland, Me. They Jiave no chil- 
dren. 




WiLBERT S. BARTLETT. 

BARTLETT, Wilbert Seymour, of Boston, 
real estate operator, is a native of Maine, born in 
the tow'n of lUuehill, P'ebruary 2, 1863, son of 
George S. and Susan M. (Hamilton) Bartlett. 
He is a descendant of one of the three brothers 
Bartlett who first came to this country, being of 
the Maine branch. His ancestors originally set- 
tled on what is known as Bartlett's Islands. His 
paternal grandfather was one of the first to extract 
oil from the pogie, then very numerous along the 
New England shore, which became quite a famous 
industry in the history of Maine, and which after- 
ward brought millions of dollars into the State. 
He was educated at the Waterville (Me.) Classi- 
cal Institute, and prepared for college; but, his 
health failing, he went \\'est instead. He re- 
mained there three years recuperating his health. 
Then, returning East, he entered the real estate 
business in Boston, with which he has since been 



occupied. He has made a specialty of develop- 
ing suburban properties, among which have been 
Russell Park in Melrose, in which houses worth 
from five to ten thousand dollars each have been 
erected, and the estimated value of the property 
is five hundred thousand dollars ; Belmont Park, 
in which is three hundred thousand dollars worth 
of property; and other pieces in Watertown, 
Newton, and Revere. Mr. Bartlett is a member 
of the order of Odd lY'llows. In politics he is 
a Democrat. He was married in March, 1888, 
to Miss Carrie Claus, of Boston. His residence 
is at Belmont. 



BATCHELDER, Henrv Flanders, M.l)., uf 
Danxers, was born in Middleton, C)ctober 10, 
i860, son of John A. and Laura A. (Couch) 
Batchelder. He is a grandson of the late Colonel 
Amos Batchelder, of Middleton. He was edu- 
cated in the Salem public schools, graduating 
from the High School, and studied medicine in 
the Boston University School of Medicine, where 
he was graduated with the degree of C.B. 
(bachelor of surgery) in 1882, and M.I), in 




HENRY F. BATCHELDER. 



1883. He began practice in 1S83 in his native 
town, and two years later removed to Danvers, 
where he has since been actively engaged. He 



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was president of the Kssex County Homteopathic 
Medical Society in iiS84, and vice-president of 
the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynaecological 
Society in 1892. He has also been some years 
a member of the American Institute of Homtt- 
opathy. He is a Freemason, member of Amity 
Lodge of Dan vers. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. Dr. ISatchelder was married April 30, 1884, 
to Miss Caroline E. Taft, of Dedham. They have 
one child : Hollis Goodell Batchelder. 



married to Miss Amy M. Cheney, of Boston, the 
brilliant pianist and composer, whose work is 
highly appreciated by tlie musical public. Of her 



BEACH, Henrv Harris Auiirev. M.I)., ISos- 
ton, is a native of Middletown. Conn., born De- 
cember 18, 1843, son of Elijah and Lucy S. 
(Riley) Beach. A few years after his birth the 
family moved to Cambridge, Mass., where he was 
educated. At the age of twenty he entered the 
regular army, and was assigned to responsible 
hospital service. In this work he was actively 
occupied until a year after the close of the Civil 
War, when he was honorably discharged from the 
service, and appointed a surgical house officer at 
the Massachusetts General Hospital. He took 
the regular Harvard Medical School course, and 
upon his graduation in 1868 at once began 
practice in Boston, at the same time serving as 
surgeon to the Boston Dispensary. Soon after 
graduation, also, he received the university 
appointment of "assistant demonstrator." Sub- 
sequently he was promoted to the position 
of demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical 
School, and for fifteen years continued the teach- 
ing of practical anatomy there in connection with 
the lectures of Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
Since that tiine he has devoted his teaching to 
the department of clinical surgery at the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, with which he has 
been actively associated as a surgeon for twenty- 
two years. For two years he was associate editor 
of the Boston Mtuiira/ and Sur^^ica! Joiinial : and 
during the years 1873-74 he was president of the 
lioylston Medical Society of Harvard University. 
As member of the local medical societies, — the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston So- 
ciety for Medical Sciences, the Society for Medi- 
cal Improvement, and the Society for Medical 
Observation, — he has contributed many valuable 
professional articles to various medical publica- 
tions. In 187 1 Dr. ISeach married Miss Alice, 
the daughter of Edward D. Mandell, of New 
Bedford, who died in 1880. In 1885 he was 




H. H. A. BEACH. 

Mass in E-flat, announced by the Handel and 
Haydn Society as one of the features of the 
season of 1892, it was said in the secretary's cir- 
cular : "All who have obtained acquaintance with 
it are unanimous in their admiration of its beauty, 
brilliancy, and strength. .\ work of such magni- 
tude by a woman makes a positive addition to the 
history of music." The success of her later work, 
" Festival Jubilate," written by request for the 
Columbian pAposition in 1893, has broadened 
her reputation until it is already of national char- 
acter. 

ISE.VL, |i)HN \.\x, of Randolph and Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Ran- 
dolph, born July 3, 1842, son of Eleazer and 
Mary (Thayer) Beal. He is a descendant in the 
direct line of John Beal, who came from Hingham, 
England, to lioston, in the ship " Diligent," in 
1638, and settled in Hingham, Mass. : married first 
Nazareth Hobart, sister of the Rev. Peter Hobart, 
the first minister of Hingham, and second Mary 
Jacob, widow of Nicholas Jacob, and died in 
Hingham in 1688. Israel, a great-grandson of 



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John Beal, born in Hingham in 1726, was the 
first of the family to settle in Randolph, moving 
there about 1751, when he married Eunice Flagg. 
His son Eleazer, born in Randolph in 17 58, in 
the latter part of the eighteenth century pur- 
chased a homestead of about one hundred acres, 
which is still owned by Joiin Van Beal and his 
brother. Eleazer, the father of John Van, was 
the third of that name in the family and town. 
He was born in Randolph in 1808, and died there 
in 1 89 1. In early life he was a school-teacher, 
afterward a manufacturer of boots and shoes, be- 
coming before 1837 the most extensive manu- 



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JOHN V. BEAL. 

facturer in that line in the town; ne.xt a civil 
engineer, and interested in the building of a 
branch of the Old Colony Railroad to Fall River ; 
then for ten years (1844-54) town clerk and 
treasurer of Randolph ; a representative in the 
General Court in 1848; and in 1861 Democratic 
candidate for Congress in the Third District. At 
an early age he passed through all the military 
honors of that day in the old Massachusetts mili- 
tia up to the title of colonel, by which he was 
afterward known. His old commission papers 
are still in his son's possession. He was elected 
general, but this rank he declined. John Van 
Deal's mother was a daughter of Micah and 



Phcebe (Stetson) Thayer, of Randolph. He was 
educated in the Randolph public schools, includ- 
ing the High School, and at Phillips (Andover) 
Academy, where he was fitted for college, and 
graduated in 1863. Being in ill-health, he did 
not enter college, but became a school-teacher. 
This occupation he followed, teaching successively 
in the intermediate, grammar, and high schools of 
Randolph until 187 1, when he entered the law 
othce of Jewell, Gaston, & Field, in Boston, as a 
student. Soon after he entered the Harvard Law 
School, where he received his degree of LL.B. by 
passing examinations in 1872. After further read- 
ing with Jewell, Gaston, & Field, he was admitted 
to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1873. He began 
practice in Randolph, and for the first three years 
confined himself to the local legal business. Then 
he extended his field to Boston, taking desk room 
in the office where he had studied as a student, 
the firm having become Jewell, Field, & Shepard. 
After the dissolution of this firm, through the 
death of Mr. Jewell and the appointment of Mr. 
F'ield to the Supreme Bench, he continued in the 
office with Mr. Shepard and J. C. Coombs until 
1891, when he opened an office alone. His prac- 
tice has been general, mainly in the civil courts ; 
and he has made a specialty of probate matter. 
Mr. Beal has held no public office, preferring to 
remain a private citizen ; and he belongs to 
neither society nor club. He has never entered 
politics, "because,"' as he states, "of the means 
one is now obliged to adopt in order to secure an 
election." He is connected with the Congrega- 
tional church in Randolph, and has for many 
years served as clerk of the church organization. 
He has also held the position of superintendent 
of the Sunday-school for some time. As a repre- 
sentative of one of the oldest families of Ran- 
dolph and a foremost citizen, Mr. Beal was se- 
lected as orator on the occasion of the centennial 
celebration of Randolph, July 19, 1893 ; and the 
oration which he then delivered is now in press. 
Of his family, he and an invalid brother, who 
shares his home with him, are the last survivors. 
He has never married. 



BIGFLOW, George Brooks, of lioston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, April 
25, 1836, son of Samuel and .Anna Jane (Brooks) 
Bigelow. On the paternal side he is a descendant 
of John Bigelow from England, settled in Water- 



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town ill 1636, tlirough the latter's son Joshua; 
and on tliu maternal side he descends from Joshua 
Hrooks. of Concord, ancestor of John lirooks, 



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and Martha J. (Skinnerj iJlakc. lie is a de- 
scendant of William Blake, who came from Little 
Braddow, Essex, England, in 1630, first settled in 
Dorchester, and in 1636 removed with William 
I'ynchon and others to Springfield, whose de- 
scendants, however, continued to reside in Dor- 
chester and Boston. Two of them were deacons in 
the church and selectmen, and one was a member 
of the General Court. Dr. 'fhomas Dawes Blake, 
the grandfather of George F., Jr., long of Farming- 
ton, Me., was born in King (now State) Street, 
Boston, and educated in the schools of Worcester. 
Mr. Blake's maternal grandfather was William 
Skinner, of Fynnfield. George F. Blake, Jr., was 
educated in the pul)lic schools of Medford and of 
Belmont, to which town the family removed when 
he was a lad of ten, at Warren Academy in 
Woburn, and at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, where he graduated in the class of 
1879. The year t88o was spent in a trip around 
the world ; and then he began business life in con- 
nection with the George F. Blake Manufacturing 
Company, steam pump manufacturers, and the 
Knowles Pump \\'orks, of which companies his 



GEORGE B. BIGELOW. 

governor of the State from 1816 to 1826. His 
early education he received at the old Chapman 
Hall School in Boston, and he graduated at Har- 
vard in the class of 1856. His law studies were 
pursued first in the Harvard Law School, and 
afterward in the law office of James Dana and 
Moses (iill Cobb in Boston : and he was ad- 
mitted to the bar December 31, 1859. He has 
practised his profession successfully in Boston 
since that time, devoting himself mainly to office 
practice pertaining to inercantile interests, probate 
matters, and real estate. He has been counsel of 
the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank (one of the 
largest in the State) for over seventeen years. In 
politics Mr. Bigelow has affiliated with the Re- 
publican party, but is independent in his views. 
He is a member of the Bostonian Society, of the 
Boston .\rt Club, the E.vchange Club, and the 
Boston Athletic Club. 




GEO. F. BLAKE. Jr. 



BLAKE, George Fdrdvce, Jr., of Worcester, father was president. He was with these con- 
dealer and manufacturer, is a native of Medford, cerns as draughtsman till 1884, when on the 28th 
born February 9, 1859, son of George Fordyce of February he entered the iron and steel trade 



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WEN OF PROGRESS. 



at Worcester, forming a partnership under the 
name of Hlake, Boutwell, & Co. In October, 1891, 
his firm became George F. Blake, Jr., & Co. In 
May. 1893, an iron mill at W'areham was added to 
the business, and a store in Boston. Mr. Blake is 
also a trustee of the Worcester County Institution 
of Savings, and he was for three years a director 
of the Providence & Worcester Railroad Company. 
He is a member of the Worcester Board of Trade 
and of the Home Market Club. He belongs to 
several clubs in Worcester and Boston, — the Wor- 
cester, Commonwealth, and Quinsigamond Boat 
clubs of Worcester (president of the latter for 
two years) and the Athletic and Art clubs of Bos- 
ton. He was married April 29. 1885, to Miss 
Carrie Howard Turner, daughter of Job A. 
Turner, treasurer of the G. F. Blake Manufactur- 
ing Company and the Knowles Pump Works. 
They have one child : F'ordyce Turner Blake. 



BLANEY, Osgood Chandler, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, is a native of Boston, born January 20, 
i860, son of Irving and Annette (Chandler) 




OSGOOD C. BLANEY. 



William ('handler, one of the earliest settlers of 
Roxbury, coming in 1637. He was educated in 
the Boston public schools. The greater part of 
his business life has been devoted to the metal re- 
fining business, in which he has for many years 
been engaged with C. C. Blaney & Co. He is in 
politics an earnest Republican, and has been a 
member of the Republican city committee since 
1888. He has served in the Common Council 
one term (1890), and is now sealer of weights and 
measures, having been appointed to that position 
in May, 1895. He is connected with the order of 
Odd Fellows, a member of Norfolk Lodge, No. 48, 
and is a member also of Upham Assembly, No. 61, 
Royal Society of Good Fellows. Mr. Blaney was 
married August 3, 1882, to Miss Eleanor Kieser. 
They have one child : Walter Clifton Blaney. 



Blaney. On the paternal side he is a descendant 
of William Blaney, who settled in Swampscott in 
1751 ; and on the maternal side he descends from 



BOOTH BY, Alonzo, M.D., of Boston, is a 
native of Maine, born in Athens, Somerset County. 
March 5, 1840, son of Nathaniel and Martha M. 
Boothby. His father was a farmer, who settled 
in .\thens in 1838. He was educated in the 
local schools, at Athens Academy, and at Kent's 
Hill; and, early determining to become a sur- 
geon, he began at nineteen the study of medicine 
with Dr. Kinsman, then a leading physician in 
his native town. .Subsequently he attended two 
courses of lectures at Bowdoin College, and in 
1861 went to New York, where he continued his 
studies under Dr. David Conant, who had been 
a professor in Bowdoin. .Soon after the Civil 
War broke out, he entered the Union service as 
a surgical dresser, acting as cadet, and, while 
pursuing this work, took a course in the George- 
town Medical College, D.C., from which he re- 
ceived his diploma in March, 1863. Later he 
became contract surgeon under Dr. Bliss, as- 
signed to Patent Office and Armory Square Gen- 
eral Hospitals, and in 1864 was commissioned 
first assistant surgeon to the Second L'nited 
States Colored Regiment, with which he re- 
mained a year as principal surgeon. In 1865 
on account of impaired health, the result of his 
severe labors in hospital and field, he returned 
to his home in Maine, and two days after was 
stricken with yellow fever, which he contracted 
in Key West, where it was raging when he left 
his regiment on sick furlough. Before he left on 
sick leave he tendered hrs resignation, the accept- 
ance of which was not received till some time 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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after his return home. Upon his recovery he re- 
moved to Wilton. Me., and there practised his 
profession two years. Then he came to Boston, 




surgery, and at the present time he is professor of 
gynecology. He is president of the Massachu- 
setts Homoeopathic Medical Society, past presi- 
dent of the Boston Homitopathic Medical Society, 
past president of the Massachusetts Surgical and 
Gyna;cological Society, member of the Massachu- 
setts Homceopathic Medical Society and of the 
American Institute of Homoeopathy. He has 
contributed various articles on his specialties to 
the medical journals. In early life he was promi- 
nent in the order of Odd Fellows : and he is now 
a Freemason, member of the Mt. Lebanon Lodge 
of Boston. Dr. Boothby was married April i. 
1863, to Miss Maria A. Stodder, daughter of 
Reuben Stodder, of Athens, Me. They have one 
son : Walter Meredith Boothbv. 



BOYNTON, Joseph Jacksox, M.U., of Fram- 
ingham, is a native of Vermont, born in Stowe, 
June 9, 1S33, son of David and Melinda (Austin 1 
Boynton. His education was largely attained 
through his own efforts and his persistency in the 
pursuit of study while supporting himself, having 



ALONZO BOOTHBY 

where he has been established since. In 1S66, 
after giving to the theory much study, and after 
a personal experience, having found relief from 
malarial fever through its employment, he adopted 
homceopathy, and soon became prominent in its 
practice. He w^as first appointed a visiting phy- 
sician to the Homoeopathic Dispensary, and was 
made a lecturer in the Boston University School 
of Medicine soon after its establishment in 1873. 
Further to perfect himself as a surgeon, he went 
abroad in 1883, and spent a year or more in 
the great hospitals of Berlin, Vienna, and Lon- 
don. Returning to Boston, he gradually relin- 
quished the general practice of medicine to devote 
himself e.xclusively to surgery. In 1889 he estab- 
lished his private surgical hospital on Worcester 
Square, now the largest private hospital in the 
city, continuing, however, his work as surgeon to 
the Homceopathic Hospital, with which he first be- 
came connected in 1878, and in other directions. 
In the Boston University Medical School he has 
been a demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer on anat- 
omy, professor of surgical anatoni)-, lecturer on 
chemical surgerv. associate professor of clinical 




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J. J. BOYNTON 



left home at the age of thirteen and made his own 
way from that time. For more tiian thirty years 
he studied evenings, finding instructors among his 



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acquaintances. He attended the district school 
until sixteen years of age, and then entered the 
People's Academy at Morrisville, Vt., where he 
spent a year. Afterward he taught school for 
three years. Meanwhile at about the time he en- 
tered the academy he had begun the study of med- 
icine, and walked eight miles to make his regular 
recitations to Dr. Huntoon, of Hyde Park, Vt. ; 
and he never wholly dropped the study by himself 
until he decided to attend a medical school. He 
first took two courses of medical lectures in the 
University of New York, and next two courses in 
the University of Vermont, where he graduated 
June 26, 187S. He lived in Stowe until 1881, 
beginning practice there, and then removed to 
Framingham, where he has since been engaged in 
the successful practice of both medicine and sur- 
gery. Dr. Boynton served in the Civil War, en- 
listing August 18, 1862. On the 8th of Septem- 
ber following he was elected captain of Company 
E, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers ; 
and on May 5, 1863 was made major. He was 
discharged July 21, 1863. Subsequently he en- 
tered the State Militia and was elected captain of 
Company D, Second Regiment Infantry, Decem- 
ber 31, 1864. On the loth of February the 
following year he was promoted to lieutenant 
colonel; and March 27, 1867, to colonel, which 
position he held for one year, and then resigned. 
In both Stowe and Framingham he has served in 
public place, having held all town offices except 
that of treasurer, and been a school committee- 
man for more than twenty years. For two terms, 
1865 and 1866, he was a member of the Vermont 
Legislature for Stowe. Dr. Boynton was married 
first. May 11, 1852, to Miss Vadica Maria Fuller, 
of Stowe. She died December 6, 1S93. He mar- 
ried second, January 14, 1895, Mrs. Annie Itasca 
(Farris) Holland, of Boston. His children are : 
Alice Bingham (born October 30, 1855), Ada 
Delano (born March 31, i860), Joseph Stannard 
(born May 23, 1863), and Elcie Maria Boynton 
(born August 9, 187 1). 



Chester, Mass., and was subsequently a town 
officer. His great - great - grandfather graduated 
from Harvard College in 1742, and became a 
physician of prominence in Western Massachu- 
setts. His father, Dr. William G. Breck, was also 
a graduate of Harvard (1854), and practised his 
profession in Springfield for nearly forty years, 
being the leading surgeon of Western Massachu- 
setts, and dying at the age of seventy, very sud- 
denly, at the bedside of a patient in Chicopee, 
whom he had been called in consultation to see. 
Theodore F. was educated in private schools and 
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He studied 



BRECK, Theodore Frelinghuvsen, M.D., of 
Springfield, is a native of New York, born in the 
town of Vienna, July 29, 1844, son of Dr. William 
Gilman Breck and Mary (Van Deventer) Breck. 
He is a descendant in the eighth generation of 
Edward Breck, who came from Lancaster County, 
England, to this country in 1635, settled in Dor- 





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THEODORE F. BRECK. 



medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and 
after graduation there, in April, 1866, went abroad, 
and continued his studies for two years, in 1867, 
1869, in the hospitals of Vienna and Paris. In 
1865 he served for some months in the Civil War 
as acting assistant surgeon. United States Army. 
Upon his return from Europe in 1869 he began 
regular practice, established in Springfield, as his 
father had been before him. Since 1870 he has 
been surgeon of the Boston & Albany Railroad, 
since 1877 medical examiner for the Second Dis- 
trict of Hampden County, and for some years 
surgeon of the Springfield Hospital. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of 



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the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, of the 
National Association of Railway Surgeons, of the 
Hampden District Medical Society (president in 
:888 and 1889), and of the Springfield Medical 
Club. He is vice-president of the Nyassett Club 
(social) of Springfield. Dr. Breck was married 
April iS, 1872, to Miss H. Cordelia Townsend, 
daughter of the late Elmer Townsend, of Boston. 
They have a daughter and a son : Helen Town- 
send and William Oilman Breck. 



BRODliECK, Rev. William Nast, D.D., 
pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Charlestown District, Boston, is a native of Ohio, 
born at Marietta, June 25, 1847, son of Paul and 
Katharine (Whitbeck) Brodbeck. His father was 
born in Germany, but came to this country when 
but twenty-five years of age, and remained a 
citizen of the United States until his death. His 
mother was born in Kinderhook, N.V., and 
was a direct descendant of the Hollanders who 
early settled in that region. His early education 
was obtained in the public schools of Ohio. At 
the age of seventeen he entered upon a business 
career, which he successfully prosecuted for 
several years. After attaining his majority, he 
read law at Piqua, Ohio; but, before entering upon 
its practice, he was led to consecrate his life to 
the work of the ministry. He accordingly entered 
that of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 
autumn of 1872, and has been continuously in 
active service up to the present. His first regular 
appointment was at Tippecanoe City, Ohio, where 
he was stationed two years. He was next placed 
in charge of Wright Chapel, Cincinnati, for a year, 
at the expiration of which time he was appointed 
to Avondale, Ohio, where he remained two years. 
He was then stationed at Trinity Church, Xenia, 
Ohio, where during a three years' pastorate a 
commodious parsonage was built, and other im- 
provements in the church property made. From 
Xenia he was sent to Springfield, Ohio, to take 
charge of a new enterprise ; and the result of his 
three years' labor there was the establishment of 
the present St. Paul Church and the erection of 
its beautiful edifice. He was next appointed to 
the First Church, Urbana, Ohio, where a great re- 
vival attended his ministry, in which more than 
three hundred persons were converted. At the end 
of his first year there, the bishop presiding at the 
Conference removed him to Walnut Hills Church, 



one of the most important charges in the Cincin- 
nati Conference, where he remodelled the church 
edifice, and had a most successful pastorate of 
eighteen months. At the expiration of that time 
he was transferred by the authorities of the 
church to New England, and stationed at the 
Tremont Street Church, Boston, where he re- 
mained during the extended term of five years. 
He was next appointed to Brookline, where he re- 
mained three years, nearly completing during his 
pastorate what will be the finest church edifice 
of the Methodist denomination in New England. 
From Brookline he came to his present charge, 




WM. N. BRODBECK. 

Trinity Church, Charlestown, where he is having 
a most successful pastorate. While pastor of the 
church at Brookline, he was elected general 
secretary of the Epworth League, the officially 
recognized young people's society of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, but declined the position 
because of the importance and extent of the work 
in which he was then engaged. During the year 
1890-91 he was president of the Boston Metho- 
dist Preachers' Meeting, and during 1894-95 of 
the Evangelical Alliance of Boston and vicinity. 
He is also president of the New England 
Deaconess Home and Training School ; secretary 
of the Board of Trustees of Boston University; 



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member of the executive committees of the Metho- 
dist City Missionary and Church Extension 
Society, and of the Evangelistic Association of 
New England ; and a director of the Methodist 
Ministers' Relief Association. He received the 
degree of D.D. from the German Wallace College 
of Berea, Ohio, in 1892, and from the Ohio 
Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in 1894. 
Dr. Brodbeck is well known throughout Metho- 
dism, East and West, and is in demand for the 
dedication of churches and the presentation of 
the great questions of the day before conferences 
and conventions. He was one of the leading rep- 
resentatives from New England at the last General 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and held important positions in that body. His 
ministry has been marked in every city by great 
religious awakenings. He has, by voice and pen, 
called the Church to aggressive work, and contrib- 
uted materially to the increase which has come to 
her fold. As a preacher, he is among the first 
of his denomination. A voice of much rich- 
ness, fine physique, deep evident conviction, and 
great personal magnetism enable him to win the 
people. Dr. Brodbeck was married November 12, 
1872, to Miss Susan Boyd Carrington, of Piqua, 
Ohio. They have four children : Edith N., Bessie 
C, Paul E., and Mabel C. Brodbeck. 



BROWN, Charles Denison, of Boston, mill 
agent and manufacturer, is a native of Maine, born 
in Norway, February 16, 1836, son of Titus Olcott 
and Nancy (Denison) Brown. He was educated 
in the town school and at the Norway Liberal In- 
stitute (high school). He began active life as a 
clerk in a country store ; was next engaged in the 
sugar house of his uncle, the late J. B. Brown, in 
Portland, and then went into a paper mill, since 
which time he has been identified with manufact- 
uring interests. He is now vice-president and 
was one of the promotors of the Rumford Falls 
Power Company, Rumford Falls, Me. ; is presi- 
dent of the Somerset Fibre Company, a director of 
the Kennebec Fibre Company, the Androscoggin 
Pulp Company, the Umbagog Pulp Company, and 
the Sebago Wood Board Company ; and a stock- 
holder also in several other mills manufacturing 
pulp and wood pulp boards ; and treasurer of the 
Rumford Falls Woollen Company, manufacturing 
" Oxford " felts. He established the Boston house 
of Charles D. Brown & Co. (composed of himself 



and his son Charles A. Brown), for the sale of the 
products of these and other mills and of paper- 
makers' chemicals and supplies, in May, 1892. 
As agent for some of the above-mentioned com- 
panies and also of the Uncas Paper Company, the 
American Straw Board Company, the " Ontario " 
canvas dryer felts, the house handles large quanti- 
ties of straw and wood pulp boards, soda and sul- 
phite fibres, wood pulp, news, vegetable parchment 
and Manila papers, and its business extends 
throughout the United States as well as abroad. 
Its offices and salesroom now occupy a large double 
store and basement on Congress Street. Mr. 




CHAS. D. BROWN. 

Brown is a member of the Cumberland Club, Port- 
land, and of the Exchange Club, Boston. In 
politics he is a Republican. He married Decem- 
ber 20, i860. Miss .^bba F. Shurtleff. They have 
one son : Charles Alva Brown. 



BROWN, George Artemas, M.D., of Barre, 
superintendent of the Private Institution for the 
Education of Feeble-minded Youth, was born in 
Barre, April 18, 1858, son of Dr. George Brown 
and Catherine (Wood) Brown. On the paternal 
side he is descended from Thomas Brown, ad- 
mitted freeman March 14, 1638-39, and settled 



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in Cambridge, the line running as follows : Boaz 
Brown, born in 1641, lived in Concord; Thomas, 
born in 1667, died in 1739: Thomas, born in 
Concord, 1707, died in public service in 1766; 
Jonas, born in Concord, 1752, fought in the battle 
of Lexington, " and, though wounded, he pursued 
the enemy nine miles," commissioned ensign in 
the Continental army, and died in Temple, N.H., 
in 1834; Ephraim, born in Temple, N.H., July 
12, 1790, died in Wilton, N.H., December 12, 
1840; and George, father of George A., born 
October 11, 1823, died May 6, 1892, who built up 
the institution of which the latter is now the 
head, to its present position. On the maternal 
side Dr. Brown descends from William Wood, 
born in 1582, died in 1671, who came from Eng- 
land in 1638, and settled in Concord: Michael 
Wood, died in 1674; John Wood, died January 3, 
1729; John Wood, born September 13, 1680, 
died July 2, 1746; Ensign John Wood, born 
March, 17 16, moved to Mason, N.H., and died 
December 9, 1785; Colonel James \\'ood, born 
November 4, 1755, died July 31, 1838 ; and Arte- 
mas Wood, born August 9, 1791, died June 30, 
1866, who lived in Groton, and was a prominent 
man there. Dr. Brown was educated in the com- 
mon and High School, at Phillips (Andover) 
.Academy, graduating in 1876, and at Yale, where 
he graduated in 1880. He then studied medicine, 
and graduated from the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York City, in 1883. Associating 
himself with his father in the conduct of the Pri- 
vate Institution for the Eeeble-minded, he was 
made assistant superintendent in 1883 ; and, upon 
the death of his father. May 6, 1892, he became 
superintendent, in association with his mother. 
Under the administration of the family, which 
began in 1850 when his father took charge, the 
institution, which was the first of its kind in the 
country (established in 1848), early became cele- 
brated. It now consists of five houses or divi- 
sions for girls, boys, epileptics, and " custodials,'' 
— persons of intellectual ability, but unfitted to 
engage in business life or mingle in society be- 
cause of physical or cerebral infirmity, — and a 
farm department. It is arranged on the cottage 
|ilan, this system ha\ing, with the development of 
the institution, been adopted as best fitted to pre- 
serve the family type ; and the household is classi- 
lied in groups under the immediate super\ision of 
experienced officials, who give their whole ener- 
gies to the well-being of the inmates. There are 



within the grounds extensive stables, a gymna- 
sium, work-shops, bowling alley and rink, and 
conveniences for various outdoor games. The in- 
stitution is a purely private undertaking, without 
endowment or permanent funds. Dr. Brown has 
always lived in this work, and is thoroughly in- 
terested in its successful development. He has 
also been mucii concerned in movements for the 
benefit and improvement of his native town. He 
has been a member of the Town Library Commit- 
tee for ten years ; a director of the Barre Library 
.Association for six years, and is now (1895) its 
president ; director of the Barre Village Improve- 




CEO. A BROWN. 

ment Society for six years ; director and treasurer 
of the Glen Valley Cemetery Association for 
twelve years ; for some time a member of the 
Barre Board of Trade, and its present president 
(1895); and is now president of the Barre Water 
Company. He was largely instrumental in start- 
ing the last-mentioned company, becoming one 
of its incorporators and its largest stockholder. 
The works are now under construction at an es- 
timated cost of twenty-five thousand dollars ; and 
the enterprise, a most important one for so small 
a town as Barre, is well under way. Dr. Brown 
is interested in church (Congregational) affairs, 
and has been clerk of the Congregational parish 



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for ten 3-ears. He is a member of the Mas- Society, the Medico-Legal Society, and the Asso- 
sachusetts Medical Society, of the Worcester elation of Military Surgeons of the United States. 
County Medical Society, of the New England He belongs to the order of Freemasons, and is a 
Psychological Society, and of the Brookfield Med- 
ical Club. His social club affiliations are with 
the Winter Club and a church club. In politics 
he is a Republican, and was a delegate to the 
Republican State convention of 1894. Dr. 
Brown was married May i8, 1887, to Miss Susan 
E. Barnum, of Bethel, Conn. They have three 

children : George Percy, Catherine I)., and Don- /^ Jj^^ 

aid R. Brown. 



BROWN, Orlando Jonas, M.D., of North 
Adams, is a native of Vermont, born in the town 
of Whitingham, Windham County, February 2, 
1848, son of Harvey and Lucina (Fuller) Brown. 
His education was acquired in the public schools 
and at Powers Institute, Bernardston, Mass., 
where he spent several terms. He engaged in 
the occupation of school-teaching when but six- 
teen years of age, and so obtained the means for 
completing his academic training and fitting for 
his profession. He took the course of the med- 
ical department of the University of Vermont, and 
graduated there with the regular degree of M.D. 
in 1870, and devoted a year to study in the hos- 
pitals of New York. Then, settling in the town 
of Adams, this State, he began regular practice 
there in 187 1. Removing to North Adams the 
following year, he has since been identified with 
that town, meeting with success in his professional 
work and holding various public positions. In 
order to become familiar with the newer and most 
approved methods of practice, he has taken sev- 
eral special courses in hospitals and medical 
schools in New York and Chicago, studying par- 
ticularly diseases of women and children, in the 
treatment of which he is notably successful. He 
has been one of the medical examiners for Berk- 
shire County since 1882, assistant surgeon of the 
Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Mili- 
tia, since 1878, and a health officer of North 
Adams the greater portion of the time since 1880. 
In 1889 he represented the First Berkshire Dis- 
trict in the State Legislature, where he served on 
the committee on public health and did much 
creditable work. He is a member and ex-presi- 
dent of the Medical Association of Northern Berk- 
shire and of the Berkshire District Medical So- 
ciety, and member of the Massachusetts Medical 




ORLANDO J. BROWN. 

member of the Board of Trade and of several be- 
nevolent organizations of North Adams. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and in religious faith a 
LTniversalist. He has been deacon of the First 
Universalist Church of North Adams since 1885, 
and superintendent of the Sunday-school since 
1872. He was also a member of the building 
committee for the present church edifice of the 
society erected in 1S92. Dr. Brown was married 
first, November 22, 1871, to Miss Eva M. Hods- 
kins, who died October 14, 1873, at the birth of 
her child, William O. Brown, since deceased. He 
married second, September 13, 1876, Miss Ida 
M. Haskins, by whom he had two children : 
Agnes O. and Ida M. Brown. She died in 1881, 
at the birth of her second child. His present 
wife was Miss Alice T. Stowell, daughter of 
Edward and Celestia (Stevens) Stowell, whom he 
married December 16, 1884. They have no 
children. 



BROWNELL, Stephen Allen, of New Bed- 
ford, merchant and manufacturer, mayor of the 



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city 1894, was born in Westport, January 5, 1844, 
son of Ezra P. and Ann Maria (Allen) Brownell. 
His great-grandfather, Benjamin Brownell, his 
grandfather, Jireh Brownell, and his father, Elzra, 
were all residents of Westport, and all more or 
less honored by their fellow-townsmen by selec- 
tion for official position, his father especially hav- 
ing been frequently called to public place. He 
was educated in the common schools and at 
Pierce Academy, Middleborough. After leaving 
the academy, he taught country schools for four 
terms, and then began his business career. He 
was for si.x years a store-keeper and the post- 
master of Central Village, in Westport (from 1864 
to 1870), and subsequently, after the death of 
his father, in association with his late father's 
partner for si.x years in the live cattle trade, to 
which was soon added the slaughtering of cattle. 
He came to New Bedford in 1878, and was first 
employed here by P. Cornell, wholesale meat- 
dealer, as manager. He remained in this position 
si.x years, then became a partner in the business, 
and six years later succeeded to the entire busi- 
ness of P. Cornell & Co., becoming the New 




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S. A. BROWNELL. 



is now a director of the Dartmouth and West- 
port Electric Railroad, the New Bedford Safe 
Deposit and Trust Company, and the New Bed- 
ford Co-operative Bank. His public life was be- 
gun while he was a resident of Westport, as a 
member of the lower house of the Legislature, 
in 1870. In New Bedford he was first con- 
nected with the city government in 1886, when 
he was a member of the City Council. He was 
returned the following year, and then was elected 
to the Board of .Aldermen, where he served 
through the years 1888-90-91-92. He was first 
chosen to the mayoralty in the December elec- 
tion of 1893. As mayor, he is chairman of the 
Board of .Aldermen and the School Committee; 
and he is also chairman of the Board of Public 
Works, the Park Commission, the Water Board, 
and the trustees of the Free Public Library. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has been some 
time a member of the Republican city committee 
of New Bedford. He belongs to the Masonic 
fraternity, a past master of Noquochoke Lodge, 
member of Adoniram Royal Arch Chapter, of 
Sutton Commandery Knights Templar, a Scottish 
Rite thirty-second degree Mason, and of the Mys- 
tic Shrine, Aleppo, Boston ; and is also a member 
of the Knights of Honor, the American Order of 
United Workmen, the New Bedford Lodge of the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the 
Acushnet Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Stella 
Lodge of Daughters of Rebecca. He is presi- 
dent and director of the Odd Fellows' Building 
Association of New Bedford. His club associa- 
tions are with the Wamsutta and Hunters' of New 
Bedford, the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, and 
the Club of the Legislature of 1870. Mr. Brown- 
ell was married November 13, 1864, to Miss Mary 
L. Sisson, of Mattapoisett. They have had five 
children, three of whom died before reaching the 
age of three years. The others still living are : 
Albert R. Brownell and Mabel W., now Mrs. 
Albert Braley. 



Bedford agent of P. D. .Armour, of Chicago. 
Meanwhile he engaged in numerous other inter- 
ests, including manufacturing and banking. He 



CAMPBELL, Bexj.\min Franklin, M.D., of 
Boston, was born near Halifax, September 12, 1834, 
son of Benjamin W. H. and Isabel (Sutherland) 
Campbell. He is of Scotch descent, and his ances- 
tors were among the early settlers of New Eng- 
land. His education was begun in the common 
schools of his native place, and finished in New- 
York, to which city he moved in early life, and 



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where in various classical schools he prepared for 
college. He entered the Harvard Medical School 
in 1854, and graduated in 1857. He then went 
abroad, and took a special course in surgery under 
Christopher Heath in London, also visiting the 
various hospitals in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. 
Upon his return he established himself in East 
Boston, and soon acquired an extensive practice, 
which is now limited only by his endurance. Dur- 
ing the Civil \\'ar he served as surgeon in the gen- 
eral field hospital on the Pamunky River, Virginia, 
in 1862, and in 1864 as acting assistant surgeon, 
LTnited States armv, at the Webster General Hos- 




BENJAMIN F. CAMPBELL. 

pital in Manchester, N.H. He is now surgeon of 
Joseph Hooker Post, No. 23, Grand .\rmy of the 
Republic. r)r. Campbell was a member of the lower 
house of the Legislature of 1882-83, serving as 
chairman of the committee on water-supply. Dur- 
ing his first term he introduced the order, which 
became a law, compelling storekeepers and manu- 
facturers to provide seats for their female em- 
ployees when the latter were not engaged in the 
performance of their duties. In 1889-90 he was 
a member of the .Senate, serving as chairman of 
the committee on education. For si.x years he 
served on the Board of Overseers of the Poor in 
Boston, and for three years was a member of the 



Boston School Committee. In politics he is an 
active Republican. He was an alternate delegate 
to the National Republican Convention in 1880, 
and the same year president of the Garfield Club 
of East Boston; and in 1888 he was president of 
the East Boston Harrison Club. He is a member 
and a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety; member of the Middlesex (political dining) 
Club, and of the Knights Templar. He has fre- 
quently given public lectures, four of which, 
on "The Effects of Alcohol upon the Human 
Organization," "The Dangers of the Republic," 
"The Abuse of the Tongue," and " Rational Medi- 
cine," received wide attention. Dr. Campbell 
was married December 20, 18G6, to Miss Albina 
M. C. Anderson, of Boston. They have three 
children : Frank, Grace, and Blanche Sutherland 
Campbell. 

CARR, S.'VMUEL. of Boston, banker, was born 
in Charlestown, November 18, 184S, son of Sam- 
uel and Louisa (Trowbridge) Carr. His ances- 
tors on both his father's and mother's side came 
to this country in its early clays of settlement, from 
England. His education was begun in the public 
schools of Charlestown, where he entered the 
High School, and finished at the Newton High 
School, from which he graduated in 1S6-. his par- 
ents having removed to West Newton in 1862. 
Immediately after graduation he entered the Shoe 
and Leather National Bank, of which his father 
was cashier, as corresponding clerk. He con- 
tinued here as clerk and assistant cashier until 
1878, when he became cashier of the National 
Hide and Leather Bank of Boston, which position 
he held until 1S82. Then he was president of the 
Central National Bank of Boston 18S2-83, and in 
March, 1S83. was made confidential secretary of 
the late Frederick L. Ames, a large capitalist and 
one of the largest private real estate owners in 
Boston, with whom he remained until the latter's 
death in September, 1893, and by whose will he 
was appointed one of the executors and trustees. 
The management of this trust is his present occu- 
pation. His official positions now are president 
of the LTnited Electric Securities Companv of Bos- 
ton, president of the Mutual District Messenger 
Company of Boston, vice-president of the Industrial 
Improvement Company, \'ice-president of the Cen- 
tral National Bank, director of the American Loan 
and Trust Company of Boston, and director of sev- 
eral of the branch lines of the Union Pacific Rail- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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way Company. Mr. Carr received a special finan- 
cial training under his father. While he was 
cashier of the National Hide and Leather liank. 



1872, to Miss Susan Waters 'I'arbox, who was 
born in Framingham, and a daughter of the late 
Rev. I. N. Tarbo.v, D.D. They have two chil- 
dren : Margaret Waters (born May 24, 1876) and 
Elsie Trowbridge (born March 29, 1881). 



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SAMUEL CARR, 

from 1878 to 1S82, his father was still cashier of 
the Shoe and Leather Bank, and his brother, 
George E. Carr, was cashier of the Everett Na- 
tional Bank. Both have since died. Mr. Carr 
has always been an enthusiastic musical amateur, 
and was strongly urged by his musical teachers 
to adopt music as a profession, but decided not to 
do so. He has played the organ in various 
churches as a relaxation and delight most of the 
time since fifteen years of age. For the past 
eleven years he has been organist and director 
of music at the Old South Church, Boston, where 
is one of the largest and finest organs in the 
country and a fine quartette choir. He is a mem- 
ber of the Harvard Musical Association, of the 
Bunker Hill Monument Association, of the Bos- 
tonian Society ; and of the Country Club, Brook- 
line, the Essex County Club, Manchester, the St. 
Botolph, Algonquin, and Athletic clubs, Boston. 
He has, by appointment of the governor, been a 
State director of the \\'orkingmen's Loan Associa- 
tion since 1888 : and in 1895 he was appointed by 
Mayor Curtis a trustee of the Boston Public Li- 
brary. Mr. Carr was married September 10, 



CARRIE, WiLLiA.M Albert, of Boston, bank 
stationer, is a native of Canada, born in Carlisle, 
Ontario, November 18, 1857, son of Richard and 
Lambert Montgomery (Anderson) Carrie. He is 
of Huguenot, Welsh, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, and 
English ancestry. His father, who moved to the 
LTnited States in 1858, was a volunteer soldier in 
the Ci\il War. He was educated in common and 
private schools. Being left dependent at an early 
age, he was obliged to work ; and he began in the 
store of Field, Leiter, & Co., Chicago. He re- 
mained there until the great Chicago fire, and 
after that was in a real estate office until 1877, 
when he went to Toronto, Canada, and entered 
a wholesale stationery and publishing establish- 
ment, there to learn the business. Two years 




WM. A. CARRIE. 



later he was put " on the road " by the house as a 
commercial traveller. After a while, wearying of 
hard pioneer work in this line at small pay, he 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



dropped it, and went to New York City, where he 
entered the employment of Baker, Pratt, & Co., 
Bond Street, then the largest stationery and book 
house in that city. In May, 1883, having re- 
ceived a better offer from J. C. Hall & Co., of 
Providence, R.I., to travel for that firm among 
the banks of the Eastern and Middle States, he 
went to that place. After three years with the 
Messrs. Hall, having been urged by some of the 
bank men to engage in business for himself in 
Boston, he left Providence, and came to Boston, 
a city which always had a fascination for him 
because of its historic associations and the kind- 
ness which he had received from those with whom 
he had come in contact, and opened an office at 
No. 84 Devonshire Street. Two years later, need- 
ing more room, he moved to No. 86 Federal Street. 
Up to this time the orders taken by him had been 
placed with printers and binders doing work for 
the trade. But, as his business grew, this arrange- 
ment proved unsatisfactory; and in i88g he 
leased two floors at No. 46 Oliver Street, and put 
in a ruling and binding plant, together with a 
stock of paper for jobbing purposes. .Subse- 
quently a printing plant was added, making it 
to-day the only establishment of the kind — 
printing, ruling, perforating, numbering, and 
binding done under one management — in Boston, 
if not in New England. The firm (now William 
A. Carrie & Co.) has also had for two years the 
Boston agency of the Globe Company, Cincinnati 
and New York, letter file cabinets and supplies 
for saving labor in offices. Mr. Carrie is a Free- 
mason, senior warden of St. John's Lodge of 
Boston, the oldest lodge in America ; and is a 
member of the Boston Stationers' Association, 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association, 
the Master Printers' Club, and the lioston Art 
Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was 
married February 20, 1894, to Miss Minnie M. 
Shaw, of New York City. 



CASAS, William Beltr.an de las, of Maiden 
and Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born 
in Maiden, March 3, 1S57. His father, Francisco 
Beltran de las Casas, born in 1S03, near Tarra- 
gona in Spain, came to this country about 1826, 
and, after teaching the languages and painting for 
a time at Williams and Amherst Colleges, passed 
most of his life in the same profession in Boston. 
His mother, Elizabeth Carder Pedrick, was born 



at Marblehead in 18 10, of the marriage of John 
Pedrick and Elizabeth Fettyplace, both descended 
from ancestors of the same names, who were 
among the earliest English settlers of that town. 
Mr. de las Casas was educated in the Maiden 
public schools and at Harvard College, from which 
he graduated in the class of 1879. After gradua- 
tion he was for two years, 1879-81, teacher of 
mathematics in Trinity School at Tivoli-on-the- 
Hudson. Then he took up his law studies at the 
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 
1884. After further law reading in the law office 
of Robert P. Smith at Boston, he was admitted to 




W. B. de las CASAS. 

the Suffolk bar in 18S5, and began practice at 
once, with office at No. 40 Water Street, Boston, 
where he has since been established. He has 
mainly been engaged in the management of trust 
and other estates, but has also conducted some 
business negotiations in Spanish countries, in 
which he has travelled extensively. Having been 
also drawn into real estate interests, he developed 
one of the most attractive sections of his native 
city, and in other ways has taken an active part 
in its life and prosperity. He was one of the 
founders and building committee of the Maiden 
Hospital, of which he is yet a trustee. Of late 
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proniiiient part in political affairs, as a result of his 
strong interest in such matters as civil service, 
tariff, and consular reform. Since 1882 he has 
been secretary of the Maiden Civil Service Re- 
form Association, and on the executive and other 
committees of the State and national leagues. In 
1884 he was secretary of the Maiden Independent 
Republican Committee. Later he gave his sup- 
port to the Democratic party, and in 1890 was a 
member of the Maiden Democratic city committee, 
and at the same time chairman of the Congressional 
District committee. The ne.xt year he was the 
Democratic nominee for the Governor's Council. 
In 1892 he was appointed a member of a State 
commission, with the Hon. Charles Francis Adams 
and Philip A. Chase, to report on the advisability 
of a system of metropolitan parks about Boston, 
and in 1893 was appointed on the permanent Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission. The work of this 
commission has been, aside from the practice of 
his profession, his most absorbing interest for the 
past three years. He is a member of several 
clubs, among which are the Union of Boston, 
Kernwood of Maiden, and Reform of New York, 
and for years has served in the first Corps of 
Cadets. He is unmarried. 



CAVANAUGH, Michael A.mbrose, of Boston, 
Taunton, and Manchester, N.H., senior member 
of the firm of Cavanaiigh Brothers, leading 
dealers in horses in New England, was born in 
East Taunton, December 9, 1852, son of Thomas 
and Ellen (Collins) Cavanaugh. He is of Irish 
blood, his father and mother having both been 
born in Ireland. His father came to East Taunton 
when a young man, and went to work in the Iron 
Works there. In 1864, when Michael was a lad 
of twelve, the father was taken ill, and obliged to 
give up work, and so continued until his death in 
May, 1867. Consequ'ently, the boy was forced to 
leave school, and contribute his part to the sup- 
port of the family, which consisted of eight in all. 
He found a place in the Iron Works, paying the 
rate of thirty-three and one-third cents a day, — 
a pretty small sum, but nevertheless a great help ; 
for the only other wage-earner of the family was 
his elder brother, John, who received but slightly 
higher pay. He continued at the Iron Works 
until 1870, when, having concluded that he would 
like to follow the sea, he left, and shipped in 
a schooner. One voyage, however, dispelled the 



charm: and upon its finish he returned to his 
old work, content to remain a landsman. Mean- 
while he bought a horse and wagon on the in- 
stalment plan : and. when the team was partly 
paid for, he started out in the kindling wood 
business, at the same time trying his hand at 
trading horses. Soon after he started a modest 
stage line, which he ran evenings between East 
Taunton and Taunton. In the autumn of 1875 
he bought a hack, and, moving to Taunton, en- 
gaged in the general hack business at the railway 
station. Three years later he had a small stable 
of horses and carriages, and made sales here. 




M. A. CAVANAUGH. 

Shortly after he moved to Manchester, N.H., and, 
forming a partnership with his brother, James F., 
under the firm name of Cavanaugh Brothers, es- 
tablished a hack, livery, and boarding business in 
the old City Hotel stables. In 188 1 the brothers 
added an auction mart of horses, carriages, and 
harnesses, selling regularly Saturdays, Michael A. 
doing the auctioneering. By 1884 the sales of 
the mart had so increased that the conduct of 
this part of the business occupied nearly all their 
time. Then they sold out the hack and livery 
department, and devoted themselves exclusively to 
the sale business. In 18S6 they bought out the 
carriage and harness repository of Ezra W. Kim- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



bnll, and continued it in connection with the horse 
sale business. In iSSg they opened their first 
stable in Boston, on Portland Street, taking the 
third brother, Thomas F., into the firm. By this 
time their horse business had so increased that 
they were handling about five thousand horses 
a year, and its care was absorbing their attention. 
Consequently, they sold their carriage and harness 
business to Daniel S. Kimball, the predecessor of 
the Kimball Carriage Company. Throughout the 
year i88g Mr. Cavanaugh rode from Manchester 
to Boston and return each day, thus travelling 
one hundred and fourteen miles daily on the cars. 
The same year the brothers built a new brick 
stable in Manchester, on Central Street, one hun- 
dred by forty feet, three stories high ; and here 
they continue to do an extensive horse sale busi- 
ness, having private sales daily and regular auc- 
tion sales each Saturday. In Boston they moved 
in 1893 from Portland Street to Nos. 103 and 105 
Beverly Street, and that year began making a 
specialty of fine high-bred horses. In Taunton 
they completed in 1895 one of the finest four-story 
brick buildings there, containing two large halls 
and a fine stable, where they are doing an exten- 
sive hack, livery, and sale business. Michael A. 
and Thomas F. now attend to the Boston and 
Taunton stables, and James F. manages the Man- 
chester stable. Michael A. was always a lover of 
the race horse, and had driven many valuable 
ones. He was married September 13, 18S8, to 
Miss Lillian E. Butman, daughter of Oliver J. and 
Mary Butman, of Manchester. She died in 1S89, 
after giving birth to a boy: Oliver Ray Estelle 
Cavanaugh. Mr. Cavanaugh moved to Taunton 
soon after the death of his wife, and kept house 
with his mother and brother, Thomas F., until the 
death of his mother, in 1S94. He still li\'es in the 
same place. 

CHICK, Isaac William, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Peter- 
borough, June 25, 1851, son of John Maxwell and 
Lucy (Sanderson) Chick. His father was a 
Baptist minister, having pastorates at Grafton, 
Mass., and at Groton, Mass. He was educated 
and fitted for college at Appleton Academy, New- 
Ipswich, N.H., under Professor E. T. Quimby, 
later professor at Dartmouth College. His class 
entered college, but he preferred to go at once 
into business. Accordingly, in the autumn fol- 
lowing his crraduation, in 1S68, he came to 



Boston, and, finding employment as a book- 
keeper in a wool house, kept a set of books 
there until April, 1869. Then he entered the 
old and well-known carpet house of John H. 
Prav. .Sons, & Co., and took charge of the ship- 
ping department ; and from that time to the 
present he has been connected with this estab- 
lishment, passing through all the various stages 
of the retail and wholesale departments, until he 
worked his way into the firm in 1878. He has 
had the general management of the buying and 
selling of the merchandise of the house, doing 
the foreign as well as the domestic buying, going 




I. W. CHICK. 

to Europe once or twice each )ear, and in this 
way keeping up the supply of foreign novelties 
in its lines of carpets and Oriental rug fabrics. 
His judgment and taste were especially shown 
in the fine line of designs and coloring introduced 
by his house, nearly all of which were selected or 
originated by him. He has devoted all his ener- 
gies to the interests of the house ; and its busi- 
ness has grown rapidly, until it is now (with 
one exception ) the largest carpet business, whole- 
sale and retail, in the country, has a capital of 
a million dollars, pays cash for all goods pur- 
chased, and enjoys an annual trade of rising 
two million dollars. The firm has established 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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an enviable name for reliability, and for fmiiish- 
ing the finest assortment of goods at fair prices. 
In 1887 a large upholstery department was added, 
which has come to be a prosperous and prominent 
feature of the business. A little later the firm 
purchased the furniture and house furnishing 
establishment of H. R. Plimpton & Co., which 
enabled it to make contracts for the entire furnish- 
ing of hotels, clubs, and residences from its own 
stock. It thereafter became one of the best 
known throughout the country ; and its travellers 
were sent into the Far West and North-west, the 
Middle and .Southern State.s. It has for a series 
of years held the contract for furnishing all the 
carpets for the United States government — from 
forty to sixty thousand yards per year — against 
all competition ; and among its many other not- 
able contracts have been the Massachusetts State 
House (new part), twenty thousand yards of Wil- 
ton, the new Suffolk Court-house, Trinity Church, 
Algonquin Club-house, Parker House, Young's 
Hotel, Adams House, Copley Square Hotel, the 
Masonic Temple, all of Boston ; the Fall River 
Line of Steamers, — "Pilgrim," "Puritan,"' and 
" Priscilla,"' the finest boat in the world ; and the 
Hotel Cochrane, Washington, D.C., Kimball 
House, Atlanta, Ga., Grand Union, Saratoga, and 
many others. After the great fire of 1872, being 
then burned out, the firm moved up Washington 
Street, opposite the old Adams House. Many at 
that time doubted the wisdom of the move " way 
up town," but time proved that the march of trade 
was that way. Again, m 1890, having outgrown 
the old quarters, Mr, Chick, having a firm faith in 
the sure advancement of good real estate on Wash- 
ington Street, strongly and successfully advocated 
the purchase of the large piece of business prop- 
erty further south, opposite Boylston Street, in 
the heart of the city. Upon this lot. containing 
twenty thousand feet of land running through to 
Harrison Avenue, the firm erected the present 
six story, fire-proof building, extra well lighted, 
equipped with automatic sprinklers, automatic fire 
and burglar alarms, in every way a model struct- 
ure, especially adapted to the carpet and uphol- 
stering business. Land and building cost upward 
of three-quarters of a million dollars. Mr. Chick 
gave careful attention to all matters connected 
with the purchase of the real estate, and person- 
ally followed all the details of plan and building 
in addition to his many regular duties in connec- 
tion with the carpet business. The foresight 



shown in the purchase of this large piece of real 
estate, which must by its advance in value in 
the near future give a handsome profit to the 
owners, was marked. Trade in Boston is steadily 
and surely moving south, up Washington Street; 
and Boylston Street will soon be the centre of the 
retail trade. Mr. Chick is a director of numerous 
manufacturing corporations in various parts of the 
country ; a director of the Phienix Furniture Com- 
pany, of Grand Rapids, Mich., where over eight 
hundred men are employed ; and of the \\'isconsin 
Central Railroad Company. He is a Freemason, 
member of the De Molay Commandery Knights 
Templar, of St. Andrews C'hapter, and Revere 
Lodge ; is a charter member of the Algonquin 
Club, and has been a member of the L^nion Boat 
Club for many years. In his younger days he 
was active in all athletic sports, and has not lost 
his interest in them. Mr. Chick was married 
October 31, 1877, to Miss Emma M. Converse, 
daughter of J. W. Converse, of Boston. They 
have two children: Mabel (born December 7, 
18S2) and Willie C. Chick (born March 2, 1884). 
His winter residence is at No. 347 Beacon Street, 
corner of Fairfield Street, Back Bay. The house, 
built under his direct supervision, has one of the 
finest interiors in Boston, all three stories being 
finished in a great variety of hard woods, and is 
assessed for one hundred thousand dollars. His 
summer residence is at Swampscott, the large and 
comfortable house there having been built by him 
in i88g. The estate, costing about forty thou- 
sand dollars, contains two acres of land, and is 
upon what was formerly the Mudge place. The 
house is finely furnished, having an abundance of 
Oriental carpets and rugs, of which Mr. Chick is 
a great lover as w-ell as a good judge. 



CL.\FLIN, Fred H.arris, of Boston, business 
manager of the Daily Standard, was born in 
Hudson, October 21, 1861, son of Dr. \\'illiam 
T. and Julia M. Claflin. He was educated 
in the public schools of Marlborough and at 
the Worcester Academy. His mother dying 
when he was a boy, he lived during his early 
youth with his uncle, Dr. E. D. Wyman. in 
Montague City ; and while there he published the 
first amateur paper in western Massachusetts, 
called The Press. When at the Worcester Acad- 
emy, he started a paper called The Aeademy, which 
is still in existence. He served his first time as a 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



printer with Pratt Brothers in Marlborough, Mass., 
remaining in their office for about tliree years. 
Then he removed with his uncle to Maiden, and 
began work in Boston printing-offices. He was 
first in charge of the office of Babb & Stevens on 
Water Street, next with Deland & Barta, and next 
in charge of the office of Colburn Brotliers. 
Leaving the latter place in 1886, he went to 
Worcester, and after doing some work for the late 
Henry J. Jennings, who was then chairman of the 
Republican city committee of Worcester, he was 
employed by Mr. Christie, also a member of that 
committee, to assist in starting the Worcester Te?c- 




F, H. CLAFLIN, 

gram. He remained with the Telegram for aljout 
two years, serving as reporter, then on special 
work, and the second year as assistant editor, and 
was finally obliged to retire, having lost his eye- 
sight. For two months he was totally blind, and 
was told by his doctor that he must give up news- 
paper work. Upon his partial recovery, however, 
and having returned to Boston, he took a position 
as special reporter on the Boston Evetiing Trai'- 
cUer, then under the direction of Colonel Roland 
Worthington. He spent four years in this office, 
part of the time as city editor and the last year in 
charge of the business department, and then 
entered the employ of the Boston Journal, being 



offered by Stephen O'Meara, the general manager 
at that time, the position of superintendent of the 
circulation department. He continued with the 
Journal also four years, until the change in the 
management and the retirement of Mr. O'Meara 
in the spring of 1895, — having the direction of 
the delivery and subscription departments as well 
as the circulation, — and from there went to the 
Standard as general manager. Mr. Claflin is 
prominently connected with the order of Odd 
Fellows, having occupied nearly all the chairs 
from the lodge to the canton. He is a member 
of the Maiden Lodge, of the Paul Revere En- 
campment of Boston, and the Grand Canton, 
Shawmut, Boston ; was for two years quarter- 
master of the First Regiment, Patriarchs Militant, 
under Colonel John E. Palmer, and one year 
quartermaster of the division of the East, under 
General Foster, New Haven, Conn.; and is now- 
chief of staff of the Massachusetts department 
Patriarchs Militant, under Brigadier-General F'rank 
M. Merrill, of Lowell, the position being second in 
the State. 



CLARK, Benj.'VMIN Cutler, of Boston, man- 
ufacturer, is a native of Boston, born October 
ID, 1833, son of Benjamin Cutler and Mary (Pres- 
ton) Clark. His great-grandfather, Benjamin 
Clark, was one of the " Boston Tea Party." He 
was educated in Chauncy Hall School, where he 
was fitted for college, and at Harvard College, 
graduating in the notable class of 1853, which 
embraced among its members Charles W. Eliot, 
now President Eliot of the University, Professor 
Adams S. Hill, James ^L Peirce, James C. White, 
and Elbridge J. Cutler; the librarian and histo- 
rian, Justin \\'indsor ; Francis W. Vaughan, libra- 
rian of the Boston Social Law Library ; General 
Charles J. Paine, John Quincy Adams, Arthur T. 
Lyman, Edward King, president of the Union 
Trust Company of New York, and others who 
after graduation achieved place and fame. Mr. 
Clark's training for business life was in the count- 
ing-room ; and he has been steadily in active busi- 
ness from October, 1853. Since 1862 he has 
been head of the firm of B. C. Clark & Co., in the 
Mediterranean and West Indies business and ship- 
owners, and since 1S74 treasurer of the Pearson 
Cordage Company, now also president of the cor- 
poration. He has been consul for the Republic 
of Hayti since 1863, the oldest in term of office in 
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that among all their diplomatic posts there were 
no accounts kept so clearly and systematically as 
those at the Boston consulate. Mr. Clark is also 
trustee for a large amount of property. He is 
interested in practical philanthropic work in Bos- 
ton, as treasurer of the 'J'yler Street Day Nursery, 
and treasurer for many years of the Poplar Club, 
an organization of workingmen at the West End. 
He is president of the Massachusetts Fish and 
Game Protective Association, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Massachusetts Agricultural Club, 
which has existed for fifty-five years, and a mem- 
ber of the Boston Art Club, for six vears one of 




BENJ. C. CLARK. 

the executive committee of the latter, and for 
three years vice-president, declining re-election. 
He is a fisherman and a sportsman, and has 
shot more than four thousand ducks at Cohasset, 
which exceeds all known records in that locality. 
Mr. Clark married September 29, 1859, Miss Ad- 
eline Kinnicutt Weld, eldest daughter of Aaron 
D. Weld, of West Ro.\bury. Their children are : 
Benjamin Preston, Alice Harding. Gertrude Weld, 
and Ellery Harding Clark. 



CLARK, Rev. Francis Edward, of Boston, 
president of the United Society of Christian En- 



deavor, was born in the town of .Aylmer, on the 
upper Ottawa River, Province Quebec, Canada, 
September 12, 1851, son of Charles Carey and 
Lydia Fletcher (Clark) Symmes. His parents 
were always citizens of the United States, but 
lived temporarily in Canada. He is of early New 
England stock, being on his father's side a de- 
scendant in the eighth generation from the Rev. 
Zechariah Symmes, who came to Boston in the 
ship "Griffin " in 1634, and was the first minister 
of Charlestown. This Zechariah Symmes was a 
graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen 
lecturer at St. Anthony, London, but, because of 
persecution brought upon him by his espousal of 
non-conformity, he left England. His ancestors 
were eminent Church of England ministers ; and 
several of his descendants. Dr. Clark's immedi- 
ate ancestors, were ministers. On his mother's 
side Dr. Clark is descended also from Puritan 
stock for many generations in Massachusetts. 
His great-uncle, Charles Symmes, originally of 
Symmes's Corner (now in Winchester), was the 
founder of Ayhner. He was but two years old 
when his father died of cholera, and seven when 
he was bereft of his mother ; and, then being 
adopted by his uncle, the Rev. Edward Warren 
Clark, of Claremont, N.H., his name was changed 
by the latter to " Clark." His early education 
was received at home, in the Claremont Academy, 
and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. ; 
and he was graduated at Dartmouth College in 
the class of 1873, from which college he received 
the degree of D.D. in i886. Subsequently he 
attended the Andover Theological Seminary, and 
was graduated there in 1876. He became pastor 
of the Williston Congregational Church, Portland, 
in the following autumn, October 19, and seven 
years later, October, 1883, was made pastor of the 
Phillips Congregational Church, South Boston. 
In the autumn of 1887 he was dismissed to accept 
the presidency of the United Society of Christian 
Endeavor, and the editorship in chief of the Golden 
Ride. His life-work, which has given him a 
wide reputation abroad as well as in his own 
country, has been in connection with the Young 
People's Society of Christian Endeavor, which he 
founded in 1881, and which now numbers in all 
parts of the world nearly two and one-half mill- 
ions. This movement was begun by him while 
pastor of the Williston Church, and was the result 
of a revival which brought a number of )-oung 
converts to the church. Its purpose was to pro- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



vide an organization through which young converts 
could be held true, and trained for the duties of 
church membership. The first meeting was held 
in the parsonage, on an evening of February, 
i8cSi ; and, after Dr. Clark had presented and ex- 
plained to his young guests a constitution which 
he had previously drawn up of the " Williston 
Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor." 
fifty-seven signed as active members and six as 
associate members. This constitution, the main 
point of which was the "prayer-meeting pledge" 
by which each active member agrees to attend 
and participate in the weekly prayer-meeting, 
was essentially the same as that adopted by 
the great majority of Societies of Christian En- 
deavor which have followed the parent one. The 
original society rapidly increased, and at the 
close of the first year numbered one hundred and 
twenty-seven members. The second year it had 
two hundred names on its roll. In August, 1881, 
an article published in a religious journal of Bos- 
ton, entitled " How One Church Cares for its 
Young People," gave the first knowledge of Mr, 
Clark's experiment to the outside world. This. 




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F. E. CLARK. 



and other articles following, brought letters from 
pastors and workers in all parts of the country ; 
and similar organizations in other places were in 



course of time effected. In June, 1882, when six 
societies were recorded with four hundred and 
eighty-one members, the first convention was held 
in the Williston Church, At the next annual con- 
ference fifty-three societies were recorded, with 
twenty-six hundred and thirty members ; at the 
next, in 18S4, one hundred and fifty-one, with 
sixty-four hundred and fourteen members ; in 
1885, two hundred and fifty-three, with fourteen 
thousand eight hundred and ninetj'-two members 
in all parts of the country, and several societies in 
foreign lands. That )-ear the " United Society of 
Christian Endeavor" was founded and incor- 
porated under the laws of Maine, and head- 
quarters were estabhshed in Boston. The con- 
vention of 1887 held at Saratoga, at which Dr. 
Clark was chosen president of the United Society, 
was attended by two thousand delegates ; that of 
1888 drew together over five thousand delegates: 
that of 1889, over sixty-five hundred; 1890, over 
eight thousand; 189 1. over fourteen thousand; 
1892 (in New York), thirty-five thousand; 1893 
(held in Montreal, Canada), sixteen thousand ; 
1894, thirty-five thousand. In 1895 there were 
enrolled at the headquarters in Boston more than 
forty thousand societies, with a membership of 
over two million four hundred thousand. Of these 
about nine thousand were junior societies. In 
the spring of 1888 Dr. Clark visited England 
in the interest of the movement, and again in 
1 89 1, the second visit in company with three trus- 
tees of the United Society, Large meetiftgs were 
held in various places, and zealous work resulted, 
the societies in England increasing from one hun- 
dred and twenty in 1891 to one thousand in 1894, 
Dr. Clark next made a trip around the world, tak- 
ing with him his wife and eldest son. Starting in 
August, 1893, he first visited Australia, touching 
on the way the Hawaiian Islands and the Samoan 
Islands, where are several flourishing societies. 
In all the principal cities of Australia great con- 
ventions were held, and soon after his departure 
the Australian United Society of Christian En- 
deavor was formed. From Australia, after a brief 
stay in Canton, he pressed on to Japan, There 
large gatherings were held in many places under 
the auspices of the missionaries and the Endeavor 
Societies, and there a Japanese United Society of 
Christian Endeavor was also formed. Again in 
China sinjilar meetings were held in various 
places ; and, as in the countries earlier visited, a 
United Society was subsequently formed. India 



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and Ceylcin were next visited, Calcutta and llom- 
bay, with the same gratifying results. Then Dr. 
Clark journeyed to Egypt and to Palestine ; after 
a short stay in Syria, to Constantinople ; thence to 
Spain; ne.xt to Paris; thence across the Channel 
to (Jreat iiritain ; and from there back to the 
L'nited States. This journey covered about thirty- 
nine thousand miles, more than twelve nations ; 
and the addresses before audiences aggregating 
over one hundred thousand were largely made 
through interpreters in more than twenty different 
languages. Dr. Clark has written several volumes, 
the chief being " ^■oung People and the Church," 
•' \'oung People's Prayer-meetings," " Our Jour- 
ney around the World, " " The Mossback Corre- 
spondence," " Christian Endeavor Saints," " Dan- 
ger Signals," and " Looking out on Life." He 
has held various ecclesiastical offices and trustee- 
ships ; and he has been for three years a member 
of the prudential committee of the American 
Board of Commissioners for P'oreign Missions. 
He is a member of the Monday Club, the Congre- 
gational Club, and of other minor clubs. He was 
married October 3, 1876, to Miss Harriet Eliza- 
beth Abbott, of .\ndover, who is a direct descend- 
ant in the eighth generation of John Alden of 
" Mayflower " fame, and who has been of great 
assistance to Dr. Clark in all his work for young 
people. 'I'hey have had five children : Maude 
^\'illiston, Eugene Erancis, Faith Phillips, Harold 
Symmes, and Ernest Sydney Clark, of whom all 
e.xcept the third are living. 



was graduated from the (College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New Vork City. The same autumn 
he began practice in Stafford Springs, Conn., 



CLARK, James Samuel, M.D., of Westfield, 
was born in Bellows Falls, \'t., July 2:, 1S54, 
son of .\bijah Stone and Clara (Swan) Clark. 
His father was the grandson of Samuel Clark, 
an officer in the Revolutionary War ; and his 
mother was descended from Governor Thomas 
I )udley, whose grand-d.aughter, Deborah Wade, 
married 'I'homas Swan. He was graduated from 
the High School at Bellows Falls in 1870 ; and the 
foUow'ing year, his father moving to Turner's 
Falls, Mass., and establishing the Clark Machine 
Company, he entered the latter's shop, and spent 
three years there, learning the machinist's trade. 
Subsequently, after spending the years 1875 ^"'' 
1876 in the Worcester School of Technology, he 
became superintendent of the machine shop. In 
1878 he began the study of medicine with Medical 
Examiner Waterman of Westfield. and in 1881 




JAMES S, CLARK. 

where he remained until August, 1887, at which 
time he returned to Westfield to go into partner- 
ship with Dr. Waterman, whose health had failed. 
He has since made Westfield his home, and for 
three years served as town physician. He spent 
the summer and autumn of 1894 in travelling 
through Europe, giving especial attention to the 
hospitals in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris. 
Though not actually engaged in politics, 1 )r. 
Clark entertains a keen interest in the Republican 
party. He was married October 9, 1889, to Miss 
Patty Lee Waterman, youngest daughter of his 
former preceptor. 



COLITNS, Ahel Chalklev, of Great Barring- 
ton, member of the bar, is a native of Connecticut, 
born in North Stonington, New London Count)-, 
March 27, 1857, youngest son of Abel Francis and 
Electa Jane (Collins) Collins. His mother, still 
living, was a daughter of Job S. and Ruth Collins, 
of Utica, N.Y. He is descended from Henry Col- 
lins, who with wife and three children sailed from 
London, England, in 1C35, in the ship "Abigail." 



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.MKN OF PROGRESS. 



He had a certificate from the minister of the 
parish of Stepney " of his conformitie, and that he 
was no subsidy man." He settled in Essex Street 
in Lynn, where he carried on the business of man- 
ufacturing starch. He held several local offices, 
and in 1639 was a member of the Salem Court. 
This branch of the Collins family became early 
identified with the Society of Friends. John, a 
grandson of Henry, was a prominent minister, and 
for many j'ears one of the leading members of the 
society in New England. Mr. Collins's mother 
and her father, and his grandfather, Abel Collins, 
were also well-known ministers. His father, Abel 




A. C. COLLINS. 



Barrington. He was admitted to the bar before the 
Supreme Court at Pittsfield in May, 1884, and im- 
mediately opened his office in Great Barrington. 
He has had some important criminal cases, but has 
confined his attention more especially to civil 
cases, and with good success. He has been 
counsel for a number of corporations, and has had 
charge of settling many estates. He is also a 
director of the National Mahaiwe Bank and a 
trustee of the Great Barrington Savings Bank. 
He has been prominent in town affairs, and taken 
much interest in local institutions. He has been 
chairman of the Board of Selectmen for two terms, 
1887-89, a member of the School Committee since 
1890, and one of the directors of the Great Bar- 
rington Free Library for a number of years and 
actively interested in it. He was chosen presi- 
dent of the Young Men's Christian Association 
upon its organization in 1893, and re-elected in 
1894. While in college, he was a member of 
Alpha Delta Phi Society and of the Phi Beta 
Kappa. In politics Mr. Collins is Republican. 
He has never sought office ; but he accepted the 
Republican nomination for representative to the 
Legislature in 1892, in a district then Democratic. 
He, however, did not succeed in overcoming the 
Democratic tidal wave of that year. He was 
married January 2, 1890, to Miss Sarah D. Shel- 
don, daughter of Seth L. and Phebe Sheldon, of 
Great Barrington. They have two sons : Sheldon 
Chalkley (born January 21, 1891) and Theodore 
.\bel Collins (born May 10, 1895). He resides 
at Indiola Place, formerly the residence of his 
uncle, Clarkson T. Collins, M.D., deceased. Of 
his two brothers, Francis W. died in 1887. and 
Clarkson A. is now practising law in New York 
Citv. 



F. Collins, was a man of good education and 
sound judgment. He taught school for a number 
of years, part of the time at the Friends' Boarding 
School of Providence, R.I. He settled upon the 
family homestead in North Stonington, and was a 
successful farmer. He was also a justice of the 
peace in that town. Abel Chalkley prepared for 
college at the Friends' Boarding School, Provi- 
dence, and took a classical course at Brown Uni- 
versity, graduating in 1878 with the degree of 
A.B. In 1881 he received the degree of .\.M. 
After graduating from the college, he taught school 
for three years. Ihen he took up the study of 
law in the office of Judge Justin Dewey in Great 



CONEY, Hubert M.ason, of Ware, member of 
the bar, is a native of Ware, born March 18, 1S44, 
son of John and Sophronia (Allen) Coney. His 
first ancestors on the paternal side in America 
came to Boston from "Coney Green, " f^ngland, 
about 1650, and settled in Sharon and Walpole. 
The branch from which he sprang came to Ware 
in 1774, and settled on what is known as "Coy's 
Hill " ; and from that time the place was occupied 
by one descendant after another till 187 1, when 
John Coney, father of H, M. Coney, removed to 
Ware Village. They all followed farming. Mr. 
Coney's education was begun in the common 
schools of Ware. He graduated from the High 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



/ J' 



School in the spring of icS6o, prepared for college; 
but, his work being needed on the farm, he re- 
mained at home for another year, meanwhile con- 
tinuing his studies. In the autumn of 1861 he was 
fitted for the sophomore class at Amherst, but again 
was prevented from entering college, this time by 
the call for service in the Civil War, which was 
paramount. Accordingly, he enlisted on the iith 
of October that year at Ware, and on the 20th of 
November following was, at Pittsfield, mustered 
into the service for three years in Company 1 ), 
Ihirty-first Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 
He served his full term, participating in the en- 




HUBERT M. CONEY. 

gagements of Bisland, Port Hudson, Yellow Bayou, 
and others of minor importance, and was honorably 
discharged at New Orleans, La., November 19, 
1864. Upon his return from the army he entered 
mercantile life, in the hardware business in Ware, 
which he followed till February, 1872, when he 
sold out, and began the study of law. While pur- 
suing his studies, he supported himself by doing 
some fire and life insurance business and serving 
as town clerk, holding the latter office from 1872 
to 1876. He was admitted to the bar at the 
March term at Springfield in 1876, and innnc- 
diately began practice there. In 1882 he removed 
his office to Boston, where he continued until 1889, 



when he returned to Ware, in which place he has 
since been established, in the enjoyment of a 
large and steadily increasing practice. In 1S92 
he was town counsel for Ware. While residing in 
Springfield, he was a representative in the General 
Court for that city from Ward Two, in 188 1. He 
has served in the State militia for a number of 
years, — from 1877 to 1882, — first as second lieu- 
tenant and finally captain of Company G, Second 
Regiment. In politics he has always been a Re- 
publican, and now holds the chairmanship of the 
Republican town committee of Ware. He is a 
Freemason, member of the Eden Lodge of Ware, 
the Royal Arch Chapter, and the Springfield Com- 
mandery Knights Templar ; and is a leading mem- 
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic, being a 
charter member of J. W. Lawton Post, No. 85, of 
Ware, and having been in 1895 aide-de-camp on 
the staff of the commander-in-chief, and judge ad- 
vocate on the staff of the department commander. 
Mr. Coney was married April 17, 1867, to Miss 
Eleanor L. Brainerd, of Ware. They have had 
one son: Edwin B. Coney, who died .\pril 17, 
1 88g, aged fourteen years. 



CONVERSE, Elisha Slade, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, president of the Boston Rubber Shoe 
Compan)', was born in Needham, July 28, 1820, 
son of Elisha and Betsy (Wheaton) Converse. 
He is a descendant in the eighth generation of 
Edward Converse, who with his wife came from 
England to this country in 1630, and settled in 
Charlestown, where he became one of the fore- 
most men of the settlement, establishing a ferry 
between Charlestown and Boston the first year 
after his arrival, being chosen a selectman in 1634 
and serving six years, and in 1640 one of the 
founders of the town of Woburn, where he built 
the first dwelling-house and served continuously 
on the board of selectmen until his death in 1663. 
Elisha S. was the youngest child of Elisha and 
Betsy Converse. When he was four years of age, 
his parents removed from Needham to a farm in 
Woodstock, Conn.; and his early education was 
attained in the public schools of that town. In 
his thirteenth year he was sent to school in Bos- 
ton, — to the McLean (Grammar School, — making 
his home temporarily in the family of his elder 
brother, James W. Converse. Shortly after com- 
ing to Boston, he obtained a place for the employ- 
ment of part of his time in the shop of Aaron 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Butler, then carrying on a general merchandise 
trade, principally in dry good.s and boots and 
shoes. Three years were thus diligently spent in 
study and work. At the end of this period he 
returned to the farm, and spent nearly another 
year there in farm work and in the local school. 
When he had reached the age of seventeen, he 
went to 'rhonipson. Conn., to learn the clothier's 
trade, making an engagement with Albert A. 
\^■hipple, a clothier there. Two years later, before 
he had completed the stipulated term of service 
originally agreed upon, Mr. Whipple took him into 
partnership. Three years later he bought out 




E. S. CONVERSE. 

Mr. Whipple's interest, and continued the business 
alone until 1844, when he disposed of it, and re- 
moved to Boston to engage in the boot, shoe, and 
leather trade. He was led to this change through 
the influence of his elder brother, who was then 
prosperously engaged in the city in the wholesale 
hide and leather trade. Forming a copartnership 
with Benjamin Poland, under the firm name of 
Poland & Converse, he opened a wholesale boot 
and shoe store on North Market Street, at that 
time one of the principal streets devoted to this 
branch of trade in Boston, and made a promis- 
ing start. .Soon after the firm also engaged in 
the business of grinding and preparing drugs. 



spices, dye-stuffs, and other similar articles, with 
mill near Stoneham ; and to that place Mr. Con- 
verse moved his residence in 1847, where he re- 
mained until 1850, when he removed to Maiden, 
with which place he has ever since been promi- 
nently identified. In 1849 '''■'s partnership was 
dissolved, and Mr. Converse formed a new part- 
nership with John Robson, under the firm name of 
C!onverse & Robson. In September, 1853, Mr. 
Converse was elected to the position of tieasurer 
of the Maiden Manufacturing Company, successor 
of the Edgeworth Rubber Company, an unsuccess- 
ful enterprise started in 1S50, and then began his 
long and remarkably successful career as a rubber 
shoe manufacturer. Upon the chan^ge of the 
name to the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, the 
act of incorporation by the Legislature being ap- 
proved May 30 of that year, he gave up active 
interest in his old business, and devoted himself 
entirely to the development of the manufactory 
and its interests, assuming, in addition to the 
duties of treasurer, those of general buying and 
selling agent. From this time the business rap- 
idly increased, and the product of the manufactory 
early came to be favorably known throughout the 
country. Additions to the factory, which origi- 
nally consisted of a single three story wooden 
building, seventy feet long, were made from time 
to time, until by 1875 it had become a great struct- 
ure in the form of a quadrangle, with an inner 
court, haying a frontage of one thousand feet and 
a total floor area of about four acres. In Novem- 
ber that year this structure was almost entirely 
destroyed by fire. But within a few months a 
new and greater factory arose in its place, embrac- 
ing a group of brick structures four stories high, 
built around a quadrangle, as before. Subse- 
quently various additions were made, until now the 
Iniildings have three times the original area, and 
contain nearly ten acres of floor space. .\n addi- 
tional factory has also been built at Middlese.x 
Fells, one and a half miles from the older one in 
Maiden, like that well lighted and ventilated, per- 
fectly fitted and equipped, and reputed to be the 
finest of its kind in the world. The business dur- 
ing Mr. C'onverse's forty-two years of management 
has increased from an output in 1853, by the Mai- 
den Manufacturing Company, of from three hun- 
dred to si.x hundred pairs of rubber boots and 
siloes per day, to about fifty thousand pairs per 
day in 1895 : and more than three thousand oper- 
atives are now employed. Mr. Converse has been 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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jj 



devoted to the welfare of Maiden shuc lie liist 
made tiiat place his residence, and the evidences 
of his interest appear in substantial results of his 
work and in numerous magnificent gifts. He was 
largeh' instrumental in securing the incorporation 
of the city of Maiden, and was its first mayor, 
elected by an almost unanimous vote, in 1S7S 
and 1S79 he represented the district in the lower 
house of the State Legislature, and in 1880 -Si 
was senator for his district. Chief among his 
gifts to the city is the free public library, one of 
the most beautiful of public buildings, designed 
by the late eminent architect H. H. Richardson. 
It was a gift in which his wife joined, in memory 
of their eldest son, Frank E. Converse (who was 
murdered in 1S63 by E. W. Green, then post- 
master of Maiden, in the latter's attempt to rob 
the Maiden liank, of which young Converse was 
the assistant cashier), and is known as the " Con- 
verse Memorial." Mr. Converse has also been a 
generous giver to the Maiden Hospital, the " Old 
People's Home " of Maiden, the " Consumptives' 
Home" in the Ro.xbury District, lioston, Welles- 
ley College, of which he is a trustee, and to various 
other charitable, philanthropic, and educational 
institutions. He has been a member of the Bap- 
tist church since his boyhood, and was for many 
years a deacon of the Maiden Baptist church. 
The fine stone church building of the latter was 
erected largely through his contributions. Mr. 
Converse has been president of the Maiden Bank 
since 1S56, and he is also president of the Maiden 
Hospital Corporation, the Rubber Manufacturers' 
Mutual Insurance Company, a director of the 
National Exchange Bank of Boston, a trustee of 
the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, and a trus- 
tee of the Soldiers' Home. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married September 4, 1843, 
to Miss Mary Diana Edmands. They have had 
four children : Frank E., Mary Ida, Harry E., and 
Francis Eugene Converse. The second is now- 
general manager of the ISoston Rubber Shoe 
Company. 



schools of Fall River. He began business life in 
187 1 as a clerk for Hathaway iV Dean, grocers, 
in which occupation he was employed about a 
year. Then he entered the store of Cook, (irevv, 
I.V Ashton, phmibers, tinsmiths, and dealers in mill 
supplies, as salesman, taking charge of their 
mill supply department, and continued until 1887, 
when in June he became general agent for the 
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company 
of Springfield. Since that time he has added to 
his business real estate, stocks, accident and fire 
insurance, and the management of estates, real 
and personal. He is a member of the Boston Life 



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CHARLES C. COOK. 

Underwriters' Association. In politics he is a 
Republican. Mr. Cook was married October 4, 
1S77, to Miss Wealthy J. Winslow. They have 
had one child: Benjamin A. Cook (born August 
17, 1878, died August 22, 1882). 



COOK, Ch.\rles Cl.\rke, of Fall River, broker 

and manager of estates, was born in Fall River, COOK, Ri;v. Jdskph, of Boston, lecturer, 

March 28, 1854, son of Alexander (). and Mary author, and editor, was born in Ticonderoga, X.Y.. 

S. (Bronson) Cook. His paternal grandparents January 26, 1838, son of William Henry and 

were Berry and Lydia (Gifford) Cook, of Tiverton, Marette (Lamb) Cook. He is of the Cooks of 

R.I., and his maternal grandparents, .\sa and Connecticut, the ancestor of whom is supposed 

Marinda (Jennings) Bronson, of New York and to be Francis Cook, of Plymouth, who came from 

Connecticut. He was educated in the public Kent, England, one of the Pilgrim Fathers. Sam- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



uel Cook and his son, Warner Cook, who was 
Joseph Cook's grandfather, were born in Connecti- 
cut, and went to Ticonderoga soon after the Rev- 
ohition. William Henry and Marette Cook were 
born in Ticonderoga. Joseph Cook was educated 
at Phillips (Andover) Academy under the cele- 
brated classical teacher, Dr. Samuel H. Taylor, 
graduating there in 1857 ; at Yale College under 
President Woolsey ; and at Harvard under Presi- 
dent Hill, graduating from Harvard in 1865. He 
was at Yale two years, entering in 1858, and then 
left, his health having become impaired. He 
entered Harvard in 1863 as a junior, and in 1865 
was graduated with high honors, also taking sev- 
eral of the first prizes. His theological studies 
were pursued at the Andover Theological .Semi- 
nary under Professor Park and Professor Phelps ; 
and, after his graduation in 1868, he took a fourth 
year there, studying advanced religious and philo- 
sophical thought. He was licensed to preach, but 
was not ordained, and in 1870 was acting pastor 
of the First Congregational Church in Lynn. He 
also spoke as an evangelist and lecturer for two 
years. But he never sought a settlement. In 
September, 187 1, he went abroad, and studied 
under Tholuck at Halle, Germany, and also in 
Leipzig, Berlin, and Gottingen, and visited Italy, 
Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey, Austria, France, 
and Great Britain. Returning at the close of 
1873, he took up his residence in Boston and be- 
came a lecturer and author. In 1875 he founded 
the Boston Monday Lectureship, and has spoken 
in it for twenty years. The lectures of this series 
have been given mostly in Treniont Temple, and 
early led to calls upon him to delixer on other 
days of the week courses of lectures in the prin- 
cipal cities of the country. Eleven volumes of his 
"Boston Monday Lectures " have been published 
by Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., besides numerous 
editions in London. In Boston alone he had de- 
livered two hundred and forty-si.x lectures on phil- 
osophical, scientific, and political topics to large 
audiences, besides the same number of preludes, 
or addresses on vital points of current reform. 
These audiences, which have been held for twenty 
years, were gathered at noon on Mondays, the 
busiest hour of the busiest day of the week, and 
often overflowed Tremont Temple. In the year 
ending July 4, 1878, for example, he delivered 
one hundred and fifty lectures, — sixty being given 
in the East, sixty in the West, and thirty new ones 
in Boston, — issued three volumes, and travelled on 



his lecture trips ten thousand five hundred miles. 
The next year, ending July 4, 1879, the number 
of his lectures reached one hundred and sixty, 
seventy-two given in the East, — twenty of them in 
Boston and ten in New York, — seventy in the 
West, five in Canada, two in Utah, and eleven 
in California. He crossed the continent twice in 
the four last months of the season. During the 
winter following he conducted a Boston Monday- 
noon lectureship and a New York Thursday even- 
ing lectureship at the same time. The Boston 
Monday lectures for many years were published 
in full by the New York Iiulcpciuictit, the Clnis- 




JOSEPH COOK. 

tiaii AdTflCtitc, tire Boston Advertiser, and other 
papers. At the close of the twenty years' record 
the executive committee of the lectureship, in its 
report, referred to its remarkable success, running 
through a fifth of a century, as without A]neri- 
can or European precedent. '"The lectures," it 
said, " have been attended by great numbers of 
preachers, teachers, students, and other educated 
men ; . . . and the lectureship has been heard in 
behalf of every urgent reform, as well as in sup- 
port of all the leading evangelical truths.'' On 
the honorary committee are Professor Park, of 
Andover, Bishop Huntington, Bishop Vincent, the 
Rev. Dr. John Hall, Dr. Storrs, Dr. Cuyler, and 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



735 



other distinguished clergymen. Dr. A. J. Gordon 
was for twelve years president of the e.xecutive 
committee. In 1880-82 Mr. Cook, accompanied 
by his wife, made a lecturing tour of the world, 
visiting England, Germany, Italy, Palestine, India. 
China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and other 
Ijlaces. In all the great cities which he visited 
he had inunense audiences. His journey covered 
two years and seventy-seven days, and during this 
time he spoke oftener than every other working 
day while on the land. He made one hundred 
and thirty-five public appearances in the British 
Islands, lecturing in Scotland, Ireland, England, 
and Wales before aucHences of extraordinary size, 
quality, and enthusiasm. In Edinburgh he gave 
five lectures during eight consecutive days, his 
audiences crowding the largest halls. At one 
lecture the Lord Provost presided, and at others 
Professor Calderwood, and Principal Rainy of the 
Free Church New Theological College. At Edin- 
burgh, as well as at Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, 
Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and London, 
many ministers of various denominations were 
present. On the occasion of the delivery of his 
lecture on " Conscience " in Edinburgh the stu- 
dents of Edinburgh University and of the Theo- 
logical Colleges of the city had a special section 
of the Free Assembly Hall assigned to them. 
Mr. Cook's farewell lecture in London was given 
in the Metropolitan Tabernacle to an immense 
audience on the 31st of May, 1882, Dr. AUon, 
the editor of the British Quarterly Review, occupy- 
ing the chair. During this tour he was entertained 
at public breakfasts at Belfast, Cardiff, Leicester, 
Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh, Manchester, 
Glasgow, and London. After spending some 
months in Germany and Italy, Mr. Cook next 
went to India by way of Greece, Palestine, and 
Egypt, where he spent three months. He lectured 
in Bombay, Poonah, Ahmednagar, Lucknow, Al- 
lahabad, Benares, Calcutta, Bangalore, and other 
places to large audiences, composed of both 
Europeans and natives. In that country and Cey- 
lon he made forty-two public appearances in 
eighty-four consecutive days. All of the principal 
towns from the Himalayas to the sea ga\e him 
eager and overflowing audiences of Hindus. 
During his stay in Calcutta he and the leaders of 
the Brahmo-Somaj, or Society of Theists, then rep- 
resented by the Hindu reformer, Keshub Chun- 
der Sen, exchanged visits and explained their relig- 
ious opinions. From India his tour was continued 



to Ciiina, Japan, .Australia, New Zealand, anil the 
Sandwich Islands. He gave tw'eive lectures in 
Japan, six of them in English and six through an 
interpreter; one in Canton, one in Eoochow, and 
three in Shanghai ; antl in .Australasia he gave 
long courses to brilliant and crowded assemblies 
in Sydney, Melbourne, .\delaide, Brisbane, and 
other leading towns, making fifty-eight public 
appearances in all. In 1884-85 Mr. Cook made 
a circuit of the continent, lecturing, as usual, to 
great audiences in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Portland, 
Ore., Victoria, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New 
Orleans, St. Louis, Montreal, St. John, and Hal- 
ifax. In 1888 he founded Our Day, a Monthly 
Record and Review of Reform, and conducted the 
periodical as editor-in-chief for seven years. On 
beginning a second tour of the world in May, 
1895, by the way of Australia, Japan, and India, 
he resigned his editorship and sold his interest 
in this periodical. Mr. Cook is a member of the 
Athenaium, Boston, the Victoria Institute, Lon- 
don, and of the Boston Committee of One 
Hundred. In politics Mr. Cook is indepen- 
dent, and a political Prohibitionist. He took an 
active part in the World's Parliament of Relig- 
ions held in Chicago in connection with the 
World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL.D. from Howard L'ni- 
versity, Washington, D.C., in 1892. Mr. Cook 
was married June 30, 1877, to Miss Georgiana 
Hemingway, of New Haven, Conn. 



CORT, John, of Webster, editor of the U'eb- 
ster Times, is a native of England, born in Roch- 
dale, March 9, 1837, son of John and Betsey 
(Mills) Cort. He is of English-Scotch ancestry. 
He was educated in the national school in his 
native town. He learned the printer's trade, 
serving his apprenticeship in England, and subse- 
quently became an editor. Coming to this country, 
he worked for various firms in Providence, R.I., 
and in New Vork, and in 1874 took charge of the 
Webster Times, which he has since conducted. 
He held the position of registrar of elections from 
1887 to 1890. In politics he is Republican. He 
is a Freemason, member of Webster Lodge, and 
has been its .secretary for two years; is an Odd 
F'ellow belonging to Maanexit Lodge ; and is con- 
nected with the Royal Arcanum, having occupied 
the positions of orator and regent of Ben Franklin 
Council. The success which he has achieved and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the position lie has attained have been won by his 
own efforts. He was married July 6, 1861, to 
Miss Jane Rossall. They have had one daughter, 




to the time of Edward the Confessor. The 
greater part of Mr. Cowles's ancestors were in 
active professional life, — doctors, lawyers, minis- 
ters, literary and scientific men. His father was 
a prominent and influential man in the county in 
which he lived. Mr. Cowles was educated at the 
Peacham Academy, Peacham, XL, which was 
founded in 1797, and is still in a flourisliing con- 
dition. It is associated with many old-time and 
interesting tradition.s, while its name is dear to the 
hearts of many well-known men and women who 
received the foundation ui their education within 
its venerable walls. He fitted here for Dart- 
mouth College. But several years of illness pre- 
vented literary studies. Upon the advice and 
encouragement of A. H. Bicknell, who saw merit 
in his artistic productions, he took up the study 
of art. after a time entering the Massachusetts 
Normal Art School, where he remained one year, 
and subsequently taking a two years' course in the 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. At this time he 
had a studio and took pupils, to whom he imparted 
some sound truths. Noticing the lack of individ- 
ual effort and the need of competent modern 



JOHN CORT. 



who died in November, 1893, at the age of twenty- 
seven. She was her father's assistant in the con- 
duct of his newspaper. 



COWLES, Frank Mellen, of Boston, of the 
Cowles Art School, is a native of Vermont, born 
in Ryegate, June 29, 1846, son of George and 
Mary ( Bradlee) Cowles. He is descended from the 
Eastmans, Chamberlins, Bradlees, and Cowleses, 
who were prominent and active families in co- 
lonial and Revolutionary times, — a direct de- 
scendant of Ebenezer Eastman, captain at the 
siege of Louisburg, who also served in the P'rench 
wars, and of the Hon. William Chamberlin, one 
of the first lieutenant governors of \'ermont 
and one of the framers of the constitution of 
that State, who held rank as an officer in the 
Revolutionary War. The Bradlees fought with 
Cromwell's Ironsides, and were knighted for brav- 
ery. The Cowleses were among the early settlers 
of Farmington. Conn., where they became a 
wealthy and influential family, being the original 
proprietors of the town. Their name dates back 




F. M. COWLES. 

methods of instruction, tlie idea of establishing a 
school occurred to him ; and so early as 1880 he 
began laying plans for the institution which now 



MEN OF PR0(;RESS. 



IZl 



bears his name. l!y instinct and education as 
well as executive force and trainino;, he was well 
equipped for the special performance of an inno- 
vator and inaugurator; and his school has steadily 
advanced from the modest start in 1882 to a fore- 
most place and a name equal to that of any other 
institution of its kind in the country Thousands 
of students have graduated from it. and many of 
them have attained distinction in the art world as 
designers, sculptors, and painters. Mr. Cowles is 
a member of the IJoston Art Club. He is un- 
married. 



rected the work of constructing tile foundation of 
the power house of the West End Street Railway 
on Albany Street. During the next four vears he 



CRAM, Benjamin M.^nly, of Boston, deputy 
superintendent of the street-cleaning division of 
the street department of the city, was born in 
East Boston, August 19, 1858, son of Daniel 
and Mary A. (MacNulty) Cram. His father, 
iiorn in South Lyndeborough, N.H., in 1815, 
was a grandson of Benjamin Cram, a soldier of 
the Revolutionary War, under General Stark, 
who served as captain at the battle of Benning- 
ton, tliough not a commissioned officer. His 
motiier was born in Northumberland, England, in 
181 7. and came to this country, when a child, with 
her parents, who settled in Boston. She was of 
an old English family. Benjamin M. was edu- 
cated in the East Boston public schools. His 
first work was on the Welland Canal at St. 
Catherine, Ontario, with his father, who had 
taken a large contract on that work ; and he had 
charge of men when but seventeen years of age. 
This work covered five years. Then in 1881 he 
was engaged on the Delaware, Lackaw-anna. lS: 
Western Railroad, at that time building from 
Binghamton to Buffalo, N.Y. His next experi- 
ence was in Louisiana, on the Vicksburg, Shreve- 
port. iV" Pacific Railroad : and, that work completed, 
he was appointed superintendent in charge of 
twelve miles of road on the Pine Creek Railroad 
in Pennsylvania, with a' force of fifteen hundred 
men. Subsequently he had charge of the work 
from Goshen to North Windham during the 
double-tracking of the New \'ork & New Kngland 
Railroad from Putnam to North Windham in 
1S83: and upon its completion he was employed 
in other railroad building or extensions, — on the 
South Pennsylvania Railroad, the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee, & St. Paul, and in the ?>ast again, on the 
Meriden & Waterbury, and on the approach of tiie 
new bridge across the 'I'haiues River at New- 
London. In 1889 he returned to Boston, and di- 




BENJAMIN M. CRAM. 

was employed as superintendent of construction 
of various sewer, bridge, and reservoir works, and 
in 1894 principally in laying gas mains, both 
as superintendent and contractor. He was ap- 
pointed to his present position in charge of the 
street-cleaning division of the Boston street de- 
partment on March 22, 1895, by Mayor Curtis. 
In the autumn of 1894 he received the Republican 
nomination for representative in the Legisla- 
ture, from Ward Twenty, Roxbiu-y District, and 
made a close run, being defeated by the smallest 
margin of any Republican for years in the 
"banner ward of Democracy"' of Boston. Mr. 
Cram is a member of the Sons of the Revolution. 
He was married Eebruary 7, 1883, to Miss Olive 
Orinda Hunt, youngest daughter of Jerome B. and 
Susan B. ( Aldrich ) Hunt, of Bath, N. Y., w-ho were 
Eriends. They have two children: Olive Hunt 
and Benjamin M. Cram, |r. 



CRAWFORD, Rkv. Gf.orck Artemas. of Bo.s- 
ton, managing editor of the Daily Standard. 
is a native of Maine, born in Calais, .April 29. 



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MEN OF PROCRESS. 



1849, son of the Rev. William Henry and Julia work. Dr. Crawford was married September 3, 
Ann (W'hittier) Crawford. He is of Scotch-Irish 1872, to Miss Mary E. Patten, of Waldoborough, 
descent on the paternal side and of English on Me. They have three children : Howard T., 

Kendrick P., and Truman K. Crawford. 



M jC^ ^ 




CROCKETT, Edw.ard Sherm.\n, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, 
born at Bryant's Pond, July 22, 1869, son of 
Nathaniel Bennett and Lydia Jane (Wardwell) 
Crockett. He is of Scotch-English ancestry, a 
descendant of Ensign Joseph Wardwell in Vose's 
First Regiment in the Revolutionary War, attached 
to the corps of Lafayette. He was educated in 
the public schools of Boston and at the Maine 
Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill. His legal train- 
ing was obtained in the Boston University Law 
School and in the office of William B. Gale ; and 
he was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 25, 1895. 
Previous to his studies in the law school he grad- 
uated from Burdett's Business College, and for 
five years was a book-keeper for various Boston 
business houses. Mr. Crockett early entered pol- 
itics, and became active in the Republican city 



GEORGE A. CRAWFORD. 

the maternal side. His father was a Methodist 
Episcopal clergyman. He was educated in acad- 
emy and university, graduating from the Boston 
University A.B. in 1879, and A.M. and Ph.D., 
later in the School of All Sciences. He studied 
for his profession in East Maine Conference Sem- 
inary, Bucksport, Me., and took a special course 
in Hebrew and New Testament Clreek in the 
School of Theology of Boston University. He 
became a chaplain in the United States navy in 
1870, and served on the active list until retired in 
the spring of 1889. He received the degree of 
D.D. in 1890 from the New Orleans University. 
He is a Freemason, member of the Amity Lodge, 
Camden, Me., and is a member of the Beta Theta 
Pi. He has had some experience in connection 
with weekly papers, but began his real newspaper 
work as an editorial writer for the Boston Daily 
Staiulard. Changes in the staff put him in tempo- 
rary charge of the editorial department, and suc- 
cess led to his retention as managing editor. He 
has the fullest knowledge of the purpose for which 
the Starulard was started, and the most perfect 
sympathy with that purpose. He enjoys his new 




EDWARD S. CROCKETT. 



organization. In 1892 and 1893 he was president 
of the \\'ard Ten Republican Club; in 1894, mem- 
ber of the Republican city committee for Ward 



MEN OF 1'R0(;resS. 



739 



Ten; ami in 1S95 a nieniber of the executive 
committee of the ]5oston \oimg Men's Republican 
Club. He was a member of the Common Coun- 
cil in 1895, and became prominent through a pro- 
test which he entered, in a meeting of the council 
May 23, against the appropriation of money from 
the city treasury to private organizations, the 
occasion being the report of committee on the 
celebration of the 17th of June. In politics 
Mr. Crockett is a Republican with a special 
platform, — "one non-sectarian free public school 
system, no property or public funds to be used for 
sectarian purposes, restriction of immigration, ex- 
tension of time required for naturalization, com- 
plete separation of Church and State, no one to 
hold public office who does not give first alle- 
giance to the United States and its institutions." 
He is a member of the American Protective Asso- 
ciation and of Grace First Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Boston. 



CUMMINGS, Eustace, of Boston and Wo- 
burn, leather manufacturer, was born in North 
Woburn, April 22, 1834, son of Moses and Harriet 
(Cutler) Cummings. He is of an old Woburn 
family, a descendant in the fourth generation of 
David Cummings who removed from Topsfield, 
Essex County, to Woburn in 1756, and built one 
of the first tanneries in the town. His grand- 
father, David's son P^benezer, married Jemima 
Hartwell, of Bedford, June 22, 1774. and died 
June 4, 182 1 ; his father, Ebenezer's son Moses, 
was born October 10, 1800, died in 1840. A 
predilection for the leather business has in the 
Cummings family almost become hereditary. All 
of Mr. Cummings's ancestors on his father's side 
were tanners ; and he followed directly in their 
footsteps, at the age of seventeen, after obtaining 
his education, which was acquired in the public 
schools of North Woburn, beginning work in a 
leather factory. When twenty-three years old, he 
entered business on his own account in the man- 
ufacture of leather, as junior partner in the firm 
of Shaw, Taylor, &: Co., Boston. Five years later 
he became a member of the firm of Cummings, 
Place, & Co.; and in December, 1862, made an- 
other change, taking a younger brother into part- 
nership, and making the firm name E. Cummings 
& Co. This relation continued for upward of 
twenty-five years, until the death of his brother in 
September, 1888 ; and the firm name still remains 



unchanged. Mr. Cmnmings has served on the 
Board of Selectmen of his native town, and has 
also been a director of the Woburn Board of 




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d^ 




EUSTACE CUMMINGS. 

Trade and of the Woburn Co-operative P.aiik. 
Mr. Cummings was married on the i st of January, 
1854, to Miss .\ngeline Moore, of Woburn. 'I'hey 
had three children : Wilbur E. (born January 16, 
1855), Ella A. (born December 18, 1856), and 
Isabella J. Cummings (born September 17, 1859; 
died September 9, 1884). He married second, 
July 9, 1867, Miss Ellen French, of Exeter, N.H. 
Their children are: Grace M. (born March 10, 
1870), Edward H. (born February 25, 1874), and 
Ethel R. Cummings (born January i, 1880). 



CURRIER, Bknjamin Hai.i,, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was bom in Newburyport, 
October 23, 1796; died in Boston, December 24, 
1894, at the great age of ninety-eight. He was a 
son of Joseph and .Abigail (Tappan) Currier, de- 
scended on his mother's side from .Msraham 'l"ap- 
pan, who came to this country from Yarmouth, 
England, in 1637, and was one of the earliest set- 
tlers in Newbury. He was educated in \cwbury- 
port public schools, and came to Boston in 181:;, 
when he was nineteen years old, walking all the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



way, and began the study of law. He became a 
successful man in his profession, was for a long 
period a justice of the peace, and for many years 
commissioner for every State in the Union. He 
was past middle life when he was admitted to the 
bar, on the 5th of March, 1853, in the old Court 
of Common Pleas of Suffolk County. He enjoyed 
remarkably good health through his long life, and 
retained his faculties till the last. He continued 
in the practice of his profession till he was ninety 
years, and could see to read and write till he was 
ninety-five. He was a fond lover of nature, and 
enjoyed most thoroughly his daily walks, which he 




BENJAMIN H. CURRIER. 

never failed to take in all kinds of weather except, 
of course, until the last few years. He walked 
out five days before he died. He ascribed his 
excellent health and vigor to his regular exercise 
in the open air, his moderation in all things, and 
his cheerful disposition and trust in God. In re- 
ligious faith he was an Episcopalian, and was one 
of the original members and proprietors of St. 
Paul's Church. Mr. Currier was twice married, 
marrying first, July u, 1838, Miss Amelia M. 
Odin, daughter of John Odin, of Poston, who died 
in 1850; and second, August 5, 1857, Miss Rox- 
anna Blanchard, daughter of Andrew Pllanchard, 
of Medford. He left four children bv his first 



wife : Amelia ( ). (now widow of Joseph Richard- 
son), George O., Mary L. (widow of Charles H. 
Richardson), and Harriet \V. (wife of Harris M. 
Stephenson). 

s CURTIS, EnwiN Ui'TOn, of Boston, mayor 
of the city 1895, was born in Roxbury (now of 
Boston), March 26, 1861, son of George and 
Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis. He is a direct de- 
scendant on the paternal side of William Curtis, 
one of the earliest settlers in Roxbury, landing in 
Boston from the ship " Lyon " in 1632; and on 
the maternal side from an old Central Massa- 
chusetts family. His father was for many years 
a builder, constructing numerous business build- 
ings in Boston and in Roxbury, and subsequently 
a lumber merchant ; served for four years as an 
alderman of Roxbury before its annexation to 
Boston, was an overseer of the poor for a number 
of years in Roxbury and in Boston, and a repre- 
sentative in the General Court for three terms. 
His mother was a daughter of Joseph and Susan 
(Thurston) Upton, of Fitchburg. Edwin U. Curtis 
attended the grammar and Latin schools of Rox- 
bury and the Little Blue School at Farmington, 
Me., where he fitted for college, entered Bowdoin 
College, and graduated there in 1S82. Three 
years later he recei\ed tlie degree of A.M. from 
his alma maicr. Choosing law as his profession, 
he read in the office of Gaston & \\'hitney, and 
was admitted to the bar on January 20, 1885. 
He began practice at once in Boston, forming a 
partnership with William G. Reed under the firm 
name of Reed & Curtis, and, with the exception 
of his terms of municipal service in city offices, 
has been actively engaged since. In 1889 he 
was elected city clerk by the city council, and 
served througii re-election two terms. He was 
elected to the mayoralty as a Republican candi- 
date in the December election of 1894, succeed- 
ing Nathan IMatthews, Jr., Democrat, by a deci- 
sive vote of 34,982 to 32,425 over his Democratic 
competitor. General Francis H. Peabody. Al- 
though one of the youngest men who has ever 
been mayor of Boston, Mayor Curtis has shown 
marked ability in dealing with nuuiicipal prob- 
lems. The most important change brought about 
in the first six months of his adnnnistration was 
the placing of the fire, water, and institutions 
departments each under a single commissioner. 
This reform was ad\ocated bv Mr. Curtis before 
and after his election ; and an act of the Legis- 



MEN OF I'KOGRESS. 



741 



hiturt; :illo\vcd the change to take uffect July i, 
1895. Uy the same act, with the approval of 
Mayor I'lirlis. several departments were consoli- 




Isaac,' fifth and youngest son of William, horn in 
Roxhury ; Samuel, ad,' Isaac's youngest son; 
Philip, 2(1, 1 third son of Samuel, minister of the 
church in Sharon for upwards of half a century ; 
l''rancis,5 seventh son of i'hilip ; George,'' ninth 
child of Francis; and Nelson. 7 His brother is 
the present mayor of IJoston (1S95). He was 
educated in the public schools, at the Chauncy 
Hall School, graduating in the class of 1881, and 
by private tutors. At the age of seventeen he 
entered the mills of S. i). Warren & Co. at Cum- 
berland Mills, Maine, and served an apprentice- 
ship of three years there at paper-making. Snbse- 
(|uenlly he engaged in manufacturing on his own 
account, giving much attention to the improve- 
ment of high classes of paper. Of late years he 
has been most actively concerned in the manu- 
facture of paper for photographic printing, as 
president and general manager of the American 
Photographic Paper Company. He is also ac- 
tively engaged in wholesale paper dealing on his 
own account. He is a member of the JJoston 
Paper Trade Association, but not an active club 
man. fn politics he is a steadfast Republican. 



EDWIN U, CUKTIS. 



dated in order to secure greater efficiency ; and 
the mayor's term of office was changed from one 
to two years, to take effect in 1896. Mr. Curtis 
has always been a stanch Republican, and in 
18S8 was secretary of the Republican city com- 
mittee. He is prominent in the Masonic order, 
connected with the Washington Lodge of Ro.v 
bury, Mt. Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 
and of Joseph Warren Commandery, Knights 
Templar. He is a member of the Boston Bar 
Association, of the University, Algonquin, Itoston, 
Athletic, Ro.xbury, Middlesex, and Willow Point 
clubs, and of the Bowdoin College Alumni Asso- 
ciation. Mayor Curtis is unmarried. 




I 



^ CURTIS, Nelson, of Boston, paper manufact- 
urer, was born in lioxbury, January 17, 1864, 

son of George and Martha Ann (Upton) Curtis. nelson curtis. 

He is a lineal descendant of William Curtis, who 

came to this country from England, either from Mr. Curtis was married June 25, 1888, to Miss 
London or Warwickshire, in the ship "Lyon," Genevieve Frances Young, of Boston. They have 
in 1632, and settled in Roxbury. The line runs: two children: Nelson, Jr., and Frances Curtis. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



CUTTING, Frank Alexis, of Boston, presi- 
dent and manager of the Cutting Car Company, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in the town 
of Washington, August i6, 1855, son of Alexis 
and Esther R. (Hill) Cutting. He is of English 
descent. His father's grandfather first settled at 
Paxton, Conn., with other brothers. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools in Lebanon, N.H., and 
Winchester, Mass., to which places his parents re- 
moved during his boyhood, and at Comer's Com- 
mercial College in Boston. He started in busi- 
ness in Canada at Actonvale, P.Q., December, 
1875, when he was but twenty years old, engaging 



after marriage. He tiien returned to Winchester, 
which has been his home ever since. Their chil- 
dren are : Spencer Alexis, Marjorie, and Robert 
Hill Cutting. 




FRANK A. CUTTING. 

in the shipment of hemlock bark to New England 
tanneries, situated near Boston. Beginning in a 
small way, he steadily increased his operations 
until now they extend into Maine, New Hamp- 
shire, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, and 
Canadian Provinces ; and he is the largest operator 
in his line, and the only one who owns and oper- 
ates a line of railway cars for his exclusive use in 
his own business. In politics Mr. Cutting is an 
Independent ; but he takes no active part, devot- 
ing his time to his business. He is a member of 
the Calumet Club of Winchester. He married 
June 8, 1 88 1, Miss Anna Mary Shaw, of Waterloo, 
P.O., and resided in that town for three years 



DALLIN, Cyrus Edwin, of Boston, sculptor, 
is a native of Utah, born in Springville, Novem- 
ber 22, 1 86 1, son of Thomas and Jane (Hamer) 
Dallin. His paternal grandfather, Tobias Uallin, 
who was born in Ilfracombe, England, and came 
to America in 1850, was a skilful draughtsman ; 
and his maternal grandfather, Samuel Hamer, also 
born in England, had a talent for invention, which 
one of his sons inherited. Cyrus Edwin Dallin 
was educated in the district schools, and also in 
the Presbyterian schools of his native place. 
There were no works of art in the homes of the 
people of the settlement, for they had come such 
a long and arduous journey across the plains that 
they had brought with them only the barest ne- 
cessities. Thus it was that he never saw any 
sculpture, nor even any pictures of sculpture, till 
after he was sixteen years old. At the age of 
six he began to show his desire to imitate, and at 
twelve he modelled some heads in clay. From 
that time he kept up some sort of art study, copy- 
ing engravings and drawing from nature as best 
he could, unaided by any instruction. In 1879 
he was working with his father in the silver mines 
of Tintic, Utah, and some beautiful white clay 
was taken from the mine. With this he modelled 
two ideal heads. These were shown to all who 
visited the mining camp ; and C. H. Blanchard, 
a Boston gentleman who had settled in Tintic, 
was so impressed by them that he advised the 
boy's father to send him to Boston to study. 
This his father could not afford to do, so Mr. 
Blanchard interested Joab Lawrence, of Salt Lake 
City, in him ; and these two men furnished the 
money necessary for the journey to Boston. In 
the spring of 1880 he came to Boston, and began 
his studies. His first work was an enlarged copy 
of one of ]5arye's tigers, which he put into terra- 
cotta. In 1883 he took a studio in Boston, and 
made his first design for the competition for the 
statue of Paul Revere. At an anonymous com- 
petition he was awarded one of the three prizes ; 
and at a subsequent competition, limited to the 
three successful competitors, his design was 
chosen, and a contract was drawn up for the 
erection of the statue. The city of Boston was 
pledged to furnish five thousand dollars, and the 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



74: 



rest was to be raised by subscription. 'I he com- 
mittee in charge of the matter has never fulfilled 
its trust, and the city still is without a statue to 
her famous hero. In the spring of 1888 Mr. 
1 )allin exhibited his first life-size figure, entitled 
"Indian Hunter," at the exhibition of the Ameri- 
can Art Association, New York, and was awarded 
the gold medal of the year. He also modelled 
busts of James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. In August of the same year he went to 
Paris to continue his studies, where he worked 
under Henri Chapu and at the Fxole des iJeaux 
Arts. While in Paris, he modelled an equestrian 




C. E. DALLIN. 

statue of Lafayette, which was exhibited at the 
Exposition in i88g. He also made his first 
exhibit at the Salon of- 1890, and was awarded 
Honorable Mention for his statue entitled " The 
Signal of Peace." This statue was afterward 
put into bronze, and at the World's Fair at 
Chicago was awarded a medal and diploma. 
Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago, purchased the 
work ; and it was unveiled in Lincoln Park in 
June, 1894. After his return to Boston in 1890 
he modelled the " Awakening of Spring," which 
was shown at the Society of American Artists, 
New York, in 1891. Mr. Dallin remained in Salt 
Lake City from 1891 to the close of 1893; and, 



while there, he modelled several busts, among 
them a marble bust of Dr. Hamilton, which was 
exhibited at the World's Fair. He also made the 
model for the bronze angel on the spire of the 
Mormon Temple of that city ; an equestrian design 
for a statue of Sheridan, w-hich won a prize at the 
competition at Chicago : a statuette of " Sunol," 
which was cast in silver, and presented to Robert 
Bonner. He is now at work on a Pioneer Monu- 
ment for the same city. Since his return to Bos- 
ton, in December, 1893, he has modelled a bas- 
relief, " Mother and Child"; " Despair," a nude 
female figure; a design for a statue of Sir Isaac 
Newton, for the Congressional Library at Wash- 
ington ; a design for a statue of Robert Ross, 
which took a prize in the competition at Troy ; 
and a design for a statue of Hancock for the city 
of Boston. He has been appointed instructor in 
modelling at the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, 
for the year 1895-96. He is a member of the 
Twentieth Century Club and of the Art Club of 
Boston, of the University Club of Salt Lake 
City, and of the National Sculpture Society of 
New York. Mr. Dallin was married June 16, 
189 1, to Miss Vittoria Colonna Murray, of Boston, 
who was for some years a teacher in the fJirls' 
High School, and also in the Boston Normal 
School. They have two children : Kdwin Ber- 
tram and Thomas Sidwav Dallin. 



DARLING, Major Charles Kimball, of 
Boston, member of the bar, is a native of Vermont, 
born in the town of Corinth, June 28, 1864, son 
of Joseph and Mary Alice (Knight) Darling. On 
the maternal side he is descended from John 
Knight, who came from P^ngland and settled in 
Newburyport in 1635. His father's ancestors are 
traced back for several generations among the 
sturdiest families in Maine and New Hampshire. 
His father is a leading lawyer in Vermont, resid- 
ing in Chelsea. His early education was acquired 
in the schools of his native town. He was fitted 
for college at the Barre (Vt.) Academy, and was 
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1S85. He 
was also for nearly two years a cadet at the Cnited 
States Military Academy at West Point. I'pon 
leaving college, he went to Fitchburg, Mass., and 
was employed there in various lines of work by 
the Fitchburg, Old Colony, and Cheshire rail- 
roads. In these pursuits he continued until 1891, 
when he became connected with the Fitchburg 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Diiily Si'iitincl, witli which he remained until 11S93. 
meanwhile taking up the study of law, and later 
completing the course at the Boston University 



I 




a member of the council in chief, and was made 
secretary of that body. He is also connected with 
the order of (Md Fellows. He is historian of the 
Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, a corresponding member of the 
Fitchburg Historical .Society, and a member of 
the Fitchburg Athletic Club. Major Darling is 
unmarried. 

DAVIS, HoR.\Ti(), of Boston, manufacturer, 
was born in Boston, April 6. 1S57, son of William 
and Maria (Davis) Davis. He is a direct de- 
scendant of William Davis, born in Wales, 1617. 
died in Ro.xbury, Mass., 1683. the line running: 
Ebenezer, his son, born in Ro.xbury 1678, died 
1712; Colonel Aaron Davis, born 1709, died 
1777, in Ro.xbury; Moses Davis, born 1744, 
died 1823 ; ^^'illiam Davis, born 1770, died 1S50; 
and William Davis, father of Horatio, born iSoi, 
died 1865. Colonel Aaron Davis was a delegate to 
the three Provincial Congresses of Massachusetts, 
1774-75, representing the town of Roxbury, and 
was colonel of Massachusetts militia ; and Moses 
Davis was a " minute man " at Lexington. Ho- 



CHAS. K. DARLING, 

Law School. He was admitted to the Worcester 
County bar in June, 1895. In 1894 he was ap- 
pointed editor of the " Early Laws of Massachu- 
setts " in the ofiice of the Secretary of the Com- 
monwealth, which position he still holds. In 
September, 1887, he was appointed sergeant 
major of the Si.xth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- 
unteer Militia, in February, 1889, was commis- 
sioned adjutant, and in April, 1893, became major, 
his present rank. While residing in Fitchburg, he 
was concerned actively and prominently in public 
affairs, serving on the School Committee for three 
years, and for several terms as clerk of the Com- 
mon Council and of committees. In politics he is 
a Republican. He is an able speaker, and in de- 
mand especially on patriotic occasions. Major 
Darling is prominent in the order of the Sons of 
Veterans, U.S.A. Passing through the various 
camp and division offices to the command of the 
Massachusetts Division in 1891-92, he was in 
1893 appointed by Commander-in-chief Joseph B. 
Maccabe adjutant-general of the organization. 
At the 'Phirteenth Annual Encampment, held at 
Davenport, la., in August, 1894, he was elected 




HORATIO DAVIS. 



ratio was educated at private schools in Roxbury, 
and also at Jamaica Plain. He was fitted for 
college, but did not enter, taking a business op- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



745 



portunity instead. He entered the factory of the 
Pearson Cordage Company, Roxbury, on the first 
of January, 1877, to learn the cordage business 
practically, and remained there until May, 1880, 
when he entered the service of the Boston Cord- 
age Company. In the following December he 
was appointed superintendent, and made a 
director. He continued in connection with the 
manufacturing and selling departments until No- 
vember, 1 89 1, when he was appointed manager. 
In March, 1894, he was appointed manager of 
the Chelsea and Standard Cordage Companies, 
and in November following was also made treas- 
urer of the Sewall & Day Cordage Company and 
Boston manager of the United .States Cordage 
Company. Mr. Davis was a member of the first 
Corps of Cadets for three years. He is now 
a member of the New England Historic Genea- 
logical Society, of the Sons of the Revolution, and 
of the Union, Puritan, E.xchange, Country, Ath- 
letic, and Eastern Yacht clubs. In politics he is 
Republican in national elections, and Indepen- 
dent in State and city. Mr. Davis is unmarried. 



he was for about four years the editor, he came 
to Boston for that paper in 1888, and is still 
associated with it. He also conducts the Ameri- 



DEMING, Edwin Duane, of Boston, editor of 
trade papers, is a native of New York, born in 
Chautauqua, June 18, 1856, son of L. C. and 
Janette (Burt) Darning. He is descended from 
John Deming, who settled at W'eathersfield, Conn., 
early in the seventeenth century, — about 161 7; 
and on the maternal side from the Burts of New 
Hampshire. He was educated in the common 
schools and at the Collegiate Institute. His 
father and grandfather were engaged in the lum- 
ber and tanning business, and he was brought up 
in that line. He, however, early learned the 
printer's trade, and engaged in the new^spaper 
business. At first he was with papers of the oil 
region in Pennsylvania, where new towns were 
springing up through the discovery of oil. At the 
age of twenty he purchased a local paper at Sugar 
Grove, Penna. Later he owned the Fulton 
Times of Fulton, N.Y., and the Enterprise of 
Gowanda, N.Y. He was also some time in the 
employ of the New York Times as a reporter, 
and subsequently of the New "\'ork Herald as a 
special correspondent. For a time, also, he was 
one of the publishers of a daily paper at Grand 
Rapids, Mich. Since about 1S84 he has been 
connected with trade papers. Becoming asso- 
ciated with the Shoe and Leather Reviezv, of which 




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ED. D. DEMING. 

ean Glover, the only paper representing the glove 
trade in all its branches of leather and fabric 
goods. He belongs to the Masonic orders. He 
was married February 22, 1881, to Miss Emma 
Woodward, of Buffalo, N.Y. They have no 
children. 

DEVER, JoHX Fr.ancis, of Boston, alderman, 
was born in Boston, May 22, 1853, son of Mar- 
garet (Doherty) and Neil Dever, both of whom 
were natives of Ireland. He was educated in the 
Boston public schools, graduating from the May- 
hew School in 1866. Upon leaving school, he 
went to work as office boy for the Newton ()il 
Company at No. 3 Central Wharf. A year later 
he entered the employ of the New England News 
Company as a " pick-up " boy, from which he was 
soon promoted to the position of order clerk, and 
then to that of entry clerk. He remained with 
this company eleven years, finally leaving to take 
a position in 'the office of the Boston Courier. 
September, 1879, he left the Courier to enter the 
ofiice of the registrars of voters as an e.xtra 
clerk. The following November he was elected 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to the House of Representatives from the Twenti- 
eth Suffolk District as a Democrat, defeating his 
Republican opponent by five votes. A recount 
was had, and Mr. Dever lost three votes, and 
his opponent gained two, which made a tie vote, 
each candidate having one thousand one hun- 
dred. His competitor petitioned the Legisla- 
ture (1880) for the seat, claiming that a man 
living in Precinct i had voted illegally on a 
name similar to his in Precinct 3. The com- 
mittee on elections decided that the man in ques- 
tion had a right to vote in the ward ; and, his 
name not being checked on the list in Precinct i. 




JOHN F. DEVER. 

it was held that his vote should count. This de- 
cision caused the vote to remain a tie ; and the 
committee further recommended the issuance 
of a precept for a new election by the Speaker. 
The recommendation being adopted, the election 
was held in February ; and Mr. Dever triumphed 
by a majority of two hundred and thirty-two. He 
was re-elected for 1881, and at the end of that 
term voluntarily retired from elective office. 
During Mr. Dever's term of service in the Legis- 
lature he was employed by the registrars of voters 
as an assistant registrar and extra clerk, when 
that body was not in session; and in May, 1882, 
he was made a regular clerk, and continued in 



that position until June, 1885, when he was 
appointed as chief clerk in the ma3-or's office by 
Mayor O'Brien. — an appointment made necessary 
by the revision of the city charter. About a 
month after this appointment the mayor named 
him superintendent of streets, having removed 
the official who held that office. The Board of 
Aldermen was composed at that time of three 
Democrats and nine Republicans, and he failed 
of confirmation. LTpon Mr. O'Brien's re-election 
in 1886, one of the latter's first acts was to send 
his appointment to the Board of Aldermen 
again, that body consisting that year of six Re- 
publicans, five Democrats, and one Independent 
Democrat. He failed again of confirmation, re- 
ceiving but six votes, one of the regular Demo- 
crats voting against him, and one Republican and 
the Independent voting for him. During all that 
time he was holding his place as clerk for the 
mayor, and continued to do so until the election 
of Mayor Hart in December, 1888. In January, 
i88g, Mr. Dever became associated with the New 
England Piano Company, one of the largest piano 
manufacturers in the country, with warerooms at 
No. 200 Tremont Street and factories at Rox- 
bury, as its local representative ; and from that 
time he has been associated with it, meeting with 
notable success. In December, 1891, he re- 
appeared in politics as the Democratic aldermanic 
candidate in the Tenth District, the district system 
being in vogue at that time. This district has 
been considered a strong Republican one ; but 
that year Republicans, not being satisfied with 
their regular nominee, nominated an Indepen- 
dent, thus insuring Mr. Dever's election. When 
the votes were counted, it was discovered that he 
had obtained a majority of eighty-five votes over 
his two opponents. The following year he was 
re-elected over his Republican competitor by a 
majority of two hundred and thirty-five ; and from 
that time on the district has been classed as 
Democratic. The next year the candidates ran 
at large, owing to the acceptance by the people 
of Boston of the legislative act ; and Mr. Dever, 
being a candidate, was again re-elected, receiving 
the second highest vote cast for the aldermanic 
ticket. Being a candidate the following year, he 
was again re-elected to serve in the board of 1895, 
receiving a very flattering vote. Mr. Dever is 
connected with numerous fraternal organizations : 
a member of the Knights of St. Rose ; deputy 
grand knight of Mt. Pleasant Council, Knights of 



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(.Columbus ; past ruler and present counsellor of 
Montgomery Assembly, Royal Society of Good 
Fellows ; past chief ranger Mt. Pleasant Court, 
Catholic order of Foresters; and a member of 
the lioston Highland Mutual Relief Society, and 
of the American Benefit Society. He is also a 
member of the Roxbury Military and Historical 
Society, of the Montgomery Veteran Light Guard 
Association, and of the Young Men's Catholic 
Association of Boston College. Of the latter he 
has been a director and financial secretary for 
eight years, and is at present one of the trustees. 
When the college association was started, he took 
great interest in amateur theatricals, and has 
played such characters as Macbeth, Hotspur in 
"Henry IV.," Rover in "Wild Oats," Choppard 
in the " Lyons Mail," Bill Sykes in '• Oliver 
Twist," and numerous other minor characters. 
In politics he has been an active Democrat since 
he reached the voting age, and has been a mem- 
ber of the Democratic ward and city committee 
since 1874, being its secretary during 1S76-78. 
His club associations are with the Clover Club, 
the Roxbury Bachelor Club, and the Roxbury 
Club. Mr. Dever was married June 3, 1880, to 
Miss Katherine Josephine Dowling. His family 
consists of four children : John Francis, Jr., 
Esther Cobb, Margaret, and Grace. 



DOLAN, William Andrew, M.I)., of Fall 
River, was born in Shirley, July 28, 185S, son 
of Andrew and Jane (McBride) Dolan. His 
father was a nati\e of Dublin, Ireland, and his 
mother of Portobello, Scotland. His parents 
moved to Fall River when he was an infant, and 
that city has since been his home. He was edu- 
cated in the Fall River public schools and at 
St. Joseph's College, St. Joseph, N.B. (affiliated 
with Laval University), graduating there in June, 
1879. He studied medicine in the medical de- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and 
upon his graduation therefrom, March 15, 1882, 
entered St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, as house 
surgeon. After a year in the hospital service he 
began general practice in Fall River, and has 
since been actively engaged there. Since 1892 
he has been medical examiner for the Third Bris- 
tol District, appointed to this position by Governor 
Russell, and as such was the medical official in 
charge of the celebrated " Borden murder case." 
He is now also visiting surgeon to the Fall River 



Hospital and the St. Vincent Orphans' Home, 
and examining surgeon for several life and acci- 
dent insurance companies. He is a member and 
ex-censor and councillor of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, member of the Massachusetts 
Medico-Legal Society, and member and e.x-presi- 
dent of the Fall River Medical Society. He was 
one of the founders and for some years treasurer 
and member of the executive committee of the 
Clover Club, the most prominent social club in 
Fall River ; and he is a member of the Benevo- 
lent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the 
Catholic Knights of America. He also belongs 




W. A. DOLAN. 

to the Boston Life Underwriters' .Vssociation. In 
politics he is a Democrat, but not active in politi- 
cal work. He has been a justice of the peace for 
several years, by appointment of Governor Ames. 
Dr. Dolan was married May 29, 18S3, to Miss 
Nellie B. Hussey. They have three children : 
Thomas, Nellie B., and William A. Dolan. Jr. 



DOUGLASS. Darwin- Df. Furriest, of Spring- 
field, manufacturer of artificial limbs, is a native 
of Connecticut, born in the town of Bloomfield, 
November 9, 1827, son of Francis and Fanny 
(Griswold) Douglass. When he was six months 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



old, his parents removed to Elyria, Ohio, as pio- 
neers of what was then called "New Connecticut," 
or Western Reserve. Here he laid the founda- 
tion of the strong, robust health which he so much 
enjoys. He is of Scotch descent from the earliest 
Douglasses of Scotland, dating back to the year 
117s, famous in the early Scottish history. He 
was educated in the common school. He was self- 
trained for active life, constantly studying every- 
thing pertaining to his profession, in the effort to 
bring his work to the highest degree of excellence. 
His business career was begun in January, 1849, 
in the invention of the " Douglass artificial leg." 




D. De FORREST DOUGLASS. 

After two years' study and practical application of 
the work, he developed what has since been his 
life-work of forty-si.x years, — manufacturing and 
applying artificial limbs to patients in all parts of 
the world. The invention was at once a success, 
while the enterprise of small proportions gradually 
grew in magnitude. In 1873 he built the large 
brick building at Xos. 206 and 20S Union Street, 
Springfield, for residence, factory, and office, 
where he is doing business and "located for life." 
As the demand for his work increased, he found 
it expedient to open a branch office in Boston ; and 
for the last twentv-five years his place of business 
in that city has been at Xos. 13 and 15 Tremont 



Street, with the well-known firm of Codman &■ 
Shurtleff, manufacturers of surgical appliances. 
Orders come for his work from France, England, 
Turkey, New Zealand, Cuba, South ,\merica, the 
Azores, Mexico, Germany, China, and the British 
Possessions. Mr. Douglass is commissioned by 
the United States government to supply officers 
and soldiers who have lost legs in the military 
service of the country. He is under a bond of 
ten thousand dollars, which is on file in the War 
Department at Washington, to guarantee good 
work. In filling this contract, he has in no in- 
stance given anything but entire satisfaction to 
the government and his hundreds of patrons. 
Dr. Douglass is not a member of societies or 
clubs. In politics he is the ideal Independent, 
voting always for the "best man," caring nothing 
for his politics. He was married January i, 
1S50, to Miss Susan Charlotte Stickles, daughter 
of David and Elizabeth Stickles. She was born 
October 25, 1827, and died April i, 1888. He 
has one daughter : Jennie Grace Douglass, who is 
at the head of his domestic household. 



DRESSER, George, M.D., of Chicopee, is a 
native of New Hampshire, born in the town of 
Antrim, May 9, 1838, son of Daniel and Sarah 
(McAllister) Dresser. His father was of English 
descent, and his mother of Scotch-Irish, her ances- 
tors being among the first settlers of Londonderry, 
N.H. Her maternal grandfather was a captain in 
the army during the Revolutionary War. Dr. 
Dresser received his general education in the 
common schools and at different academies. He 
studied medicine first at the .Albany Medical 
College, and afterward at the Harvard Medical 
.School, graduating from the latter in Jul)', 1862. 
During 1872 he spent the winter months in 
further study in New York colleges. He began 
practice immediately after his graduation in 1862, 
in the town of Grafton, Vt., and remained there 
nearly eleven years. Then he removed to Chico- 
pee, where he has since been actively engaged. 
While practising in Vermont, he was a member of 
the Connecticut River Medical Society, and he is 
now a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society. In politics he is a Republican. He has 
held no public office, confining himself exclusively 
to his professional duties. He was first married 
in July, 1862, to Miss Marcella E. White, who died 
the following year. He married second, in Eebru- 



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ary, 1865, Miss Lucy A. Eaton. She died in 
1 888. He married third, in October, 1890, Miss 
Liilie H. King. By his second marriage he had 



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two daughters : Inez F. and L. AHce Dresser, 
both of whom are dead ; and by his third wife he 
has one daughter : Louise H. Dresser. 



DUDLEY, Henry Watson, ^LD., of Abing- 
ton, was born in Gilmanton, N.H., November 30, 
1831, son of John Kimball Dudley, now (1895) 
living in his ninety-first year, and Betsey Harvey 
(Oilman) Dudley. He is of the ninth genera- 
tion from the old colonial governor, Thomas 
Dudley, through his son, the Rev. Samuel Dudley, 
who resided, preached, and died in Exeter, N.H., 
between 1650 and 1683. Stephen, a great-grand- 
son of the Rev. Samuel, who was an early settler 
of Gilmanton, N.H., and well known as Deacon 
Stephen Dudley, was Dr. Dudley's great-great- 
grandfather. Dr. Dudley was educated in the 
schools of his native town, fitting for college at 
Gilmanton Academy in the class of 1851 ; and he 
was graduated from the Harvard Medical School 
in March, 1864. Ten years before studying medi- 
cine he taught school, one year principal of the 
Rochester (N.H.) High School, and two years 



teacher of mathematics in the Pittsfield (X.H.) 
Academy ; and he was teaching in Culpeper, Va., 
at the time of the famous John Brown raid in the 
autumn of 1859. He settled in Abington April 
6, 1864, and has since resided and been engaged 
there in active practice. From 1882 to 1893 he 
held the chair of pathology in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and in 1893 
was elected professor of pathology in the Tufts 
College Medical School, where he is still engaged. 
While residing in New Hampshire, Dr. Dudley 
was school commissioner of Belknap County, and 
member of the State I!oard of Education by ap- 
pointment of Governor Berry in 1861, and reap- 
pointed in 1862 and 1863. Since 1890 he has 
been one of the medical examiners of Plymouth 
County. He was president of the Plymouth 
District Medical Society in 1878 and 1879, ^^^ 
been one of the councillors of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society since 1883, and is also a member 
of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society. He 
has been connected with the Masonic fraternity 
since 1859. In politics Dr. Dudley has been a 
Republican since the birth of that party, and has 




HENRY WATSON DUDLEY. 



neither held nor sought public office. He was 
married March 20, 1854, to Miss Mary Ann 
Lougee (deceased). They had five children': 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Bayard, Georgie May (deceased), Frank (de- 
ceased), Charles, now a student in medicine, and 
Mary Dudley. Dr. Dudley was married June ii, 
1876, to Priscilla Rogers Ellis (deceased), and was 
married May 9, 1888, to S. Florence Marchant 
(deceased). 

DURELL, Thomas Moulton, M.D., of Somer- 
ville, is a native of Maine, born in Calais, Oc- 
tober 2, 1858, son of Rev. George Wells and 
Jane Berry (Moulton) Durell. He is of the 
Durell family which came from the island of 
Jersey in 1678, and settled in Arundel, now Ken- 




THOMAS M. DURELL, 

nebunkport, Me., where his father was born. 
His parents moved to Somerville when he was 
a child ; and he was educated in the Somerville 
public schools, graduating from the High School. 
He entered the Harvard Medical School at the 
age of eighteen, and- graduated in 1879. Subse- 
quently he spent si,\ months in further study in 
Europe, and one year m the Connecticut General 
Hospital) in New Haven. He began general 
practice in Somerville early in 1881, and in 1882 
was appointed city physician, which office he held 
until 1889. Meanwhile, in 1887 he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Robinson medical examiner 
for the Second District, Middlesex Countv. and 



was reappointed in 1893 by Governor Russell. 
He is now also professor of legal medicine in the 
Medical School of Tufts College, one of the visit- 
ing surgeons to the Somerville Hospital, member 
and chairman of the Somerville Board of Health. 
From 1884 to 1888 he was surgeon of the First 
Battalion of Cavalry, Massachusetts Militia. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety and of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal 
Society. Dr. Durell is prominent in the Masonic 
order, being a member of the John Abbot Lodge 
(past master) ; of Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, 
the Orient Council Royal and Select Masters, the 
Cceur de Lion Commander)-, Knights Templar ; 
and a past district deputy grand master of the 
Sixth Masonic District ; and he is a member of 
the Oasis Lodge of Odd Fellows. His club affil- 
iations are with the Central Club of Somerville, 
and the L^niversity Club of Boston. He is in- 
terested in city affairs, and has served some time 
as a member of the Somerville School Board. 
He was married June 3, 1886, to Miss Alma L. 
Brintnall. Their children are : Thomas and 
Ralph Brintnall Durell. 



EDWARDS, Franklix Wallace, M.D., of 
Southbridge, is a native of \\'est Virginia, born in 
Wheeling, December 31, 1855, son of Dr. Ed- 
ward William Edwards and Catherine Rosalba 
( Diffenderffer) Edwards. He is of Welsh descent 
on the paternal side, and originally German, but 
Baltimorean for two centuries, on the maternal 
side. The Diffenderffer family is very old, and 
is well known to this day in Baltimore ; and there 
have been a number of leading physicians of that 
name. Dr. Edwards was educated in private 
schools, which he attended until he reached the 
age of seventeen, and at Hellmuth College, Lon- 
don, Ontario. He did not graduate from college, 
having two weeks prior to graduation left with 
twenty other American boys, owing to strife on 
national grounds. His training for his profession 
was mostly under the supervision of his father, 
who was engaged in active practice in Chicago 
from i860 to 1889 ; and, having always intended 
to become a physician, he entered into it with 
pleasurable zeal. He graduated from Rush Medi- 
cal College February 15, 1876, and began prac- 
tice the following year, after experience in Cook 
County Hospital, in partnership with his father. 
He remained in Chicago in active practice for 



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751 



about ten years, and then was obliged to leave 
the city on account of the illness of his wife. 
After travelling in the South and South-east for 
some months, he settled early in 1888 at Wilmot 
Flat, N.H., and there resumed practice. In iSgo 
he removed to Meriden, N.H., and from there, 
two years later, removed to Southbridge, his pres- 
ent location. While practising in Meriden, he 
changed from allopathy to homoeopathy, which he 
has since followed. He has been town physician 
for three years, and is now examining physician in 
Southbridge for a number of insurance companies, 
among them the New England Mutual Accident 



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F. W. EDWARDS. 

Association, the Mutual Life Association of Mas- 
sachusetts, the New York Life, and the New 
England Life. He devotes much time to surgery, 
and has performed most of the difficult operations 
successfully ; and he is trying to keep as near to 
a surgical practice as possible. He is a member of 
the American Institute of Homceopathy, the Mas- 
sachusetts Homoeopathic Society, and the Worces- 
ter County Homoeopathic Society. He is an 
active member of the Southbridge Lodge of Free- 
masons, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, of 
the latter also e.xamining surgeon. In politics he 
has always been Democratic, but not prejudiced 
or an active partisan. He has served on the 



School Board of Southbridge. In religious faith 
he is a Baptist, and he is on all of the local Bap- 
tist church committees. Dr. Edwards was mar- 
ried January 18, 1882, to Miss Helen Mary 
Kingsland, daughter of A. W. Kingsland, of 
Chicago. They have no children. 



EMERY, Francis Faulkner, of Boston, mer- 
chant and manufacturer, was born in Roxbury 
(now of Boston), March 26, 1830, son of Francis 
Welch Roberts and Sophronia (Faulkner) Emery. 
He is of sterling English ancestry, and on both 
sides descended from early comers to New Eng- 
land. On the paternal side he is in the eighth 
generation from John Emery, born in Ronisey, in 
Hampshire (Hants), England, in 1598, who came 
over in the ship "James," arriving at Charles- 
town in 1635, and settled with his wife and two 
children at Newbury, where he became a man of 
importance, and died in 1683. Mr. Emery is in 
the direct line from John Emery's son Jonathan 
by his second wife. Jonathan was engaged in 
King Philip's War, and was wounded in the Nar- 
ragansett fight in December, 1675. Joshua, 
grandfather of Mr. Emery, born in 1774 at At- 
kinson, N.H., but for the larger part of his life 
living in Newburyport, was a house-builder and 
contractor, and subsequently steward of the An- 
dover Theological Seminary for nineteen years. 
Francis W. R., Mr. Emery's father, was the sec- 
ond of six sons of Joshua, born in Newburyport, 
came to Boston in 1824, where he was appren- 
ticed to a builder and contractor, was engaged 
in rubber manufacture in Ro.xbury from 1832 to 
1836, when the financial crash of that period swept 
away his means, then for a few years was on a 
farm in Bedford, and, returning to Boston in 1843, 
became a builder and contractor, soon taking 
a leading position in the trade, building Music 
Hall and numerous other public .structures, large 
stores, and blocks of dwellings. He died in Glas- 
gow, Scotland, in i860. On the maternal side 
Mr. Emery is a descendant in the seventh genera- 
tion from Edmond Faulkner, whose name is ninth 
in the list of first settlers of Andover in 1634, 
and in the eighth generation from Ezekiel Rich- 
ardson, settled in Charlestown in 1630, one of 
the first board of selectmen, a deputy in the Gen- 
eral Court, and one of those who founded the 
First Church in Boston. Mr. Emery was edu- 
cated at Phillips (Andover) Academy and at the 



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Boston English High School, from which he grad- 
uated in 1S4S. That year, at the age of eighteen, 
he began his business career, entering the hide 
and leather house of James P. Thorndike in Bos- 
ton as a clerk. In September of the following 
year, 1849, ^^ sailed for San Francisco, Cal., as 
supercargo on the ship "Carthage," carrying out 
a cargo of materials for house-building there. He 
remained in San Francisco for nearl)' two years, 
superintending the erection of forty houses, from 
which enterprise, in which he had a third interest, 
he realized the sum of seventeen thousand dol- 
lars. Returning to Boston in 185 i, in the spring 



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FRANCIS F. EMERY. 

of 1852 he entered the employ of Frederick 
Jones, a boot and shoe manufacturer of Athol, 
whose business was at that time one of the largest 
in New England, with factory in Athol and store 
in Boston ; and in the following year became a 
partner with Mr. Jones, under the firm name of 
Frederick Jones & Co., which relation continued 
for nearly thirty years. The firm was the first in 
New England to manufacture boots and shoes 
entirely by machinery. It was also among the 
earliest to make army shoes, in anticipation of the 
Civil War ; and throughout the war great quan- 
tities of these shoes were produced at its fac- 
tories, which not infrequently were run night and 



day to meet large orders at short notice. From 
1882, the firm of Frederick Jones & Co. being 
then dissohed, Mr. Emery continued the busi- 
ness alone until 1891, when it was discon- 
tinued ; and he retired. During his active career 
Mr. Emery was prominent and influential in many 
movements for the benefit of the boot and shoe 
industry. He was one of the projectors and al- 
ways an active supporter of the New England 
Shoe and Leather Association, a pioneer trade 
organization ; and an early member and one of 
the presidents of the Boot and Shoe Club. In 
early life he was identified with the Boston Board 
of Trade, at one time a vice-president of that or- 
ganization, and was prominent in its work. He 
was among the first in New England to join ener- 
getically, after the close of the war, in the move- 
ment for the repeal of the internal revenue tax 
upon manufactured goods ; was a leader in the 
reform resulting in the removal of the import duty 
on hides ; and was foremost in the contest against 
unjust discrimination in freight rates from Bos- 
ton to the West, setting in motion forces to which, 
it has been said, the equitable condition of freight 
rates to-day is in great measure due. Mr. Emery 
has always taken an active part in politics, but 
has never suft'ered his name to be nominated for 
a political office. Upon his return from Califor- 
nia, in 185 1, he was instrumental in the organiza- 
tion of a committee composed of representatives 
of churches of different denominations in Boston, 
dissatisfied with the condition of local politics, 
who nominated Jacob Sleeper as a third candi- 
date for mayor, the result of which was a division 
of the parties and three elections before a choice 
was made in the Whig candidate, J. V. C. Smith. 
The organization was continued for about a year, 
and out of it grew the Boston Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association and the Young Men's Christian 
Union, the latter resulting from a split in the 
committee. In the presidential campaign of 
i860 Mr. Emery supported the Bell and Everett 
ticket, but he has since been a steadfast Repub- 
lican. He was one of the earl)* members and 
active supporters of the Massachusetts Rifle Club, 
a semi-military organization formed at the out- 
break of the Civil War, which sent to the war 
as officers two hundred and fifty-six thoroughly 
drilled men, and w'hich for a week served as a 
military force to protect Boston at the time of the 
so-called Draft Riot. He has been a member of 
the Commercial Club for a long period ; is also a 



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iiRMiil)er of the Art and Algonquin clubs, and is 
identified with the order of Freemasons, belong- 
ing to the Lodge of Eleusis, St. Paul's Chapter, 
antl the St. Bernard Conimandery. He was mar- 
ried September i8, 1855, to Miss Caroline Sweet- 
ser Jones, daughter of Frederick Jones, his early 
partner. They have had four children : Maria S., 
I'rancis F., Jr., Edward Stanley, and Frederick 
lones F.niery. Mrs. Einery died in 1S90. 



ENNF"-KING, John Joseph, of Boston, artist, 
is a nati\e of Ohio, born in Minster, Auglaize 
County, October 4, 1841, son of Joseph J. and 
Mary M. (Bramlage) Enneking. He is of Ger- 
man descent. He was educated in the local 
.schools, and at Mount St. Mary's College, in Cin- 
cinnati, and while a school-boy displayed his de- 
cided talent for drawing in picture-making on his 
slate and in charcoal work at home. This ten- 
dency was not welcomed bv his father, who hoped 
to make a man of business of him ; but he had 
the sympathy of his mother, who had artistic 
tastes and was herself something of an artist. At 
St. Mary's, in addition to the regular studies, he 
devoted several hours each week to drawing and 
music lessons, and was fortunate in receiving en- 
couragement and helpful advice in the pursuit of 
these branches from the principal. President 
Rosecrans, a brother of General Rosecrans. The 
outbreak of the Civil War cut short his collegiate 
work ; and, joining the army, he served the cause 
in various capacities. Being severely wounded in 
Western Virginia, he was confined to hospital 
and sick-room for several months. When con- 
valescent, he visited an exhibition of oil paintings 
in Cincinnati, which impressed him with a strong 
desire to become a professional artist. Accord- 
ingly, he came East, and began his studies and 
practice in New York. Shortly after he removed 
to Boston, and there engaged in drawing on stone 
under Professor Richardson. He was soon, how- 
ever, compelled to abandon this work on account 
of trouble with his eyes. Then he entered a mer- 
cantile enterprise ; but for business he had neither 
training nor fancy, and, when this proved profit- 
less, he returned to art and took up his palette. 
His elTorts were mainly directed to pastels and 
oil painting, in which he did good work. In 1873 
he went abroad for study and observation in the 
foreign art centres. He first travelled through 
England, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria. 



Italy, and Krance : then spent si.\ months in 
Munich, studying landscape and figure drawing : 
and, after a three months' sketching tour in Ven- 
ice, settled down in Paris, entering Pionnat's 
studio. He remained there three winters, study- 
ing the figure and landscape painting under Dau- 
bigny, meanwhile spending much time in the 
galleries, studying the masters. Returning to 
America in 1876, he opened a studio in Boston, 
and took up his residence in Hyde I'ark, which 
has since been his home. In the spring of 1878 
he made his first important exhibition on a large 
scale, showing a hundred canvases, which estab- 




JOHN J. ENNEKING. 

lished his reputation. The entire collection was 
sold at auction, bringing five thousand dollars, the 
highest price being received for a cattle piece. 
The following summer he again went abroad ; 
and, after visiting the Paris Exposition, spent 
three months in Holland, stud_\ing the Dutch mas- 
ters in its famous galleries. Since 1880 he has 
been regularly represented in all the important ex- 
hibitions of the art seasons in Boston, New \ork, 
and Philadelphia; and he has received several 
gold and silver medal awards. His works are in 
many of the best collections in the country. Mr. 
Enneking was chairman of the art advisory com- 
mittee of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 



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1893 and (if the art jury of New England. He 
has been prominently connected with movements 
for the preservation of beautiful places, and is now 
chairman of the Park Commission of Hyde I'ark. 
He is a member of the Boston Art and the Paint 
and Clay clubs. He was married in 1864 to Miss 
Mary E. Elliott, of Corinna, Me. They have 
five children : John Joseph, Florence May, Mary 
Emily, Gracie Clara, and Joseph Elliott Enneking. 



ESTES, AuRAM SioRV Newei.l. civil and 
hydraulic engineer, was born in Fall River, April 




A. S. N ESTES, 

25, 1867, son of 'I'lionias G. and Josephine E. 
(Newell) , F^tes. He is of ancient lineage, the 
line of ancestry being traced back to the early 
house of Este, town of Este, province of Padua, 
Italy. He was educated in the public schools of 
Fall River and at the Friends' Hoarding School 
of Providence, R.I. Then he took a special 
scientific course at lirown University, finishing 
in i88g. He had, however, become acquainted 
with scientific studies at a much earlier period, 
having in his youth been tutored in various 
scientific directions by his father, who was a man 
of decidedly scientific attainments. He had also 
studied with a class, composed mostly of civil and 



mechanical engineers, the higher branches of 
geometry, trigonometry, and electricity. After 
spending some time in the employ of various 
firms, he began professional work on his own ac- 
count in 1890, and since that time has had a 
varied experience in almost every line of his pro- 
fession. Being established as he is in the Sears 
Building, in the very heart of the business section 
of Boston, he is in a position to attend promptly 
to any line of his business within a radius of one 
hundred miles from the city, and has extended 
his operations into all the New England States. 
Having always held in view the maxim that, "if a 
thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well," he 
has worked into a line of business which requires 
great accuracy. He has computed and adopted a 
table of expansion and contraction for a correction 
of steel tapes for changes in temperature which has 
proved to be of much value in his work. He is 
constantly on the lookout for new methods which 
may be of advantage over the old ones, and is 
quick to investigate all that appear, to ascertain 
their true value. Mr. Estes is a member of the 
Boston Society for Civil Engineers. He resides 
in Newton. 

FAXON, William Otis, M.D., of Stoughton, 
is a native of Stoughton, born October 24, 1853, 
son of Ebenezer R. and Harriet Newell (Hoit) 
Faxon. He is in the ninth generation from 
Thomas Faxon, an early settler in New England, 
in 1632, the line running: Thomas,' Richard, - 
Thomas,'' Richard,' James,'^ Nathaniel," Nathaniel," 
Ebenezer,^ William O.'' His mother was of New 
Hampshire, daughter of Benjamin and Jane 
(Burnham) Hoit, of Moultonborough. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native town, 
and fitted for his profession at the Boston I'^niver- 
sitv School of Medicine, graduating in 1876. He 
began practice immediately after graduation, in 
South Hraintree, and continued there until Janu- 
ary, 1 88 1, wiien he returned to Stoughton, which 
has since been his field of successful work. In 
1894 he was appointed medical examiner for the 
Fifth Norfolk District. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Surgical Society of Boston and of 
the Commercial Club of Brockton. He has taken 
quite an interest in Masonry, having taken all the 
degrees as far as Knight Templar: and he is also 
a member of the order of Odd Fellows. In 
politics he is a Republican, and has been asked 
several times by his party associates to allow his 



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name to be used as a candidate for otfice ; but on 
account of demands of his profession he has been 
obliired to decline. Dr. Faxon was married lulv 




WILLIAM O, FAXON. 

lo, 1S78, to Miss Susan Reed \\"ales, of Stough- 
ton. They have had two children : Nathaniel W. 
(now fifteen years of age) and \\'illiam Reed 
Faxon (died in infancy). 



School, of which Thomas Sherwin was then mas- 
ter, and winning at different times two I'Vanklin 
medals. After graduation from school he entered 
the importing house of Thomas & Edward Motley 
on India Wharf, and remained there until the dis- 
solution of that firm. In 1841 he became a mem- 
ber of the firm of Wetherell, Whitney, Cl- Co., dry- 
goods jobbers, and continued in that business for 
many years, under various firm organizations, 
forming in 1844 the firm of Whitney, Fcnno, & 
Co., in i860 that of Fenno, Foster, &: Badger, and 
in 1862 Fenno & Jones. In 1864 he formed the 
firm of Fenno & Childs, general commission mer- 
chants, and in i868 engaged exclusively in the 
wool business as the head of the firm of F'enno, 
Abbott, & Co. Six 3'ears later this firm was 
changed to F'enno, Son, & Co., and so continued 
until 1879, when he entirely retired from active 
business. Mr. Fenno never would accept public 
office, although alw-ays deeply interested in the 
various political events of his time. He was first 
an ardent Whig, and afterward a consistent Re- 
publican. He was for many years a vestryman 
of Trinitv Church, and a member of the Bostonian 



FENNO, John Brooks, of Boston, wool mer- 
chant, was born in Boston March 3, 18:6, son of 
John and Temperance (Harding) Fenno; died 
February 14, 1894. He was descended from 
I'.phraim and Elizabeth Fenno, who were settled 
in Boston some time during the latter part of the 
seventeenth century. Their son John married 
Hannah Capen, of Charlestown, in 1730, and 
died in Boston in 1790. Among other children 
John and Hannah had a son Samuel, born in 
1745, married Hannah Hiller, of Salem, in 1767, 
died in 1806. Among the children of Sanuiel 
and Hannah was John, born in 1779, married 
Temperance Harding in June, 18 13, and died 
1820. This John was the father of jt)hn Brooks 
lenno. Mr. Fenno was educated in the Boston 
public schools, graduating from the English High 




J, B. FENNO. 



Society, of the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 
ety, the Historical Society, the Natural History 
Society, and the Church Missionary Society. He 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



was married August 6, 1844, to Sarah Elizabeth 
Smith, daughter of Richard Smith of Smithtown, 
Long Island, N.Y. Their children were : Edward 
Nicoll, Florence Harding, Lawrence Carteret, and 
John Brooks, Jr. 



FLOOD, Thomas William, of Boston, member 
of the Board of Aldermen for the South Boston 
District, is a native of Ireland, born in Lough- 
brown, County Kildare, November 7, 1857, son 
of \\'illiam and Theresa (Flannigan) Flood. 
Being obliged to work from early boyhood, his 




THOMAS W. FLOOD. 

opportunities for an education were limited ; and 
all the schooling he was able to obtain consisted 
of two and a half years in the country school of 
his native place and two years more at the New- 
bridge National School. His working days began 
when he was seven years of age, and have con- 
tinued ever since. He came to America in Octo- 
ber, 1869, and went to live in Brooklyn, N.Y., 
where he remained until May, 1870, during which 
time he worked in the Loomis saw-mill. He 
arrived in Boston May 31, 1870, and on June i 
went to work for Thomas Johnson, grocer and 
provision dealer in South Boston. He continued 
there until August, 1884, when he was appointed 



clerk in the street department of Boston by 
Michael Meehan. The last year in that depart- 
ment he was chief clerk. He was removed 
April 5, 1889, by J. Edwin Jones, under Mayor 
Hart's administration. He was connected with 
the grocery and provision business for fourteen 
years ; and this, in his judgment, was the best 
training he received for successful business life. 
His political career began in 1883, when he 
aspired to a position on the Democratic ward 
committee of Ward Fourteen. He was defeated 
that year, but the next was successful ; and he 
was made chairman of the committee. This was 
the triumphant Democratic year, when Grover 
Cleveland was first elected to the Presidency. 
Mr. Flood has remained on the committee most 
of the time since, — its most influential member. 
He was first elected to the Boston Board of Alder- 
men in the December election of 1889, and was 
re-elected in 1890, 1891, and 1892. Failing of 
the Democratic nomination in 1893, he ran inde- 
pendently as a Citizens' candidate, and polled 
22,315 votes, being defeated by 3,500 votes. In 
1894 he received the almost unanimous Demo- 
cratic nomination, lacking but seven votes ; and 
on election day polled 30,700 votes, the highest 
received by any Democrat on the ticket. Al- 
though a Democrat, he has independent proclivi- 
ties, and is naturally liberal, not radical. In the 
aldermanic board he has served on some of the 
most important committees, and has been a leader 
on his party's side of the chamber. Mr. Flood is 
a prominent member of numerous societies and 
clubs. He is a past dictator of the City Point 
Lodge of Knights of Honor ; past regent of Win- 
throp Council, Royal Arcanum ; a member of 
Mount Washington Lodge, Ancient Order of 
United Workmen ; member of Division 13, An- 
cient Order of Hibernians ; of the South Boston 
Council, Knights of Columbus ; of the Charitable 
Irish Society of Boston ; a trustee of the City 
Point Catholic Association, South Boston ; a life 
member of the Young Men's Catholic Association 
of Boston College ; a member of the .Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company ; and member of 
the City Point Athletic Club, the Mosquito Fleet 
Yacht Club, and the Oak ]?Iuffs Club, Cottage 
City. He was first married October 20, 1886, 
to Miss Alice M. McKanna, by whom he had two 
children : Annie Elizabeth and William Flood 
(deceased). He married second, February 20, 
1895, Miss Catherine G. Gallagher. 



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FOURDRINIER, Chari.es \\ii,i.iam, of ]!os- 
loii, nianay:cr of the Wheelman^ is a native of 
lunriaiul. born in Hanlev, StafTorcLsliire, March 




FR.\NKL1N, .\li!ert Uaknes, of Boston, 
manufacturer, was born in Ro.xbury (Boston), Jan- 
uary 28, 1852, son of Benjamin and Clara 
(Stowell) Franklin. His ancestors were among 
the first settlers of Southern X'erniont, going 
there from (iuilford. Conn., and naming their 
settlement Guilford from their former home. His 
great-grandparents on both sides were active in 
the Revolutionary War : one was a captain (David 
Stowell), and another, Jedediah Darling, was 
wounded in the battle of Stillwater, N.^'. His 
grandfather Franklin went back to Connecticut, 
and, enlisting at New London, served in Connecti- 
cut. Mr. Franklin was educated in the ISoston 
public schools, and w as prepared for college at the 
Ro.xbury Latin School ; but, his health failing from 
over-study, he was obliged to give up the college 
course. At the age of seventeen, in June, 1869, 
he entered the employ of J. J. Walworth & Co., 
now the \\'alworth Manufacturing Company, and 
worked four years with tools, learning the trade of 
a steam-fitter. During the five years ne.xt ensuing 
he was employed by the same concern in making 
plans and estimates and in contracting for heating 



C. W. FOURDRINIER. 



24, 1855, son of George Henry and Jane (Har- 
ding) F'ourdrinier. His ancestry is traced to 
Henri F'ourdrinier, born at Caen, Normandy, in 
I :;75, an admiral, and bearing the title of 
viscount. Henri, a grandson, emigrated to Hol- 
land in 169S ; and Paul, a great-grandson, in 1693 
established the family name in England, .\mong 
the names of Mr. Fourdrinier's near ancestors is 
that of Cardinal John Henry Newman. His edu- 
cation was acquired in a preparatory school at 
Headington, near O.xford, England. Failure of 
health cut his studies short, so that he did not 
enter college. He was trained for a business ca- 
reer, and some time in 187 1 went into an insur- 
ance office. He remained in that business, filling 
various positions of trust, until 1S80, when he took 
a position with Van Benthuysen, of Albany, and 
obtained an idea of the practical part of the pub- 
lishing business. Eight years later, in 1888, he 
took the management of the Whciiman Company, 
with which he has since been connected. He is 
president of the Press Cycle Club, and member of 
the Boston Bicycle Club, the Boston Camera (.'lub, 
and the Hull Yacht Club. He is unmarried. 




ALBERT B. FRANKLIN. 



apparatus. In the autumn of 1878 he started in 
business on his own account, beginning in a small 
way at No. 30 Charleslown Street, Haymarket 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Square, Boston, with a capital not above $500, 
$400 of which sum was invested in the right to 
use a patent boiler for house-warming, which, how- 
ever, Mr. Franklin within a short time after aban- 
doned. In February, 1882, he formed a limited 
partnership with his brother, Benjamin E. Franklin, 
receiving $5,000 additional capital, which was of 
great value to him in extending his business. 
This partnership continued until the first of Janu- 
ary, 1891, since which time Mr. Franklin has con- 
ducted the business alone. From the beginning 
his work has grown yearly, slowly at first, but of 
late years with marked rapidity. During the busy 
season he employs about one hundred hands, and 
his yearly transactions reach a total of two hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Franklin has con- 
structed some of the largest heating and ventilat- 
ing plants in New England, among the most nota- 
ble ones being the apparatus in the New State 
House E.xtension, that in the Asylum for Chronic 
Insane at Medfield, which comprises twenty-four 
separate buildings, and plants in a large \ariety of 
buildings, both public and private, including nu- 
merous fine residences in other parts of New Eng- 
land. Mr. Franklin is vice-president of the Mel- 
rose Young Men's Christian Association, and was 
chairman of the building committee for the 
structure just completed for the association at a 
cost of fifty thousand dollars. He has also been 
for three years superintendent of the Congrega- 
tional Sunday-school in Melrose. He is a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic 
Association, of the Congregational Club, and of 
the Boston Sunday-school Superintendents' Union. 
In politics he is a Republican. He was married 
September 30, 1874, to Miss Helen Frances 
Jenness, of Roxbury. They have six children ; 
Lillian, Albert B., Jr., Laurence, Ralph Stowell, 
Isabelle Emily, and Clara Violet Franklin. 



FRASER. John Chisholm, M.I)., of East 
Weymouth, was born in .Vntigonish, N.S., Au- 
gust 2, 1853, son of John and Mary (Chisholm) 
Fraser. Both parents were born in the High- 
lands of Scotland. ( )n the paternal side the an- 
cestry is traced back to the eleventh century. 
His mother is a descendant of " the Chisholms 
of Strathglass," and was born in Beauly, Inverness- 
shire. He was educated in the common schools 
of Nova Scotia and at St. Francis Xavier College, 
Antigonish. Coming to the United States in 



1872, he began the study of medicine at the Har- 
vard Medical School, and, subsequently entering 
the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New 





JOHN C. FRASER. 

York, graduated from the latter in March, 1876. 
Inmiediately after graduation he established him- 
self in East Weymouth, and has been there en- 
gaged since, his practice early becoming success- 
ful and steadily increasing in extent. He has 
been medical examiner for the Fourth District of 
Norfolk County since 1893; is a justice of the 
peace, appointed by (iovernor Ames in 1888: 
and has been a member of the Weymouth School 
Board for six years. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, of the South Nor- 
folk District Medical Society, and of the Medico- 
Legal Society of Boston, and belongs also to the 
Scots Charitable Society of Boston, the Boston 
Caledonian Club, and to social and literary clubs 
of Weymouth. Dr. Fraser was married July 20, 
18S0, to Miss Mary A. Boyle, of East Weymouth. 
They have five children : Mary C;., .\rchie 
McKay, Catherine E., Somers, and Irene A. 
Fraser. 



FR^X'HETTE, Clement, M.D.. of Leominster, 
is a native of Canada, born in Montreal, Febru- 
ary 22, 1868, son of Clement and Anathalie 



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(t'liarliaiul I Trcchctte. Louis Joseph I'apiiKMii, 
onu of lliu principal leaders in iIk- rehellioii of 
1837-3S, of whom a writer has said, "His elo- 
quence caused us [the French Canadians] to be 
respected as much as did the sword of les 
D'Iberville, les Montcalm, and les Salaberry," 
was his great-uncle. He is also related to Louis 
H. Fre'chette, Canadian national poet, whose 
works have been crowned by the French Acad- 
emy. His education was obtained at the Mon- 
treal College, Montreal, under the direction of the 
.Sulpiciens ; and he was graduated in medicine 
from the Victoria LTniversity, Montreal, in 1890. 
After graduation he came to Massachusetts, and 
practised for about two years in the village of 
Manchaug. Then, removing to Leominster, he 
has since been established in that town, in the en- 
joyment of a steadily growing practice. While 
living in Montreal, he was secretary of Le Cercle 
National, and was also a member of Le Club St. 
1 )enis, of Le Trappeur, a snow-shoe club, of Le 
Club National, a political organization for young 
Liberals, and of L'Institut Me'dical. In Man- 
chaug he was president of La Socie'te Drama- 




CLEMENT FRECHETTE. 



lique. and vice-president of the ^Llnchaug Athletic 
Club; and in Leominster he is a member of the 
Leominster Club. He is one of the vice-presi- 



dents of Le ('lulj Fremont, a Republican State or- 
ganization in Massachusetts ; and he also belongs 
to the St. John Haptiste Society. He is an ear- 
nest Republican, and has been active in politics 
since 1893, taking- part in every campaign as an 
effective speaker (in French) on the .stump in 
many cities and towns. Though French by blood, 
lie is American in sentiment. I le is an admirer 
of American institutions ; and he hopes to see his 
adopted country " the grandest, the richest, and 
tlie happiest of countries in the world." One of 
his greatest desires is to see Canada annexed to 
the United States. He " abhors fanaticism,'" and 
believes in " freedom of conscience." 



FRYE, James Nichols, of Boston, merchant, 
is a native of Vermont, born in the town of Con- 
cord, October 3, 1828, second son of Captain 
David and Betsy (Joslin) Frye. In him unite 
strains of blood which have left their mark upon 
the development of New England-. His genera- 
tion is the tenth of the name in this country, 
counting from the John Frye, of Basing, County 
Hants, England, who sailed from Southampton 
for America in 1633. His great-grandfather, 
John Frye, held a captain's commission in the 
colonial service from 1755 to 1761, and is re- 
corded as eighth deacon on the roll of the old 
church at Sutton, Mass. His grandfather, still 
another John Frye, pushed northward in 1795, 
moving from Royalston, Mass., to Concord, of 
which town he was one of the earliest settlers. 
His father was a prominent man in Concord, and 
held a commission in the artillery service. 
Through his mother, Mr. Frye is connected with 
the old Joslin family of Leominster, Mass.. 
which counts among its ancestors Sir Ralph Jos- 
lin, lord mayor of London in 1464. His ma- 
ternal great-grandfather, whose name he bears, 
was Captain James Nichols, an early master in 
the American merchant marine. Mr. Frye's boy- 
hood was passed upon his father's farm in Con- 
cord, of which the title to-day stands in his name. 
Losing his mother in infancy, he found himself, 
upon the death of his father in 1843, thrown 
largely upon his own resources. A few years 
later, having obtained what education could be 
had from the common schools of that day, lie en- 
tered the well-known academy at St. Johnsbur)-, in 
whose catalogue of alumni he is registered with 
the class of 1849. I'erhaps, however, the self-re- 



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liance developed by the circumstances of his early 
life has stood him in better stead than any other 
part of his education. While studying at St. 
Johnsbury, he held a position in the post-office 
at that place ; and it was through acquaintances 
thus formed that the opportunity was offered him 
to enter the employ of Montgomery Newell, at 
that time in the wholesale hardware trade at No. 
83 State Street, Boston. Mr. Frye gladly took 
advantage of this opportunity, and at once left 
Vermont for the scene of his new labors. He 
arrived in Boston on the forenoon of April 17, 
1849. One o'clock of the afternoon of tliat day 




JAMES N. FRYE. 

found him energetically occupied in mastering the 
details of his unaccustomed calling. His entry 
upon his business career was characteristic of his 
determination to succeed in his undertaking; and, 
by making his employer's interests his own, he 
won his way forward, step by step, until within 
five years from the day he left Vermont he reaped 
tiie reward of his unremitting attention to dut)' by 
being admitted to partnership in the concern for 
which he had so faithfully labored. Few firms in 
the business world of to-day can lay claim to an 
uninterrupted existence of fourscore years ; but 
one of these few is that of Frye, Phipps, & Co. 
The original concern, under the style of Mont- 



gomer)' Newell, was in business for over a third 
of a century. It was followed by the firm of 
Wells, Coverly, & Co. (1853); Coverly, Frye, & 
Co. (1855): Coverly, Frye, & Knapp (1858); 
Coverly, Frye, & Co. from i860 to 1864, during 
the latter three years of which period Mr. Frye 
was sole member of the concern : Frye, Phipps, & 
Co. during the thirty-one years from 1864 until 
the present time (1895). From the earliest days 
of the century until now this old concern has en- 
joyed an unbroken reputation for integrity, and 
after the business trials of so many decades it still 
stands well to the front among its younger rivals 
in the trade. Even the "great fire" of 1872, in 
which the granite store of the concern, then on 
Federal Street, literally melted out of view, proved 
only a temporary check to the course of the firm's 
affairs : for in twenty-four hours it was re-estab- 
lished in new quarters, undaunted by its misfort- 
une. Mr. I'rye is an active member of the New 
England Iron and Hardware Association, and is 
delegate from that body to the Massachusetts 
.State Board of Trade. In the latter organization 
he holds the position of vice-president and mem- 
ber of the executive council. Still claiming kin- 
ship with Vermonters, he was instrumental in 
forming the Vermont Association of Boston, of 
whicli he is vice-president. He has always been 
devotedly fond of rod and gun. In 1875 he was 
among those who established the now famous 
Massachusetts Rifle Association, of which he was 
later elected president, and in which he now holds 
the office of honorary life director. He has also 
been connected with the old Tremont Sportsman's 
Club and with the Megantic Club, though he has 
given up his membership in the latter, and now is 
enrolled in the Winchester Club, whose game pre- 
serves lie near Caxton, Canada. He has hunted 
and fished for years past in the Adirondack, 
Rangeley, and Moosehead regions, and knows by 
heart every haunt of shore birds along the Massa- 
chusetts coast. He has been an unswerving ad- 
herent to the Republican party since its organiza- 
tion, but has never sought office, although main- 
taining an active interest in national and local 
politics. Mr. Frye was married January i, 1854, 
to Miss Sabina T. Bacheler, daughter of the Rev. 
Origen and Charlotte (Thompson) Bacheler. He 
has had three children : Charlotte M., Alice M., 
and James A. Frye. Of these the first is de- 
ceased. The two last-named are married, and 
reside in Boston. 



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GALLISON, Jefferson Gushing, M.I)., of 
Franklin, is a native of Maine, born in Sebec, 
August <S, 1841, son of John Murray and Saraii 
Ann (F'rench) Gallison. His paternal grandfather 
was born in the old Winslow house still standing 
in Marshfield, and was the eldest son of John 
Callison, of Marblehead, who married Abigail 
Winslow, daughter of Kenelm \\'inslow, a direct 
descendant of the Winslows of the •'Mayflower." 
The Oallisons came early to Marblehead, from the 
island of Cniernsey, and are of French descent. 
Ills iiiatenial ancestors were of the Scotch-Irish 
inunigrants \\ ho were the early settlers of parts of 




J. C. GALLISON. 

New Hampshire. His maternal grandfather was 
a veteran of the War of 1812. He attended the 
liublic schools, the Woodstock High School, and 
tlie Oxford Normal Institute: was for three years 
private pupil of Dr. J. H. Kimball, surgeon of the 
Thirty-first and Thirty-second Maine Volunteers ; 
and was graduated from the Boston Ihiiversity 
(in 1875), Tufts College (1894), and the Harvard 
Medical School (1895). He has for several years 
been a post-graduate student at Harvard. In 
1893 he entered the regular course as an under- 
graduate, and was graduated a member of the 
class of 1895. He was for three years in practice 
in Medway, nearly one year in lirookline, and has 



for seventeen years been in F'ranklin. During 
this time he was in Europe several months, and 
served as interne in the Hospital Heaujon, I'aris. 
Later he was an instructor in surgery in the Bos- 
ton University Medical School for three years, 
and lecturer on surgical pathology at Tufts 
College. In 1890 he was appointed medical 
e.xaminer for Norfolk County, wjiich office he still 
holds. Dr. Gallison is also concerned in banking, 
being a director of the Franklin National Bank, 
the Benjamin Franklin Savings Bank, and the 
Franklin Co-operative Bank. He was a director 
of the Milford, Franklin, X: Providence Rail- 
road. He has served his town as a member of 
the Franklin School Board for three years, and 
was for several years member of the local Board 
of Health. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, of the Massachusetts Medico- 
Legal Society, of the Thurber Medical Society 
(president in 1894), of the Alumni Association of 
Boston University (president in 1875), and of the 
Alumni Association of Tufts College. He is a 
Knight Templar and a thirt3'-second degree Mason, 
member of .\leppo Temple, Order of the Mystic 
.Shrine, an Odd Fellow, member of lodge and en- 
campment, and is connected with several other 
secret societies. Dr. Gallison was married Janu- 
ary 2, 1864, in Portland, Me., to Miss Ellen S. Bur- 
nell, daughter of Isaiah M. and Abigail S. (U'illard) 
Burnell. They have one child, a daughter : .\nnie 
Louise Gallison (born October 28, 1871 ). 



GARLAND, Joseph, M.D., of Gloucester, is a 
native of New Hampshire, born in Hampton, 
January 22, 1822, son of David and Mary (Fifield) 
Garland. His grandfather, Jonathan Garland, 
deacon of the church, selectman, recruiting officer, 
and army officer in the Revolutionary War, was 
the fourth in descent from John Garland, who 
came from F^ngland about the year 1650, settled 
at Hampton, N.H., and was the progenitor of the 
Garland families in New Hampshire and Maine ; 
and descendants of Jonathan Garland still remain 
upon the homestead of the original families in 
Hampton. Dr. Garland's early education was in 
the common district school. He fitted for college 
at Hampton Academy in his native town, and, 
after teaching two schools, entered Dartmouth in 
1840, where he remained one year. Then he 
taught again for several months, and the ne.vt year 
(1841) entered Bowdoin in the middle of the soph- 



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oniore year, and graduated regularly in 1844. 
After graduation he taught two academies, one in 
South Hampton and another in Atkinson, N.H., 
and at the same time studied medicine. Securing 
funds by teaching, he prosecuted further training 
for the medical profession. In 1848, after spend- 
ing several months at the Bowdoin College Medi- 
cal School, then largely under the care of Profes- 
sor F.dmund R. Peeslee, he attended clinical 
studies at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 
Boston, and in the autumn of 1848 entered the 
Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and 
graduated there in March, 1849. He went to 




JOSEPH GARLAND. 

Gloucester the following May, and established 
himself as a physician and surgeon, and from that 
time to the present has been continuously in prac- 
tice there. His business has been large, his ob- 
stetric practice especially large and overtaxing; 
but now he has been obliged to withdraw almost 
wholly from practice. He is the oldest practi- 
tioner upon Cape Ann. He has been a very busy 
man, and has met with much success in his profes- 
sional work. His habits of life have been scrupu- 
lously exact. He is a fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and was in 1879 president of the 
Essex South District Medical Society. He has 
written something for medical publication. Dr. 



Garland has also served his city in various sta- 
tions. He was elected to the Board of School 
Committee in 185 1, and has been repeatedly re- 
elected since. He was secretary of the board for 
several years during the remodelling of the school 
system, and his interest in the elevation of 
schools and the general diffusion of knowledge 
has been unflagging. In December, 1879, he 
was elected mayor of the city, and in 1880 re- 
elected without opposition for a second term, at 
the end of which service he declined further to 
act politically as a public servant. In politics he 
has always been a Republican, and, though not 
prominent as a leader, has been a firm adherent 
to the principles of that party, and active in ad- 
vancing them so far as professional duties would 
permit. He became most interested in political 
matters during the "greenback craze" in Massa- 
chusetts, — fostered by General B. F. Butler — be- 
cause of the retrenchment cry that painfully af- 
fected the schools in which he was concerned as 
a member of the School Board ; and, though in 
the height of his practice, he was constrained to 
yield, against his inclinations, the use of his name 
as a candidate for the mayoralty, thereby defeat- 
ing the Greenback party. Dr. Garland was mar- 
ried first in. October, 1849, to Miss Caroline Au- 
gusta Goodhue, of Amesbury, and had three sons 
by that marriage. The eldest, Dr. Joseph Ever- 
ett, a graduate of Harvard College and Medical 
School, is now established in successful practice 
in Gloucester, and largely interested in the cause 
of education ; Kllsley Stearns, the second son, died 
in May, 186 1 ; and Otis Ward died in his twenty- 
first year, a prominent member of the junior class 
of Bowdoin College. His wife, Caroline Augusta, 
died April 12, 1868. He married May 3, 1870, 
his second and present wife. Miss Susan Dearborn 
Knowlton, of Manchester, N.H., and by this mar- 
riage has four children, two daughters and two 
sons: Edith .Augusta, Ethel Susan, Alric, and Roy 
Garland. The youngest son, Roy, enters Harvard 
University, at its next commencement. Dr. Gar- 
land has lived to see the town of six or seven 
thousand inhabitants grow to the dimensions of a 
city of more than twenty-six thousand people, with 
increase of business commensurate with the growth 
of population ; and still his labors are not ended. 



GILSON, Franklin Howard, of Boston, music 
and book-printer and book-binder, was born in Cam- 



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bridge, Dec. 21, 1854, son of Henry Yend and 
Mary Spofford (^ Bailey) Gilson. He is a descend- 
ant of Joseph Gilson, one of the original proprie- 
tors of Groton. He was educated in the public 
schools of Somer\ille. He left the High School 
at seventeen years of age to learn music-printing, 
becoming apprenticed to Andrew B. Kidder, then 
the leading music-printer in Boston. In 1877 
he went into the book-printing office of Rand, 
Avery, iS; Co., to obtain a wider knowledge of the 
general printing busine.ss. This acquired, in 1878 
he started into business on his own account, witli 
a fellow-workman as a partner, each putting in fi\e 




F. H. GILSON. 

hundred dollars, with which capital a small music 
type-setting plant was purchased. Within the 
first year the partner withdrew, taking for his 
interest Mr. Gilson's note ; and the latter de- 
veloped the business alone. The field for music 
type-setting was limited, and the competition 
sharp; and during the second year Mr. Gilson 
and five employees were sufficient to care for all 
the work that came to the modest establishment. 
But, as a result of careful attention to every detail 
and persistency, the business advanced ; and at the 
end of five years it had doubled. From 1884 to 
1888 some publishing was done, including several 
school music books and a periodical, the Sc/nwl 



Musk Journal, which Mr. (Jilson also edited. 
Then, finding that his publishing created some 
feeling among his competitors, who were also his 
customers for printing, he sold his catalogue to 
Oliver Ditson & Co., and again confined his work 
to printing alone. In 1888 a fire near by destroyed 
a large part of his plant, whereupon he purchased 
that of C. M. Gay, his strongest competitor; and, 
when his plant was reconstructed, the two were 
brought together under one roof, [n 1889, secur- 
ing a large contract for press-work and binding, 
he bought out the establishment of Carter & Wes- 
ton, printers and book-binders, including nine 
large power presses and a large amount of book- 
binding machinery. With these additions he was 
enabled to handle anything in the line of printing 
or binding. In 1891 he added music engraving 
and lithographing, making five distinct depart- 
ments in the establishment, — music type-setting, 
printing from electrotype plates, music engrav- 
ing, lithographing, and book-binding departments. 
From five employees in 1879 the regular force has 
increased to one hundred and thirty to-day. In 
1 89 1 the business was incorporated under the 
name of the F. H. Gilson Company, with Mr. Gil- 
son as president and manager. Mr. Gilson is a 
member of the New England Lithographers' Asso- 
ciation, of the Master Printers" Club of Boston, of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of the 
Metaphysical Club, the Home Market Club, and 
the Wellesley Club of Wellesley (a director of the 
latter). In religious faith he is a Unitarian, mem- 
ber of the standing committee of the Unitarian so- 
ciety of Wellesley Hills, where he resides ; and in 
politics, a Republican. He has been much inter- 
ested and active in town improvements. His fa- 
vorite relaxation from business is in the study 
of nature, particularly botany. He was married 
Sept. 23, 1874, to Miss Emily Isabel Lowry, 
of Nashville, Tenn. They have five children : 
Beatrice Azalea, Claude ITlnuis, Isabel Clethra, 
Alden Pinus. and .\nna Rhodora Gilson. 



GLASIER, Alfred Adolphu.s, of Boston, con- 
cerned in electric street railway and municipal 
lighting companies, was born in Boston, Decem- 
ber 24, 1857, son of Henry Swanton and Anne 
(Smith) Glasier. His father was a native of Bath, 
Me., and his grandfather, Joseph Glasier, and 
great-grandfather, were al.so born in Maine. The 
latter's parents came from England. He was edu- 



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calL-d in Ihe public schools of Boston. He began 
business life at the age of fifteen, in July, 1873, in 
the Boston oiifice of the president of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad, and was con- 
nected with that company for seventeen years, 
some time as secretary to the late Thomas Nicker- 
son, president, and during the latter part of his 
service as its transfer agent. Resigning this posi- 
tion, he became connected with the Thomson- 
Houston Electric Company, and devoted himself 
chiefly to the development of electric street rail- 
way and illuminating properties. After four years' 
association with the Thomson-Houston company 
he withdrew, in order to gi\e his attention more 
closely to various companies organized by himself. 
He first organized a company to purchase the old 
horse-car line in Brockton, his object being to con- 
vert it into an electric railway and to demonstrate 
the feasibility of successfully building, operating, 
and profitably maintaining interurban lines of 
electric railways. Thereupon electric railways 
were built connecting Brockton with Whitman, 
Randolph, Holbrook, and Stoughton, one of the 
first enterprises of its kind undertaken. He then 



rence and Haverhill were purchased; and the in- 
corporation of the present Lowell, Lawrence, & 
Haverhill Street Railway Company followed, — a 
company w'hich now successfully operates sixty 
miles of track and has a capitalization of $2,850,- 
000. Mr. Glasier was also connected with the 
formation of The Electric Corporation, which had 
originally a subscribed capital of five millions, 
and is at present a member of its executive com- 
mittee. He is now a director in over twenty 
dilTerent companies, principally street railway 
companies and companies engaged in municipal 
lighting ; is president of the Edison Illuminating 
Company of Brockton ; vice-president of the 
Maryland Electric Company of 15altimore, Md. ; 
and treasurer of the Industrial Improvement Com- 
pany of Boston. In politics he is a Democrat, 
and an active member of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts. He is a member 
of the Country, Algonquin, Athletic, Exchange, 
New York, Reform of New York, Hull Yacht, Ti- 
honet. New England, and Megantic clubs, and of 
the Bostonian Society. Mr. Glasier was married 
November 24, 1880, to Miss Mary Agnes Wheeler, 
of Boston. They have five children : Alfred 
Warren, Adelaide Mary, Charlotte Anne, Arthur 
Franklin, and Agnes Glasier. 




GORDON, John Alexander, M.D., of Quincy, 
is a native of Prince Edward Island, born in New 
Perth, May 30, 1843, son of James and Betsey 
(Stewart) Gordon. His grandfather, Donald Gor- 
don, emigrated with wife and four children — 
Bell, Henry, James, and Donald — from Perthshire, 
Scotland, to Prince Edward Island in 1803, when 
James was three years old, and settled as a pio- 
neer farmer at Brudnell River. His mother, 
daughter of James and Margaret (Walker) Stew- 
art, was also of Perthshire, Scotland, — born there, 
and emigrated to I^ruckley Point, Prince Edward 
Island, in 18 19. John Alexander was educated 
in the public schools and at the Prince of Wales 
College, Prince Edward Island. Coming to Bos- 
ton, he entered the Harvard Medical School in 
1866. In 1870-71 he was resident house physi- 
cian (medical interne) at the Boston City Hos- 
pital. He graduated with his degree of M.I), in 
March, 187 1 ; and the following July, settling in 
conceived the plan of connecting the cities of Quincy, entered at once upon an active prac- 
Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill with an electric tice. From 1872 to 1877 he was town physician; 
railway. Accordingly, the horse-car lines in Law- from 1S84 to 1S89 chairman of the Board of 



ALFRED A. GLASIER. 



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Health of ()uincy ; and since 1890 he has been 
a trustee, chairman of the executive board, con- 
sulting; physician, and member of the medical and 




HALL, BoARDMAX, of IJoston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in lianjjor, 
April 18, 1856. His father, Colonel Joseph F. 
Hall, was an early friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
His mother, Mary M. (Farrow) Hall, was the only 
daughter of Captain Josiah Farrow, a well-known 
ship-master of ]5elfast, Me. Ancestors on both 
sides served in the War of the Revolution and the 
War of 18 1 2. He attended the public schools, 
and titled for college at Westbrook Seminary and 
at Dr. Hanson's Classical Listitute, Waterville. 
Siihse(piently he studied at Colby Lfniversily and 
at the Boston Uni\ersity Law School, taking his 
degree of LL.l!. in the latter institution in 1880. 
He was appointed faculty orator for his class. 
Previous to attending the law school, Mr. Hall 
read law with ths Hon. William H. McClellan, 
one of Maine's ablest lawyers and formerly 
attorney-general. He began practice in 1880, 
and established an office in Boston. In 1887 he 
was appointed assistant L'nited States attorney 
for the district of Massachusetts, and disciiarged 
the duties of that office with marked ability until 
his retirement to re-enter private practice in i8go. 



JOHN A. GORDON. 

surgical staff of the City Hospital of Quincy, in 
the establishment of which (in 1890) he took 
active part. He is also medical examiner for 
(Quincy of a number of life insurance companies. 
He is a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety and a member of the .-Vmerican Medical 
.Association. Outside of his professional work 
Dr. Gordon has for some years been much inter- 
ested in the development of water-works. He 
promoted and assisted in establishing the Quincy 
Water Works in 1883 ; and he has been president 
of the Quincy Water Company since 1889. He 
is also president of the Sharon and Marblehead 
Water Companies, lie has served on the (,)uincy 
School lioard for ten 3'ears, from 1884 to 1894. 
He is a director of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation, and active in its interests. He Ijelongs 
to the Masonic order, a member of the Rural Lodge 
and the Royal .Arch Chapter; and his club affilia- 
tions are with the Granite City and the (Quincy 
yacht clubs, the Megantic Fish and Game Associ- 
ation, and the Boston City Hospital Club. In 
politics he has always been a Republican, but has 
never held political office. He is unmarried. 




BOARDMAN HALL. 

He was a member of the Boston School Board 
from 18S5 to 1888. In 1892 he was nominated 
on the Democratic State ticket for auditor, and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



polled an exceptional vote, running next to the 
candidates for governor and lieutenant governor 
by a long lead over the rest of the ticket. In 
1893 he was elected to the Boston Board of Alder- 
men, and served on many of the important com- 
mittees, gaining the approval of well-meaning 
citizens by his course in the conduct of city affairs 
and the indorsement of the entire press, irrespec- 
tive of party. In the practice of law Mr. Hall 
has been eminently successful, ranking high in the 
profession. As the attorney for the government, 
he appeared for the United States in many im- 
portant cases ; and. after leaving the United States 
attorney's office, he was called in as counsel in 
many important trials. Of late he has confined 
his practice largely to acting as counsel for corpo- 
rations. ^^'hile he was in the law school, he was 
correspondent for several Western papers, and 
from time to time has written as author or editor 
on legal subjects. Mr. Hall is a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
Boston, of several college societies, and of many 
social organizations. In 1895 he was chosen 
president of the Citizens' Municipal Union, and 
has been interested in questions relating to mu- 
nicipal growth and development. Mr. Hall was 
married in 1892 to Miss Mary E. Hamlin, a 
relative of the late Vice-President Hamlin, a 
sister of Professor George H. Hamlin of the 
Maine State College, and a cousin of Professor 
Charles Hamlin of Harvard University. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hall reside on Pleasant Street in the Dor- 
chester District, Boston. 



HAMILTON, Rev. Benj.\min Franklin, of 
Boston, pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church. 
Roxbury District, was born in Chester, Hampden 
County, No\ember 4. 1835, son of John and 
Sarah (Burton) Hamilton. He is of Scotch de- 
scent on the paternal side, and English on the 
maternal side. Representatives of his branch of 
the Hamilton family moved from Scotland to Lon- 
donderry, Ireland, whence John Hamilton, his 
great-great-grandfather, emigrated in 1734 with 
his wife and three children to \\'orcester, Mass. 
John's grandson, grandfather of Dr. Hamilton, 
was one of the first settlers in Chester, where he 
cultivated a large farm and held positions of trust 
in the town. He was an officer in the Continen- 
tal army for four years, at one time stationed at 
the first fort in Ro.\bury, on the site of which Dr. 



Hamilton's house now stands. His son John, 
Dr. Hamilton's father, after a few years of mer- 
cantile life, purchased the homestead, and there 
reared a family of nine children, giving all a good 
education. Three of them became clergymen, 
and he himself was prominent in church as well 
as in town aiTairs. Dr. Hamilton was educated 
in the common schools of his native town, at W'il- 
liston Seminary, Easthampton, and at Amherst 
College, graduating in 1861. While a student, he 
taught school for five terms. The next three 
years after graduation from college he studied at 
.■\ndover Theological Seminary, graduating there- 
from in 1864. Subsequently he spent one year 
in travel and study abroad. His first settlement 
was in North Andover, being ordained and in- 
stalled pastor of the Evangelical Congregational 
Church June 29, 1865. He continued in that 
office until September, 187 1, when he was called 
to the Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury, 
Boston, his present charge. His ministry here of 
nearly twenty-four years has covered a larger 
period than that of any other Congregational pas- 
tor, with one exception, now serving in the city. 




B. F. HAMILTON. 



He was president of the Ewangelical Alliance of 
Boston and vicinity in 1893, and is now scribe of 
the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



767 



Ministers. He is also an officer in five of the 
benevolent societies of the Congregational denom- 
ination. During the Civil \\'ar he served as field 
agent of the Christian Commission, and as acting 
post chaplain at Camp Parole, Annapolis, Md., in 
1863. While residing in North Andover, he was 
a member of the School Committee for five years, 
1867-71. He was chosen to preach the "Elec- 
tion Sermon '' before the executive and legislative 
departments of the State government on January 
3, 1877, which sermon on "God in Government," 
together with others entitled " A Century of Na- 
tional Life," "Christian Motherhood," and on 
other topics, has been published in book form. 
The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon 
him by Amherst College in 1886. He is a mem- 
ber of the Boston Congregational Club, of the 
I'ilgrini Association, and of the Suffolk South 
Ministerial Association. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Dr. Hamilton was married June 21, 
1876, to Miss Angenette F. Tinkham, of Boston. 
Their children are : Florence B., Franklin T., and 
Burton E. Hamilton. 



prominent in the Masonic order, being a member 
of Doric Lodge, Houghton Royal Arch Chajiter, 
and I'rinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of 



HARRIMAN, Jamks Lang, M.D., of Hudson, 
is a native of Vermont, born in the town of 
Peacham, May 11, 1833, son of Moses and Mar- 
garet (Lang) Harriman. He was educated in the 
common schools, and at the well-known acad- 
emies, the Kimball Union of Meriden, N.H., and 
the Phillips (E.xeter). His medical studies were 
begun in Woodstock, \'t., and at Albany, N.Y., 
and were completed at the Bowdoin Medical Col- 
lege, where he was graduated in 1857. He first 
practised in Littleton, N.H., establishing himself 
in that town immediately after his graduation, and 
continued there till 1862, when he joined the 
army in the Civil War, becoming assistant sur- 
geon of the Thirteenth Regiment, Massachusetts 
Volunteers. He remained in the service through 
1862-63. After the war he settled in Hudson, 
and has practised there steadily from 1865 to the 
present time. He has always taken an active 
part in town affairs, and in both Littleton and 
Hudson has served on the School Board, in the 
former for four years, in the latter for twenty- 
seven years, and still a member. He has been 
chairman of the board for a long period. In 
1870 he represented his town in the General 
Court. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a 
member of the Hudson P.oard of Trade. He is 




J. L. HARRIMAN. 

which latter he was commander three years : and 
he has been connected with the Grand .\rmy of 
the Republic from its inception. Dr. Harriman 
was married first, November 19, 1859, to Miss 
Mary E. Cushman, of Dalton, X.H. She died 
September 12, 1890. He married second, Janu- 
ary 30, 1893, Mrs. Emma P. (Mentzer) Morse. 



HARRIS. Francis Aucistinf., ^LD.. of Bos- 
ton, was born in Ashland. March 5, 1845, son of 
Dr. Jonas C. and Maria (Ingalls) Harris. He 
was educated in the public schools of West Cam- 
bridge (now Arlington), at the Boston Latin 
School, where he fitted for college, and at Harvard, 
graduating in the class of 1866, having as class- 
mates Moorfield Storey, now a leading member of 
the Suffolk bar ; Dr. Charles Brigham, of San 
Francisco, who distinguished himself in the I-'ranco- 
Prussian War; William Blaikie, the athlete; and 
Henry Rolfe, head of the Masonic order of the 
State of Nevada. For the first three years after 
his graduation, 1867-68-69, he was master in the 
Boston Latin School. Then he entered the Har- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



vard Medical School, and graduated there in 1872, 
meanwhile having spent a year in the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital as surgical interne. After 




medical and general press ; and he is the author 
of several successful plays, among them " Chums " 
and "My Son," the latter affording the late Will- 
iam Warren one of his most famous parts, that of 
" Herr Weigel," and having a brilliant run at the 
Boston Museum. Dr. Harris was first married 
October 15, 1874, to Miss Alice Gage, of Mobile, 
Ala. He married second. June 20, 1890, Miss 
Helen Leonard, of Boston. 



HARTWELL. Benjamin H., M.I)., of Ayer, 
was born in the town of Acton, Middlesex County, 
February 27, 1845, ^'J" of Benjamin F. and F.nima 
(Whitman) Hartwell. His education was obtained 
in the public schools and at the Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton ; and he studied for his profes- 
sion at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia, where he was graduated in 1868. Settling 
in Ayer, he has been in active practice there from 
that time. From 187 1 to 1S77 he was coroner, 
and has been one of the medical examiners of 
Middlesex County since the latter date. He was 
for three years in the medical department of the 



FRANCIS A. HARRIS. 



three months' practice he went abroad, and spent 
a year in the study of medicine and surgery at the 
University of Vienna. Upon his return he re- 
sumed practice in Boston, and has continued here 
since, with the exception of occasional visits to 
Europe. He has been medical examiner for Suf- 
folk County since the creation of the office in 
1877. F'rom 1882 to 1890 he was professor of 
surgery in the Boston Dental College, and from 
1880 to 189 1 demonstrator of medico-legal exami- 
nations in the Harvard Medical School. His ser- 
vices as medico-legal expert have been required 
in very many cases, notably the Marston murder 
trial at Denver, the trial of the Malley boys at 
New Haven, and the trial of Trefethen for the 
murder of Miss Davis, and the Barrett trial, both 
in Middlesex. He is a member of the Massachu- 
setts Medical Society; has been a member of the 
Papyrus (president in 1881), of the St. Botolph, 
Algonquin, Athletic, Tavern, LIniversity, Boston, 
and Thursday Medical clubs ; and is now of the 
Papyrus, the St. Botolph, and the University only. 
Dr. Harris has written a number of notable medi- 
cal reports and been a frequent contributor to the 



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BENJ. H. HARTWELL. 



Massachusetts militia, on the staff of Colonel 
J. W. Kimball, Tenth Regiment. Since :875 he 
has served as United States pension e.xaminer. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



769 



He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical was business manager of the paper. He remained 
Society, vice-president of the Massachusetts Med- in Kansas City with the T/mes until 189 1, when he 
ico-Legal Society, and member of the Middle- was called to New York to become publisher of 
sex Club. Dr. Hartwell is also connected with 
banking interests, being a director of the First 
National Bank of Ayer and president of the 
North Middlesex Savings Bank. He represented 
his district in the Massachusetts Legislature of 
1 888. serving during his term on the committee on 
linance and expenditures. He has always taken 
an active interest in all matters affecting his town ; 
is now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
Ayer Public Library, and has served many years 
as chairman of the School Board, on the Board of 
Health, and in other offices. In politics he is a 
Republican. He is one of the trustees of Law- 
rence Academy, Croton. Dr. Hartwell was mar- 
ried September 10, 1879, to Helen K., daughter of 
Major E. S. Clarke, of the Twenty-sixth Massachu- 
setts Regiment, killed at Winchester, Va.. in 1864. 



HASBROOK, Colonel Charles Electus, of 
Boston, editor and manager of the TraTcIcr. is 
a native of Illinois, born in Galesburg, June 15, 
1847, son of Edward D. and Harriet Jane (Ellis) 
Hasbrook. His father is a native of Putnam 
Comity, New York, and his mother of Kentucky. 
He received his early education in the schools 
of his native town : and this was supplemented 
by a course at Lombard University, Galesburg, 
from which he received the regular degree upon 
graduation and the addition of A.M. shortly 
after. Inclining toward the law, he took up that 
study at the School of Chicago LTniversity, receiv- 
ing his degree of LL.B. in 1871. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar almost immediately, and began 
to practise. But, as in the case of hundreds of 
others, the great Chicago fire made a complete 
change in his plans ; and he was compelled to 
lea\e the legal path he had marked out for himself. 
His impulses turning to journalism, he entered 
that profession ; and the ease with which his mind 
turned into this new channel showed that the jour- 
nalistic instinct was present from the first. He 
Ijegan as a reporter on the Chicago Intcr-Ocean in 
1S71, and soon after joined the staff of the Times, 
where he had a few years of valuable experience 
under the direction of Wilbur F. Story. In 1874 
lie became city editor of the Kansas City Times, 
his first opportunity to prove his own mettle : and 
his success was such that in four years' time he 




CHARLES E. HASBROOK. 

the Coinmcnitil A(h<frtis<T and Morning Advertiser. 
In October, 1894, he came to Boston, having ac- 
cepted the editorial and business management of 
the Traveler, and has since been engaged in the 
upbuilding of that journal, displaying a notable 
adaptability to new conditions and fresh inter- 
ests. With his Western birth and trainmg and 
the alertness which is associated with men from 
his section, he has shown a thoroughly \'ankee 
conservatism and soundness, — a combination that 
should make for success anywhere. .Although 
devoting his best energies to the profession of 
newspaper-making. Colonel Hasbrook has not neg- 
lected the many other sides of life. In 1880 he 
was appointed to the staff of Governor Crittendon 
of Missouri, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
In the period from 1884 to 1888 he acceptably 
performed the duties of collecting the United 
States internal revenue in the Sixth Missouri Dis- 
trict, in addition to his regular journalistic work. 
During his seventeen years' residence in Kansas 
City he was known as a citizen of marked public 
spirit, always to be found on the side of progress 
and good government. Socially, too, he was 



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prominent. He was a charter member and the 
first secretary of the Kansas City Club, the lead- 
ing organization of the kind there ; was also a 
member of the University Club and of the Elks. 
He served some time as secretary and vice-presi- 
dent of the Missouri State Press Association, and 
in New York was a member of the Press Club of 
that city. Colonel Hasbrook was married Octo- 
ber 24, 187 1, to Miss Delia Grant Ekins, of 
Galesburg. They have four children : three 
daughters, Adah May, Ethelberta, and Dorothy, 
the two former at present (1895) studying at 
Wellesley College, and a son, Charles Phillips. 
The family residence is in Newton Centre. 



HAYES, Benjamin Franklin, of Medford, 
city solicitor and member of the Suffolk bar, is a 
native of Maine, born in Berwick, July 3, 1836, 
son of Frederick and Sarah (Hurd) Hayes. His 
primary education was acquired in the Berwick 
schools, after which he attended the West 
Lebanon (Me.) Academy and the New Hampton 
(N.H.) Academy, where he was fitted for college. 



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B. F. HAYES. 

and graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 
1859. He studied for his profession in the law 
office of Wells & Eastman at Great Falls, N.H., 



and at the Harvard Law School. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in April, 1861, and, mov- 
ing to Medford, established himself there in part- 
nership with the Hon. Elihu C. Baker and George 
S. Sullivan, son of Attorney-general Sullivan of 
New Hampshire. The ne.xt year, 1862, he was 
appointed by Governor John A. Andrew a trial 
justice for the county of Middlesex, which posi- 
tion he held for ten years, finally resigning in 
1873. From 1864 to 1870 he was an assistant 
United States assessor. He was appointed to his 
present position, as city solicitor, in February, 
1893, upon the organization of the first city govern- 
ment of Medford. Under the town government 
he was a member of the Board of Water Com- 
missioners, and for a number of years chairman 
of the appropriation committee of the town. He 
had also represented the town in many important 
cases before the courts and legislative committees. 
He was a member of the School Committee in 

1868, representative for Medford in the lower 
house of the Legislature in 1872-73-74, and sena- 
tor in 1877-78. During part of his legislative ser- 
vice he was chairman of the committee on towns, 
and was congratulated by the speaker on his suc- 
cess in carrying every measure upon which his 
committee had reported favorably and in defeating 
all those ' against which it had decided. Mr. 
Hayes has been a trustee of the Medford Savings 
Bank since its incorporation in 1869, and is now 
also a member of its investment board. He is a 
Freemason, member of Mt. Hermon Lodge, and a 
member of the Medford Club. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married in 1867 to Miss 
Abby D. Stetson, of Medford, daughter of Jothani 
and Harriet (James) Stetson. His wife died in 

1869. In 1876 he married Miss Mary H. Harlow, 
of Medford, daughter of Thomas S. and Lucy J. 
(Hall) Harlow. He has no children. 



HILL, \\'akkkx S., of Boston, manufacturer of 
electrical apparatus, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in the town of Pembroke, April 19, 
1839, son of Parmenas and Jean (Kimball) Hill. 
His grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and 
fought at Bunker Hill ; and the grandson has had 
the satisfaction of having fired the old flint lock 
musket that the former carried in the war. Mr. 
Hill's mother was daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
Kimball, whose ancestors were among the early 
settlers in New Hampshire. His father was born 



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in Newburyport. His education was altained in 
tlie common schools of his day, mostly in the 
towns of Exeter and Brentwood, N.H. ; and he 



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W, S. HILL. 

spent one year in an academy in Kingston, N.H. 
He began work in a carriage factory when he was 
but fourteen years of age, and he has been in 
mechanical business from that time to the present. 
In 1863 he began the manufacture of sewing 
machines in Manchester, N.H., and made quite a 
respectable fortune through this enterprise within 
a few years. Being burned out in the extensive 
fire of June, 1870, in the following December he 
removed to Hyde Park, Mass., and engaged in 
business in Boston, w'here he has since been estab- 
lished. His work on electrical apparatus w'as 
begun in 1875, and he has now in his possession 
a successfully working motor which he made in 
1876. The following year he made the first elec- 
tric arc lamps that were constructed within the 
State of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1880 
he made a number of these lamps, which were 
placed on towers erected for the purpose on Nan- 
tasket Beach, and an attempt was made to play a 
game of base ball under the then novel light dur- 
ing the evening. In 1884 Mr. Hill, as superintend- 
ent of the electrical exhibition in the Massachu- 
setts Charitable Mechanic Association's Building, 



constructed and put in operation the first elec- 
tric railway motor car that was made in this 
country, in which all the essential features of the 
present electric street railway cars were used. 
At that time capitalists were .so sceptical as to 
the possibility of operating street cars by electric 
power that he was unable to secure any financial 
aid in the introduction of the system. Mr. Hill is 
at present the president of the electric company 
which bears his name, and is doing a successful 
business in the manufacture of special and general 
electrical apparatus. He is in politics a Republi- 
can, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. 
He was married March 7, 1861, to Miss Annie M. 
Small, of Eastport, Me. They have two sons : 
Louis E. (born June 2, 1863) and Fred \V. Hill 
(born March 22, 1871). 



HOAG, Charles Enoch, of Springfield, lawj'er, 
author, and editor, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in Moultonborough, September 18, 1849, son 
of Uriah Jillson and Mary Flint (Bancroft) Hoag. 
He was the eighth of nine children, five of whom 
are still living. His paternal ancestry is traced 
back to Wales, whence, it is said, his great-great- 
grandfather came to this country in 1690. On 
his mother's side he is a direct descendant of 
John and Priscilla Alden, so famous in the annals 
of Puritan New England. His father's family 
belonged to the society of Friends or Quakers, 
wherein they were quite prominent as teachers 
and preachers. His brother, Alpheus Bancroft 
Hoag, was at the time of his death, in 1873, a 
popular song-writer. Mr. Hoag's early ambition 
to become a lawyer was not so far approved by 
his family as to gain their assistance ; and at six- 
teen years of age he began life for himself, during 
the summer working through the day and reciting 
in Latin and French to a clergyman in the even- 
ing, and attending school during the winter. His 
struggles were the usual struggles of a determined 
youth who had an object in view, and allowed no 
obstacle to prevent his attaining that object. He 
began reading law with the late Judge Hill, of 
Sandwich, N.H., in 187 1, supporting himself 
while so doing by taking charge of an apothecary 
store owned by his brother. It was a small store 
in a small town, and left him ample time to prose- 
cute his studies. He finished his law-reading 
with his uncle, and was admitted to the bar at Bos- 
ton in 1876. He at once opened an office in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Peabody, and later in Boston. His career as an 
attorney was marked with success from tlie begin- 
ning ; but his too close application to his profes- 
sion broke down his health, and obliged him to 
take a rest, which he did by travelling in the 
South. Returning and resuming his practice, he 
was, a few years after, again stricken down, this 
time with typhoid fever. On his recovery he was 
married, and, after a protracted bridal trip, re- 
turned home, feeling that his financial condition 
would warrant his giving up active work in his 
profession. Before this time he had, besides at- 
tending to his legal duties, written several books. 




CHAS. E. HOAG. 

as well as articles for magazines and papers. It 
was but natural, therefore, that in looking about 
for something to occupy his mind he decided 
to purchase a small local paper which was then 
for sale. Under his editorial management tiie 
circulation of this paper increased more than 
fourfold the first year, and he was then obliged 
to move into more spacious quarters. Soon after 
a Boston edition was published, which obtained a 
large circulation throughout the country. Then 
for the second time the newspaper plant was en- 
larged ; and, no suitable building being found, Mr. 
Hoag erected a business block, now known as 
" Hoag's Block," for its accommodation. In the 



mean time he had become connected with other 
publications, being director of one company pub- 
lishing a paper, and president of another which 
published two. He was the first president of the 
corporation which is now publishing one of the 
leading dailies in Boston. At no time, however, 
was he free from his legal practice. His old cli- 
ents would not leave him, and new ones came, so 
that in 1893 he was compelled by the state of his 
health, which was injured by the overstrain, to 
sever his connection with both his literary and 
his legal affairs. Accordingly, he settled up iiis 
business with the determination to make a pro- 
tracted trip abroad. Before the final arrange- 
ments were completed, however, he was so much 
pleased with the city of Springfield, where he 
went to attend some business, that he purchased 
a house at Forest Park Heights, near the magnifi- 
cent Forest Park, and there settled. Recovering 
in health and strength after a rest, and being a 
man of too much nervous energy to remain idle, 
he opened an office in Springfield, and again began 
the practice of his profession. Mr. Hoag is the 
author of "A Double Life," ''Starr Cross," the 
■' Fall of Eona," "The New Commonwealth," and 
other books. He is also the author of numerous 
pamphlets written under a iiom dc plume. A book 
of poems entitled " Chords and Discords," a com- 
pilation of verses -written by himself and his 
talented wife while he was publishing his papers, 
is the last work of his issued. Although a mem- 
ber of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, and 
other like organizations, Mr. Hoag has never 
taken an active part in secret societies. Neither 
has he ever been in any sense a politician, refus- 
ing all political preferments offered him. The 
only elective office he ever consented to take was 
that of trustee of the Peabody Institute for si.x 
years. During his twenty years at the bar Mr. 
Hoag has been connected with many important 
cases both in the Commonwealth and in the 
United States courts. To-day his professional 
and financial standing speak well for his success. 
From both father and mother Mr. Hoag inherited 
great strength of character and the determination 
to succeed in \\hate\er he undertakes. Illustra- 
tive of this trait in his father's family is the story 
of the late Paul Hoag, who was a devout Quaker, 
and unswerving in his duty as he saw it. For 
several years no regular serx'ice was held in the 
Friends' meeting-house of his native town, the 
society there having become small and scattered. 



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773 



l;ut I'aul did not believe it rigiit that the phice of 
worship shoidd be closed, so every first and fourth 
day he opened its doors, went in, performed ' his 
devotions in solemn solitude, then went out, 
locked the door, and returned to his home. An- 
other trait which Mr. Hoag inherited from his 
Quaker ancestry, is the love of domestic quiet and 
decided dislike to mix in the wrangles and dis- 
turbances of the outside world. He is a life mem- 
ber of the Essex Agricultural Society, a member 
of the Springfield Board of Trade and Improve- 
ment Society. Mr. Hoag married October 29, 
1884, Miss Carrie W. Bomer, of Peabody. 'I'hey 
have three daughters : Ena (born October 7, 1885), 
Ila (born July 14, 1887), and Dorothy (born No- 
vember 13, 189 1). Mr. Hoag's present residence 
is one of the finest in the Park section of the 
" City of Homes " ; and there, with his family, he 
enjoys his leisure hours, being a devoted lover of 
books and possessing an extensive miscellaneous 
library. 

HOGNER, Per Gustaf Richard, M.D., of 
Boston, is a native of Stockholm, Sw-eden, born 
February 15, 1852, son of Per Gustaf and Augusta 
Elisabeth (Carle'n) Hogner. His father was an 
engineer and surveyor-general in Sweden, known 
in his profession as an author ; and his mother 
was of a celebrated Swedish literary family. His 
early education was acquired at Strengniis, 
Sweden, where he was under the care of his uncle, 
Richard Carlen, a Swedish judge, author, and 
Congressman. He graduated from the High 
School at Strengnas in April, 187 1, and then 
began his medical course. He studied in the 
medical schools at Upsala, Lund, and Stockholm, 
and graduated: Med. Ph. Cand. (Upsala) Septem- 
ber 14, 1873, Med. Cand. (Stockholm) May 27, 
1876, Med. Lie. (Stockholm) October 15, 1879, 
and Med. Doctor (Upsala) May 31, 1884. While 
a student, he was a \-oIunteer in the Swedish 
Royal Sodernianlands Regiment. He was - ma- 
gister of swimming" at Upsala, August 23, 1872. 
In addition to his regular courses he took courses 
in Swedish medical gymnastics at the Royal 
Gynuiastic Institute in Stockholm ; studied at 
Kiel, Germany, in Esmarck's Clinik, in the sum- 
mer of 1882 ; in Moscow, Russia, in Schlefasol'f- 
sky's Clinik. in the winter of 1883-84; as a sti- 
pendiary of the Swedish State studied one year 
(1890-91 ) bacteriology and hygiene at L'Institute 
de Pasteur, Paris, at Hygienische Institute, Ber- 



lin, and at the Hygienische Institute in I,eip- 
zig. He was a physician in the Swedish army 
and navy from October, 1873, to October, 1879; 
assistant physician in the General Military Hos- 
pital in Stockholm from October, 1873, to Sep- 
tember 30, 1874; head physician in the Military 
Hospital at Carlsborg from January to March, 
1877 ; government's physician in Xordmaling 
from October, 1879, to April, 1880; house phy- 
sician in the Seraphimer Hospital in Stockholm 
from May to September, 1880; house surgeon in 
the same from October, 1880, to January, 1881; 
head physician and surgeon in Ljungby Hospital 




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RICH HOGNER. 

from January, 1881, to July, 1882; and govern- 
ment's physician (pro'iinsiallakare) from Sep- 
tember, 1882, to May, 1894, in < ). Kalix, N. 
Kalix, Hessleholm. He has travelled extensively 
through Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and 
to some extent in Russia, Belgium, Germany, Eng- 
land, and France, and first came to America in 
June, 1893, for a 3'ear's vacation. He, however, 
decided to remain here ; and, since the day follow- 
ing his arrival, he has been living in Boston. He 
resigned his position as government's physician in 
Sweden in May, 1894. He is a member of the 
Medical Society, Lund; of the Medical Associa- 
tion, Stockholm; the Swedish Medical Society, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the Swedish Provincial Physicians' Societ)-, the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, the Gynaecologi- 
cal Society, Boston ; and the Medical Library As- 
sociation, Boston. Dr. Hogner has written a 
number of articles for the Swedish medical 
journals, and also for the New York Medical Rec- 
ord, the Jounial of tlie .linericaii Alcdical Associa- 
tion, and the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ; 
and he has read several papers before Boston 
medical societies. He has constructed an instru- 
ment for the contemporary uni-bilateral measure- 
ments of the chest expansion. He has been 
speaker at many patriotic or temperance festivals, 
among others at the Swedish celebration, in the 
People's Church of Boston, December 9, 1894, 
of the third centennial birthday of King Gustaf 
Adolf U. Dr. Hogner is married to Adrienne 
Lindstrom. Their children living are : Per Rich- 
ard Leonard (''Pierre"), Elsa Margareta Alexan- 
dra, and Nils Richard Alexander Hogner. 



HOLT, S.AMUEi, Lei.and, of Boston, machinist, 
is a native of Maine, born in Bethel, September 5, 



of Massachusetts; and he reared a family of thir- 
teen children. Mr. Holt himself is the fourth in 
a family of eight children. His mother died 
when he was fifteen years old : and his father, 
marrying a second time, had three children by 
his second wife. Mr. Holt was educated in the 
district school in his native town. At the age of 
seventeen he entered a machine shop ; and from 
that day to this he has been engaged in this line 
of work, having been in business for himself, 
under the firm name of S. L. Holt & Co., since 
November, 1870. Mr. Holt served in the Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Militia at the beginning of the 
Civil War, and later held commission in the 
United States naval engineer corps. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Charitable Me- 
chanic Association i of St. John's Lodge, Free 
Masons ; St. Paul's R. A. Chapter ; Boston Coun- 
cil R. A. M. ; Boston Lafayette Lodge of Perfec- 
tion ; Giles F. Yates, Princes Jerusalem ; and 
Mount Olivet Chapter, Rose Croix. His life has 
been spent in mechanical pursuits. He attended 
the centennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, 
the Paris Exhibition of 187S, and spent six 
months travelling through the iron-works of Eng- 
land, Scotland, and France. Mr. Holt was mar- 
ried July 23, 1S57, to Miss Mary A. P'arnsworth, 
of Brookline, N.H. They have one daughter: 
Abbv Elnora, now Mrs. Arthur L. ^^'ing. 




HOLYOKE, Ch.^rles Freeman, of Marlbor- 
ough, insurance business, was born in Marlbor- 
ough, Dec. 27, 1855, son of Freeman and Hen- 
rietta A. (Brigham) Holyoke. He was educated 
in the public schools. In March, 1875, when he 
was nineteen years old, he went to California, and 
there worked for some time on a wheat ranch. 
Subsequently he was in an insurance office, and 
then was witii a secretary of mining companies for 
about five years. Returning East in February, 
1883, he entered the insurance business with 
Edward R. Alley in Marlborough. This partner- 
ship existed until 1889, when it was dissolved ; and 
Mr. Holyoke continued the business alone for the 
next five years. Then in April, 1S94, he formed a 
second partnership, taking as associate Clifton B. 
Russell, who had been in his employ for six years, 
under the firm name of Holyoke & Russell, hi 
1837, son of Samuel and Elvira (Estes) Holt. January, 1895, he was elected treasurer of the 
His grandfather, Timothy Holt, was an early Marlborough Savings Bank. Mr. Holyoke has 
settler of Maine, when the latter was a district been prominent in Marlborough city affairs for a 



S. L. HOLT. 



MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 



775 



uunibcr cif years. He was a member of the first 
city council, and resigned to take the city treasurer- 
ship, to wiiicli lie was elected in .Ma_\-, 1892. While 



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iJSk. 




CHARLES F. HOLYOKE. 

living in California, he was a member of the Na- 
tional Guard. Enlisting in Company F, First In- 
fantry, Second Brigade, he went through the inter- 
mediate grades to first lieutenant ; was appointed 
June 13, 18S1, adjutant of the F'irst Infantry; 
elected captain of his company April 17, 1882 ; 
and resigned January, 1883, just before his return 
home. He is a member of the United Brethren 
Lodge of Free Masons, of the Houghton Royal 
Arch Chapter and Trinity Commandery, and is 
prominently connected with the Odd Fellows, mem- 
ber of Marlborough Lodge No. 85 and of King 
Saul Encampment. He belongs also to the LTnion 
Club of Marlborough. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He was married June 2, 1887, to Miss 
Blanche E. Corey, of Marlborough. They have 
two children : Thomas Corey and Charles F. Hol- 
yoke, Jr. 



HOMER, John, M.I)., of Newburyport, is a 
native of Maine, born in Bucksport, December 6, 
1835, son of John C. and Harriet (Blaisdell) 
Homer. His grandfather, William Homer, was 



a farmer and lumber-dealer ; and his maternal 
grandfather, William Blaisdell, was a Baptist min- 
ister. Both were native-born Americans. His 
early education was received in the public schools ; 
and he was fitted for college at the East Maine 
Conference Seminary, Bucksport. He left Bow- 
doin College in the year 1862. Previous to en- 
tering college, he spent some time in the West as 
a volunteer, where he e.xperienced considerable 
active military service on the border. He took 
the course of the Harvard Medical School, gradu- 
ating in 1865, and has since been engaged in ac- 
tive practice as a physician and surgeon, and in 
clinical and medico-legal study, a period of thirty 
years. He was surgeon for the Atchison, Topeka, 
& Santa F6 Railroad and the Kansas Pacific 
Railroad at Topeka, Kan., in 1872-73; and he 
has been for many years the local surgeon for 
the Boston & Maine Railroad. He is also a reg- 
istered pharmacist, conducting the High Street 
Pharmacy in Newburyport, of which he is pro- 
prietor. He is the inventor of numerous mechan- 
ical designs which are recognized as valuable 
both to the medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical 




JOHN HOMER. 



professions. He became a member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Medical Society immediately after 
graduating from the Harvard Medical School, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and for some time past has been a member of 
both the State and American Pharmaceutical As- 
sociations. Besides his professional work Dr. 
Homer is interested in municipal affairs, being a 
member of the Newburyport Board of Trade ; and 
he has a taste for military matters, being a mem- 
ber of the Veteran Artillery Company. He is 
connected with the Masonic fraternity, the order 
of Odd Fellows, and the order of United .Amer- 
ican Mechanics. He has been a member of the 
Alumni of the Harvard Medical School since 
its organization. In religious faith he is a Bap- 
tist. He was married June 23, i885, to Miss 
Alice Johnson, of Newburyport. The only child 
is a daughter, Josephine Homer. Within the 
past two years Dr. Homer has erected a new 
block on the corner of Summer and High Streets, 
Newburyport, in which are combined a fine resi- 
dence, a modern office, and the High Street Phar- 
macy. 



HOPKINS, John, of Millbury, justice of the 
Superior Court of the Commonwealth, is a native 




JOHN HOPKINS. 



lington Union High School, Burlington, Xt., and 
was fitted for college at Phillips (Andover) Acad- 
emy. Entering Dartmouth, he graduated from the 
Scientific Department in the class of 1862. 
Meanwhile he had received an additional train- 
ing for active life as an operative in the finishing 
department of a woollen mill and in a machine 
shop, and as teacher of public schools. He 
read law with Joseph A. Cook, of Blackstone, 
and was admitted to the bar at the March term, 
1864, in Worcester County. He was in general 
practice in Millbury and Worcester from the time 
of his admission until the first of April, 189 1, 
when he was appointed to the bench as associate 
justice of the Superior Court. Judge Hopkins 
has served in various town offices, as selectman, 
member of the School Committee, assessor, and 
trustee of the Town Library ; and he represented 
his district in the General Court two terms, 1882- 
83. In politics he is a Democrat. He is now a 
trustee of the Millbury Town Library, vestryman 
of St. Luke's Mission, and visitor to the Chandler 
Scientific Department, Dartmouth College. Judge 
Hopkins was married November 21, 1864, to 
Miss Mary C. Salisbury, of Blackstone. They 
have had five children : Grace E. (born January 
17, 1866), Paul Fenner (born March 12, 1867, 
died August 6, 1867), Herbert Salisbury (born 
February 5, 1868), John Earl (born February 14, 
1869, died August 4, 1869), and Herman Philip 
Hopkins (born January 22, 1873 I. 



of England, born at Leonard's Stanley, Gloucester- 
shire, March ig, 1840, son of James and Eliza- 
beth (Hancock) Hopkins. He attended the Bur- 



HOWE, Oscar Fitzal.-\n, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, was born in Fitzwilliam, N.H., November 
24, 1834; died in Boston, November 10, 1894. 
He was the son of Nelson and Eliza (Sweetser) 
Howe, of .Scotch and Pilgrim blood. He ob- 
tained his education in the public schools, and 
early took an interest in trading, showing marked 
ability in this direction when very young. He 
came to Boston in 1S48 with his father, who es- 
tablished in the city a wholesale business in 
wooden ware of every description, at No. 42 
South Market Street, having his factories in 
Howeville, N.H., a town named for him. The 
son entered the firm with his father in 1S64, and 
in 1868 took the business alone. In 1877, not 
content with the business of one house, he bought 
out the old establishment of Daniel Cummings & 
Co., founded in 1830; and through his enterprise 
New England manufactures of the class he was 



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m 



nuikiiij; were afterward exported to U\crp()ol, 
Australia, South America, Cape of Good Hope, 
and many other foreign parts where before they 




Morris family of Revolutionary fame. His widow 
survives him. 



HYDE, Henkv Stanlev, of Springfield, man- 
ufacturer and banker, i.s a native of New York, 
born in Mount Hope, Orange County, August i8, 
1837, son of Oliver M. and Julia Ann (Sprague) 
Hyde. When he was a child of three years, his 
parents moved to Detroit, Mich. ; and there he was 
educated in private schools, and began his first 
work, as a clerk in the banking house. Afterward 
he studied law some time in the offices of Howard, 
Bishop, &: Holbrook, and Jerome Howard & 
Swift. In 1862 he came to Springfield and en- 
gaged in the Wason Manufacturing Company, 
builders of railway cars, witii which he has been 
identified ever since. In 1864 he became treas- 
urer of the compan)', the position he still holds. 
In 1869 he was made president of the Agawam 
National Bank, one of the oldest banks in New 
England, which position he still retains. Subse- 
quently he became interested in numerous other 
corporations ; and he is now (1895 ) president of the 



OSCAR F. HOWE. 



were unknown. Nothing pleased Mr. Howe more 
tiian to find a new field into which to introduce 
his manufactures and merchandise, and he was 
the first to introduce many of his class of goods 
abroad. He became prominent among New Eng- 
land manufacturers early in his career as an enter- 
prising and progressive business man, and steadily 
held a leading place. He enjoyed the confidence 
and esteem of a large circle of business associates, 
who had high regard for his sterling character 
and honest, unostentatious life, marked by strict 
integrity. During the latter part of his life he 
was a director of the Atlantic National liank of 
Boston for four years, and served as vice-presi- 
dent and a director of a large manufacturing com- 
pany in New York State for twelve years, resign- 
ing the trust onlv on account of declining health. 
He was well informed on all topics of the day, 
particularly finance, having through his life taken 
advantage of every opportunity for the acquisi- 
tion of business knowledge. Mr. Howe married 
October 26, 1864, Miss Mary Emily Holder, 
daughter of Daniel and Mary (Morris) Holder, of 
Boston, on her maternal side a descendant of the 




HENRY S. HYDE. 



E. Stebbins Brass Manufacturing Company, presi- 
dent of the Springfield Printing and I5inding Com- 
pany, vice-president of the New England 'I'ele- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



phone and Telegraph Company, treasurer of the 
Springfield Steam Power Company, director of the 
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 
and vice-president of the Hampden Savings Bank. 
Of Springfield he has long been one of the foremost 
citizens. He has served in both branches of the 
city government, has been president of the Board 
of Trustees of the Springfield City Hospital since 
its incorporation in 1883, and is a generous sup- 
porter of other local institutions. In 1875 he 
represented the First Hampden District in the 
State Senate. In politics he is an earnest Repub- 
lican, for many years counted witli the party 
leaders. He has served for a long period on the 
Republican State Central Committee, was a mem- 
ber of the National Republican Conventions of 
1884 and 1888 and the Massachusetts member 
of the Republican National Committee from 1S88 
to 1892. Mr. Hyde has been twice married. He 
married first, in i860. Miss Jennie S. Wason, 
daughter of Thomas W. and Sarah Longley 
Wason, of Springfield, by whom he had four chil- 
dren : Jerome \\'., Henry S., Thomas W., and 
Fayolin Hyde; and second, in 1892, Ellen Trask 
Chapin, daughter of the Hon. Eliphalet Trask, of 
Springfield. His residence is at Brush Hill Farm. 
West Springfield. 



of the New \'ork Honueopathic Medical College 
and Hospital. During his senior year in college 
he held the position of editor of obstetrics on the 



JONES, Elbert Archer, M.D., of Uxbridge, 
was born in East Douglass, April 2, 1871, son of 
Seth N. and Rosina M. (Emerson) Jones. His 
ancestors on the paternal side were among the 
earliest settlers in Maine. On the maternal side 
he is in tlie tenth generation from a family which 
landed from England about 1660. His education 
was received in the public schools of his native 
town, and he graduated from the High School. 
After that he took a business course. At the age 
of seventeen he began work as a book-keeper in 
one of the largest decorating establishments in 
Brooklyn, N.Y. But, desiring to follow a profes- 
sional life, he finally left that position in the 
autumn of 1889, and entered the New York 
Homceopathic Medical College and Hospital. 
Upon his graduation therefrom in medicine and 
surgery, April 7, 1892, he settled in a Rhode 
Island town, and practised there for about two 
years. Then he removed to Uxbridge, where he 
has since been actively engaged. Dr. Jones is a 
member of the Worcester County Homoeopathic 
Medical Society and of the Alumni Association 




E. A. JONES. 

editorial staff of the Chinviiaii. He was married 
June 7. 1893, to Miss Lizzie E. Capen, of Hop- 
kinton. They have one son : Edgar Ross Jones. 



JOYNER, Herbert Curtis, of Great Barring- 
ton, member of the Berkshire bar, was born in 
New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, July 
12, 183S, son of Newton and Mary A. (Curtis) 
Joyner. His great-great-grandfather was Robert 
Joyner, who came with his brother, William Joyner, 
from Cornwall, Conn., to Egremont, Mass., about 
1738, purchased a large tract of land in the latter 
place, and lived and died there. He was the first 
captain commissioned in that town. His son, 
Octavius Joyner, great-grandfather of Herbert C, 
also lived and died in Egremont. Octavius was a 
member of the Massachusetts General Court in 
1815. His son, Philo Joyner, Herbert C.'s grand- 
father, lived in the same place, and was a member 
of the Massachusetts General Court in 1840. His 
son, Newton Joyner, father of Herbert C, was 
born in Egremont, but moved to Oneida County, 



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N.V., whfii ;i youiii; man. Herbert ('. was edu- 
cated in the public sciiools of his natixe town and 
at the t'harlotteville Seminary in Charlotteville, 
N.V., and in the Troy Conference Academy, 
spending one year at eacii of the last-mentioned 
institutions. He afterward taught school two 
years in New Jersey, and in i860 entered the law 
office of Thomas Twining in Great Harrington, 
Mass., as a student. The outbreak of the Civil 
War caused an interruption in his law studies, but 
after a creditable service in the army he w'as ad- 
mitted to the bar at Pittsfield in 1865. He estab- 
lished himself in Great Barrington, and has there 
continued in active practice, with a clientage 
scattered over the whole county of Berk- 
shire. His large practice and success ha\'e been 
in criminal law, and chiefly in the defence of 
alleged criminals. Since his admission to the bar 
he has appeared for the defendant in every capital 
case tried in his county except two, and has de- 
fended in a large majority of cases of homicide 
where the indictment was for something less than 
murder. As a criminal lawyer, his reputation 
began with the Nolan case, tried in 1871. Nolan 
was killed in that part of Great Barrington called 
Housatonic, on the Fourth of July, 187 i. On the 
morning of that day he had in a c[uarrel with 
Lane, the defendant, slapped his face ; and Ijane. 
with boyish indignation and resentment, had said, 
•' I will live long enough to get even with you for 
this, you old brute: I will kill you." On the 
evening of that day some one of a group of boys, 
among whom was Lane, threw a stone at Nolan, 
fracturing his skull and causing his death. Upon 
the fact of this threat, and upon evidence of a 
colored boy, who said that he saw Lane throw the 
stone. Lane was indicted. The prosecution was 
conducted by the late George M. Stearns; and Mr. 
Joyner secured a verdict of acquittal, largely 
through the claim that another boy who had left 
the State fled to escape arrest, and was really the 
guilty party. Ailtr the acquittal of Lane the 
other boy was arrested and brought to trial, Mr. 
Joyner appearing in his defence. In the trial of 
this case the counsel threw the crime back upon 
Lane, and this boy was also acquitted. 'I'hc suc- 
cessful issue of these two cases established Mr. 
Joyner's reputation, and added to his increasing 
practice. There have been other cases in his 
practice indicating ingenuity and skill, among 
which may be incidentally mentioned Teneeyki, 
the Sheffield murderer, who killed two old persons 



in their home on the night of Thanksgiving Day 
in 1877. 'I'he Berkshire /j<?.^'/f, published at 
Pittsfield, said of Mr. Joyner's closing argument in 
this case that " it will long be remembered as the 
most able, ingenious, and eloquent argument ever 
heard in the Berkshire Court House." On the 
civil side of the court Mr. Joyner was associated 
as junior counsel with Samuel W. Bowerman 
and Marshall Wilcox in the somewhat noted 
•■ Minor Will case " which went from court to 
court in Massachusetts and New \'ork for many 
years. The senior counsel for the will, which was 
finally sustained after the property involved had 
been sub.stantially exhausted in the contest, was 
Charles N. Beale of Hudson. N.\'., an ex-member 
of Congress, and known as one of the ablest 
attorneys of the Empire State. Mr. Joyner was a 
member of the School Board of Great l>arrington 
from 1866 to 1878, and was recognized by the 
secretary of the Stale Board of Education, Joseph 
White, as an efficient ])romoter of the welfare of 
the schools in that place. During his term of 
membership the ordinary mixed schools kept for 
two terms in the year, at a cost of Sj^.ooo jier 




HERBERT C. JOYNER. 

annum, gave way to a system of graded schools, 
and to the establishment of a High School, for 
which a new and commodious building was 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



erected. The present advanced condition of the 
schools in this town is largely due to suggestions 
and arguments contained in the school reports of 
which he was the author, followed up by his 
earnest and unremitting efforts. He has served 
also for many years as an overseer of the poor, 
and in this capacity has been able to induce the 
town to adopt wise and benevolent methods of 
caring for the suffering and needy. In 1869, 
1S70, and 1883 he served in the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and in 1884, 1S85, and 1886 in the 
Senate. W'hile serving as senator, he was chair- 
man of the committee to investigate the sale by 
the governor and council of the New York & New 
England bonds. The investigation was based on 
a petition of Cyrus W. Field; and during its prog- 
ress questions of law were raised by eminent 
counsel, among whom were David Dudley Field, 
Sidney Bartlett, William Gaston, and Edgar I. 
Sherman, the rulings upon which by Mr. Joyner 
exhibited a legal knowledge and its prompt dis- 
play which attracted general notice. In 1886 he 
was the Democratic candidate for Congress from 
the then Twelfth District, and came nearer to an 
election than an)' defeated Democratic candidate 
had ever come before. He is a Freemason, and 
has been a member of the Cincinnati Lodge of 
Great Harrington since 1869, for si.x years its 
secretary. He was a charter member of the first 
post of the Grand Army of the Republic (organ- 
ized in Great Barrington in 1869), and was its 
commander from 1870 to 1875. ^^- Joyner was 
married at Norton, January 5, 1885, to Miss Mary 
E. Wild, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth K. 
(Tucker) \\'ild. They have five children. His 
office and home are in Great Barrington. 



KELLY, Edward Albert, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar. is a native of Maine, born in 
that part of Frankfort which is now Winterport, 
May 30, 1831, son of Albert Livingston and Car- 
oline (Peirce) Kelly. He is a descendant of John 
Kelly, probably of Newbury, England, supposed 
to have belonged to a branch of the Devonshire 
family, which either derived its name from the dis- 
trict of " Kelly " in that county or gave its name 
to the district, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 
1635. John Kelly received a grant of land in 
Newbury in 1639, and died there December 28, 
1644. His son, John, born July 2, 1642, married 
first, in 1664, Sarah Knight, and second, 17 16, 



Lydia Ames, of Bradford, and died in what is 
now West Newbury, March 21, 17 18. His son, 
John, was born in West Newbury, June 17, 1668, 
married Elizabeth Emery, November 16, 1696, 
and died in West Newbury, November 29, 1735, 
leaving a handsome estate. His son, John, tiie 
fourth of the name, was born in West Newbury, 
October 9, 1697, married December 31, 1723, 
Hannah Somers, of Gloucester, removed to Atkin- 
son, N.H., and there died April 27, 1783. His 
son, Moses, born in West Newbury, March 15, 
1739, married November 10, 1757, Lydia Sawyer, 
daughter of Dr. William and Lydia (Webster) 
Sawyer, the latter daughter of Israel Webster, a 
near relative of the father of Daniel Webster, re- 
moved to Atkinson, N.H., thence to Goffstown, 
N.H., and thence to Hopkinton, N.H., where he 
died August 2, 1826. He commanded the Ninth 
New Hampshire Regiment of Militia in the Revo- 
lutionary War, and was high sheriff of Hillsbor- 
ough County for thirty years. His son, Israel 
Webster, was born in Goffstown, January 4, 1778, 
married about 1800 Rebecca Fletcher, daughter 
of Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, and sister 
of Grace Fletcher, the first wife of Daniel Web- 
ster, was high sheriff of Merrimac County from 
18 14 to 1 8 19, marshal of the district of New 
Hamp!>hire during the administration of Harrison 
and Tyler, and pension agent under Taylor and 
Fillmore; removed to Concord in 1841, and died 
there March 10, 1857. His son, Albert Living- 
ston, father of Edw-ard A. Kelly, was born in 
Bristol, August 17, 1802, graduated at Dartmouth 
in 182 1, married February 18, 1829, Caroline 
I'eirce, daughter of Waldo Peirce, of Frankfort 
(brother of Silas Peirce, the founder of the long- 
time house of Silas Peirce & Co., Boston), studied 
law in Portland in the office of Stephen Longfel- 
low, was admitted to the bar in 1825, that year 
also, at the age of twenty-three, delivered the city 
oration on the Fourth of July, later the same year 
was appointed on the recommendation of Mr. 
Webster agent of the " Ten Proprietors' Tract " 
in Eastern Maine, owned by David Sears, William 
Prescott, and Israel Thorndike, of PJoston, there- 
upon moved to Frankfort, attained there a high 
rank in his profession, and died August 18, 1885. 
His brother, Israel Webster Kelly, was a gradu- 
ate of Dartmouth in 1824, enjoyed a successful 
legal practice in Frankfort and ISelfast, Me., in 
1851 became a member of the Suffolk bar, and 
died in Henniker, N.H., July 3, 1855. He mar- 



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lied Lucilla S. Peirce. Edward A. Kelly, ihu 
subject of this sketch, received his preparatory 
education at the Military School of Lieutenant 
Whiting in Ellsworth, at Foxcroft Academy, and 
at North Yarmouth Classical Academy, Maine, 
and, entering Bowdoin College at the age of fif- 
teen, remained there until the middle of his junior 
year. He began the study of law in the office of 
Cieorge F. Farley, of Groton, Mass., in 185 i, and 
was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1853. He 
there practised in copartnership with Mr. Farley 
until the latter's death in 1855, and thereafter 
alone, continuing in Groton until 1861, when he 




EDWARD A. KELLY. 

removed to Boston. He held a leading position 
at the Middlese.x and Suffolk bar, and was en- 
gaged successfully in a large, general practice, 
handling many important cases until his retire- 
ment in 1884. Before his admission to the bar 
he appeared in court at Worcester as counsel for 
Pliny H. Babbitt, a deputy sheriff, who had been 
indicted as accessory before the fact to a burglary 
in Barre ; and the argument which he made was 
complimented by John H. Clifford, then attorney- 
general, who appeared for the Commonwealth, in 
his address to the court. In 1866 he was counsel 
for Charles Robinson, ex-governor of Kansas, in 
an action of contract brought by Joseph Lyman, 



of Boston, treasurer of the Kansas Land Trust, 
on a number of promissory notes, the plaintiff 
being represented by Sidney liartlett and Caleb 
W. Loring. Trial by jury being waived, the case 
was argued in the Supreme Court ; and Mr. Kelly 
obtained a decision in his favor. His argument 
on this occasion received the compliments of 
bench and bar. Among other important cases 
which Mr. Kelly successfully conducted were those 
of the Massachusetts National ]!ank t. Nathan 
Matthews, an action of contract brought by Mr. 
Matthews to recover $25,000 on a forged certili- 
cate of stock of the Boston \- Albany Railroad, 
in which he was counsel for the bank, and the 
Commonwealth 7: the Lancaster Savings Bank, 
argued before the Supreme Court. The latter 
case turned on the legality of a tax levied on the 
bank, under the law authorizing a tax on savings- 
banks, in May, five months after the bank had 
been placed in the hands of receivers. Mr. 
Kelly, as attorney for the bank, advised that the 
tax was illegal. Attorney-general Train advised 
that it was legal : hence the suit. The arguments 
were made before the court at Taunton in Octo- 
ber, 1877, and the opinion of the court given the 
following January, sustaining Mr. Kelly's conten- 
tion, the substance of the decision being that the 
tax on savings-banks is a tax upon the privilege 
of transacting business ; and,' consequently, if at 
the time the tax is to be assessed and is de- 
clared to accrue the bank has, for the purpose of 
transacting its business, practically ceased to 
exist, then no tax is to be exacted. In writing of 
Mr. Kelly, Mr. Joseph .\. Willard. for so many 
years the clerk of the Superior Court, character- 
ized him as a standard lawyer and natural gentle- 
man. Since his retirement from practice Mr. 
Kelly has devoted himself to his private affairs 
and those of others intrusted to his care, and to 
the pursuit of literature. He was for some time 
a quite frequent contributor to magazines and 
newspapers, writing on political, historical, and 
general subjects. He was an intiniale friend of 
the late Judge Josiah G. Abbott, Charles R. 
Train, and Peleg W. Chandler; and while the 
latter's son, Horace P. Chandler, was editor of 
the £7rry Other Suturday, he contributed to its 
columns some notable papers on practical topics, 
one of which entitled " .\dvice to \'oung Law- 
yers," recalling an unpublished incident in the 
first appearance in court of Sergeant S. Prentiss, 
to illustrate the writer's point of the necessity of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



exhaustive preparation of a cause for trial and 
then of absolute self-reliance, attracted special at- 
tention. During the Hayes-Tilden controversy 
he published, among other influential newspaper 
communications, a strong article, which appeared 
as an editorial leader in the DiiHy Advertiser, 
under the title of " It is the First Step that 
costs," and excited much favorable comment. 
Mr. Kelly is a graceful speaker as well as a fin- 
ished writer, and is frequently called upon for oc- 
casional addresses on historical and other topics. 
On the occasion of the celebration of the seventy- 
fifth anniversary of the establishment of the old 
Boston house of Silas Peirce & Co., whose 
founder, as has been stated, was a brother of the 
maternal grandfather of Mr. Kelly, his speech, 
giving sketches of several of the older members of 
the firm, was the chief feature. Mr. Kelly is a 
corresponding member of the Maine Historical 
Society, and was trustee of Lawrence .Academy in 
Groton, first elected to the latter position in 
1855, which he has resigned. He received the 
honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin College. 
In pc}|itics and other affairs he is a man of inde- 
pendence in the truest sense of the term, and 
has always refused to accept public office. It has 
been said of him that he avoids "the shackles of 
party, the responsibilities of trusts, any and all 
entangling alliances liable to interfere with inde- 
pendent action. The words of Chapman, — 

■Who to himself is law no l.iw diith need. 
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.' 

are to him specially applicable." He was mar- 
ried at Groton, November 15, 1854, to Miss Mary 
Farley, daughter of George Frederick and Lucy 
(Rice) Farley. 



KINGSLKN', Chksiek Warh, of Cambridge, 
merchant, was born in Brighton, now a part of 
Boston, June 9, 1S24, son of Moses and Marv 
(Montague) Kingsley. He is of English and 
French descent. Left fatherless at the age of 
four years, he was thrown upon his own resources 
when but ten years old. For the next five years 
he lived and worked in the then wilds of Mich- 
igan. Then, returning to his native place, he re- 
sumed his studies in the common schools, which 
he had attended for some time before he went 
West, and went through the High School. Upon 
leaving school, he learned the carpenter's trade ; 



but, this not being to his liking, he turned toother 
fields, and soon found a place as messenger in the 
old Brighton Bank. He continued in that posi- 
tion for two years, when he was promoted to a 
higher place, and subsequently was for three years 
teller of the bank. At the age of twenty-seven, 
in 1 85 1, he became cashier of the Cambridge 
Market Bank, where he remained five years. In 
1856 he entered mercantile life, engaging in the 
wholesale provision business ; and nine prosperous 
years followed. Retiring in 1865, he became 
treasurer of an anthracite coal mining company, 
which position he still holds ; and he was for eight 
years president of the National Bank of Brighton, 
the successor of the old Brighton Bank in which 
he began his business career. Mr. Kingsley has 
taken a prominent part in municipal affairs in 
Cambridge, where he has long resided ; and he has 
served in both branches of the General Court. 
He has been a member of the Cambridge Board 
of Aldermen, a member of the School Board, and 
for twenty-nine years a member of the Water 
ISoard, president of the latter for many years. 
His service in the Legislature covered three vears 




C. W. KINGSLEY. 



in tlie House of Representatives, 1SS2-S3-S4, and 
two in the Senate, 1888-89, as senator for the 
Third Middlesex District. In politics he has 



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liccn ,1 lifuloni; I'rohihiticmi^t and Kcpiihlic.iM, and the inlciosl and pleasure he had taken in his 
and in religions faith a r.aplist. lie has lon,<,' playing. His first appearances on the concert 
taken a prominent part in liaptist denominational stage were made in 1873. in lersey ( 'ity ; and his 
work, and held official positions in inslitntions and 
societies. He has been president of the Ameri- 
can liaptist Home Missionary Society, and is now 
one of the trustees of the Newton Theological In- 
stitution, of the Colby Lhiix'ersity in Maine, of the 
Worcester Academy, and of the Massachusetts 
liaptist State Convention; and he was for some 
time one of the executive committee of the Amer- 
ican l!a|3tist Missionary Union, and president of 
the lioston IJaptist Social Union. He is a mem- 
ber, also, of the Cambridge and .Massachusetts 
clubs. Mr. Kingsley was married in Hoston in 
Mav, 1846, to Miss Mary Jane Todd, daughter of 
hanicl and Hannah Todd, of lirighton. They 
lia\c had seven children, four of whom are living: 
Kill Jane (now Mrs. M. Clinton Bacon), Addie 
May (Mrs. I). Frank Ellis), Luceba Dorr (Mrs. 
I'arker F. Soule ). and C. W'illard Kingsley. 



/^^^^l 



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KLAHRF^, F.nwiN, of Boston, pianist, is a 
native of New Jersey, born in the town of Union, 
Hudson County, May 2, 1866, son of Oscar and 
Caroline (Leismann) Klahre. He is of German 
descent, and comes of a musical family. His 
father is a teacher of the piano, and director of sev- 
eral Gesang \'ereins of Hudson County, New \'ork. 
He was educated in public and private school and 
abroad. Manifesting in childhood a strong musi- 
cal tendency, he was early given piano lessons by 
his father, this instruction beginning when he was 
but live years old. .\t the age of fourteen his 
progress was so marked that he attracted the at- 
tention of Rafael Joseffy, and for some time after 
he studied with that eminent virtuoso. .\t sixteen 
he went to Stuttgart, and there came under the in- 
struction of Lebert and Bruckner, taking lessons 
in harmony from Bercy Goetschius. Afterward, 
desiring to become familiar with all styles and 
schools, he studied several months in 1883-84 
with the famous Xaver Scharwenka ; and his ad- 
vancement was so rapid that Scharwenka advised 
him to go to Franz Liszt at Weimar. Accord- 
inglv. armed with warm letters of introduction 
from Scharwenka, he sought Liszt, and became a 
pupil of that master, liis youngest at that time, 
from him he also won golden opinions, and upon 
parting was given a letter in which Liszt ex- 
pressed his afTection for his talented j'oung pupil, 





EDWIN KLAHRE. 

success was complete. Upon his first appearance 
in New York, in the spring of 1888, the press were 
unanimous in his praise, noting especially his 
lightness .and brilliancy of touch and fine display 
of technique. He has a large repertory, and excels 
particularly in works of the modern and romantic 
school. He has played at the New \'ork Lieder- 
kranz, the .Arion and Brogress societies, besides 
engaging with the Teresina Tua Concert Com- 
panv ; and has given occasional concerts in Stein- 
way and Chickering halls. Since 1890 he has 
been a graduating teacher in the New England 
Conservatory of Music. Mr. Klahre was married 
September, 1890, to Miss Seraphina von Engel- 
berg. 



L.ARRABEE, Bf.njamin Fr.vkklin, of Boston, 
merchant, is a native of Maine, born in the town 
of Lemington, .\ugust 29, 1841, son of Ezekiel 
and ^Liry (Davis) Larrabee. His father lived to 
the age of eighty-two, his grandmother Davis lived 
to be one hundred years and four months old, and 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



his great-grandmother reached ninety-nine years. 
His mother died at the age of si.xty-three. His 
ancestors on the paternal side came from France 
(French Huguenots), and his maternal ancestors 
were English, — on both sides early settled in 
Maine. His education was mainly acquired at 
the Lemington Academy. After finishing at the 
academy, he first thought of teaching for a while, 
but finally decided to go into a country store in- 
stead. He remained there for a year and a half, 
and the experiences thus gained were of great ad- 
vantage to him. For the ne.xt three years he was 
in a dry-goods store in Biddeford. Me. ; and in 




B. F. LARRABEE. 

1862 he came to Boston, taking a position as 
travelling salesman with the house of I). C. Gris- 
wold & Co. Two years later he was admitted to 
a partnership in the business. Six years later, in 
187 1, he organized the firm of ClaHin, Larrabee, 
& Co. He was principal buyer for the house, and 
made fourteen trips to Europe in its interest. 
After a successful and prosperous career of 
twenty-two years, passing through the great fire 
of 1872 and sustaining heavy losses, and the panic 
of 1873, but meeting every payment promptly, 
and, in fact, discounting every purchase without 
any outside aid even from its own bank, Mr. 
Larrabee retired from this firm in January, 1893. 



In January, 1890, he and his partner, Mr. Clafiin, 
bought out the retail firm of William H. Zinn, and 
continued the business under the name of William 
H. Zinn until July, 1892, when Mr. Larrabee 
bought out Mr. Claflin's interest. In October of 
the same year he brought his own name to the 
front, and from that time the growtli of this long 
successful business has been something phenom- 
enal. Mr. Larrabee's eldest brother was a shoe 
manufacturer, and a partner of Aaron Claflin & 
Co., New York. He died in 1873. Another 
brother is Mr. Larrabee of the firm of Wilson Lar- 
rabee & Co., wholesale dry goods, Boston. His 
only living sister, Mrs. A. M. Moore, resides in 
Michigan. She is a lady of literary talent. She 
has been president of the Woman's State Temper- 
ance .\lliance, and is reputed to be an excellent 
public speaker. Mr. Larrabee has no political 
ambition, and has never held nor sought ofiice. 
He has been a director of several corporations 
and institutions in Boston. He is a member of 
a number of local clubs, and has served at differ- 
ent times on their boards of management. Mr. 
Larrabee was first married, in 1867, to Miss Eliz- 
abeth H. Bosson, of Boston, and by this union 
were two daughters and one son. Mrs. Larrabee 
died in 1S81. He married second, in 1887, Miss 
Lucy C. Ashley, of Bloomington, 111. His resi- 
dence is in the beautiful suburb of Brookline. 



L.\WLER, William Patrick, M.D., of Low- 
ell, is a native of Lowell, born January 26, i860, 
son of William and Bridget (Egan) La wler. His 
father was born in County Carlow, Ireland, son 
of Patrick and Mary (Spencer) La wler, and his 
mother in King's County, Ireland, daughter of 
Matthew and Mary (O'Connor) Egan, of the 
famous Egan family of that county. Koth parents 
are still living. His father came to this country 
when a small boy, and has been a resident of 
Lowell for over forty years. He has always been 
a hard-working man, and is noted for honesty and 
constant industry. Dr. Lawler's education was 
begun in the public schools of Lowell, from which 
he graduated at the High School in 1877, being 
one of the graduation day speakers. He then en- 
tered the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 
and graduated there in 1880, .A.B., with the high- 
est honors of his class, and distinguished as the 
deliverer of the valedictory address. Two years 
later the degree of A.M. was conferred upon him 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



785 



l)y his ahiut matiT. Upon his gradiuition from 
the university he began the study of theology at 
St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md. After nearly 
two years at that venerable institution his health 
broke down, owing partly to over-study and partly 
to constant confinement : and upon recommen- 
dation of the faculty he gave up all studies for a 
while. The next year was spent in travel through 
the Southern States ; and when he returned, with 
health fully restored, he determined to take up 
the study of medicine. Accordingly, he entered 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Balti- 
more, and took the regular course. Graduating 




WM. P. LAWLER. 

ill 1886, he was almost immediately (in May) ap- 
pointed by the Commissioners of Charities and 
Corrections of New York assistant medical of- 
ficer of the New York City Insane Asylum on 
lUackwell's Island, and at the expiration of one 
year was elected by the same commissioners, on 
the recommendation of the medical board, house 
surgeon to the Harlem Hospital at 99th Street and 
Tenth Avenue, at that time one of the emergency 
branches of Bellevue Hospital. In May, 1888, 
Dr. Lawler returned to his native city, and began 
the regular practice of medicine there. His thor- 
ough education and his hospital experience in New 
York were well-known facts in Lowell, so that he 



soon fell into a large and lucrative business: and 
his career has been marked by a series of brilliant 
successes. In 1889 he was appointed a member 
of the medical staff of the out-patient department 
of St. John's Hospital, and in 1890 was elected 
to the regular staft" of that institution. The next 
year he was appointed by Mayor Fifield city piiy- 
sician of Lowell and member of the Board of 
Health, which position he held for three years. 
In January, 1894, upon the recommendation of 
Congressman Stevens, he was made pension 
examining surgeon for his district. Dr. Lawler 
is a member of the Middlesex North Medical 
Society, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
and of the Massachusetts State Association of 
Boards of Health. In 1893, upon the appoint- 
ment of Mayor Pickman, he attended the Pan- 
American Medical Congress at Washington as the 
representative delegate for Lowell. He is a close 
student and a hard worker, and has profited much 
from his travels and his varied experiences with 
many classes of mankind. He is also a public- 
spirited citizen, and has the confidence of the 
community in which he lives. He is a prominent 
member of the Knights of Columbus, of the An- 
cient Order of Foresters, and of the Ancient 
Order of Hibernians. In politics he is a stanch 
Democrat of the old Jeffersonian school. Dr. 
Lawler was married in July, 1892, to Miss Kath- 
erine M. Vilwig, of Winchester, Va. They have 
had one son (deceased) and a daughter: Mary 
Katharine Lawler (born .\ugust 3, 1895). 



LICHTENFF.LS, Wii.hki.m Gustav, of Worces- 
ter, insurance manager, is a native of Ger- 
many, born in Pforzheim, June 7, 1859, son of 
Wilhelm Gerhard and Sophie (Merky) Lichtenfels. 
His family was of Southern Germany, Grand 
Duchy of Baden. He was educated in private 
schools in his native place, and at the '-Real 
Gymnasium" in Pforzheim. He came to the 
ITnited States at the age of sixteen. He was em- 
ployed as a book-keeper in different trades up to 
1891, when he became manager of the Germania 
Fire Insurance Company in Worcester, and agent 
for steamship lines. He is also a director of 
the Worcester Protective Department. He is a 
notary public and justice of the peace by appoint- 
ment of Governor Russell. He is active in politi- 
cal affairs, serving as treasurer of the Democratic 
city committee of Worcester, and is prominent in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fralern.il organizations, being president of the 
Frolisinn Society, ex-treasurer of the Turner 
Society, past regent of the Conquest Council, No. 




and he thereupon settled in that portion called 
Marlborough, for many years known as New 
Marlborough. His son Samuel w-as born in Marl- 
borough in 1765; and Silas, son of Samuel and 
father of John Q. A., was also born in Marl- 
borough in 1796. John Q. A. was educated in 
common and select schools in his native town ; at 
academies in Fitzwilliam, Woodstock, Vt., Sax- 
ton's River. Xt., and Walpole, N.H. : and at Nor- 
wich University, where he received the degree of 
.V.B. in 1853 and A.M. in 1856. He studied 
medicine with Dr. James Batchellor, a famous phy- 
sician in Marlborough and adjacent towns for many 
years ; at Deer Island, under Dr. Moriarty, acting 
as ranking student under his direction in the hos- 
pital of the institution and as quarantine physician; 
and at the Dartmouth Medical College and Jeffer- 
son Medical College, graduating from the latter in 
1856. He practised in his native town for a couple 
of months after his graduation, from March 15 to 
^^ay 6, to accommodate Dr. Samuel Richardson, 
and then settled in South Deerfield, Mass., where 
he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the people. 
Hut, deeming the field too limited, in December fol- 



WM. G. LICHTENFELS. 

915, Royal .Krcanum, a Freemason, an Odd Fellow, 
a member of the German order of Harugari, and 
an associate inember of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. He is also interested in military affairs, 
and is connected with the Worcester City Guards. 
Mr. Lichtenfels was married June 23, 1885, to 
Miss Emma E. Zitkor, of Portland, Me. They 
have four children : Emma, Wilhelm, Berllia, and 
Friedrich Lichtenfels. 



McCOLT. ESTER, John Quincy Adams, M.D.. 
of Wallham, is a native of New Hampshire, born 
in Marlborough, Cheshire County, May 3, 1831, 
son of Silas and Achsah (Holman) McCollester. 
He is a descendant of Isaac McCollester (then 
written McAllister), who came to this country as a 
captain in the British army some time during the 
colonial wars, was taken prisoner and never 
exchanged, and, being released, settled at Marl- 
borough, Mass. About the year 1760 he, with 
two others, was authorized to lay out or survey 
Monadnock I)i\ision, No. 5, New Hampshire ; 



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JOHN Q. A. McCollester. 

lowing he removed to a part of Groton then known 
as Groton Junction, now Ayer. Here, and in the 
towns of Harvard, Shirley, Leominster, Lunenburg, 



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787 



'rownscnd, W'cstforcl, Littleton, Acton, and several 
other places, he held an extensive and laborious 
practice until 1887, at which time he opened an 
ottice in the city of \^'altham, where he already 
had a large number of friends, and where he im- 
mediately entered upon a wide though less labori- 
ous practice. Dr. McCollester was a member of 
the School Board for seven years at Groton and 
three years at Harvard, and alludes with pride to 
his associates there, among whom were ex-(lov- 
ernor Boutwell, the Rev. David Fosdick, one of 
the best Hebrew graduates of Harvard College, 
the Rev. Crawford Nightingale, the Rev. Daniel 
liutler, tlie Hon. E. Dana Bancroft, and A. J. 
Sawyer, an eminent public teacher. He has been 
a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Societv 
since 1S56 ; is a life member of the American 
I'nitarian Association ; a charter member of Caleb 
Butler Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; and 
has been a member of the Governor Gore Lodge 
of Odd Fellows since its organization. During 
the Civil War he was an examiner of recruits, post 
surgeon at Camp Stevens, Groton, and surgeon of 
the Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
teers. His military service was characterized by 
professional skill and executive ability of high 
order. He was indefatigable in the welfare of his 
men, even facing danger upon the field of battle 
to care for wounded soldiers. He has been a 
justice of the peace for thirty-five years. He mar- 
ried first. May 6, 1856, Miss Sarah E. Hazen, who 
died May 5, 1858; and second, August 9, 1859, 
Miss Georgiana L. Hunt. His children are : by 
his first marriage, Anna (born August 28, 1S57); 
and bv his second marriage, Lucretia L (born 
August 26, i860), Edward Q. (born January 28, 
1863), Harvey G. (born August 5, 1864), E. May 
(born September 1, 1867), John F. (born July 27, 
1872), and H. Hortense McCollester (born July 2, 
1878). 

MANN, Albert WiLLiAJt, of Boston, expert 
accountant, is a native of Boston, born October 4, 
1 84 1, son of Nehemiah P. and Elizabeth M. (Pit- 
man) Mann. His parents were of Portsmouth, 
X.H., and of English descent. His ancestors on 
both sides were among the early settlers of New 
Hampshire, and some of them were in the War of 
the Revolution. He was educated in the Boston 
public schools, graduating from the Hawes Gram- 
mar School in 1855, a Franklin medal scholar, 
and from the English High School in 1858. Upon 



leaving the High School, he entered the Black- 
stone Bank, and remained there until October 4, 
1862, when he enlisted as private in Company A, 
Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers 
(the Cadet Regiment), the bank directors voting 
to hold his position open for him until the expira- 
tion of his term of service. He .served the full 
term, participating in all the engagements of his 
regiment, — Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsborough, 
and Dover Cross Roads, — and was with it during 
the draft riot in Boston in 1863, doing guard duty 
in different parts of the city. Upon his discharge 
from the service, instead of returning to the bank. 




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ALBERT W. MANN. 

he entered the office of his father, N. P. Mann &: 
Co., State street, as accountant, where he remained 
for six years, with the exception of a three 
months' enlistment in the First Unattached Com- 
pany, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. In 1872 
he accepted an engagement to represent a Boston 
firm as resident agent in San Francisco, Cal. In 
less than two years after his arrival in Califor- 
nia the firm dissolved, the senior partner retiring 
from business : and the agency was discontinued. 
Thereupon, in June, 1874, he entered the San 
Francisco banking house of Sather & Co., and 
continued in'ils employ until June, 1879. The.se 
five years marked the period of the " Bonanza "' 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



excitement; and the bank did a large business as 
transfer agent for Eastern customers and in col- 
lecting dividends, and also in paying assessments 
on the mines on the Comstock Lode. He re- 
turned to Boston in i8So. and from that time has 
been engaged in various financial enterprises. 
He has served for short periods the Exchange 
National Bank, the Natick National Bank, and 
the First National Bank of Chelsea, and of late 
years has devoted most of his time to accountant 
work. In 189 1 he was sent to Fort Payne, Ala., 
by a committee of stockholders, to examine and 
report upon the financial condition of the Fort 
Payne Coal and Iron Company. He has audited 
the books of the treasurer of the city of Lowell, 
the treasurer of Dartmouth College, and of other 
large corporations. In 1895 he was elected 
auditor of the Massachusetts Mutual Accident 
Association of Boston. Mr. Mann is an active 
member of numerous organizations. He was ad- 
jutant of Major General H. G. Berry Post No. 40, 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, in 1889 and 
1890 ; has been colonel of Gordon Forrest Com- 
mand, No. 12, Union Veterans' Union of Maiden, 
since 1894; and is now (1895) aide-de-camp on 
the staff of the commander in chief of the Union 
Veterans' Union. He joined the Grand Army in 
187 1 and the LTnion Veterans' Union in 1893. 
He has been a Freemason since 1865, when he 
joined the Adelphi Lodge. In politics he is a 
Republican, and has been a member of the Re- 
publican city committee of Maiden, where he 
resides, for two years, and of the Republican Club 
of Massachusetts since 1894. He has, however, 
never held a political office, and never been a 
candidate for office. Mr. Mann was married June 
20, 1867, to Miss Sarah G. Allbright, of Dor- 
chester. They have four children : Gilbert Sher- 
burne, Henry Judson. Carrie Alice, and William 
Albert Mann. 

MARTIN, John Joseph, M.D., of Marble- 
head, was born in Lowell, May 29, 1862, son of 
Thomas Henry and Susan (Keenan) Martin. His 
early education was received in the public gram- 
mar school ; and he was fitted for college at the 
Francestown Academy, Francestown, N.H. He 
studied medicine in the Dartmouth Medical Col- 
lege, and graduated therefrom November, 24, 
1 89 1. For a few months after graduation, or 
until May, 1892, he practised in the town of New 
Sharon, Me. Then he removed to Marblehead, 



where he has since been actively engaged. In 
June, 1894, he was appointed assistant surgeon of 
the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia. He 




JOHN J. MARTIN. 



is a member of the Essex Club. Dr. Martin was 
married November 6, 1883, to Miss Hattie J. Whit- 
aker, of Hancock, N.H. They have one child : 
Helen E. Martin (born November 12, 1894). 



MENDUM, Samuel Warren, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk Bar, is a native of Boston, born 
November 14, 1863, son of Willis Barnabee Men- 
duni and Mary Emeline (Frederick) Mendum. 
His paternal ancestors came from England to 
Massachusetts prior to 1650, removing later to 
Kittery, Me. His ancestors on his mother's 
side were Massachusetts people from the neigh- 
borhood of Westford. His early education was 
obtained in the Boston public schools ; and he 
was prepared for college at the Boston Latin 
School, where he was graduated in the class of 
1 88 1. In the prize declamation contest he re- 
ceived the first third prize. In July, 1881, he 
passed the entrance examinations to Harvard 
College, receiving honors in Latin and Greek. 
In the autumn of 1881 he entered Tufts College, 
and was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



789 



liinc, 1885, being second in tiic class. He gave 
nuicii attention in college to declamation, and 
received in 1S83 the second Cioddard declamation 
prize, and the first Goddard prizes in 1884 and 
1S85. AMien lie entered college, he had already 
become well acquainted with the free-trade doc- 
trine ; and his study of political economy in college 
still further convinced him of the soundness of 
the free-trade principle. He delivered as a com- 
mencement part an oration on '' Protection and 
Labor." His view of the subject was not the 
popular one, but the part was generally well re- 
ceived. Upon graduation from Tufts he accepted 
a position as teacher of elocution and German in 
I )ean Academy, Franklin, where he taught till 
February, 18S7. In the autumn of 1886 Mr. 
(). H. Perry, who was the teacher of political 
economy in the academy, and Mr. Mendum or- 
ganized the Franklin Tariff Reform Club, which 
did much good work in the cause of tariff reform. 
Mr. Perry was president and Mr. Mendum secre- 
tary of the club. The influential members of the 
trustees of Dean Academy were e.xtreme protec- 
tionists, and it is needless to say that the activity 




SAMUEL W. MENDUM. 



of these young teachers in the tariff reform agita- 
tion was not wholly agreeable to them. They 
evidently feared that the institution would suffer 



from what might seem a too close connection 
with tariff reform, though both teachers had been 
careful not to use their positions as teachers to 
influence the young students, but merely asserted 
the right of the citizen to advocate in public 
the views he holds. As a result of the openly 
expressed opposition of the trustees, Mr. Perry 
and Mr. Mendum felt it tiieir duty to resign. 
They both then entered the post-graduate depart- 
ment of Harvard University, pursuing there the 
study of political economy. In .September, 1887, 
Mr. Mendum was elected sub-master of the 
Woburn High School, and served in that posi- 
tion until December, 1890, when he was chosen 
principal in place of Herbert 15. Dow, resigned. 
He remained at the head of this school, being 
re-elected in June, i8gi, and again in June, 
1892, until July of the latter year, when he re- 
signed to take up the study of law. He en- 
tered Boston University Law School in Novem- 
ber, 1892. In September, 1893, he received an 
appointment for a year as junior master in the 
Boston Latin School, returning to the Law School 
in October, 1894, to finish his studies. During 
this winter he taught rhetoric and American 
literature in the Boston Evening High School. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk bar June 25, 1895, 
and associated himself with the law firm of J. T. 
& R. E. Joslin, who have offices in Hudson and 
Boston. During all these ten years of school- 
teaching and law study Mr. Mendum continued 
his active work in behalf of tariff' reform, and had 
an effective part in the campaigns of that period. 
He was one of the founders of the Woburn Tariff 
Reform Club in 1889, and was its president for 
two years. In the same year he was elected 
a member of the executive committee of the New 
England Tariff Reform League, and is still on the 
committee, having been an ardent supporter of 
the change of name to the New England I-'ree 
Trade League, in July, 1889, he was elected 
secretary of the United Question Clubs, an 
organization which, through pertinent questions 
on tariff topics publicly put to candidates for 
office, provoked much discussion of details in- 
\olved in the issue. In the summer of 1892 he 
was assistant secretary of the Tariff Reform 
League, and, in the autumn campaign following, 
was private secretary to the Hon. George Fred 
Williams. Mr. Mendum has done more or less 
writing of a general nature, frequently contrib- 
uting to the press, and occasionally to the niaga- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



zines. In the March number of the Nortli Ameri- 
can Rcvinc for 1890 he had an article on "Ques- 
tion Clubs and the Tariff," and in the same maga- 
zine for January, 1891, one on the "Teaching of 
Citizenship." In April, 1891, he delivered an 
address before the Massachusetts Classical and 
High School Teachers' Association on "An Ex- 
amination of the Criticisms on the Herald' s Prize 
Essays," which was subsequently published in the 
Acadoiiy : and he was an occasional speaker on 
the stump during the campaigns of 1890 and 
1892. He has twice visited Europe, — first in the 
summer of 1886, when he wrote a series of weekly 
letters to the Franklin Si-iifiuc/, and again in 1890, 
writing at that time letters to the Boston J'ost, 
then an independent journal and a leading tariff 
reform organ. During the college year of 1893- 
94 he was chairman of the Board of Visitors of 
Tufts College. In the winter of 1894 he was one 
of the organizers of the Citizens' Municipal Union 
of Boston, the main objects of which are " the 
promotion of a proper interest in municipal man- 
agement, and the acquirement and diffusion of 
information concerning administrative methods 
in civic affairs," and is at present secretary of 
the organization. Mr. Mendum was a Republi- 
can until 1884, and then left that party on account 
of its attitude on the tariff question. He has 
since been a Democrat, attached to the progres- 
sive wing. He is a member of Delta Chapter 
(Tufts College) of the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. 
Mendum was married July 5, 1894, to Miss Sara 
Frances Clark, of Lewiston, Me. 



MILLER, Albert Ebkk, M.D., of Needham, 
is a native of New York, born in the town of Cov- 
ert, Seneca County, July 7, 1833, son of Ezekiel 
and Polly ( Hogaboom) Miller. He is a descend- 
ant of the New England family of Miller, among 
which are a number of noted physicians and sur- 
geons. His grandfathers were both soldiers in 
the Revolutionary War, and his father was in the 
War of 18 1 2. The latter, when a young man, went 
to New York, and settled on a farm, upon which 
the early life of Albert E. was spent. He attended 
the district school of his native town, spent a year 
at Cortland Academy, and then, being selected by 
the superintendent of schools to receive the bene- 
fits of the State normal department at Homer 
Academy, he spent three years in that institution. 
His first desire was to study medicine, but he was 



persuaded by friends to read law instead. After 
a year of law-reading, however, he returned to his 
first choice, and was graduated from the Syracuse 
Medical College in 1855, and in 1864 from the 
LTniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He 
was also a private student of H. H. Smith, M.D., 
professor of surgery in the university, and of the 
celebrated I). Hayes Agnew, M.D. After grad- 
uating, he began lecturing on Public Health ; and 
he has since travelled extensively, and delivered 
lectures in the principal cities and towns through- 
out the country. His lectures to pupils of public 
and normal schools have been especially popular. 




A. E. MILLER. 

He has the finest apparatus with which to illus- 
trate these discourses, consisting of four beautiful 
French manikins, thirteen skeletons, and a great 
variety of models, plates, and drawings. For sev- 
eral years he has lectured regularly before the 
New England Chautauqua Assembly. He is pro- 
fessor of physiology and hygiene in the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston ; and has 
been for several years medical e.xaminer of the 
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila- 
delphia. With his lecturing and other specialties 
he continues in active practice, having an office at 
his residence in Xeedham, and also one in Boston, 
where he is regularly two days in the week. In 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



791 



Nfcdliani he is president of the I'.oard of 'I'rustees 
of the 'I'own Library, and has Ijeen one of the 
officers of that institution since its organization, 
has been president of the Co-operative Bank since 
its organization, was one of the foremost in starting 
tlie Village Improvement Society and its first presi- 
ilent ; and he has beautified and rendered fertile a 
portion of the town reclaimed from waste land, and 
built twent3^-five fine houses. He was also largely 
instrumental in securing from the Legislature the 
act allowing the town of Needham to supply its 
inhabitants with pure water, and was chairman of 
the water committee. He represented his district, 
the Ninth Norfolk, in the State House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1888-89, during his second term 
serving as chairman of the committee on public 
health. He is an active temperance worker, and 
has been president of the Union Temperance 
Hand for three years, and is now vice-president of 
the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society. In 
politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason of 
the thirty-second degree, with most of his Ma- 
sonic affiliations in Boston. He is a member of De 
Molay Commandery, and past master of the Nor- 
folk Lodge, a member of the Eastern Star ; a past 
grand of Eliot Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, Needham, a member of the Grand Lodge 
of Massachusetts, and has several times held the 
office of district deputy grand master. He is a 
member of the Gynaecological Society of Boston, 
of the International Medical Congress, the Chau- 
tauqua Literary Scientific Circle, and the Norfolk, 
the Home Market, and the Massachusetts Repub- 
lican clubs. He has been superintendent of the 
First Parish Sunday-school for the past ten years. 
Dr. Miller was married in New York, November 
25, 1866, to Miss Vesta Delphene Freeman, 
daughter of ^Vlonzo and Vesta (Ketchune) F'ree- 
man, of Newark, N.Y. Mrs. Miller is also a phy- 
sician and an active temperance worker, and has 
lieen president of the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance Lfnion of Needham since its organization. 
In i8go Dr. Miller, in companj- with his wife, 
attended the International Medical Congress at 
lierlin, after which they travelled e.xtensively 
through Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, 
France, and England. 



Betsey (Beaumont) Mills. His parents removed 
to Fall River when he was a child, and he was ed- 
ucated in the public schools there. He began 
work at the age of twelve, employed as general 
boy in a dry and fancy goods store then con- 
ducted by Ramsay & McWhirr in Fall River. 
At the age of seventeen he was ad\anced to the 
position of department manager, and from that 
rose gradually through other positions to assistant 
manager, and then manager of the entire business, 
which by that time had grown to large propor- 
tions, being one of the largest stores in the city. 
He was holding the latter position with an interest 




MILLS. .\.SA An.\M, of Fall River, merchant, 
is a native of Rhode Island, born in the town of 
Albion, November 26, 1864, son of Thomas and 



ASA A. MILLS. 

in the business, when the death of Mr. McW'hirr 
occurred in March, 1893. The firm had changed 
several times during his connection with it, and 
Mr. Mc\\"hirr's death left him the only surviving 
partner. He then organized the business into a 
corporation under the title of R. A. McWhirr Com- 
pany, and was chosen president, treasurer, and 
manager of the company, which positions he still 
holds. Under its present management the busi- 
ness has so grown that it is now regarded as one 
of the best in its line in South-eastern Massachu- 
setts. Mr. Mills is a member of the Odd F'ellows 
and of the Royal Arcanum. He was married 
February 22, 1887, to Miss Sarah E. Godley, of 



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Fall River. They have two children : 
and Everett D. Mills. 



Hazel (;. 




the United States in that line. Mr. Mills is an ac- 
tive member of the Episcopal Church, connected 
at present with St. Marj's Church, Newton Lower 
Falls. He is a member of the F'ranklin Typo- 
graphical Society, of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association, and of the Boston Art and 
Exchange clubs. He has been a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company for 
twenty-seven years, and is connected with the 
Odd Fellow and several other social orders. Mr. 
Mills was married September 25, i860, to Miss 
Josephine Cate, of Newton Lower Falls. 



MILLS, William Nathaniel, of Boston, 
cooperage business, was a native of Boston, born 
July 27, 1839 ; died June i, 1894. He was the 
fifth son of James Lee and Margaret (Mountfort) 
Mills. He graduated from the Boston public 
schools ; and his training for active life began 
immediately after leaving school, as a clerk in 
a prominent commercial house in Boston. There 
he remained until 1862, when he entered into part- 
nership with \V. U. Bush, and engaged in the 



FREDERICK MILLS. 

MHvLS, Frederick, of Boston, printer, was 
born in Newton Lower Falls, April 17, 1834, son 
of William and Mary Angeline (Cooper) Mills. 
His grandfather, Luke Mills, and his great-grand- 
father, Nehemiah Mills, were farmers in the town 
of Needham. His father was a paper manufact- 
urer, under the firm name of Wales & Mills, at 
Newton Lower Falls. He was educated in the 
public schools and in the Chapman Hall, private 
school, of Boston. He learned the printing trade 
when a youth, entering the office of the Boston 
Daily Times at the age of si.xteen, and at nineteen 
years of age in the employ of the old Boston firm 
of J. H. & F. F. F"arwell, book and job printers. 
He remained with Messrs. Farwell until 1861, 
when he went into the printing-office of .\lfred 
Mudge & Son. In 1879 he engaged in the book 
and job printing business for himself, associated 
with C. H. Knight, and has since continued under 
the firm name of Mills, Knight, & Co. During 
that time the firm has added to its business renew- 
able memorandum books and leather specialties 
for advertising purposes, of which it is a pioneer, 
and now has one of the largest establishments in 




W. N. MILLS. 



cooperage business, with which he was connected 
through the succeeding years until his death. In 
1866 he formed the copartnersliip of Mills 



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793 




lirotheis. succeeding to the cooperage business an office boy with Stone & Downer in 1865. He 
of James L. Mills & Sons, the latter house hav- soon advanced, becoming book-keeper for the 
ing been established by his father in 1823. At concern, and sliortly after, through his energy and 
I lie time of his death he was president of the 
American Stave and Cooperage Company. Mr. 
Mills was a member of the Ancient and Honora- 
ble Company from 1875 until his death, holding 
the rank of lieutenant in 1879 and 1880. He 
was connected with the Masonic fraternity, l^os- 
ton Commandery, Knights Templar, thirty-second 
degree, and was a member of the Bostonian So- 
ciety, of the Corinthian Yacht Club, of the Algon- 
(|uin and Art clubs, and of the Old Eliot School 
Association. He married December 14, i860. 
Miss Annie M. Howe, of Boston. Tliey have had 
one son : William H. Mills. 



MUNROE, William, of Boston, senior mem- 
ber of the firm of Stone & Downer Company, cus- 
tom-house brokers, import and export agents, was 
Ijorn in Cambridge, November 11, 1846, son of 
William A. and Mary (Watson) Munroe, daughter 
of Charles and Nancy B. Watson, of Cambridge. 
He traces his descent directly from William Mun- 
roe, who was born in Scotland in 1625, and came 
to this country in 1632, subsequently settling in 
Lexington. His great-grandfather, William Mun- 
roe, was born in 1742, was orderly sergeant in 
("aptain Parker's Company on Lexington Green, 
April 19, 1775, later on a lieutenant in the army 
at the taking of Burgoyne in 1777, and afterward 
a colonel in the militia. He kept the famous 
" Munroe Tavern " at Lexington, which was used 
as Earl Percy's headquarters and as a British hos- 
pital on the historic 19th of April, and where 
Washington dined in 1789, when he visited the 
lirst battlefield of the Revolution. Colonel Mun- 
roe died (October 30, 1827, aged eighty-five years. 
Mr. Munroe's uncle, who is now a retired mer- 
chant, owns and occupies the old Lexington 
homestead. William A. Munroe, father of Will- 
iam Munroe, was a man of strict integrity and 
nobleness of spirit and character, both unselfish 
and brave, and was a large giver to all charitable 
and worthy objects. He was a successful mer- 
chant, and died in Cambridge at the age of sixty- 
five years. William Munroe w^ educated in the 
public schools of Cambridge, and, after leaving 
school, took a business course at French's College 
in Boston. He was reared from youth in the 
business in which he is now engaged, starting as 



WM. MUNROE. 

ability, won his way to a partnership in the firm. 
Under his management and personal popularity 
the business has so increased that the firm is now 
one of the largest of its kind in the country. Mr. 
Munroe has served as assessor and clerk in the 
town of Belmont, where he resided for a number 
of years, and has been obliged by the pressure of 
his business to decline many flattering offers of 
political advancement. He is a member and a 
past master of Belmont Lodge Freemasons. He 
is also a Knight Templar of Hugh de Payen 
Commandery of Melrose. He was married Octo- 
ber II, 1870, to Miss Helen S. Peasley, daughter 
of Charles Peasley, of Cambridge. They have 
two children : Chester and Mary A. Munroe. 
The son is in the office with his father. 



NEWALAN, Frederick S.\v.\ge, of Springfield, 
architect, with offices in three cities, is a native of 
Maine, born in Bangor, August 26, 1847, son of 
Alden and Nancy (Ellis) Newman. His parents 
were both natives of Maine, his father son of 
Samuel Newman, who was born in New Hamp- 



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shire, and his mother dnuglittr of W'ilhaiii Ellis, 
born in Pennsylvania. He was educated in New- 
Hampshire schools and in draughting schools in 
Massachusetts. He was fitted for his profession 
under the direction of A. J. Aldrich, mill architect, 
and with E. C. Gardner, general architect. Open- 
ing his office in Springfield, on the first of 
November, 1882, he at once began active work, 
and in the course of a few years had designed 
a variety of important buildings, stores, churches, 
school-houses, public halls, bank and office build- 
ings, theatres, and dwellings in various parts of 
New England and in other States. In March, 
1890, he opened a branch office in Hartford, 
Conn., and in February, 1894, a second branch 
office in Philadelphia, Penna. ; and he is carrying 
on business in the three offices at the present time. 
Among his noteworthy structures are : in Spring- 
field, the Forbes & Wallace dry-goods store, 
Meekins, Packard, & Co. dry-goods store building. 
Court Scpiare Theatre Building, Chicopee and 
Pynchon banks, the Safe Deposit and Trust 
Company, Fuller Building, Cutler & Porter, 
Union, Wight, Olmsted, & Kirkham, and Dickin- 




F. S. NEWMAN. 

son blocks, the Highland Baptist and St. Luke 
churches, the Buckingham and Pynchon school- 
houses, the Glendore Hotel ; in Chicopee Falls, 



the Imperial Hotel: in Holyoke, the Catholic 
church " Our Lady of Perpetual Help " and 
parochial school ; in Turner's Falls, St. Anne's 
Catholic Church and Parsonage; at Hartford, 
Conn., the Lindon Block, comprising eight stores 
and fifty-eight flats, and the Balerstein Block ; in 
Reading, Penna., the Di\'es Pomeroy & Stewart 
store: in Indianapolis, Ind., the New York Dry- 
goods Store ; in Philadelphia, Penna., the great 
ofifice building of the F'idelity Mutual Life .Asso- 
ciation. Mr. Newman has served in the city 
government of Springfield as a member of the 
Common Council. He is in politics a Republi- 
can and in religious faith a Unitarian. He is 
prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being a 
member of Hampden Lodge of Springfield, of 
Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of 
Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masons 
of Evening Star Lodge of Perfection, Massasoit 
Council Princes of Jerusalem of Springfield, 
Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croi.x of Worcester, 
Massachusetts Consistory, Sublime Prince of the 
Royal Secret, thirty-second degree of Boston, 
and the Aleppo Temple Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine of Boston. He is also connected with the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member 
of Mount Roulstone Lodge of Fitchburg and 
Agawam Encampment of Springfield : antl with 
the order of Knights of Pythias, a member of 
Hillsborough Bridge, N.H., and the Grand Lodge 
of K. and P. of New Hampshire. His club affili- 
ations are with the Springfield and Winthrop clubs 
of Springfield. Mr. Newman was married Sep- 
tember 22, 1867, in Peterborough, N.H., to Miss 
Caroline Fl (Crimes, of that town. He has no 
children. 

NICHOLS, Thomas Parker, of Lynn, printer 
and publisher, is a native of Lynn, born August 
28, 1830, son of Nathan and Harriet (Herbert) 
Nichols. He is a descendant of the Nichols fam- 
ily of Maiden, first settled there in 1660. He was 
educated in the Lynn public schools. After leav- 
ing school, at the age of thirteen, he began to 
learn the printer's trade ; and he has continued in 
the printing business continuously from that time 
(1843) to the present. He started in business on 
the 5th of May, 1S55, his first printing-office 
being on Market Square, Lynn. In 1S67 he 
moved to Market Street, and has been established 
there ever since, occupying three difterent loca- 
tions, at present in the Macnair Block, No. 113, 



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his (luarlurs covering the second ;incl third Hoors He was married May 5, 1853, to Miss Caroline 
over the Lynn Safe Deposit and Trust Company Smith, of Lynn. They have had four children, all 
and the Lynn National ISank. He now carries on of whom are living: Carrie Helen (now Mrs. John 

C. .\borni, Frank Herbert, Fred Hammond, and 
Sarah Lizzie i now Mrs. Samuel S. Shepard). 




XICK.ERSON, Sereno I)wii;nr, of Boston, 
merchant, is a native of Boston, born October 16, 
1823, son of Ebenezer and Kudo.xa (White) Xick- 
erson. His early education was acquired in some 
of the best private schools in Boston and at Phil- 
lips (Andover) .Academy, where he was fitted for 
college. He graduated at \'ale in i<S4-; with the 
regular degree, and received there the degree of 
A.M. in 1848. He read law at the Dane (now 
Harvard) Law School, which he attended for the 
full term, and received the degree of LL. B. in 
1847. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Janu- 
uary 21, 1848, after examination by one of the 
judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He, how- 
ever, never practised law, but engaged in mercan- 
tile business until 1864, and from that time until 
1872 in real estate and other speculations. Since 



THOS. p. NICHOLS. 



a general book and job printing and publishing 
business, with the manufacturing of blank books. 
Book-work of the most difficult nature receiving 
special care in his office, it has an excellent repu- 
tation among schools, colleges, obserxatories, and 
astronomers in various parts of the country. Mr. 
Nichols has served three terms in the Lynn Com- 
mon Council, in 1865-67-68, and is at present 
a member of the Public Water Board, his term of 
service, beginning in 1894, extending to 1898. 
He is a director of the Lynn Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Company, and has been a trustee of the 
Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank since 1884. He 
is prominent in both the Masonic and Odd Fel- 
lows orders, being in the former a member of the 
(lolden Fleece Lodge, of the Sutton Royal .\rch 
Chapter, and of the Olivet Commandery, No. 36, 
Knights 'I'emplar: and, in the latter, member of 
the Bay State Lodge No. 40 and the Palestine 
Fncanipment No. 37. He is a director of the Ox- 
ford Club of Lynn, and member of the Master 
Printers" Club and the Universalist Club of hos- 
ton. In politics he defines himself as a "stanch, 
native .American, teetotaler, and Republican." 




SERENO D. NICKERSON. 



the last-named date Mr. Nickerson has devoted 
a large part of his time to ALasonic studies and 
labors, and has held various offices in that frater- 



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nitv, among them being the highest, that of 
grand master of Masons in Massachusetts in the 
years 1872-73-74. Since December, 1881, to 
the present time, he has served as secretary of 
the Grand Lodge of the -State, which is one of the 
chief executive offices. Mr. Niclcerson was mar- 
ried October 16, 18S; 
Ijurn) C'heever. 



J j, to Mrs. Louisa R. ( Kil 
Thev iiave no cliildren. 



()S(i()()l), Gkurce L.vukie, of Boston, teaclier 
of music, composer, and conductor, was born in 
Chelsea, .Suffolk Countv. April 3, 1844, son of 
John Hamilton and Adeline (Stevens) (Jsgood. 
He is a lineal descendant of John Osgood, the 
Puritan, who landed at Salem in 1632. He was 
educated at the grammar and high schools of his 
native city, and graduated from Harvard in 1866. 
In college he was conductor of the Glee Glub and 
of the orchestra. His inclination and faculties 
from the start indicated a musical career. In 
1867 he went to Berlin for the studv of composi- 
tion under Haupt, and of vocal expression under 
Sieber. In Halle he formed an intimate friend- 



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G. L. OSGOOD. 



renowned Lamperti, in Milan. In 1S71 he re- 
paired to (lermany, and gave with great success 
a series of concerts in Vienna, Leipzig, Dresden, 
Berlin, and other cities. Returning to .\merica, 
he engaged with Theodore Thomas, and made a 
tour of the country in connection with his or- 
chestra. In 1872 he settled in Boston, where he 
has become celebrated as a teacher, composer, and 
conductor. In 1875 he assumed the directorship 
of the Boylston Club, a promising choral organiza- 
tion, then in its third year. He refined its singing, 
aroused its enthusiasm, and gave to Boston one of 
the most noteworth\- and notable clubs in its musi- 
cal history. Under Mr. Osgood's leadership the 
perfection of its performances have earned for 
Boston a reputation for choral art not only 
national, but European. As a composer, musical 
critics award high rank to Mr. Osgood. His 
songs have a wide-spread popularity. Among his 
many works are : " Guide in the .\rt of Singing," 
a volume of two hundred pages, already passed 
through eight editions : and numerous choral 
works for concert and church. Mr. Osgood, be- 
sides his acquaintance with the classics, has made 
modern languages a lifelong study, several of 
which he speaks and writes fluently. He has pub- 
lished a large number of lyrics translated from the 
German. He w-as a student at the Berlin Univer- 
sity from 1868-69. Mr. Osgood is a member of 
the St. Botolph and University clubs, for several 
years was a member of the Union Club, and in 
1880 was created an honorary member of the Phi 
Beta Kappa society of Harvard College. He has 
been twice married. His first wife was Jeanette 
Farley, daughter of James P. and Chloe S. Farley, 
of Chelsea. Of this union were three children : 
George Laurie, Farley, and Marie Jeanette. In 
1891 he married June Bright, daughter of Horace 
O. and Junior Howe Bright, of Cambridge. Of 
this union there has been one child : Lowell, who 
died during his first vear. 



ship with Robert Franz, the great master of Ger- 
man song. In 1869 he went to Italy, and for 
three years studied the art of singing with the 



PAGE, Walter Gilman, of Boston, artist, is 
a native of Boston, born October 13, 1S62, son of 
Charles Jewett and Rate Chase (Norcross) Page. 
He is a lineal descendant of John Page, who settled 
in America in 1630, and of Nathaniel Paige, 1675. 
.\ncestors of his took active part in the go\ern- 
ment, in all of the early colonial wars, and in the 
W'ar of the Revolution, three of his great-grand- 
fathers beini: at Bunker Hill. He was educated 



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in the public schools, principally the Boston Latin 
School. He began the systematic study of art 
immediately after leaving school, and, going to 




WALTER OILMAN PAGE. 

I'aris, studied there under Boulanger and Lefebvre, 
Acade'mie Julien. He first exhibited at the Salon 
in 1887 (on the line); in that of 1888 a portrait 
of Countess Divonne, and in 1889 two portraits. 
Among the numerous portraits which he subse- 
quently painted are : Colonel Marshall P. \\'ilder, 
for the town of Rindge, N.H.; Professor Louis 
Agassiz ; Governor Horace Fairbanks, of Vermont, 
now in the State House at Montpelier ; Moses 
Merrill, master of the Boston Latin School ; 
Samuel Little, president of the West End Street 
Railway, Boston ; Alpheus P. Blake, founder of 
the town of Hyde Park ; Samuel S. Green, librarian 
city of Worcester; and others of equal note. Mr. 
Page is one of the founders and an officer of the 
Public School Art League ; and he has served on 
the Boston School Committee since 1893, having 
been elected for one year, and re-elected in 1894 
for three years. He is especially interested in 
the question of drawing in the public schools. In 
politics he is Republican, and served one year as 
a member of the Ward Twenty-two committee. 
He is a member of the board of managers of 
Sons of the Revolution, and was the organizer 



of the society in Massachusetts; is a charter 
member and one of the council of the Society of 
Colonial Wars ; a member of the LTnity Art 
Club, of which he was president for two years ; 
and member of the Twentieth Century Club. He 
was married June 9, 189 1, at the Church of the 
Heavenly Rest, Fifth Avenue. New \'ork, by Rev. 
1). I'.irker Morgan, to Miss Helen Kelso, of that 
city. They have one child : Courtenay Kelso 
Page (born in \ew NVirk, October 13, 1893). 



i'.\l TKE, As.\ Flaxdkk.s, M.l)., of Boston, is 
a native of New Hampshire, born in Warner, 
March 5, 1835, son of Asa and Sally (Colby) 
Pattee. He belongs to one of the old families 
"f New England, in which have been several 
noted physicians. Peter Pattee, the first of the 
family in the country, who came from England, 
and settled in \irginia in 1658, was son of Sir 
William Pattee (or "Petty," as it was then 
si)elled), physician to Oliver Cromwell and King 
Charles H. Dr. I'attee's great-grandfather, Asa 
Pattee, was at the taking of Quebec under Gen- 
era! Wolfe in 1759; and his grandfather, on his 
mother's side, was a captain in the Revolutionary 
army. His education was derived from the pub- 
lic school in his native town up to the age of six- 
teen, when he received private instruction in 
Latin, mathematics, and medicine. In the au- 
tumn of 1854 he entered the Dartmouth Medical 
School, and the following year became private 
pupil of the late Professor E. R. Peaslee. In 
1857 he received his degree of M.D. from Dart- 
mouth, and in 1887 received the honorary degree 
of A.M. As the practice of medicine was his 
chief object and aim in life, his training lay wholly 
in that direction. He became the assistant of 
several well-known physicians, and made careful 
dissections of a large number of the lower ani- 
mals, with physiological experiments. He spent 
much time in practical botany and chemistry, and 
thus became much better prepared for the multi- 
tudinous duties of the physician than generally 
fell to the lot of medical students of that period. 
He began his professional duties in his native 
town in 1858, and after a year there went to 
Amesbury, Mass., which was his home for seven 
years. His spare time was devoted to the study 
of botany and materia mcdica, and he ultimately 
became known in that department as among the 
best in the countrv. In the autumn of 1864 he 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



entered the army as acting assistant surgeon, 
carrying to President Lincoln letters of recom- 
mendation from John G. Whittier, the Hon. John 
Evans, Yoric G. Hard, M.D., Judge Carter, and 
others. He returned to Amesbury in 1865, re- 
mained there one year, then removed to Boston, 
in which city he soon acquired a lucrative prac- 
tice. In 1859-60 he had charge in an epidemic 
of small-pox in Amesbury of one hundred and 
fifty cases, out of which there were but three 
deaths. In 1867-68 he was lecturer on chemistry 
and pharmacy in the New England Medical Fe- 
male College, Boston. In 1883 he was elected 




ASA F. PATTEE. 

professor of materia mciiica and therapeutics and 
lecturer on nervous diseases at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, Boston, which chair he occu- 
pied four years. He was president of the Boston 
Therapeutical Society during 1888-89-90, and on 
his resignation from that office was tendered a 
banquet by its members and friends, at which a 
number of prominent persons were present as 
guests. In 189 1 he was necrologist of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association. He is now professor 
emeritus of special therapeutics of the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons. One of the sources 
of Dr. Pattee's success lies in his treatment of 
obscure and obstinate diseases, — those which 



iiave been considered incurable or given up bv the 
practitioner as fit only for the surgeon's table, — 
cases which he has entirely cured by therapeu- 
tical means alone. In 1885 he made a remark- 
able cure of senile gangrene in the foot of a man 
of seventy years. The toes of the left foot had 
sloughed away, the line of demarkation being just 
below the tarso-metatarsal articulation. Nature 
did the whole work of amputation. The patient 
lived six years after, and died of cerebral hem- 
orrhage. In 1887 he patented a catheter attach- 
ment for irrigating the bladder. His contribu- 
tions to medical literature have been more or less 
constant throughout his entire professional ca- 
reer, and for a number of years he has read a 
paper on his methods of treating certain difficult 
and obscure diseases at the yearly meeting of the 
American Medical Association, the subject for 
1895 being "Therapeutics of the Senile Heart." 
Among his contributions, the list of which num- 
bers upwards of fifty, are the following : " A Plea 
for Pure Air, Pure Water, and Cleanliness in the 
Management of Medical and Surgical Cases, and 
as a Prophylaxis in Child-bed Fever," read be- 
fore the Essex North Medical Society, October, 
1862; "Chemical Laboratory of Plants: how 
and where Acids, Alkaloids, Sugars, Glucosides, 
Starches, and (3il are formed : the Cause of the 
Beautiful Colored Tints of Autumn Leaves " ; 
" Cactus graiulijfonis. Night-blooming Cereus, its 
Habitat. Therapeutic Uses in Diseases of the 
Heart, with Cases"; "Diseases of the Stomach, 
including Cancer, Gastric Ulcer, and Dyspepsia : 
with Cases showing the Advantage of ^^'ashing 
out the Stomach"; " J'crsica vulgaris, Syn. (Com- 
mon Peach): a Tincture made from Peach Kernel, 
Valuable for Many Stomach Disorders " : " Phos- 
phide of Zinc : in Facial Neuralgia and Nervous 
Exhaustion, with Select Formula for its Adminis- 
tration," read before the Suffolk District Medi- 
cal Society ; " Pleasant Medicines : How to make 
Medicines Agreeable to the Palate of Fastidious 
Patients, with Numerous Formulas " ; " Bright's 
Disease : a New Treatment with CitritUus vulga- 
ris" ; " Hemi-chorea : St. Vitus Dance, on one 
side in a Woman of seventy-six and a 'Man of 
seventy-eight : Recovery " ; " Salicinum : in Ty- 
phoid Fever, Dysentery, and Blood Poisoning : 
very Successful " ; " Address to Graduating Class, 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, 
Mass. " ; " A Lecture on Heart Tonics and Heart 
Sedatives : Treatment of the Senile Heart " ; " Po- 



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tassium Chloriclc : its L'se in Chronic Pelvic Indu- 
rations," read in section on General Medicine, 
American Medical Association, St. Louis, 1886; 
" Headaches : their Nature, Cause, and Treatment, 
a Lecture delivered at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, 1883. revised, with Notes on An- 
tipyrine, Antifebrine, and Salol " ; "Two Hun- 
dred Cases of Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus," 
read at the Ninth International Medical Con- 
gress, Washington, D.C., September 7, 1887; 
"Treatment of Consumption," read in the sec- 
tion of the Practice of Medicine and Physiology 
at the Forty-second Annual Meeting of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association held at Washington, 
D.C., May, 1891; "The Modern Treatment of 
Diseases of the Kidneys." Dr. Pattee is a mem- 
ber of the American Medical Association, of the 
Manchester Medical Society, and the Boston 
Therapeutical Society. He is connected with the 
order of Odd Fellows, a member of Mt. Hobar 
Lodge, and., of Boston Encampment, with the 
Royal .\rcanum, and the American Legion of 
Honor. In politics he early dropped all official 
honors and aspirations, concluding that the per- 
fect performance of duties of public office and 
those attending the conscientious practice of med- 
icine were incompatible for one and the same 
person to execute. Dr. Pattee was married first, 
April 22, i860, to Miss Ellen M. Allison, of 
Amesbury ; and second, January 18, 1865, to 
Miss Sarah .Adelaide Gunnison, of .Amesbury. 



PENNOCK, Gedrce Barnes, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Pennock Electric Company, is a 
native of New Jersey, born in Bordentown, Octo- 
ber 2, 185 1, son of William Ambrose and Harriet 
( Barnes) Pennock. The Pennock family claim 
relationship to William Penn, the founder of 
Pennsylvania, though, in some mysterious way, 
the letters "ock" were -added in the years passing 
the death of Penn. Joseph Pennock, grandfather 
of George B., was a wealthv Quaker, of Chester 
V'alley, Penna. William A., his son, and father 
of George B., was educated in Quaker schools. 
He was a bright man, and made a hit as an actor, 
playing with Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cush- 
man, attracting considerable praise from the 
latter. F'rom his mother's side Mr. Pennock in- 
herits the determination of the Scotch and the 
([uick wit and alertness of the Irish. He at- 
tended school between the years 1855 and 1863, 



and was tutored by Mrs. Arnel, a friend of Joseph 
Bonaparte and of Prince Murat of France, the 
latter gentleman living at one time at Bordentown. 
-At the age of thirteen he entered the employ at 
Bordentown of the Camden & Amboy Railway 
and .American Telegraph Company, as messenger 
boy. He made such rapid progress that within 
a year he had mastered the art of reading tele- 
graph signals by sound, and .soon became an 
expert telegrapher, with a knowledge of all tiiat 
was known in those days pertaining to electricity. 
In 1869 he was appointed manager of the Borden- 
town office, and held this position until 187 1. 



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CEO. B. PENNOCK. 

when he resigned and went to Pottsville, Penna., 
where he received " press " for the Miner's Jour- 
nal oi that city. While working this "circuit," he 
accomplished the remarkable feat of receiving 
fifteen thousand words of President Grant's mes- 
sage with but one "break." During 1872 he was 
manager of a large branch office of the Franklin 
and .Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph t'ompanies 
in Philadelphia. The ne.xt year he accepted the 
position of manager of the Lynchburg ( Va.) office 
of the old Southern and .Atlantic Company, and 
subs(.'(|uently went to Charleston, S.C., for the 
same company. In April, 1876, he was appointed 
manager of the consolidated telegraph offices at 



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.mi:n of progress. 



the Centennial Exposition biiildin<;s in I'iiiladel- 
piiia, but three months later, in July, resigned, and 
returned to the service of the \N'estern Union 
Telegraph Company, by which he had earlier 
been employed. Later he took service on the 
French cable at Duxbury. Mass., and remained 
there until 1880. Then he joined the night force 
of the New \ork office of the Western Union. 
Soon after, however, he was selected as one of the 
picked men for a force organized for the Philadel- 
phia service of the American Union and Western 
Union Companies, and later in the season was 
one of the carefully selected squad of tele- 
graphers assigned to accompany the wounded 
President Garfield to Elberon. After the climax 
of the assassination in the death of the President, 
Mr. Pennock went to Cleveland, and thence to 
\\'ashington, still in the Western Union service. 
In the latter city he was foremost among the or- 
ganizers of a local association of the Brotherhood 
of Telegraphers, and, being one of the candidates 
for the delegation to the national convention of 
the Brotherhood, was discharged from the ser\ice 
of the company. Thereupon lie moved to Phila- 
delphia, where he at once found employment with 
the American Rapid Telegraph Company. He 
was immediately made chief operator, and then 
promoted to circuit manager, with headquarters at 
Upper Darley, Penna. While holding the latter 
position, he put the company's lines in such con- 
dition that its •• oil circuits " between New ^■ork 
and the oil centres were constantly worked via 
Darley and Philadelphia without " repeaters." 
They were at the same time the fastest circuits 
known. For this valuable service he was pro- 
moted to the superintendency of the Philadelphia 
office of the company. He was in the latter posi- 
tion when the great telegraphers' strike occurred ; 
and, while meeting at every- point the tremendous 
demands made upon the limited facilities of the 
Rapid Company, he was most active and influen- 
tial in the interests of the men. \\'hen the Rapid 
was consolidated with the Bankers' and Mer- 
chants' Company, he was relieved, and was almost 
immediately engaged by the Eastern Union, a new 
corporation, at an annual salary of five thousand 
dollars. Upon the failure of that enterprise he 
again joined the New York Western Union night 
force, and in addition worked the special wires of 
the Chicago iWri'-f and the Detroit Free Press. 
On this circuit he did the fastest sending on rec- 
ord. At about this time Mr. Pennock began the 



stud\' of the problem of underground telegraphy, 
and shortly after he appeared in the field as an 
inventor. In 1888 he organized the Pennock 
Battery Electric Light Company, and became its 
general manager. Subsequently this was suc- 
ceeded by the present Pennock Electric Company, 
with Mr. Pennock as president and general mana- 
ger. The list of Mr. Pennock's electric inven- 
tions includes a perfected prnnary battery sys- 
tem, an automatic current feeder, a voltage 
distributer, a high and low potential distributer, 
a step-up and step-down transvolt distributer, a 
multiple current distributer, an automatic nega- 
tive pole step-back, a long-distance electric de- 
livery, a wireless dynamo and transformer, an 
underground system for telegraph and telephone 
wires, an underground system for dangerous 
currents, and a method of operating street-cars so 
that the passengers carried on one car will pay 
for the electric maintenance of every car on the 
road. Mr. Pennock has also had much experi- 
ence as a journalist, and has written some nota- 
ble ballads. He is a member of the Tele- 
graphers' Protective Union, of the Telegraphers' 
Building Loan Company, the Telegraphers' In- 
surance Company, the Gold and Stock Insur- 
ance Company, the American Legion of Honor, 
and the National Union. In politics he is a 
Democrat, having cast his first vote for Horace 
Greeley in 1872, and voted the straight Demo- 
crat ticket since. Mr. Pennock was married in 
December, 1880, to Miss Emma Cowperthwaite, 
grand-daughter of Judge Cowperthwaite, of the 
Superior Court of New Jersey. Thev have one 
child : Laura Augusta Pennock, aged five years. 



PERRY, Frederic Davis, M.D., of Mansfield, 
is a native of Mansfield, born December 20, 1843, 
son of Dr. William F. and Emeline B. (Davis) 
Perry. He is of English origin, related on the 
paternal side to the ancestral line of Commodore 
Perry. He is in the sixth generation in descent 
from Josiah Perry. His great-great-grandfather, 
Captain Nathaniel Perry, was captain of a com- 
pany in Colonel Winslow's regiment, receiving his 
commission, sigtred by Governor .Shirley, June 6, 
1754. He served in Nova Scotia, was present at 
the taking of Cumberland, and died at Nova Scotia 
in 1756. Dr. Perry's great-grandfather, James 
Perry, was born in Easton in 1745, where he be- 
came a man of wealth and influence, owner of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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iron foundry there, .ictivc in the Revolution, at 
the head of his own company in the affair at Lex- 
injitnn and Concord, afterward a ca]3tain in W'ash- 




ber of the Mansfield Hoard of Health for eight 
years, three years of that period chairman of the 
board. He is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity, rank of a Knight Templar, and of the order 
of Odd Fellows. In politics Dr. I'erry has always 
been a stout Republican. He was married May 
25, 1880, to Miss Lizzie T. Oliver, of New \ork 
City. They have two children : .Ada and William 
Frederic Perry, aged respectively thirteen and 
eleven years. 

PERRY, Herhkrt BRAiMiRn, M.lJ., of Am- 
herst, is a native of .Maine, born in Knightsville, 
September 5, 1865. son of Eben Nutter and 
Harriet Miller (Libby) Perry. His father's family 
originated from Allen Peirrie, a Frenchman, who 
settled in Shapleigh, York County, Me., in 1750. 
His son, Stephen Peare, married Martha Hucliam, 
daughter of a son of Lord Pucham of England ; 
and his son, James R. Peary, was father of Eben 
N., the father of Dr. Perry. On the maternal 
side he is a direct descendant of John Libbv, who 
came to America from Devonshire, England, in 
1640, and settled on the coast of Maine at what 



F. D. PERRY. 

ington's army, in which he served three years, and 
subsequently made cannon and balls at his East- 
ern works. James Perry's fourth son, James, Dr. 
Perry's grandfather, born in 1767, became a physi- 
cian of note, especiallv in the treatment of ty- 
phus fevers. Dr. Perry is the third physician of 
the faiiiih'. His mother was daughter of Captain 
Samuel C. Davis, of Newmarket, N.H., a man 
highly esteemed and prominent in his day in 
that town. His early education was attained in 
the common school of Mansfield and at private 
schools at Taunton. After a course in the High 
School at Foxborough he entered Phillips (.\n- 
dover) .\cademy, where he prepared for college. 
He then took a year's course at the Philadelphia 
1 )ental College and a three years' course at the 
Harvard Medical School, graduating from the 
former in March, 1865, and from the latter in 
June, 1870. He began the practice of his profes- 
sion with his father, which association continued 
till the latter's death October 17, 1873. Then 
he succeeded to the business, which he has since 
conducted alone. His practice is general, and 
has been very successful. He has been a mem- 



t 



N, 



4. 




HERBERT B. PERRY. 



is known as Libby's Neck, a part of Scarbor- 
ough, the line running: Matthew,'- Andrew," .An- 
drew,^ William,'' William," Harriet.' Dr. Perry was 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



educated in the Cape Elizabeth High School, at 
the Portland Business College, and Varney's Clas- 
sical School, and studied medicine at the Portland 
School for Medical Instruction and at the ISow- 
doin Medical College, graduating from the latter 
in i8go. He began the practice of his profession 
at Amherst in the autumn following his gradua- 
tion. In February 21, 1895, he was appointed 
a medical examiner for Hampshire County. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety, of which he was a censor in 1893, and is in 
1895 a councillor, a member of the East Hamp- 
den Medical Society, of the Massachusetts Medi- 
co-Legal Society, and of the Amherst Club. He 
is a Freemason, belonging to the Pacific Lodge, 
the Northampton Royal .\rch Chapter, and the 
Northampton Commandery. Dr. Perry was mar- 
ried October 3, 1894, to Miss Emily A. Hills, of 
Amherst. Thev have no children. 



POPE, Alexander, of Boston, animal painter, 
was born in Dorchester (now of Boston), March 
25, 1849, son of Alexander and Charlotte (Cush- 




ALEXANDER POPE. 



ing) Pope, and the direct descendant, through nine 
generations, of John Howland and Elizabeth Tillie, 
who came over in the '■ Mayflower." He was 



educated in the public schools, graduating at the 
Dorchester High School. For the first twenty 
years and more of his active life he was engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, concerned in the lumber 
business with his father, after his eighteenth year 
a partner of the latter, under the firm name of A. 
Pope & Son. He began painting in 1880 or 1881, 
and took up the art as a profession a few years 
later ; but he displayed artistic talent at a much 
earlier date in sculptural work and in wood carv- 
ing. As early as his twenty-first year he had done 
some notable carving of game, especially pheas- 
ants and ducks, coloring them to the life. Sub- 
sequently several e.xamples of this work found 
their wayvnto private collections, two specimens 
being ordered by the Czar of Russia, and ulti- 
mately hung in his dining hall. Mr. Pope's 
first work in clav, after the execution of a 
number of study heads, was in portrait busts 
in r88i and 1S82. one of which — of "Father" 
Merrill — is now in Wesleyan Hall in Boston. 
From modelling he progressed to painting, begin- 
ning with a number of dog portraits. His first 
publicly recognized canvas was a painting of 
game-cocks, which he named " Blood will Tell," 
purchased by Mr. Allen, of the Astor House, New 
York. Then followed a number of small can- 
vases, groups of still life : a portrait of a St. Ber- 
nard dog for a Portland gentleman, which, when 
exhibited, attracted much attention from dog fan- 
ciers, and brought other commissions to the artist ; 
a Gordon setter, painted for John E. Thayer, of 
Boston; and a pointer for Bayard Thayer. In 
the autumn of 1886 he painted the large can\-as 
"Calling out the Hounds," Emil Carlsen laying 
in the background, which depicts a hunting party 
just about to start out, with the splendid pack of 
dogs in the foreground. This was shown in sev- 
eral exhibitions, and at once established Pope's 
reputation. It now hangs in the Boston Tavern. 
The next year he painted " Waiting " — two alert 
setters listening for the sound of the step of their 
master — for Mr. \\"hitney, of Rochester, N.Y., 
which later became the property of D. S. Ham- 
mond, of the Plaza Hotel, New York, and was the 
beginning of a series of interesting canvases, — 
" In the Pasture," showing the necks and heads 
of five noted horses owned by Mr. Hammond, a 
portrait of a full-grown lion, and "Just from 
Town," displaying two proud peacocks of brilliant 
plumage, strutting about a country farm and daz- 
zling a couple of rustic rabbits with their splen- 



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diir. 'I'liusi; pictures arc niiw displayed in ihc 
Plaza Hotel, and are amony the sights of the 
town. In them Pope broadened out into full pict- 
ure painting, introducing incident and appropriate 
accessories ; and subsecjuently he undertook his 
most serious work up to that time, an historical 
piece, "The Lion and Glaucus," taking his theme 
from ISulwer's " Last Days of I'ompeii," for 
which he made a most patient and thorough 
sludw A later work, ''The Truant," is pro- 
nounced one of his Ijest works. This sliows twtj 
English setters, one a golden brown and white, 
standing in a woodland pool, the other, a black 
and white, emerging from the bush at the edge of 
the pool, and gazing steadfastly upon his com- 
rade, the truant from the chase, — the background 
composed of alder-bushes Hecked with sunlight. 
Other notable pictures from Mr. Pope's brush in 
recent years are a fine setter owned by C. E. 
Cobb, of Newton; "On Duty," a great St. I'.er- 
nard, with a canteen of spirits strapped to the 
collar, ploughing through the mountain snow^ ; 
the " Polo Pony," life size, owned by George E. 
Bouve', of Boston, and pronounced by eminent 
critics the most lifelike piece of animal painting 
ever shown in Boston ; the " Bengal Tiger," also 
owned by Mr. Bouve', and now in Plaza Hotel, 
New York; the "Polo Player," owned by John 
Shepard, Jr.. of Providence. Hut, unquestionably, 
his most important work was the " Martyrdom of 
Saint Euphemia," which was e.xhibited at the Bos- 
ton Museum of Fine Arts for several months. 
Mr. Pope works in his studio bv casts and models 
representing a variety of animals in various poses, 
and the walls are decorated with sportsman's par- 
aphernalia, fishing-rods, nets, huntsmen's outfits, 
hunting baskets, and so on. Of his mastery over 
beasts an observant critic has said : " Pope shows 
that he understands their natures. They, dogs 
especially, follow him as he follow\s them. Affec- 
tion also enters largely" in his work. Not a mo- 
tion escapes his attention : the meaning of every 
motion he interprets and satisfies himself about." 
Mr. Pope is a member <>{ tlie St. T'otolph antl the 
Athletic clubs. He was married September 16, 
1873, to Miss .Mice D'W. Downer, daughter of 
Samuel Downer, of Boston, and great-grand- 
daughter of ^L^jor 'Ihomas .MeKille. 



(then West Cambridge;, January 23, 1847, ■'^'5" 
of Warren and Eleanor E. (Hovey) Rawson. He 
was educated in the public schools of his native 




R.AW'SON, \V.\KUEN Winn, of .Arlington, mar- 
ket gardener and seedsman, was born in Arlington 



WARREN W. RAWSON. 

town, at Cotting .\cademy, and at a commercial 
college in Boston, finishing at the Emerson School 
of Oratory. Before completing his education, he 
was at work with his father, who was al.so a lead- 
ing market gardener in his day, and received a 
practical experience in this branch of fine farming 
and the growing of seeds. In 1873, after five 
years in partnership with his father, he began 
business for himself as a market gardener, and ten 
years later added a seed store in Boston at No. 34 
South Market Street. Beginning at the age of 
twenty-one with no capital, he is now at forty- 
eight one of the largest ta.x-payers in his town. 
He was a pioneer in the introduction of many 
features in market gardening now in general use, 
was the first market gardener in .\rlington to 
build extensive greenhouses, first to use steam in 
them, and first to employ electric light to foster 
and hasten the growth of vegetables. He is 
the leading producer of celery in the East, and 
has introduced several new varieties of seeds, 
which he exports extensively, as well as selling 
widelv in this coimtry. He has five farms in 
.\rlington. which embrace one hundred acres. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and are thoroughly equipped for his extensive 
business. Mr. Rawson is president of the Market 
Gardeners' Association of Boston, president of the 
Middlesex Agricultural Society, vice-president of 
the Boston Marketmen's Club, ex-member of the 
State Board of Agriculture, and member of the 
Board of Control of the Massachusetts Experi- 
mental Station at Amherst, member of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society and of the Fruit 
and Produce Exchange, Boston. Mr. Rawson is 
prominent also in affairs outside of his business 
and interests connected with it. He is an earnest 
Republican, and has served as chairman of the 
Republican town committee of .\rlington. Since 
1884 he has been a member of the Arlington 
School Committee. In 1890 he was appointed 
by the governor chairman of the Gypsy Moth 
Commission. He has lectured on agricultural 
topics before various organizations, and has pub- 
lished works on celery culture and on " Success 
in Market Gardening." He is a member of the 
Home Market Club, of the Middlesex Club, and 
of the Arlington Boat Club, is connected with the 
Masonic order and the order of Odd Fellows, and 
is an associate member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. In Arlington he is concerned in nu- 
merous improvements for the welfare of the place, 
and is a member of the local Improvement As- 
sociation, president of the Arlington No-license 
Committee, and director of a co-operative bank. 
He was married first on February 28, 1868, to 
Miss Helen M. Mair, by which union were two 
children, but one of whom, Mabel, is now living. 
Mrs. Rawson died in May, 1872. He married 
second, September 21, 1874, Miss Sarah E. Mair. 
They have had three children, of whom two are 
li\-ing : Alice and Herbert Rawson. 



the same county, daughter of Henry Farwell, Esq., 
and half-sister of the Hon. Nathan A. Farwell, 
late of Rockland, Me., and formerlv United States 



RICH, Frank Urbanus, M.D., of Maynard, is 
a native of Maine, born in the town of Thorndike, 
July 18, 1857, son of Raymond S. and Eleanor 
Jane (Grant) Rich. His great-great-grandfather, 
Benjamin Rich, and the latter's brother, came to 
this country from England about the year 1750 or 
1755, and settled, Benjamin in the small town of 
Standish, or Gorham, near Portland, Me., and the 
brother on Cape Cod. His grandfather, Joseph 
Rich, was born in Standish, or Gorham, in 1780, 
and later in life moved to Thorndike, a township 
set off from Lincoln Plantation in Waldo County, 
where he married Lydia F. Farwell, of Unity, in 




F. U. RICH. 

senator. As a result of this union, twelve children 
were born, all of whom grew to manhood and 
womanhood. Of these, the Hon. Raymond S., 
father of Dr. Rich, was the oldest. He was born 
in Thorndike in 1809. He was almost a giant 
physically, standing six feet four inches in his 
stocking feet ; and his usual weight, though not 
corpulent, was two hundred and eighty pounds. 
He was a man of liberal education and of more 
than usual ability, having been a justice of the 
peace in quorum and trial justice for over forty 
years. He also represented his district in the 
General Court, and was a member of the council 
of both governors Washburn and Cony, of Maine, 
during the Civil War. He held nearly every office 
of trust in his native town ; and the latter part of 
his life was spent in settling estates, looking up 
titles, and doing various kinds of legal work in 
which he was called an expert. Frank U. Rich 
was the seventh of a family of nine children, 
seven boys and two girls. His early education 
was obtained in the district schools of his native 
town, which he attended during the winter 
months, or when he could be spared from work 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



805 



on the farm, until he reached the ay;e of fourteen. 
Then lie entered Freedom Academy, and subse- 
quently China Academy. At the age of eighteen 
lie became principal of the commercial department 
and professor of penmanship of Oak Grove Semi- 
nary at Vassalborough, the only Friends" school 
in Maine. At about this time he also began the 
study of medicine, teaching in the day-time and 
studying evenings, and reciting two or three times 
a week to a practising physician in North Vassal- 
borough. Later on he entered the medical de- 
partment of the University of Vermont at Burling- 
ton, and graduated there with the degree of M.l). 
on July I, 1880, being vice-president of his class. 
.\t the end of the same month he began practice 
as a physician and surgeon at Maynard, Mass., 
where he has since continued, having by his skill 
and untiring energy worked up a large and lucra- 
tive practice, e.xtending into five different towns. 
He has been a member and chairman of the 
Hoard of Health of the town for over ten years. 
Dr. Rich is a member of Charles A. Welch Lodge 
of Free and Accepted Masons of Maynard, of the 
W'alden Royal .Arch Chapter at Concord, and of 
the Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, 
of Boston : a charter member and second noble 
grand of Maynard Lodge of Odd Fellows ; a 
member of Waltham Encampment, order of Odd 
F'ellows ; a charter member of Assabet t'ouncil. 
Royal Arcanum, also the examining physician ; a 
charter member of Court Maynard, .\ncient Order 
of Forresters, also court physician ; member of 
Magdaline Chapter, order of F^astern Star, and 
Mizpah Lodge of the Daughters of Rebecca. In 
politics he is a stanch Republican, but, owing to 
the pressure of professional business, takes no 
active part in political work. Dr. Rich was 
married December 24, 1883, to Miss Minnie 1!. 
Xewcomb, of Maynard. They have three chil- 
dren : Ethel B. (born April 21, 1886), Robert 
Raymond (born January 6, 1891), and (Jertrude 
Rich (l)orn May 5, 1893). 



RICH.\RDSON, Ch.^rles, of Boston, mer- 
chant, first president of the National I'aint, Oil, 
and \'arnish Association, was born in Glacen- 
bury. Conn., October 11, 1825; died in Boston, 
.\pril 29, 1895. He-was a son of Ruel and Ora 
(Bird) Richardson. He was of the Richardson 
familv descending from Richard, grandson of Will- 



land. His boyhood was spent on a farm, and he 
was at work in a general store when a lad of but 
fourteen years. His early education was limited 
to the country school and a single term at the 
Framingham Academy : but subsequently, through 
association with men of well-stored minds, observa- 
tion, and e.vtensive reading, he received an intel- 
lectual training of no common order. In 1849, 
when he was twenty-four years old, he came to 
Boston, and entered the employ of John N. Denni- 
son iS; Co., wholesale dealers in dry goods, engag- 
ing to travel for the house, .\fter several success- 
ful years in this business he entered the paint and 
oil trade, taking a position in the store of William 
C. Hunniman, Jr. ; and from that time to his death 
he was devoted to its interests. Three years after 
engaging with Mr. Hunniman he purchased the 
latter's interest, and started out for himself, under 
the firm name of Charles Richardson & Co. Be- 
fore long, under his energetic and skilful conduct, 
the business had so increased that he was obliged 
to move to larger quarters, and he took a store on 
the corner of Milk and Broad Streets. Thence re- 
moval was made some years later to much more 




CHARLES RICHARDSON. 



extensive quarters on Oliver Street, and the busi- 
ness became one of the best established of its line 
iam Belward, Lord of Malpas, in Cheshire, Eng- in Boston. Mr. Richardson was widely known in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the prtint and oil trade thiouy;hout the country 
through his zeal in ad\ancing various trade re- 
forms. He was the originator of the New Eng- 
land Paint and Oil Club, established in 1884. the 
pioneer of such clubs, and was its first president ; 
and he was one of the most active promoters of 
the National Paint and Varnish Association, or- 
ganized at Saratoga in 1888. He was president 
of the latter for three years, and then, declining to 
serve for a fourth term, became an active member 
of the board of control, and served on various 
committees. He was an earnest advocate of the 
establishment of a department of trade and com- 
merce in the national government, and succeeded 
in enlisting intiuential support for the plan among 
business men in various parts of the country. In 
business affairs his judgment was practical and 
sure ; and his opinion was frequently sought by 
his associates in the trade, and respected. He 
had a wide circle of friends, and numbered among 
his intimate acquaintances such men as Theodore 
Parker, \\'illiam Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell 
Phillips. Upon his death the Paint and Oil Club, 
at a special meeting, voted to place upon its 
records a tribute to his memory, in which empha- 
sis was laid upon " his strict attention to business 
details, aggressiveness in matters of general inter- 
est, especially in insisting that fairness only could 
be shown by each member acting honorably." 
Mr. Richardson married in April, 1846, Sara 
Stearns. His widow and a son and daughter sur- 
vive him : Charles F'. (member of the firm of 
Charles Richardson & Co. ) and Clara M. Rich- 
ardson (now Mrs. Stanwood, residing in \\'est 
Medford). 

ROGERS, Frank Alvin, M.D., of Chatham, 
is a native of Maine, born in the town of New- 
field, October 8, 1855, son of the Rev. John A. 
Rogers and Julia Ann (Nealey) Rogers. His 
ancestry is traced back to John Rogers the 
martyr. The first of the family who came to the 
New World was the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, who 
settled at Ipswich, Mass., in 1636, and died there 
in 1655. His son, the Re\-. John Rogers, M.D., 
practised at the same place, and died there in 
1684, leaving a son, the Rev. John, who was pas- 
tor of the First Church of Ipswich until his death 
in 1745. The ne.xt in lineal descent was the Rev. 
Daniel Rogers, a tutor in Harvard College, who 
died in 1785 at E.xeter, N.H. His son Thomas 
moved to Ossipee, N.H., where John Rogers, 



grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
born. He subsequently removed to Newfield, 
Me., where he died in 1866. His son, the Rev. 
John, father of Dr. Rogers, was long settled as 
pastor of the Free V^'ill Baptist Church at West 
Newfield, and died there in 1866, leaving the son 
Frank A., and a daughter Addie A., now Mrs. 
B. F. Lombard, of Portsmouth, N.H. Frank A. 
received his early education in the common 
schools, and afterward attended the Limerick 
Academy at Limerick, Me., and the Maine 
Wesleyan Academy and Female College at Kent's 
Hill, Readfield, Me. He studied medicine at the 
Bowdoin Medical College, and graduated there in 
June, 1876, and subsequently took post-graduate 
courses at the Harvard Medical School. He 
practised for about a year in Bethel, Me. (1876- 
77), and then became principal of the Litchfield 
Academy, Litchfield, Me. The next year, 1878, 
he went to Atlanta. Ga., as instructor in physics, 
Latin, and Greek in the university in that city, 
and remained there four years. Returning North 
and resuming the practice of medicine, in 1882 he 
settled in the town of Brewster. After ten years' 





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F. A. ROGERS. 



successful practice there, he sold out, and removed 
to Worcester. Nearly a vear later, the people of 
Chatham petitioning him to settle there, he re- 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



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moved to tlial U)\\ii. Wliilu in Woiccslcr he was 
pathologist to the City and Memorial Hospitals. 
In connection with his professional duties Dr. 
Rogers has devoted much time to the study of 
histology, embryology, and bacteriology, with the 
microscope. He has written numerous articles 
for magazines devoted to these subjects, some of 
which, with original drawings, have been sought 
for republication. Dr. Rogers was admitted to 
the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1883, and 
became a fellow of the Royal Microscopical 
Society of London, England, in 1891. He has 
also been a member of the American Microscopi- 
cal Society since 1888. He is connected with the 
Masonic fraternity and the order of Odd Fellows. 
He has been chairman of the School l!oard of 
ISrewster from 1884 to 11S93. Dr. Rogers was 
married November 30, 1876, to Miss Lottie A. 
I'lowker, of Phippsburg, Me. 'I'lieir children are : 
.\mabel, I'rank Leston, and Alice May Rogers. 



conducted this business with Mr. Hicko.\ in con- 
nection with the publication of their magazine. 
I'he result of the acquaintance thus formed with 



ROWELL, Henry Valentine, of Boston, 
New England manager for Remington typewriter 
manufacturers, is a native of Vermont, born in the 
town of Hartford, June 2, 1841, son of Christo- 
pher C. and Mary Augusta (Hunter) Rowell. His 
education was begun in the public schools of his 
native town, and finished at the Meriden Academy, 
]\Ieriden, N.H. He left home when si.vteen years 
of age, coming to Lowell, where he worked for 
three years as a clerk; and from his savings from 
his small salary he paid his way through the acad- 
emy, which he entered at the age of nineteen. 
After spending two years at Meriden, he came 
again to Massachusetts, and found another place 
as clerk in a store in Boston. In 1866 he en- 
tered into partnership with W. A. Holmes in the 
grocery business, and for some time conducted a 
store on Causeway Street, opposite the L^nion 
Station. Subsequently Ihis partnership was dis- 
solved, and he continued in the business for some 
years alone. During this period he became inter- 
ested in shorthand, and in 1877, in company with 
W. E. Hicko.x, began the publication of a maga- 
zine devoted to its interests, under the name of 
T/w American Sliortlund ]Vritcr. This was suc- 
cessfully carried on for six years, when it was ab- 
sorbed in the Canadian Shorthand Writer, then 
published by Thomas Bengough, of Toronto. 
Meanwhile Mr. Rowell secured the agency of the 
Remington typewriter for the State of Maine, and 



4-^ 




H. V. ROWELL. 

the manufacturers — the firm of Wyckoff, Sea- 
mans, & Benedict — w^as his engagement in 1883 
as New England manager of their business. 
When he took this position, the business of Wyck- 
off, Seamans, & Benedict in New England was 
very small, occupying only a room twelve by 
twelve feet. Within the last twelve years of Mr. 
Rowell's management it has grown to such pro- 
portions that a store one hundred feet deep, with 
basement proportionately large, is now required 
for its accommodation ; and a large clerical force 
is employed. From an output of about half a 
dozen machines per month from the New England 
office twelve years ago, there have been put on 
the market during these twelve years nearly one 
hundred and si.\ty thousand machines. Side by 
side with this development has been that of short- 
hand writing, and several thousand trained oper- 
ators are being placed each year by the Reming- 
ton typewriter firm. Mr. Rowell is a member of 
the Royal Arcanum. He was married November 
29, 1865, to Miss limma ]. Jaquith, of Peter- 
borough, N.H. They have one child: Neva H. 
Rowell. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



RYAN, John William, of Boston, editor of the 
Saturday Evening Gazette, is a native of Boston, 
born March 26, 1837, son of James Walker and 
Elizabeth B. (Ryan) Ryan. He is of Irish de- 
scent. His paternal grandfather held a responsi- 
ble position in connection with the coal mines in 
Castlecomer, County Kilkenney, Ireland, and came 
to this country in the early twenties, settling near 
Savannah, Ga. ; and his paternal grandmother 
was of the Walker family, " well-to-do " folk. 
His maternal grandfather was John Ryan, long a 
stair-builder and carpenter in Boston, one of four 
brothers who settled here early in the centurv. 



% "tS?^ 



:. .i) 




JOHN W. RYAN. 

He died in Boston, 1828. His wife was P]ridget 
Green. Mr. Ryan's father was a popular hotel- 
keeper in Boston in the early days of Harvey D. 
Parker and Paran Stevens. He kept the Stack- 
pole House, which stood on the corner of Milk 
and Devonshire Streets in its prosperous period, 
in the forties, before it declined to a second-rate 
house. His brother was Commander George 
Parker Ryan, U.S.N., who was lost in the 
"Huron "off Cape Hatteras in November, 1879. 
John W. was educated in the Boston public 
schools. He was a Franklin medal scholar at the 
old Adams School in Mason Street, with George 
Brooks (a brother of the late Phillips Brooks), who 



was killed in the Civil War, Waldo Merriam, after- 
ward a colonel, also killed in the Civil War, and 
James Dickson Wyman, a brother of Colonel 
Powell T. Wyman, and son of Oliver C. Wyman, 
at one time manager of the Federal Street The- 
atre. Young Wyman afterward went on the stage 
under the name of Dickson. He was a descend- 
ant of the Pow'ells who were about the earliest 
theatrical people in Boston. Mr. Ryan began 
active life as a boy in the wholesale drj'-goods 
house of Blanchard, Converse, & Co., on Pearl 
Street, on the site of the old Boston Athenaeum. 
But he had more taste for newspaper life than for 
business, having been a contributor to the then 
called literary weeklies in Boston and New York : 
and in 1857, when he was twenty years old, he 
went into the TraTeller office. Afterward he was 
for some time on the Shoe aiut Leather Reporter. 
In 1865 he first became attached to the Satiirdav 
Evening Gazette., under William W. Clapp, Jr., 
and Benjamin P. Shillaber ( Mrs. Partington). 
He left in 1870 to start the Hour Glass, but re- 
turned the following year. In 1871 he bought an 
interest in the Boston Sunday Courier, and was 
the first president of the Courier Stock Company, 
the other stockholders being Warren L. Brig- 
ham, Joseph F. Travers, and John T. Morse, Jr. 
He remained on the staff of the Courier until 
1884, when he left it to become the editor of the 
lioston Budget, succeeding William A. Ho\ey. 
In 1S87. at the urgent request of the late Colonel 
1 lenry G. Parker, he returned to the Gazette, and 
has since remained there, becoming the chief 
editor in 1894. Mr. Ryan was a member of the 
Mercantile Library .Association in its palmy days, 
and look great interest in its literary exercises. 
He was a member of the declamation committee 
of the association about the year 1859, when 
Henry C. Barnabee and William E. Sheriden 
were among those who took part in the entertain- 
ments. He was a member of the Avon Dramatic 
Club which produced " Macbeth " for the benefit 
of the Sanitary Commission in 1862 at the Boston 
Theatre, then called the .Academy of Music. He 
has served on the Boston School Committee, a 
member of the old board in 1874, and of the new 
board from 1876 to 1879. Mr. Ryan was mar- 
ried October i, 1873, to Miss Nora Winifred Len- 
non, daughter of Martin Lennon, a capitalist and 
retired tanner and contractor, well known in Bos- 
ton. Their children are : Mary Josephine, Gene- 
vieve Agnes, and George Benedict Ryan. 



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SKARS, Wii.i.iAM Barnas, of lioslon, was born 
ill lI;iniilton, Madison County, New \'ork, June 
II, 1832, son of Barnas Sears, D.I)., LL.D., and 
Klizabeth (iriggs (Corey) Sears. His father was 
liorn at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Mass., and 
was a graduate of Brown University and Newton 
Theological Seminary: pastor of the First Baptist 
Church, Hartford, Conn. : professor in Madison 
College, Hamilton, N.Y. ; graduate of the German 
University, Berlin ; professor and president of 
Newton Theological Seminary; secretary of the 
State Board of Education, successor to Horace 
Mann : president of Brow-n University, succeed- 
ing Dr. Wayland ; appointed by George Peabody, 
London banker, as agent for the Peabody Edu- 
cational Fund for the South ; died at Saratoga 
Springs, July 4, 1880, and buried in the Corey 
tomb, Walnut Street Cemetery, Brookline. His 
mother was daughter of Deacon Elijah Corey, of 
Corey Hill, Brookline. The family removed to 
iirookline when he was a year old. He received 
his education at the private school of Ebenezer 
Woodward, and the classical German school of 
Dr. Carl Siedhof, in Newton Centre, finishing 
under Professor William Russell, President F'ben- 
ezer Dodge, D.D., and President Alvah Hovey, 
D.D. He was instructor in German, Latin, and 
mathematics at Pierce Academy, Middleborough, 
and then entered the store of Gardner Colby on 
Milk Street, Boston, and served his apprentice- 
ship three and one-half years, from 185 i to 1854. 
After a year at Alton, 111., and at New Orleans 
he entered the employ of Lyman Sears & Co., 
jobbers of boots and shoes, No. 1 2 Barclay Street, 
New York. Later on he was with Paton & Co., 
importers. Park Place, New York : and for three 
years prior to the Civil War in the silk house of 
Bowen, McNaniee, & Co., No. 1 12 Broadway, New 
N'ork. Soon after the opening of the war he was 
commissioned (June 6, 1861) by Governor Will- 
iam Sprague, of Rhode Island, first lieutenant 
in Company F, Second Rhode Island Regiment, 
Volunteer Infantry, for three years ; and he served 
to tlie expiration of the term, making a brilliant 
and honorable record. His regiment opened the 
battle of First Bull Run. at Sudley Church, on 
Sunday, July 21, 1861, at 9 a..m. ; and. Captain 
Levi Tower of his company being one of the first 
to be killed, the command devolved upon First 
Lieutenant W. B. Sears. In this engagement the 
colonel, major, two captains, and one hundred 
and fortv men of the regiment were killed. 



wounded, or captured. On tiie 28th of October, 
1861, First Lieutenant Sears was commissioned 
captain, and thereafter was present with his com- 
mand at Warwick Court House, Lee's Mills, York- 
town. Williamsburg, West Point, Slatersville, New 
Kent Court House, Mechanicsville, Hanover 
Court House, Savage Station, Seven Pines, Tur- 
key Bend, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chan- 
tilly. South Mountain, Antietam, F'redericksburg, 
Marye's Heights, Salem Church, Gettysburg, 
South Anna River, and Cold Harbor, June, 1864. 
He was honorably discharged at Providence, R.I., 
June 17, 1864, the term of service of the regi- 




W. B. SEARS. 

ment having expired, and subsequently received 
from Governors Sprague of Rhode Island. Buck- 
ingham of Connecticut, and Andrew of Massa- 
chusetts, written commendation for active .ser- 
\ ices at the front. He was wounded at First Bull 
Run, at Seven Pines, and at Hamilton's Crossing, 
Fredericksburg. Captain Sears was one of the 
early members of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, on the 17th of October, 1867, joining Post 26 
of Roxbury. In 187 1 he w-as elected senior vice- 
commander. In September, 1874, he was trans- 
ferred to Post T43 of Brookline, and in 1875, 
and again in 1876, was elected commander of 
th.at post. He served one year on the staff of 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



General William Cogswell, and one year on that 
of Myron P. Walker, department of Massachu- 
setts, commander ; and has had the exceptional 
record of four )-ears" service on the national staff 
of commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, having 
been first appointed in 1S77 on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, next, in 
i88g, on General Rea's staff, in 1892 on that of 
General A. G. Weissert, of Wisconsin, and in 
1893 on that of Captain John G. B. Adams, of 
Massachusetts. In 1874 he was admitted to 
membership of the Massachusetts Commandery, 
military order of the Loyal Legion. He has 
served in the State militia, a member of Com- 
pany D, Massachusetts Cavalry, Roxbury Horse 
Guards, from 1865 to 1872, when he was com- 
missioned by Governor Claflin captain of Com- 
pany C, First Regiment Infantry; and on Octo- 
ber 2, 1867, he was elected a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Gen- 
eral Banks at that time commander. He is an 
honorary member of the Clinch Rifles of Augusta, 
Ga., having received his certificate of election in 
August, 1 87 5 ; and an honorary member of the 
Mexican War \eterans' Association (elected in 
1880). In 1870 he was appointed commissioner 
of the Commonwealth for disabled soldiers of the 
war. Captain Sears turned his attention to in- 
surance matters soon after the war, and began to 
lay the foundation of his fire insurance agency 
at No. 45 Kilby Street, the insurance centre of 
Boston, in September, 1865. He was appointed 
Boston agent for the Norwich Fire Insurance 
Company in 1867, and appointment followed as 
agent for the Roger Williams, the Commerce, the 
Firemen's Fund and Union Companies of Cali- 
fornia, the Hoffman, Fairfield, Enterprise, Ger- 
man American, the North British &: Mercantile 
of London, and the Guardian .Assurance Com- 
pany of London. He has built up a first-class 
business, and enjoys the confidence alike of under- 
writers and assured. He was a charter member 
of the Boston Protective Department (in 1872), a 
director in 1S73, vice-president in 1874, and 
president 1875. In Brookline he served by ap- 
pointment of the selectmen, as assistant engi- 
neer in 1876, and chief engineer in 1877 of the 
Brookline Fire Department ; and, while chief, he 
reorganized the department on a basis to har- 
monize with the system of the city of Boston. 
He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity : 
member of the Massachusetts Lodge, Free and 



-Vccepted Masons, Boston ; of the Roxbury Coun- 
cil, Royal and Select Masters : of Mt. Vernon 
Royal Arch Chapter ; of Joseph ^^'arren Com- 
mandery, Knights Templar ; and a life member 
of Lafayette Lodge Perfection, of Giles F. 
Vates Council, Princes Jerusalem, of Mt. Oli- 
\et Chapter, Rose Croix, and of Massachusetts 
Consistory, thirty-second degree. He is a mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church, and has been a mem- 
ber of the church at Newton Centre, Rev. S. F. 
Smith. D.I)., pastor, which he joined in 185 1 ; of 
the church at Alton, 111. (joined in 1854), the 
First Baptist Church in New York City (joined 
1S60), the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Rox- 
bury District, Boston (1865), and the First Baptist 
Church, Brookline (1874). In 1868 he became a 
member of the Boston Baptist Social Union, rep- 
resenting sixty-four liaptist churches, served as 
director two terms, was elected vice-president in 
1888 and president in 1889. During his term as 
president the organization took a new lease of life 
as a result of his energetic efforts in its behalf. 
In 1880 he was elected a life member of the trus- 
tees of Tremont Temple, Boston. He was ap- 
pointed justice of the peace in 1870, notary 
public, 1872, and commissioner for New Hamp- 
shire (appointed by Governor Weston) in 1876. 
He has been a member of the Brookline Thurs- 
day Club since 1874, and member of the Trade 
Club, Boston, for seven years, elected treasurer 
of the latter in 1891. Captain Sears was mar- 
ried in February, 1863, at Roxbury, by the 
Rev. Dr. RoUin H. Neale, to Miss Emily A. 
Faunce, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca \\. 
(Langley) Faunce. By this marriage were four 
sons : William B., Jr. (born in Roxbury District), 
Langley li. (Roxbury District), Harry Bowers 
(Roxbury District), and Stephen Faunce Sears 
( Brookline). His second marriage was on Octo- 
ber 24, 1 88 1, by the Rev. Richard Montague, of 
Providence, R. I., to Miss Sadie A. Hunt, daugh- 
ter of Joshua and Anne (Pearce ) Hunt. By this 
is one son, Edward H. Sears (born September 
25, 1885, at Brookline*. His present place of 
business is at 45 Kilby Street, Boston: and his 
residence. Prospect Street, Brookline. 



SHA\\', Enw.^RD Paysdn, of Newburyport. 
treasurer and receiver-general of the Common- 
wealth, is a native of Newburyport, born Septem- 
ber I, 1 84 1, son of Samuel and Abigail (Bartlet) 



IMK.N OF PROGRESS. 



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Shaw, lie is a dusceiulant on llic maternal side of 
Richard and Mary Bartlet, long residents in Essex 
County, the former a brother of the Hon. William 
Bartlet, who was called " Jew Bartlet " on account 
of his wealth, which was great for his day. Mr. 
Shaw was educated in the public schools, and was 
early at work earning his own living. At the age 
of eighteen he was in business for himself, driving 
a hack, the youngest driver ever licensed in New- 
buryporl. He continued in that business from 
icS59 to 1863, when, having been industrious and 
frugal, he was enaliled to purchase an express 
business, and established " Shaw's E.xpress," run- 






.^' 'V 




E. P. SHAW. 

ning between Boston and Newburyport. In icSyi, 
after eight years of success as an expressman, he 
entered the wholesale Houring and produce busi- 
ness, becoming a member of the firm of Sumner, 
Swasey. iv; Currier. Kigiit years later, buying out 
his partners, he succeeded the firm ; and the busi- 
ness was continued under his name alone until 
1 88 1. At about that time he began the business 
of running steamers on the Merrimac and other 
waters, and subsequently became the owner and 
manager of the " People's Line " of steamers on 
the Merrimac and also plying between Amesbury 
and Boston. In 1882 he received the first con- 
tract from the United States for building the jetty 



at the mouth of the Merrimac River ; and for fur- 
nishing the stone he opened the Newburyport 
quarry on the river near Chain Bridge, from which 
eighty thousand tons of stone for the work were 
taken. In 1884 he engaged in street railway en- 
terprises, becoming lessee of the Newburyport and 
Amesbury Horse Railway. This he retained for 
about three years, then built the Plum Island 
Street Railway, and became its first president. 
Subsequently he sold the controlling interest. In 
1889 he became interested in building electric 
street railways, and is to-day a large owner in a 
number of prosperous lines. He was president of 
the Newburyport Board of Trade for several years, 
and is now president of the First National Bank 
of Newburyport, of which he has been a director 
for a long period. Mr. Shaw's public life began 
as a member of the Newburyport City Council, in 
which he served two terms. Subsequently he was 
elected to the lower house of the Legislature, and 
served two terms in succession, 1881-82. Six 
years later, 1888-89, he w\as returned, and served 
again two terms. He was next elected to the 
Senate, where he served through the sessions of 
1892-93. In the latter body he was chairman of 
the committee on street railwavs. and in both 
branches he served on the committee on banks 
and banking, and on other important committees. 
He was elected to the State treasurership in May, 
1895, in place of Henry M. Phillips, resigned, re- 
ceiving a strong indorsement for the position from 
his business and political associates. In politics 
he has been a steadfast Republican, and has oc- 
cupied the chairmanship of the Newburyport Re- 
publican committee from 1892 to 1895. He is 
connected with numerous fraternal organizations, 
being a Freemason, member of St. Mark's Lod"-e, 
Newburyport, and member of the order of Odd 
Fellows, the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of 
Honor, the American Legion of Honor, the 
Knights of Pythias, and of other orders. Mr. 
Shaw was married December 24, 1867, to Miss 
•Vnnie Payson Trott. They have six children : 
Edward Payson, jr., .\nnie Bartlet. James Fuller- 
ton, Elizabeth Sumner, Samuel Jaques, and 
Pauline Shaw. 

SH1RI,E\', Ai,i..\N' Lincoln, M.I)., of East 
Bridgewater, is a native of Maine, born in Frye- 
burg, February 15, 1865, son of Franklin and 
F.inily (Page) Shirley. He comes of notable 
English and New P^ngland stock. His great- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



great-grandfather, Edward Shirley, born in Burton, 
Devonshire, England, about the year 1743, was 
impressed into the military service, and came to 
this country just before the Revolutionary War. 
Disliking his impressment and sympathizing with 
the Revolutionists, he deserted the Royalists' 
ranks, and fled to General Stark, who, fearing that 
he would be discovered by the British, and pun- 
ished as a deserter, either allowed him to assist 
him in building his house or kept him out of 
sight altogether. Afterward he settled in Frye- 
burg, where Jonathan, the great-grandfather of 
Dr. Shirley, Edward, 3d, his grandfather, and 




A. L. SHIRLEY. 

Franklin, his father, were all born. In England 
the Shirleys were early united with the \A'ashing- 
tons by marriage. The statement is made that 
Lawrence Washington, of Gray's Inn, ancestor 
of George Washington, who was for some time 
mayor of Northampton, and in 1538 received 
from Henry VHI. the Manor of Sulgrave, married 
a daughter of Shirley, Earl Ferrars. If this is 
correct, Shirley blood flowed in George \\'ash- 
ington's veins. Elizabeth Washington, grand- 
daughter of Sir Lawrence Washington, of Gars- 
don, Wiltshire, second son of the first Lawrence, 
married Robert Shirley, Baron P'errars, of C'hart- 
\t\\ aflcrward Earl Ferrars. Dr. Shirlev's mater- 



nal ancestor, Cornelius Page, was probably born 
in Dedham, England, and came to Haverhill, 
Mass., not far from 1660. Colonel David Page, 
his great-grandson and the great-great-grand- 
father of Dr. Shirley, was one of the original 
seven men who went from Pennacook (now Con- 
cord, N.H.), in 1763, into the then wilderness of 
Maine, and settled "Seven Lots," which later be- 
came the village of Fryeburg. He was one of 
the first trustees of Fryeburg Academy in 1792, 
and was for many years an acting magistrate. 
He and others of the seven men had been in the 
French War with Rogers, and had participated in 
the daring exploits of " Rogers's Rangers" ; and 
in one of the Rogers lake fights he had suffered 
wounds in the leg from a musket-ball. Dr. Shir- 
ley's great-grandfather, Robert Page, his grand- 
father, Albion, and his mother, Emily, lived and 
died in Fryeburg. In this Page family the medi- 
cal profession has been extensively represented. 
Dr. Horatio N. Page, formerly of Brewer, Me., 
and later of Chelsea, Mass., was great-uncle of 
Dr. Shirley; Drs. Alpheus F. Page, of Bucksport, 
Me., and Samuel Bradbury, of Oldtown, Me., 
whose mother was a Page, were cousins to his 
mother ; I )r. William Page, of Brunswick, Me., 
was a cousin to his grandfather ; and the Hon. 
Iduathan Page, M.D., a practitioner in Brunswick, 
.Me., before any medical college had been estab- 
lished there, and who was also a teacher of medi- 
cine, frequently having a large number of stu- 
dents under his instruction, was a son of Colonel 
David Page. He was prominent in public aftairs, 
a State senator in 1812-20-21, member of the 
Constitutional Convention 1819-20; was an orig- 
inal member of the Maine Medical Society, and 
an overseer of Bowdoin College for upward of 
twenty years. His house in Brunswick was spa- 
cious, and his disposition hospitable ; and the cel- 
ebrated Scotch anatomist, Dr. Alexander Ramsey, 
who travelled through the country, giving anatom- 
ical lectures, carrying his specimens with him, 
made his headcpiarters at Dr. Page's when he lect- 
ured in Brunswick. Allan L. Shirley was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Fryeburg and at the 
Fryeburg Academy, from which he graduated in 
1886. He took up his medical studies immedi- 
ately after leaving the academy. — a year and a 
half with Dr. D. IjOwell Lamson, of Fryeburg, a 
graduate of the University Medical College of 
New York City, and a man of rare scholarship, 
and then entering Bowdoin Medical College, 



MKN or 1' roc; K ESS 



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where he graduated in the spriii;,' of 1S90. Soon 
after entering the college he changed his residence 
from P'ryeburg to Portland, and in September fol- 
lowing his graduation left Maine, and settled in 
the regular practice of his profession in East 
iJridgewater. Taking the practice of Dr. Asa 
Millet (retired), he has been actively engaged 
there to the present time. He has been chairman 
of the lioard of Health for two years, and has 
served on the board at other times ; and he be- 
longs to the Village Improvement Club. In poli- 
tics Dr. Shirley is a Republican. He has never 
married. 



1883, when Mr. Small withdrew, and formed a 
new partnership with .\. H. Matthews, under the 
name of Small & Matthews, for the continued 
manufacture of seed drills, ploughs, and also the 
celebrated Small's calf-feeders, of which he is 
the inventor and patentee. He is now engaged 
almost exclusively in the manufacture and sale of 
his calf-feeder, of which upward of twenty-two 
thousand have been made and sold since the 
patent was secured in 1884, and which is now in 
u.se in every State and Territory of the Union and 
in several foreign countries. This feeder, which 
is the only successful invention of its kind in the 



S.M.\LL, JosiAH l!.\KER, of Boston, merchant 
and inventor, was born in Maine, in the town of 
U'indham, Cumberland County, March 9, 1845, 
son of Gilbert and Abigail (Baker) Small, natives 
of Gray and Windham respectively. His grand- 
parents were, on the paternal side, Jeremiah and 
Jane (Frank) Small, and on the maternal side 
Benjamin and Mary (Allen) Baker. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of his native town. 
Brought up on a farm, he was engaged in all kinds 
of farm work from early boyhood till the age of 
seventeen. Then he went to New Hampshire, and 
learned the trade of heating iron for forging car 
axles and other machinery. In March, 1866, he 
came to Boston, and went to work in the agricult- 
ural implements store of Whittemore, Belcher, & 
Co., where he remained two years, learning the 
ways of selling farmers' tools and machinery. In 
1868, entering into partnership with Frank F. 
Holbrook (son of ex-Governor Holbrook of Ver- 
mont), under the firm name of F. F. Holbrook & 
Small, he engaged in the manufacture and sale of 
Holbrook's swivel ploughs, Holbrook's horse hoes, 
garden hand seed drills, and other specialties in 
farm tools. The firm continued for about two 
years, when another partner was admitted, and the 
name was changed to F., F. Holbrook & Co. The 
new firm added several other lines to the manu- 
facture and sale of the specialties which the old 
firm had put on the market, and continued the 
business until the autumn of 1873. Then it was 
wound up and sold out, Mr. Small purchasing the 
patterns and fixtures ; and the firm was dissolved. 
Mr. Small restarted the business alone ; but, find- 
ing that more capital was required to develop it 
to his satisfaction, he associated himself with 
Thomas B. Everett, under the firm name of 
l-A-erett & Small. This partnership continued till 




JOSIAH B. SMALL. 

w'orld, is a marvel of simplicity, and has been 
carried to such a degree of perfection that it has 
called forth thousands of unsolicited testimonials 
from all over the country. Many of those who use 
it write Mr. Small to thank him for inventing so 
perfect and useful an article and to wish him a 
long life of business prosperity. The present firm 
name is J. B. Small & Co., that of Small & 
Matthews having been dropped in 1887. In 
]5olitics Mr. Small has always been a Republican. 
He was married first, October 19, 1870, to Miss 
Helen A. Smith, who died March 28, 1874, leav- 
ing one daughter: Hila H. Small. His second 
marriage was on December 24, 1879, to Miss Ada 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



R. Smith. .Slie died April lo, 1892, leaving one 
daughter : Grace A. Small. The eldest daughter 
is now (1895) a student at the Boston University 
College of Liberal Arts, in her junior year; and 
the youngest daughter is in a Somerville grammar 
school. Mr. Small resides in East Somerville. 



SMITH, Francis Hill, of Boston, artist, is a 
native of Boston, born October 15, 1842, son of 
Jeremiah and Martha (Hill) Smith. He is de- 
scended on the paternal side from one of three 
brothers, who came from England, and settled in 
New Hampshire about the year 1740. ()n the 
maternal side he is connected with the Hill 
family members of which were early merchants 
in Boston in the eighteenth century. His father 
Jeremiah Smith came to Boston in early youth. 
The latter was a master builder, and belonged to 
the old school of mechanics. He was of the best 
class of master builders, who in his time possessed 
a thorough knowledge of building in all its many 
parts, and understood not only construction, but 




FRANK HILL SMITH. 



the details of architecture. It was at that period 
a requirement that master builders should be able 
to lay out a building architecturally; and they 



were, in fact, the architects of their day. Mr. 
Smith was educated in the Boston public schools 
and at Baker's Preparatory School, now e.xtinct. 
He began active life as a clerk in a wholesale dry- 
goods store at the age of sixteen. But he had no 
liking or disposition for that business, and accord- 
ingly left soon after, and entered the office of 
John Thorndike, where he began the study of 
architecture, under the guidance of Hammatt 
Billings, who was at that time associated with 
Mr. Thorndike, and was building the Charitable 
Mechanic Building on Chauncy .Street. Soon 
after Mr. Smith, together with Alfred Bicknell and 
William Mark P'isher, persistently, and with ulti- 
mate success, pressed the trustees of the Lowell 
Institute to establish a life class in their art school. 
They then also drew from the antique in the gal- 
lery of the Boston Athenteum, the only opportunity 
at that time offered a student of artistic inclinations 
in Boston. Mr. Smith steadily pursued art, studied 
in Boston until the year 1867, when he went to 
I^aris, and there took up painting with architect- 
ure. He entered the Atelier Swiss and that of 
Leon Bonnat, being one of the first .\merican 
pupils of the latter. To Bonnat he attributes 
much of the disposition which he then acquired of 
a thoroughness in study, which is so essential in 
the pursuit of art. ' While in Europe, Mr. Smith 
made many studies of e.Kterior and interior from 
the many fine examples of architecture in France, 
Holland, and Italy, spending much time in Venice 
and in Northern Italy. He thus kept up a serious 
study of both architecture and painting, acquiring 
a knowledge of each which stood him in good 
turn in his after career, and enabled him to under- 
take a great variety of work. During the last 
twenty-five years he has built and remodelled 
many houses, and done much and remarkable 
work in the special line of interior decoration, not 
only in dwelling-houses, but in churches, theatres, 
clubs, stores, hotels, yachts, and steamboats. In 
artistic decoration of the latter class he has been 
a pioneer; and the notable work in the large 
steamboats of the Fall River Line, the " Puritan," 
"Plymouth," and " Priscilla," especially bear wit- 
ness to the perfection of his art. When intrusted 
with the designs for the interior of these steamers, 
he availed himself of the opportunity to institute 
an entire revolution in steamboat decoration by 
avoiding the prevailing errors with resulting 
vulgar display, and introducing instead a more 
lawful and correct style in the composition. Of 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



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vachts wliich he has decorated, one, sliowing' the 
most elaborate work, is the schooner " Lasca," 
considered both on this side and in European 
waters one of the most complete and thoroughly 
appointed yachts afloat. ,\mong his decorations 
in public buildings, that of the new hall of the 
.Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 
State House Extension is most remarked. In 
the latter he has endeavored, and successfully, to 
treat the subject on a level with the reputation of 
the State. In his practice Mr. Smith has de- 
\oted much of his time to decoration in its best 
sense, striving always to avoid the tendency which 
he has seen prevailing in temporary fashions and 
in the vulgar pretence of so-called art. He has 
done his best to shape and control, by a lawful 
taste built upon the sound principh.'s of the 
classic in art, all work intrusted to his care. Mr. 
Smith was for several years a member of the 
Union, Papyrus, Athletic, and the old .Mlston 
Club, the first artists' club in Boston, and was 
one of the original members and organizers of the 
St. Botolph flub, that being the third of like 
character in the establishment of which he has 
been interested, the second being the Athenian 
Club, which had a brief existence. He was an 
original member of the School of Design con- 
nected with the Boston Museum of Fuie Arts, and 
a member later of its directing committee. In 
1876 he was by appointment of Governor Rice art 
commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition in Phil- 
adelphia, and elected secretary of that group of 
judges. In politics he classes himself as a Repub- 
lican, believing strongly in the principles of the 
Republican party. He is an .\merican throvigh 
and through. He is a firm believer in work, per- 
sistent and serious, and wastes no time in the pur- 
suit of the fads of the hour. Mr. Smith has been 
twice married. He married first, July 25, 1874, 
Miss Clara Montfort Fay, of New York. She 
died February 16, 1881, leaving four children: 
Rosamond, Montfort, Francis, and Clarence Hill. 
He married second, April 8, 1891, Mrs. Charlotte 
K. Robertson, widow of James H. Robertson, of 
New York. They have a daughter: Mabel Hill 
Smith. 



England, and are probably connected with the 
Somers, of Somersetshire ; and his mother's family 
are distantlv connected with the late Daniel Drew 




SOMERS, Fk.vxk Dore.mus, of Boston, mer- 
chant tailor, is a native of Connecticut, born in 
the town of Derby, near New Haven, July 10, 
1853, son of Henry and Emma (Drew) Somers. 
His father's familv trace their historv back to 



FRANK D. SOMERS. 

of W'all Street fame. It was on this side a long- 
lived race, his maternal great-grandmother living 
to the age of ninety-four and his grandfather 
to about ninety-three. Ancestors on both sides 
served in the Revolution, in Connecticut. I'rank 
I), was educated in the public schools, and at Phil- 
lips (Andover) Academy, where he graduated in 
1S69, with an oration, and also taking one of the 
" Means" prizes. He was fitted for Yale College, 
but did not enter, preferring at once to engage in 
active business life. He began with his father, 
who was a merchant tailor, in 1870 ; and two years 
later took a salaried position as a cutter in a New- 
Haven tailor's establishment. In 1875 he came 
to Boston, and entered the employ of Charles A. 
Smith & Co. on School Street, where he remained 
for five years. Then in 1880 he engaged in busi- 
ness of fine tailoring on his own account at No. 
414 Washington Street, in partnership with Curtis 
Brown, who was connected for many years with 
the musical clubs of Boston, and was largely in- 
strumental in bringing out Annie Gary as a singer. 
Within a year after this partnership was formed 
Mr. lirown died, and thereafter Mr. Somers con- 



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MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



tinned the business alone. He removed to I'ark 
Street in 1883, and has since been established 
there. His business has steadily increased from 
year to year, until now it averages $100,000 a 
year. Having no tastes for clubs or society life, 
Mr. Somers belongs to no social organization. 
He is in politics an Independent Republican. 
He was married November 19, 1874, to Miss 
Harriet Parker Hervey, of Andover. They have 
three children : Marion (seventeen years, just en- 
tering Smith College), Lawrence Drew (fifteen 
years), and Constance Somers (thirteen years). 



STEVENS, George Henry, of Newburyport, 
city clerk, was born in Needham, April 15, 1829, 
son of George Gay and Harriet (Russell) Stevens. 
His father was a native of Needham, and a 
farmer; and his mother was born in a log cabin 
in Vermont. On both sides he is of English an- 
cestry. He was educated in the common schools, 
and at the Bridgewater State Normal School. 
where he spent one year, 1847, fitting for a school- 



teaching, which occupation he followed for about 
two years. He came to Newburyport in 1849, and 
was there first employed as a clerk in a millinery 
store, .\fterward he carried on a straw bleachery 
for a number of years. In 1870 he was elected 
city clerk ; and he has filled that position to the 
present time, serving for twenty-five consecutive 
years, — now in the twenty-sixth year. In May, 
1864, he enlisted in the Third Unattached Com- 
pany, Massachusetts Infantry, as corporal, and 
served until August following, meanwhile having 
become a sergeant. After the war he was for 
some time attached to the Eighth Regiment, serv- 
ing in the several grades to first lieutenant. He 
is connected with the Masonic fraternity, a mem- 
ber of St. Mark's Lodge, King Cyrus Chapter, and 
the Newburyport Commandery, Knights Templar; 
with the Odd Fellows, member of Quascacunciuen 
Lodge, No. 39 : and with the Grand Army of the 
Republic, member of Post 49. In the Masonic 
order he has been master of the lodge, high priest 
of the chapter, and recorder of the commandery 
from 1870 to the present time. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married May 5, 1863, to 
Miss Abigail Piartlett Sumner, of Newburyport. 
They have one daughter : Jennie Sumner Stevens. 




GEORGE H. STEVENS. 

teacher. His boyhood was spent on the farm 
where he learned farming from his father. After 
leaving the normal school, he engaged in school- 



STRAIN, I)ANiEr. Jusiah. of Boston, artist, is 
a native of New Hampshire, born in Littleton, 
November 17, 1847, son of Daniel and Salh' 
(Goddard) Strain. He was educated in the public 
schools. His inclination toward art was early dis- 
played. He began with crayon work. He first 
opened his studio in Boston about the year 1870, 
and was doing good work in crayon heads of chil- 
dren, which in phcjtographic reproductions were 
becoming widely popular, when he concluded to go 
abroad, and perfect himself in all branches of art. 
He studied in Paris under J. Lefebvre and G. 
Boulanger from 1877 to 1884, spending his sum- 
mers in sketching trips in Holland, Belgium, and 
.Spain, and exhibited his later work while there in 
the Salon of 1881, 1882, and 1883. His first 
.Salon picture, " Les Deux Amis." was subsequently 
published in an etching by him. Upon his return 
to this country he reopened his studio in Boston, 
and has since done much notable work in por- 
traits and ,i;i'/irt\ Among his notable portraits 
are : General N. P. Banks, which now hangs in 
the City Hall at W'altham ; Governor John B. 
Smith, the Hon. E. H. Rollins, and Captain George 



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II. Perkins, U.S.N., all of wiiich iiaiig in the State 
C'apitiil at C'oncord, N.H.; and John (). Whittier, 
now in I )anveis, Mass. Mr. Strain is a member 




DANIEL J. STRAIN. 

of the Boston Art, and Paint and Clay clubs. He 
married July 13, 1869, Miss Dora I,. .Vdams, of 
Wilbraham. 



SWIFT, Marcu,s Georce Baricer, of Fall 
River, me]iiber of the bar, is a native of Michi- 
gan, born in Raisin township, "'(Quaker \'alley," 
Lenawee County, March 12, 1848, son of the 
Rev. Orson Ross Swift, M.D., and Mary Elizabeth 
( P.arker) Swift. At the age of six years he was 
bereft, by death, of a mother's care; and his father 
survived her decease only two years. He and a 
younger sister (now Mrs. James A. Dubuar, wife 
of a lumber manufacturer in Northville, Mich.) 
were then taken in charge by his grandfather, the 
Rev. Marcus Swift, and his uncle, John Marcus 
Swift, M.D., in whose households the orphaned 
children received the tenderest care and most ex- 
cellent training. He is of good New England 
Revolutionary stock. One of his great-grand- 
fathers, John Swift, first of Connecticut, and then 
of New York, was a private in the Continental 
ami)-, antl a brigadier-general of New York 
troops in the War of 18 12, killed at Fort George ; 



and another great-grandfather, Weaver Osborn, 
first of Rhode Island and then of New York, was 
also a Revolutionary soldier. His early education 
was obtained in the public schools of Wayne 
County, Michigan ; and he received a collegiate 
training at Adrian College (preparatory), and at 
the University of Michigan, from the law depart- 
ment of which he was graduated in March. 1872. 
Much of his early youth was spent in hard work 
on the farm, until he was sixteen. During the 
latter part of the Civil War he joined the Union 
army, enlisting in September, 1864, as a private 
in Company F", Fourth Michigan Infantry : and 
he served until June, 1866. Upon his return 
home he resumed his studies, and soon began 
reading law in the city of Detroit. He read first 
in the office of Newberry, Pond, & Brown, and 
then with F. H. Canfield, and, entering the law 
school of the University of Michigan, was duly 
graduated as above stated. During a part of the 
time he was studying he, as many others have 
done, taught school, and engaged in other work, 
as a means of self-support. He was admitted to 
the bar in the Supreme Court of Michigan in 
1872, and began practice in the office of Hoyt 
Post, Detroit, who was at that time the official 
reporter of Supreme Court decisions. 'I'here he 
remained for about a year, when he removed to 
Gratiot County, Saginaw Valley. In December, 
1874, he came to Massachusetts, and established 
himself in Fall River, where he has since been en- 
gaged in active practice. He was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar in January, 1875. In 1876 he 
became associated in business with Judge H. K. 
Braley, forming the firm of Braley & Swift, which 
was one of the leading law firms of Bristol County 
for many years and until the appointment of 
Judge Braley to the bench of the Superior Court 
in February, 189 1. 'After the dissolution of the 
old firm Mr. Swift associated with himself, under 
the firm name Swift & Grime, the present city 
solicitor of Fall River, George Grime. In politics 
Mr. Swift is a Republican, but not a seeker after 
office. While in Miciiigan, he was town clerk of 
Plymouth township during the first year after at- 
taining his majority. In Fall River he has been 
a member of the School Committee six years. He 
is connected with the Masonic fraternity, the Odd 
Fellows, and the Grand .Army of the Republic. 
In religious faith he is a Congregationalist, a 
member of the First Congregationalist Church of 
F'all River. Mr. Swift was married December 25, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1872, to Miss Mary Duncan Milne, youngest 
daughter of tlie Rev. Alexander and Eliza Ann 
(Osborn) Milne. Six children were born to them : 




Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. 
After attending one course of lectures there, he 
returned to Vermont, and finished in the medical 
department of the University of Vermont, taking 
three courses, and receiving his degree of M.D. in 
1865. From 187 1 to 1874 he was surgeon on the 
Northern Pacific Railroad ; from 1875 to 1877 
health officer of the city of Burlington, Vt. ; in 
1877 medical director of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, department of \'ermont ; and from 
1875 to 1878 assistant surgeon of the Vermont 
Volunteer Militia. In October, 1878, he moved 
from Piurlington to Boston, and has since been 
actively engaged in professional work in the latter 
city. From 1S82 to 1885, he was adjunct professor 
of anatomy in the medical department of Ver- 
mont University. He is now professor of anat- 
omy and secretary of the Tufts College Medical 
School. He is also medical examiner in chief of 
the New England Commercial Travellers' Asso- 
ciation, and medical examiner for Boston of the 
Commercial Travellers' Mutual Accident Associa- 
tion of America. Dr. Thayer has been a frequent 
writer on medical topics, and is at present as- 



MARCUS C. B. SWIFT. 



James Marcus (now a senior in the University of 
Michigan), Orson Alexander (killed in a railroad 
collision January 31, 1894), John Tuttle, ?ililne 
Barker, Mabel Antoinette, and Anna Osborn Swift 
(the last four in school in Fall River). 



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THAYER, Charles P.^ink, M.D., of Boston, 
is a native of Vermont, born in West Randolph, 
January 22, 1843, son of -Samuel White and 
Sarah Linn (Pratt) Thayer. His ancestors were 
from Massachusetts ; and he is a lineal descendant 
of John Alden of " Mayflower " fame, whose Bible, 
wliich the Puritan brought from Enghmd, printed 
in London in 1599, is in his possession. His 
early education was acquired in the common 
school, academy, and High School. He entered 
the University of Vermont at ]iurlington in Sep- 
tember, i860, and remained a year, when he 
enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment, \'ermont 

Volunteer hifantry, and served in the Civil War. sociate editor of the Atlantic Medical Weekly. 
Upon the completion of this service he took up While in Vermont, he prepared the Vermont Med- 
the study of medicine, first at the College of ical Register, published in 1877. HeisaniL-mber 




CHARLES p. THAYER. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and is 
connected with numerous fraternal and other 
organizations ; member of the order of Elks, 
Hartford (Conn.) Lodge; of the Burlington Com- 
uiandery, Knights Templar ; of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, Gettysburg Post, No. 91, Boston ; 
of the Vermont Associates ; the Vermont Veterans' 
Association ; and the White Mountain Commer- 
cial Travellers' Association, of which he was the 
second president. 



lished by this association. In politics he is a Re- 
l^ublican. He is prominent in the Masonic order, 
being a member of Mt. Olivet Lodge, of .St. .\n- 



THOMAS, Chari.es Hoi.t, M.I)., of Cam- 
bridge, was born in New Bedford, August 26, 
1S50, son of James B. and .\raminta D. (Taber) 
'I'homas. His father was a son of Samuel 
Thomas, a ship-builder on the Kennebec River, 
Me., and brother of Captain Joseph B. Thomas, 
liie Standard Sugar Refinery millionaire ; and his 
mother was daughter of Captain Reuben Taber, 
a sea-captain of Fairha\en. He was educated in 
the public schools of New Bedford and at East- 
man's Business College of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
He went to sea in early life, then served one 
year in the Lhiited States navy on the steamer 
" Monongahela," and was wrecked at Santa 
Croi.x, W.L, in an earthquake in 1867. The 
same year he was honorably discharged from the 
service. He was ne.\t a train despatcher on the 
Reading Railroad at Belmont, Penna., later served 
as telegraph operator on the French cable at Du.x- 
bury for eleven years, and for the succeeduig five 
years was connected with the Associated Press in 
Boston. \\'hile in the latter service, in 1883 he 
began to prepare for a medical career, studying 
after "good-night" in the telegraph office. In 
1885 he entered the Medical School of Boston 
University, and graduated with high honors in 
1888, in a class of forty-three, of which he was 
class president. He began practice in Cam- 
bridge innnediately after graduation, and was not 
slow in building up a large business. He became 
one of the most successful homoiopathic practi- 
tioners in the eastern part of Massachusetts, and 
has achieved such a reputation that he is called 
to neighboring cities and towns as consulting 
physician in critical cases. In 1895 he was ap- 
pointed instructor in sanitary science and hygiene 
in the Boston University Medical School. He is 
secretary of the Alumni Association of the Boston 
University Medical School, and business man- 
ager of the Biilktiii of Medkal Iiistrucfion pub- 




CHAS. H. THOMAS. 

drew's Royal Arch Chapter, and Boston Com- 
mandery. Knights Templar ; is a past grand of 
Dunster Lodge, Charles River Encampment Odd 
Fellows ; and member also of several other secret 
societies. Dr. Thomas was married November 
17, 1877, to Miss J. Leona Winsor, of Duxbury. 
They have had three children, only one of whom 
is now living;: Will K. S. Thomas. 



TILDEN, Frank Elmer, M.D., of Easton, is 
a native of Easton, born April 13, 1853, son of 
Francis and Alvera Morton (White) Tilden. He 
is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of 
Nallianiel Tilden, who came from England to Scit- 
uate in 1634. The Tildens of England are an an- 
cient Kentish family, which dates its origin from 
Sir Richard Tylden, who came over from Nor- 
mandy after William the Conqueror, and was sub- 
sequently a crusader with Richard Cieur de Lion. 
On the maternal side Dr. Tilden is descended 
from General Richard Gridley, of Bunker Hill 
fame. He was educated in the common and high 
schools of Easton, and studied for his profession at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the Harvard 
ated in 1876 
follow iiifr, in 



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Medical School, where he was gradu-- man. He obtained his early education in the dis- 
He began practice in the autumn trict schools, and fitted for Dartmouth College at 

his nati\e town, where he has since the Milford (N.H.) High School. But he took his 

collegiate course at Colby, where he graduated in 
1875 with the degree of .\.B., four years later re- 
ceiving the degree of A.M. After his graduation 
he taught for two years in institutions in New 
Jersey, and three years in the High School at 
Peterborough, N.H., meanwhile studying medi- 
cine with a preceptor at Jaffrey, N.H. Subse- 
iSC ^Md^ ^^^V quently he took the regular medical course at the 

University of the City of New \ork, and gradu- 
ated M.D. in March, 1882. During the re- 
mainder of that year and until September of the 
ne.xt year he practised with ! )r. E. H. Stevens, of 
Cambridge. Then, establishing himself in Lex- 
ington, he opened his own office, and became at 
once engaged in active practice there. He also 
took an active interest in Lexington town matters, 
and has served on various committees for drain- 
age and water supply and some time on the 
School Committee. He is a councillor of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, one of the exec- 
utive committee of the (.)lcl Belfrv Club of Lex- 




FRANK E. TILDEN. 



been actively engaged. He has written valuable 
papers on "An Epidemic of Diphtheria in Easton 
in 1S90-91 " and "The Medical Profession in 
Easton," and has displayed his interest in town 
matters in many ways. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, and is connected 
with the order of Odd Eellows, member of the 
Electric Lodge of Brockton. In politics he is a 
Republican, and has ser\ed as secretary of the 
Easton Republican town committee for several 
years. Dr. Tilden was married No\ember 12, 
1S84, to Miss Ellen Louise Leonard. They have 
had two children: Frank (iridley (deceased) and 
Annie Frances Tilden. 




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TILTON, JosiAH Odin, M.D., of Lexington, 
is a native of Maine, born in Limerick, July 29, 
1853, son of Jeremiah I), and Abigail S. (Freeze) 
Tilton. He is descended from the Tiltons early 
settlers in Kensington, N.H. His paternal grand- 
parents kept tavern in Deerfield, N.H., for a num- 
ber of years ; and his father was a Baptist clergy- 



J. O. TILTON. 



ington, a member of the Appalachian Mountain 
Club, a Freemason, and a member of the .\n- 
cient Order of Lhiited Workmen, serving the last 



MEN or PROGRESS. 



82 I 



iiicntionccl as cxaiiiiniiiij physician. In politics 
he is a steadfast RepubHcan. Dr. Tilton was 
married first. April 30. 1884, to Miss Hattie A. 
P'rench, daughter of H, K. j'rench, of Peterbor- 
ough, N.H. She died October 24. 1886, leaving 
one child : Henry O. Tilton. He married second, 
October 31, 1894, Miss Florence Gardner Strat- 
ton, of Concord, N.H. 



TOHKV, Georck Lurinc, M.D., of Lancaster, 
is a native of Maine, born in Machiasport, June 
17, 1853, son of Samuel and \ancv B. (Robin- 




GEO. L. TOBEY. 

son) 'J'obey. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Washington Academy, East 
Machias. He began active life when a boy of 
lifteen as a clerk in the office of his brother, 
H. N. I'obey. Here he remained for most of the 
time until 1873, when he went to Boston, and en- 
tered the employ of Cobb Brothers, Roxbury Dis- 
trict, grocers. After two years there he engaged 
in business, on his own account, entering into part- 
nership with L. E. Quint, under the firm name of 
Quint & Tobey, grocers. Not long after, decid- 
ing to take up the study of medicine, he sold out 
his business, and entered the classical institute, 
Waterville, Me. He graduated from the Bowdoin 



College Medical School in June, 1879, and imme- 
diately began practice, settled in Shrewsbury, 
Mass. He remained there a year and a half, and 
then removed to Lanca.ster, where he has since 
been established. He has been a member of the 
Board of Health of the town since 1883. and for 
some time on the staff of the Clinton Hospital. 
He is one of the censors of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, Worcester District, and is a 
member also of the .American Medical .Associa- 
tion, of the Worcester Medical -Association, the 
Clinton Medical Association, and the Massachu- 
setts Association of 13oards of Health. He was a 
member of the School Board of Lancaster from 
1889 to 1894. His club affiliations are with 
the Clinton and Lancaster .Athletic .As.sociation. 
Dr. 'J'obey was married July 14, iSSo. to Miss 
.Abigail .A. Grant, of Machiasport. Me. They 
have three children: George L., Jr.. (kiy Davis, 
and Harold (Irant Tobev. 



TOWER, Lkvi Lincoln, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Cunnnington, Hampshire Countv, 
October 15, 1826, son of David and Alcey 
(Dean) 'I'ower. He is descended in the eighth 
generation from John Tower, born in the parish 
of Hingham, Norfolk, England, wjio came to New 
England, and settled in New Hingham in 1637. 
and in 1638-39 married Margaret librook in 
Charlestown, who was also born in England, and 
came to Hingham with her father. His mother 
was a daughter of Dr. John Dean, of .North 
.Adams. He was educated in the common school, 
which he attended three months in the year, 
and at Drewey .Academy, North .Adams, studying 
there two terms, meanwhile working at .Alpheus 
Smith's Tavern in North .Adams for his board. 
This was supplemented by e.xcellent home train- 
ing, and diligent reading of the Pittsfield Si/n, 
published once a week. He remained on the 
farm with his parents, seven brothers, and one 
sister, till his twentieth year. Then he took a 
situation as a teacher in a district school at Shel- 
burne Falls : but, before the term opened, his 
brother Stephen .\., at that time at work in Bos- 
ton, found a place for him there, and accordingly 
he procured a substitute, and came to the city. 
From that time Boston has been his home, and 
he has been an active Boston business man 
during the entire period of half a century. He 
began business with the tirm of Cutter, Tower, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



& Co., stationers, of whicli he is now the only 
surviving partner, his associates in the firm — 
James M. Cutter, Stephen A. Tower (his brother), 
and Isaac L. Kidder — having all died some years 
ago. As early as 1S49 a branch house was estab- 
lished in New York, and during the Civil War 
and some time after the firm also had branch 
houses in Chicago and in Providence, R.I. The 
latter, however, were closed out some time ago ; 
but the New York and Boston houses have been 
steadily maintained since their establishment, the 
Boston house being the principal one. Mr. 
Tower's brother, Stephen A., was in charge of 
the New York house from its opening in 1S49 
till his death, February 13, 1S83 ; and since 
that time it has been conducted under the 
name of the Tower Manufacturing and Novelty 
Company, of which Mr. Tower is the president. 
This company was organized under the laws of 
New York, and is managed by D. A. Tower, son 
of Mr. Tower's brother, David Tower, who was 
taken into the New York house direct from his 
father's farm, when a lad of fifteen, in about the 
year i860, and there received his business train- 





L. L. TOWER. 



ing under the direction of his uncles, Stephen A. 
and L. L. Tower. Upon the death of S. A. Tower 
he was made treasurer and manager, his present 



position. The Boston house is now conducted 
under the name of the Cutter-Tower Company, 
the old firm having been incorporated under the 
laws of Massachusetts in 1878, with L. L. Tower 
as president, which office he has held ever since. 
This house has charge of the manufacturing of 
the patented goods and specialties of the two 
companies, which they own and control, some of 
which are known and used all over the world, 
notably the rubber head pencil, patented by Mr. 
Tower in 1852 ; the barometer inkstand, sold 
largely during the Civil \\'ar, and adopted by the 
government in its principal offices: the bank pen- 
holder of cork and wood (patented by L. L. 
Tower, February 21, 1888); Tower's multiple.x 
rubber ; the compressed, rounded, pointed, and 
polished wood tooth-picks, made after twenty 
years' e.\perimenting ; and various other popular 
articles, all (if which rank the highest of their 
class. Mr. Tower has been prominent for many 
years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, holding 
numerous positions. From 1S62 to 1869 he was 
superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Har- 
vard .Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Cam- 
bridge, and also trustee, steward, and class leader 
of the same society till he moved to Somerville. 
In the latter place he was superintendent of the 
Webster Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church 
(now the First Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Union Square) for about six years, and presi- 
dent of the board of trustees and steward of 
the church till his removal in 1892 to Mt. Ida, 
Newton, his present place of residence. In New- 
ton he is now connected with the Newton Cor- 
ner Methodist Episcopal church, in which he also 
holds the office of steward. The presidency of 
the board of trustees, which was offered and 
pressed upon him, he was obliged to decline on 
account of advancing years and his many business 
responsibilities. He has been attached to the 
church since his childhood, when he was of the 
Sunday-school infant class taught by a sister of 
the Hon. Henry L. Dawes, in the old meeting- 
house on Meeting-house Hill in Cununington, near 
the home of the poet Bryant. Mr. Tower was 
married September 15, 1852, to Miss Sophronia 
M. Thayer, daughter of Timothy and Morandy 
Thayer, of Windsor, a descendant, through her 
mother, of Peregrine White. They have had 
seven children : Emma Thayer, Ann Adella, Ada 
Eliza, George Martin, Lillian Estella, Walter Lin- 
coln, and Edith Mabel Tower.' 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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TRAIN. Samuel Putnam, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, was born in Boston, May 23, 1848, son 
of SanuiL'l F. and Frances G. (Glover) Train. He 




America coming from Hull, Kngland, and on the 
maternal side of Scotcii. The family settled in 
Canada. His grandfather on his mother's side 
bore the good Scotch name of Duncan Cameron, 
and his grandmother was Jane Conroy, of St. 
John's. He was educated in public and private 
schools ; and his training for active life was in the 
printing-office, his father being a publisher and 
job printer. In 1868, when he had attained his 
majority, he began the study of mechanical 
draughting, and for several years after practised 
it in Washington, D.C, where he was for a time 
one of the head draughtsmen in the United States 
Patent Office. In 1876 he resigned this position, 
and went to Europe to study painting, having de- 
termined to follow the painter's life. He remained 
abroad seven years, studying and i^ainting in 
Munich, Venice, Florence, and Rome, and upon 
his return in 1882 settled in Boston, and opened 
a studio in West Street. Three years later, upon 
his marriage, he made his home in Salem, where 
he has since resided. He has, however, continued 
his main studio in Boston, being now' established 
in the Grundmann Studio Building, Back i'.av. 



SAMUEL P. TRAIN. 



was educated in the Roxbury schools, finishing 
at the Ro.xbury Latin School in 1864. He began 
business with Grant, Warren, & Co., paper manu- 
facturers and importers of paper-makers' supplies, 
immediately after leaving the Latin School, and 
has been connected with the house through the 
various changes of the firm up to the present 
time; namely, H. M. Clark & Co., Thompson, 
Twombly, & Co., Twombly & Co., Train, Hos- 
ford, & Co., and last (in 1880), as now, Train, 
Smith, & Co. Colonel Train was a member of 
the staff of Governor John D. Long for three 
years as quartermaster-general, with the rank of 
colonel. He is a member of the Union, the 
F^astern Nacht, the Country, and the Athletic 
clubs. In politics he has always been a Keinib- 
lican, Mr. Train is unmarried. 




TURNER, Ross Sterling, of Boston and ross turner. 

Salem, artist, was born in New York, at Westport, 

Essex County, June 29, 1847, son of David and During the winter months he teaches in his Bcs- 

Kliza |. (Cameron) Turner. On the paternal ton studio, and he is also an instructor in water 

side he is of English descent, his ancestors in colors in the Massachu.setts Institute of Tech- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



nology. I\fr. Turner's paintings cover a consider- 
able range of subjects, — marine, landscape, archi- 
tectural, and ideal work, the latter embracing 
some important studies in ancient marine archi- 
tecture, almost all of these in water colors, 
although he uses oils as well. A large marine 
moonlight done in oils was at the Chicago Expo- 
sition. At present Mr. Turner is engaged upon 
some large water-color marine subjects, embracing 
the picturesque era of ship-building from 1492 to 
1700, a field as yet little explored and painted. 
In the municipal election of December, 1X94, 
he was elected a member of the Board of Al- 
dermen of Salem. He is a member of the Bos- 
ton Art Club, the Salem Club, the Manchester 
Yacht Club, and one of the board of government 
of the Art Club and of the Boston Art Students' 
Association. He was married May 28, 1884, 
to Miss Emma Louise Blaney. of Boston. They 
have three children: Sterling (born in Salem, 
August 3, 1885), Cameron (born in Salem. Febru- 
ary 22, 1893), and Ruth '['in-ner (born in Salem, 
November 10, 18941. 




W. ORISON UNDERWOOD. 



UNDERWOOD, Willia.m Orison, of Lynn, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Newton, 
May 5, 1 86 1, son of (leneral Adin B. Underwood 



and Jane Lydia (Walker) Underwood. He is a 
direct descendant of Joseph I'nderwood, who 
came to Hingham in 1637. His grandfather. 
General Orison Underwood, was appointed briga- 
dier-general of Massachusetts militia by Gover- 
nor John Davis in 1841. His father, General 
.\. B. Underwood, distinguished through his nota- 
ble service in the Civil \N'ar. practised law before 
going to the war, first as a partner of Henry P. 
Staples, afterward Judge Staples, and then in 
partnership with the late Charles R. Train. Mr. 
Underwood was educated in the Newton public 
schools, fitting for college in the High School, and 
at Harvard, where he was graduated in the class 
of 1S84. He prepared for his profession at the 
Harvard Law School, and later at the Boston 
University Law School, reading also as a student 
in the law office of Hyde. Dickinson, & Howe. 
He was admitted to the bar in July. 1886, and 
began practice the following autumn in partner- 
ship with his father, under the firm name of 
Underwood & Underwood. Upon the death of 
his father in January, 1888, he gave up his office, 
and associated himself with Benjamin N. John- 
son, subsequently forming the firm of Johnson & 
Underwood. This partnership continued un- 
changed till the autumn of 1894 when Robert P. 
Clapp was admitted, and the name changed to 
Johnson, Clapp, & Underwood. Mr. Underwood 
has always conducted a general practice, doing 
more or less court work. He has been connected 
with a number of cases of more than ordinary in- 
terest, notably several concerning shore rights 
and early beach titles. He is a member of the 
L'nion and E.vchange cluljs, Boston, of the Loyal 
Legion, and of the ( ).\ford Club of Lynn, where he 
resides. Mr. Underwood was married 1 )ecember 
18, 1886, to Miss Bessie V. Shoemaker, of Phila- 
delphia. 

WA rp^RM.\N, Frank Sfurtevant, of Boston, 
undertaker, was born in Roxbury, September 18, 
1862, son of Joseph Samson and Sarah Patten 
(Huse) Waterman. (For ancestry, see Waterman. 
(}eorge Huse.) He was educated in the public 
schools, graduating from the Washington Gram- 
mar School and at Bryant & Stratton's Commer- 
cial College. He entered his father's business 
immediately upon leaxing school, and has steadily 
been engaged in this business since, having been 
admitted to partnership in 1879, when the firm 
was composed of his father and brother George 



MKN ()!■■ ]'R0(;RESS. 



«25 



II. After his father's death in 18(^3 the business 
was continued hv the brothers without change of 
lirni name. Mr. Waterman was a member of the 




son of Joseph Samson and Sarah fatten niuse) 
Waterman. He is a descendant from old New 
England families settling in this country in 1629. 
His great-great-grandfather, Dependence Sturte- 
vant Waterman, was an officer in the Revolution- 
ary War, and served at the battle of Hunker Hill. 
His grandmother, Lucy Waterman, died at Hali- 
fax, Mass., November 15, 189 i, aged one hundred 
and one years and seven months. He was edu- 
cated in the Roxbury public schools, graduating 
from the Washington C}rannnar School in 1870, 
and spending one year in the High School. After 
leaving school, he went to work for his father, who 
established the business, still carried on, in 1859, 
and in 1876 became a member of the firm of 
Joseph S. Waterman & Son. In 1879 his brother 
Frank was admitted, and the firm name was 
changed to Joseph S. Waterman & Sons. Since 
the death of the father. I'ebruary 2, 1893, the 
two brothers have continued the business under 
the old firm name. They now do the largest un- 
dertaking business in New England, and own by 
far the most extensive retail plant. Mr. Water- 
man was president of the Massachusetts I'nder- 



FRANK S. WATERMAN. 



Massachusetts militia from 1S83 to i88g, serving 
in Company D, First Regiment, Ro.xbury City 
(niard. During this period he acted as clerk and 
treasurer of the company, and was also sergeant at 
the time of the expiration of his service. He be- 
longs to the various Masonic societies, including 
the Knights Temijlar. and is a thirty-second de- 
gree Mason. He is also an Odd Fellow, a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias, the Royal 
.\rcanum. and the Ancient Order of Inited Work- 
men, member of the Dudley Association (of which 
he was vice-president in 1895), member of the 
Undertakers' Associations of New England and 
Massachusetts, and of the Ro.xbury Club. In 
politics he is a Republican. He was married 
September 10, 1888, to Miss Hatlie S. Torrey. 
They ha\e two children : Frank S., Jr., and Lucy 
Waterman. The daughter was named for her 
great-grandmother, who lived to be one lumdred 
and two years old, and died the year the former 
was born. 

WATERMAN, Gf.ori;e Husk, of Boston, un- 
dertaker, was born in Roxbury, June 27. 1855, 




GEORGE H. WATERIV1AN. 



takers' Association in 189 1 and 1892, and remains 
a leading member of that organization. He is 
prominent in the Masonic order and a Knight Tern- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



plar, having reached the thirty-second degree, and 
in the order of Odd Fellows : and belongs also to 
the Knights of Honor, the Royal Arcanum, the 
United Workmen, and the Red Men. He has 
served in the State militia, as member of Company 
D, First Regiment, from 1876 to 1879, and subse- 
quently as a member of the National Lancers. 
His club affiliations are with the Boston Athletic, 
the Roxbury, and the Dorchester clubs. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He was married April 
2, 1884, to Miss Pamelia A. Cutter. They have 
four children : Joseph Samson, Charles Cutter, 
Alice Antoinette, and George H. Waterman, |r. 



WATERMAN, Thomas, M.D., of Boston, was 
born in Boston, December 17, 1842, son of 
Thomas and Joanna (Towle) Waterman. He is 
in the eighth generation from Robert W'aterman, 
one of two brothers (Robert and Thomas) who 
emigrated from England to this country in 1636. 
The former settled in Roxbury. One of the de- 
scendants of Robert was one of the thirty original 
founders of Norwich, Conn. His great-grand- 
father, Silas Waterman, with others, went up the 
Connecticut River, and founded the town of 
Lebanon, N.H., in 1761. His grandfather. 
Colonel Thomas Waterman, was an influential 
man in his section. His father, Thomas Water- 
man, born in Lebanon, X.H., in September, 179 i, 
died in Boston, February 27, 1875, came to Bos- 
ton in 1817, was in mercantile business, and later 
a bank official for many years, and was prominent 
in the Masonic order as an efficient secretary of 
several organizations for nearly fifty years. Dr. 
Waterman received his early education in the 
Brimmer Grammar School, and prepared for 
college at the Boston Latin School. He gradu- 
ated at Harvard College in 1864, and received the 
degree of A.M. in 1868. He studied medicine 
under Professor Jeffries Wyman at Cambridge, 
and took four courses of lectures at the Harvard 
Medical School, graduating as M.D. in 1868. 
While in the medical school, he held the office of 
vice-president of the Boylston Medical Society 
during the year 1867-68. He spent the summer 
of 18^4, after his graduation from the college, in 
Virginia at City Point and at the front as relief 
agent of the United States Sanitary Commission. 
For three months during 1866 he was acting 
house officer at the Boston City Hospital : and 
from 1867 to 1868 he was house surgeon in the 



Massachusetts General Hospital, He began the 
regular practice of medicine in Boston, immedi- 
ately after his graduation from the medical school 
in 1868, and has since been actively engaged, 
holding numerous positions in various institutions, 
hi March, 1869, he was appointed to the staff of 
physicians of the Dearborn Branch of the Boston 
Dispensary, and held that position until the clos- 
ing of this branch. In August, 1870, he was ap- 
pointed surgeon to St. Joseph's Home; in Janu- 
ary, 187 1, physician to the central office of the 
Boston Dispensary, and in 1874 surgeon to the 
Boston Dispensar)-, which position he held for ten 
years, at the end of that period declining a reap- 
pointment. In July, 1881, he was elected examin- 
ing physician to the Board of Directors of Public 
Institutions of the City of Boston ; and he has 
since continued in that office, under the Board of 
Commissioners which succeeded the Board of Di- 
rectors. His duties as examining physician have 
included the examination of most of the insane of 
Suffolk County, and he has served for a number of 
years as medical expert in such cases before the 
courts. In 1869 he was made medical examiner 
of the North-western Life Insurance Company, 
and later became medical examiner in Boston for 
the Home Life Insurance Company of New York. 
At the organization of the Masonic Equitable 
Accident Association of Boston, in January, 1892, 
he was elected medical director, and has continued 
in that office to the present time. He is also 
medical director of the Boston Masonic Mutual 
Benefit Association and of the North-western 
Masonic Aid Association of Chicago. He was in- 
structor in comparative anatomy and physiology 
in Harvard I'niversity for the academic year of 
1873-74, and assistant in anatomy in the Harvard 
Medical School for three years, from 1879. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society (elected a councillor in May, 1881), of the 
Suffolk District Medical Society (elected one of 
the censors in 1S74), of the Boston Society of 
Medical Sciences (one of the original members), 
and of the Boston Society for Medical Improve- 
ment. He has been a member of the committee 
on mammals of the Boston Society of Natural 
History since 1870, having previously served for 
a short time as curator of mammals and compara- 
tive anatomy, which office was subsequently 
abolished. Dr. Waterman has held high place in 
the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1864, 
and ranks with its most prominent members. He 



MEN OK I'ROCiRESS. 



827 



is especially noted as a correct ritualist and a 
powerful actor in the more dramatic Masonic 
grades. After holdint; the various subordinate 
positions, he has served as worshipful master of 
Zetland I^odge, high priest of St. .Vndrew's Royal 
Arch Chapter, most excellent grand high jiriest of 
ihe (Irand Royal Arch Chapter of Massachusetts, 
grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Masons in 
Massachusetts, and connnander-in-chief of Massa- 
chusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, and a 
so\'ereign grand inspector-general of the thirtv- 
ihiid and last degree of the Ancient .Vccepled 
.Scottish Rite, lieiug so crowned at Cincinnati. 




THOMAS WATERMAN. 

( )hio, in 18S3. He was an original nicnilK-r of 
.Mcpjio Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of 
N<jbles of the Mystic Shrine (chartered June 6. 
1.S83, an order limited in membership to Knights 
'remjilar and thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite 
Masons), and, after serving as second officer, was 
elected to the office of potentate in December, 
iScjo. He held this office for three years, during 
which time the membership doubled, from twelve 
hundred to twenty-four hundred, the largest 
temple in the United States. While potentate, he 
was presented by the members with the most 
elegant emblematic jewel ever given, a crescent 
suspended from a scimitar, and encrusted with 



more than two hundred diamonds, rubies, and 
emeralds. He has also been the recipient of 
emblematic jewels from the lodge, chapter, grand 
chapter, and consistory on retiring from the prin- 
cipal office in the various orders. He is one of 
the four representatives of Aleppo Temple to the 
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine for \orth 
.Vmerica. I )r. Waterman was also one of the 
founders of the Home Circle, and is the supreme 
nredical examiner of this order. He has published 
occasional articles on medical subjects in the 
lioston Mcdidil and Siiri^ic'i!/ Joiinuil, and is the 
author of Masonic addresses to the Crand Chapter 
of Royal Arch Masons of Massachusetts in 1879, 
1880, and 1881. ( )f late years he has been in- 
terested in the investigation of pseudo-Spiritual- 
ism, and has a reputation among his friends as an 
amateur conjurer of much skill. In politics Dr. 
Waterman is a Republican, and first voted for 
Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He has always voted 
every year since, but has never aspired to political 
office. He was married December 4, 1S72, to 
Miss Harriet Henchman Howard, daughter of 
Edward Howard (of the E. Howard Watch & 
Clock Company, and inventor of the .American 
system of watch-making). They have two daugh- 
ters : Lilian (married to William 1!. Jackson. 
December 12, 1893) and .^Llrion Waterman. 



WEXTWORTH, Gkorck Li ttlej-ieli), of Bo.s- 
ton and Weymouth, member of the Suffolk bar, is 
a native of Maine, born in Ellsworth. ^Lly 24, 
1852. son of Stacy Hall and Rebecca Littlefield 
(Getchell) Wentworth. He is seventh in genera- 
tion from Elder William Wentworth. who emi- 
grated from England to .America between 1636 
and 1638, landing in Hoston. Elder William was 
a close friend of the Rev. John Wheelwright, and 
connected with him by marriage, and a second 
cousin to .Anne Hutchinson, both of whom were 
lianished from Massachusetts in November. 1637. 
lie accompanied John Wheelwright to Exeter, 
.\.H., and was one of the thirtv-five signers 
(Wheelwright being the first) who entered into a 
combination for government at Exeter, July 4, 
1639. This original and interesting document is 
still preserved at Exeter. The descendants of 
Elder William were closely identified with the 
history of Xew Hampshire. His grandson John 
was justice of the ('(jurt of Con)iuon Pleas fiom 
I 7 13 to 1718, and was appointed lieutenant gov- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ernor of New Hampsliirt," in 1717, which office he in the hitter bod)' serving on the committees on 
held until his death in December, 1730. In 1741. the judiciary and on rules. From 1890 to 1S93 
when New Hampshire was allowed a governor, he was special county commissioner for Norfolk 

County. Mr. M'entworth is connected with the 
order of Odd .fellows, now past grand of W'ildey 
Lodge, of South \\'e\mouth, and past high priest 
of Pentalpha Roval Arch Chapter, and has held 
prominent positions in Orphans' Hope Lodge; of 
Freemasons and the .South Shore Commandery, 
Knights Templar. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was married November 5, 1881, to Miss An- 
nette Small, of lielfast. Me. They have four chil- 
dren : Marian .Seabury (aged eleven years), 
Marjorie (nine), Laura Annette (seven), and 
Stacy Hall Went worth (five). 




WEST, Hkxrv Danikls, M.l)., of Southbndge, 
was born in Templeton, March 19, 1828, son of 
Clark and Mehitable (Pike) West. He received 
his education in the district school, which he at- 
tended till he was eighteen years of age, and after 
that at a school in Hopkinton. He began the 
study of medicine in Lawrence in the autumn of 



GEORGE L. WENTWORTH. 

Benning Wentworth, son of John, was appointed 
to the office ; and he held it until 1767, after which 
another John Wentworth, nephew of Henning, was 
appointed. The length of service of Benning 
\\'entworth as governor, twenty-five years, was 
longer than any other governor in America ever 
served under a royal commission. While in office, 
he presented to Dartmouth College five hundred 
acres of land, on which the college buildings are 
erected. George L. Wentworth was educated in 
the public schools in Brewer, Me., until si.xteen, 
and then under private tutor, fitting for college, 
but never entering. He studied for his profession 
at the Boston University Law School, and gradu- 
ated in 1881 with the degree of LL.B. In the 
law school he was president of his class, and was 
appointed by the faculty class orator. He was 
admitted to the bar in September following his 
graduation, and since that time has been in active 
practice in Boston. In Weymouth, where he has 
resided since 1885, he has been influential in town 
affairs, for three years a member of the School 185 1, and graduated, after attending two courses 
Committee. T887-89 ; and he has represented of lectures, from the Worcester Medical College in 
his district in the Legislature in 1894 and 1895, 1854. He was with Dr. Ordway in a drug store 




H. D. WEST. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



829 



one }cai and wilh Dr. ('liarlcs Snow, of Lawrence, 
about two years. After this training lie began 
practice, settled in Southbridge, October 17, 1854. 
He iias had a most successful career, building up 
a large practice, and is now retired as much as his 
old patients will allow him to retire. During his 
long practice he has had over two thousand cases 
of childbirth, with assistance of only one case. 
Although he had much to contend against in early 
life, he surmounted every obstacle, and to-day 
stands high in the estimation of his townsmen. 
He is a physician of the eclectic school and an 
original thinker. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Fxlectic Medical Society and of the Na- 
tional Eclectic Medical Society. He is a trustee 
of the Methodist Episcopal church in South- 
bridge, and has been superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school for about six years. In politics he has 
been a Republican. He has held no public office 
and sought none, devoting his life fully to study 
and the cause of medicine. ])r. West was mar- 
ried June 3, 1850, to Miss Susan Hastings Moul- 
ton, of O.xford. They have had three children : 
George (died when five months old), Alice Jane 
(died when five weeks old), and Florence Belle 
(died .\ugust 9, 1882, at the age of thirteen 
years and five months, of valvular disease of the 
heart). 



WHITNEY, S.^MTEL Rrknton, of Boston, or- 
ganist, was born in Woodstock, Windsor County, 
A'ermont, June 4. 1842, son of Samuel and .Amelia 
(Hyde I \\'hitney. His early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools, and he subsequently 
attended the Vermont Episcopal Institute, Bur- 
lington. He studied music first with local 
teachers, afterward with Carl \\'els in New York, 
and later still with Professor John K. Paine, of 
Harvard University, taking lessons on the organ, 
and pianoforte in composition and instrumenta- 
tion. He was organist and director of music in 
Christ t.'hurch, Montpelier, Vt., for some time, 
then at St. Peter's, Albany, N.Y., then at St. 
Paul's Church, ISurlington. \'t. ; and for the past 
twentv-four years he has been organist at the 
Church of the Advent, Boston, the choir of which 
church has become quite celebrated under his 
direction. He has frequently been engaged as 
conductor of choir festival associations in Massa- 
chusetts and ^"ermont. He has also been con- 
ductor of many choral societies in and around 
Boston, and has the reputation of being very suc- 



cessful in training and developing boys' voices. 
In this position he has been identified with litur- 
gical music, vested choirs, and a reverent per- 
formance of church music. As an organist, he 
belongs to the strict school, and but for his mod- 
esty would be much oftener heard of outside of 
his own church. His services, however, have 
been in constant demand in and around Boston, 
wherever a new organ was to be introduced to the 
public. It has been said of him that he has a 
wonderful faculty of getting a great deal of music 
out of a small instrument. The late Dr. J. H. 
Wilcox once said in this connection, after hearing 




S. B. WHITNEY. 

Mr. Whitney play a very small organ, "It takes 
a much more gifted organist to play a small organ 
than it does a large one, where every resource is 
at hand." Another musical authority in Boston 
has said, '• Mr. \\'hitney by his wonderful mastery 
of the preludes, fugues, and toccatas of Bach, 
most of which are so impressed upon his remark- 
able memory that he rarely uses notes, by his 
style so brilliant and pleasing, and his improvisa- 
tions so solid and rich, has won much credit in 
and beyond professional circles.'' Mr. Whitney 
was for a time a teacher of the organ in the New 
England Conservatory of Music. He also estab- 
lished in that institution for the first time a church 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



music class, in wliich wert; not only the vocnl 
pupils taught how properly to interpret sacred 
music, but the organ pupils as well were in- 
structed as to the management of the organ in 
church music. He has written church music quite 
extensively, also piano and miscellaneous music. 
Among his compositions are a trio for pianoforte 
and strings, many solos, and arrangement for both 
pianoforte and organ, as well as several church 
services, te deums, miscellaneous anthems, and 
songs bf)th sacred and secular. He is first vice- 
president and one of the organ examiners of the 
American College of Musicians. 



WHEATLEY, Frank Georgk, M.D.. of North 
Abington, is a native of Vermont, born in Wood- 
bury, July 6, 1S51, son of Luther and Eunice C. 
(Preston) Wheatley. His preparatory education 
was received in the common schools, at the Ran- 
dolph Normal School, Vt., the Methodist Semi- 
nary, Montpelier, the Northfield High School, 
and through a private tutor. He graduated from 
Dartmouth in the class of 1H79. He then studied 




FRANK C. WHEATLEY. 



there for eleven years. Since August. 1893, he 
has been professor of materia medica and ther- 
apeutics in the Tufts College Medical School. 
Ur. Wheatley is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society and of the Plymouth County 
Club. In politics he is Republican. He was 
married October 14, 1886, to Miss Nellie J. Hol- 
brook. They have had three children : Robert 
F. (deceased), Frank E., and George I). 



for his profession at the Dartmouth Medical Col- 
lege, and graduated there in 1883. Taking up 
his residence in North .\l)ington, he has practised 



\\()( )1)\\( )RTH. Alfred S., of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born at Cornwallis, N.S., April 24, 
1836, son of Eben F. and Ann (Skinner) Wood- 
worth, whose ancestors moved from Connecticut 
to Nova Scotia in 1770, and settled in the British 
Provinces for church reasons. His father moved 
to and settled in Boston in 1840, and he was edu- 
cated and has lived here, since that time. He at- 
tended the Washington Grammar School in Rox- 
bury. and then took a more advanced course of 
study at the Pierce Acadeni)- in Middleborough : 
but he did not go to college. After he had 
finished his school days, he entered the counting- 
room of Israel Whitney; and in 1858 he started 
what proved to be the most lucrative tea-broker- 
age business that existed in Boston. Mr. Wood- 
worth gave his attention to this business until 
1875. when he formed, with the late Josiah S. 
Robinson, the firm of Robinson &: Woochvorth, 
tea importers. Mr. Robinson died in 1888 ; but 
Mr. Woodworth and his eldest son, Herbert (i. 
Woodworth, still continue the business under the 
original firm name. Mr. Woodworth served the 
National Eagle Bank as a director for many years, 
and in February, 1894, was elected president of 
that institution to succeed Robert S. Covell, who 
died suddenly that winter. He was for a long 
period one of the trustees of the State Reform 
.School, and was for ten years president of the 
Boston \'oung Men's Christian Association. It 
was during his incumbency of the latter otifice that 
the present fine building of the association on 
Boylston Street was erected, and to every detail of 
that important work he gave most valuable aid. 
In politics Mr. Woodworth has been a lifelong 
Republican, sustaining all the good work of that 
party, but not backward in criticising its deeds 
when he has thought thait the leaders were going 
astray. Mr. \\'oodworth has been successful botli 
in the business and in the social world. His 
aims are high, and he gives himself heart and soul 



MEN OF TROCIKESS. 



«3i 



to ihc duties that Cdufronl him. lliiuscll an aljlc 
and successful merchant, his counsels and assist- 
ance have been of inestimable value to manv 



' ^T 




American Peace Society and editor of the Frieinl 
of l'caa\ His grandfather, the Rev. Samuel 
Worcester, was a minister of the New Church, 
and edited a large number of school books. His 
father, the Rev. Samuel H. Worcester. M.l)., de- 
voted himself in church work more to translating 
and reediting Swedenborg's works than to the 
active ministry ; and the New Church not afford- 
ing a livelihood for his large family, he engaged 
also in the study and practice of medicine. Dr. 
Worcester's paternal grandmother. Sarah Sargent 
Worcester, was a daughter of Fitzwilliam Sargent, 
of Gloucester. His maternal grandfather was 
Townsend Scott, of Haltimore, Md. ; and his ma- 
ternal grandmother. Edith ]5ullock (Stockton) 
Scott, of the New Jersey Stocktons. 'I'he family 
on his mother's side were Quakers. His early 
education, begun in the public schools of Salem 
and of Bridgewater, was interrupted by a year's 
sickness in bed when he was eleven years old, 
and two years more devoted to regaining his 
strength. Then in 1878 he entered the Bridge- 
water High School, and, spending portions of the 
following four years there, graduated in 1882. 



A. S. WOODWORTH. 

young men at the outset of their careers. His 
business engagements have called him twice to 
Japan and China, and he returned from the first 
of these \isits by way of Europe. His reading 
has been extensive and solid, and he is a fluent 
and ready speaker in public assemblies. Mr. 
Woodworth has been married twice, first, in 1857. 
to .Miss Anna G. Grafton, by whom he had five 
children, three sons and two daughters, one de- 
ceased, and one now married to Mr. Frank E. 
James; and second, in 1886, to Mrs. Sara E. 
Tucker, the issue of this second union being one 
son. 



WORCESTER, John Foxerdon, M.I)., of 
Clinton, was born in Gloucester, May 3, 1864, 
son of Samuel Howard and Elizabeth A. (Scott) 
Worcester. He is a descendant of the Rev. Will- 
iam Worcester who came to Salisbury from Eng- 
land in 1638, and of a family in which profes- 
sional men in theology, medicine, and the law 
have been numerous. His great-grandfather. 
Nuah Worcester, 1 ).!).. was a founder of the 




^//■^ 



JOHN F. WORCESTER. 

Meanwhile he also studied at home under his 
father, and read considerably. Working much 
out of doors at this time and after leaving the 



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MiiN OF 1'R()(.;rI':ss. 



Higli School, he reco\ered his health, and in tlic 
autumn of 1884 went to Philadelphia, where 
he entered the employ of J. E. Caldwell & t"o., 
jewellers. ]!ut, while enjoying the beautiful 
things which he handled here, the work was not 
congenial to him ; and after a while he decided 
to return home, and take up the study of medi- 
cine. Accordingly, he began his studies with his 
father, and in October, 1885, entered the Boston 
University Medical School. Graduating there- 
from in June, iSSS, he spent a year abroad in 
further study, mainly in the hospitals at Prague, 
Vienna, and Freiburg, Baden, l^pon his return 
he practised a few months with his uncle. Dr. Ed- 
ward Worcester, of \\'altham, and then in July, 
1889, removed to Clinton, where he took the ofifice 
and good-will of Dr. Charles A. Brooks. Here 
he has since remained, with short interruptions, in 
active practice. In his work and treatment of his 
professional brethren he has endeavored to live 
up to a high standard, — allow no pecuniary or 
other motive to influence him to do otherwise 
than what a high code of medical ethics would de- 
mand. From 1890 to 1893 he was a member of 
the Board of Health of Clinton. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Homieopathy, of the 



Massachusetts HonKeopathic Medical Society, 
the Surgical and (iyna-cological Society, the 
\\'orcester County Homctopathic Medical Society ; 
a member of the Prescott Club of Clinton (one of 
the board of managers from 1890 to 1894), of 
the Clinton Lancaster Athletic Association (on the 
board of government during organization), of the 
Home Market Club, and of the Royal .\rcanum 
(a trustee of Lodge 792). He is also an honor- 
ary member of the Massachusetts Volunteer Mili- 
tia. In politics he is a Republican on national 
issues, and on all points where he thinks party 
lines should be drawn ; but in town affairs he is 
unpartisan. He is a member of the Clinton 
School Committee, having been elected to that 
board in 1895. He is liberal in his beliefs, desir- 
ing for others the full freedom which he demands 
for himself in civil and religious rights. Dr. 
Worcester was married November 14, 1889, to 
Miss Anna Jackson Lowe, daughter of Dr. Lewis 
G. and Joanna (Jackson) Lowe, of Boston and 
Bridgewater, and grand-daughter of Abram Lowe, 
founder of the First National Bank of Boston, and 
president of it till a few years before his death in 
1889. They have one child: John I-'.. Jr. 1 born 
December 6, 1S90). 



PART X. 



ALLEN, MoNTRESSOR 'I'VLER, of \\'ohuni, 
mayor of the city 1895, was born in W'obuin, 
May 20, 1845, son of George Washington and 




MONTRESSOR T. ALLEN. 

Mary Lawson (Tyler) Allen. He was educated 
in the public schools, at the Warren Academ\-, 
and at the College of Liberal Arts of lioston 
University. His studies were interrupted by the 
Civil War, in which he served as a member of the 
Fifth Massachusetts Regiment in 1864. Upon 
his return he read law, and graduated from the 
lioston University Law School in 1878. In 
October following he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar. His practice has been general, largely crim- 
inal cases. In Woburn he has served in numer- 
ous important positions. He was on the Board 
of Registrars for five years, and chairman of that 
body for two or three years in the early eighties. 



In 1888-89 'le was sent to the Legislature, and 
was there chairman of the committee on railroads. 
He became mayor of his city on January 7, 1895. 
Mr. Allen is a Knight 'I'emplar of Cambridge 
Commandery. In politics he is a Republican. 
He has been twice married. His first wife was of 
New Hampshire; his second is from Kentuckv. 



ANDERSEN, Christian Pedkr, of Boston, 
real estate operator, is a native of I )enmark, born 
in Svaneke, Isle of Bornholm, December 6. 1864, 
son of Hans Koffod and .\nna Marie (Dahh 
Andersen. He is of Danish ancestry on both 
sides. He came with his parents to America in 
1867. and lived seven years in St. joimsbury. Xt. 
Returning then to Denmark, he remained, there 
till 1876, at which time he came back to this 
country, where he has since remained. He was 
educated in the public schools of St. Joimsbury, 
and from 1874 to 1876 in the schools of Svaneke, 
thus mastering both the Knglisii and the Danish 
languages. He was fitted for college at St. Johns- 
bury Academy, graduating therefrom in 1S85, and. 
entering Dartmouth, graduated in 1889. He 
learned the trade of metal polishing, and was for 
some time employed in that occupation in the 
works of E. iV' T. Fairbanks iV t'o. at St. Johns- 
bury. .\fter graduation from college he spent one 
year in the pul)lishing house of M. W. Hazen 
& Co., New' York City. He came to Boston in 
1 89 1, and has. since been engaged in the real 
estate business. He has taken an active interest 
in the development of Kearney, Neb., and is now 
developing several tracts of land in and around 
Boston. He has also been interested in the de- 
velopment of several quarry properties in Mas- 
sachusetts, and is a director of the Weymouth 
Seam Face Granite Company. He is a member 
of the order of Odd Fellows, connected with Mas- 
coma Lodge, No. 20, Lebanon, N.H., and mem- 
ber of the Mercantile Library Association of 



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MEN OK I'KOGRESS. 



Boston. Mr. Andersen was married November 
13, 1890, to Miss Bertha May Bates, of Lancaster, 
Penna. They have had one child : Marguerite 



'^^^*^^'^^0^-^ 




CHRISTIAN P. ANDERSEN. 

Andersen (born January 31, 1S94, died Mav 28, 
1895)- _1 ^ 

ANDREWS, Edward Reynolds, of Boston, 
president of the Security Safe Deposit Company, 
is a native of Boston, born December 22, 1831, 
son of William Turell and Fanny Mackay (Rey- 
nolds) Andrews. His grandparents on the pater- 
nal side were Ebenezer Turell and Hermione 
(Weld) Andrews, and on the maternal side Ed- 
ward and Deborah (Belcher) Reynolds. He at- 
tended Boston private and public schools, fitting 
for college at the Boston Latin School, and gradu- 
ated from Harvard in the class of 1853. After 
graduation he spent two years in Europe, and upon 
his return entered a crockery store in Boston, 
where he was engaged for two years. Then he 
devoted eight years to farming on the Home Farm 
in West Roxbury. In 1866 he again went abroad, 
and became a banker and commission merchant 
in Paris, with an office on Place Vendome. He 
remained there in the conduct of a successful 
business for nearly ten years, from 1866 to 1875, 
when he returned to this countrv, and resided 



for some years in New York City. In 1886 he 
returned to Boston to fill the post of manager for 
Eastern Massachusetts of the Equitable Life .\s- 
surance Society, and in 1891 was elected to his 
present position of president of the Security Safe 
Deposit Company in the Equitable Building. 
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Algonquin, E.\- 
change. Merchants', University, New Riding, and 
Camera clubs of Boston ; the Country Club, Esse.\ 
County Club, and Manchester Yacht Club, and of 
the Harvard Club of New York. In politics he 
is a steadfast Republican. He was married De- 
cember 6, 1855, to Miss Sarah H. Addoms, of 




EDWARD R. ANDREWS. 

New \'ork. He has a son and two daughters : 
\\'illiam Turell, Sarah Clale, and Marv Townsend 
Andrews. 



ANTHONY, Silas Reed, of Boston, banker, is 
a native of Boston, born August 5, 1863, son of 
Nathan and Clara James (Reed) Anthony. His 
paternal grandfather was Edmund Anthony, of 
Taunton and later of New Bedford, founder of the 
New Bedford S/aih/,iit/, his paternal grandmother, 
Ruth (Soper) Anthony, of Taunton : and his 
maternal grandparents, Silas Reed, M.D., of 
St. Louis, Mo., born at Deerfield, Ohio, and Hen- 
rietta Maria (Rogers ) Reed, a native of Gloucester, 



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Mass. His father, Nathan Anthony, was of tlic of Harvard University, where, under the direction 
old Boston firm of Bradford \: Anthony. He was of the late Professor E. N. Horsford, he gave spe- 
educated in the lioston jjuhlic schools, finishing at cial attention to chemistry. On completing the 

course, he took up the professional practice of 
chemistry, which he still pursues in his native 
city. He early won a high reputation as a chem- 
ical expert, and has been called in many impor- 
tant trials both of criminal and patent causes. 
From 1869 to 1874 he was professor of chemistry 
in the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and 
from 1874 to 1880 occupied the chair of chemi.stry 
in lioston L-niversity. [n 1875 he was appointed 
State assayer of liquors by Governor Gaston, and 
was continued in office by every administration 
till 1885. In that year he was apijointed by 
Mayor O'Brien to be inspector of milk for the 
city of Boston, which office he held for four years. 
Several important features in legislation relating 
to the adulteration of food and lit|uors are due 
directly to his suggestion. As milk inspector, he 
greatly increased the efficiency of the oflice, and 
his methods have been very generally adopted in 
other cities. He was for many years a director 
in the board of go\ernment of the old Mercantile 




S. REED ANTHONY. 



I he Roxbury Latin School. His business career 
began as clerk in the banking house of Kidder, 
Peabody, & Co., which he entered in December, 
1881. He remained with tliis house for eleven 
years, and then left to engage in the same business 
on his own account, in May, 1892, entering into 
partnership with William A. Tucker, and estab- 
lishing the present house under the firm name of 
Tucker, Anthony, & Co. Mr. Anthony is a mem- 
ber of the Boston Athletic Association, and of the 
P.oston Art, Algonquin, Exchange, Puritan, and 
Essex County clubs. He w-as married June i, 
1887, to Miss Hattie Pitts Peirce Weeks, daughter 
of Andrew G. Weeks, of Boston. I'hey have two 
children : Andrew Weeks and Ruth. 




JAMES F. BABCOCK. 



liABCOCK, Jamks Fr.ancis, chemist, was born 
in Boston, February 22, 1844, son of Archibald 
1). and Fanny F. (Richards) Babcock. His an- 
cestors w-ere among the earliest settlers of Ma.s- 

sachusetts. His education was acquired in the Library Association. He has been president of 
Quincy Grammar and the English High schools the Quincy School Association, and in 1894 was 
of Boston and at the Lawrence Scientific School elected president of the Boston Druggists' Asso- 



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MKN OF PROGRESS. 



ci.ition. He is fa\oral)lv known as a Ivccuni Ifct- 
urer on scientitic subjects, which lie treats in an 
extremely interesting; and popular manner. He 
is the inventor of a chemical tire-engine which has 
come into very general use. Professor Habcock 
has been twice married. His first wife was Mary 
P. Crosby. His present wife was Marion li. dencli 
(born Alden). By his first wife he had three chil- 
dren : Walter C, Frank C, and Marie C. Babcock. 
His eldest son, Lieuten.int W. ('. Babcock, is a 
graduate of the United States Military .\cadeniy 
at West Point. 

BACON, EnwiN Munrok, Boston, editor, \vas 
born in Providence, R.I., October 20, 1844, son 
of Henry and Eliza Ann (Miurroe) Bacon. He 
is of English and Scotch ancestry. His father, 
born in Boston, son of Robert Bacon, a native of 
Barnstable, of an early Cape Cod family, and 
prominent in his day as a manufacturer at Bacon- 
yille (now part of Winchester), was a Universalist 
clergyman and editor, who died in Philadelphia 
when the son was a lad of twelve years. His 
mother was a native of Lexington, and two of 
her ancestors fought in the fight on Lexington 
(Jreen. She was a descendant of William Munroe, 
from Scotland, settled in Lexington in 1660. His 
early education was mainly attained in private 
schools in Providence, Philadelphia, and Boston. 
He finished his studies in an academy at Fox- 
borough, a private and boarding school, which 
flourished for many years under James L. Stone 
as principal, and which fitted many boys for col- 
lege. Prepared for college, he determined not to 
enter, but at once to engage in the work of his 
chosen profession. At the age of nineteen he 
became connected with the lioston Daily Aiiver- 
tise)- as a reporter, Charles Hale at that time 
being editor of the paper. Here he remained 
for several years, and then resigned to take the 
editorship of the Illustrated Chicago News in Chi- 
cago, 111., — an enterprise which enjoyed a very 
brief but reputable career. From Chicago he re- 
turned East, and in the spring of 1868 became 
connected with the New York Times, first as as- 
sistant night editor, subsequently becoming night 
editor, and later managing, or news editor, as the 
position was then called. He was most fortunate 
in securing employment on the Times during the 
life of Henry J. Raymond, its founder. Under 
Mr. Raymond and the late S. S. Conant, general 
news editor during Mr. Raymond's later years, and 



subsei|ucntly managing editor of Harper's ]\'eekl\\ 
he thoroughly learned the journalist's trade. He 
became general news editor during the editorship 
of John Bigelow, who immediately succeeded Mr. 
Raymond. In 1872 Mr. Bacon resigned this posi- 
tion on account of ill-health produced by oxerwork, 
and returned to Boston, where he established him- 
self as the New England correspondent of the Times. 
Subsequently he returned to the staff of the AJ'-er- 
tiser. lirst serving that paper for several months as 
its special correspondent in New York City, and 
then becoming general news editor. In 1S73 he 
was chosen chief editor of the Boston Glohe. and 




EDWIN M. BACON. 

for five years conducted that paper as an inde- 
pendent journal, resigning in 1S7S upon a change 
of policy. He then again returned to the Daily 
Ailvertiser, and assumed the duties of managing 
editor. In the winter of 18S3, upon the retire- 
ment of Edward Stanwood, then chief editor, he 
came into full editorial charge of the Advertiser, 
making it an independent journal, and in the sum- 
mer of 1884 was made associate editor with Pro- 
fessor Charles F. Dunbar, of Harvard College, 
who had previously held the position of chief edi- 
tor of the paper, succeeding Charles Hale. In 
the early autumn of 1S84 he perfected the plan 
and organized the staff of the F.-eiiini^ A'eeard, 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



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begun in Septemljer of that year, by the Daily 
Advertiser corporation, and may be classed with 
George li. Ellis, at that time the publisher of the 
Advertiser, and Professor 1 >unbar, as a founder 
of that publication, which made a most spirited 
start. In January, 1886, when the Advertiser 
passed into control of new hands, and its policy 
was changed, Mr. Bacon retired, and in May. 
that year, was made chief editor of the 15oston 
Post, when that paper was purchased by a num- 
ber of gentlemen known in politics as Indepen- 
dents. Under his editorship the J'ost addressed 
itself to the best citizens in the community as 
a journal of the first class, — independent in 
politics, and fair and candid in its discussion 
of public questions. In the autumn of 1891, 
when the control of the property was sold, Mr. 
Bacon retired ; and he has since been engaged 
in general journalistic and literary work. For 
many years he was the writer of the lioston letter 
to the Springfield Repiil'lieaii, and earlier in his 
career a special correspondent for several West- 
ern journals and for the New York Hve/iiiig Post. 
As a chief editor he has always been identified 
with independent journalism. Mr. Bacon has 
compiled several books on Boston, edited numer- 
ous publications, and written more or less for 
the press upon local historical topics. He is 
the author of " Bacon's Dictionary of Boston " 
(Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1886), the editor of 
" P.oston Illustrated" (Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.), 
and has in press two books on the neighborhood 
of Boston and historic New England. Mr. Bacon 
was married on October 24, 1867, at Somerville, 
to Miss Gusta E. Hill, daughter of Ira and Han- 
nah Hill. They have one daughter : Madeleine 
L. Bacon. 



Committee for several years and as treasurer for 
1889-91. He was a member of the State Senate 
for the Eighth Suffolk District in 1893, when he 
served on the committee on the judiciary, and was 
chairman of the committee on bills in the third 
reading. He drew the bill providing for the pay- 
ment by the county of counsel for defending per- 
sons charged with murder, and secured its pa.s- 
sage. Mr. Baker is a Freemason, a member of 
the Revere Lodge, and of St. .\ndrew's Chapter, 
and De Molay Commandery. Knights Templar, a 
Knight of Pythias, and a memiier of tiie .society 
of Royal (iood Fellows ; and he belongs to the 









HERBERT L. BAKER. 



BAKER, Herhkrt Leslie, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born in l'"ahnouth, .Vugust 
9, 1859, son of Gideon Howe and ( )li\e Elizabeth 
(Crowell) Baker. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Boston University, where he grad- 
uated in June, 1884. He was admitted to the 
bar immediately after graduation from college, and 
has been in active practice since, giving especial 
attention to mercantile and corporation interests. 
He is now president and director of the Plym- 
outh Foundry Company, director of the Plymouth 
Stove Company, and a director of several other 
corporations. In politics he is a Republican, and 
has served on the Ward Twenty-two Republican 



Highland Club and the Winthrop Yacht Club. 

He was married October 22, 1885. to Miss Mary 

Alice Handy. They have three boys : Edward 

• Leslie, Herbert Allison, and .\rnold Brooks Baker. 



B.VKER, JuHX I., of Beverly, was born .Vugust 
16, 18 1 2. in the old town (now city) of Beverly, 
with whose interests he has been closely identified 
during all of his long life, and of which he is now 
its first mayor, chosen by the unanimous vote of 
its citizens. He is the son of Joseph and Lucy 
( Bisson ) Baker. I'he immigrant ancestor of his 
father was John Baker, who came from Norwich, 



838 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



England, to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635. And the 
original Bisson immigrant was Joshua, from Trin- 
ity Parish, in the Isle of Jersey, coming to Beverly 
some time before 1680. John I. Baker left school 
at twelve and a half years of age, first served 
in storekeeping, but soon learned a shoemaker's 
trade, and worked at that and in manufacturing 
for several years. He was also engaged in rubber 
manufacturing, and did much as surveyor and 
arbitrator, and in the settlement of estates. He 
was early and always interested in public affairs. 
He was town clerk when twenty-three years old, 
and for nearly twenty years thereafter, serving 
half of that time also as selectman. He was 
chosen count)' commissioner in 1847-50-53; 
was representative in the General Court in 1840, 
and between that year and 1884 served eighteen 
years, in eight of which he, as senior member, 
called the house to order and presided during its 
organization: and was in the Senate in 1863 and 
1864; in the Council with Governor Banks in 
i860, and with Governor .\ndrew in the stirring 
times of 1861. He was in close relation with the 
former in helping settle the Rhode Island boundary 
question and other important matters under his 
administration, and was in intimate and active 
co-operation with the latter, fitting out all the 
Massachusetts troops during the first year of the 
war ; and in all its subsequent years, through all 
of (Governor .\ndrew's administrations, continued 
in close fellowship with him. Mr. Baker has for 
more than a half-century served with most of the 
public men of Massachusetts, and enjoyed much 
of their confidence and good will. He has also 
received kindly consideration from the governors 
of the Commonwealth. He was appointed ju.stice 
of the peace by Governor Everett in 1838, and 
has been continuously reappointed. Governor 
Briggs made him a special railroad commissioner 
in 1845, under a law professedly designed to re- 
lieve the legislature from the numerous applica- 
tions for railroad charters, the effort being to 
compel all such applications to be made to these 
railroad commissioners ; but, this being considered 
too restrictive of popular rights, compromise was 
effected, and the bill made merely permissive, in 
which shapes it was practically inoperative, and 
was soon repealed. Governor Banks appointed 
him inspector of Rainsford Island Hospital in 
i860. Governor Andrew made him inspector- 
general of fish in 1865, in which office he was suc- 
ceeded by General Cogswell, when, at the urgent 



request of Governor Bullock, he accepted the posi- 
tion of State liquor commissioner in 1866, which 
he held without criticism so long as the law con- 
tinued. In 1883 Governor Butler appointed him 
to his present position as harbor and land com- 
missioner. He was reappointed in 1886 by Gov- 
ernor Robinson, in 1889 by Governor Ames, in 
1892 by Governor Russell, and in 1895 by Gov- 
ernor Greenhalge. In his legislative life Mr. 
Baker has served on about all the important com- 
mittees, and has held pronounced opinions on 
the important questions of the day. He partici- 
pated in the early movement for the development 




JOHN I. BAKER. 

of the Back Bay in Boston and also of the South 
fSoston Flats, and has often aided in legislation 
designed to promote those interests ; and he now 
serves on a board which has had each of those 
enterprises in charge. He was identified with the 
legislation for railroads very early, and helped 
promote their progress, serving often on the rail- 
road committees ; and, while chairman of the com- 
mittee on the part of the house in 1869, he 
succeeded in getting passed the act establishing 
a board of railroad commissioners, substantially 
as the board now existing. From the start to the 
finish, he was a believer in and supporter of what 
Governor Andrew well called "the trrand enter- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



839 



prise of tunut-lling the Hoosac Mountain." His 
interest in the cause of education and in all 
humanitarian causes has been constant and con- 
tinuous. At home he is connected with many 
brotherhood organizations. He is president of 
Liberty Masonic Association, which has recently 
increased the size of its valuable block. He was 
president of the Bass River Association, which 
built the well-planned and roomy Odd Fellows' 
lilock. He was chairman of the committee w'hich 
built the spacious and ele!j;anl First liaptist 
Church. And, as to the public works of his city, 
he has been prominent in them all. Karly in life 
Mr. Baker was active in promoting the twin re- 
forms of temperance and anti-slavery, and for 
more than half a century he has been a pro- 
nounced teetotaler prohibitionist and abolitionist. 
He was secretary of the convention at Worcester 
in 1854, called to organize the first Republican 
party in Massachusetts, and was associated with 
Charles Sumner, John A. Andrew, Francis W. 
Bird, the brothers Pierce, and other pioneer anti- 
slavery politicians, in maintaining a Republican 
organization in the memorable Know Nothing 
Campaign of 1854. And in the Rockwell and 
Fremont campaigns he was also active, and was 
one of those that helped on the union which made 
N. P. Banks governor in 1857, and earnestly 
aided in the nomination and election of John A. 
Andrew as governor in i860. And so he con- 
tinued in close alliance with the Republican 
organization until 1870. While still devoted to 
the fundamental principles of that party, of equal 
rights, burdens, and power, yet dissatisfied with 
the tendenc\- in this State as to more liberal legis- 
lation upon the liquor question, he then joined in 
an independent organization in protest against 
such tendency; and again in 1S75, running that 
year as nominee for governor upon a similar issue, 
receiving more than 9,000 votes, and in 1876 over 
12,000. He still believes the questions of teeto- 
talism and prohibition to be of paramount impor- 
tance, and has faith in their ultimate triumph. 
When General Butler at the earliest outbreak of 
the Civil War promptly and earnestly oft'ered his 
services to the State and country in whatever posi- 
tion he might be placed, Mr. Baker was warmly 
interested in him, and was ever after his firm 
friend. He was one of General Butlers most 
earnest supporters for Congress in the Esse.v Dis- 
trict, and afterward endeavored to help nominate 
him for governor in the Republican State con- 



vention, when, it was asserted, he was unfairly 
counted out. Continuing his steadfast friendship, 
he again earnestly supported General Butler, when 
the latter made his somewhat independent run for 
governor in 1878 and 1879, again in 1882, when 
he was elected, and as earnestly in 1883. when, 
although his vote increased nearly 20,000, the 
great rally of the Republican organization with its 
then Mugwump support defeated him by nearly 
10,000 majority. And so Mr. Baker stood Gen- 
eral Butler's tried friend till the latter"s death, 
since which event it has been great consolation to 
him to hear the many tributes to the ability, gen- 
erosity, and patriotism of the distinguished dead. 
And similar consolation has come to Mr. Baker 
upon finding those who have sharply differed from 
him on public matters ultimately approving his 
course. Not only has Mr. Baker shared largely 
in the acquaintance of the public men of his na- 
tive Commonwealth, but also of many of those of 
national renown ; and his public life has brought 
him more or less in contact with foreign celebri- 
ties, notably with Kossuth during his visit in 
1852, and the Prince of Wales in i860, on both of 
which occasions Boston was crowded by an enthu- 
siastic throng. On the latter occasion he partici- 
pated in a memorable lunch given by the governor 
and council in their ante-chamber to the prince 
and his suite, there being also present the Su- 
preme Court judges. Senators Sumner and Wil- 
son, ex-Governor Everett, ex-Judge Shaw, Com- 
modore Hudson, United States Navy, Collector 
Whitney, President Felton of Harvard, the Hon. 
Hannibal Hamlin. Governor Denni.son of Ohio, 
Speaker Goodwin, and the Hon. Charles A. 
Phelps, president of the Senate. I'he last-men- 
tioned, with the Hon. Charles F. Swift and Mr. 
Baker, both of the council, are the only .\nierican 
survivors, unless there are some of the military 
contingent, consisting of Major-General Andrew 
and staff, who still survive. The Hon. Samuel O. 
ITpham, who was messenger to the governor and 
council at that time, is yet active as one of the 
Middlesex County commissioners. Heredity is sug- 
gested as having some connection with Mr. Baker's 
long-continued interest in public affairs ; and a 
list of a number of his early ancestors gives some 
evidence of the probabilities in the case. Among 
these were Samuel Symonds, from near Topsfield, 
England, to Ipswich in 1637, who became a lead- 
ing citizen in town and colony, a deputy, an " as- 
sistant," and finally a deputy governor from 1673 



840 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to his death in 1678 ; Captain Timothy Baker, son 
of John, the immigrant to Ipswich, a captain of 
troop, and a deputy for nine years ; Thomas 
Baker, a leading man of affairs in Topsfield ; the 
Capens, originally from Dorchester, England, to 
Dorchester, Mass., in 1636, — several of them 
prominent in affairs; Oliver Purchis, of Dor- 
chester, 1635, later of Lynn, some time a deputy, 
and, as Newhall's " History of Lynn " says, " long 
an active and conspicuous man here '' ; Samuel 
Appleton, in Ipswich in 1635, a deputy in 1637, 
and prominent in public affairs of town and 
colony until his death in 1G70, at the age of 
eighty-four ; the Thorndikes, the first immigrant 
being John Thorndike, among the first thirteen 
settlers of Ipswich, a leader in the colony, and his 
son, Captain Paul Thorndike, one of the first 
selectmen of the town of Beverly, a representa- 
tive in 1682, and long prominent in both civil and 
military affairs ; William Hathorne, in Salem in 
1636, of whom Upham says: " \o man in our 
annals fills a larger space. As soldier command- 
ing important and difficult e.xpeditions, as counsel 
in cases before the courts, as judge on the bench, 
and in innumerable other positions requiring 
talent and intelligence, he was constantly called 
to serve the public '" : he was an assistant seven- 
teen years, and a deputy twenty years ; Lawrence 
Leach, one of the first selectmen of Salem in 
1636, and often after, and otherwise prominent; 
and John Woodbury, one of the leading char- 
acters among the old planters, first at Cape Ann 
and afterward making the first permanent settle- 
ment in Massachusetts Bay, at Salem in 1626. 
Mr. Baker married Miss H. Ellen Masury, daugh- 
ter of Captain Stephen and Mary (Cressy) Ma- 
sury. They have a son and daughter : John 
Stevens and Bessie Allen Baker. All the fam- 
ily take an active interest in whatever seems to 
make for the good of the city of Beverly, its 
people, and its institutions. The daughter is an 
active factor in the Beverly Improvement Society 
and kindred enterprises, and takes much inter- 
est in the charities and services of the Episco- 
pal church. The son is also interested in the 
work of that church ; is of the brotherhood of 
St. Andrew, and other organizations helping 
church work. He is connected with the Masonic 
brotherhood. The ancestors of Mrs. Baker in- 
clude several of those of her husband. Her 
father. Captain Stephen Masury, was a ship- 
master of that "Island of Jersey" stock which 



has furnished many .skilful navigators. He was 
connected with the families of Masury, Archer, 
Townsend, and others in Salem : and, in Beverly, 
with the Woodbury, Dodge, Gage, Stone, Patch, 
and other families, Captain John Dodge, son of 
Farmer William, an early representative and town 
officer, being one of his ancestors, as was also 
Captain Moses Gage, master mariner, whose wife 
was Sarah, daughter of Captain Dodge. Captain 
Masury died- in 1874, aged seventy-four, having 
spent a large part of his life as officer and com- 
mander on shipboard. He commanded f<jr many 
years the brig " Nereus," which sailed for Homer 
& Sprague, from India Wharf in Boston to Man- 
sanilla, with almost the regularity of a packet. 
He also made many voyages to the East Indies, 
the Mediterranean, and to England, and was 
alike a successful navigator and an enterprising 
citizen. Mrs. Baker's mother was a daughter 
of Maxwell and Joanna (Green) Cressy, among 
whose ancestors were John Cressy, John Green, 
and John Batchelder, large landholders at Rial 
Side in Beverly, and John Lovett, Thomas Tuck, 
and other early settlers and landholders in other 
sections of the city, one of whom was Andrew 
Eliot, the first town clerk of Beverly, representa- 
tive, etc., and also ancestor of President Eliot of 
Harvard University. 



BARBOLTR, WrLLi.\M, of Boston, manufacturer, 
was born in Reading, now Wakefield, Septem- 
ber 10, 1853, son of Joseph and Isabella (Man- 
ning) Barbour. His father came to this country 
about the year 1845 from Melbourne, Derbyshire, 
England : and his mother was of Boston. He 
was left fatherless at the age of three. His edu- 
cation was acquired in the public schools of 
Reading, which he attended until he was sixteen 
years old, when he was obliged to go to work. 
In his early boyhood he showed a great interest 
in mechanics. He was first engaged in the furni- 
ture business, which he followed until he reached 
his majority, when he was in charge of a factory 
employing forty men. At about this time he, 
with others, formed a company for the manufact- 
ure of hair brushes, and continued in this busi- 
ness for ten years. Then he entered his present 
business, farming a copartnership with F. L. 
Skinner, under the name of the Boston I'aper Box 
Company ; and two and a half years later he 
succeeded to the entire business. He confines 



I\rEN OF PROGRESS. 



841 



himsdf to the manufacture of the tincst grade of for five years with Solomon Noung M.IJ. of 



boxes, and has carried the trade to a high state 
of perfection. Mr. Barbour was married Janu 




WILLIAM BARBOUR. 

ary i, 1877, to Miss Anna Maria Eaton, of Read- 
ing. They have one child : Marion Lucy Bar- 



bour. 



B.ARTLET'r. Clarence Samuel, M.D.. of 
Gardner, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Pittsfiekl, July 14, 1868, son of Jonathan W. and 
Sarah F. (Emerson) Bartlett. He is of the Bart- 
lett family which came from England to Plymouth 
in the "Mayflower." From farmers they have 
risen to prominent place in the different profes- 
sions. Among the prominent descendants are 
Dr. S. .\. Bartlett, of South Bend, Ind., Joseph 
IJartlett and James Johnson, lawyers, uncle and 
cousin, respectively, of Clarence S. John Young, 
his great-uncle, fought in the War of 18 12, and 
was promoted from private to lieutenant ; and 
others served the country in the Civil War, as 
members of Company C, Eighteenth New Hamp- 
shire Regiment, and of Company F, 'J'welfth New 
Hampshire. Clarence S. was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of his native town, at the I'ittsfield 
.Vcademy and the High School, from both of 
which he Graduated. He then studied medicine 



Pittsfiekl, and at the Dartmouth Medical College, 
where he graduated June 20, 1892. On the third 
of July following he was appointed interne at the 
Massachusetts State Almshouse in Tewksbury, 
and served in that capacity and as house officer 
until September 19, 1893, when he was appointed 
house physician at the New Hampshire Insane 
Asylum. In February, 1895, he began the gen- 
eral practice of medicine and surgery in Gard- 
ner. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, and of the New Hampshire 
Medical Society, and of the Dartmouth .Munini 
Association. He was lieutenant and captain of 
the Pittsfiekl company of the Sons of ^■eterans in 
1885-86, and chief templar of the order of (Jrand 
Templars in 1 88 1-84. He is much interested in 




Wi 



CLARENCE S. BARTLETT. 

boating, and is a ineiiiber of the Gardner Boat 
Club, whose boat-house is on the shore of Crystal 
Lake. Dr. Bartlett is unmarried. 



DARrLEir. R.vi.i'H SvLVKsri-.K, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, 
born in the town of Eliot, April 29, 1868. son of 
Sylvester and Clementine (Raitt) Bartlett. His 
early education was acquired in the country 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



schools of Eliot ; and he fitted for college at Ber- 
wick Academy, South Berwick, Me., in the class 
of 1885. Entering Dartmouth, he graduated there 




until :86o, when Mr. Belden retired from business. 
On the paternal side his ancestors came from 
England to New England in the seventeenth cent- 
ury. His mother, born in Fall River in May, 
18 1 5, was a direct descendant of the Soule fam- 
ily of the '• Mayflower '" passengers. He was edu- 
cated at his father's school and at the Univer.sity 
School of Providence, R.I., a well-known private 
school kept by the Messrs. Lyon. After gradu- 
ating from the latter in 1870, he entered the 
employ of the Boston and Providence Railroad 
Companw where he remained until 1874. Then, 
removing to Boston, he engaged in tlie real estate 
business and the placing of mortgage loans, which 
lie followed until 1891, when he promoted and 
organized the now famous F. E. Belden Mica 
Mining Company, the largest mica mining com- 
pany in the country. He has been treasurer of 
this company since its organization. Mr, Belden 
was married first to Miss Nellie A, Pierce, of 
Boston, wlio died in August, 1881, leaving a 
daughter, Marion Pierce Belden, He married 
second, in 1884, Miss Nettie M. Perkins, of 
Boston. She died in .\pril, 1887, leaving a son, 



RALPH S. BARTLETT. 

in June, 1889, with the degree of A.B. Mr. Bart- 
lett's legal training was obtained at the Boston 
University Law School, from which he received 
the degree of LL.B. in June, 1892. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 26, 1892, and has 
since been engaged in active practice in Boston. 
He is an enlisted member of the First Corps of 
Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ; also a 
member of the University and the Dartmouth 
Clubs, of Boston. In politics Mr. Bartlett is a 
Republican. He is unmarried. 



BELDEX, F. Euc.ENE, of Boston, of the F. E. 
Belden Mica Mining Company, is a native of 
Rhode Island, born in Nortli Providence, May 31, 
1851, son of Stanton and Antoinette P, (Man- 
chester) Belden. His father, born in Sandisfield, 
Mass., January 15, 1808, graduated from Yale 
College in 1833, and a teacher by profession, set- 
tled in Rhode Island after his graduation, and 
opened the Fruit Hill Classical Institute, North 
Providence, which became a celebrated academy 
known throughout the country, and was continued 




F. EUGENE BELDEN. 



Stanton Perkins Belden. On June 27, 1895, 
he married Miss Grace May Emerton, of Rum- 
ney, N.H. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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BLANCHAK]), Samukl Edson, of ]5oston, en- 
graver, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Wilton, October 28, 1869, son of Sumner and 
lennie C'hloe (IJoynton) IJlancIiard. He was 
educated in the public school of his native 
place and at the McCoUoni Institute, Mt. Ver- 
non, N.H., where he graduated in the class of 
1886. Then, coming to Boston, he took a busi- 
ness course in Comer's Commercial College. He 
began business life in 1887 as book-keeper for 
Fuller, Dana. e\: Fitz, No. iio North Street, 
in which position he continued for five years. 
Then he engaged in the photo-engraving busi- 
ness on his own account, establishing himself 
at No. G20 .\tlantic Avenue, and subsequently, 
joining Charles A. \\'atts, then of the Boston 
Illustrating Compan\', formed the lUanchard- 
W'atts Engraving Company, of which he has 
since been the treasurer. Mr. Blanchard is a 
Master Workman, member of Norfolk Lodge, No. 
178, Ancient Order of United Workmen. In 
politics he is a Democrat, and an active member 
of the Young Men"s Democratic Club of Massa- 
chusetts. He was married March 8, 1892, to 



BRAGDON. HoR.vcK Ei.wood. M.D.. of Bos- 
ton, was born in East Boston, August 15, 1867, 
son of Byron Francis and .\ngie (Ehvoodj Brag- 




HORACE E. BRAGDON. 




S. E. BLANCHARD. 



don. He is of early New England ancestry, and 
ancestors of his were in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
He was educated in the Chapman Grammar and 
the High School of East Boston, graduating from 
the latter in 1886. His medical training was 
at the Harvard Medical School, where he gradu- 
ated in 1890, and in the Boston City Hospital. 
He was house surgeon at the City Hospital in 
1890-91. He began practice in 1891 in the Le- 
high \'alley, Pennsylvania, but, after about half 
a year .spent there, returned to East Boston, which 
has since been his professional field. He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society 
and of the Boston City Hospital Club. He is 
connected with King Philip Lodge, Knights of 
Pythias, and with the Odd Fellows, a member of 
the Zenith Lodge. In politics he is a Republican. 
Dr. Bragdon was married June 13. 1894,10 Miss 
E. Mabel Dillaway, who comes of an old New 
England family. 



Miss Addie Florence Carter. They have two BREED, Richard, of Lynn, merchant, is a 

children: Dorothy Boynton, and Samuel F:ds<m native of Lynn, born March 21, 1818. .son of Sam- 
Fjlanchard, Jr. 



ucl and Annie (Allen) I5reed. His birthplace was 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



the family homestead, an ancient dwelling still 
standing, at the corner of Summer and Orchard 
Streets, West Lynn, called Breed's End, part of 
which is over two hundred years old. The house 
is on a part of the grant of land made to Allen 
Breed in 1638, when the town lands were divided, 
which originally embraced two hundred acres, 
and is still in the possession of the family. Mr. 
Breed is a direct descendant, the seventh in line, 
of Allen Breed, who came to Lynn in 1630. 
When a lad of ten, his father having died three 
years before, leaving his mother with five children 
and no property except twenty-five acres of land 
then not marketable, he was sent to his grand- 
father's home in Eliot, Me. He started in the 
old stage-coach alone, for a long day's ride; and. 
as he tells it, a more lonesome, homesick little boy 
— for he was small of his age — never left home. 
He remained in Eliot four years, going to school 
a small part of the time, and working hard on the 
farm the remainder, in many things being obliged 
to do a man's work ; for the folk of those days 
were hard taskmasters, who thought that hard 
work was about the only thing in life. Upon his 
return to Lynn he learned the shoemaker's trade, 
on the seat, in the old-fashioned way. At the age 
of seventeen, his mother helping him to buy a 
horse, he gave up shoemaking, and undertook 
farming, doing odd jobs with his team whenever 
opportunity offered. In a year or two he was able 
to buy a second horse, and he continued at this 
work until he reached his majority. Then he 
worked on neighboring farms until the building of 
the old Eastern Railroad was begun from Boston 
to Salem, in 1836, when his teams were employed 
on that work. After the completion of the road to 
Salem, and its opening in 1838, he became fore- 
man of teamsters for the contractor building from 
Salem to Newburyport. His next venture was in 
the milk business in 1844, keeping ten or a dozen 
cows. Four years later, in I'ebruary, 184S, he 
began, in connection with his brother Aza, to run 
teams over the turnpike to Boston, having bought 
out a small express business. When the return 
loads were light, they bought small lots of flour 
and grain in Boston, and peddled them around 
Lynn the following forenoon, making their regular 
trips to the city in the afternoon ; and this was 
the modest beginning of the extensive flour and 
grain business with which Mr. Breed has from 
that time been identified. The express business 
was continued until 1872, when, having largely de- 



veloped, it was sold out at a profit. In 1857 the 
firm moved into the old Lynn hotel building in 
Market Square. Two years later larger quarters 
were taken in the Taylor Building. In 1871 re- 
moval was again made, this time to Lynn Com- 
mon, and the hay business was added. In 1888 
the Rhodes estate, so called, across the way, was 
purchased, and more room obtained for the grow- 
ing business; and in 1892 the firm built new and 
larger storehouses, so that at the present time its 
plant is second to none in its trade in New Eng- 
land. In 1887 Mr. Breed's brother Aza retired 
from the firm on account of ill-health ; and Rich- 




RICHARD BREED. 

ard's son, Charles ( )rrin Breed, who had been for 
many years with the concern, was admitted to part- 
nership in the firm of Breed &: Co. During his 
forty-eight years in the flour and grain trade Mr. 
Breed has kept in line with the foremost. He 
was the first to introduce cotton-seed meal into 
Lynn as a cattle-feed ; he bought the first carload 
of wheat for hen-feed ; and he bolted the first 
meal for baker's use in Lynn. He is the oldest 
business man in Lynn to-day. still in active life, 
and engaged without change in the business which 
he started on the first of February, 1848. He is 
hale and hearty, and enjoys work and business as 
well as ever. He has never failed, but has always 



MEN OF I'ROGRKSS. 



S45 



livL-d up to his obligations. He passed safely 
through the panics of 1857 and 1872, when so 
many succumbed under the financial pressure. 
On a long shelf in his ofiice stands forty-seven 
lio.xes. each one marked " Paid bills for a year," 
which tell well the story of the way in which his 
house has weathered all the fuianciai storms, and 
paid in the old-fashioned way, always one hun- 
dred cents on the dollar. Mr. ]^reed has also 
been a large purchaser of land within the city 
limits, and at one time, with his brothers, owned 
over one hundred acres. What is now known as 
Orchard Park was a part of their holdings, sold 
by them in 1890. Mr. Breed served in the Lynn 
Common Council in 1864 and 1865, the War 
Council, and was for some time a member of the 
Hoard of Overseers of the Poor. In politics he 
was always opposed to slavery, and joined the old 
Liberty party ; was one of only twenty-fiv'e in 
Lynn to vote for James G. Birney, the first candi- 
date of the anti-slavery party. From this party 
sprang later the Republican party, whose fortunes 
he followed until 1880. Since then he has been a 
strong Prohibitionist. Born a Quaker, since 1842 
he has been a Methodist, for upward of fifty years 
an officer in the South Street Methodist Church 
of Lynn. For more than a quarter of a century 
lie held the office of treasurer of the society. Mr. 
Breed was married January 26, 1843, to Miss 
F.liza Ann Breed, of another branch of the Breed 
family so long identified with I^ynn. Their union 
was a long and happy one. closing with Mrs. 
Breed's death in September, 1890. 'Phey had 
four children, three of whom are still living : 
Laura E. (deceased), Annie E.. now Mrs. J. A. 
Mint. Matilda, and Charles Orrin Breed. 



BROOKS, Phillips, sixth bishop of Massachu- 
setts Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in 
Boston, December 13, 1835 ; died in Boston, 
January 23, 1893. He was a son of William Gray 
and Mary Ann (Phillips) Brooks, and descended 
on both sides from Puritan clergymen. — on the pa- 
ternal side from the Rev. John Cotton, and on the 
maternal side from the Phillips family, founders of 
the famous Andover academies, in which were 
three eminent ministers : the Rev. Samuel Phillips, 
who came from England in 1630, and was pastor 
of the Watertown colony ; his son, the Rev. 
Samuel Phillips, of Rowley, Mass.. and his grand- 
son, the Rev. Samuel Phillips, of .Andover, who 



was grandfather of Samuel Phillips, who gave the 
larger part of the funds for the foundation of the 
Andover Theological Seminary. He was also of 
a family of clergymen, having been one of four 
brothers ordained to the Episcopal ministry. His 
father, for forty years a hardware merchant in Bos- 
ton, was a leading member of St. Paul's Church. 
Phillips Brooks's boyhood was passed in Boston. 
He was educated in the lio.ston Latin School and 
at Harvard College, which he entered at the age 
of si.xteen. After his graduation, in 1855. he was 
usher in the Boston Latin School for about a year, 
and then, deciding to enter the ministry, went to 
Alexandria, Xa., where he pursued a course of 
study in the Protestant Episcopal Theological 
Seminary of that city. He was ordained in 1859, 
and his first settlement was as rector of the 
Church of the Advent in Philadelphia. Three 
years later he was called to the Church of the 
Holy Trinity in the same city, where he remained 
until his call, in 1869, to the rectorship of Trinity 
Church, Boston, with which he was identified for 
nearly a quarter of a century. He early became 
one of the prominent figures in Boston, and from 
the pulpit of Trinity his fame spread far and wide. 
During his long service he declined numerous 
calls to other churches, and also the Plummer 
Professorship of Christian Morals and Preacher 
to the University, which office was offered and 
urged upon him in 18S1. In 1880, in 1882-83, 
and again in 1892 he made extended visits to 
F-ngland, where he preached in notable places to 
notable congregations. During the tour of 1882- 
83, which was of a year's duration and extended 
to the continent, he was accompanied by his 
brother, the Rev. John Cotton Brooks ; and both 
of them preached in St. Botolph Church in old 
Boston, Lincolnshire, where their ancestor, John 
Cotton, preached two and a half centuries before. 
He also delivered, by invitation of Dean Stanley, 
a sermon before the queen in the Chapel Royal at 
the Savoy, London, and preached in numerous 
other London churches, among them St. Mark's, 
Upper Hamilton Terrace ; Westminster Abbey : 
St. Margaret's Church, Westminster ; Christ 
Church, Lancaster Gate; St. Mark's, Kensing- 
ton : St. Paul's Cathedral, 'Pemple Church, and 
Christ Church, Marylebone ; besides in W'ells 
Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and St. Peter-at- 
Archer, Lincoln. .After his return home these 
sermons were published in book form, under the 
title of " Sermons preached in English Churches." 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



His later journeyings were extended to India and 
Japan. In 1886 he was elected assistant bishop 
of Pennsylvania, but declined the office. He was 
elected bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts 
in 189 1 to succeed Bishop Paddock, who died the 
previous year, and entered into the arduous work 
of the bishopric with zeal and energy. His death, 
occurring suddenly after a brief illness, was a 
great shock to the community, in which he was 
universally beloved ; and his public funeral, part of 
the services being performed in the open air in 
front of Trinity, was attended by a multitude. 
Soon after his burial a generous fund was raised 




PHILLIPS BROOKS. 

for a statue or monument to his memory, to be 
placed in the green in front of the church portal; 
and the commission for the work was given to the 
sculptor, .St. Gaudens. Of Dr. Brooks's character- 
istics and power as a preacher a well-known 
journalist and critical writer has given this admi- 
rable and just estimate : " There is little in his 
oratory, — that lifting of the head and throwing out 
of the broad chest, or that, to the hearer, terribly 
rapid reading of his manuscript, — there is little in 
that to account for the power of this modern 
Chrysostom, any more than there was anything in 
the manuscript delivery of spectacled Theodore 
Parker to account for his success. In each case 



the sermon is cast at a heat, forged for the occa- 
sion, the product of a full heart and mind, couched 
in the simplest language, and burdened with the 
glow of a nature that feels the importance of its 
message, and yearns to bring it home to the in- 
most heart of that humanity which it believes in 
and loves. If anybody has magnetism, kindling 
power, rapport, glow, it is Phillips Brooks. It is 
an enthusiasm derived from his faith in his work 
and from his love for souls. His daily bearing is 
that of delicate yet genial seriousness ; he is al- 
ways in high atmospheres ; always in his sermons 
you get the sweep and freshness and scope of the 
broadest views, the subtlety of common truths 
seen in a new light, a nourishment like that of 
sweet bread, and a way of winning a truth into 
your heart before you are aware of it. He is 
frank, simple, clear, logical, earnest." Dr. lirooks 
published numerous volumes of sermons and 
lectures, the list including the following: '"The 
Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln" (Philadel- 
phia, 1865); "Our Mercies of Reoccupation " 
(Philadelphia, 1865); "The Living Church" 
(Philadelphia, 1869); "Sermon preached before 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of 
Boston " (Boston, 1872); "Address delivered May 
30, 1873, at the dedication of Andover Memo- 
rial Hall" (.\ndover, 1873): " Lectures on Preach- 
ing, Yale College " (New York, 1877); "Sermons" 
(New York, 1878); "The Influence of Jesus," the 
Bohlen lecture delivered in Philadelphia in 1879 
(New Vork, 1879); "Pulpit and Popular Scepti- 
cism" (New York, 1879); "The Candle of the 
Lord, and Other Sermons" (New York, 1883); 
" Sermons preached in English Churches " (New 
N'ork, 1883); "Twenty Sermons" (New York, 
1886); and "Tolerance," two lectures to divinity 
students (New York, 1887). Dr. Brooks received 
the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1877. He 
was unmarried. 



BROWN, Charles Free.m.an, of Boston, patent 
attorney, is a native of Maine, born in Hampden, 
October 21, 1848, son of John and Deborah 
(Freeman) Brown. His great-great-grandfather, 
John Brown, was one of the Scotch-Irish colonists 
who emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, and 
settled in Londonderry, N.H., about 1750, and be- 
came one of the first settlers and one of the first 
selectmen of Belfast, Me., settling there in 1760. 
He was one of the three who refused to take the 



MKN UK PKOGRKSS. 



847 



oath of allegiance to the ISritish king prior to the in 1894 formed a copartnership with William 
Revolution, and for this reason was compelled to (^uinby, of Washington, under the firm name 
abandon his land at Belfast until the close of the of Wright. Brown, & Quinby. Mr. Brown has 

served one term (1881) in the lower hou.se of 
tile Legislature, representing Reading, North 
Reading, and Wilmington, and two terms (1893 
and 1894) in the .Senate, senator for the Sixth 
Middlesex ])istrict; and in Reading, where he 
resides, he was a member of the School Com- 
mittee from t88o to 18S4. He was a director 

of the I'irst National Bank of Reading from 1892 

'^ ^ ^H^B to 1894. In politics he is a Republican. He is 

a Freemason, member of the (Jood Samaritan 
Lodge, and a member of the Pine Tree State, the 
Middlesex, and the Reading .Athletic clubs. Mr. 
Brown was married September 24, 1874, to Miss 
Elizabeth A. Harrison, of Newark. N.J. They 
ha\e three children: .Arthur H.. (iertrude ("., and 
Sidney F. Brown. 



BROWN. Damki, J..sKi.|i, .M.I)., of Springfield, 
was born in Milfortl. J.inuary 28, 1861, son of 
Cieorge (i. M. and Helen ( C'ronani Brown. His 




CHARLES F. BROWN. 



war. Mr. Brown's great-grandfather and grand- 
father were each named John, were born at Bel- 
fast, and lived uneventful lives there. His father, 
also named John, was born in Belfast, and re- 
moved to Hampden in early life, where for many 
years he was a neighbor, friend, and political sup- 
porter of the late Vice-President, Hannibal Ham- 
lin. Mr. Brown was educated in the common 
schools of Hampden and at Hampden .Academy. 
His training for professional life was in patent 
law offices at Washington, D.C, and in the otifice 
of the Hon. Carroll I). Wright (now- commissioner 
of labor) in Boston. He first entered the patent 
law office of Brown &: Beadle, Washington, in 
1867, and remained there till 1869, then came to 
the Boston office of Mr. Wright, later returned 
to Washington, and in 1874 returned again to 
Boston, and formed a partnership with Mr. 
Wright, under the firm name of Wright iV Brown, 
patent attorneys and solicitors. This partner- 
ship continued till 1877, when Mr. Wright re- 
tired to devote his entire time to statistical work. 
Thereafter Mr. Brown continued in business alone 
for several years under the same firm name, and 




DANIEL J. BROWN. 

ancestors were among the early settlers of Quincy, 
and a portion of his early life was spent there. 
He attended the Milford grammar and High 



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MKX OF PROGRESS. 



schools, and entered the Montreal College, taking 
the full classical course, remaining there seven 
years. He then entered Harvard for special 
courses, and received the degree of M.D. from 
Harvard Medical School in 1886. He has had 
an e-xtensive hospital experience, having attended 
the clinics in many of the hospitals of the United 
States. He established himself in Springfield in 
1889, and has since been engaged in a steadily 
increasing practice among leading families of the 
city. He has been especially successful in sur- 
gery, which branch he prefers. He is now medi- 
cal examiner for the National Life Insurance 
Company of Montpelier, Vt. Dr. Brown is a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
and was councillor for the society from the Hamp- 
den District ; and he belongs to the Masonic and 
Odd Fellows orders, in the former advanced to 
the thirty-second degree, including the Mystic 
Shrine. His club affiliations are with the Nyas- 
set, the Bicycle, and the Sheomet clubs of Spring- 
field. While in college he was interested in gym- 
nasium work. He indulged heartily in all athletic 
sports. In politics he is a Republican. He was 
married June 24, 1892, to Miss Mary F^thel 
Marden, daughter of Ceorge and Lucy Manley 
Marden, of rotsdam, N.V. 



evinced talent of a high order as a performer 
on both pianoforte and organ, and was much 
thought of by the then director, the late Dr. Eben 




J. D BUCKINGHAM. 



BUCKIXaH.\M, John- Di:ncan, of Boston, 
professor. New England Conservatory of Music, 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Huntingdon, 
Juniata County, May 17, 1855, son of the Rev. 
N. S. Buckingham and Margaret Morris (Dun- 
can) Fjuckingham. His father was an eloquent 
preacher, member of the Baltimore Conference 
and Central Pennsylvania Conference of the 
Methodist F^piscopal Church, widely known and 
universally beloved. He is on the paternal side 
of an old Virginia family, dating from the early 
settlement of Virginia, of English descent, and on 
the maternal side of an equally old Pennsylvania 
family of Scotch descent. He was educated in 
the Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Penna., and 
the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Penna. He 
gave evidence of musical ability at an early age, 
and began regular lessons when a boy of twelve. 
At the age of eighteen, in the autumn of 1873, he 
came to Boston to perfect his musical education, 
subsequently entering the Boston University Col- 
lege of Music (New England Conservatory), and 
graduating in 1879. During his training he 



Tourje'e, who employed him to teach as early as 
1876. He became a full professor of the piano- 
forte in the institution upon his graduation in 
1879, and has held the position from that time. 
He has also served as superintendent of the Nor- 
mal Department of the Conservatory. He is 
popular with pupils and faculty, and has attained 
a respected name among musicians. Many of his 
pupils have established reputations as concert 
players and as teachers throughout the West as 
well as in New England. He has composed 
much, but has published little. He is especially 
well known as an organist, having held several 
prominent positions in Boston churches during 
the past twenty years. He has travelled quite ex- 
tensively, visiting various parts of the United 
States and making several trips to Europe, and 
has met many distinguished European musicians. 
He was president of the Alumni Association of 
the New England Conservatory in 1893 ; and, re- 
signing after one year's service, he became chair- 
man of the board of directors, which position he 
had held for a number of years prior to his elec- 
tion as president. During his term as president 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



849 



he was instrumental in ha\ing erected a memorial 
tablet by the alumni to Dr. Tourje'e, the founder 
of the Conservatory. For a number of years he 
was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Ro.\- 
burv Club, the Boston Athletic Association, the 
Faculty Club (a local club connected with the 
Conservatory, of which he was treasurer), and of 
the Clefs la club of one hundred prominent ISos- 
ton musicians). Afr. Huckingham was married 
|une 8, 1875, to Miss Anna M. Cummings, of 
New Hampsiiire. They have one son: |nlin I). 
lUukinjihani. Jr. ( boi n in 1878). 



BUCKNER, James, of Boston, superintendent 
of the lamp department of the city, is a native of 
Scotland, liorn in Aberdeen, August 9, 1845, son 
(if James and Marjory (McPherson) Buckner. 
He came to this country when he was six years 
old, and was educated in the Boston public 
schools, which he attended imtil his fourteenth 
vear, and not graduating, through an accident, 
tinished at a private school. After leaving school, 
he entered the profession of mechanical engineer- 



I 




JAMES BUCKNER. 



for three or four years. Then he was induced to 
lea\e that business, and take the superintendency 
of the South Boston Ice Company. After three 
years there he bought out the Concord Ice Com- 
pany. I'hree years later he sold that business to 
take a position as export agent for the (leorge H. 
Hammond Company. He remained with the 
Hammond Company for ten years, resigning when 
it was sold to an English syndicate, 'i'hen he 
entered the electrical field, taking the general 
management of an electrical business: and he 
was thus engaged when he was appointed in 1S95, 
by Mayor Curtis, to his present position of super- 
intendent of lamps. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. He is connected with the order of Odd 
F"ellows, and is a member of the Allston Club. 
He was married August 25, 1870, to Miss Ellen 
Frances Tripp, daughter of Abner and Anna 
(Kelleran) Tripp. They have three children: 
Fllen May, Blanche Isabelle, and Malcom Doug- 
las Littlefield Buckner. 



ing, and spent seven years in it. At twenty-one 
he engaged in the grocery, produce, and com- 
mission business, which he followed successfully 



BUMPUS, EvERKi T C, of (^uincy and Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in I'lympton, 
November 28, 1844, son of C. C. and Amelia D. 
Bumpus. He was educated in the public schools 
of Braintree, to which place his parents removed 
when he was a child, graduating from the High 
School. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 
i86i, while preparing for college, at the age of 
sixteen, he joined the army, enlisting in the 
Fourth Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteers : and 
under subsequent re-enlistment he served through 
the greater part of the Rebellion as a private 
soldier and officer. L'pon his discharge from the 
service he took up the study of law, and on May 
10, 1867, was admitted to the Suffolk bar. The 
next year, 1868, he was made trial justice in Wey- 
mouth, and held that position for four years, 
when he was appointed judge of the East Nor- 
folk District Court. In October, 1889. resigning 
the latter position, he was elected in the following 
November election district attorney for the South- 
eastern District. He served as district attorney 
for some four \-ears, when he resigned, and con- 
tinued his practice in P.oston. In October, 1895, 
he was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court 
a member of the board of commissioners to 
apportion among the various cities and towns 
through which the metropolitan sewerage system 
is constructing, their respective share of the cost 



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'KOCRESS. 



of the system for the second five years. He has 
made a specialty of water cases, and is now serv- 
ing upon several commissions relating to this 
branch of the law. Judge Bumpus is a member 
of the St. Botolph, of the Union, Papyrus, and 
Curtis clubs of Boston, and of the Players' Club 
of New York. He was married September 22, 
1868 to Miss Emma F. Russell, of Quincy, who 
died May 22, 1867 ; and on April 23-, 1869, he 
married Miss M. Louise Bates, of Canandaigua, 
N.Y. He has six children, the eldest a graduate 
of Harvard and of the Lawrence Theological ]"'.pis- 
copal School. Two others are at present at Hnr- 



in the law school, he kept books in a store in 
Brighton. He was admitted to the bar in Febru- 
ary. 1883, and at once opened his office in Ros- 




E. C. BUMPUS. 

vard, one preparing to enter .Smith College, and 
the other two are at home. His residence is in 
Quincv. 

BURKE, Francis, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Brighton (now of Boston), 
March 8, 1861, son of James and Catherine 
(Dwyer) Burke. He was educated in the public 
schools, and recei\'ed private instruction under 
Professor J. K.. Humphreys (late of Oxford Col- 
lege, England) in Latin and Greek, with the pur- 
pose of becoming a tutor. Instead, however, he 
took up the study of law, entering the Harvard 
Law School. He was sjraduated in 1882. While 




FRANCIS BURKE. 

ton. His practice has been general, tending 
toward commercial matters : and in late years he 
lias had much business in insolvency and compo- 
sition cases. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
is a member of the Voung Men's Democratic 
Club, (if which he was president in 1893 and 
1894. He is also a member of the Brighton High 
■School .Uumni. and was president of that organi- 
zation in 1890. 



BURRAGE, Ai.HERr Camerox, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Ashburn- 
ham, Worcester County, November 21, 1859, son 
of George Sanderson and Aurelia (Chamberlin) 
Burrage. He is of an old New England family, 
being a direct descendant in the tenth generation 
of John Burrage, who came from England in 1636, 
and settled in ("harlestown. In England the 
family is readily traced back to 1559. On the 
maternal side he comes from early Scotch settlers 
in Vermont. His early education was acquired in 
public and private schools in California, where his 
parents went from Ashburnham in 1862, and from 
which place he returned to Massacluisetts in 1879. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



851 



I'iltcd for college in California, he entered Har- relar_v for three years. He was married Novein- 

vard. and graduated A. II. in the class of 1883. ber 10, 1885, to Miss Alice Hathaway Haskell, 

lie spent two years in the Harvard Law School, daughter of Francis H. and Elizabeth (Russell) 

and was admitted to the bar in Worcester County Haskell. Their children are: Albert C, Jr., 

September 19, 1884. I'hc following year. Decern- Francis H. Rus.sell, and .Fllizabeth Alice Burrage. 

her 22, he was also admitted to the United States 

Circuit Court. Soon after his admission to the 

bar he established liimself in ISoston. and at once 

engaged in active practice. He gave attention 

especially to corporation matters, and in course of 

lime became identified with large interests. He 

is a member of the Boston Transit Commission, 

under which the Subway is being constructed, 

having a five years' appointment, dating from 

1S94, from (Governor Greenhalge. He was a 

member of the Boston Common Council in 1892, 

and a State trustee of the Massachusetts Homceo- 

pathic Hospital from 1890 to 1894. In politics 

Mr. Burrage is a steadfast Republican, and has, 

during his ten years in Boston, always been active 

in party work. He has held various local party 

otifices, — the chairmanship of the Republican 

committee of his ward, and similar positions ; and 

he was for some time assistant secretarv of the 



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ALBERT C. BURRAGE. 



Citizens' Association of Boston. He is a mem- 
ber of the Union Club, the Ro.xbury Club, and 
of the Massachusetts Club, in which he was sec- 



A. p. CALDER. 

C.\LDER, AucusTL's riAi'.onv, of Boston, 
rtorist, was born in Ro.xbury (now of lioston ), 
where he has always resided, .\pril 30, 1S37, 
son of Xathaniel Harris and I-'.thelinda Tristam 
(Clark) Calder. He is of Scotch descent. He 
was reared on a good farm on Warren Street, 
and obtained his education at the old Ro.xbury 
public schools, graduating from the Roxbury F,ng- 
lish High School in the class of 1855. His inter- 
est in floriculture began as a youth, when his father 
gave him and his brother a piece of land to work 
for their own profit. Later on an Englishman 
giving him some violet plants, he began the culti- 
vation of that plant, and shortly after slightly ex- 
tended his work, in course of time finding himself 
seriously engaged as a llorist. For many years 
he has been among the foremost of his calling in 
the city. He is a life member of the ]\Ltssachu- 
setts Horticultural Society, and a past president 
of the Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club, hold- 
ing that position in 1890 at the time of the meet- 



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MEN OK i'Ki)(;KES.S. 



ing in Boston of the National Society of American 
Florists. He has been connected with military 
affairs continuously since 1861, the first year of 
the Civil War, when he enlisted on the second 
day of August. He is a past commander of the 
Roxbury Horse Guards, Troop D, First Battalion 
Cavalry Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, member 
of the Old Guard, and past president of the Horse 
Guards' N'eteran Club. Mr. Calder is also promi- 
nent in fraternal organizations, being a thirty- 
second degree Mason, member of the Washington 
Lodge, Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Joseph 
Warren Commandery, Ro.xbury Council, and a 
foremost member of the Improved Order of Red 
Men, a past great sachem of the Great Council 
of Massachusetts, a great representative of the 
United States Great Council, and member of the 
past sachems' association of Massachusetts. In 
politics he is a Republican, taking an active 
interest in party affairs. He was a charter mem- 
ber of the Boston Marketmen's Republican Club, 
and held the office of vice-president in 1889- 
90-91. Mr. Calder was married December 27, 
1870, to Miss Etta Augusta Upton, of Boston. 
They have six children : Lillian Anna, Etta 
Maude, Augustus Peabody, Edith May, Nathaniel 
Harris, and .\lice Ethelinda Calder. 



CANDAGE, RuFUs Geok(;k Frehkrick, of 
Brookline and Boston, marine surveyor, was born 
in Blue Hill, Maine, July 28, 1S26, son of Samuel 
Roundy and Phiebe ^^'are ( Parker) Candage. 
His great-grandfather, James Candage, went from 
Massachusetts to Blue Hill and settled there with 
his family in 1766, the town having been settled 
by Joseph \\'ood and John Roundy from Be\erly, 
in 1762, but three years before. His grandfather. 
James Candage, Jr., born in Massachusetts May 
g, 1753, went to Blue Hill with his father's fam- 
ily, and there in 1775 married Hannah Roundy, 
daughter of John Roundy. the first settler. She 
died March 12, 1851, in her ninet\-eighth year. 
From James and Hannah sprang Samuel Roundy 
Candage, born January 15, 1781, died December 
23, 1852, the father of the subject of this sketch. 
The family name is an old and honored one in 
England, and has been spelled Cavendish, Can- 
dish, and Candage, custom in this country settling 
upon the latter. Mr. Candage's early education 
was obtained in the public schools of his native 
town and at the Blue Hill Academy. He passed 



his boyhood upon his father's farm and in the 
saw-mill near by, in attendance at the district 
school and at the academy, with occasionally a 
trip in a coaster or fishing vessel. At eighteen 
years of age he gained the consent of his parents 
to take up a sea life : and, with a light heart and a 
determination to master the business and reach 
the highest point attainable in it, his sea-faring 
life began. His early experience was coasting: 
then followed voyages to Southern ports, the West 
Indies, Mediterranean, and F-urope. He was a 
strong, hardy youth, in love with his calling as 
a sailor, and, becoming proficient as a seaman. 




R. C. F. CANDAGE. 

soon passed from the forecastle to the quarter- 
deck. In 1850 he became master of the brig 
" Equator," and made the voyage in her from 
Boston to Valparaiso, Chili. Later he com- 
manded the ships "Jamestown" of New Vork, 
the ■' F.lectric Spark " and the " National Eagle " 
of Boston, on voyages to the principal ports of 
E.urope, Asia. Australia, and America. He lias 
doubled Cape Horn thirteen times, and in all has 
sailed over more than five hundred thousand miles 
of salt water. Captain Candage gave up his sea 
life in 1867, and became a resident of Brookline 
with an office in Boston. In January, 1868, he 
was appointed marine sur\evor by the .\merican 



MEN OF I'KO(;resS. 



s 



3j 



Ship Masters' Association of New \'ork, for the 
Record of American and Foreign Shipping; and 
the same year lie was made marine surveyor for 
the Boston Board of Underwriters. In 1882 lie 
was appointed surveyor for Bureau Veritas of 
Paris, France. For twenty years or more he had 
an office in the old Merchants' Exchange Building, 
lie had an e.\tensi\ e acquaintance with men in 
insurance and shipping circles, — equalled by few. 
When the Shipmasters' Association of New V'ork 
was formed in 1861, Captain C'andage was elected 
its thirteenth member : and in 1867 he was elected 
a member of the Boston Marine Society. Of the 
latter he has been secretary one year, vice-presi- 
dent two years, president two years, and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Trustees for a dozen years or 
more. He is also a member of the New \'ork 
Marine Society ; a member of the New England 
Historic Genealogical Society ; of the Bostonian 
Society ; Sons of the Revolution ; Bunker Hill 
Monument Association ; the Assessors' Associa- 
tion of Massachusetts (vice-president); the Pine 
■free State Club lan e.\-president), Brookline 
Thursday Club, Norfolk Club, Massachusetts Re- 
publican Club, Massachusetts Library Club ; the 
Baptist Social Union ; the Masonic order, — mem- 
ber of the Reth-horon Lodge F'ree and Accepted 
Masons. Brookline : the Royal Arcanum, and 
other organizations. In Brookline he has served 
as a member of the School Committee five years, 
three as chairman ; has been a trustee of the Pub- 
lic Library from 187 i ; was a selectman from 1880 
to 1883 ; and has been a member of the Board of 
.Vssessors since 1883, chairman of the board the 
past five years. In 1882-83 he was representa- 
tive of the town in the General Court, serving in 
that body on the committees on harbors and pub- 
lic lands and on rules. He has been president 
of the Boston Fire Brick and Clay Retort Manu- 
facturing Company since 1873. His nautical 
training made him a prompt, self-reliant, and 
sturdy man ; and his many years of travel and ex- 
tensive reading made him a well-inforn)ed man. 
He has contributed many articles to the press on 
various subjects ; and his historical writings have 
won for him honorary membership in the Maine 
Historical Society and in the Dedhani Historical 
Society. Captain Candage was first married in 
Boston on May i, 1853. to Miss Elizabeth Au- 
gusta Corey, daughter of Elijah Corey. Jr.. of 
Brookline. She died in 187 1. His second mar- 
riage occurred May 2^. 1873, w^ith Miss Ella 



Maria White, of Revere, daughter of Benjamin 
and Sarah K. (Hall) White. 15y the latter mar- 
riage there were five children : George Frederick, 
Flla Augusta. I'h(ebe Theresa, Robert Brooks, 
and Sarah Caroline Candage. 



CALLENDER, Hknrv Bklcher. of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Dorchester 
(now of Boston), January 17. 1864, son of Henry 
and .\deline (Jones) Callender. He was educated 
in the public schools of Boston, graduating from 
the Harris School in 1878, and at the Roxbury 




HENRY B. CALLENDER. 

Latin School, where he w-as graduated in 1883. 
His law studies were pursued in the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, where he spent one year, and 
in the office of Lewis S. Dabney: and he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in February. 1887. He has 
since been actively engaged in general practice in 
Boston. He is interested in politics as a Repub- 
lican, and was an active member of the Republican 
ward and city committee in 1891-92-93. His 
club affiliations are with the Massachusetts Yacht 
Club. Mr. Callender is unmarried. 



CARMICHAEL, Henrv, of Boston, analyti- 
cal and consulting chemist, is a native of New 



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MEN OF rROGRESS. 



York, born in Brooklyn, March 5, 1846. son of 
Daniel and Eliza (Otis) Carmichael. On the 
paternal side he is of Scotch descent, and on 
the maternal side of English. His mother came 
of New England stock, — a branch of the Otis 
family which has been famous in the annals of 
Massachusetts for inventive talent and patriot- 
ism. His father, an eminent inventor and rail- 
road builder, died when the subject of tliis sketch 
was only three years old. He received his early 
education in the old academy of Amherst, Mass., 
and prepared for college in the High School of the 
same place. He graduated at Amherst College 




HENRY CARMICHAEL. 

in 1S67. After graduation he studied chemistry, 
mineralogy, and geology for four years at the Uni- 
versity of Gottingen, Germany, where he received 
the highest rank and the degree of doctor of phi- 
losophy. He returned from Germany in 1872 to 
accept a chair of chemistry in Iowa College, Grin- 
neli, la., and a year later was called to Bowdoin 
College, Brunswick, Me., where for fourteen years 
he taught chemistry and allied sciences. During 
this period he taught chemistry also in the Maine 
Medical School, and was assayer for the State of 
Maine. While at Bowdoin Dr. Carmichael intro- 
duced the laboratory methods of instruction as 
practised in European uni\-ersities. In addition 



to his educational and scientific work he became 
known, while in Brunswick, for practical inven- 
tions relating to the manufacture of fibre ware. 
■' Indurated fibre," discovered bv him, is manu- 
factured in the form of pails, tubs, etc., on a most 
extensive scale. In 1886 Professor Carmichael 
opened an office in Boston, where he has since 
practised his profession as an analytical chemist 
and chemical engineer. Among his more recent 
inventions are a method and apparatus for elec- 
trically converting common salt into caustic soda 
and bleaching powder, or chlorine. So compli- 
cated and expensive have been the means hitherto 
employed for producing these heavy chemicals 
that their manufacture has been confined almost 
exclusively to England. The new process, which 
has already been tested on a commercial scale, 
is likely to revolutionize the industry, and estab- 
lish it in this country. In politics Dr. Carmichael 
is an Independent. He is a member of various 
learned and scientific societies. He was married 
while connected with Bowdoin College to Miss 
Annie D. Cole, of Portland, Me., daughter of 
Charles O. Cole, the well-known artist. His 
beautiful home is upon a picturesque eminence 
in Maiden near the edge of the Middlesex Fells, 
from which the fair environs of Boston may be 
seen as far as the Blue Hills of Milton. 



CHENE\', BENJA^rIN Pierce, of Boston, a 
pioneer in the express business and transcon- 
tinental railway development, was born in Hills- 
liorough, N.H., August 12, 1815 ; died in Boston, 
July 23, 1895. His parents were Jesse and Alice 
( Steele) Cheney, of early New England ancestry. 
His great-grandfather. Deacon Tristram Cheney, 
was born in Dedham, Mass., was one of the early 
settlers of Antrim, N.H., having moved from 
Rindge, N.H., after living some time in Sudbury, 
Mass., and previously in Framingham ; and his 
grandfather, Elias Cheney, served four years in 
the Revolutionary War, two of the four for Elias's 
father, and one for his brother. Benjamin P. was 
educated in the common schools, and at the age 
of ten, the family being poor, was out of school 
and at work in his father's blacksmith's shop. 
Before he was twelve he gravitated toward 
Francistown, and was there employed in a tavern 
and store. At sixteen he had purchased his 
time from his father, and was dri\'ing a stage on 
the line between Nashua and Exeter, N.H., and 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



855 



at seventeen was stage-driving between Keene and 
Nashua, a distance of fifty miles a day. whicii oc- 
cupation lie followed for six consecutive years. 
In 1836, at the age of twenty-two, he was sent 
down to Boston to serve as agent, at No. 1 1 Elm 
Street, an old-time stage centre, for the Northern 
stages routes. In 1842, wiien he was but twentv- 
seven, he ventured in the express business, in con- 
nection with Nathaniel White, of Nashua, and 
\\'illiani Walker, establishing Cheney & ('o.'s Ex- 
press, running between Boston and Montreal. 
( )riginally, this express ran over the Boston iv 
Lowell Railroad as far as it was then built, to 




B. p. CHENEY. 

Concord, N.H., and thence by a four-horse team 
to Montpelier, Vt.. thence by messengers on the 
stage to liurlington, and thence by boat to 
Montreal. A few years later Fisk & Rice's E.x- 
press from Boston, by way of the Fitchburg Rail- 
road to Burlington, was established, and in 1852 
he bought out its business ; and this process of 
consolidation was continued by his company as 
other lines arose, until finally he formed the 
Cnited States and Canada Express Company, 
covering the Northern New England States with 
many branches. .Vfter being conducted under his 
name for nearly thirty-seven years, the great busi- 
ness which he had founded was merged into the 



-Vmerican Express Company, in which he became 
tile largest owner and a director and treasurer, 
which positions he held until his practical retire- 
ment from active affairs. Before the consolida- 
tion of his line with the American Express Com- 
pany he had become interested in the " Overland 
Mail '■ to San Francisco, and in Wells, Fargo, iV 
Co.'s Express, and also in the Vermont Central 
Railroad ; and these interests led to his connec- 
tion with early transcontinental railroad enter- 
prises. He was among the pioneers in the North- 
ern Pacific Railroad ; later embarked largely in 
the .\tchison, Topeka, & Santa F<f Railroad ; and 
became also prominently interested in the San 
Diego Land and Town Company. He was for 
many years a director of these companies. He 
was for a long period a director of the Market 
National Bank of Boston, and of the American 
Loan iV Trust Company from its foundation. Mr. 
Cheney amassed a large fortune in his enterprises, 
and attained a foremost place in the business 
world through his shrewdness and ability. His 
leading characteristics were great tenacity and 
positiveness of conviction. It was said of him 
that " he spoke his mind freely in all matters, and 
was ever frank and loyal to the enterprises in 
which he embarked and into which he induced 
others to enter : in nothing was this more apparent 
than in his sincerity in standing by the great 
transcontinental lines in their prosperity and in 
their declines."' In i886 he presented to his 
native State a bronze statue of Daniel Webster, 
designed by Thomas Ball, which now stands in 
the State House Park in Concord. He belonged 
to few societies, and the only club of which he was 
a member was the Boston .Art Club. Mr. Cheney 
was married. June 6. 1865, to Miss Elizabeth 
.Stickney Clapp, of Boston. 'I'hey had fi\e chil- 
dren: Benjamin P., Jr., Alice, Charles P., .Mary, 
and Elizabeth Cheney. His town house was on 
Marlborough Street, Back Baj-, Boston, and his 
country seat at Wellesley, a beautiful estate, ex- 
tending for about a mile along the banks of the 
Charles River. 

CHENEY. Bknj.ami.v Pikrck, Jk.. of Boston, 
director of railroads and corporations, was born 
in Boston, .April 8, 1866, son of Benjamin Pierce 
and Elizabeth Stickney (Clapp) Cheney. His 
grandparents on the paternal side were Jesse and 
.Mice (Steele) Cheney, and on the maternal side 
.Vshal and Elizabeth (Stickney) Clapp. He was 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



educated in the PJoston grammar and High schools 
and at Harvard College, graduating in the class of 
i8go. Upon leaving college, he entered the Mar- 
ket National Bank of Boston as a clerk, and also 
became engaged in the office of his father, where 
he was trained for the conduct of the large inter- 
ests which ultimately came into his hands. He is 
now a director of a number of financial, manu- 
facturing, and railroad companies, the list includ- 
ing the Market National Bank, the Old Colony 
Trust Company, the Boston Safe Deposit <\: 
Trust Company, the Atchison, Topeka, iv: Santa 
Fe, Mexican Central, Kansas Citv. Fort .Scott 




B. p. CHENEY, Jr. 

& Memphis Railroad companies ; the Northern 
Railroad of New Hampshire; the San Diego 
Land iS: Town Company, California ; and the 
Manchester Mills. Mr. Cheney is a member of 
the Algonquin, Athletic, and Art clubs of Boston 
and of the Lawyer and the Players' clubs of New 
York. Mr. Chenev is unmarried. 



CHURCH, Walter, of Boston, member of the 
bar, and editor of the A^i-7a Century, was born in 
Lexington, Ky., son of Samuel Sanford Church, 
deceased, and Julia Lenoir Church. His father, 
a clergyman, pastor of the Christian church. 



St. Louis, Mo., was a son of Thomas Benjamin 
Church of Virginia, descended from Captain Ben- 
jamin Church, of King Philip's \\'ar in New Eng- 
land. His mother is the daughter of Walter 
Raleigh Lenoir, of North Carolina, son of General 
William Lenoir, who owned and commanded Fort 
Defiance in Wilkes County, North Carolina, during 
the Revolutionary \\'ar. Fort Defiance is still the 
old family homestead. General A\"illiam Lenoir 
was descended from the Huguenot captain, John 
Lenoir, who brought a shipload of refugees from 
Paris to Charleston, S.C., just after the massacre 
of St. Bartholomew. Walter Church studied at 
home under the tuition of his mother i his father 
being dead) until he was twelve years of age, 
when he entered the district school in Boone 
("ounty, Missouri. He attended the Universitv of 
^Missouri three years, spent the junior year at Ken- 
tucky University, and the next year returned to 
Missouri University, from which he was graduated 
to the degree of A.B. at the age of nineteen, and 
three years later received the degree of A.AL from 
the same institution. He read law in the office of 
Judge Thomas A. Russell, St. Louis. In three 
years he was admitted to the St. Louis bar on e.x- 
amination, and soon after was graduated from 
the law school of Washington Uni\'ersity in 
St. Louis. While in St. Louis, he wrote occa- 
sionally for local magazines, religious and daily 
papers. \\\ 1876 Mr. Cliurch moved to Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, and organized and was counsel for the 
commercial agency of Snow, Church, &: Co., which 
has since established branches in all the principal 
cities of the United States. Leaving this business 
in charge of his younger brother. Samuel S. 
Church, he went to I^eadville. Col., in iSSo, and 
became a stockholder and manager of the Terrible 
Mining Companv. which was controlled by Wall 
Street bankers, who were also the principal owners 
of the Morning and Evening Star mines in Lead- 
ville. The Terrible Mining Company owned the 
well-known Adelaide Mine in Stray Horse (nilch. 
Leadville, which was the mine referred to in !\Liry 
Hallock Foote's story, "The Led Horse Claim,'' 
published in the d'ntiny in 1883. Mr. Church 
was also interested in several mining leases in 
Leadville, including the Catalpa, the Duncan, and 
the Chrysalite, and numerous other mining claims 
in Colorado, New Mexico, Old Mexico, and Nevada. 
Mining business called him to San Francisco, Cal., 
where he and his family lived during 1884 and 
1885. About four months of this time was spent 



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857 



;it \"iri;ini;i City, Nov., in litigation concerniui; the- 
l)cla\v;nc mine on the Comstock Lode, of which 
he was a stockholder and manager. In 1886 he 
returned to Cincinnati, and resumed the practice 
of law with his brother, Samuel S. Church. In 
1889 he came to Boston to live, was admitted to 
all the courts, and is now engaged in practice, 
making a specialty of settling estates. For several 
years he has been the occasional ]>oston corre- 
spondent for the Roi'kv JSfoiintaiu .\r7iM- of Den- 
ver, and is known as .1 frequent contril)ut()r to 
i'loston papers, also as author of numerous pub- 
Hslied poems and stories. In October, 1S94, he 
was made editor of the New Cciititiy, the official 
monthly publication of the Lyceum League of 
America, a federation of debating lyceums organ- 
ized bv the )'o/i//i's Cuiupaiiioii in 1891 for the 
promotion of good citizenship among the youth 
of .Vmerica. The business management of the 
league was transferred to Mr. Church and others 
by the Yoiitli's Companion at the Old South Church, 
Boston, October 22, 1894. The Hon. Theodore 
Roosevelt was the first president of the league, 
and was succeeded by the Rev. .\. .\. Berle, of 
Boston, 4th of July orator for the cit\' of Boston 
in 1S95. The president is now the Hon. James 
Logan Gordon, who resigned the general secretary- 
ship of tire Boston Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation to devote his whole time to the work of 
the league. Its general secretary is Orlando J. 
Hackett, formerly of Auburn, Me. The league 
consists of about si.xteen hundred clubs, scattered 
through every State in the Lhiion, with a member- 
sliip now of over forty thousand young men and 
women, and rapidly increasing. Its headquarters 
are at No. i Beacon Street, Boston. Mr. Gordon. 
Mr. Hackett, and Mr. Church visit the principal 
cities and hold public meetings in the interest 
of the league, and also form State organizations, 
with a view to holding a national convention in 
1896. Ill furtherance of the Lyceum League work, 
it is designed to found a Lyceum League College, 
in which will be taught the duties and privileges 
of .American citizenship, with practical demonstra- 
tion of the different departments of the civic gov- 
ernment. It is expected to be a training school 
for civic ofiicials. It will also include practical 
training in mechanical arts, leading up from the 
preparatory to the perfected and remunerative. 
The aim of the AWt- C<v/////-,r, to which Mr. Church 
is now devoting most of his time, is to be unpar- 
tisan, unsectarian, and unsectional in its efforts to 



promote intelligent patriotism, good citizenship, 
and pure government. While devoted primarily 
to the wants of -the Lyceum League, it endeavors 
to interest all friends of patriotic education for the 
youth of America. Mr. Church was appointed by 
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic .Associa- 
tion to take general charge of the exhibit of me- 
chanical work in New Kngland schools at the 
Centennial Exposition of the association in Boston 
during October and No\ember, 1895. The design 
of this exhibit was to give an extensive practical 
demonstration of mechanical educational work by 
school pupils, as well as to show the progress of 




WALTER CHURCH. 

such work from its inception in New England. 
He was also appointed editor of the Mechanics' 
Fair Xews, a paper issued daily, Sundays excepted, 
during the fair. Mr. Church is a member of the 
New England Historic and Genealogical Society 
of Boston, of the \oung Men"s Christian .Asso- 
ciation, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Odd 
Fellows and Masonic orders, belonging to Heth- 
esda Lodge at Brighton, Boston, and the Boston 
Commandery of Knights Templar. He has been 
engaged in church and Sunday-school work since 
bovhood. In politics he has always voted the 
Democratic national ticket; but in local elections 
he believes it a principle of good citizenship to 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



vote for good men, regardless of party. He has 
never held nor applied for any public office. Mr. 
Church married Miss Susie Alexine Campbell, 
daughter of the Rev. Enos Campbell, nephew of 
the Rev. Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Va., 
founder and president of Bethany College. They 
have three children : Lenoir Campbell, Marie 
Ernest, and Walter Enos Church. They reside in 
the Brighton District of Boston. 



in June. i86r, was made agent, which position he 
has held continuously from that time to the pres- 
ent. He is now in charge of the Pemberton and 
Methuen companies. He is president also of the 
Boston iS: Lowell Railroad Company. Mr. Clark 
is a member of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers, of the New England Manufacturers' 
Association, of the Home Market Club and the 
Textile Club of Boston, and of the Boston Art 
Clul). In politics he has always been a Republi- 
can. He was married October 20, 1858, to Miss 
Harriet A. Porter, of Lawrence. Their only 
child, a daughter, born August 23, 1864. died 
April 3, 1883. 




COLEMAN, Cornelius AMr.RosE, of Boston, 
manufacturer, is a native of Boston, born ( )ctober 
14, 1849, son of John and Ellen (^Corbett) Cole- 
man. He was educated in the ISoston grammar 
and I^atin schools. He began active life, start- 
ing as a boy in 1865, in the Boston office of 
the Salisbury Mills, — a large woollen mill, — and 
after six months there entered the office of the 



F. E. CLARK. 

CLARK, Ekedlkick Emlrs(.)N, of Lawrence, 
agent of the Pemberton Mills, was born in Water- 
town. December 13, 1834, son of William E. and 
Sybilann (Bridges) Clark. He is of English an- 
cestry. His early education was acquired in 
Marshall S. Rice's School for Boys at Newton 
Centre ; and he subseciuently attended the Law- 
rence High School, from which he graduated in 
1852. .Vfter leaving school, he entered the Law- 
rence Machine Shop to learn the machinist's 
trade, and from there went into the employ of the 
Pacific Manufacturing Company, first as assistant 
to the mechanical director during the construction 
and starting of the mills, and afterward in the 
office in charge of the pay-rolls and cost figures. 
In March, 1858, he was appointed paymaster of 
the I^emberton (/ompany, and three years later. 




C A CULLMAN 



Hamilton Woollen Company, with which he has 
ever since been connected. Beginning as a clerk 
in the office, he steadily advanced, until in April, 



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1885, iic became treasurer (jf the company, the 
position lie still liolds. He has also for some 
years been connected with banking and other 
interests, being a director of the Colinnbian 
National Hank of IJoston, the Worcester Manu- 
facturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and 
other corporations. He is a member of the Al- 
gonquin. Boston Athletic, and Country clubs. 
He was married (October 14, 1S79, to Miss Hen- 
rietta Sargent Gray, of Boston. They have two 
sons: Francis H. and Harold C. Coleman. 



himself entirely to his business. In politics he 
is a Republican. He was married in 1864 to 
Miss Amy A. Johnson, by whom were three chil- 



COLVIN, jAMiis Amhon\', of Worcester, iron- 
master, is a native of Rhode Island, born in 
Cranston, June 20, 183J, son of Caleb and Dor- 
othy ( lUirgess) Colvin. His ancestors on bolii 
sides came from England to New England in the 
latter part of the seventeenth century. He was 
educated in the common schools of his native 
town. His boyhood was spent on his father's 
farm, where he did the usual work of a farmer's 
boy until his eighteenth year. Then in 1851 
he was apprenticed to learn the foundry business 
in a Cranst(m foundry. He began business on 
his own account in 1863, establishing himself in 
Danielson, Conn. Five years later, in 1868, his 
foundry in that place was burned : and soon after 
he removed to Worcester, where he has since 
remained. His business here has steadily in- 
creased, and his operations have been enlarged 
by the addition of the business of other works. 
In June, 1891, he purchased the W. H. Warren 
Machine Tool \\'orks, and in 1894 bought the 
(;. H. Bushnell Press Works. The \\'. II. War- 
ren Machine Tool Works make large bodial drills 
and shaping machines. The latter are sold 
largely to the United States go\ernment. .\n 
order was filled about two years ago for the \\'ater- 
vellett Arsenal of over $14,000. They are also 
used in other I'uited States arsenals. The G. H. 
lUishnell Press Company, at Thompsonville, 
Conn., make presses for manufacturers for press- 
ing cloth goods, cider-making, rendering tallow, 
lard, etc., oil machinery, and presses for making 
cotton-seed oil, and presses for almost all kinds 
of work where power is needed and from one 
thousand pounds to ten thousand tons are re- 
quired. Mr. Colvin's foundrv business is carried 
on under his indixidual name of J. .A. Cohin. 
He is not a member of anv societv or club, nor 
has he held any public office, preferring to devote 



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J. A. COLVIN. 



dren : James Byron, Lewis .\ntiiony, and Theresa 
Colvin. She died in 1867. He married second, 
in 1879, Mrs. Anna Dorman : and the children 
of this marriage are Anna Lee and Florence 
Dorothy Colvin. His second wife and all of his 
children are now living. 



CR.MG, Damki, Hikam, M.D., of Province- 
town, is a native of Maine, born in Readfield. 
June 30, 1870, son of David White and Flora 
Elizabeth (Van Canqjen) Craig. His paternal 
ancestors were of Scotch descent, his great-great- 
grandfather coming from Scotland and settling 
in Ro.xbury, Mass., and his maternal ancestors 
were Holland Dutch. Helixed in Readfield until 
he was eight years old, the ne.xt four winters in 
NeW' V'ork City, the family spending the sum- 
mers at the old homestead at Lake Maranacook 
(Readfield), Maine, and thereafter in Maiden, the 
summers as before in Maine, until 1893, when l)je 
established himself in Proxincetown. His early 
education was acquired mostly in private schools 
in New York and Boston, and he finished in the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Maiden Grammar and High schools. He entered 
the Harvard Medical School in 1889, and gradu- 
ating in 1892, subsequently took a post-graduate 




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and in the Evening High School, and received 
his degree of LL.B. from the Boston University 
Law School, graduating in. June, 1879. As a boy, 
he labored in general work about stores, and from 
this rose to be the chief shipping clerk in the 
house of Dodge, Collier, &: Perkins, of Boston, 
which position he left in 1875 to prepare himself 
for the legal profession. He first became a law 
student in the office of Francis A. Perry, and 
while a student was appointed a messenger in 
the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in 
which capacity he served through the sessions 
of 1877 and 1878. From his earnings in this ser- 
vice and from work as a reporter for local news- 
papers, from lecturing, and from reciting before 
societies, he was enabled to pursue his studies in 
the law school to completion. He was admitted 
to the bar May 27, 1879, a week before his gradu- 
ation from the law school, and has been steadily 
engaged in the practice of his profession from 
that time with marked success on both the civil 
and criminal side of the court, and is in the en- 
joyment of a large business. He was elected a 
senator for the Eighth Suffolk District in 1894. 



DANIEL H. CRAIG 

course. During his post-graduate year he was 
assistant to the surgical staff of the Maiden Citv 
Hospital, and associated w'ith Dr. Godfrey Ryder, 
of Maiden, especially in his surgical practice. 
He began regular practice in Provincetowii in 
1893, and has since been engaged there with grat- 
ifying success. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, and of the Maiden So- 
ciety for Medical Improvement. He is connected 
with the Masonic order, member of Converse 
Lodge in Maiden. During his High School term 
he was for two years president of the Maiden 
High School Literary Society. Dr. Craig was 
married June 30, 1893, to Miss Lily Christine 
Trayes. They have one child: David Van Cam- 
pen Craig. 

CRONAN, John Francis, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, April 9, 
1856, son of Dennis and Hannah (Collins) 
Cronan. He is of sturdy Celtic stock, of honest 
and unflinching purpose, of strong physique and 
great courage. He was educated in the Boston 
public schools, at French's Commercial College, 



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JOHN F. CRONAN. 



In politics he is a Democrat, and from his youth 
has been active in the interests of his party.' 
\\'lien twenty years of age, he took the stump for 



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.Samuel J. Tildcn in Massachusetts ami in Penn- 
sylvania, and has appeared on the platform in the 
several campaigns since. .\s senator he served 
on the committees on the judiciary, elections, and 
constitutional amendments, and took a prominent 
part in tiie important legislation of that session. 
l!y reason of his ]:>o\\er and ability as an advocate 
and public speaker, he is well known in the 
State. The only organization with which Mr. 
t'ronan has been identified is the Charitable 
Irish .Society, of which he was made vice-presi- 
dent in 1894. He was married October 4, r882, 
to Miss Annie G. Murphy. They ha\e one child: 
Alice Marie C'ronan. 



.\mong its clients are such concerns as the Ameri- 
can Waltham Watch Company, the National Tube 
Works Company, the E. Howard V\'atch and 



CROSSLEV, Arthur Wilder, of Boston, pat- 
ent solicitor and counsellor, was born in Montour 
County, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1848, son of 
William and Mary (Flick) Crossley. He first 
learned the printer's trade, and subsequently en- 
tered the newspaper and publishing business. 
Burned out in the Boston fire of 1872, he soon 
after went to Washington, where he was a short 
time employed in the Government Printing otfice, 
and for a longer period in the Patent Office. When 
the late Zach Chandler was made secretary of the 
interior, Mr. Crossley was called to aid in reorgan- 
izing certain departments of the Patent Office ; and 
one result of the work was the present issue divi- 
sion, which he organized, and of which he became 
the first chief. After several years" service in this 
position he entered the examining corps of the 
Patent Office, assigned to the textile department ; 
and here he began the special study of textiles 
and textile machinery, which he has since pursued 
assiduously, becoming a highly skilled expert in 
them. While employed in these various branches 
of department work, Mr. Crossley studied law in 
the Xational University Law .School at Washing- 
ton, and he duly graduated therefrom, receiving 
his diploma from the hands of President Hayes, 
who was cx-officio chancellor of the universit)'. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1885 he 
resigned his position in the government service, 
and joined the Boston firm of Wright & Brown, 
established in 1866 by Colonel Carroll D. Wright, 
the statistician, the name of which was then 
changed to Wright, Brown, & Crossley. The firm 
has a branch office in Washington, which is man- 
aged by a former examiner of the Patent Office ; 
and it etijoys a large and important practice. 




ARTHUR W. CROSSLEY. 

Clock Company, the Smith Ov .\nthony Stove 
Company, the Jones & Lamson Company of 
Springfield, Vt.. the Laconia Car Company of 
Laconia. N.H., and a large number of textile 
concerns all over New England. Mr. C"rossley 
was married January 20, 1886, to .Mary Chandler, 
daughter of Senator William E. Chandler, of New 
Hampshire. 

CUNNINGH.AM, Jt)sKi'H TKtJVVHRiDCK, of Bos- 
ton, hotel proprietor, is a native of New Hamp- 
shire, born in Portsmouth, October 28, 1864, son 
of James and Maria (Savage) Cunningham. He 
was educated in the Portsmouth public schools 
and at Dartmouth College, graduating in the class 
of 1887. He entered the hotel business soon 
after his graduation from college, employed first at 
the Wentworth House, New Castle, N.H. Sub- 
sequently he was connected with hotels at the 
Isles of Shoals, N.H., and at Campobello, N.B. 
In 1890 he became manager of the Hotel 
Pocahontas, Kittery Point, Me., which he carried 
through that season, and afterward was with the 
Hotel Vendome and the American House in Bos- 



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mi-:n of i>ro(;ress. 



ton. He first entered the business on his own 
account on the Tst of July, 1893, as proprietor of 
the Hotel Oxford and the Kxeter Chambers, Back 




1 



JOSEPH T. CUNNINGHAM. 



Bay, Boston, in partnership with Sanford 1!. Sar- 
gent. Through the season of 1894 ht' and his 
partner were lessees also of the Hotel Langwood, 
on the borders of picturesque Spot Pond, Melrose, 
and the Middlesex Fells ; and they are now (1895), 
in addition to the Hotel Oxford and Exeter 
Chambers, Boston, proprietors of the Haynes 
Hotel, in Springfield. Mr. Cunningham is a Dem- 
ocrat in politics, and active in the party organiza- 
tion, having been a member of the Democratic 
ward and city committee of Boston since 1893, 
and a member of the Young Men's Democratic 
Club of Massachusetts for some years. He was 
married December 14. 1893, to Miss Isabel Sey- 
mour Hemenway, of Boston. They have no 
children. 

CURRY, George Erastus, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, is a native of East Tennessee, 
born in Cleveland, February 13, 1854, son of 
James Campbell and Nancy (Young) Curry. He 
is of Scotch ancestry. His early education was 
acquired in the schools of his native town, and he 
graduated from the High School there. Then, 



coming to Boston, he fitted for college at the Bos- 
ton Latin School, and graduated from the Boston 
University College of Liberal Arts in 188 1. Sub- 
sequently entering the Boston University Law 
School, he graduated there LL.B. in 1884. Mean- 
while he was engaged in office practice, having 
begun in 1882 in the office, Equitable Building, in 
which he is still established; and in February pre- 
ceding his graduation he was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar. His practice is a general one. Mr. 
Curry is a Freemason, member of Revere Lodge. 
He is an experienced yachtsman, and for three 
years, 1890-92-93, was commodore of the Dor- 
chester Yacht Club. He is a member also of the 
Minot Club of Dorchester, and in 1894 was chair- 
man of its house committee. In politics he is a 
sterling Democrat, but he has never sought nor 




CEO. E. CURRY. 



accepted political ofiice. He was married Julv 
16, 1885, to Miss Clara Xeal. of Dorchester. 
They have no children. 



DAVIS, Samuel Alonv(_), M.D.. of the Charles- 
town District, Boston, is a nati\e of Maine, born 
in Bridgton, September 7, 1837, son of Samuel 
and Olive (Holmes) Davis. His great -grand- 
parents on both sides were English, and upon 



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cominy to this countr)- settled in Jefferson, N.H., 
and Lunenljurg, Mass. He was educated in the 
public schools and at the academy of Hridgton. 



m 




SAML A. DAVIS. 

He began the study of medicine at the age of 
t\vent}-one, under the tutorship of Dr. John H. 
Kimball, of Hridgton, a prominent physician in 
that place. The following year he entered the 
medical department of Bowdoin C'ollege, and took 
a first course of lectures, and in i86r entered the 
Harvard Medical School, where he was graduated 
in March, 1862. In May*of the same year he 
settled in Charlestown. and began practice. The 
following August, however, he was commissioned 
assistant surgeon in the Thirtieth Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteers, then stationed at New 
Orleans, and entered the L^nited States service 
for the Civil War. He served as assistant sur- 
geon for two years, most of that time being in full 
charge of the regiment, and during the period en- 
gaged in the battles of Plains Store, the forty-two 
days' siege of Port Hudson, and Cox Plantation, 
La., and in 1864 was commissioned surgeon of 
the same regiment. Thereafter he was engaged 
in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and 
Cedar Creek, Va., and was an eye-witness of 
General Sheridan's famous ride. In the spring 
of 1865, after Lee's surrender, he participated in 



the grand review at Washington, and subse- 
quently served with his regiment in South Caro- 
lina until July, 1866, when it was mustered out,— 
the last Massachusetts regiment to return. Dr. 
Davis resumed his practice in Charlestown in 
March, 1867, and has since continued in its active 
pursuit. He is a member of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society, of the Harvard Alumni Associa- 
tion, and of the Charlestown Club. He is con- 
nected with the Masonic order, being a member 
of Faith Lodge, and of Ciuur de Leon Command- 
ery. Knights Templar ; is an Odd Fellow, member 
of Bunker Hill Lodge; a member of the Royal 
Arcanum and of the Home Circle, and member of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, Post 11. He 
cast his first vote upon attaming his majority for 
.\braham Lincoln, and has been identified with 
the Republican party since that time. Dr. Davis 
was married in Charlestown, December 28, 1870, 
to Miss Ella Cushman, daughter of the late Robert 
W. Cushman, D.D., of Boston. 



DAVISON, Archibai,d T., M.D., of South 
Boston, is a native of Nova Scotia, born in the 
town of Portaupique, Colchester County, Febru- 
ary 23, 1847, son of Archibald and Sarah (Crow) 
Davison. On his father's side he is of Scotch 
descent, and on his mother's side of the north of 
Ireland. His education was begun in the public 
schools of his birthplace, and continued in the Bos- 
ton Latin School, the family moving to Boston in 
his boyhood. He studied for his profession at the 
Harvard Medical School, and immediately after 
graduation therefrom, on March 18, 187 1, began 
practice, established in South Boston, where he 
has since been engaged, with a steadily growing 
business, a period of twent\-fi\e years. .\ good 
part of this time Dr. Davison has also been ac- 
tively interested in politics as a member of the 
Republican party. He was president of the 
Ward Fourteen Republican Club for four years, 
treasurer of Ward Fourteen ward and city com- 
mittee four years, and was a delegate from Massa- 
chusetts to the Republican National Convention 
at Minneapolis in 1892. In 1894 he was elected 
to the Boston .School Committee, upon which he 
is still serving. He is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society; prominent in the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, being a member of the Adclphi 
Lodge, South Boston, of St. Matthew's Royal 
.Vrch Chapter, of St. Omer Commandery Knights 



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MKN OF I'KOCRKSS. 



Templar, and of the Lafayette Lodge of Perfec- 
tion ; and a member of Bethesda Lodge of Odd 
Fellows. He was married December 31, 1872, to 



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notable public career began in 1847, with his elec- 
tion to the lower house of the Legislature. He 
served in that body for two terms, 1848 and 1849, 
and then, sent to the Senate, served there one term, 
1850, ranking in both houses among the leaders. 
In 1S53 he was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention. The same year he was 
made district attornev for the Western District, 
which position he held till 1857, when he was 
elected to Congress. Through repeated re-elec- 
tions he remained in the house till 1873, serving 
through the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, 'fhirty- 
seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, 
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Con- 
gresses, and then declined to stand for another 
term. In 1875 '""^ ^"^'^^ elected to the Senate to 
succeed Charles Sumner (the unexpired term of 
Senator Sumner having been filled by \A'illiam B. 
\Vashburn). In 1881 he was re-elected, and again 
in 1887 ; and then with the close of his third term 
he retired, having served his district and the 
Commonwealth at Washington for upward of a 
third of a century. Throughout this long period 
his place in Congress was a foremost one. He 



A. T. DAVISON. 



Miss Lucy Kelley. They ha\'e four children : 
Arthur Howard, Julie Certrude, Lucy Cecilia, and 
Archibald Thompson Davison. 



DAWES, Henrv Laurens, of Pittsfield, United 
States senator from 1875 to 1893, was born in 
the town of Cummington, Hampshire County, 
October 30, 181C, son of Mitchell and Mercy 
(Burgess) Dawes. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools, where he fitted for college, and at 
Yale, graduating in the class of 1839. ^o'' '^''■^ 
first two years after his graduation he taught school, 
and then became an editor, first editing the Green- 
field Gazette, and afterward the Adams I'rtvi- 
scrift. \\'hile successful in joiu-nalistic work, his 
inclination was toward the law ; and, finally de- 
termining to follow that profession, he left the 
newspaper, and entered the law office of Wells & 
Davis, in Greenfield, as a student. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1842, and at once engaged 

in active practice, established in North Adams, was chairman for many years of the committee on 
which place was his legal residence until 1864, ways and means and as such was the author and 
when he removed to Pittsfield. His long and advocate of numerous tariff' measures. Later, as 




HENRY L. DAWES. 



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cliairnian of the Senate committee on Indian af- monwealth. After remaining wiiii Messrs. Ran- 
fairs, lie rendered conspicuous service in securing ney & Morse for a lime succeeding his admission 
reftjriiis in the administration of Indian affairs to the bar, he opened his own office, and en- 
throui^h various measures, making possible the gaged in general practice. I'.esides being the 
present system of Indian education, and advanc- attorney for several banks and corporations, he 
ing materially the cause of Indian rights. In became prominently identified with numerous no- 
1883 he was appointed at the head of a special table cases. He was counsel for the West Knd 
connnittee to investigate the disturbances of that .Street Railway Company, having entire charge of 
year in the Indian Territory, and made a valuable its legislative matters, was sole counsel for the 
report thereon, which was the basis of subsequent Bay State Gas Company in all its controversies 
legislation. Other committees of which he was at for admittance to the right to do business, and he 
one time or another an active member were those had charge of the negotiations, oftentimes delicate 
on fisheries, naval affairs, public buildings and and complicated, which brought about the consoli- 
grounds, appropriations, and civil service. He 
has been prominent in the Republican party since 
its birth, and had an influential part in shaping its 
policy. In 1866 he was a delegate to the Loyalist 
Convention in Philadelphia. Upon his retirement 
from the senatorship after his forty-five years of 
public life he received marked courtesies from his 
fellow-citizens of both parties; in Boston, in 
Springfield, and at his own home, being given 
complimentary dinners at which Democrats and 
Republicans alike paid tribute to his worth. He 
received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Will- 
iams College in 1869. Senator Dawes was mar- 
ried in Ashfield, May i, 1844, to Miss Electa A. 
Sanderson, daughter of Chester and Anna (Allis) 
Sanderson, of that town. Of their children three ^ 

are living : .Anna Laurens, Chester Mitchell, and 
Henry Laurens Dawes. Jr. Miss Dawes is well 
known as an author, and from lier connection 
with educational work. In 1893 she was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Board of U'crld's Fair J 
Manasrers. 




DILLAWAV, William Edw.ard Lcivell, of 
ISoston, member of the Suffolk bar, was liorn in 
Boston, February 17, 1852, son of William S. and 
.\nn Maria (Brown) Dillaway. He is a descend- 
ant of one of the oldest of Boston families. He 
was educated in the Boston public schools, and, 
after graduating from the English High School, 
entered the Harvard Law School, where he was 
graduated in 1871. Two years of further study 
in the Boston law ofiftce of Ranney & Morse fol- 
lowed, and in 1873 he was admitted to the bar. 
He had already had quite an experience, and he 
won success as a jury lawyer. While still a stu- 
dent witli Messrs. Ranney & Morse, and only in 
his twentieth year, he argued his first brief before 
the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Com- 



W. E. L. DILLAWAY. 

dation of Boston gas companies. In 1888 Mr. 
Dillaway. then but thirty-six, retired from general 
practice, having found that his private business 
and that of the corporations with which he is con- 
nected called for his entire attention. He is a 
director of the Mechanics" National Bank of Bos- 
ton, of which his brother, C. O. L. Dillaway is 
president. In 1888 he was selected to deliver 
the Fourth of July oration for the city of Boston. 
He IS an enthusiastic collector of bric-^-brac, pict- 
ures, etchings, and prints, possessing of the latter 
one of the finest collections in Boston. .Mr. Dil- 
laway was married June 16. 1874, to Miss Ger- 
trude St. Clair Eaton. 



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DONNELLY, Charles Francis, of lioston, 
member of the State Board of Lunacy and Char- 
ity since 1875, is a native of Ireland, born in 
Athlone, County Roscommon, October 14, 1836, 
son of Hugh and Margaret (Conway) Donnelly. 
His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old 
Irish sept of the north, and on the maternal side 
of Welsh-Irish stock of the west of Ireland. His 
parents came to Canada when he was a year old, 
and thence removed to Rhode Island in 1848, He 
was educated in private schools and in the New 
Brunswick Presbyterian Academy, At twenty he 
besran the study of law in the office of Ex-Congress- 




CHAS, F. DONNELLY. 

man Ambrose A. Ranney in IJoston. and at the 
Harvard Law School, graduating with the degree 
of LL.B. in 1859, when he was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar, and at once began practice. Important 
cases came into his hands early, notably several 
civil suits instituted against the archbishop and 
other Catholic ecclesiastics in Massachusetts ; and 
soon in his career he became prominent through 
his arguments drawn to show the harmonious rela- 
tion of Catholic ecclesiastical, or canon, law to the 
spirit of American law and institutions. He has 
been connected with the administration of State 
charities since 1875, when he was appointed by 
Governor Gaston to the State Board of Charities, 



which preceded the present Board of Lunacy and 
Charity, and for over four years was chairman of 
the board. During his service he wrote the sharp 
and spirited politico-legal public correspondence 
had by the board with Governor Butler ("in 1883), 
which was employed to advantage in the successful 
canvass against the latter by his opponents when 
a candidate for a second term ; and Mr. Donnelly 
proposed and drafted (in 1884) the act subjecting 
dipsomaniacs to the same restraint and treatment 
as lunatics, which was adopted by the Legislature 
of 1885, the first legislation of the kind either in 
Europe or America. In i88g further effect was 
given the new law by the Legislature, largely 
through his influence, in authorizing the erection 
of a hospital for men coming under its provisions, 
and establishing a board of trustees tor the man- 
agement of the institution. Mr, Donnelly has 
long been a member of the Charitable Irish So- 
ciety, the oldest Irish-American society in existence 
(founded in Boston in 1737), and w^as for several 
terms its president. He was one of the founders 
of the Home for Destitute Catholic Children, and 
many of the other Catholic charitable institutions 
of Boston. In 1885 he received the honorarv 
degree of LL.D, from St, Mary's College, Mary- 
land, the oldest Catholic seat of learning in the 
country. In politics he is a Democrat, influential 
in his party. Although repeatedly sought as a 
candidate for the mayoralty of Boston and other 
elective office, he has invariably declined to stand. 
At the request of the committee of distinguished 
prelates representing the Catholic Church at the 
World's Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago 
in 1893, he wrote an exhaustive study of the 
'■ Relations of the Roman Catholic Church to tlie 
Poor," from its beginning. It was a comprehen- 
sive survey of the whole subject, and it was read 
with high commendation before the Parliament, 
Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic University 
of America at Washington, reading it. In the 
sessions of 1888 and in 1889 an exciting contest 
was waged in the Legislature of Massachusetts 
against the movement in favor of establishing 
parochial schools. Mr. Donnelly was retained 
by the Catholic clergy and laity to advocate and 
defend the right to maintain private schools and 
the right of parents to choose them for the train- 
ing of their children. It is only justice to say 
he conducted the interests he had in charge with- 
out rancor and judiciously and successfully before 
the legislative committee on education. Mr. Don- 



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nclly li;is, like many members of his profession, a 
great love of literature, and has given marked evi- 
dence of it in some of his professional and other 
efforts. Perhaps nothing in a literary way from 
his pen received higher approval than the sonnet 
on the death and burial of James Russell Lowell, 
published the day after the funeral, and here 
given : — 

" No bugle blast sounds through the summer air; 
Nor tramp of riderless and neighing steed 
In solemn march behind the car we heed. 
Nor muffled drum is heard ; nor trumpet blare ; 
Nor volleyed fire ; nor shrouding smoke is seen. 
Vet in the earth to-day a soldier's form 
We laid ; one who brave bore the brunt and storm 
Of battle front with knightly skill and mien. 
Rest, minstrel, after all earth's weary strife. 
Fair Harvard hath borne many sons, but none 
So tenderly beloved as those who gave 
Their youth, and manhood's prime, and even life, 
To Freedom's cause, until the field was won. 
And no man dared to call his brother slave." 

Mr. Donnelly was married in 1893 at Providence, 
R.I., to Miss Amy F. Collins, daughter of James 
and Mary (Donnelly) Collins. 



DONOVAN, James, of Boston, insurance agent, 
three terms president of the Democratic city com- 
mittee, was born in Boston, May 28, 1859, son of 
Michael and Ellen (Sheehy) Donovan. His par- 
ents were natives of County Cork, Ireland, and 
long resident in this country. He was educated 
in the Boston public schools, mainly in the Rice 
(}rammar School, and, leaving at the age of 
eleven, began business life as an employee in a 
mercantile house. He early took an interest in 
politics, and became active and influential in the 
local Democratic organization. In 1881 he was 
elected a member of the Common Council. In 
1883 he was a successful candidate for the Legis- 
lature, and through re-elections served in the 
lower house five consecutive terms, 18S4-88, 
during this period a member of numerous im- 
portant committees, the list including the com- 
mittees on mercantile affairs, on prisons, on 
railroads, and on redistricting the State. The 
ne.xt three years, 1889-90-91, he was a member 
of the Senate for the Fourth Suffolk District, serv- 
ing on the committees on railroads, engrossed 
bills, library (chairman), public health, military 
affairs, drainage (chairman), federal relations, and 
liquor law; and in 1892-93-94 he was a mem- 



ber of the K,\ecutive Council, representing the 
Fourth Councillor District. In the latter body he 
served as chairman of the committees on harbors 
and public lands and on State House extension, 
and member also of those on pardons and on 
finance. In the Democratic organization he was 
a member of the State Committee for three years, 
the larger part of that time on the executive com- 
mittee ; secretary of the Boston Democratic city 
committee two years, 1886-87; ^"d he has been 
chairman of the city committee since. 1892, elected 
the first time to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Mr. McDonough, and re-elected unani- 




JAMES DONOVAN. 

mously twice. He is a member of the \()ung 
Men's Democratic Club of .Massachusetts and of 
the Irish Charitable Society. Mr. Donovan is 
immarried. 

DRURV, William Hknrv. member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Worcester, January 12, 
1842, son of William E. and Martha K. (Haskell) 
Drury. He is a lineal descendant of Hugh 
Drury, who came from p;ngland to Boston in 
1640. His great-grandfathers were all natives of 
Massachusetts and soldiers of the Revolution. 
His great-grandfather, William Drury, born in 
Shrewsbury, later of Drury Hill, Holden, where 



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MEN OF I'Kot.KESS. 



he died in 1S50 at tlie age of ninety-two, was a DUNliAR, James Rukert, justice of the Supe- 

representative of Holden in the Legishiture man)- lior Court of the Commonwealth, is a native of 
years between 1802 and 1820. His grandfather, Pittslield, born December 23, 1847, son of Henry 

W. and Elizabeth ( Richards) Dunbar. He was 
educated in the public schools of Pittsfield and at 
\\"illiams College, where he graduated in the class 
of 1 87 1. He studied law in the oflfice of the 
Hon. M. B. Whitney, of Westfield, and si.x 
months in the Harvard Law School, and was ad- 
mitted to the Hampden County bar in April, 
1874. Subsequently he was admitted to practice 
in the I'nited States courts. Forming a partner- 
ship with Mr. Whitney, he was engaged in a gen- 
eral practice in Westfield until his elevation to 
the Superior Bench, by appointment of Governor 
.\mes, in 1888. His public service has been con- 
fined to two terms in the State Senate (1885 and 
1886), in which he was a recognized leader. 
During the first session he served on the com- 
mittees on the judiciary and on election laws 
(chairman of the latter on the part of the Sen- 
ate), and was chairman of the joint special com- 
mittee on investigation of State House expendi- 
tures ; and in that of 1886 he was chairman of 




WM. H. DRURY. 

Ephraim, eldest son of William Drury, born in 
1783, died in Worcester in 1863, William H. 
Drury was educated in the public schools of 
Worcester, graduating from the High School in 
1 86 1, and at Vale College, where he was gradu- 
ated in 1865. He studied law in the Harvard 
Law School in 187 1 and 1872, also in the offices 
of Charles Robinson, Jr., and Stearns & Butler, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1873. Since that 
time he has been engaged in general practice in 
Boston. Among notable causes which he has 
successfully conducted have been several impor- 
tant will, admiralty, and patent cases. He is also 
a trustee of some large estates. He is a member 
of the Boston Bar Association and of the \\'a\- 
tham Club. In politics he is a Republican, al- 
though not an extreme protectionist. He has 
ne\er held civil or political office, confining his 
attention exclusively to his profession. Mr. 
Drury was married September 29, 1875, to Miss 
Mary .-Mice Peters, daughter of George S. and 

Charlotte A. Peters, of Ellsworth, Me. They have the committees on election laws, committee on 
two children : George Peters and William Clark redistricting the State, a member of the committee 
Drury. They reside in Walthani. on bills on third reading, and of the judiciary. 




JAMES R. DUNBAR. 



MEN UF PROGRESS. 



869 



In politics lie is a Republican, and was for many 
years a prominent and influential party leader in 
the Western part of the State. In iiS88 he 
moved from Westtield to West Newton, but since 
1890 has resided in Brookline. He is a member 
of the Brookline Thursday Club and of the Uni- 
versity Club of Boston. Judge Dunbar was mar- 
ried in Westfield, May 15, 1875. to Harriet 1'. 
Walton, daughter of George A. and Klecta \. 
(Lincoln) Walton. They have five children : 
Ralph W.. Philip R., Ruth. Helen L.. and Henrv 
F. 1 )unbar. 

DUNNING, Robert Spear, of Fall River, 
artist, is a native of Maine, born in Brunswick, 
January 3, 1829, son of Joseph and Rebecca 
(Spear) Dunning. His ancestors on the paternal 
side came from England, when Maine was a terri- 
tory of Massachusetts, and settled on the Andro.s- 
coggin River, near lirunswick and Topsham. 
They were descendants of the Earl of Ashburton. 
Mr. Dunning's father, born in 1798, came to Fall 
River in 1834, and built the first marine railway 
there. Three years later he went to sea. The 
mother of Mr. Dunning, born in i8oo, was a 
native of Brunswick, Me. He was educated in 
the common schools of F'all River. His first 
work was in the mills, where he remained for a 
short time : and for three years he was engaged 
in coasting vessels. Then he took up the study 
of art, at first under James Roberts, an artist at 
East Thomaston, Me. .\fter seven months with 
Mr. Roberts he went to New York, and there 
studied for three years with Daniel Huntington, 
president of the National Academy of Design. 
Returning to F'all River in 1853, he opened his 
studio there, which he has retained ever since. 
His paintings have been repeatedly exhibited at 
the National Academy of Design in New York 
and at the Boston Art Club. Among his later 
works is a full-size portrait of Washington, from 
Stewart's full-length portrait in the State House, 
Newport. R.I.. [jainled for the Wasiiington Society 
of F'all River, and now hanging in the 1!. M. ( '. 
Durfee High School; portraits of James IJutting- 
ton, first mayor of F'all Ri\er, of Edward 1'. 
Buffington. the second mavor, and of N. 11. 
I'lorden, who was member of Congress and 
mayor afterward, and who as a member of the 
Legislature cast tiie deciding vote which elected 
Charles Sumner United States senator, — all of 
which hang in the City Hall ; and a portrait of 



I'rank Stevens, of Swansea, for the Town Hall of 
that town. Mr. Dimning's work covers a wide 
range of subjects,— landscape, still life, figure 




R. S. DUNNING. 

pictures, and portraits, and are nnich .sought for. 
He is a life member of the Antique School of 
Design at the National Academy of Design, New 
\'ork. In politics first a Free Soiler, he has 
since been a stanch Republican. His first vote 
was for (General Taylor. Mr. Dunning was mar- 
ried December 16, 1869, to Miss Mehitable D. 
Hill, of I'"all River. Thev have no children. 



ELIOT, Ch.vri.ks Wir.i.i.wi, of Cambridge, pres- 
ident of Harvard University, was born in Boston, 
March 20, 1834, .son of Samuel .Vtkins and Mary 
(Lvman) Eliot. His father was a merchant of 
lioslon. maj-or of the city 1S37-40, a member of 
the Legislature, a representative in Congress, and 
treasurer of Harvard College from 1842 to 1853. 
On the maternal side he is a descendant of the 
Lvmans of Northampton, Mass., his great-grand- 
father, Isaac Lyman, who was minister at \'ork. 
Me., for sixty years, having been born and brought 
up at Nortliampton. He was fitted for college in 
the Boston Pu!)lic Latin School, and graduated at 
Harvard in the class of 1853. In college he was 



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MExN OF PROGRESS. 



especially proficient in mathematics and chemistry, 
and the year following his graduation he was ap- 
pointed tutor in mathematics there. Meanwhile 
he continued his study of chemistry under Pro- 
fessor Josiah P. Cooke. In 1858 he was promoted 
to the position of assistant professor of mathe- 
matics and chemistry, and three years later 
was placed in charge of the chemical department 
of the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1863, his 
appointment at the Scientific School expiring by 
limitation, he went abroad, and spent the next two 
years in the study of advanced chemistry, and also 
in a close examination of systems of public in- 



l'^ "^ 





CHARLES W. ELIOT. 

struction in England and on the Continent. Re- 
turning home in 1865, he was appointed professor 
of analytical chemistry in the Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology, which position he held for 
four years. In 1867-68 he was again in P2urope, 
chiefly in France. At commencement in 1868 he 
was elected by the alumni a member of the Board 
of Overseers of Harvard ; and the following year. 
President Thomas Hill having resigned in the 
autumn of 1868, he was chosen to the presidency 
of the university, after a prolonged contest. His 
election occurred on May 19, 1869: and he was 
formally installed in office in tlie following Octo- 
ber. Under his administration the uni\ersity has 



made great strides, broadened its scope, advanced 
the standards of admission and graduation, and 
been brought within reasonable distance of the 
great universities of Europe. Many changes in 
methods have been effected, the most notable 
being the supplanting of the old prescribed cur- 
riculum by the elective system, and the creation of 
the Graduate School in Arts and Sciences. The 
number of students has nearly trebled, the num- 
ber of professors and instructors doubled. The 
increase in wealth has been especially marked, 
the gross income apart from gifts and bequests 
having risen from $325,000 in 1869 to upward of 
a million in 1895. President Eliot has delivered 
a number of formal addresses, and has been a 
frequent speaker at educational conventions and 
meetings. He delivered the address at the first 
commencement of Smith College, Northampton, 
in 1879, and before the Phi Beta Kappa at Cam- 
bridge in 1888; he spoke at the inauguration of 
President Gihnan of Johns Hopkins University in 
1876, at the opening of the American Museum 
of Natural History of New York in 1877, and at 
the centennial celebration of Washington's inaug- 
uration in 1889. In conjunction with Professor 
Frank H. Storer he published two te-xt-books, a 
Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (1868) and a 
Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (1869), 
and several chemical memoirs. He has also pub- 
lished numerous essays and speeches on educa- 
tional topics ; but his most important contribu- 
tions to educational literature are his annual 
reports as president of Harvard University. He 
is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, fellow of the American Philosophical 
Society, and member of the Massachusetts His- 
torical Society. He received the degree of LL.D. 
from Williams and Princeton in 1869, and from 
Vale in 1S70. President Eliot was first married 
in Boston, October 27, 1858, to Miss Ellen Derby 
Peabody, daughter of Ephraim and Mary Jane 
(Derby) Peabody, by which union were four chil- 
dren, of whom two survive : Charles and Samuel 
Atkins Eliot. He married second in Cambridge, 
October 30, 1877, Miss Grace Mellen Hopkinson, 
daughter of Thomas and Corinna Aldrich (Pren- 
tiss) Hopkinson of Cambridge. 



ELLIS, George Henry, of Boston, printer and 
publisher, was born in Medfield, October 3, 1848, 
son of Samuel and Martha (Ellis) Ellis. He was 



MEN 01-- PROGRESS. 



871 



educated in the district school, with three years cattle, Ills ambition being to prove that farming 



at the High School of his native town. .After leav 
ing the High School, he spent three months in a 




can be made a successful business. Quiet home 
life has attractions for him which have prevented 
his frequent attendance at societies or clubs, al- 
though a member of many of them, or acceptance 
of offices beyond a clear call of duty. In politics 
lie was always a Republican till 1884, when he 
went with the AtM-r/iser — which then declared 
its independence of party, and "bolted " the nomi- 
nation of Blaine — away from the fold. Mr. Ellis 
was married first, October 3, 1869, to Miss Sarah 
Dale, who died September 18, 1884, leaving tw(j 
children: Herbert 1). (now associated with his 
father in the business) and Martha E. Ellis. He 
married second, December 25. 1886, Miss Eliza- 
beth Shaw. 



FERGUSON, WiLL.^RD Bixbv, of Maiden, 
president of electric railway companies, is a 
native of Maine, born in Troy, December 20, 
1844, son of Nahum and Betsey (Tasker) Fer- 
guson. He is of Scotch descent on the paternal 
side, and of English on the maternal side. His 
father's ancestors came from Scotland in 1780. 



GEO. H. ELLIS. 



Boston commercial college, and then at the age 
of seventeen entered the office of the Christian 
Register as clerk. In about two years he became 
business manager. In 1872 he bought of the 
proprietors the type from which the paper was 
printed, and soon after purchased a small job 
press, which modest " plant " formed the founda- 
tion of his present e.xtensive printing business, 
occupying in 'part two buildings. No. 141 Frank- 
lin Street and on Wales Wharf. In 1883 he ac- 
cepted the position of treasurer and publisher of 
the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in that position 
became sponsor for and first publisher of the 
Evening Reeon/, the first number of which was 
issued in .September, 1884. In January, 1886, 
overwork compelled his resignation of the Adver- 
tiser connection, and return to his own business, 
after a rest and a trip across the continent. As 
a book publisher, his imprint has appeared upon 
a variety of volumes, notably of Unitarian lit- 
erature. Born and reared on a farm, his natural 
taste for farming has not deserted him ; and he 
has now under control some si.x hundred acres of 
land, with a herd of nearly two hundred Jersey 




W. B. FERGUSON. 



and settled in Eliot, Me., engaged in farming. 
He was educated in the public schools. At the 
age of eighteen he enlisted in the Fourteenth 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Maine Regiment, and served for three years in 
the Civil War. In 1874 he moved to Salem, 
where he became interested in the street railroad 
business. He continued in that business for 
about fifteen years, when, electricity coming to 
be used as a motive power for street railways, he 
connected himself with the Thomson-Houston 
Electric Company. Subsequently he re-entered 
his old business under the new conditions, and 
became connected with numerous enterprises. 
He is at the present time president and direc- 
tor of the Gloucester, the South Middlesex, the 
Athol & Orange, the Gloucester, Esse.x, & Bev- 
erly, and the Milford, HoUiston, &: Framingham 
Street Railway Companies. He is a Freemason, 
an Odd Fellow, a member of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and of the Kernwood Club of Mai- 
den. In politics he has been a steadfast Republi- 
can. He was married September 2, 187 i, to Miss 
E. T^unette Coffin. They have two daughters : 
Anna L. and Lila G. Ferguson. 



business together. About a year after he entered 
this store. Bell &: Co. sold out ; and he found a 
place in a higher grade, with Schofield, Barron, 



FITZPATRICK, Thoma.s Bern.ard, of Boston, 
merchant and manufacturer, was born in Grafton, 
December 17, 1844, son of Patrick and Mary 
(Gannivan) Fitzpatrick. His parents came to this 
country from Ireland, and, by industry and econ- 
omy, provided a good home for their children, while 
making many sacrifices for their education. His 
father became a thrifty farmer at Hopkinton ; and 
most of the son's boyhood days were spent there 
in hard farm work, early and late, and in getting 
an education at the village schools. He attended 
two sessions a year of the district school, which 
was two miles distant from the farm ; and by most 
diligent study he was prepared, at the age of four- 
teen, to enter the High School. He was the first 
Catholic boy to attend the latter school. Al- 
though he was able to take but two of the four 
terms yearly there, walking to and from his home 
daily, three miles eacii way, he kept up with his 
class by home study for the four years' course, 
and graduated with much credit at the age of 
eighteen. Then, an.xious to get into business life, 
he came to Boston : and, finding a place in the 
dry-goods store of E. L). Bell & Co., with two 
dollars a week as wages, he began at the first 
round of the ladder. In the same store was em- 
ployed a boy of about his own age, Oliver H. 
l^urrell ; and the two. becoming intimate, talked 
over their prospects, and laid plans for future 




T. B. FITZPATRICK. 

iS; Co. Subsequently he was employed by Mason, 
Tucker, & Co., and travelled for that house with 
samples for seven years, meeting with notable suc- 
cess in selling a large trade in the New England 
States. He left the latter place in July, 1872, 
to engage with Brown, Dutton, iv: Co.. where 
Oliver H. Durrell, his first business friend and 
constant associate, had been employed for some 
time. Directly after the great fire of November 
following this firm dissolved, and the firm of 
Brown, Durrell, &: Co. was formed, with Brown, 
Diu'rell, and Fitzpatrick as partners ; and thus the 
plan of the friends talked over and resolved upon 
when they were boys, ten years before, was carried 
out. The firm steadily developed, becoming one 
of the largest and most popular in the country in 
the fancy dry-goods trade, doing a business of 
several millions yearly ; and it is universally con- 
ceded that its success is in a large part due to 
the enterprise of Mr. Fitzpatrick and his grasp of 
modern business methods. Although applying 
himself closely to business, he has been a careful 
student of public cpiestions and an acti\'e worker 
in the cause of charity and philanthropy. He is 



MEN OF 



'ROGRKSS. 



873 



a director of the United States Trust Company, 
and of the Union Institution of Savings, and has 
been of great assistance in forming and aiding the 
Newton Co-operative Bank. He has been an ac- 
tive member of several charitaljle and patriotic 
societies, and has done much during tlie past ten 
vears in support of the Irisli Home Rule move- 
ment in Massachusetts. He was formerly presi- 
dent of the Catholic Union of Boston, and is now 
one of the trustees of the Catholic Svunmer School 
of America. In politics he is a Democrat, and 
is a firm believer in the application of civil ser- 
vice reform methods in municipal. State, and 
national affairs. Mr. Fitzpalrick was married 
January 13, 1876, to Miss Sara M. Gleason, of 
I'itchburg. They have six children : Frank, Paul, 
Thomas, William, Mary, and Bessie Fitzpatrick. 
He resides in West Newton. 



FLAHERTY, John Joseph, of Gloucester, 
member of the Essex bar, is a native of Glouces- 
ter, born March 27, 1858. son of Michael and 
Catherine (Folani Flahertv. His education was 




JOHN J. FLAHERTY. 

acquired in the common schools. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar March 4, 1885. Beginning 
practice at once, he early built up a prosperous 



and successful business. He is now counsel for 
the Cape Ann Savings Bank, the Gloucester 
Mutual Fishing Insurance Company, and other 
corporations and business firms. He is a mem- 
ber of the Commonwealth Club and president of 
the Gloucester Athletic Club. He was married 
November, 1887, to Miss Abby .S. I.underkin, who 
died October 26, i8gi, leaving one boy, John j. 
|r., now living, and one daughter since deceased. 



FOSS, Eugene Noi'.i.k, of Boston, manufact- 
urer, is a native of Vermont, born in the town of 
West Berkshire, September 24, 1858, son of 
George Fdmond and Marcia ( Noble 1 Foss. His 
early education was acquired in the public schools 
of St. Albans, and he fitted for college at the 
Franklin County (Grammar School there. He en- 
tered the Vermont State University at Burlington 
in the autumn of 1S77, but at the end of the soph- 
omore year left, to engage in business, having 
early exhibited a taste for active business rather 
than professional life. He started in the au- 
tumn of 1879 as a travelling salesman for the 
St. Albans Manufacturing Company, introducing 
a patent drying apparatus throughout the West. 
In the spring of 1882 he became associated with 
the late Benjamin F. Sturtevant, manufacturer of 
blowers, as manager of liis busine.ss ; and upon 
the foundation of the Benjamin F. Sturtevant 
Company in 1890, after the death of Mr. Sturte- 
vant, he was made treasurer and general manager 
of the corporation, the position he still holds. 
Meanwhile Mr. Foss had become concerned in 
other business interests : and he is now also presi- 
dent of the Jamaica Plain Gaslight Company, a 
director of the Massachusetts Loan and Trust 
Companv, and treasurer of the New England 
Phonograph Company. He is interested in edu- 
cational and denominational matters, as a trustee 
of the ^'ermont Academy at Saxton's River, \'t.. 
a trustee of the Newton Theological Seminary, 
and a director of the Young ]Men's Christian A.s- 
sociation. In politics he is an earnest Republi- 
can, but his large business interests have pre- 
vented his taking an active part in political atTairs. 
He has, however, served one term as chairman of 
the Republican ward and city committee for Ward 
Twentv-three, and for a longer period as a mem- 
ber of the Republican Congressional committee of 
his district. He has also served for some time on 
the directory of the Home Market Club. He is 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



a member of the I3oston Art, the Exchange, the 
Jamaica, and the EHot clubs. Mr. Foss was mar- 
ried June 12, 1884, to Miss Lilla Sturtevant, 




E. N. FOSS. 

daughter of the late Benjamin F. Sturtevant, his 
former employer, of Jamaica Plain. They have 
four children, two boys and two girls : Benjamin 
Sturtevant (born October 9, 1886), Guy Noble 
(born April 8, 1888), and Esther and Helen Foss, 
twins (born January 20, 1894). 



and then studied art. He was a pupil first of 
John B. Johnston in Boston, and afterward of 
Jules Lefebvre, G. R. ('. Boulanger, and Jean 
Paul Laurens in Paris. He first exhibited in oils 
at the Boston Art Museum in 1880, and he has 
since exhibited at the Paris Salon and at the 
principal water -color exhibitions in the United 
States. In i8go he received a silver medal for 
his water colors at the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association exhibition in Boston. The 
same year the Boston Art Club bought his pict- 
ure, " Boon Companions," from the spring exhibi- 
tion of the club, in which the painting occupied 
the place of honor. Most of Mr. Garrett's works 
have been published in books to which he has 
contributed letter-press as well as illustrations. 
He has published through the house of Little, 
Brown, &: Co., of Boston, and Osgood, Mcllvaine, 
& Co., of London, a collection of lyrics, " Eliza- 
bethan Songs," and through the same house in 
Boston and J. M. l)ent, of London, "Three 
Heroines of New England Romance," partly writ- 
ten by himself. A late volume is '• \'ictorian 
Songs,'' brought out in 1895. ( )lher books 



GARRETT, Edmund H., of Boston, artist, 
was born in .\lbany, N.V., October ig, 1853, son 
of Anthony and Eliza A. (Miers) Garrett. His 
paternal grandfather was a native of Bordeaux, 
named Francis Grenier, who, upon becoming an 
American citizen, anglicized Grenier to Garret. 
Afterward the spelling was changed to Garrett. 
His paternal grandmother was Joanna Van Cam- 
pano, Isorn in lirussels, Belgium. His mother's 
father was James .\lexander Miers, liorn in New 
York City, and iier mother, Deborah Hart (Mas- 
sey) Miers, born in Lynn, Mass., and a direct 
descendant of the first child born in Salem. Ed- 
mund H. was educated in tiie public schools of edited and illustrated i)y him have been published 
Roxbury and of Boston. For several years, be- by Roberts Brothers, Boston ; and he has done 
ginning in 1869, he worked at wood engraving, nnich notable w^ork for Houghton, Miftlin, iS; Co., 




EDMUND H. GARRETT. 



MKN OK PROGRESS. 



875 



the Harpers, Casscll & Co.. Dddd, Mead, & Co., 
the Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and A. C. 
.McClurg & Co., Chicago. Mr. Garrett is a mem- 
ber of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters, 
of the New York Water Color Chiij, of the Itoston 
Art Club, the Paint and Clay Club, the Caxton 
Club of Chicago, and the Duodecimos, a society 
of literary men and book-lovers residing in differ- 
ent cities. He was married in Boston, October 
24, 1S77, to Miss Marietta (loldsmith. Their 
first child died in infancy. Their other children 
are; Edmund AnthoTiv and Julian Carrett. 




■ RAYMOND R. OILMAN. 

OILMAN, Kavmiim) R.-vnd, of Pioston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Shelburne 
Falls, July 28, 1859, son of Ambrose and Eunice 
(Wilco.x) Oilman. He is of the old Oilman fam- 
ily, tracing its lineage back to the earliest days 
of England. The name of one of his ancestors 
(Moses Oilman) is among the signatures to the 
Constitution of the United States. He is directly 
descended from the Oilmans of New Hampshire, 
known so many years in the government of that 
State in its earliest days. His early education 
was acquired in the public scliools of his native 
town : and he fmished at the Shelburne Kails 
Academy, and with law lectures at the Boston 



University. He began his law studies in the 
office of the Hon. S. T. Field, formerly district 
attorney of Franklin C^ounty, and graduated froin 
the office of the Hon. Frederick I). Ely, now 
judge of the Municipal Court of Boston, Septem- 
ber, 1879. He was admitted to the bar Septem- 
ber 28, 1880, at Dedham, the youngest man ever 
admitted in Norfolk County. He began practice 
in ills native town, but early moved to Boston, 
where he has since been actively engaged. His 
ad\ancc in his profession has been rapid, espe- 
cially from the opening of his Boston office, his 
business having steadily increased and his suc- 
cess with his cases being marked. .Mr. tJilman is 
a prominent Odd Fellow, being past grand and 
past chief patriarch and member of the Orand 
Lodge. He has taken an active interest in poli- 
tics, having been president of the Republican 
Club of Melrose, where he resides ; but he has 
held no public office. His club aflfiliations are 
with the Melrose Social and the Melrose Athletic 
clubs. He was married June 16, 1882, to Miss 
Kate A. Tuttle, of Jefferson, X.H. They have 
one child: .\lice K. Oilman i aged eleven vears). 



(JORDON, Rev. Adoniram Jud.son, of Boston, 
pastor of the C'larendon Street Baptist Church, 
was born in New Hampton, N.H., .-Xpril 18, 1836; 
died in Boston, February i, 1895. He was a son 
of John Calvin and Sallie (Robinson) Oordon of 
Scotch ancestr)-. His great-grandfather was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary War. He received 
his primary education in the town school, and in 
1853 entered the New London (N.H.) Academy, 
with the distinct purpose of fitting himself for the 
ministry. Graduating from this school with honor, 
he entered Brown University, and upon his gradu- 
ation therefrom, in the class of i860, went imme- 
diately to Newton Theological Seminary, where 
he took the regular course, finishing in 1863. 
Before the completion of his studies at the theo- 
logical school he had become a settled pastor, 
having accepted the pastorate of the Jamaica 
Plain Baptist church. He was ordained to the 
ministry June 29, 1863 ; and his service at Ja- 
maica Plain covered six years. Receiving then 
a call to the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, 
Boston, and most reluctantly accepting it, he 
began the work in that city to which he devoted 
the best years of his life. He was installed De- 
cember 26, 1S69, the day of the death of his dis- 



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tinguished predecessor in the pastorate, the Rev. 
Dr. Baron Stow. At the time of the resignation 
of Dr. Stow the church, which had been most 
prosperous under his ministry, was in a state of 
decline, owing to the shifting of the population 
in its neighborhood, and Dr. Gordon addressed 
himself earnestly and vigorously to the work of 
upbuilding it with early and most gratifying re- 
sults. The church building, then new, and dedi- 
cated the year of his settlement, was soon filled 
with worshippers, and within a few years the mem- 
bership was doubled. At various times revivals 
beginning with the church brought a large num- 




A. J. GORDON. 

ber of converts, and during the latter vears of 
his long pastorate the communicants numbered 
upwards of a thousand. \Miile a zealous pastor, 
performing faithfully all his pastoral duties. Dr. 
Gordon was also an earnest worker in missions, 
home and foreign, an aggressive temperance advo- 
cate, a prolific writer, and an editor of missionary 
periodicals. He was chairman of the executive 
board of the American Baptist Missionary Union, 
chosen to that position in 1888, having previously 
been a member of the board for seventeen years. 
In 1888 he represented the Union at the World's 
Missionary Conference in London, after the close 
of the conference making, in compan\- with Rev. 



Dr. A. T. Pierson, a tour through Scotland and 
Northern England, delivering many missionary 
addresses. In 1889 he founded the Boston 
Missionary Training School, an institution hold- 
ing daily and evening sessions in the lecture-room 
of his church, designed for young men and women 
desiring to engage in mission work and unable to 
pursue an academic course, which has graduated a 
number of home and foreign missionaries and pas- 
tors' assistants. He was himself president of the 
school, and instructor in special Biblical and mis- 
sionary studies. He was also prominent among 
the founders of the Boston Industrial Home on 
Davis Street. He was a close friend of the evan- 
gelist D. C. Moody, and a portion of his time was 
given each year to assistance in 1 )r. Moody's con- 
ferences at Northfield. His first book, " In Christ,'' 
was brought out in 1872, and is now in its seventh 
edition. Then followed '■ Congregational \\'or- 
ship," also written in 1872. ']"he ne.xt volume, 
"Grace and Glory," a collection of sermons, ap- 
peared in 1 88 1. Then came the "Ministry of 
Healing, or Miracles of Cure in All Ages," in 
1882, now in its fourth edition: "Twofold Life" 
in 1884, now in its third edition; " 'I'he Holv 
Spirit in Missions," six lectures delivered April, 
1892, to the Dutch Reformed divinity students 
at New Brunswick, N.J., in 1893 ; the " Coronation 
Hymnal," collaborated with Dr. A. T. Pierson, in 
1894; and numerous published sermons, special 
articles, and sixteen lyrics at various times. His 
last work, " The Ministry of the .Spirit," was 
issued the week of his death. " In Christ," 
" Twofold Life," " The Ministry of Healing," and 
" Ecce ^^e^it " have been rendered into Swedish ; 
and a German translation of " Ecce \'enit " is 
under way. His editorial work was as editor of 
the ]Vati/noord, a religious monthly magazine, 
and as assistant editor of the Missionary Review 
of t/ie World. He was for many years a member 
of the Board of Trustees oi Brown University, and 
in 1S77 received from that institution the honorary 
degree of D.l). Dr. G.irdim was married Octo- 
ber 13, 1S63. to Miss Maria Hale, of Providence, 
R.I.. daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Johnson) 
Hale. They had eight children, six of whom are 
now living: Harriet Hale (now wife of the Rev. 
E. M. Poteat, of New Haven, Conn.), Ernest B., 
Elsie, Arthur H., Helen M., and Theodora Living- 
stone (rordon. lioth of the sons are graduates 
of Harvard, and the daughter Helen M. is a stu- 
dent at Wellesley College. Mrs. Gordon \\ as for 



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fifteen years the president of the Boston W 
Christian Temperance Union, decHning further to 
serve ; and is a most acceptable pubHc speaker. 



(;()RI)()N, Ja.mks Li>i;ax. of Boston, president 
of the Lyceum League of America, was born in 
Philadelphia, Penna., March 28, 1858, son of John 
Robert and Margaret (Logan) Gordon. He is of 
Scotch-Irish parentage, his father being a Scotch- 
man and his mother of the north of Ireland. 
His education was limited to a few years of school- 
ing, due to his restless desire to be earning some- 
thing : and at twelve he was at work as an errand 
boy, turning over three dollars a week to the slen- 
der family treasury. Inheriting from his father a 
fondness for solid literature, what he lacked in 
academic training he made up through wide and 
careful reading of good books : and, while an in- 
dustrious worker, he early gained a name among 
his associates for breadth of culture and original- 
ity of thought. Steadily ad\ancing in business, at 
the age of twenty-two he was in charge of the 
foreign invoice department of John Wanamaker's 
extensive establishment in Philadelphia. He was 
thus brought into contact with the heads of depart- 
ments, and with Mr. Wanamaker's financial man- 
ager, the late John F. Hillnian, occasionally also 
with Mr. Wanamaker himself, and so obtained 
an insight into financial management for which he 
later developed peculiar fitness as an executive 
otticer in \'oung Men's Christian Associations of 
the foremost Eastern cities. In the many-sided 
work of these organizations he soon became 
known as a popular leader among young men. 
His first field was Easton, Penna., with a popula- 
tion of twelve' thousand ; and in the brief period 
of nine years he had passed from his modest 
office there, through a succession of promotions, 
to the general secretaryship of the Poston Asso- 
ciation, the oldest and perhaps the largest Young 
Men's Christian Association in the United States. 
During this period he had served, after Easton. in 
Erie, Penna.. with a population of forty thousand, 
as business manager of the Brooklyn, N.Y., As.so- 
ciation, and as State secretary of the associations 
in Connecticut, of the executive committee of 
which Charles A. Jewell of Hartford was the chair- 
man. He had been in Connecticut scarcely two 
years when the call from the Boston Association 
came, and inducements were held out which could 
not be resisted. In all his work he has shown not 



Oman's only a genius in planning great undertakings in 
connection with organizations for which he is re- 
sponsible, but a mastery of details down to the 
smallest. Mr. Gordon has also become widely 
known in evangelical church circles as a pulpit 
and platform speaker of striking originality and 
personal power. With a remarkable memory, a 
vocabulary enriched by hours among his books, 
a faculty for analysis and close-fitting logic, it is 
said of him that he always '• stands before his au- 
dience, large or .small, master of himself, his sub- 
ject, and his hearers. On the platform as off he 
is a man of manv moods. Flashes of wit enliven 




JAMES LOGAN CORDON. 

every address : but every public effort is closed in 
exactly the same manner, — the speaker gives his 
audience some solid thought or idea, which leaves 
it in a sober, reflective mood.'' Mr. Gordon has 
written a number of books, among them " I My- 
self, " a book on indixiduality, " A rather Fast 
Young Man," " Phillips Brooks,'' •' Five 'I'housand 
\'oung''; and he is now writing a volume on 
present problems, which will bear the general 
title of "Under Discussion.'' He was elected to 
his present position of president of the Lj'ceum 
League of America — an organization having a 
constituency of forty thousand young men and 
women — in 1895. Mr. Gordon was married in 



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1887, to Miss Lillian Hoffman James, of Read- 
ing, Penna. 




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the Globe Street Railway Company, and of nu- 
merous other large corporations in Fall River 
and in South-eastern Massachusetts. Mr. Grime 
is a member of the local alumni association of 
Brown University and the Harvard Law School 
Association, of Quequechan and Commercial 
clubs of Fall River, of the Masons, Commandery 
Godfred de 15oillon, the Odd Fellows, the 
Knights of Pythias, and of various athletic clubs. 



HACKETT, Orlando Jacob, of Boston, gen- 
eral secretary of the Lyceum League of America, 
was born in Maine, on a farm near Auburn, No- 
vember 28, 1869, son of Jacob Hackett and Elsie 
(Maxwell) Hackett. He moved into the city 
when a boy, and was educated in the public 
schools of Auburn, where he lived until he came 
to Boston, early in 1895. His professional career 
was begun as a teacher, and he was for some time 
professor of music in the Auburn public schools. 
.Subsequently he became a public singer and 
reader, and was brought into professional connec- 
tion in various ways with public men. In June, 



GEORGE GRIME. 

GRIME, George, of Fall River, city solicitor, 
is a native of Fall River, born September 7, 1859, 
son of William E. and Ruth (Mellor) Grime. He 
attended the public schools, including a three 
years' course in the Fall River High School, and 
was graduated from Brown University in the class 
of 1886, with the degree of A.B. Subsequently, 
in 1890, he received the degree of A.M. from his 
i!///ii7 mater. After graduation he studied in an 
office for one year, then in the autumn of 1887 
entered the Harvard Law School, and was gradu- 
ated there with the degree of LL.B. in i8go. In 
the spring of that year he was admitted to the 
bar in Bristol County. He began practice in Fall 
River in the following autumn. Upon the acces- 
sion of the Hon. Henry K. Braley, of liraley & 
Swift, to the bench of the Superior Court, he 
formed a copartnership with the Hon. Marcus 
G. B. Swift, under the firm name of Swift & Grime, 
which relation still exists. He was first elected , 
city solicitor of Fall River in 1893, and re-elected 
in 1894 and 1895. His law firm is attorney for 
the Fall River Savings Bank, the Citizens' Sav- 
ings Bank, the Troy Co-operative Bank, the Po- 
casset National Bank, the National Union Bank, 





O. J. HACKETT. 



1895, he became general secretary of the Lyceum 
League of America and of the Parliament of Man, 
an au.xiliary association for older members of the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



879 



loniicr diganizalion, the objects of Ixith l)ein^ 
" the promotion of intelligent patriotism and the 
de\eIopment of practical good citizenship in the 
young men and women of America." The League 
issues a monthly magazine, the New Century, 
which is dexoted to its interests. As general 
secretary, Mr. Hackett visits many of the fifteen 
hundred lyceums of the League which are scat- 
tered through all the States and Territories, for the 
purpose of stimulating tlie Lyceum work, organiz- 
ing new lyceums, and interesting public and pri- 
vate citizens in the work. Mr. Hackett is un- 
married. 



HARLOW, Louis Kinney, of Boston, artist, 
was born in Wareham, March 28, 1850, son of 
Ivory H. and Mary (Kinney) Harlow. On the 
paternal side he is of English descent, and on 
the maternal side of Scotch. He was educated 
in the public schools and at Phillips ('Andover) 
Academy. His artistic bent was displayed in 
childhood, and at school he did good work in 
blackboard sketching. At the age of twelve he 
began the study of pencil drawing from an Eng- 
lish artist resident in his native place, and to 
this instruction he accords whatever of skill he 
has in the use of the point. After graduating 
from tlie academy, he entered mercantile life ; 
but for this he had little liking, and finally aban- 
doned it for a professional career, to which he 
had all along been inclined. In 1880 he opened 
his first studio in the Studio Building, Boston, 
and applied himself largely to water-color paint- 
ing. The merits of his work were recognized 
first in the West; and in 1882, receiving a call 
from a class of about thirty art students in De- 
troit, Mich., he. went to that city. He also taught 
in other Western places, and through his success 
as an art teacher he enlarged the market for the 
productions from his brush. His first important 
exhibition in the East, of' about fifty water colors, 
was given in Boston during January, 1886, and 
was a pronounced success, the best critics speak- 
ing warmly in its praise, and the picture-buying 
public responding with commissions. In this 
exhibition the delicacy of his work, notably in 
atmospheric effects and the sentiment expressed 
in it, were especially remarked. The success 
that followed enabled him shortly after to go 
abroad, and he spent some time in Holland in 
further study and work from Dutch subjects. In 
later years he visited England and France, and 



also repeatedly revisited Holland, which is his 
favorite field. Mr. Harlow has done much also 
in book illustration and in work for reproduction 
by lithographers. His subjects are most varied, 
including flowers and figures, landscapes and 
marines, pastoral views, illustrations of the poets. 
His work is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, 
art publishers in England and Germany having 
used with success his drawings for publication. 
His recent commissions have taken him into 
nearly every country for sketches. His best- 
known pictures include " Etchings of i:)aybreak," 
" Sketches in Dutchland," "Snow-Bound," "Home 




LOUIS K. HARLOW. 

of E\angeline," ••Oreen Pastures," "Still Waters," 
many marine studies, "Oft" Rockland Light," "The 
Old Powder House," "The Old Manse." Mr. 
Harlow now resides at Waban (in Newton), main- 
taining his studio, as at the outset of his profes- 
sional career, in Boston. He was married .\pril 
23, 1873, to Miss Julia A. Coombs, of Middle- 
borough. They have three children : Arthur B., 
Ralph Leroy, and Marjorie K. Harlow. 



HP^.XTH, Daniki, Coi.lamore, of Boston, pub- 
lisher, is a native of Maine, born in the town of 
Salem, October 26, 1843, son of Daniel and Mila 



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Ann (Record) Heath. His early education was 
acquired in tlie common scliools of his native 
town, after which he attended the academy at 
Farmington, Me., and spent a year at the Nichols 
Latin School in Lewiston, Me., fitting for college. 
He graduated at Amherst in the class of 1868. 
After leaving college, he was principal of the 
High School in Southborough, Mass., for two 
years, and then spent two years at the Bangor 
Theological Seminary (Maine). The next year 
he was travelling abroad on account of ill-health. 
Upon his return he became supervisor of schools 
at Farmington, Me., in which position he con- 
tinued for a year. At the end of that service, in 
1874, he engaged in the book trade, representing 
C;inn IJrothers, publishers, at Rochester, N.\'. 
After a year in Rochester he opened a branch 
house for that firm in New York City, and re- 
mained there for a year. Then he became a 
member of the firm of Ginn & Heath, Boston, 
and so continued until 1886, when he sold his in- 
terest in the business, and established the house 
of D. C. Heath & Co., of which he is still 
the senior partner. The firm's list of authors 




D. C. HEATH. 



includes professors in the leading universities, 
colleges, and technical schools of this countrj-, 
besides text-book writers of established reputation 



connected with the London University, the Uni- 
versity of Toronto, St. Andrew's, Scotland, the 
University of Sweden, and other educational in- 
stitutions of Europe. Its list of publications em- 
brace books for use in universities, colleges, 
normal schools, academies, public and private 
schools, including te.xt-books for nearly all depart- 
ments of instruction. The house stands for mod- 
ern ideas in educational works, and its books are 
in the direct line of educational progress. It 
believes in the laboratory method in history and 
literature, as well as in the sciences ; and its pub- 
lications on these lines and made in this direction 
have done much toward leading up to better 
methods. The English books of the house are 
edited on the theory that it is more important to 
impress the student with the literary aspect of the 
work or author in hand rather than to use the 
author's material for study of philology or gram- 
mar ; and it is now issuing a valuable series of 
Shakspere Plays by Cambridge and O.xford men, 
based on this plan. In reading, it is the theory 
of the house that children should be made ac- 
C|uainted as early as possible with the best litera- 
ture ; and, accordingly, it has published a series 
entitled the " Heart of Oak Books," edited by 
Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard. In 
1892 the firm entered into contract with the Uni- 
versity of Chicago to take charge of the publica- 
tions in the important department of the Univer- 
sity Press (one of the three great departments 
into which that institution is divided), through 
which are to be issued works in Sanskrit. He- 
brew, Greek, German, and other languages, as 
well as in English, and regular series of papers 
or periodicals from each school of the graduate 
department. Among its many notable general 
works are : Corson's " Introductions to Shake- 
speare and Browning," Moulton's "Literary Study 
of the Bible," Boutwell's "Constitution of the 
United States at the End of the First Century," 
Dole's "The American Citizen," Gide's "Prin- 
ciples of Political Economy," and Wilson's "The 
.State." The house has a long list of all books 
on science, mathematics, history and civics, over 
twenty-five books on education, a series of liooks 
on drawing and music, and about one hundred 
and fifty modern language te.xts in Heath's " Mod- 
ern Language Series," which have received the 
highest commendation from representative profes- 
sors of languages here and abroad. The firm has 
in press for early publication a text-book on " In- 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



88 1 



ternational Law," by Professor Lawrence, formerly 
of Cambridge University, England, more recently 
of Chicago University. Mr. Heath is a member 
of the University, Twentieth Century, and Congre- 
gational clubs of Jioston, of the Newton Club of 
Newton, and of the Akline (publishers) Club of 
New York. He was married in January, 1881, to 
Mrs. Nelly Lloyd (Jones) Knox, of Colorado 
Springs, and a native of Tennessee. The chil- 
dren are: James Lloyd Knox, Stanley I)., Arnold 
C, Daniel ('.. Jr., and Warren Heath. 



at least eight thousand witliout amputation, lock- 
jaw, gangrene, blood poisoning, or bad result. In 
1895 he was appointed health inspector to take 



HEATH, Nkwton Emmkr, M\\. of Stock- 
bridge, was born in Monterey, Berkshire County, 
May 14, 1861, son of Charles Edmund and Lydia 
Carey (I )e Vol) Heath. His father was a physi- 
cian and assistant surgeon of the Fifty-seventh 
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the Civil 
War, and his paternal grandfather was a sturdy 
New England farmer. His mother was a Qua- 
keress. He was educated in the public schools, 
graduating from the High School of the town of 
Lee. At the age of eighteen he entered the 
Albany Medical College and at the same time 
the surgical dispensary of Dr. John Swinburne. 
After his graduation from the college, in 1883, he 
continued for a year with Dr. Swinburne, the lat- 
ter giving him the position of first assistant. In 
this association he gained a practical knowledge 
of the surgery of accidents and injuries which has 
been invaluable in his life-work. While with Dr. 
Swinburne he was appointed assistant overseer 
of the poor of Albany, and in this capacity had 
the investigation of all applications for charity 
and the charge of admissions to the hospitals 
throughout the State. In 1884, after his mar- 
riage, he began regular practice in Stockbridge, 
meeting with early success and doing a good 
work, especially in accidents and injuries. In 
189 1 a flattering offer came to him from 'I'roy, 
N.V, where the work was mainly the treatment 
of accidents, — work for which his training had 
fitted him and which he most enjoyed. Accord- 
ingly, he moved to that city, but, it proving un- 
healthy there for his wife and boy, he returned to 
Stockbridge two years later. His practice is 
steadily increasing ; and, with health and strength, 
he hopes to leave a few less cripples in the world. 
He has directly or indirectly been in sixteen thou- 
sand accident cases, in which there have been but 
two amputations ; and he has personally treated 




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NEWTON E. HEATH. 

charge of and investigate contagious diseases, 
and to enforce the quarantine ordered in such 
cases. In politics Dr. Heath is what is called a 
Mugwump, voting for the men who, in his judg- 
ment, are best fitted to fill office. He was married 
February 26. 1884, to Miss Oldfield, of Cornwall, 
Conn. They have two children: Leslie Oldfield 
(aged five years) and I'redcrick Selden Heath 
(one year). 

HENDERSON, Johx D., of Everett, builder 
and dexeloper of suburban property, is a native 
of Scotland, born in the little town of Gatehouse, 
October 27, 1849, son of John and Jennie (John- 
son) Henderson. He was educated in a pri- 
vate school, and at the age of fourteen was ap- 
prenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. After 
serving his time of five years, he left home, and 
came to this country, landing in Boston. He at 
once found lucrative employment, and was soon 
engaged on important work. In less than a year 
after his arrival he was employed as foreman for 
Henry F. Durant, in the construction of the 
Wellesley College buildings. While superintend- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ing this work, which covered some time, he also served as ciiairman of tlie board, but the second 
had the oversight of the building of other large year declined that position. He was one of the 
structures. In 1872, forming a partnership with town committee which in 1892 secured the city 

charter, and was elected a member of the first 
Board of Aldermen of the city of Everett. He is 
a member of Palestine Lodge of Freemasons, 
past grand master of Everett Lodge of the order 
of Odd Fellows, and a member of Assawomsett 
Tribe of Red Men. He is a prominent member 
of the Glendon Club. Mr. Henderson was mar- 
ried in 1S79 '^o Miss Emily .S. Thring, of 15oston. 




HILL, General Hollis Boardman, of Bos- 
ton, of the National Law and Collection Ex- 
change, was born in Stetson, Me., May 31, 1845, 
son of Hezekiah and Emily Maria (Hill) Hill. 
On the paternal side he is of good old New Eng- 
land stock, and on the maternal side of notable 
military stock. His maternal grandfather was 
an officer in the Fourth Regiment, I'nited .States 
regular army, and died immediately after the 
battle of Tippecanoe : General Hill possesses the 
last letter he wrote, in which he said that as soon 



JOHN D. HENDERSON. 

an older brother, James M. Henderson, under the 
firm name of Henderson Brothers, he moved to 
Everett, and then began the work of suburban de- 
velopment through the erection of moderate-cost 
houses and their sale on easy terms, in which he 
has since been engaged. His firm was among 
the pioneers in this line of business, and in the 
rapid upbuilding of Everett in recent years it has 
taken a prominent part. Since the beginning of 
their enterprise here the brothers have built up- 
ward of seven hundred houses, of modern style, 
fully equipped with modern conveniences, and 
have opened up an e.xtensive territory. They 
now have their own lumber-yards, saw-mills, 
planing-mills, paint-shops, and other works for 
the preparation of material used in house-build- 
ing, and, with their large force of regular work- 
men and mechanics, perform all the labor of 
erecting their houses, from the breaking of ground 
for the cellar to the finish. In 189 1 Mr. Hender- 
son was elected a member of the Board of Over- 
seers of the Poor, receiving the largest vote ever as he recovered he would give an account of the 
cast in Everett for a candidate for that office, and battle. At one time during the Civil War General 
was re-elected in 1892. During his first term he Hill himself, when nineteen years old, with rank 




HOLLiS B HILL. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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of lieutenant in tlie volunteer service, coninianded 
the same army post that his grandfather had com- 
mand of in iSio and 1811. His great-grand- 
father on his mother's side was an officer in 
the French and Indian wars; and his mother's 
brother, and the latter's son, were graduates of 
West Point. Hollis B. Hill was educated in the 
common school at Stetson, at Corinth ( Me.) Acad- 
emy, and at the commercial college in Portland, 
Me. His training for active life was in mercantile 
business. He was for some years in the wliole- 
sale grocery trade as a member of the firm of 
\V. & C. R. Milliken in Portland, Me. In 1888, 
having lost his health, he withdrew from business, 
and for the ne.xt four years was in the South, 
where he was interested in a blast furnace and 
other enterprises. In 1892, his health then being 
restored, he associated himself with Colonel Joseph 
W. Spaulding in the law and collection business 
in Boston, forming the National Law and Collec- 
tion Exchange, which he has since conducted, the 
business extending over the United States, and 
into the Canadas and Europe. General Hill has 
served on the staff of Governor Davis, of Maine, 
as aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant colo- 
nel ; on Governor ISodwell's staff, as commissary 
general, with the rank of colonel ; and on Gov- 
ernor Marble's staff, as inspector-general, with 
rank of brigadier-general. He is a member of 
the military order of Loyal Legion, and of Burn- 
side Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Auburn, 
Me. \\'hile residing in Portland, he served in 
the Common Council in 1 886-8 7. He was also 
a director of the Cumberland National Bank of 
Portland, and of the Northern Banking Company, 
and one of the founders of the Portland Club. 
In politics Mr. Hill has always been a Republi- 
can. He was married October 27, 1870, to Miss 
Harriet Morrill Quinby, daughter of the Rev. 
George Quinby, D.D., of Augusta, Me. 'I'hey 
have one son : George Quinby Hill. 



business, and in 1891 formed the present firm of 
E. C. Hodges & Co. He was appointed to the 
Boston Park Commission by Mayor Curtis in 



HODGES, Edward Carroll, of Boston, 
banker, was born in Roxbury, .December 24, 
1855, son of Almon D. and Jane (Glazier) 
Hodges. He was educated in the common and 
High schools of Roxbury. In the battallion of the 
latter he was major in 1874. He began active 
life in the hardware business, with Dodge, Gilbert, 
& Co., in Boston. In 1880 he became a member 
of the firm of Emery & Hodges in the banking 




E. C. HODGES. 

1895, and is now chairman of tlie board. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member of the 
Algonquin, Athletic, and Country clubs, and of 
the Corinthian, Eastern, and Manchester yacht 
clubs. Mr. Hodges was married May 12, 1891, 
to Miss Ethel .\. Davis, of San Francisco. They 
ha\e two children: Charles I), and Sibyl A. 
Hodges. 

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, of Boston, pro- 
fessor, essayist, and poet, was born in Cambridge, 
.\ugust 29, 1809 ; died in Boston October 7, 1894. 
His father, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, was pastor of 
the First Parish Church of Cambridge from 1792 
to 1832, and a valued writer upon historical sub- 
jects, publishing as early as 1805 the ".American 
Annals '' (republished in 1827 under the title of 
'■ .\nnals of America, 1492-1826 "), a chronologi- 
cal history, and contributing frequently to the 
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical .So- 
ciety; and his mother was a daughter of Oliver 
Wendell, a merchant of Boston, later judge of pro- 
bate for Suffolk County, a selectman during the 
siege of P)Oston, and a member of the corporation 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of Harvard C'ollej^e from 1778 to 1S12. On the 
paternal side lie was a direct descendant of John 
Holmes, from England, who settled in Woodstock, 
Conn., in 1686. His grandfather, l)a\id Holmes, 
grandson of John, was a captain of British troops 
in the French war, and subsequently served as a 
surgeon in the Revolutionarv armv. His mater- 
nal ancestors were Dutch, the first in America 
being F.vert Jansen Wendell, who came to .VI- 
banv in 1645 from Knibden, in East Friesland, on 
the border between Germany and the Nether- 
lands. His great-grandfather, Jacob Wendell, 
moved from Albany to Boston in the eighteenth 
century, and became one of the wealthiest mer- 
chants of the town, served in the tow-n govern- 
ment, and was colonel of a Boston military com- 
pany. He married a daughter of Dr. James 
Oliver, and had twelve children, one of whom, the 
youngest daughter, married John Phillips, and 
became the mother of Wendell I^hillips. Dr. 
Holmes's maternal grandmother was a daughter 
of Edward and Dorothy (Quincy) Jackson. His 
great-grandmother Quincy was the "Dorothy Q.'" 
celebrated in his famous poem of that name, and 
her niece became the wife of John Hancock. 
His mother reached the venerable age of ninety- 
three, and his father died at seventy-four. Dr. 
Holmes was educated in Cambridge private 
schools, at Phillips (Andover) Academy, where he 
was fitted for college, and at Harvard, graduating 
in the class of 1829. Among his classmates were 
Benjamin Peirce, subsequently the eminent mathe- 
matician and astronomer, James Freeman Clarke, 
Chandler Robbins, afterward long pastor of the 
Second Church, Boston, William H. Channing, 
George T. Bigelow, who became judge of the 
Massachusetts Supreme Court, Benjamin R. 
Curtis, later justice of the I'nited States Supreme 
Court, and Samuel F. Smith, who wrote " .\mer- 
ica " ; and other college mates were the historian 
Motley, Charles Sumner, and Charles C. Emerson, 
brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He shone 
early as the poet of his class, and was chosen 
class poet. He delivered the poem before the 
Hasty Pudding Club, and had some lines at Com- 
mencement. Also while in college he was joint 
author with Park Benjamin and John O. Sargent 
of a little volume of satirical verses entitled 
" Poetical Illustrations of the .\thena-uiii Gallery 
of Paintings." After leaving college, he gave a 
year to the study of law at the law school, and 
then took up medicine at the medical school. 



While a law student, he was a regular contributor 
to the Co//ci;i<iii, a college periodical conducted by 
a group of clever undergraduates, printing in all 
twenty-five light humorous poems, a half-dozen of 
which are preserved in his volumes of complete 
works ; and daring this same period he wrote his 
stirring lyric •' Old Ironsides," inspired by the an- 
nounced decision of the department to break up 
the historic frigate "Constitution," which was 
printed first in the Boston Aitrcrtiscr, then ran 
through the newspapers of the country, and was cir- 
culated in Washington in hand-bills, and saved the 
brave old ship. Later, in 1833. he contributed a 




O. W. HOLMES. 

number of anonymous verses to a volume entitled 
" The Harbinger," published for sale at a fair in 
Faneuil Hall for the benefit of Dr. Samuel G. 
Howe's Institution for the Education of the Blind. 
In the spring of 1833 he went abroad further to 
pursue his medical studies, and the following two 
and a half years were spent mainly in Paris, at 
the Ecole de Medecine, and in various European 
hospitals. Returning home in 1836, he took his 
medical degree at the Harvard Medical School. 
The same year, in August, he deli\ered before the 
Harvard Phi Beta Kappa his long poem. " Poetry, 
a Metrical Essay," which was published in the 
autumn following, with a number of other verses. 



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among tlieni llie exquisite " Tiie Last Leaf," in 
tiie first collection of his poems, which at once 
established his reputation. In 1838 Dr. Holmes 
was appointed professor of anatomy and physi- 
ology at Dartmouth College, which position he 
held for two years. Then, resigning, he returned 
to Boston, and, marrying, established himself in 
general practice. He immediately acquired a 
position as a fashionable physician, and continued 
a successful practitioner for nearly ten years. In 
icS47 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy 
and physiolog}- in the Harvard Medical School, 
succeeding Dr. John C. Warren, and in 1849 with- 
drew from practice, to devote all his time to his 
medical lectures and to literary pursuits. He held 
his professorship in the medical school continuously 
for thirty-five years, and was then (in 1882) made 
professor emeritus. In' 1838 he published his 
second volume, consisting of his '• Boylston Prize 
Dissertations," essays which won the prizes of 
1836-37 from the Boylston fund for medical dis- 
sertations ; and other professional publications fol- 
lowed in 1841 and 1848, with various articles in 
medical journals, all scholarly productions. But 
his fiv.f i/'i>u<!si(i/i during this period, delivered 
at various professional, social, and college gather- 
ings, gave him wider fame. In 1846 he delivered 
a poem before the Boston Mercantile Library As- 
sociation. — "Urania, a Rhymed Lesson," — and 
in 1850 the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Yale, — 
■■ Astra::a : The Balance of Illusions," — and also 
in 1850 the poem at the dedication of the Pitts- 
field Cemetery, which was his contribution as a 
resident of Pittsfield, his country house being 
there, on a fair estate on the Housatonic, rich in 
natural beauty, which he had inherited from his 
maternal ancestors, the Wendells, and had been in 
the family from 1735. ,\fter his work as professor 
at the medical school was well under way. Dr. 
Holmes entered the lyceum lecture field, his first 
notable series being on " English Poets of the 
Nineteenth Century," given in various cities in 
1852. In this field he was much in demand, and 
for the next si.x or eight years he travelled exten- 
sively during the lecture seasons. In December, 
1855, he delivered the oration before the New 
England Society of New York at the semi-cen- 
tennial anniversary, which was subsequently pub- 
lished in the society's report of the celebration. 
In 1857, with the start of the Atlantic Monthly, 
under the editorship of James Russell Lowell, his 
most famous " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table " 



papers were begun, and their publication contin- 
ued regularly through the first year of the maga- 
zine, the chief feature of a brilliant array of feat- 
ures. These were constructed from the slender 
foundation of a series of slight papers under the 
same title which the author had contributed to 
Buckingham's Nc7v Enj^land Maf;azinc, when he 
was a law student in 1831-32. The " Autocrat " 
was first published in book form in 1858, with 
illustrations; and nearly twenty-five years after a 
new^ edition appeared, with many interesting notes. 
" The Professor at the Breakfast Table " followed 
the -'Autocrat" in 1859. The same year, and in 
i860, his first novel "Elsie Venner, a Romance 
of Destiny," which excited much attention as a 
psychological studv, appeared in the pages of 
the Atlantic, under the title of " The Professor's 
Story," issuing in book form in 1861. Six years 
later his second and last novel. " The (iuardian 
Angel," made its appearance. During the Civil 
War he published a number of stirring war poems, 
contributed numerous patriotic articles to the 
magazines, and delivered the annual Eourth of 
July oration before the city authorities of Boston 
in 1863, with the war and the principles underly- 
ing it as his theme. One of the most effective of 
his papers during this period, at once lively and 
touching, was the account of " My Hunt after the 
Captain." describing his journeys to the battle- 
field and home again, after the wounding of his 
son, Oliver Wendell, Jr., at Ball's Bluff in 1862. 
Dr. Holmes's first publications after the war 
were "The Guardian Angel," before mentioned, 
and "Teaching from the Chair and the Bedside," 
the latter the introductory lecture before the Har- 
vard Medical School in 1867. Then followed the 
".Atlantic .Almanac for 1868," of which he was 
joint editor with Donald G. Mitchell; "The Med- 
ical Profession in Massachusetts," a lecture in 
the Lowell Institute course, 1869; "Valedictory 
Address delivered to the Graduating Class of the 
Bellevue Hospital College," New York, 187 1 ; 
" Mechanism in Thought and Morals,'" address 
before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society in 
1870, with "Notes and Afterthoughts" (1871); 
"The Claims of Dentistry," address at the com- 
mencement of the Harvard Dental School, 1872 ; 
the third of his inimitable " Breakfast Table " 
series, in " The Poet at the Breakfast Table," 
first brought out in the Atlantic, and in book form 
in 1873; " Profes.sor Jeffries Wyman ; .\ Memo- 
rial Outline " ; a new volume of collected poems. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS, 



"Songs of Many Seasons, 1862-1874," in 1874; 
and " An Address delivered at the Annual Meet- 
ing of the Boston Microscopical Society, 1877."' 
In 1879, on the seventieth anniversary of his birth- 
day, Dr. Holmes was given a complimentary 
breakfast by the publishers of the Atlantic, on 
which occasion a rare company of literary folk 
were brought together, and he read as his con- 
tribution toward the literary feast ■' The Iron 
Gate," one of the finest of his many poems of oc- 
casion. The same anniversary was celebrated by 
a similar breakfast in New York, given him by the 
Rev. Dr. Henry Potter. During the latter part of 
his life Dr. Holmes's publications were less fre- 
quent than before, but none the less brilliant. 
They included his fine memorial addresses on 
Longfellow and Emerson, contributed to the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society and published in the 
society's "Tribute to Longfellow and Emerson" 
(1882); a number of poems; "After Breakfast 
Talk " in the Atlantic, and his ripe and mellow 
" Over the Tea-cups " papers, after the fashion of 
his " Autocrat " papers, and with not a little of 
their sparkle. His retirement from the Parkman 
professorship at the medical school in November, 
1882, was made the occasion of a demonstration 
by the students and others attending his closing 
lecture, when he was presented with a " Loving 
Cup " inscribed w'ith his own lines : " Love bless 
thee, joy crown thee, God speed thy career." The 
summer of 1886 was spent in London, where the 
poet received an almost constant succession of dis- 
tinguished courtesies. Upon his return he settled 
into a quiet, serene life, writing his " Over the Tea- 
cups " papers and occasional poems, his winters 
passed in his pleasant city home on the water side 
of Beacon Street and his summers at Beverly 
Farms. His birthday was regularly observed by 
the literary world as a literary event, the eightieth 
anniversary being especially marked. Dr. Holmes 
was a member and some time a vice-president of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, president 
of the Boston Medical Library Association, member 
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and member 
of the famous Literary or Saturday Club. He was 
married June 16, 1840, to Miss Amelia Lee Jack- 
son, daughter of the Hon. Charles Jackson, judge 
of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1813- 
24. They had two sons and one daughter: Oliver 
Wendell, Jr., now judge of the Massachusetts Su- 
preme Bench, Amelia Jackson (now Mrs. John 
Turner Sargent), and Edward Holmes. 



HOPKINS, Frederick Stoxe, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in New 
Bedford, November 27, i860. His father was 




FREDK. S, HOPKINS. 

John Hopkins, a merchant of that city, whose 
birthplace was Framingham ; and his mother was 
Louisa Parsons (Stone) Hopkins, a native of Nevv- 
buryport, a writer and educator of wide reputation, 
and for many years — until just prior to her recent 
death — holding, among other positions, that of 
the woman supervisor of Boston schools. The an- 
cestry of Mr. Hopkins is typically New England. 
In the paternal line he is a descendant in the 
ninth generation from Stephen Hopkins, one of 
the " Mayflower's " original hundred passengers, 
and a familiar figure in the earliest days of the 
Plymouth colony. The maternal line includes the 
names of many who fought, preached, or labored 
for this country during its growth : Stone, Parsons, 
Gyles, Griswold, Wolcott, Norton, Goodwin, and 
others. Mr. Hopkins received his earlier educa- 
tion in New Bedford, where he fitted for college 
in the Friends' Academy, entering Harvard in the 
class of 1 88 1. At the end of his college course 
he began the study of law in the office of Morse & 
Stone in Boston, and continued there two years, 
then taking the regular course in the Boston Uni- 
versity Law School. After graduating therefrom. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



887 



he returned to New Bedford, was admitted to tlie 
bar in Bristol County, and entered the office of 
the Hon. (Jeorye Marston, attorney-general of the 
State, where he remained until after the latter's 
death. Coming then to Boston, Mr. Hopkins 
began to devote himself more particularly to such 
branches of the law as pertain directly to real 
estate; and he soon connected himself with the 
Massachusetts Title Insurance Company. Dur- 
ing the six years prior to his leaving that company 
he transacted law business of various kinds, or 
e.Kamined titles, in every county in this State, and 
in many counties in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 
mont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. He re- 
sumed general practice in Februar}', 1893, and 
opened an office in the Equitable Building, Bos- 
ton, where he has since remained. He has not 
actively concerned himself in politics. He resides 
in Boston at No. 21 Chestnut Street, and is un- 
married. 

JONES, Arfhur E.arl, of Boston, member of 
the Suffolk bar, was born in Greenfield, August 7, 
1846, son of Leonard Smith and Sophia Earl 




Ihen, entering the Harvard Law School, he was 
graduated there in 1869, and further read law, 
first with the late Richard H. Dana, and later 
with Henry W. Paine. He was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar in 1870, and, opening his office in Bos- 
ton, has since been steadily engaged in general 
practice. He has served two terms (1882-83) '" 
the city council of Cambridge, where he has re- 
sided since 1850, but beyond that has held no 
IHiblic station, devoting himself exclusively to his 
profession. He is a member of the Union and 
St. Botolph clubs. He was married February 13, 
1879, to Miss Elizabeth B. .\lmy, of Boston. 
Ihey have two daughters : I'auline and Elizabeth 
.V. Jones. 




HENRY C. JORDAN. 

JORDAN, Hkxuv Grecokv, of Boston, coal 
merchant, is a native of Boston, born July 22, 
1849, son of Dr. Henry Jordan and i'amela Seiby 
(Daniell) Jordan. He is a descendant of Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Nathaniel Jordan, who served in 
the Revolutionary War. His education was 
begun in the Boston public schools, and finished 
at the Leicester Military Academy, from which he 
graduated in April, 1864. In 1865 he entered the 

(Gould) Jones. He was fitted for college at employ of Fuller & Dana, iron merchants. Boston. 

E. S. Dixwell's Private Latin School in Boston, and continued in the iron business until 1872. 

and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1867. when he connected himself with Colonel .\ustin C. 



ARTHUR E. JONES. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Wellington in the coal business, in which he has 
since been engaged. He remained with Colonel 
Wellington for twelve years, and then in Tuh', 
1884, formed the present iirm of H. G. Jordan & 
Co. He has held a leading position in the busi- 
ness since the organization of his firm, and is now 
president of the Coal Club of Boston and vicinity. 
Mr. Jordan was connected with the Massachusetts 
militia from 1S64 to 1878, — appointed adjutant 
of the Fifth Regiment in 1875, elected major in 
1876, resigned in 1878 ; and he has since been a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable .Artillery 
Company, elected first lieutenant in 1880. He is 
prominent in the Masonic order, having been a 
past master of the Lodge of St. Andrew, past 
junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Mas- 
sachusetts, grand warden of the (irand Com- 
mandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and 
past commander of De Molay Commandery, 
Knights Templar, Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island. Mr. Jordan was married September 16, 
1873, to Miss Annie Kendall .\dams, of lioston. 



/i 




THOMAS F. KEENAN. 



KEKNAN, Thomas Francis, of Boston, jour- 
nalist, was born in Boston, March 11, 1854. He 
was educated in the Boston public schools. He 
began work at the age of fifteen, being employed 



in the editorial department of the Daily Adver- 
tisi-r, where he subsequently became a reporter. 
Thence he went into the service of the Herald as 
a reporter ; and he has since worked in the vari- 
ous fields of the reporter, editor, and publisher. 
In 1889 he founded the Boston Democrat, and 
was for four years its editor and publisher. Then 
he returned to the staff of the Globe with which 
he had previously been connected, having first 
joined it in 1884. He has been active in political 
life since 1876, serving on Congressional and 
other district committees of the Democratic or- 
ganization of Boston. He has never filled any 
salaried political office by appointment, but he 
has occupied various public elective offices. He 
has served in the Boston Common Council two 
terms, 1888 and i88g : in the Board of .\ldermen 
two terms, i8gi and 1892; and in the lower 
house of the Legislature, as one of the Boston 
members, in 1895. l)uring his public service he 
has advocated and shaped much legislation in- 
tended to advance the social and educational con- 
dition of the masses. He has especially advo- 
cated for several years a free university course of 
instruction, vmder public school supervision, for 
the city of Boston. While a member of the Bos- 
ton City Council, he served on a number of the 
most important of the joint standing committees, 
and in his second term as an alderman was chair- 
man of the committee on finance, the leading 
committee of the body. He is not a club man, 
and belongs to few organizations. He married 
January, 1878, in Cambridge, Miss Alice M. Cal- 
lahan. I'hey have five children : George F., 
Alice M., Thomas H., Frederick M., and Mary 
Keenan. 

KELLOGG, Warre.m Franklin, owner and 
publisher of the Xe7v England Magazine, was 
born in Brooklyn, N.V., November 24. i860, only 
child of Loyal Porter and Augusta (Warren) Kel- 
logg. He was educated in the private and public 
schools of Cambridge, and was graduated from 
Harvard in the class of 1883. He began at once 
in his chosen career at the lowest round, in the 
employ of James R. Osgood & Co. ; and by rapid 
advancement in that and other Boston publishing 
houses he came in January, 1889, to be business 
manager, and, later, treasurer, of the Boston Post, 
which then stood for everything fine and inde- 
pendent in journalism. These positions he held 
with credit to himself and profit to the paper until 



MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 



88 9 



January, 1S91. Upon the failure of the corpora- 
tion publisliing the A'ctc Eiighuul Magazine, Mr. 
Kellogg, in 1893, bought the property from the 




sheep, grain, and other commodities for the 
European trade. He was appointed to his present 
position of superintendent of ferries by Mayor 
Curtis May i, 1895. Mr. Kellough is prominent 
in the Masonic order, being a past master of 
Balbec Lodge ; past high priest of St. John's 
Royal Arch Chapter ; past thrice ilkistrious mas- 
ter of East Boston Council of Royal and Select 
Masters : past commander of William I'arkman 
Commandery, Knights I'empiar ; past district 
deputy grand high priest and past grand king 
of the Grand Royal .\rch Chapter of Massachu- 
setts ; past most equitable sovereign prince grand 
master of Giles F. Yates Council of Princes of 
Jerusalem ; has received the degrees and is now 
a member of the Royal Order of Scotland and 
Knight of R. S. \. C. S., elected in 1895; sec- 
ond lieutenant commander of the council of de- 
liberation Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 
Northern Masonic jurisdiction, and elected Sep- 
tember 19, 1895, to receive the thirty-third degree. 
He became a citizen of the United States in the 
year 1859, nncl in politics has since been a stead- 
fast Re]iublican. always voting the partv ticket. 



WARREN F. KELLOGG. 



assignee, and in spite of the "hard times" of the 
last two years has placed it on a profitable basis 
and in an enviable position, both in a business 
and a literary aspect. During his college and 
subsequent life Mr. Kellogg has edited, compiled, 
and written a number of articles and books pub- 
lished in various forms, some with and some with- 
out his name attached. Matrimony and politics 
he has carefully avoided. He is a member of the 
Union Club, of the Eastern \aiht Club, and of 
the Union Boat Club of Boston (vice-president of 
the latter), and of the Harvard Clul) of New ^'ork. 



KEUA)UGH, Thomas, of Boston, superintend- 
ent of ferries, is a native of Nova Scotia, born in 
the town of Gay's River, September 6, 1833, son 
of 'I'honias and Jennie (Henderson) Kellough. 
He was educated in the connnon schools. He 
came to Boston in 1856, and learned the trade of 
a shipwright in East Boston. Later he took con- 
tracts to build ships, which led to his connection 
with the steamship business. He was for eighteen 
years concerned in shipping live stock, cattle, 





THOMAS KELLOUGH. 



He was married in Boston, May 25, 1859, to 
Miss Mary West Tyler, daughter of Jobe and 
Lucv Tvler, of South Danvers. She died Febru- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ary 19, 1870, leaving three children, Arthur F., 
Horace G., and Jennie H. Kellough (now Mrs. 
Graves). He was married second, June 15, 1874, 
to Annie M. Kenney, of Boston. The children by 
this marriage are : Eva T., Charles T., Hattie ^\'., 
Bertha M., Lester A., and Willard P. Kellough. 



KN.\PP, Ir.\ Osc^r, of Boston, Christian 
Scientist, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
Lyman, Grafton County, son of Jehiel and Daphne 
(Bartlett) Knapp, with two other children, Salome 
S. and Arial P. Knapp. His ancestors were of 
the sturdy yeomanry, with marked moral and re- 
ligious characteristics. On the father's side the 
descent is traced to Puritans through Aaron 
Knapp, who, it is said, came in one of the Plym- 
outh colonies which settled Taunton, Mass., about 
the year 1639. '^'s will is recorded in Plymouth. 
and proved 1674. Some of his descendants were 
settlers of Norton. From this place came Mr. 
Knapp's great-grandfather, Abial Knapp. who was 
a Revolutionary soldier. At the close of that ser- 
vice, he with his son Elijah, then twelve years old, 



i. -i i8>ii> 





IRA O. KNAPP. 



emigrated to New Hampshire, in the year 1781, 
and was among the first settlers of the town of 
Lyman, with fifteen miles of unbroken wilderness 



around them. Here father and son cleared a farm 
and made a home for themselves, which w-as 
owned and occupied by some of the family rela- 
tives for one hundred and three years. The sol- 
dier and pioneer lived to see his one hundredth 
year. His brother Jonathan, who also came from 
Norton to live with him, reached the age of more 
than one hundred years. The grandfather and 
grandmother of Ira O. Knapp — Elijah and Sally 
(Elliott) Knapp — reared twelve children on this 
homestead, and lived to the age of ninety-two 
years each. On the mother's side the grand- 
mother, Mindwell (Hoskins) Bartlett, was of 
Spanish descent on the maternal side, in whose 
family line were titled names. Her life of active 
usefulness spanned a century of years, lacking 
nine months. The details of the exemplary life 
of his mother and father and other family kindred 
would fill volumes worthy of notice. Of the scores 
of relatives, not a dissipated nor immoral person 
is known among them. Mr. Knapp's early educa- 
tion was limited to the common schools of his 
town and four academic terms in other places. 
He taught in the district schools of his own and 
adjoining towns, and was for several j-ears super- 
intendent of schools ; and at different times held 
several other town offices. He was also for some 
time a justice of the peace. In politics he is a 
Republican. He has been a successful farmer ; 
and, although several opportunities offered, he was 
not induced to leave his home among the granite 
hills of his nativity until 1888, when he moved to 
Boston in the interests of Christian Science, which 
he had for four years previous studied and prac- 
tised under the teachings of the Rev. Mary Baker 
Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science, 
author of its te.xt book " Science and Health, with 
Key to the .Scriptures," and president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Metaphysical College, chartered in 
1 88 1. He is a normal graduate of this college, 
receiving the degree of C.S.D. He is one of the 
original members of the " Christian Science Board 
of Directors,'' in accordance with the gift and 
deed of Church Lot by Mrs. Eddy, September i , 
1892, and the first president of that organization, 
during which time has been erected from the 
granite rock of New Hampshire the beautiful and 
costly fire-proof church edifice on the corner of 
Falmouth and Norway Streets, Boston. He is 
one of the original members of the Christian 
Science Bible Committee for tlie compilation of 
explanatory references of the International Series 



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of Bible Lessons. These references are taken 
from the Bible and from " Science and Health," 
and are designed to elucidate the Scriptures from 
a Christian Science basis ; and they form the 
Christian Science Quarterly, used in all the Chris- 
tian Science churches. Mr. Knapp and his wife 
are of the original twelve " first members " which 
formed " The First Church of Christ, Scientist," 
in Boston, September 23, 1892, under the new 
form without legal organization, and which now 
numbers over five thousand members. Mr. 
Knapp was married May i, 1866, to Miss Flavia 
F. Stickney. They have four children : Sprague 
A., Daphne S., Ralph H., and Bliss Knapjj. 



of the Master Printers' Club of Boston, and of the 
Merchants' Club of Boston. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married June 11, 1872,10 



KNIGHT, Clarence Howard, of Boston, mer- 
chant, is a native of Boston, born September i, 
1848, son of Francis and Sarah (Gay) Knight, 
originally «t West Dedham. He is a descendant 
of the Colburn family of arithmetical fame, and of 
a race which has been quick at figures. His 
father was for fifty-three years in active business 
at one place, No. 34 Cornhill, head of the firm of 
F. Knight & Son, teamsters and forwarders. He 
was educated in Boston public schools. At the 
age of fifteen he began work in the store of Chase, 
Nichols, & Co., general book and stationery job- 
bing business, Boston. After three years there he 
entered the employ of Snow, Boyden, & Knight in 
the same business as a travelling salesman. He 
ne.xt became general manager for Noyes, Holmes, 
& Co., afterward Lockwood, Brooks, & Co., with 
whom he remained for a number of years. Then 
in 1878, associating himself with Frederic Mills, 
he established a job printing-office on Congress 
Street (afterward removing to No. 60 Pearl 
Street), and, conceiving a unique medium for 
advertisements, which would itself be serviceable, 
became a pioneer in the manufacture of leather 
removable memorandum books for advertising 
purposes. Since he began work as a boy in the 
store of Chase, Nichols, & Co., he has not lost a 
day's pay. Mr. Knight is a member of the Dor- 
chester Lodge, Knights of Honor ; of Dorchester 
Council, Royal .\rcanum ; of E\'erett Lodge, An- 
cient Order of IJ'nited Workmen ; is a member 
of L'nion Lodge Freemasons and a Knight Tem- 
plar; and has been chairman of the Board of 
Finance of the New Kngland Order of Protection 
for seven years. He is also a member of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 




CLARENCE H. KNIGHT. 



Julia Holden, of Dorchester. They have one son : 
Henry F. Knight, now (1895) a senior at Harvard 
College. Mr. Knight's residence is in the Dor- 
chester District of Boston. 



L.VXE, William Coolidck, of Boston, libra- 
rian of the J5oston Athenaeum, was born in .Vew- 
tonville, July 29, 1859, son of William H., Jr., and 
Caroline M. (Coolidge) Lane. On the maternal 
side he is from the Coolidge, Dawes, Curtis, Bass, 
Alden, and Loring families, early New England 
settlers. He was educated in the public schools 
of Newton and at Harvard College, graduating 
.\.B. in the class of 1881. He entered the Har- 
vard College Library immediately after gradua- 
tion, as assistant under Mr. Winsor, and so con- 
tinued till 1887, when he was appointed assistant 
librarian ; and that position he held till his ap- 
pointment to the librarianship of the Boston 
Athena.'um, in .\pril, 1893. He has been inter- 
ested in library affairs or library science since 
the beginning of his connection with the college 
library. He has been secretary and treasurer of 
the American Library Association, Publishing 



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Section, since its formation in 1S86; president of 
the Massacliusetts Library Clulj in i8gi ; and 
lias been librarian of the Dante Society since 



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VJ 1 



X 





Point by invitation of members of the Boston 
Yacht Club, of which the elder Lawley was a 
member. Here they have since been established, 
steadily increasing their business and fame. In 
the autumn of 1890 the firm was transformed into 
a corporation, under the title of the George Law- 
ley & Son Corporation, with George F. as presi- 
dent, his father then retiring. Among the 
famous craft which the Lawleys built prior to 
their incorporation were the sloop yacht •' Puri- 
tan," defender of the America cup against the 
" Genesta " in 18S5 ; the famous "Mayflower," 
which defeated the "Galatea" in 1886; the 
schooner yacht " Merlin " ; and they finished 
the " Volunteer," which was successful in defeat- 
ing the "Thistle" in 1887. Since the foundation 
of the corporation they have built the "Jubilee," 
the steam yacht "Alcedo," the "Alcere," the 
" Aquilo," and numerous other well-known yachts. 
Mr. Lawley is a member of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Association, of the United 
Order of Pilgrim Fathers, of the Adelphi Lodge, 
Free and Accepted Masons, of the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, and of the Boston Yacht 



W. C. LANE. 

1888. He has also been corresponding secretary 
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College 
since 1889, and a director of the Cambridge 
Social L'nion since 1894. He has resided in 
Cambridge since 1877. Mr. Lane is unmarried. 



LAWLE\', Geor(;k FuKniikicK, of Boston, 
yacht builder, was born in I^ondon, England. 
December 4, 1848, son of George and Martha 
(.Ainge) Law-ley. His parents came to America 
in 185 1, when he was a child of three, and estab- 
lished their home in East Boston. He was edu- 
cated in the Boston public schools, mostly in the 
Chapman School, and afterward took a business 
course in the Boston Commercial College. At 
the age of fourteen he began work as a boy and 
clerk in a grocery store in East Boston, and tiiere 
remained for four years. In i866, the family 
removing to the town of Scituate, he engaged with 
his father in boat-building, constructing mostly 
fishing-boats, though occasionally building larger 
vessels. They continued in Scituate till 1874, 
when their works were removed to South Boston 




CEO. P. LAWLEY. 



Club. He was married February 14, 1872, to 
Miss Hannah A. Damon, of Scituate. They have 
one son : Frederick D. Lawley. 



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LEACH, James Edward, of IJostnn, nunil)Lr Leach was married July 16, 1889, to Miss Alice 
of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Hridgewater, M. Frye, daughter of James N. and Sabina (Bach- 
born December i, 1850, son of Philander and eler) I'Vve, of Hoston. 




LESH, John Henrv, of Huston, merchant, is 
a native of Pennsylvania, born in the town of 
Durham, Bucks County, May 30, 1846, son of 
Henry and Margaret (Uhler) Lesh. He was 
educated in the public schools and by private in- 
struction from an old Presbyterian preacher, the 
Rev. J. L. Grant, to whom he is indebted for a 
careful training for active life. Intending to follow 
a profession, he took up the study of medicine, 
and, entering the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, graduated therefrom in 
the spring of 1866. After practising a number of 
years, however, and having married the daughter 
of a tanner, upon the death of his father-in-law he 
entered one of the tanneries in which the latter 
had been concerned, and gave his attention to 
business. When he had spent about three years 
here, his brother-in-law, Wilson Kistler, senior 
member of the present tirm of Kistler, Lesh, & 



JAMES E. LEACH. 



Sarah T. (Cushman) Leach. He is a descendant 
on the paternal side of Giles Leach, who came to 
New England from England in 1656, and settled 
in Weymouth ; and, on the maternal side, of 
Robert Cushman, a member of the Pilgrim 
church at Leyden, and his son Thomas, who 
came over at the age of fourteen in the ship 
" Fortune" in 162 i, and subsequently became the 
successor of \Mlliam Brewster as elder of the 
Plymouth church. He is also descended through 
his mother from John Alden, Miles Standish, and 
Isaac Allerton of the "Mayflower" passengers. 
Mr. Leach was educated at Bridgewater Academy 
and Brown University, graduating from the latter 
in 1874. His law studies were pursued in the 
Boston University Law School, from which he 
graduated in 1876, and also in the law office of 
Hosea Kingman in Bridgewater. He was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876, and has since 
practised in Boston. In 1894 he was admitted to 
the bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. He is a member and was one of the 
organizers of the University Club of Boston, 
and member of Revere Lodge of Ma.sons. Mr. 




JOHN H. LESH. 



Co., offered him a position in the hide and leather 
commission house in New York, then composed of 
the brothers Kistler; and he has been actively 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



connected with this house from that time, a 
period of upward of twelve years. He became a 
member of the firm in 1883, when the present firm 
name was adopted, and the house was established 
in Boston. Mr. Lesh has been connected with 
the Masonic order ever since he reached his 
majority. In politics he is a Republican and a 
Protectionist. He was married January 12, 1869, 
to Miss Mary E. Kistler, daughter of Stephen 
Kistler. They have three children ; Harriett M. 
(now wife of W. F. Camp, Morganton, N.C,}, 
Henry Fred, and Maud Lesh. 



Grip Machine Company of Maiden and the Grip 
Wire Mills of the same place, president of the 
Winthrop Steamboat Company, and interested in 



LEWIS, Orlando Ethelbert, of Boston, shoe 
machinery manufacturer, is a native of Ohio, born 
near Kenton, Hardin County, July 19, 1847, son 
of Richard Kennedy and Elizabeth (Jackson) 
Lewis, both also natives of Ohio. His father, a 
farmer, died in 1848. His boyhood was spent on 
the farm, with the experience familiar to country 
boys ; and his early school life was confined to the 
district school. Before he was fifteen years old, 
he left school for the army, and saw much hard 
service during the Civil War. Enlisting in Com- 
pany D, Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, he 
served with his regiment in numerous engage- 
ments, until disabled, through a period of three 
years. Discharged from Harewood Hospital in 
Washington, March 9, 1863, he returned a short 
time to his studies, and then finished in a com- 
mercial college. His business career was begun 
at the age of twenty as a commercial traveller. 
For nearly fifteen years he was an agent on " the 
road," at first for others, then for himself as a 
shoe manufacturer. From the practical experi- 
ence thus gained he, with Professor S. W. Robin- 
son of the Ohio State University, drifted into m- 
venting and developing shoe machinery. It is in 
this field that Mr. Lewis has had his most marked 
success. Their machines are known and used the 
world over where shoes are made, Mr. Lewis is 
now the largest stockholder in, and business man- 
ager and director of, the Wire Grip Fastening 
Company, controlling the business in the United 
States, and a director of tlie foreign companies of 
this enterprise. Taking advantage of a great 
strike among shoemakers in Europe some years 
ago, he personally introduced his machinery in 
England and on the Continent. He was a pioneer 
in this line of business, which has since grown to 
large proportions. He is also president of the 




O. E. LEWIS. 

other business enterprises. In Winthrop, where 
he resides, he has been chairman of the Board of 
Selectmen for the past four years ; and he is 
largely interested in real estate there. Mr. Lewis 
is a member of the John A. Andrew Post, No. 15, 
Grand Army of the Republic, of the Art, the Apollo, 
and the Congregational clubs of Boston. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican, and in religious faith 
a Congregationalist, member of the Park Street 
Church, Boston. He was married in 1869 to Miss 
Eliza M. Seymour. They have one child : Nellie 
E. Lewis. 



LOVELL, John Prince, of Boston, president 
of the John P. Lovell Arms Company, was born 
in East Braintree, July 25, 1820, son of John P. 
and Esther (Derby) Lovell. His boyhood was 
passed between school and work, through which 
he gained a rugged training for active life. He 
first attended the village school, then had eighteen 
months' tuition at the Weymouth Academy, and 
at the age of eleven w'as at work in a cotton fac- 
tory in East liraintree. He was there employed 



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for about a year, when his mother moving to Bos- 
ton, and opening a boarding-house on Court 
Street, op])osite the old Court House, he left, and 
came with her to the city. Here he had the ben- 
efit of more schooling, attending the old Hawkins 
Grammar School for a year or so. Then he re- 
turned to work, finding a place in the gunsmith 
shop of Aaron K. Fairbanks, at that time on the 
corner of Exxhange Street and Dock Square. He 
was there employed for about three months, his 
principal occupation being the hardening of his 
muscles by working the blacksmith's bellows. 
Next he became a clerk in the grocery store of 
Frederick Smith on Court Square, the site of 
which is now covered by Young's Hotel. After 
eight months' experience there he obtained a sit- 
uation with Mr. \\'ilson, a tailor, on the corner of 
State and Devonshire Streets. He had been in 
the latter place about six months, acquiring a fair 
knowledge of the rudiments of trade, when he 
w'as invited by a Mr. Fuller, then a representative 
to the General Court from the town of Holland, 
and boarding at Mrs. Lovell's house, to go with 
him to Holland. He accepted the invitation, and 
at the end of the legislative session left the tailor's 
shop, and accompanied the legislator to his country 
home. There he entered a cotton factory, and 
worked diligently for three months ; and then, be- 
coming homesick, he turned his face again toward 
Boston. Being without money, he obtained per- 
mission from a drover, who was taking a flock of 
sheep to Brighton, to accompany him, and walked 
the entire distance, — about si.xty miles. Back in 
Boston, he returned to the employ of Mr. Fair- 
banks, and remained with him for some time. 
Then he entered the service of Jabez Hatch, the 
well-known auctioneer, on Congress Street, and 
continued with the latter's brother, Samuel Hatch, 
who succeeded to the business, and became one of 
the best and most popular auctioneers in Boston. 
Auctioneering not being to his liking, after a few- 
months with Mr. Hatch he went back to Mr. Fair- 
banks's gunsmith shop, and apprenticed himself 
to Mr. Fairbanks till his majority, the condition 
being wages at the rate of two dollars a week and 
twenty-five dollars for clothing the first year, and 
an increase of fifty cents a week per year, with 
clothing allowance of ten dollars' advance per year 
for the remainder of the time. When he reached 
the age of nineteen, he was in charge of the shop : 
and a year later, one year before the date of the 
e-xpiration of his apprenticeship, he was offered a 



partnership in the business, Mr. Fairbanks, being 
out of health, agreeing to give a half-interest and 
to furnish the full amount of capital required. He 
accepted the proposition, and then began the de- 
velopment of the house with which he has so long 
been identified. The first year five men were em- 
ployed, and Mr. Lovell's profits were seven hun- 
dred dollars. The business prospered under his 
management, and his prospects were bright when 
Mr. Fairbanks died, August 27, 1841. A friend 
then came forward, and offered him capital ; and 
with a fellow-workman, Leonard Grover, he ac- 
quired the entire plant. His partnership with Mr. 
Grover, as Grover & Lovell, continued till 1844, 
when he bought out the former's interest, and 
assumed complete control of affairs, under his 
name alone. From this humble beginning has 
grown the present great concern, widely known as 
the John P. Lovell Arms Company, of which Mr. 
Lovell is the president. The house was removed 
from Dock Square about twenty years ago to Xo. 
147 Washington Street. It now employs forty 
or more clerks, and the business transacted 
amounts to several hundred thousand dollars an- 



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JOHN P. LOVELL. 

nually. The company has dealings not only with 
all parts of the country, but engages in an exten- 
sive export trade, the goods of the house finding 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



their way to all parts of the civilized world. For 
a number of years previous to the formation of 
the corporation the firm name was John P. Lovell 
&: .Sons, several of Mr. Lovell's sons being ad- 
mitted to the partnership. Mr. Lovell belongs to 
a number of prominent societies, and is affiliated 
with the Masons and Odd Fellows. He is a 
charter member of Crescent Lodge, No. 82, and 
member of Wonpatuck Encampment, No. 18, Odd 
Fellows ; in the Masonic order is a member of the 
Orphans' Hope Lodge, the Pentalpha Chapter, 
and the South Shore Commandery. Knights Tem- 
plar ; and he has been long a member of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. 
In East Weymouth, which has been his home for 
many years, he is identified with local interests. 
He was the first president of the East ^^■eymouth 
Savings Bank, holding the position for ten years, 
and has been a director of the Weymouth National 
Bank for the past twenty years. In 1864 he rep- 
resented the town in the lower house of the Legis- 
lature, and was urged to stand for senator for his 
district, but declined to do so. He holds the old- 
est policy in the New England Mutual Life Insur- 
ance Company, and is one of the oldest members, 
his policy having run for over half a century. 
Mr. Lovell was married first, August 17, 1841, to 
Miss Lydia 1). Whiton, of Weymouth. To this 
union were born five children, all of them sons : 
John W., Benjamin S., Thomas P., \\'arren D., 
and George A. Lovell. His second marriage was 
to Miss Lucinda W. Rice, of Weymouth, and of 
this union is one son : Henrv L. Lovell. 



MANCHESTER, Forrest C, of Winchester, 
member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Vermont, 
born in the town of Randolph, September 11, 
1859, son of Albert B. and Elizabeth M. (Ses- 
sions) Manchester. His paternal ancestors came 
from England, and settled in Rhode Island in 
1642. On the maternal side he is also of English 
descent, and connected with families earl)^ settled 
in New England, — the Hibbard.s-Burnhams, as 
well as the Sessions. The pioneer of the former, 
Robert Hibbard, came to Salem in 1635 with 
Governor Endicott. and was the first salt manu- 
facturer in this country, for which he received a 
grant of a thousand acres of land from the king. 
The Burnhams settled in Connecticut the same 
year, and the Sessions branch came soon after. 
Forrest C. was educated in the common schools 



of Vermont, at the Randolph State Normal School 
and the St. Johnsbury Academy. He studied law 
in the Boston University Law School, graduating 
LL.B. in June, 1894, having previously read also 
in the office of the late e.\-Governor William Gas- 
ton. He was admitted to the bar July 21, 1895, 
and at once engaged in active practice in Boston. 
In 1892-93 he was counsel for the town of Win- 
chester, declining a reappointment. He has been 
too much absorbed in other matters to join social 
clubs, but he has found time to give to important 
interests. He has served as chairman of the 
Park Commission of Winchester since 1893, in 
which place his reputation is more than local, the 
character of that section of the country being 
greatly changed by improvements conceived by 
him. In politics he is an active and earnest Re- 
publican, having served on numerous committees. 
He is now chairman of the Eighth Congressional 
District committee, and secretary of the Republi- 
can Club of Massachusetts. Mr. Manchester was 
married October 22, 1885, to Miss Minnie L. 
Beard, the only daughter of Loren Beard, of 
Vermont. Her mother was Mary (Greenbank^ 



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F. C. MANCHESTER. 

Beard, daughter of 'I'homas Greenbank, late of 
Lawrence. They have one daughter : Constance 
Manchester. 



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897 



N[.\l TSOX. jniix, of lioston, real estate dealer, 
is a ii;iti\e of Sweden, born in liohuslon, April 27, 
i<S59. He was educated partly in Norway and 




JOHN MATTSON. 

partly in England. He came to Boston in 1884, 
and three years later established the business in 
which he is at present engaged. His specialty is 
ihe buying, selling, and exchanging of suburban 
property ; and of late years he has built many 
houses in the suburbs. In 1892 he established in 
connection with his real estate office a Swedish 
newspaper, the Argus, which is now the recog- 
nized Swedish paper of America. Subsequently 
he was elected president of the Swedish Building 
Society, which position he still holds. He is a 
thirty-second degree Freemason, a member of the 
Massachusetts Consistory, and of the Boston 
Commandery, Knights Templar. 



McCLELLAN, Arthur Daggett, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Sutton. 
.May 21, 1850, son of John and .Ania 1. (Daggett) 
McClellan. On the paternal side he is descended 
from James McClellan, who came to .\merica from 
England in 17 18, and settled in Worcester, Mass. 
Samuel, the brother of James, was the ancestor of 
Ceneral (ieorge B. McClellan. On the maternal 



side he descended from John Doggetl, wlio came 
with (Jovernor \\ inihrop's party in 1O30, and set- 
tled the same year with Sir Richard Saltonstall in 
Watertown. Thomas Doggett, of London, the de- 
scendant of a common ancestor, was the Doggett 
who gave the waterman's coat and silver badge to 
be rowed for in honor and commemoration of the 
accession of King George I. to the English throne. 
The prize was first rowed for in 1715, and has 
been rowed for every year since, from London 
llridge to the White Swan, Chelsea. The race 
has always been one of the great aquatic events of 
the year. A descendant of the John Doggett who 
came to this country in 1630, Naphali Daggett 
(the spelling of the name having been changed), 
was president of Yale College during the Revolu- 
tion. Afr. McClellan received his early education 
in the Grafton High School and the Worcester 
.Academy, graduating from the latter in 1869, and 
graduated from Brown University in 1873. In 
college he held good rank, and at the same time 
was much interested in athletics, particularly in 
rowing. He was on the freshman crew of 1870 
which won the race on Lake Quinsigamond 
against Harvard, Yale, and -Amherst ; also on the 
University crew the following years. He was 
noted for great physical development, and for 
many years was called in boating circles " the 
little giant." He began his professional studies 
in October, 1873, in the office of Bacon & Aldrich. 
Worcester, which soon after became Bacon, Hop- 
kins, & Bacon, .Mr. .Aldrich being appointed to the 
Superior Bench, and W. S. B. Hopkins taking his 
place in the firm. While a student in their office, 
Mr. McClellan was law reporter for the Worcester 
Gazette, and received high commendation for this 
work. In October, 1874, he left the office of 
Bacon, Hopkins, & Bacon, and at once entered 
that of Charles H. Drew & Albert Mason, the lat- 
ter the present chief justice of the Superior Court, 
as a student, and at the same time attended the 
Boston University Law School, taking the whole 
course in one year. He graduated in June, 1875. 
and the same month was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar, and began practice in the office of Drew & 
Mason in which he had studied. He remained 
there about two years, when a partnership was 
formed with Charles C. Barton and George S. 
Eorbush, under the name of Barton, McClellan, & 
Forbush. This partnership continued about two 
years, when a new firm was formed under the style 
of Barton & McClellan, which held for five years. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Since that time Mr. McClellan has practised 
alone, but in offices jointly with Mr. Barton. In 
1886 he began the publication of the Daily Law 
Bulletin, the scope of which was to publish each 
day the lists of all the cases for trial the ne.\t day 
in all the courts of the county, together with the 
names of counsel engaged on both sides ; also the 
result of all cases tried during the day, the verdict 
of the jury or the finding of the court as the case 
might be. The Bulletin was later enlarged to in- 
clude the same information in Norfolk and Mid- 
dlesex counties, and also chattel and real estate 
mortgages in the three counties, and rescripts of 




steam and street railways in process of construc- 
tion, he acquired a knowledge of the conditions 
affecting real estate values in the vicinity of Bos- 
ton, which enabled him to make large and suc- 
cessful transactions in the purchase and sale of 
suburban real estate. Since 1889 he has been a 
partner in the large mercantile house of Jerome 
Marble & Co., of Boston and Worcester ; and he 
has had financial interests in several other enter- 
prises. He has, however, steadily coniinuctl the 
practice of his profession. He has been presi- 
dent, treasurer, and director of numerous corpora- 
tions, and a director in national banks. He was 
president in 1893-94 of the New England Paint 
and Oil Club ; is a delegate to the Associated 
Board of Trade for three years, his term having 
begun in 1894, and was a delegate in 1895 to the 
convention of the National Paint, Oil, and Varnish 
Association. He is a member of the Boston Art 
Club (its secretary from 1889 to 1895), of the 
University Club (one of its founders, and member 
of the e.xecutive committee since its organization), 
of the Algonquin Club, of the E.xchange Club, and 
of a number of other social organizations of less 
prominence ; and secretary of the Boston Alumni 
Association of Brown University since 1S93. In 
politics he defines himself as a " Mugwump " who 
is still a Republican. He has always refused po- 
litical office. He is connected with the P-piscopal 
Church, and is a vestryman of Emmanuel, Boston. 
Mr. McClellan was married October 9, 1882, to 
Mrs. Mary .\. Hartwell, widow of Captain Charles 
A. Hartwell, of the United States army, and daugh- 
ter of Timothy Townsend, of New York. He is 
at present fixing at the Hotel Vendome, Boston. 



ARTHUR D. McCLELLAN. 

the Supreme Court. It was the first publication 
of its kind in the country, but the idea was soon 
after copied in most of the large cities. About 
the same time Mr. McClellan was also interested 
in the publication of the Ba/ikcr aiul Tradesman. 
a weekly issue, containing, with other matter, full 
information concerning transfers and mortgages 
of real and personal estate. He, however, soon 
gave up these interests on account of an enlarging 
law practice. In his practice, which has been ex- 
tensive and lucrative, he has gained quite a repu- 
tation in the organization of corporations and in 
the direction of their legal and financial affairs. 
While active as counsel for land companies and 



McGANNON, Thomas (Iekald, M.D., of 
Lowell, was born in Prescott, Ont., December 21, 
1859, son of John and Harriet (I)evereux) McGan- 
non. His father took part in the Papineau- 
Mackenzie Rebellion of 1838, when he was made 
a lieutenant ; and his mother was a daughter of 
John Devereux, one of Canada's pioneers, on her 
mother's side a direct descendant of the Annes- 
leys. He was of a family of nine children, eight 
boys and one girl. Three of the boys became phy- 
sicians, and one is now a medical student. He 
was educated in tlie common schools of his native 
town and at St. Catherine's Collegiate Institute, 
graduating in June, 188 1 ; and fitted for his pro- 
fession at McCJill Medical Colleire, Montreal, where 



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899 



he was <;t;uliKilu(l Maicli 9, 1S86. 'I'wo nionllis 
Liter, in May, he akci paNsed the examination of 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at To- 
ronto, ()nt. He began practice the same month 
in the town of Iirockville, ( )nt., under the direc- 
tion of his brother, since deceased, but remained 
there only initil August, when he removed to 
Lowell, where he has since been established. He 
is now attending physician on the staff of the 
Lowell General Hospital, gynecologist of the out- 
patient department of the same institution, at- 
tending piiysician and surgeon in the out-patient 
department of the Lowell City Hospital, and 




T. G. McGANNON. 

examining surgeon to the Atlas Accident Insur- 
ance Company, the Odd Fellows' Accident In- 
surance Company, and the Union Mutual Life 
Insurance Company. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society, and an Odd 
Fellow of both tiie P.ritish and American order. 
Dr. McGannon was married October 5, 1892, to 
Miss Blanche E. Fay, of Lowell. 



MEAD, Edwin Doak, of Boston, editor of the 
New England Magazine, is a native of .\ew 
Hampshire. born in Chesterfield, Cheshire 
County, September 29, 1849, son of Bradley and 



Sarah (Stone) Mead. His i)oyhood was passed 
on a farm in one of the loveliest parts of New 
England, and his early education was acquired in 
the country schools. Upon leaving school, he 
went into his brother-in-law's store in the village. 
He was a studious )'outh ; and his leisure hours 
through the days, the busy time in the store being 
the evening, were spent in reading and study. 
He also thus early indulged in writing; and one 
of his favorite diversions was the making of a 
little magazine, composed of essays and stories 
of his own composition. Across the river in 
Brattleborough was the home of his uncle and 
cousins, among them Larkin (1. Mead, who after- 
ward became the widely known sculptor, William 
Mead, subsequently of the celebrated firm of 
architects, McKim, Mead, iv: While, and Eleanor, 
who became the wife of William D. Howells. 
With Howells, whom he first met just after the 
latter"s return from the consulship at Venice, a 
warm friendship ensued, which was a strong 
factor in shaping his subsequent life. .\ little 
later Howells, then having become connected 
with the Atlantii Mont/ih\ procured him a place 
in the Boston counting-room of Ticknor & Fields, 
where he remained for nine years, gaining a prac- 
tical knowledge of business affairs, and coming in 
contact with many of the eminent men of letters 
of that time who were accustomed to make the 
place a literary headquarters. In 1875 he went 
abroad to prepare himself for orders in the Epis- 
copal church : but before his studies had far pro- 
gressed his orthodoxy had become weakened 
through fuller acquaintance with N'ew England 
Transcendentalism and English Broad Church 
teachings, and in 1876 he formally withdrew 
from his church. He remained in Europe nearly 
five years, engaged mostly in study in Oxford, 
Cambridge, and Leipzig. He also lived a year 
in London, working in the British Museum. Dur- 
ing this period he contributed to American mag- 
azines various articles on the English Broad 
Churchmen, and his pen was active in other di- 
rections. In 1881, after his return to this coun- 
try, he edited a collection of sermons by Stopford 
Brooke of England, under the title of " Faith and 
Freedom," and the same year published his first 
book, "The Philosophy of Carlyle." This was 
followed three years later by " Martin Luther : .\ 
Study of Reformation." Meanwhile Mr. Mead 
had entered the lecture field, and become known 
in Western cities as well as in the East as an able 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



lecturur on literary, historical, philosophical and 
political reform subjects. He had also become 
one of the most active members of the Free Re- 
ligious Association, and had taken a leading part 
in the organization of popular educational move- 
ments. He developed the now famous Old South 
Work, — the regular series of historical lectures 
and studies in history and politics for young folk 
in the Old South Meeting-house, — instituted by 
the late Mrs. Mary Hemenway. who, as Mr. 
Mead has said, " has done more than any other 
single individual in the same time to promote 
popular interest in American history, and to pro- 





EDWIN D. MEAD. 

mote intelligent patriotism " : and he has person- 
ally prepared the useful and inijjortant series of 
'■ Old South Leaflets " published in connection 
with this work, largely reproductions of original 
papers, with historical and bibliographical notes. 
These leaflets, the general series of which now 
numbers nearly one hundred, covering a great 
range of subjects, have been especially com- 
mended by college professors, masters of high 
schools, historical writers, lecturers and students, 
and are widely circulated throughout the countrv. 
Mr. Mead was one of the founders of the Massa- 
chusetts Society for Promoting Good Citizenship, 
and has been its president for the jiast three 



years. He was also one of the founders of the 
Twentieth Century Club, an organization formed 
in Boston in 1893 for the free discussion of all 
questions bearing on the life and progress of 
to-day, — of the council of which he is now presi- 
dent. He has been prominent in movements for 
municipal reform, taking a leading part in na- 
tional as well as local conferences ; and he holds 
the position of secretary of the newly formed 
Boston Municipal League. He became con- 
nected with the Av7i' Englnnd Afngaziiic in 1889, 
as associate editor, with the Rev. Dr. Pklward E. 
Hale, who had been induced to imdertake its 
conduct, and to establish it especiallv as a popu- 
lar vehicle for spreading a knowledge of New 
England history. Mr. Hale retiring at the end 
of a year, Mr. Mead then became chief editor : 
and he has since held this position, steadily 
broadening his reputation and displaying a ca- 
pacity for successful editing of the best order. 
Mr. Mead's later publications, besides the "Old 
South Leaflets '" and his regular contributions to 
the Aew England Magazine, which are largely 
grouped in the " Editor's Table," and consist of 
free, frank, and thoughtful discussion of the time- 
liest of topics, include " the Roman Catholic 
Church and the Public Schools." published in 
i88g : "The Constitution of the United States, 
with Historical and PSibliographical Notes and Out- 
lines for Study " ; and " Outline Studies of Hol- 
land," published for the National 15ureau of Unity 
Clubs. His principal lectures have been a course 
of six on " The Pilgrim Fathers,'' treating of 
Puritanism, New England in England, New Eng- 
land in Holland, Bradford's Journal, John Rob- 
inson, and Plymouth ; " America in the .American 
Poets," a course of four lectures devoted to our 
greater poets, — Emerson, Lowell, Longfellow, 
and W'hittier, — showing the use which thev have 
made of .\merican subjects and the value of their 
services for .-Vmencan life and thought ; and 
single discourses on such subjects as "The Study 
of History," "The English Commonwealth,'' 
"The British Parliament," "Gladstone," "Samuel 
.\dams and Patrick Henry," " Washington's Rela- 
tions to the Great West," " Carlyle and pjiierson," 
and " Representative Government." He has de- 
li\ered numerous addresses before various educa- 
tional organizations, at conventions and confer- 
ences, and while occupying the editorial chair 
has occasionally contributed to the leading re- 
views. Mr. Mead is unmarried. 



MEN Ol' PROGRESS. 



901 



MONTV, Ai.i;KRr William, of Pioston, leather 
business, is a native of New York, born in the 
town of C'hazy, Clinton Count)-, on the west 
shore of Lake Champlain, June 17, 1840. He is 
of an old colonial family, and a descendant of 
lohn and Joseph Monty, both of whom served 
through the Revolutionary War. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native place. 
At the age of twenty he came to Lowell, and 
entered the employ of the Lawrence Manufactur- 
ing Company. The next year, upon the outbreak 
of the Civil War, he left his place, and enlisted in 
the Andrew Sharpshooters. After a service of one 



Lowell Common Council (1878-79), and was a 
candidate for alderman-at-large in 1880, but failed 
of election by a slight margin, though coming 
the nearest to it of any of his party. The ne.vt 
year he was a candidate for the Legislature, in- 
dorsed by men of both parties, but was defeated 
by a combination of liquor interests against him. 
Upon his removal to Boston he became affiliated 
with the Republican party, and took an active 
part in party affairs; and in 1895 he was elected 
as a Republican to the Legislature from Ward 
Nine. He is an Odd Fellow, member of Merri- 
niac Lodge, No. 7, and Monamack Kncampment, 
No. 4, of Lowell. 



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ALBERT W. MONTY. 

year, and when the company was disbanded, he 
was discharged on account of physical disability ; 
but within a month he Was again on his way to 
the front, as a member of the Twelfth Massachu- 
setts Regiment, Colonel Hetcher \^'ebster com- 
manding. His service then continued to the end 
of the war. At the close of hostilities Mr. Monty 
returned to Lowell, and engaged in the leather 
business, with which he has since been connected. 
He removed to Boston in 1884. Mr. Monty has 
long taken an active interest in politics. Starling 
as a Democrat, he was a nicmber of the ward 
and city committees of Lowell for fifteen suc- 
cessive years. He has served two terms in the 



NORRIS, Howes, of Boston and Cottage City, 
was born in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, 
Nov. 2, 1841, son of Captain Howes and Elwina 
?iLinville (Smith) Norris. His ancestors on the 
paternal side came from Bristol, England ; and on 
the maternal side he traces his ancestry through 
Hope Ilowland, wife of Elder John Chapman, to 
John Howland and Elizabeth Tilly, his wife, pas- 
sengers in the "Mayflower." He is also connected 
on the maternal side with several of the older fami- 
lies of the Vineyard, — the Mayhews, Nortons, But- 
lers, and others, — the Coffins and Starbucks, well- 
known Nantucket names, and the Chapmans, 
Skiffs, and Presburys, of Sandwich. His mother 
was a daughter of Nathan and Polly (Dunham) 
Smith, of Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard. His father 
was a ship captain, and was murdered at sea in 
1842 while on a voyage in the Pacific Ocean, in 
the whale-ship "Sharon" of Fairhaven, by a band 
of savages from one of the Kint Mills group of 
islands, who attacked and captured the ship. His 
mother also died a tragic death, being killed by 
lightning, in 185 1, in her own home: and his 
brother Alonzo was lost in the wreck of the 
steamer " .\ustria," burned at sea in 1858. When 
his mother died, he was hardly ten years old, and 
was taken into the family of his uncle, Shaw Nor- 
ris, who then lived in that part of the Vineyard 
which is now Cottage C:ity. Here, though enjoy- 
ing a good home, his boyhood was full of hard work, 
as chore boy and farm hand. Meanwhile he ob- 
tained a good education in the public schools of 
the place, and subsequently at a private boarding- 
school in Middleborough which he attended for 
three years. He also took a business course at 
Comer's Commercial College in Boston. .\t the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



outbreak of the Civil War he repeatedly sought a 
subordinate place in the army and navy ; but, fail- 
ing in this, he went to Springfield, and took a 
clerkship with a relative who was engaged in the 
manufacture of small arms. Being the first clerk 
employed in the new business, he had an oppor- 
tunity to advance with its development ; and, 
quick to improve this, he was soon the practical 
head of the concern, which was employing a large 
force and doing a trade extending into the millions 
annually. He became known as an arms expert, 
and was engaged as such in court cases involving 
questions connected with the cost and production 








HOWES NORRIS. 

of small arms. With the close of the war this 
prosperous business ended, and Mr. Norris turned 
his attention to other lines of manufacturing. In 
1867, when he was but twenty-six years of age, he 
was offered the position either of manager or treas- 
urer of the Remington's great arms manufacturing 
house at Ilion, N.Y. ; but he declined both, and also 
a European connection with his employer. Joining 
then a few leading men of Springfield, he organized 
a company for the manufacture of knitting-ma- 
chines, and, taking the treasurership, conducted a 
successful business until November, 1868, when 
he withdrew, and returned to Martha's Vineyard to 
look after his interests there, having for some 



years owned a ships' supplies house established 
by his uncle, with which he had been familiar 
from boyhood. Taking sole charge of this busi- 
ness, he became widely known in commercial 
circles in the Atlantic ports and the British 
Provinces. He continued here alone until 1881, 
at the same time performing various public duties 
and engaging in active political work. From 1869 
to 1886 he was the marine news agent of the As- 
sociated Press for the Vineyard, which is the 
most important marine post on the coast outside 
the great cities. From 1869 to 1873 he was 
sheriff of Dukes County, first appointed by Gov- 
ernor Claflin to fill a vacancy, and afterward elected 
to the position, receiving a unanimous vote. In 
1869, also, he was commissioned as notary pub- 
lic and justice of the peace, and has so served 
continuously since that time. From 1879 ^'^ ^^^ 
autumn of 1885 he was the owner, editor, and pub- 
lisher of the Cottage City S/<ir, originally started to 
promote the cause of the " Divisionists " in the 
struggle for the establishment of the town of 
Cottage City, which cause was successful under 
his leadership, the new town being incorporated 
in 1880. In 1887 he became interested in a new 
method of rolling seamless steel tubing, known as 
the Kellogg process ; and he has since devoted 
himself mainly to this enterprise, as president of 
the corporation engaged in it, and the executive 
head, with headquarters in Boston. In politics 
Mr. Norris is an ardent Republican, and he has 
been concerned in political matters from early 
manhood. \Mien yet at school, a student at 
Comer's Commercial College in Boston in i860, 
he was a member of "Lincoln Guard No. i," con- 
nected with the Republican organization of " Wide 
Awakes " in the campaign of that year. While a 
resident of Springfield, he was secretary of nearly 
all the Republican caucuses, conventions, and 
meetings held there during that period ; and 
in 1864 was the secretary and practically the 
manager of the Lincoln Cluli of Springfield. 
Upon his return to Martha's Vineyard he at once 
took a prominent part in politics there, and sub- 
sequently served for many years on the various 
party committees in that section of the State. 
For nearly the entire period from 1883 to 1892 
he was a member of the Republican State Com- 
mittee, finally in August, 1892, resigning the posi- 
tion. He attended the National Republican Con- 
vention of 1892 at Minneapolis as an alternate 
delegate at large from Massachusetts. Before he 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



903 



luached his twciUy-liflh year, ho \v;is urged to stiiiul 
for the Legislature; but he decHned, and similar 
calls subsequently made were declined, until 1883, 
when he was nominated and elected to the Senate 
for the sessions of 1884-85-86, taking a leading 
place from the start. During his first term he 
was chairman of the committee on printing and 
a member of the committees on election laws and 
mercantile affairs, in his second term chairman of 
the committee on mercantile afifairs and member 
of the committees on railroads and printing, and 
in his third term chairman of the railroad commit- 
tee and member of the committees on reclistrict- 
ing the State, and on election laws, and was the 
"Whip" of the Senate; and in 1886 chairman of 
the Senate Republican caucus committee. He 
was a candidate for a fourth term in the Senate, 
but failed of nomination in an all-day convention, 
leading the vote in seventy-two ballots, and finally 
defeated by a slight margin. In 188 1 he was 
commissioned by Governor Long a trial justice for 
Dukes County, and, after holding the office for 
six months, resigned. Later the same position 
was again offered him by Governor Robinson, but 
he declined it. He is a member of the Middlesex, 
Norfolk, and State Republican political clubs. 
Mr. Norris was married September 16, 1863, to 
Miss Martha Daggett Luce, daughter of William 
Cook and Eleanora Daggett (West) Luce, of Vine- 
yard Haven. They have one son : Howes Norris, 
Jr., born March 20, 1867. 



O'CALLAGH.AN, Thom.as, of Bo.ston, carpet 
merchant, was born in West Springfield, April 
28, 1856, son of Thomas and Mary O'Callaghan. 
His mother, now living, is an intelligent and fairly 
well-educated woman from the county of Limer- 
ick, Ireland. Her father was an accomplished 
scholar and man of affairs there ; and one of her 
brothers is now a prominent clergyman in Man- 
chester, England, with a wide reputation as a tem- 
perance lecturer and writer, and a founder of total 
ab.stinence societies. His father received a good 
education in County Limerick, Ireland, and. 
upon coming to this country, took up the trade of 
a tanner, which he pursued till 1880, when he en- 
gaged in the grocery business in Charlestown. 
Thomas O'Callaghan attained his education in the 
town of Harvard, Mass., to which place his par- 
ents removed when he was a child of three, and 
in the grammar and high schools of Ayer Junc- 



tion, removal having been made to the latter place 
during his boyhood. He was proficient in his 
studies, which, if pursued, would have fitted him 
for a professional career. His ambition at school 
was satisfied only when he was the first in his 
class, and it was the exception when he did not 
attain that rank. His parents removed to Somer- 
ville when he was fourteen years old, and there 
began his battle of life. He immediately sought 
and obtained employment with J. Elliot Bond in 
the carpet business on Washington Street, Boston, 
engaging with this concern as an errand-boy and 
general helper. .After a short while he became 




THOS. O'CALLAGHAN. 

familiar with the stock of carpets carried; and, be- 
ing ambitious to become a salesman, he obtained 
a chance. In the latter position he speedily 
showed his capacity, and became so successful 
that he commanded a high salary at the age of 
eighteen years. Not contented with his oppor- 
tunity for further development here, having at- 
tained the high-water mark, he determined to go 
with a larger house at an increase of salary. There 
he remained till the spring of 1886, when he en- 
gaged in business for himself. Beginning in a 
small way, taking half of the first floor at No. 601 
Washington Street, by the end of the first season 
he found it necessary to enlarge his quarters, and 



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MEN OF l^ROGRESS. 



he occupied the entire floor. His business stead- 
ily and rapidly increasing, he soon secured the 
second floor, and within a few years was occupy- 
ing the whole building. Still extending, the busi- 
ness outgrew this building, and in August, 1893, 
was removed to the present building, Nos. 558, 
560, & 562 Washington Street, where it has made 
remarkable strides during the past two years. 
Mr. O'Callaghan attributes his success to hard 
and constant work of mind and body, honesty and 
integrity in all business dealings under all circum- 
stances. Mr. O'Callaghan is a member of the 
Merchants' and Clover clubs, the Catholic Union, 
the Irish Charitable Association, and the Boston 
College Association of Boston, and of the Old 
(Quarterly Club of Charlestown, of which he was 
one of the original members. He was married 
June 19, 1889, to Miss Mary Wall, of Boston, a 
school-teacher of superior mental qualities and 
thorough education. 



OLNEV, l<_icHARr), of Boston, Secretary of 
State in the second cabinet of President Cleve- 
land, succeeding the late Secretary Gresham in 
1895, was born in 0.\ford, Worcester County, 
September 15, 1835, son of Wilson and Eliza L. 
( Butler) Olney. He is a descendant in the direct 
line of Thomas Olney, who came to New England 
from St. Albans, county of Hertford, England, in 
1635, settled first in Salem, and, sharing the sen- 
tence and expulsion of Roger Williams, of whom 
he was a strong adherent, became one of the 
founders of Rhode Island and the Providence 
Plantations, and a foremost man in that commu- 
nity. Secretary Olney's grandfather, Richard 
< )lney, born in 1770 at Smithfield, R.I., was a 
leading merchant in Pro\'idence for some years ; 
was one of the pioneers of the New England cot- 
ton manufacturing industry, establishing mills in 
East Douglass, Mass., as early as 181 1 ; in 1819, 
moving to Oxford, became there prominent as a 
citizen as well as a merchant and manufacturer, 
holding numerous town ofiices ; and died in the 
neighboring village of Burrillville in 1841. His 
father, eldest son of Richard, born January 10, 
1802, in Providence, died February 24, 1874, in 
( )xford, was also a manufacturer and man of af- 
fairs, engaged during his active life in the manu- 
facture of woollen goods and in the management 
of the Oxford Bank. On the maternal side Secre- 
tary (_)lney is of French Huguenot descent through 



his mother's grandmother, Mary Sigourney Butler, 
great-grand-daughter of Andrew Sigourney. who 
fled from France at the Revocation of the FLdict 
of Nantes, and was a leader in the settlement of 
Oxford by the Huguenots in 1687. His mother's 
grandfather was James Butler, and her father 
Peter Butler, both leading citizens of Oxford in 
their day. He is the eldest of five children, 
the others being Peter Butler, now a prominent 
member of the New York bar ; George W., who 
succeeded the father as a Worcester County 
woollen manufacturer, and died February 28, 
1894; Frederick A.; and Gertrude, wife of the 




RICHARD OLNEY. 

Hon. Eben S. Stevens, of Ouinebaug, Conn. 
Secretary Olney was educated at Leicester Acad- 
emy and at Brown University, graduating with 
honors in the class of 1856. He studied law at 
the Harvard Law School, taking his degree in 
1858, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar the 
following year. Entering" the office of Judge Ben- 
jamin F". Thomas, he continued in association 
with the judge until the latter's death in 1878, 
after which he practised alone. Although en- 
gaged at the outset in all branches, he early de- 
voted himself especiallv to the law of wills and 
estates and the law of corporations, becoming 
upon both a recognized authority. Prompt and 



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tliorouyli in his legal work, he speedily gained 
an enviable reputation as a chamber counsel. It 
has been declared that, in his presentation to the 
court of a question of law, he is not excelled by 
any lawyer in New England. In the earlier part 
of his career he was a frequent trier of causes 
l)efore juries ; but of late years his practice has 
been mostly confined to that of an adviser of 
large corporate interests and in the settlement 
of estates, and his appearances in court have 
been rare. His characteristics as an advocate 
have been thus described by a competent pen : 
''His logic is clean-cut, his diction is wonderfully 
pure, his rhetoric is always perfectly adapted to 
his subject ; his power of condensation is remark- 
able ; his argument presents a view of the case 
that is a perfectly adjusted series of perspective.'' 
Mr. Olney has two or three times been offered a 
judicial place, but has declined to serve because 
of the e.xtent of the interests by which he has 
been retained. He has for long periods been 
counsel for the Chicago, Burlington, <S: Quincy, 
the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe', and the Boston 
& Maine Railroads. He served one term, 1874 
as a member of the lower house of the Massachu- 
setts Legislature. He was appointed by Presi- 
dent Cleveland United States Attorney-general in 
1893, entering upon his duties on the 6th of 
March, that year ; and was made Secretary of 
State lune 10, 1895. Mr. Olney married March 
6, 1861, .\gnes Park, a daughter of his long-time 
partner. Judge Thomas. They have two daugh- 
ters, both of whom are married. 



PARKER, W.\LL.ACE AsAHEL, M.D., of Spring- 
field, is a native of Vermont, born in the town of 
Wilmington, September 7, 1864, son of Francis 
William and Emily Jane (Gore) Parker. His 
grandparents, William and Lydia (Colgrove) Par- 
ker, and Asahel and Mary (Colton) Gore, were 
of good New England stock. His grandfather 
(lore's mother, Barbara (Ballou) Gore, was a 
niece of the Rev. Hosea Ballou, the eminent Uni- 
\ ersalist preacher and one of the " fathers " of 
that church. \\'allace A. attended a village school 
at Readsborough, Vt.. up to the age of seventeen, 
then for a year and a half was a pupil in the 
Stevens High School of Claremont, N.H., and 
afterward went to Phillips (Exeter) Academy, 
where he completed his preparation for college 
in June, 1885. Before entering college, he taught 



for four terms in a village school. His medical 
studies were begun in 1886; and for two years, 
1886-88, he attended lectures in the department 
of medicine and surgery of the University of 
Michigan. In September of the latter year he 
entered Harvard, and was graduated there A.B. 
in June, 1891, with high honors. In June, 1892, 
he received the degree of M.I), from the Ihiiver- 
sity of Michigan. After an experience through 
the summer and autumn of 1892 in the New A'ork 
eye and ear hospitals, he established himself in 
North .Adams, and began practice. In April, 
1894, he removed to Springfield to succeed to the 




W. A. PARKER. 

practice of Dr. John Morgan, oculist, who then 
removed to Boston. While living in North 
Adams, Dr. Parker was appointed attending ocu- 
list and aurist to the North .\dams Hospital, 
which position he held for more than a year and 
until his removal to Springfield, when he resigned. 
He is now consulting oculist and aurist to the 
House of Providence Hospital of Holyoke and to 
the Holyoke City Hospital. Owing to his con- 
nections with these hospitals and the duties they 
involve, he has recently removed from Spring- 
field to Holyoke. He is a member of the Berk- 
shire and Hampden district divisions of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society. In politics he 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



was originally a Republican, and voted the. Re- 
publican ticket for the first two years after he 
reached the voting age. Then he became a Dem- 
ocrat, and has since voted with that party. Dr. 
Parker is unmarried. 



PARKHILL, Samuel James, of Boston, 
printer, was born in Boston, June 23, 1840, son 
of William and Margaret (Wells) Parkhill. His 
father was of the ParkhiJls of Edinburgh, Scot- 
land, where nianv of the faniilv are still livinir : 




S. J. PARKHILL. 

and his mother's ancestors were English. His 
education was begun in the country school of 
Minot, Me., and at the age of nine he entered 
the Boston public schools. He began work at the 
age of fourteen in the printing-office of John 
Wilson & Son. After a year there he took a press 
in the office of Allen lS: Farnham, Cambridge, 
and continued in that establishment till 1S61, 
when he became foreman for Rand, .\very, & 
Frye, then at No. 3 Cornhill, Boston. In 1875, 
leaving the latter position, he started in business 
for himself ; and from that time his work steadily 
increased and expanded. In 1878 his establish- 
ment, then in the Cathedral Building on the cor- 



ner of Franklin and Devonshire streets, was 
burned out, but he immediately started again at 
No. 21S Franklin Street. His plant has grown 
from year to year, until now it occupies three 
buildings at Nos. 218, 222, and 226 Franklin 
Street. Besides printing all kinds of books for 
the general trade, — novels, histories, illustrated 
books for children, and magazines, — his firm pro- 
duces yearly thousands of educational and draw- 
ing books for the use of the schools in Boston, 
New York, Chicago, and other cities. He has 
never held any political office. He is a Knight 
Templar, also a thirty -second degree Mason in 
the Scottish Rite. Mr. Parkhill was married in 
1863 to Elizabeth Whelden Lothrop, daughter of 
Charles B. Lothrop, of Boston. They have one 
son only : Charles Lothrop Dexter Parkhill, now- 
associated with his father in business. 



PERAIK), JiiHANN F^RN.ST, of Bostou, pianist, 
teacher, and musical composer, was born in 
Wiesbaden, Germany, November 14, 1845, son of 
Johann Michael and Christiane (Hiibner) Perabo. 
He was educationally directed, first at home, later 
at Eimsbiittel, near Hamburg, in Johannes Andre- 
sen's boarding-school (1858-62), lastly at the 
Conservatory of Music, Leipzig, Germany, from 
1862-65, ^nd again from 1878 to 1879. He came 
to this country with his parents in 1852, and was 
settled for two years in New York City. There 
he made the acquaintance of William Scharfen- 
berg, whose music store, at No. 758 Broadw-ay, 
for many years was the rendezvous of prominent 
musicians, and who later did everything to de- 
velop the talents of the boy. In 1845 he made 
his first appearance before the public in a concert 
given by Professor Heinrich in New York, and 
gave uncommon promise. From New York the 
family went to Dover, N.H., and remained there 
two years. Thence they removed to Boston, where 
they resided for a year, during which time young 
Perabo received instruction of Frank Hill, and 
also on the violin of William Schultze, of the 
Mendelssohn Quintette Club. He played in pub- 
lic on one occasion at a concert in Music Hall 
under the direction of Carl Zerrahn. Then the 
family moved to Chicago. The father was poor, 
but the purpose of educating his son was a sacred 
and serious one with him. After the manner of 
foreign governments he hoped to find assistance 
from the American government ; and, sanguine of 



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907 



success, mother and son in May, 1858, went to 
Washington, where they were accorded an inter- 
view with President Buchanan, .\mused at the 
advent of his callers and their errand, the Presi- 
dent informed them that neither tlie executive de- 
partment nor Congress was particularly interested 
in the promotion of the fine arts. Then they went 
to New \'ork to confer with Mr. Scharfenberg 
about education abroad. At first he objected, 
declaring that pupils there wasted their time in 
frivolous amusements instead of attending to their 
studies. But objections were finally overcome ; 
and through his exertions young Perabo left New 
York in the steamship "Saxonia," Captain P'hlers, 
September i, 1858, and entered the schools noted 
above. At Eimsbi.ittel, a poetic hamlet three miles 
from Hamburg, under the tender care of Mrs. 
Henriette Andresen, and Messrs. Johannes An- 
dresen, August Schiller, Meyerhof, Monch, Schulz, 
and Heinrich Joachim, — teachers remarkable for 
their excellence and good judgment, — he spent 
the four happiest years of his life. His teachers 
at Leipzig were Professors Ignaz Moscheles 
and Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel, piano ; Papperitz, 
Richter, and Hauptmann, harmony ; at a later 
period, Carl Reinecke, composition. At the pub- 
lic examination of the Conservatory, May 4, 1865, 
he played the second and third movements of 
Norbert Burgmiiller's Concerto in F-sharp minor, 
then just published by Kistner & Co., and per- 
formed for the first time in public. Leaving 
Leipzig November i, 1865, he took passage in 
the " Allemannia," Captain Trautmann, for New 
York, where he was met by Mr. Scharfenberg and 
other friends, who assured him that they expected 
no recompense for what they had done in his 
behalf. He then proceeded to Sandusky, Ohio, 
where his parents at that time resided, giving 
several very gratifying concerts in that city, and 
also at Lafayette, Ind., Chicago, and Cleveland. 
In March, 1866, he returned to New York. While 
there, he was invited to play at the last concert 
of the season given by the Harvard Musical 
Association in Boston. He played Hummel's 
Septette, op. 74, which met with such a marked 
degree of critical favor that his reputation in Bos- 
ton was at once established. Here he has since 
remained, devoting his attention faithfully to giv- 
ing instruction, editing and fingering six collec- 
tions of piano music, making arrangements and 
transcriptions, for two hands, of vocal and in- 
strumental works, including selections from Sir 



Arthur Sullivan's operas, "lolanthe" and "Pa- 
tience"; publishing some original compositions, 
and giving and playing at many concerts at home 
and elsewhere. For thirty years he has played 
the Chickering piano, the musical and poetic tone 
of which he considers a worthy response to the 
immortally beautiful thoughts becjueathed to us 
by the old and ever new composers who wrote 
for that instrument. His great benefactor, Mr. 
Scharfenberg, died at (^uogue, L.I., on the even- 
ing of August 8, 1895. He was a native of 
Cassel, Germany, born February 22, 1819, and in 
1838 came to New York, where he held the highest 




ERNST PERABO. 

position as pianist and musician, and was directly 
interested in strengthening the young Philhar- 
monic .Society, which since that time has done 
much admirable work in planting true art among 
New York's excellent citizens. Upon his death 
Mr. Perabo published in the Boston Evening 
Transcripf (August 19, 1895) a grateful tribute to 
his memory, of which the following was the clos- 
ing part: "His name meant the highest recom- 
mendation, his interest thoroughness, his instruc- 
tion accurate knowledge. His pupils idolized 
him; and many poor youths found in him a lo\ing 
and wise father, who steered their little craft safely 
through the rocks into the open sea of disciplined 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



manhood. His public work was done with the 
fervor of a private citizen, who thought only of 
excellent performance, not of the publicity accru- 
ing from it. In his private life he was equally 
great, preparing his children for that future that 
alone stands unchallenged under the blue sky of a 
spotless life. May God inspire those who knew 
him to continue his work, bequeathed to us on 
such a lofty plane ! " Of his own personal in- 
debtedness to Mr. Scharfenberg, Mr. I^erabo has 
said : " If there be now in the world any one who 
is or has been benefited through my existence, 
let him be grateful for it to Mr. Scharfenberg. 
He gave me my health, endangered by constant 
night study when young, and every high-minded, 
rational enjoyment since 1858. On September i 
of that year he sent me abroad to study under 
rare teachers, enabling me 'to graduate,' — i.e., to 
know my littleness ; to wed thought to affection, — 
i.e., to be useful to others: to love, — i.e., to learn 
sacrifice. But for my beloved mother and this 
friend my little candle would not have thrown its 
beams upon the long pathway of life ; for what 
were a ship without water, appetite without food, 
and colors without light ? " Mr. Perabo was mar- 
ried in East Boston, June i, i88g, by the Rev. 
William R. Alger, to Miss Louisa Elizabeth 
Schmidt. 

PE'l'ERS, Charles Joskph, Jr., of Boston, 
head of the firm of C. J. Peters & Son, electro- 
typers and half-tone engravers, is a native of 
Boston, born November 14, 1840. son of Charles 
Joseph and Ann Eliza (Gardner) Peters. He is a 
direct descendant of Joseph Peters, of Halifax, 
N.S., judge of the Supreme Court. His, great- 
grandfather, Alexander Abercrombie Peters, eld- 
est son of Joseph, born in 1762, was a Boston 
merchant, having a store for the sale of drugs and 
medicine on Marlborough (then a part of what is 
now Washington Street, corner of Winter). " one 
door north of the Buck and Glove," as an adver- 
tisement in a Boston paper of 1789 announced. 
His grandfather, Joseph Thompson Peters, was 
born in Boston, March 23, 1792, and died 
in Boston, .Vugust 6, 1824: he married Abigail 
Trask, of Gloucester. His father was also born 
in Boston, October 28, 1S19, and was identified 
with the city during his active life. He died 
in Gloucester, July 4, 1888. Charles J., Jr., was 
educated in the Boston and Cambridge public 
schools. His start in active life was in the mer- 



cantile business, as a clerk in the dry-goods com- 
mission house of Gardner Brewer & Co. After 
six months' experience there, he was for some 
lime with Williamson & Smith, dry and fancy 
goods. In 1859 he became associated with the 
Boston Stereotype Foundry, then in Spring Lane, 
his father at that time being the agent and treas- 
urer of the concern. Before reaching the age of 
twenty-one, and before the completion of his ap- 
prenticeship, he became foreman of the shop, and 
continued in that position until the first of Oc- 
tober, 1864, when, with his father, he entered 
business on his own account, buying out the con- 




C. J. PETERS. 

cern of R. Wheeler & Co.. and establishing the 
firm of C. J. Peters & Son at No. 13 XN'ashington 
.Street. The firm remained on Washington Street 
until after the great fire of 1S72, when it removed 
to the Franklin Building on Federal Street. In 
1879 the firm purchased the Boston Stereotype 
Foundry, and incorporated that firm in its busi- 
ness. In 1882 removal was made to the larger 
and present quarters at No. 145 High Street. 
In 1884 George E. Peters was admitted to the 
firm, the style, however, remaining the same. 
Beginning thirty-one years ago with a modest 
force of about ten hands, the establishment now 
regularly employs from one hundred and twenty- 



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909 



In til niK- hundred and tifly hands. 'I'lie opera- 
tions of the llrni have been extended fmni time to 
time into broader fields. It was among the earli- 
est to introduce the plant for half-tone engraving, 
and now e.xecutes fine work in this class; also 
wa.\ engraving and book composition. Mr. Peters 
is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Mas- 
ter Printers' Club of Boston, and of the Colonial 
Club of Cambridge. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He was married first, January, 1S64, to 
Miss Mary E. Bates, daughter of Abner L. and 
Mary (Gray) Bates, by which union was one 
daughter, Mary Lizzie, now Mrs. John F. Gil- 
more. He married second, November 18, 1874, 
Miss Helen M. Southard, daughter of Zibeon and 
Helen M. (Trescott) Southard, of Boston. Their 
children are : Arthur G., Edward S., Charles A., 
and Helen K. Peters. 



PILLSBURV, Albert E., of Boston, attorney- 
general of the Commonwealth 1891-93, is a native 
of New Hampshire, born in Milford, son of Josiah 
W. and Elizabeth ( Dinsmoor) Pillsbury. His father 
was educated for a professional career, graduating 
froin Dartmouth in 1840; but the state of his 
health required outdoor life, and he becaine a 
farmer. Albert E. was accordingly brought up on 
a farm, and his boyhood was passed between the 
farm and the school. His early education was ac- 
quired in the common and high schools of Milford: 
and he fitted for college at the Appleton Academy 
in New Ipswich, N.H., and the Lawrence Academy 
in Groton, Mass. He entered Harvard in the 
class of 187 I, but did not finish his course, leaving 
to teach school and to study law in the West. 
He taught for a year at Sterling, 111., and pursued 
his law studies with the Hon. James Dinsmoor, 
his uncle. He was admitted to the Illinois bar, 
but returned to New England, and was admitted to 
the Massachu.setts bar, and opened an oflice in 
Boston in 187 i, where he has been since engaged 
in a steadily growing practice. Mr. Pillsbury en- 
tered public life in 1876 as a member of the lower 
house of the Legislature from Ward Seventeen, 
Boston. He served there three years, 1876-78, 
in his first session taking rank with the leaders. 
During that term he was chairman of the commit- 
tee on elections and member of the committee on 
federal relations, and in the two succeeding terms 
a member of the committee on the judiciary and 
other leading committees. In 1883 he was elected 



to the Senate from the .Sixth Suflolk District, and 
was twice returned, serving, as in the House, three 
years ( 1884-85-86). In his first term as a sen- 
ator he held the chairmanship of the joint com- 
mittee on the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, and also 
that of the special committee on the bribery inves- 
tigation of that year ; and w-as a member of the 
committee on the judiciary. The next year he 
was chosen unanimously president of the Senate, 
and re-elected the following year, again unani- 
mously. In 1887 he was ofl:"ered by Governor 
Ames the position of judge advocate general, but 
this he declined ; and he also declined most im- 




ALBERT E. PILLSBURY. 

portant positions subsequently offered him, — the 
office of corporation counsel of the city of Boston, 
offered by Mayor Hart in 1889, and a seat upon 
the bench of the Superior Court, tendered by 
Governor Ames and later by Governor Green- 
halge. He was first nominated for the attorney- 
generalship at the Republican State Convention 
in 1890, and served by successive re-elections for 
three years, 1891-92-93, making a notable record. 
He was prominently mentioned for the Republican 
nomination for governor in 1892, and was the 
leading candidate for the nomination against Gov- 
ernor Greenhalge in 1893. Mr. Pillsbury is vice- 
president and a director of the L^nited .States 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Trust Company, and a trustee of the I'"ranklin 
Savings Bank. He delivered the annual oration 
before the city authorities of Boston July 4, 1890, 
and was given the honorary degree of A.M. by 
Har\ard in iSgi. 



POOLE, Alva Packard, of Brockton, con- 
tractor, is a native of Maine, born in the town of 
Grey, June 17, 1852, son of Nahum Augustus and 
Sarah Sanders (Morse) Poole. He is of the 
Poole family who settled in Weymouth, Mass., in 
1635. He descends in the direct line from Captain 



ings erected by him are the City Hall, and the 
dwelling-houses of W. L. Douglass and M. ¥. 
Thomas. Mr. Poole has served in the Common 
Council of P)rockton two terms, 1889-90. He is 
connected with the Masonic order, member of 
Paul Revere Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, and 
the Bay State Commandery. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Commercial Club of Brockton. In poli- 
tics he has been always a Republican. He was 
married November 25, 1879, to Miss Susie Hay- 
ward, of West Bridgewater. Their children are : 
Ruth Edna, Sarah Maud, Alva Hayward, iVlice 
Clara, Isadora, and Edith Marion Poole. 




A. p. POOLE. 

Edward Poole, from Weymouth, England, the first 
of the family in New England. Samuel Poole of 
a later generation was the first representative sent 
from the town of Abington, Mass., to the General 
Court. His son, Samuel, Jr., was a lieutenant in 
the Revolutionary War; and Samuel P., grand- 
father of Alva P. Poole, served in the War of 1812. 
Alva P. Poole was educated in the common 
schools of his native town, and when a young man 
came to Massachusetts, and began here his 
business career. He was first concerned in con- 
tracting in Brockton in 1880 ; and he has been en- 
gaged there since, constructing numerous impor- 
tant structures. Among the most notable build- 



POSSE, The Baron Nils,— the Rt. Hon. Nils, 
Baron Posse of Saeby, — of Boston, was born in 
Stockholm, Sweden, May 15, 1862, son of Knut, 
Baron Posse, K.S. (governor of the Army High 
School), and Sophie, Lady Lilliestrale. The 
Posse family dates back beyond authentic history, 
and is one of those whose members have always 
been illustrious in the making of Sweden. From 
the thirteenth century to the present time mem- 
bers of the family have held high office in 
Sweden, being king's councillors, councillors of 
the realm, and peers of the realm. The Posses 
belong to what is called in Europe " most ancient 
nobility," and are considered the equals of even 
Hohenzotlerns and Rohans. Nils Posse was edu- 
cated by private tutors, and at the public schools 
and colleges of Stockholm, graduating B.Sc. from 
Stockholm's Athenaeum in 1880, from the War 
College in 1881, and M.G. from the Royal Gym- 
nastic Central Institute in 1885. He had a si.x 
years' army training through all the grades from 
private to lieutenant, being the nineteenth from 
father to son to serve as commissioned officer 
(lieutenant in the Life Grenadiers, commissioned 
November 18, 1881, lieutenant First Artillery, 
mounted in 1883, honorably discharged 1884); 
and also learned the bookbinder's trade, and 
worked for six months in a cartridge factorv to ac- 
quire the handicraft of a mechanic. In 1884 he 
was a teacher in the Stockholm Fencing Club, 
and during the same year an assistant at clinic of 
the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute. He came 
to America in 1885, and here introduced the 
Swedish system of gymnastics. In 1888-89 ^^^ 
was lecturer to the New England Hospital in 
Boston, and in 1889-90 to the McLean Asylum. 
On the first of January. 1889, he organized the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



911 



liostoii Scliool of Gymnastics, and bucamc its cli- 
iL-ctor. I'he following year he was director of 
gymnastics in the public schools of Walthani, and 
also through the summer season of that year and 
of 1891 and 1892 professor in the Martha's Vine- 
yard Summer Institute. In February, 1890, he be- 
came director of the Posse Gymnasium in ISoston, 
in which position he has since continued. From 
September, 1893. to the present time he has also 
l)een an assistant in the Boston Dispensary, 
llaron I'osse has introduced Swedish gymnastics, 
personally or b)' his own pupils, in the following 
places and institutions : Boston, lirockton, W'al- 




BARON NILS POSSE. 



handbooks, the list of iiis publications embracing 
the following titles : " Special Kinesiology of Edu- 
cational Gymnastics" {now in its third edition); 
" The Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics "' ; 
" Columbian Collection of Essays on Swedish Gym- 
nastics": '• Medical Gymnastics " ; "Hypnotism," 
translated into English from Dr. Bjbrnstiom's 
Swedish work ; " Massage," translated into 
Swedish from Dr. Graham's American work; 
" Handbook of Fancy Skating " (publishe4 in 
Sweden in Swedish : '• Handbok i figurakning a 
skridskor ") ; and many short articles in the peri- 
odical press. He is a constant writer also for the 
Posse Gyitiiiastiinii Journal, established by him in 
1893. He is a member of the .American .\ssocia- 
tion for the Advancement of Physical Education, 
and of a number of societies and clubs in Sweden, 
among them the Royal Swedish Yacht Club, the 
Swedish Tourist Club, the Swedish Snow Shoe 
Club, the Stockholm Gymnastic Association, the 
Stockholm Gymnastic and Fencing Club, and the 
Stockholm General Skating Club. These clubs 
he represented at the World's Fair in Chicago, in 
1893, at which he was a special Swedish commis- 
sioner. He was also an honorary vice-president 
of the World's Congress of Physical Education at 
the fair. He was the founder of the Swedish 
Gymnastic Club of Boston, and has been its presi- 
dent from the beginning. He was the champion 
fancy skater of Sweden in 1884. He has re- 
ceived medals for method of gymnastic instruction 
in Boston in 1892 ; in Chicago, 1893 ; and 
Antwerp, 1894. In 1895 the king of Sweden 
created him a Knight of Gustavus Vasa in recog- 
nition of his professional attainments. He was 
married June 29, 1887, to Miss Rose Moore 
Smith, of Newburyport. They have no children. 



tham, Lynn, Newburyport, Haverhill, Marblehead, 
.•\)'er, Bridgewater, Springfield, Mass. ; Ports- 
mouth and Littleton, N.H.; Providence, R.I.; 
lluffalo, N.Y.; East Orange, N.J. ; Washington, 
l).C. ; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Sandusky and 
Toledo, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind. ; Denver, Col.; 
Portland, Ore.; Halifax, N.S. ; Sao Paulo, Brazil; 
in the Syracuse University, New York ; the Dean, 
'I'abor, and West Bridgewater academies, Massa- 
chusetts ; the Providence (R.I.) High School; the 
State Normal School, Mansfield, Penna. ; the Bal- 
timore Normal School ; and the Westfield and 
Bridgewater Normal schools, Massachusetts. He 
is also author of numerous popular, and practical 



POTTER, Henry Staples, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in Boston, son of Henry and Abby 
Leland (Giles) Potter. His maternal great-grand- 
father, Elisha Williams, was in the Revolution, 
an aide of Washington, and crossed the Delaware 
in the same boat with the general. Trumbull, 
who painted the famous picture of "Washing- 
ton crossing the Delaware," was his personal 
friend. He is represented in the painting as 
standing just back of Washington. All of Mr. 
Potter's ancestors were of New England stock ; 
and several of them were in the professions, — 
lawyers, ministers, and pinsicians. He was edn- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



cated in the common and High schools of Cam- Larncd and Ruby (Barton) Powers. Uoth his 
bridge, which became his home in early boyhood; parents were also natives of New Hampshire, and 
and there also his business career began. In were of linglish descent. His ancestors were 

among the early settlers of New England, coming 
to Salem in 1650. He was fitted for college at 
Kimball Union Academy and Phillips (Exeter) 
Academy, and entered Dartmouth in 1870, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1S74. In college he won the 
Lockwood prizes both in rhetoric and elocution. 
His law studies were begun in the office of W. \V. 
Bailey, of Nashua, N.H. Subsequently he at- 
tended the law school of the University of the 
City of New Vork, and later read in the otifice of 
Very & Gaskill, Worcester. He was admitted to 
the bar in Worcester, November 17, 1875, and 
began practice in Boston the following Januarv. 
forming a partnership with his college classmate, 
Samuel W. McCall, now a member of Congress. 
In 1887, after having devoted himself for some 
time to the study of electrical science, he decided 
to make a specialty of law in its application to 
electrical matters; and he was one of the first at- 
torneys in the country to take up this branch of 
the profession. From that time he has been 



H. STAPLES POTTER. 

course of time he was associated with a number 
of the principal business features of the city, 
among them street railways, in which he was a 
pioneer, being one of the originators of the old 
Cambridge Street Railw-ay ; and he was president 
and director of several of the Cambridge corpo- 
rations. Subsecjuently he became identified with 
the house of Potter & Wrightington, wholesalers 
of canned goods, fish, and cereals, his present 
business. He is also a director of the manufact- 
urers' National Bank, and is \vell known on the 
street. In politics he is Republican. He is a 
member of the Algonquin, Art, and Boston Ath- 
letic clubs, and of the Beacon Society ; and is 
connected with the Masonic order. Mr. Potter 
was married to Miss Sophia Grace Robbins, 
daughter of Captain Robbins, of South Boston. 
Their children are : Henry Staples, Jr., Ale.xander 
Carlton, and Grace l''lorence Potter. 





SAMUEL L. POWERS. 



POWERS, Samuel Lel.4ND, of Boston, mem- largely employed in representing the interests of 
ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of New Hamp- corporations and individuals engaged in electrical 
shire, born in Cornish, October 26, 1848, son of operations. He has been general counsel for the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



91. 



New Knyhmd Telephone and 'telegraph t'onipan)- 
since 1889; also counsel for the Caniewell Fire 
Alarm Telegraph Company, and of other large 
corporations connected with electrical business. 
He is a director of the Newton and Boston Street 
Railwav Company, and counsel for several street 
railway companies. He has resided in Newton 
since 1882, served several terms in the Common 
Council, being presiding officer of that body dur- 
ing two years, and one term in the Board of Al- 
dermen. He was one of the founders of the 
Newton Club, and is now president of that organi- 
zation. He is also a member of the University 
Club of Boston. In politics he is a Republican, 
and in religion a Unitarian. Mr. Powers was 
married June, 1878, to Miss Eva Crowell, daugh- 
ter of the Hon. Prince S. Crowell, of Dennis. 
They have one son, Leland Powers (born July i. 
1890). 

REDFORI). Robert, of Lawrence, agent of 
the .Arlington Mills, is a native of England, born 
in ]iolton, Lancashire, May 19, 1846, son of James 
and Rachael (Curless) Redford. He was edu- 




and in the course of time he became manager of 
the Reddish Spinning Company near .Manchester, 
England, which position he held for eleven years. 
He came to this country in January, 1881, as 
superintendent of the Arlington Mills, and five 
years later was appointed to his present important 
position of agent. Mr. Redford is a Freemason, 
a Knight 'I'emplar of the Bethany Commandery. 
In politics he has always been a Republican. He 
was married to .\ugusta M. doom, and has three 
children : Joseph, .\lice. and May Redford. 




cated 

twelve 

mill. 



J. B. REYNOLDS. 

REYNOLDS. James BrRro.v, of Boston, jour- 
nalist, is a native of New ^'ork, born in Saratoga, 
February 17, 1870, son of Dr. John H. and Sarah 
C. (Morgan) Revnolds. His grandfathei", James 
Morgan, was one of the pioneer lumbermen of 
North New York, and founder of the well-known 
Morgan lAunber Com|)an\- of that section. His 
early education was acquired in the (Mens Falls 
.Vcademy, Glens F'alls, N.N'.: and he graduated 
with honors from Dartmouth, .\.B. in 1890, receiv- 
ROBT REDFORD '"§ '^^ degree of .\.NL in 1893. His professional 

career was begun as a reporter on the Boston .h/- 
in the connnon schools. .\t the age of irrfiscr z.nA Rfivni in the summer of 1890. The 
he left school, and went to work in a cotton following year he was legislative reporter for those 
His progress in the business was steady ; papers during the session of the .Massachusetts 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Legislature, and also political and editorial writer. 
At the opening of the Fifty-second Congress he 
was sent to Washington as special correspondent 
for the same papers, and continued there in that 
capacity until September, 1894, when he went to 
New York as an editorial writer on the New York 
Press. He remained with the J'irss until March, 
189s, and then returned to Boston to take the 
place of executive clerk of the Republican State 
Committee, which position he at present holds. 
He continued his editorial work, however, doing 
editorial writing for several papers in connection 
with the State Committee. In 1892 he reported 
the national convention for the Advertiser and 
Record. Mr. Rejnolds is author of a volume of 
sketches under the title of "The Show at Wash- 
ington," and has contributed stories and articles 
to various magazines. While in college, he was 
editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth, the weekly col- 
lege paper. At Washington he was the youngest 
of the special correspondents. He is a member 
of the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity and 
Sphinx (corresponding to Skull and Bones at 
Yale), senior society of Dartmouth College ; of 
the University, Athletic, Press, and Middlesex 
clubs of Boston; and the University Club of 
Washington. 

RICH, Isaac Baker, of Boston, proprietor and 
manager of the Hollis Street Theatre, and senior 
member of the firm of Rich & Harris and Charles 
Frohman, proprietors and managers of the Co- 
lumbia Theatre, is a native of Maine, born in 
North Bucksport, February 23, 1827, son of Isaac 
B. and Margaret (Lewis) Rich. He was educated 
in the public schools of North Bucksport. At the 
age of nineteen he came up to Boston, and entered 
the employment of Joseph Buckingham, of the Bos- 
ton Daily Courier, and was later in the employ of 
William Pelby, the then veteran manager of the 
National Theatre, which long stood on Portland 
Street, near the corner of Travers. From that time 
he has been constantly connected with local play- 
houses, early in his career reaching the position of 
manager and proprietor. In 1852 he went as 
treasurer to the Howard AthenfEum, then a lead- 
ing theatre devoted to the "legitimate" drama, 
supporting a fine company, and patronized by the 
" best people " of the town. Several years later 
he became its manager. In 1867 he formed a 
partnership with Joseph Trowbridge, under the 
firm name of Rich & Trowbridge, and opened the 



Howard as a variety theatre. A succession of 
prosperous seasons followed the new departure. 
During the season of 1869-70 Joseph Hart be- 
came a partner in the enterprise, when the firm 
name was changed to Rich, Hart, & Trowbridge. 
Later, in 1870, John Stetson purchased Mr. 
Hart's interest, and the firm name became Rich, 
Stetson, & Trowbridge. In 187 1, Messrs. Rich 
and Stetson acquired the interest of Mr. Trow- 
bridge, and their partnership, under the name 
of Rich & Stetson, continued until 187S, when 
Mr. Stetson took the management of the Globe 
Theatre. Mr. Rich continued the management 




ISAAC B. RICH. 

of the Howard Athena-uin until the building of the 
Hollis Street Theatre, in 1885, which he has since 
conducted as a high grade playhouse. It was 
opened on the evening of November 9, that year, 
with the first performance in Boston of Gilbert 
and Sullivan's " Mikado " by an excellent com- 
pany of players, and before a brilliant audience," 
and it has been steadfastly maintained at the 
standard then established. Mr. Rich's connection 
with the Columbia Theatre (first opened October 
5, 1 8g I ) began with the opening night. In addi- 
tion to his theatrical interests he has been for 
many years interested in the Banner of Liglit, the 
well-known weekly spiritualistic journal, originally 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



915 



as a member of the firm of William White & Co. 
Since 1873 the firm has been Colby & Rich, and 
it has carried on an extensive business in the pub- 
lication of works relating to Spiritualism. Mr. 
Rich is a member of the Boston Club and of the 
Boston Vacht Club. He has had si.x children : 
Clara E., Abbie M., Charles J., George 1'., Maud 
L., and Ralph E. Rich, all of whom are living ex- 
cept George P. 



RICHARDS, William Rkuken, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Dedham, 
luly 3, 1853, son of William Bordman and Cor- 
nelia (Walter) Richards. On the paternal side 
he is in direct line from Edward Richards, who 
came from England, probably in the " Lyon " in 
1632, settled first in New Towne (Cambridge), 
and subsequently was received as one of the pro- 
prietors of Dedham, becoming the 62d signer of 
her social compact. For five or si.x generations 
his ancestors from Edward down to his grand- 
father, Reuben Richards, were all responsible 
citizens of Dedham, established on the original 
homestead there. His grandfather, Reuben, was 
a successful Boston merchant in the importation 
of tin and Russia iron; and his father, William 
B., was also a Boston merchant, succeeding to the 
business. His paternal grandmother, Eliza Bord- 
man. was in descent from Thomas Bordman, of 
London, who came to Plymouth in 1634. On the 
maternal side he is a descendant of the Apostle 
Eliot, of Increase Mather, and of the two chief 
justices Lynde of the province of Massachusetts. 
His great-great-great-great-grandfather on this side, 
Thomas Walter, attorne\'-at-law, came from Lan- 
caster, England, to Boston, in 1680; his great- 
great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Nehemiah \\'al- 
ter, was the colleague of Eliot in the First Church 
in Roxbury; his great-great-grandfather, the Rev. 
Nathaniel Walter, was pastor of the Second Con- 
gregational Church in Roxbury: and his great- 
grandfather, the Rev. William Walter, was rector 
of Trinity Church, Boston, 1767-75 (previously 
assistant minister from 1763), and after the peace 
rector of Christ Church. His uncle, Lynde M. 
Walter, was the projector and first editor of the 
Boston Tnriiscrif'f : and his mother, shortlv after 
the death of Mr. Walter (in 1842 ), succeeded to 
the editorship of the paper, her previous writings 
having commended her for the task. She con- 
ducted it with marked abilitv and success for 



about live years, or until her marriage, broaden- 
ing its scope and increasing its circulation. She 
is believed to be the first lady to have had full 
editorial charge and management of a daily 
paper ; and her achievement was all the more 
notable from the fact that in those days women 
lacked the courage to enter journalistic fields in 
Boston, or engage in any other public occupation. 
William R. Richards was educated in Boston 
and foreign schools, and at Harvard l^niversity. 
After several terms at Chauncy Hall and in the 
lioston Latin School he studied about five years 
in Dresden, Germany, passing through the gymna- 




WM. R. RICHARDS. 

slum course of the institute of Dr. Rrause. Re- 
turning to America, he entered Harvard in the 
class of 1874, and after graduating from the col- 
lege took a three years' course in the Harvard 
Law School, receiving there the degree of LL.B. 
and A.M. Afterward his legal studies were 
further pursued in the Boston office of Shattuck. 
Holmes, iS: Munroe; and in November, 1878, he 
was admitted to practice in the courts of the Com- 
monwealth and in the Circuit Court of the L'nited 
.States. Subsequentlv he formed a law partner- 
ship with John O. Shaw. Jr., grandson of Chief 
Justice Shaw, and George Lemist Clark, under the 
firm name of Richards, Shaw, i\: Clarke. Mr. 



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MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



Richards early interested himself in municipal 
affairs and reforms, and (irst entered public ser- 
vice as a member of the Boston Common Council, 
to which he was elected, from Ward Eleven, in 
the municipal election of 1885. Here he served 
three terms (1886, 1887, and 1888), the last year 
recognized as the leader on the Republican side, 
and the candidate of his party for president of the 
body. In January, 1889, he was appointed by 
Mayor Hart a trustee of the Public Library, to fill 
a vacancy caused by the resignation of William 
H. Whitmore, and in 1891 was reappointed for 
the full term of five years. He was intimately 
connected with the building of the new Public 
Library on Copley .Square, the most important 
and richest public edifice in Boston, constructed 
throughout under the supervision of the trustees ; 
and, before the work was begun, he was instru- 
mental in securing the legislative act empowering 
the trustees to prosecute it, and to select their 
own architect. In the Common Council, also, he 
championed the acceptance of the act, and af- 
fected the transfer of the appropriation to carry 
on the work in accordance with the plans of 
McKim, Mead, & White, the architects selected. 
By his order offered and advocated in the Com- 
mon Council, some years before. Bates Hall was 
opened to the public evenings : and later, as a 
trustee, he secured the opening of the library on 
Sundays, .\mong other acts in which he took a 
leading hand when a councilman was that of mak- 
ing the kindergarten a part of the public school 
system of Boston. As a public-spirited citizen 
also, Mr. Richards has been instrumental in ad- 
vancing numerous projects for the benefit of the 
city and the good of the community. In 1887 he 
led in the successful movement for the preserva- 
tion of Boston Common; in 1890 in that for the 
establishment by statute of the Art Commission, 
which passes upon all statues and monuments 
proposed to be set up under the authoritv and 
control of the city of Boston, and without whose 
appro\al none can be placed; in 1S93 in the 
movement for the legislative act, and its accept- 
ance by the city council, authorizing the building 
of the subway under Treniont Street for street- 
car tracks. In the struggle for the preservation 
of the Common in 1887 he so aroused and di- 
rected public sentiment that he was able to get 
through the Common Council a vote against any 
open cut for street railway purposes w'hich should 
touch the roots of any trees, thus checking a proj- 



ect which threatened the destruction of some 
of the finest elms in the enclosure. Later he 
brought the same sentiment to bear upon the 
committee of the Legislature on rapid transit : 
and subsequently he employed engineers to dem- 
onstrate the feasibility of cutting a tunnel under 
Mount Vernon Street for street-car tracks, en- 
tering at Charles Street and coming out at either 
ScoUay Square or on Tremont Street by the old 
Tremont House or at a point opposite the Bos- 
ton Museum. This demonstration convinced the 
committee that to secure rapid transit and the 
relief of the crowded thoroughfares, it was not 
necessary to go into, under, or over the Common, 
and it prepared the way for the subway project, 
which was the outcome of a plan for a Tremont 
Street subway conceived and largely developed 
by him, and the bill for which he drafted, .\mong 
other movements in which he was active and in- 
fluential was that led by Edwin L. Sprague for 
the law to prevent stock-watering by quasi-public 
corporations. In politics Mr. Richards is Inde- 
pendent. He is a member of the Boston Bar 
Association ; of the Union, Lhiiversity, St. Bo- 
tolph, and Union Boat clubs of Boston ; and of 
the corporation of the Boston Athena;um (re- 
cently secretary^, of which his great-uncle, Arthur 
M. \\'alter, was a founder, having been first sec- 
retary and one of the original members of the 
Anthology Club (established in 1804), from which 
the Athenaium was the outgrowth. Mr. Richards 
is unmarried. 



RILE\', Thom.-^s, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, 
December, 1846, son of Thomas and Rose (Smith) 
Riley. He is of the O'Reilly family, one of the 
most noted in Irish history, traced in the annals 
of Ireland through a long line of powerful chief- 
tains of East Breifny, now County Ca\an ; and 
whose ancestor, Duach Galach, king of Con- 
naught, was converted to Christianity in the fifth 
century bv .St. Patrick, and baptized b\' him on 
the banks of Lock Scola. During the last two 
centiuies members of the family have performed 
brilliant military or civic service in .Austria, France, 
and Spain. Thomas Riley came to Boston with 
his mother when he was a child of four years, and 
was educated in the Boston public schools and at 
the Quincy Grammar School, where he finished. 
Early in his teens he w-ent to work in the ofiice 
of the Boston T.ist, then under the direction of 



MEN OI 



ROGRESS. 



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lieals iV (Ireene. and there developed the taste for 
learning, which led him ultimately to tit for and 
adopt a professional career. He began the study 
of law at the Harvard Law School and in the 
Boston office of Benjamin 1'. Piutler. and in 1867, 
at the age of twenty-one, was admitted to the Suf- 
folk bar. Few men, with the limited advantages 
for academic study which he had, have been ad- 
mitted so young ; and this early admission attests 
his great industry and perseverance. Subse- 
quently, in 1882, he was admitted to the United 
States Supreme Court. Skilful and a constant 
student, his progress in his profession was steady 




THOMAS RILEY. 



at the Suffolk bar, Mr. Riley assumed and con- 
ducted most of his defences. His legal skill and 
ingenuity were especially demonstrated in his 
achievement in wresting a verdict of acquittal 
from a jury before whom, in the trial of Joseph 
Fowle in 1889, the prisoner was identified as the 
operator in one of the most remarkable series of 
frauds ever perpetrated on an intelligent com- 
munity. Mr. Riley's addresses and pleas are 
pungent, witty, and eloquent ; and he possesses 
the respect of the judges before whom he appears. 
Although he has devoted himself mainly to his 
professional work, Mr. Riley has e.xerted consider- 
able influence in politics. Early in his career he 
was prominent among the younger leaders in the 
Democratic party of the State, and in 1871 pre- 
sided at the Voung Men's Democratic State Con- 
\-ention held in Springfield. He was the first presi- 
dent of the Voung Men's Democratic Club, and 
wrote the celebrated address issued by the club 
that year prior to the State convention. In 1872 
he was a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention. Of late years, however, he has 
largely w-ithdrawn from politics, dividing his time 
between his busy office and his richly stocked 
library, which embraces a large and choice collec- 
tion of standard works. He occasionally appears 
as a lecturer, and indulges his pen in essay and 
editorial writing. He is a member and has been 
president of the Charitable Irish Society, and 
a member of the Clover Club, of which he was 
one of the organizers and the first president. 
Mr. Riley was married in Charlestown some years 
ago to Miss Margaret McCormick, daughter of the 
late Lawrence McCormick, an architect of note 
in County Longford, Ireland. Their home is 
on Beacon Street, Boston. 



and substantial. From the outset he has been in 
business alone; and during his entire career he 
has never been assisted by senior counsel, manag- 
ing his suits unaided, with no patron to advise 
him, depending wholly upon his own resources. 
In the fullest sense of the phrase, he is the archi- 
tect of his fortunes, having won position in his 
profession and prosperity in his afl'airs solely 
through the exercise of his own ability and judg- 
ment. His practice has been general, in office 
work and before the courts ; and he has achieved 
notable success, especially in criminal cases. Dur- 
ing the last four years of the life of Joseph H. 
Hradlev, at that time the leading criminal lawver 



ROWLEY, Clarkxce Wurim, of ISoston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Edgartown, 
Martha's Vineyard, May 19, 1871, son of Lafay- 
ette and Eliza .\. (Worth) Rowley. His paternal 
grandparents were Russell and Harriet (Bailey) 
Rowley. The Rowley family dates back two 
hundred years in this country, and is the same 
family as that of the English poet Rowley of 
Shakspere's time. His maternal grandparents 
were John P. and Hannah K. (Mayhew) Worth ; 
great-grandparents, Jethro and Velina (Pease) 
Worth and William and Jane (Kelly) Mayhew. 
He is a lineal descendant of Governor Thomas 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Mayhew, and grand-nephew of General William I. 
Worth, of the Mexican War. His mother, before 
her marriage, taught school at Edgartown. An- 
cestors on both sides were seafaring folk. His 
uncle, Timothy Rowley, was captain of a ship at 
twenty-five, and was captured and killed by 
pirates off the West Indies in 1853. His father, 
born February 17, 1821, went to sea at the age of 
twenty-one, and followed the whale fishery. He 
was a captain at twenty-four. At thirty he was 
captain of the ship "Junior," the largest ship 
sailing from New Bedford. In 1863 his ship was 
chased bv the Confederate cruiser ".Alabama" 




CLARENCE W. ROWLEY. 

when on the homeward voyage with oil, but 
escaped. He retired from sea after the Civil 
War, and in 187 1 moved to Dedham, where he 
lived till 1889. He now resides at Edgartown. 
Mr. Rowley's mother is also living, aged sixty- 
seven. The family is a race of "si.\-footers," 
strong, healthy, and long-lived. Their average 
age has been nearly eighty. Clarence W. Row- 
ley attended the common schools at Dedham, 
entering at the age of four. .\t eleven he passed 
examination for the High School. He graduated 
therefrom on July 2, 1886, and later took a course 
at the Berlitz .School of Languages in Boston, and 
studied under private tutors. He began the study 



of law immediately after his graduation from the 
High School, entering the Boston law office of 
William B. Gale, with whom were associated at 
that time the late Charles G. Pope, some time 
mayor of Somerville, John P, Gale, and Senator 
James \\". McDonald. From them he received 
his legal instruction. He remained in this office 
until after his admission to the bar. In the win- 
ter of 1888-89 l^s went to Florida, and in the 
winter of 1891-92 he was in California with John 
P. Gale. During the seasons of 1890 and 1891 
he taught evening school in Boston. He was 
admitted to the Suffolk bar February 10, 1893, 
and subsequently to the bar of the United States 
Circuit and District Courts and the United States 
Circuit Court of Appeals. He tried cases before 
his admission to the bar, and since his admission 
has tried many important causes, civil and crimi- 
nal. Among the latter was the case of Ina Dar- 
ling for manslaughter in killing Madeline Baudet, 
March 24, 1894, convicted and sentenced to 
twenty years, — the only case where the maximum 
penalty has been imposed for manslaughter ; the 
case of Dr. C. J. Eastman, for abortion, 1893, 
sentenced to five years ; that of Dr. Mary J. Hen- 
derson, for the same crime, 1893, sentenced to 
eight years ; and many others in which he was 
counsel for the defence, and his clients were 
acquitted. He is said to have the largest practice 
of any lawyer in Boston of his age and time at 
the bar, and to have tried and won more cases 
than any lawyer of his years. At the present 
time he devotes himself especially to civil busi- 
ness, taking criminal cases only in exceptional 
instances. Mr. Rowley has never held public 
office, but has on two occasions stood as a candi- 
date of his party. In 1893 he was a candidate 
for the Common Council in Ward Eighteen, but 
was defeated at the polls; and 1894 he was Dem- 
ocratic candidate for the lower house of the Legis- 
lature in the same ward, and was again defeated, 
his party being the minority party in the ward. 
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, belong- 
ing to Webster Lodge, of the Knights of Malta, 
Boston Commandery, of the \'oung Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts, of the Mercantile 
Library Association, and of other minor clubs and 
societies. Mr. Rowley is unmarried. 



S.\MPSON. Colonel Augustus Newm.an, of 
Boston, manaj^ing director of the New England 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Phonograph Company, was born in Boston, August 
8, 1839, son of George R. and Abby J. (Lemoyne) 
Sampson. He is of Pilgrim stock, directly de- 
scended from Henry Sampson, whose name ap- 
pears on the Plymouth monument as having been 
of the " Mayflower " band. He received his edu- 
cation almost entirely at the Chauncy Hall 
School, Boston, under Thayer & Gushing, but 
finished under private tutors, one of whom was 
the late 15ishop Brooks. In early life Colonel 
Sampson gave much time to art, of which he 
was very fond, and at one time was a pupil of 
Peter Stephenson, the celebrated sculptor of the 
"Wounded Indian," with whom he made a trip 
abroad in 1856. At the close of his school life he 
entered the office of Sampson & Tappan, mer- 
chants, and remained with them until the opening 
of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the United 
States service. He had previously served some 
time in the State militia, having joined the Boston 
City Guards in March, 1856. He was elected 
fourth lieutenant of Company B, Fourth Battalion 
Rifles, March 29, 1861 ; a month later, on April 
23, was elected third lieutenant of his company, 
and on July 16 he was commissioned second lieu- 
tenant of Company B, Thirteenth Regiment Mas- 
sachusetts Volunteers. He was promoted to a first 
lieutenancy of Company A, same regiment, June 
28, 1862, which rank he held to the close of his 
service. After the war he found various employ- 
ments until the autumn of 1867, when he entered 
the employ of the Merchants' Union E.xpress 
Company and afterward the American Express 
Company. He continued in the express business 
for about four years, and then became connected 
with the house of Marshall, Son, & Co., importers 
of and dealers in bookbinders' and paper-box 
makers' machinery and supplies, where he re- 
mained for fourteen years, leaving it to accept the 
position of city clerk in Boston, to which he was 
elected in 1885. He served acceptably two years 
as city clerk, and then re-entered business in (Octo- 
ber, 1888, becoming general manager and later 
managing director of the New England Phono- 
graph Company, which position he still holds. 
Colonel Sampson served on the military staff of 
(lovernor Rice as lieutenant colonel and assistant 
inspector-general, to which he was appointed May 
6, 1876. On the 5th of July, 1882, he was ap- 
pointed by General Peach as captain and aide- 
de-camp on the staff of the Second Brigade, where 
he served until Januarj' 6, 1887, when he was ap- 



pointed by Governor .Vnies colonel and assistant 
inspector-general upon his staff. He served dur- 
ing the entire term of Governor .Vmes's adminis- 
tration. He is a past commander of the KcKvarcl 
W. Kinsley Post, No. 1 13, Grand Army of the Re- 
public ; companion of the Massachusetts Com- 
mandery. Loyal Legion ; member of the Second 
Brigade Staff Association ; fine member of the 
First Corps of Cadets; member of the Thirteenth 
Regiment Association ; of the Old Guard of Mas- 
sachusetts ; of Governor Rice's and Governor 
Ames's staff associations ; and president of the 
Threottyne Club, composed of members of the old 




A. N. SAMPSON. 

Thirteenth Regiment. He is also connected with 
numerous fraternal organizations, — the lioyal .\r- 
canum (past dictator), the Knights of Honor (past 
regent), and the .Vncient Order of United Work- 
men ; is a life member of the American Unitarian 
Association, and a member of the Boston .\rt 
Club, the I'nity Club, and the Minot J. Savage 
Club. In politics he is an independent Republi- 
can. He has never sought office or political pre- 
ferment, but has been always ready to do the 
bidding of the public. Colonel Sampson was 
married June 4, 1863, in Brookline, to Miss Georgi- 
anna T. Walker, daughter of Samuel .\. and Mary 
C. T. Walker, of Brookline. 



920 



MEN OF PK0(;KESS. 



SAWYER, E. Thomas, of Easthampton, manu- companies, and in other offices of trust. He is 
facturer, was born in Lancaster, January 4, 1829, a member of the Algonquin and Temple clubs 
son of Ezra and Eliza Houghton Sawyer. He is of Boston, and of the New York Club of New 

York. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Saw- 
yer is married, and has two children : a son, 
Frank E., now lieutenant in the United States 
navy, and attached to United States ship, " I'hila- 
delphia " ; and a daughter Marion Sawyer, resid- 
ing at home. 

SIMPSON. Frank Ernksi, of Boston, manu- 
facturer, was born in Boston, February 5, 1859, 
son of Michael H. and Elizabeth T. ( Kiiham) 
Simpson. He was educated in Boston private 
schools and at Harvard, 'graduating in the class of 
1879. The year of his graduation he became con- 
nected with the Ro.xbury Carpet Company, with 
which he has ever since been identified. He was 




E. THOMAS SAWYER. 

a descendant of Thomas Sawyer, one of the orig- 
inal settlers of Lancaster. His education was 
attained in the public schools. After leaving 
school, he learned the machinist trade of Otis 
Tufts, in Boston. From 1850 to 1857 he was a 
locomotive engineer, engaged on the Worcester & 
Nashua (Mass.), the Macon & Western Macon 
(Ga.), the Erie & Hudson River (N.Y.) railroads, 
and the next two years was employed as marine 
engineer on the Y'anderbilt line to Europe. He 
came to Easthampton in 1859, and was employed 
by the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company. 
Then he entered the employ of the Goodyear 
Elastic F'abric Company (now the Glendale Elas- 
tic Fabric Company), as superintendent and 
agent. He remained there until 1873, when he 
was chosen treasurer and general manager of the 
F-asthampton Rubber Thread Company. In 1891 
he became president and general manager of the 
latter company, which position he still holds. 
Mr. Sawyer has served as selectman of East- 
hampton for three years. He is now president 
of the Gas Company of Easthampton, director of 
the (jlendale Elastic Fabric and Nashawannuck 




FRANK E. SIMPSON. 

for several years treasurer of the corporation, and 
since 1885 has been its president. Mr. Simpson 
is unmarried. 

SMITH, Arthur Vincent, M.D., of Middle- 
borough, is a native of Maine, born in Bowdoin- 
ham, July 8, 1868, son of Henry Sutton Burgess 
and Ophelia (Ripley) Smith. He is a descendant 
of Thomas Smith, one of the earliest settlers of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



921 



Gloucester, Mass. His great-grandfatiier, Isaiah 
Siiiitii, in the fifth generation from Thomas Smith, 
born about the year 1774, died ICS45, married 




A. VINCENT SMITH. 

Marv ( iiapman, and had eleven children. His 
grandfather, Ferley 1)., born in 1805, died in 
1846, married Louisa Burgess, and had four chil- 
dren. His father, Henry S. ¥>., also had four 
children, two of whom are now living. Arthur Vin- 
cent and Orrin Ripley. Dr. Smith's father was 
also a physician. The latter was graduated from 
JJowdoin College in 1861: studied medicine while 
teaching school in Brunswick, where he was prin- 
cipal of both grammar and high schools; after 
passing his examinations, was commissioned. 
April 20, 1864, assistant surgeon of the Thirty- 
second Regiment, Maine A'olunteers : at the close 
of the war returned to Maine, attended a course 
of lectures at Berkshire .Medical College, and 
received his diploma and degree of M.D. in 1SG5 : 
established himself in Bowdoinham, and main- 
tained a large and successful practice there for 
thirteen years; in 1878, owing to ill-healtli. re- 
moved to Middleborough, Mass., where he built 
up an extensive practice, and died at the age of 
fifty-six. .Vrthur \'incent received his earh' edu- 
cation in the common schools of his natixe town 
and of Middleborough, fitted for college at the 



Katon Family School, and graduated from Bow- 
doin, where his father had graduated before him, 
in the class of 1890. The year previous his 
hrcjther ( )rrin also graduated from the same col- 
lege. Immediately after graduation he entered 
the Harvard Medical School, and graduated there- 
from in 1894. Settling in Middleborough, he was 
early engaged in a lucrative practice, and upon the 
death of his father added the latter's large busi- 
ness, which he has since successfully conducted. 
1 )r. Smith is a Freemason, member of the May- 
flower Lodge of Middleborough. In politics he is 
a Republican, and in religious faith a Congrega- 
lionalist, member of the Congregationalist church 
of Middleborough. He was married November 
15, 1893, to Miss Lillian Monroe, of Middlebor- 
ough. 

Sl'ANHOOlT), AkNdi.i) Wkknkk, of Boston, 
editor of Gcnmuiia, was born in Lehe, Province 
of Hanover, Germany, May 7, i860, son of Her- 
mann and W'ilhelmine (Ramsthal) Spanhoofd. 
His ancestors came from Holland, and were mer- 
chants and ship-owners. His father was in the 
same business, was also burgomaster of the town 
for twenty-five years, and founder and president 
of the local sa\ings-bank. He was educated in 
the public and Latin schools of his native 
place, and in college at Oldenburg and Bochum, 
graduating in 1876. Subsequently he studied 
architecture and engineering, graduating in 1879. 
For a year he was actively engaged in railroad 
work in Germany, and then again took up his 
studies, which he pursued diligently for another 
year. Next he entered the army as a " one year's 
free volunteer," and became an officer of the Re- 
serve. He emigrated to America in i88i, and in 
due course of time became a United States citi- 
zen. Speaking with ease five languages, he was 
not long in finding occupation as a teacher of 
modern languages. .After a season of \aried e.x- 
periences he became principal of a private school 
of languages in Washington, I ).('., and later in 
Brooklyn, N.\'. F'or six vears he was at .St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N.H., as instructor in 
modern languages. He founded Gcrmania. a 
monthly magazine for the study of the German 
language and literature, in 1889, first publishing 
it in Manchester, N.H. It has met with marked 
success, reaching e\ery college in the countrw and 
in many of them used in the regular course. It 
is edited entirely by himself and his brother, 



92: 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



E. Spanhoofd, on original lines. The publication 
office was established in Boston in May, 1894, 
in connection with the New England College of 




C^ 



A. W. SPANHOOFD. 

Modern and Ancient Languages, of which Mr. 
Spanhoofd is one of the directors, ^^'hile in Man- 
chester, Mr. Spanhoofd also founded and edited 
a German local paper, the -Pi'sf, and wrote for 
numerous other journals and magazines. He is 
the author of a German grammar (New York, 
Holt & Co.), and of other te.xt-books. He is an 
Independent in politics, intensely interested in 
using his pen with vigor and spirit whenever there 
is a call for it. He is an earnest and loyal Amer- 
ican. Mr. Spanhoofd is unmarried. 



SPENCELEY, Christophkk Jacksun, of Bos- 
ton, general manager of Golden Rule Alliance, is 
a native of Maine, born in Wiscasset, August 16, 
1840, son of Christopher and Catherine (Colby) 
Spenceley. His father was born in London, Eng- 
land, and lived there till 1824, when he came to 
America, settling in Boston. His mother was a 
native of Westport, Me., of English ancestry. He 
received an e.xcellent common-school education, 
attending the public schools of his native town. 
At the age of seventeen he came to Boston, and 



learned the trade of a carpenter. Si.\ years later, 
in 1863, he started out on his own account as a 
carpenter and builder, and subsequently engaged 
in the general building business, building and sell- 
ing at the South End and Roxbury. In 1880 he, 
with others, originated the Golden Rule Alliance, 
a fraternal beneficial association ; and he has acted 
as general manager and secretary since its insti- 
tution. He served for three years, 1875-76-77, 
as a member of the Boston Common Council, 
representing Ward Nineteen, and was for two 
years a trustee of the City Hospital, \\hile in 
the city government, he was the first to agitate the 
plan of an annual vacation for the firemen of Bos- 
ton and the establishment of the patrol police 
boat in the harbor. His name is especially iden- 
tified, however, with two of the notable institu- 
tions of the Tremont Temple Baptist Church, of 
which he is a leading member. He was the 
originator, and for seven years the leader, of the 
widely known " Tremont Temple Service of 
Song," a service held every Sunday afternoon in 
the Temple ; and he is the teacher of the C. T. 
Spenceley Young Men's Bible Class, with over 
four hundred members, having increased to this 
large size within ten years from a very small be- 
ginning, the number in 1885 having been but 
twelve. It is now the largest young men's Bible 
class in New- England. Out of it one hundred 
and forty-eight have united with the church, and 
of its present members ten are studying for the 
ministry. Of the " Tremont Temple Service of 
Song," which has been as notable in its develop- 
ment. Dr. George C. Lorimer, the pastor of the 
church, has given this description: " It was com- 
menced September 11, 1887, with tive hundred 
people as a congregation, and with Mr. C. J. 
Spenceley as the leader, and S18.54 as a collec- 
tion to defray expenses. The committee was ex- 
ceedingly happy in the selection of a chief. Mr. 
Spenceley has presided, directed, and managed 
from the beginning of the experiment until now. 
He is a man of the people, rugged, massive, mag- 
netic, with a commanding presence, and a voice of 
rich, persuasive quality and of fine carrying power. 
He has a large frame, large head, and a larger 
heart, and. though not a creation of the schools, 
is singularly intelligent and well informed. While 
he is essentially a man of affairs, he is endued 
with a poetic temperament and with genuine and 
profound Christian sympathies and instincts. He 
nuist impress the people with tlie fact that he is 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



923 



in earnest, that he is not on tlie platform conduct- 
ing the exercises to wile away an hour of a tedi- 
ous Sabbath day. . . . While there are vast congre- 
gations, excellent music, attractive solos, and 
magnificent congregational singing, with the great 
organ and stringed instruments, not forgetting 
cornets, clarinets, flutes, and cymbals, — I am 
not sure about the cymbals. — there is manifest 
over and above all a settled and concentrated 
purpose to bring souls to Christ. In my opinion, 
it is this, rather than the orchestra and the sing- 
ing, that accounts for the hold this service has on 
the popular heart. . . . To judge of the growth of 
this great service in public esteem, the following 
figures are helpful. There were present during 
the first four services ever held 2,300 people, and 
the total collections amounted only to $63.32. 
Contrast with these four afternoons the four Sun- 
day afternoons in February, 1892, of the present 
year. The attendance aggregated 12,000, with 
collections amounting to $315.06. Upwards of 
100,000 people have attended these meetings the 
past year, nearly 500 have requested prayer, and 
the entire sum of monev received durinjr this 




C. J. SPENCELEY. 



period has been $2,477.67, of which less than 
$1,000 has been necessary to defray actual run- 
ning expenses, the surplus going into the treasury 



of the church. Last Sunday, at 2.50 p.m., the 
doors had to be closed against hundreds who 
could not be accommodated. This, then, is a 
notable success." Mr. Spenceley was for two 
years grand councillor of the United Friends of 
Massachusetts; has been supreme councillor of 
Conclave Knights and Ladies; is a Freemason, 
member of Mt. Lebanon Lodge, and an Odd Fel- 
low, member of Washington Lodge, No. 5. He 
was married August 16, 1863, to Miss Rebecca 
J. Staples, of Truro, N.S. They have three 
children : Joseph Winfred, Fred, and Mineola 
Spenceley. 

SPRAGUE, EnwiN' Lorixc, of Boston, mer- 
chant, was born in .Vthol, July 6, 1S38, son of 
George and Nancy (Knight) Sprague. He is a 
descendant of Edward Sprague of Upway, Dorset 
County, England (whose stone " fulling " mill, 
probably erected at the beginning of the seven- 
teenth century, is still standing in Upway), and in 
direct line from William, youngest son of Edward, 
one of the first planters in Massachusetts, who ar- 
rived in Naumkeag (Salem) in 1628, with his two 
brothers, Ralph and Richard (afterward promi- 
nent in Charlestown afl^airs), and later became 
one of the first settlers of Hingham, going there 
from Charlestown with his father-in-law, Anthony 
Fames, in 1636. William Sprague was a leading 
man in the Hingham settlement, a selectman in 
1645, ^"d constable in 1661 ; and his father-in- 
law. Fames, was a deputy, frequently a town 
officer, and the first commander of the militia or 
" train band " of Hingham. Mr. Sprague is also 
collaterally descended from Richard Warren, one 
of the "Mayflower" passengers to Plymouth in 
1620, whose grand-daughter, Elizabeth liartlett, 
daughter of Robert (who came to Plymouth in 
1623) and Mary (Warren) Bartlett, married 
Anthony, William Sprague's eldest son. Mr. 
Sprague was educated in the .-\thol public and 
private schools. His business career was begun 
at the age of sixteen in 1854, when, upon the or- 
ganization of the Miller's River Bank of .Athol, he 
was made clerk of that institution. He remained 
there four years. Resigning this position in 1858, 
he came to tioston, and was for upward of two 
years book-keeper for Clement, Colburn, & Co., 
a prominent shoe manufacturing house, at the end 
of that period being obliged to resign his position 
and to take a long vacation, because of trouble 
w-ith his eyes, which, in the opinion of physicians. 



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MEN OF TROGRESS. 



threatened loss of sight. But in the latter part of 
1861 he again entered the shoe business, becom- 
ing junior partner in the shoe manufacturing firm 
of George N. Spear &: Co., and he has been con- 
tinuously engaged in this trade from that time. 
Later the firm name was changed to Spear, 
Sprague, (S: Co., subsequently it became Sprague 
& Walker, next Sprague & McKey, then E. I^. 
Sprague & Co., and has so remained for twenty 
years. Although never having held a public of- 
fice, Mr. Sprague has been instrumental in carry- 
ing through many important reforms, municipal 
and political, local and State, has advanced many 
good works, and exerted a strong influence upon 
affairs in an unostentatious way. His first nota- 
ble service in Boston was in connection with the 
Boston Young Men's Christian Cnion, of which 
he was elected a director in 1863. shortly before 
the,: temporary discontinuance of its work. In 
1S67, believing that the time was ripe for the es- 
tablishment of a society of a similar character for 
young men, but on a more liberal and attractive 
basis than any then in operation, lie secured the 
co-operation of other young men. chief among 
tliem Henry H. Sprague, George G. Crocker, and 
Samuel Wells, in an attempt to reorganize the 
Union. A plan of operation submitted by a 
committee, of which he was chairman, to a meet- 
ing of life members, was at first deemed by the 
more conservative members too chimerical, and 
the views advanced too "rose-colored" to be prac- 
ticable, and met with strong opposition : but after 
several months of agitation this plan was adopted, 
and in April of the following year the L'nion was 
launched upon its new career, under the presi- 
dency of William H. Baldwin, its present head. 
Mr. Sprague took a prominent and active part in 
the work of the society until 1876, when ill health 
necessitated a relinquishment of his labors for a 
period of about two years, the larger part of whicli 
was spent in Europe and on the southern shore of 
the Mediterranean. He resigned, inconsequence, 
the office of vice-president, to which he had been 
elected in 1868. In 1870 he was elected a trus- 
tee of the l^ermanent Fund of the L'nion, which 
position he still holds. In 1872, while actively 
engaged in Union work, his attention was called, 
through some published remarks of the Rev. F.d- 
ward E. Hale, to the evils of the tenement .system 
in Boston : and, investigating the subject with a 
view to the betterment of the system, lie con- 
cluded that the remedv lav in the establishment of 



a city Board of Health. Thereupon he went sys- 
tematically to work to bring this about. He 
brought other young men into association with 
him, and together they secured the co-operation 
of the press and the medical profession, and the 
support of the public through petitions eight to 
ten thousand strong, all working to the same end. 
The result desired was accomplished, in face of 
a determined and powerful opposition ; and the 
health matters of the city, which had been in the 
hands of the Board of Aldermen, changing from 
year to year, was placed under the control of an 
appointed board, whose term of office extended 




E. L. SPRAGUE. 

over several vears, the first board or commission 
of its kind in Boston. In 1873, after the great 
fires, when wide distrust existed in the fire de- 
partment, and especialh- in the existing system, it 
being then directed, as health matters had been, 
bv a committee of the Board of Aldermen, he was 
instrumental in bringing to hear the same forces 
and metliods which had been enlisted in tlie 
movement for the city Board of Health, to secure 
the establishment of a fire commission on a basis 
similar to that of the Health Board. Success was 
obtained in spite of an opposition even stronger 
than in the previous case. Prior to 1876 Mr. 
Sprague was acti\e and infiuential in party com- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



925 



mittees and conventions. liut after liis return from 
abroad he took com|:)arati\ely little interest in 
political matters until 1889, when he happened to 
be elected a member of the Republican committee 
of Ward Eleven. As a member of that body, his 
attention was directed to the defects of the then 
existing caucus system : and, obtaining the co- 
operation of his associates on the committee, he 
secured the trial of a new system, among the main 
features of which was the use of the Australian 
Jjallot in caucuses, and the lengthening of the 
time during which the primaries should be kept 
open. The experiment was watched with much 
interest, was warmly indorsed by the press, and 
generally met the public favor. Re-elected to the 
committee, Mr. Sprague was appointed chairman 
of the committee on rules in the Republican ward 
and city committee, and as such took the principal 
part in drafting the report, which incorporated as 
a part of the rules the system which had been 
tried experimentally in the Ward Eleven caucus. 
This report, although making a most radical 
change in the conduct of caucuses, was adopted 
with little opposition. The system which it es- 
tablished has since been known both as the " Bos- 
ton Caucus System " and the " Australian Caucus 
System " ; and, after having been voluntarily 
adopted to a considerable extent in cities of the 
Commonwealth, it was in 1894 incorporated into 
law, mandatory in the city of Boston and optional 
in other cities and towns. As president of the 
Election Laws League, and as a member of a 
special committee of that body, Mr. Sprague took 
a leading hand in framing the provisions of the 
act of 1894, which embodied the "Boston Caucus 
System,'' and in procuring its adoption. The 
notable " Corrupt Practices Act " enacted in 1892, 
or. to speak more explicitly, " An act to prevent 
currupt practices in elections, and to provide for 
publicity in election expenses," was largely the 
work of Mr. Sprague, and owes its adoption to 
measures instituted by him. It was partially to 
spread a knowledge of the provisions of the act, 
and to aid in its enforcement during the first year 
that it became operative, that the Election Laws 
League, referred to above, was formed, with Mr. 
Sprague as president. The Massachusetts act, 
the first elaborate act of its kind enacted in the 
United .States, has been followed in several other 
States, and in most of them forms the basis of 
the acts adopted. .Another important public work, 
the most far-reaching in financial effect that Mr. 



Sprague has been engaged in, was the mo\cment 
culminating in the act of 1893, compelling the 
sale at market value of increased capital stock of 
railroad and street railway corporations, and the 
several acts of 1894, applying to all quasi-public 
corporations, — railroads, street railways, gas, elec- 
tric light, telephone, telegraph, and water com- 
panies, - preventive of stock and debt watering : 
thus placing Massachusetts far ahead of any other 
State in legislation tending to place corporations 
upon a sound basis, to secure fair rates for ser- 
vice rendered the general public, and to save the 
investing public from loss resulting from irrespon- 
sible management and inflated capitalization. In 
this subject he became interested as a member of 
the New England Shoe and Leather Association, 
and when, after consolidation of the Boston street 
railways, the M'est End Railway attempted nearly 
to double its stock without additional payment of 
money, he took a leading part in defeating this 
and other similar propositions. In the following 
years Mr. Sprague and his associates continued 
their interest in the subject, meeting sometimes 
with success and sometimes with failure, the 
public in the mean time being educated to the im- 
portance of the issue. But it was not until 1893, 
after the formation of the Massachusetts State 
Board of Trade, Mr. .Sprague then being chairman 
of the committee on transportation, and as such 
also of a special committee to secure anti-stock 
watering legislation, that the support of practically 
all the boards of trade and leading newspapers of 
the State was secured, and thereby a combination 
insured sufificiently powerful to cope successfully 
with the allied opposing corporation interests, and 
to bring about the enactments of 1893-94. above 
mentioned. In 1877 and later Mr. Sprague took 
the initiative in most of the measures which re- 
sulted in the defeat of the successive attempts to 
establish free ferries at the e.xpense of the city of 
Boston. In the early davs of the ci\il service re- 
form movement he took an active part as an offi- 
cer of the Boston Civil Service Reform Associa- 
tion ; and he has of late years been a director of 
that association, and also of the Massachusetts 
Civil Service Reform League. He has fro)ii time 
to time been actively interested in \arious soci- 
eties, committees, and measures, other than those 
named, to the extent that his business connections 
would permit. Mr. Sprague is a logical writer, 
and has written much on the subjects in which he 
has been interested, — editorial articles and news- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



paper communications, reports, etc. As cliair- 
man of a committee of the New England Shoe 
and Leather Association, lie wrote a notable 
pamphlet on "The Dating Ahead System," 
which has had a wide circulation in all parts of 
the countr}'. Mr. Sprague is a member of the 
Union, St. Botolph, Art, and I'nitarian clubs of 
Boston. He was married April 18, 1881, to Miss 
Elizabeth Searle Davis, daughter of brevet Briga- 
dier-General Hasbrouck Davis, son of Governor 
John Davis, who, entering the army in 1862 as 
colonel of the Twelfth Illinois Regiment, per- 
formed brilliant and meritorious services in the 
Civil War. They have had four children : Edwin 
Loring, Jr., Rutli Davis, Henry Bancroft, and 
Richard \\'arren Sprague. 



SPRAGl'E, Henry Harris(JN, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar, and chairman of the 
Metropolitan Water Commission, was born in 
Athol, August I, 1841, son of George and Nancy 
(Knight) Sprague. [For ancestry, see Sprague, 
Edwin Loring.] He attained his early education 
in the public schools of Athol, and was fitted for 
college in the Athol High School and at the 
Chauncy Hall School in Boston. Entering Har- 
vard, he graduated in due course in the class of 
1864. .\fter graduation he went to Champlain, 
N.V., as a private tutor, and remained there until 
the summer of 1865. In the following autumn 
he entered the Harvard Law School, becoming at 
the same time a proctor of the college. A year 
later he became a law student in the office of 
Henry W. Paine and Robert D. Smith in Boston, 
and on February 25, 1868, was admitted to the 
Suffolk bar. Thereupon he began the practice 
of his profession in Boston, where he has been es- 
tablished since. His first public service was in 
the Boston Common Council, to which he was 
elected in 1873. He was a member of that body 
for the municipal years of 1874, 1875, and 1876. 
acting more especially on the committees on ordi- 
nances, claims, and revision of the city charter: 
also serving during his second and third terms 
as one of the trustees of the City Hospital, on 
the part of the City Council. In 1878 he was 
elected one of the trustees at large of the hospital, 
and continued as such till the establishment of 
the board as a corporation in 1880, when he was 
appointed a trustee by the mayor, in whom the 
power of appointment was then vested. He has 



held this position since by successive reappoint- 
ments, and since 1878 has also acted as secre- 
tary of the board. In 1880 he was elected 
to the lower house of the Legislature, and twice 
returned, serving through the sessions of 1881, 
1882, and 1S83. In that of 1881 he was a mem- 
ber (if the committees on the revision of the stat- 
utes, on probate and chancery, and on library : 
in 1882, chairman of the committee on bills in 
the third reading ; and during that and the sub- 
sequent year also a member of the committee on 
the judiciary. In 1884 he was a member of 
the executive committee of the Municipal Reform 




HENRY H. SPRAGUE. 

Association, and was senior counsel of the asso- 
ciation for the purpose of securing the passage 
by the Legislature of 1885 of the important 
amendments to the charter of the city of Boston 
by which the e.vecutive authority of the city was 
vested in the mayor. In 1888, 1889, 1890, and 
1891 he was a member of the State Senate, 
elected for the F'ifth Suffolk 1 )istrict. During his 
first term as a senator he served on the commit- 
tees on the judiciary, on rules, on cities, and on 
election laws; and, as chairman of the latter, he 
drafted and introduced the new ballot act, the 
passage of which accomplished ballot reform. 
The next year he was made president of the Sen- 



MEN OF PROGRKSS. 



927 



ate, and was re-elected presiding otticer in 1891, 
when the two parties were eciually divided, by an 
increased vote. In 1892 he was appointed chair- 
man of a commission to revise the election laws 
of the Commonwealth. In 1895 he was ap- 
pointed a member of the Metropolitan Water 
Commission, and made chairman of the board. 
He was one of the promoters of the Boston 
Civil Service Reform Association (formed in 
1880), which was the first or among the earliest 
organizations effected in the county to advocate 
that reform ; and he served as one of the ex- 
ecutive committee until the year 1889, when he 
was elected president of the association, which 
office he still holds. He has been a member 
of the board of government of the Boston 
\oung iMen's Christian Union since 1867, when, 
in connection with a few others, he brought about 
a return to new and active operations of this in- 
stitution, acting as secretary from 1867 to 1879, 
and since 1879 as vice-president, a trustee of the 
Boston Lying-in Hospital since 1S79 and of late 
years one of the executive committee of the 
board: and since 1883 secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts Charitable Fire Society. He is a mem- 
ber also of the general committee of the Citizens' 
Association of Boston, of the Historic Genealogi- 
cal Society, of the Bostonian Society, of the Bos- 
ton Bar Association, and of the Harvard Law 
School Association ; member of the Union, St. 
Botolph (for four years treasurer). Tavern (one of 
the original members and one of the trustees -to 
hold its real estate ), and the Unitarian clubs ; is 
one of the trustees appointed to hold the build- 
ings of the Woman's Educational and Industrial 
Union on Boylston Street, and acting as treasurer 
of the trustees ; and is a member of the Board of 
Overseers of Harvard College, elected in 1890 for 
the term of si.x years. He has publisiied in 
pamphlet form treatises entitled "Women under 
the Law of Massachusetts, their Rights, Privi- 
leges, and Disabilities" (brought out in 1S84), 
and "City Government in Boston, its Rise and 
Development" (1890): and he compiled for its 
one hundredth anniversary " .\ Brief Historv of 
the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society." Mr. 
Sprague is unmarried. 



STAN\\'()OD, Edward, of Brookline, manag- 
ing editor of the Youth's Companion, is a native of 
Maine, born in Augusta, September 16, 1841, son 



of Daniel Caldwell and Mary .\ugusta (Webster) 
Stanwood. His ancestry is pure Yankee, having 
no direct or collateral ancestor who came to Xew^ 
England later than 1675. He was educated in 
the common schools and High School of Augusta, 
and at 15owdoin College, where he graduated in 
the class of 1861. He began journalistic work at 
the age of si.xteen, in his freshman year, as re- 
porter of the proceedings of the Maine Legisla- 
ture for the Augusta Age : and that work he con- 
tinued winters until his graduation from college. 
In 1862 he entered the office of the Kennebec 
Journal ■A.'i assistant editor. After fi\e years" ser- 




EDWARD STANWOOD. 

vice in that office, acting also as the Augusta cor- 
respondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser, he 
became an assistant on the editorial staff of the 
latter journal. This position he held for fifteen 
years, the greater part of that time as a regular 
editorial writer, second in rank to the chief, 
the late Delano A. Goddard : and then upon the 
death of Mr. (loddard in January, 1882, he was 
made editor-in-chief. Retiring from the Advertiser 
in November, 1883, the following January he 
joined the editorial staff of the Youth's Companion 
as an assistant, and a few years later was ad- 
vanced to the managing editorship, the position 
he still fills. He has been a frequent contributor 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to many magazines and other periodicals : has 
lectured occasionally, including a course in the 
Lowell Institute on " Early Party Contests," pas- 
sages in our political history from Washington to 
Jackson ; and has published '■ A History of Presi- 
dential Elections" (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & 
Co.), which has passed through several editions. 
As special agent of the Eleventh Census, he col- 
lected the statistics of and prepared a report upon 
the Cotton Manufactures of the Ignited States. 
He is a member of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society and of the American Statis- 
tical Society, a trustee of the Public Library of 
Brookline, and secretary of the Arkwright Club ; 
and he has been a member of the St. Hotolph 
Club. Mr. Stanwood was married November i6, 
1870, to Miss Eliza Ma.xwell Topliff. They ha\'e 
two children : Ethel and Edward Stanwood. Jr. 



STEDMAN, Ge()r<;e, M.D., of Boston, was 
born in Boston, January 27, 1850, son of Daniel 
Baxter and Miriam (White) Stedman. His ances- 
tors were originallv from Scotland, as indicated b\' 




ing then the Harvard Medical School, he was 
graduated there in 1875, with his degree of M.L)., 
after having passed one vear in the Massa- 
chusetts General Hospital, as surgical interne, 
hi 1876 he was elected superintendent of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 
Boston, which position he held till the summer of 
1895, when he resigned. In 1880, on the 13th of 
April, he was appointed by Governor Long asso- 
ciate medical examiner for Suffolk County, in 
1887 was reappointed by Governor Ames, and 
in 1894 again reajjpointed bv (jovernor (ireeu- 
halge, each term being for a period of seven 
years. Prior to the adoption of the medical 
examiner system he held the office of coroner. 
He was hospital steward of the Boston Indepen- 
dent Corps of Cadets for several years, and subse- 
quently assistant surgeon qf the P'ourth Battalion 
until the reorganization of the militia, when the 
Eourth Battalion was made part of the t'lrst 
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Dr. 
.Stedman is a member of the Massachusetts Medi- 
cal Society, of the Massachusetts Society for 
Medical Observation, of the Massachusetts Med- 
ico-Legal Society, the Harvard Medical Associa- 
tion, and the Harvard Medical Library .\ssocia- 
tion. He has been much interested in Masonry, 
and is now member of the Boston Commandery of 
Knights Templar, and of the Massachusetts Con- 
sistory, thirty-second degree, and member of the 
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. He was among 
the early members of the .\lgonquin Club: and he 
belongs also to the Papyrus, the Cniversit)', and 
the .\thletic clubs, and to the Bostonian Societv. 



STILLINGS, Ephraim Baii.ey, of Boston, 
printer, is a native of New Hampshire, born in 
the town of .Somerswortli, Mav 18, 1846. son of 
Rook and Mary (Hodsdon) Stillings. He is of 
rugged New England ancestry, hard-working, fru- 
gal farmers of the Granite State. He was the 
youngest of a large familv reared on the farm, 
attaining his education in the public schools of 
the town. At the outbreak of the Civil War he 
was a lad of fifteen, attending the High School ; 
and he at once enlisted, but was rejected because 
of vouth. Repeated attempts to join the army 
following with the same results, and, becoming 
the thistle in the coat-of-arms. He was educated unsettled in consequence, he was soon sent by 
principally in the Boston schools, and at Harvard his father to Holyoke, Mass., to learn the ma- 
College, graduating in the class of 1S71. Enter- chinist trade with his brother Rufus. who was 



GEORGE STEDMAN. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



929 



tiicn ill that placL-. He applied himself ilili^fentlv 
to Ills new work, hut the war fever was still on 
him ; and finally he succeeded in enlisting and 
successfully passing there as a member of Com- 
pany B, Forty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts 
\'olunteers, for nine months' service. Mustered 
out at the end of his term, he at once re-enlisted 
for three years, or till the close of the war, in 
Company A, Second Massachusetts Heavy .Artil- 
lery. He was mustered out the second time in 
October, 1865, at the age of nineteen, having 
served thirty-eight months. To this long service 
Mr. Stillings always refers modestly, with the sim- 
ple remark that he was ready for any and every 
duty to which he was called. He saw all kinds 
of service, and was in the battles of Kinston, 
Whitehall, and Goldsborough, North Carolina, 
ll^pon his return from the army he came to Bos- 
ton, and looked for work. He then had no home, 
the New Hampshire farm having been disposed 
of and the family scattered, and no friends in the 
city : and he had no knowledge as to what he 
was best adapted for. After a varied and hard 
e.xperience — finding work at first with difficulty, 
his return from the war being late, after most of 
the good places had been secured by the other 
soldiers who had come before him, — he entered 
the service of Cutter, Tower, & Co., stationers, as 
cashier. Here, learning thoroughly the sta- 
tioner's trade, a few years later he engaged in 
the business on his own account, establishing 
himself at the corner of Summer and High 
Streets. He was developing a good trade, with 
steadily improving prospects, when the great fire 
of 1872 came, and he was burned out, suffering a 
total loss. After that he continued in a small 
way till 1884, when he bought out a small print- 
ing-office at No. 58 Federal Street. In October, 
1 886. he moved to his present location. No. 55 
Sudbury .Street, corner of ISowker .Street. Here 
he has met with unusual success in view of the 
sharp competition in his line of business, and has 
won a reputation for good work and fair dealing. 
His establishment now occupies four entire floors, 
and employs an average of seventy-five persons; 
and it is said by competent judges to be one of 
the most orderly and best conducted offices of its 
kind in the country. Mr. Stillings is prominent 
in the Masonic order, being a member of W'ill- 
iam I'arkman Lodge, of \\'oburn Roval Arch 
(.'hapter ; of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Bos- 
ton ; of Giles Vates Council, Mt. Olivet Chapter 



of Rose Crtjix. Massachusetts Consistory, St. 
Bernard Commandery, Knights Templar, and 
.Vlejipo Temple. He is also a member of F,. W. 




E. B. STILLINGS. 

Kinsley Post, No. 113, (Jrand Army of the Re- 
public. Mr. Stillings has a son, Charles A. Still- 
ings, now twenty-four years of age, associated with 
him in business ; and he cheerfully accords much 
of his |3rosperity to the son's earnest and loval 
efforts. 

T.AVLOR, R.ANso.M C, of Worcester, the 
largest owner of business real estate in that city, 
is a native of New Hampshire, born in Win- 
chester, February 24, 1829, son of Charles and 
Susan (Butler) Taylor. His parents were both of 
old Winchester families. When he was four years 
old, his father moved to a farm in Northbridge, 
Mass. ; and here his boyhood was passed. He 
attended the village school during the winter sea- 
sons, and in summers worked on the farm and 
assisted his father in the meat business, in which 
the latter was also engaged. At twelve he was 
dri\ing his father's meat-cart, delivering meat 
through the neighboring villages. At seventeen 
he came to Worcester, where he began the manu- 
facture of neat's-foot oil, glue stock, and tallow, 
and dressing tripe for the market on his father's 



930 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



account; and at eighteen, buying his time of his 
father for three hundred dollars, he engaged in 
the same business on his own account, establish- 




of its principal business streets. Besides his real 
estate interests he has large holdings in the First 
National Fire Insurance Company, of which he 
was one of the original stockholders, and has 
been a director since its incorporation. He was 
also one of the projectors of the First National 
Bank, and on its board of directors for twenty 
years. He is a public-spirited citizen and active 
in local affairs; but, with the exception of two 
years as a member of the Board of Aldermen, 
which position he reluctantly accepted, he has 
not held public office. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, positive in his political views. Mr. Taylor 
was first married in 1850 to Miss Mary Louise 
Chase, daughter of Captain Abraham Chase, of 
Sutton. She died in 1878. He married second, 
in 1880, Miss Mary S. Stevens, daughter of Mer- 
rick R. Stevens, a Hour merchant of Newton. 
He had four children by his first wife, two sons 
and two daughters, and by his second wife one 
son and one daughter. The two oldest sons are 
now associated with him in business. 



RANSOM C. TAYLOR. 

ing himself in the town of Sutton. Here he re- 
mained for four years, and then removed his busi- 
ness to Worcester, where he has since resided. 
Within a comparatively short time his business 
establishment became the largest of the kind in 
this part of the country. Beginning with a force 
of but two men and two teams, his trade so in- 
creased that before many years he was employing 
a hundred )nen and as many horses ; and he had 
branches in New York City, Albany, Troy, New 
Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Milford, Taunton, 
Randolph, and other places. He early made in- 
vestments in Worcester real estate ; and, when in 
1871 he disposed of his extensive works to de- 
vote his attention wholly to real estate, he was 
already a large holder. He is now' owner of the 
granite Taylor Block on Main Street, the First 
National Bank Building, the Chase Building, the 
Forrest Block, the Brunswick and Sherwood 
Houses, Opera houses on First and Pleasant 

Streets, and other valuable properties. He built TEWKSBURV, Robert Haskell, of I.aw- 

the first five-story, the first six-story, and the first rence, cashier of the Essex Company, is a native 
seven-story blocks in the city; and he has done of New Hampshire, born in Hopkinton, .Vpril 11, 




ROBERT H. TEWKSBURY. 



much to improve the architectural appearance 



son of Joseph and F.liza (Butler) Tewks- 



MKN OF I'KOGKKSS. 



931 



bury. He is a ilcsct-ndant <if the Tewksburvs and 
Butlers, early families in Manchester and Essex, 
Essex County, Mass. He was educated in the 
common schools. He has been connected with 
the Esse.v Company for a long period, and has 
held the position of book-keeper and cashier of 
the corporation since 1875. He has also held 
several leading municipal positions. In 1863 and 
1S64 he was assessor of ta.xes ; for ten years, 
from 1864 to 1874, he was city treasurer and 
collector of taxes: in 1875 mayor of the city, and 
from 1875 to 1880 a member of the Water ISoard. 
In politics he has always been a stanch Republi- 
can! He has been a member and secretary of the 
Old Residents' Association since its organization, 
and for many years an Odd I'ellow, connected with 
Monadnock Lodge. Mr. Tewksbury married first, 
November 18, 1859, Miss Angelia C. Hawthorne, 
by whom he had two children: Willis H. and 
Robert L. 'I'ewksbury. He married second, in 
June, 1894, Miss Amelia Eurkinshaw. 



importing directly from leading F-uropean houses, 
it is engaged in the manufacture of Dongola goat 
curing skin received direct from Calcutta. Mr. 




\'iXAL, Charles Albfckt, of Boston, mer- 
chant and manufacturer, was born in Cambridge, 
January 2, 1S49, ^^'^ °'^ Albert and Eliza A. 
(Melius) Vinal. He was educated ui the Cam- 
bridge public schools, graduating from the High 
School, and remaining in the latter, working out 
some mathematical problems, until his sixteenth 
year. His business career was begun as a clerk 
in the wholesale house of Colonel Albert A. Pope, 
who was at that time engaged in the leather trade, 
making a specialty of glove calf, patent leather, 
and shoe manufacturers" goods ; and upon his 
twenty-first birthday he was admitted a partner in 
the business, the firm name then being changed 
to Albert A. Pope & Co. He remained with 
Colonel Pope for about ten years, when, the latter 
retiring, he formed a partnership with Colonel 
Pope's brother, Arthur W. "Pope, which continued 
until 1883, at first under the old firm name, 
but later under the style of Vinal, Pope, &: Co. 
From 1883 to 1889 he conducted the large and 
steadily growing business alone, and then, admit- 
ting to partnership ^^'alter H. Holbrook and 
Samuel W. Bates, organized the present firm of 
Charles A. Vinal & Co. Under his conduct the 
business expanded into a general shoe manufact- 
urers' goods and leather business, and the house 
is now one of the most extensive in its line. Be- 
sides dealing largelv in manufacturers' goods. 



C. A. VINAL- 

^'inal has travelled extensivelv in England and on 
the continent in connection with his house, and 
has established close business relations with 
European manufacturers. In politics he is an In- 
dependent, supporting what he deems to be the 
best in policies and candidates, with no personal 
aspirations for public life. Mr. Vinal was married 
in October, 1880, to Miss Helen B. Furber, of 
Dover, N.H. Their children are: Ethel. Charles 
A., Jr., and Albert Vinal. 



WATTS, Charles ArGU,sTUs, of Boston, en- 
graver, is a native of Maine, born in Ellsworth, 
March 9, 1854, son of Francis M. and Susan 1!. 
(Moore) Watts. He is of English ancestry on the 
paternal side, and of Scotch on the maternal side. 
His paternal great-grandfather and grandfather 
were owners and masters of brigs in the West 
India trade. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native city. His training for active 
life began at an early age as assistant to his 
father, who was a mechanic of wide experience 
and ability. After acquiring a fair knowledge of 
the mechanical arts, he started out to seek his 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fortune in Massachusetts. He came to Boston in Jr., a fellow-salesman, he established the firm of 
1884, and engaged as foreman in a photo-engrav- West &: Jenney, and engaged in the same business 
ing house. He continued in that position for on Broad .Street, corner of Franklin Street. By 

able management, and having a wide acquaintance 
in the trade, the firm rapidly developed its busi- 
ness, and shortly controlled the largest importing 
trade of any drug house in New England. It has 
secured supremacy especiallv in the refining of 
camphor, having now^ two camphor refineries, a 
factory for subliming camphor, a pharmaceutical 
laboratory, and a large warehouse : and it is a 
heavy holder of stock in the Dana Sarsaparilla 
(. 'ompanv, one of the largest manufacturers of pro- 
prietary medicines in the United States. Mr. 
West is the treasurer of this company, and with 
Mr. Jenney one of its directors. He has been 
president of the Boston Druggists' Association : 
is a member of the .American Pharmaceutical 
Association: and since 1890 has been a trustee 
of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacv. In 
Somerville, where he resides, he is a trustee of the 
Public Library and an ex-president of the Central 
Club. He is a member also of the .-Ugonquin, 
E.xchange, and Tavlor Clubs of Boston, and of the 




C. A. WATTS. 

seven years, and then in 1891 entered the same 
business on his own account, established on State 
Street under the firm name of the Boston Illus- 
trating Company. .\ short time later this business 
was consolidated with that of Samuel E. Blanch- 
ard, and incorporated under the Massachusetts 
laws as the Blanchard \- Watts Engraving Com- 
pany. Mr. Watts is a member of the Masonic 
order and of the Ancient Order of I'nited Work- 
men. He was married December 23. 1880, at 
West Newton to Miss Miriam DoUiver, formerly 
of Mt. Desert, Me. Thev have no children. 



WEST, Charles Alfred, of Boston, was born 
in Boston, April 4, 1850, son of Samuel and Lydia 
B. West. He was educated in the Boston gram- 
mar and English High schools. He began work 
as an office boy in the wholesale drug house of 
Reed, Cutler, & Co., subsequently Cutler Brothers 
& Co., Boston, and here rose rapidly to responsi- 
ble positions, becoming thoroughly acquainted 
with every detail of the business. He remained 
with this house for twenty years. In January, 
1887, forming a partnership with Bernard Jenney, 




CHAS. A. WEST. 



.\ncient and Honorable .\rtillery Company. He 
was married July i, 1873, to Miss Anna D. I'iper, 
of Concord, N.H. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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WHITE, Fkancis Evekf.ti-, of Brockton, shoe 
nianiifactiirer, was born in South Weymouth, 
August 8, 1837, son of Captain George W. and 



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F. E. WHITE. 

Betsy (Burrell) White. On the paternal side he 
is a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first 
white child born on New England soil, in I'lyni- 
outh, December 20, 1620, and on his mother's 
side is from the earliest settlers in Massachusetts. 
He was educated in the common schools and in 
the first high school established in Weymouth, 
which he attended for a vear. From the age of 
si.xteen to twent\--one he was employed in a siiip- 
ping and importing house in lioston, and then for 
two or more vears was in similar business in New 
\'orl< City. In -September of the first year of the 
Civil War he enlisted as a private in Companv C. 
Fourth New York Cavalry, and served in the Armv 
of the Potomac continuously until ( )ctober, 1S64, 
promoted through the different grades to the first 
lieutenancy. ,\t the close of the war he came to 
North Bridgewater (now Brockton 1, and engaged in 
manufacturing, first as salesman and then partner 
with Daniel S. Howard & Co., one of the most suc- 
cessful concerns in the boot and shoe trade. At 
the dissolution of that firm in 1S71) lie began manu- 
facturing boots and shoes alone, and has so con- 
tinued to this time. He is also a director of the 



lirockton National Bank and of the Boylston Na- 
tional Bank of lioston. ^fr. White has served two 
terms in the Board of .Vldermen of Brockton 
(1887-88), and in 1889 as commissioner of the 
sinking fund. In politics he has been a steadfast 
Republican from the casting of his first vote in the 
second election of Lincoln, He is a member of 
the Masonic order, of the Grand .\rmy of the Re- 
public, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
of the Brockton Commercial Club, and of the .Al- 
gonquin and Art clubs of Boston. He was mar- 
ried -May 2, 1866, to Miss .Adaline F. Hauthaway, 
only daughter of Charles L. Hauthaway, of Brock- 
ton. They have three children : Walter Hautha- 
way, Francis Burrell, and Henry Preston White. 



\\ILI,1AMS. Gk()R(;e Freh, of Dedham and 
Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in 
Dedham, July 10, 1852, son of George W. and 
Henrietta (Rice) Williams. He is on the paternal 
side of German and French ancestry, and on the 
maternal side of New England from the early set- 
tlement. His early education was acquired at pri- 
\ate schools, and he was fitted for college at the 
Dedham High School. He entered Dartmouth in 
1868 ; but at the end of his freshman year went to 
Germany, where he studied in Hamburg for si.x 
months, and spent the year following at the 
Heidelberg and Berlin uni\-ersities. Returning 
early in 187 1, he made up the studies of the 
sophomore and junior years at Dartmouth in the 
spring and summer months, and, re-entering with 
his class, was duly graduated in 1871. Through 
the winter of 1872 and 1873 he taught school in 
the Cape Cod town of \\'est Brewster, and during 
the spring and summer of 1873 he was engaged in 
newspaper work as a reporter for the Boston GMv. 
Then he began his law studies at the Boston Uni- 
\ersity Law School, and. graduating in 187s, was 
in October following admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He has since practised in Boston, doing a general 
law business, in later years engaged in a number 
of notable causes. Mr. Williams became early in- 
terested in political affairs, and, starting as a Re- 
publican, began an active participation in party 
politics a few years after his admission to the bar. 
In 1883 he organized the Norfolk Republican 
Club, a political Saturday dining club, composed of 
Norfolk County men, and was its first secretary. 
I'pon the nomination of James G. Blaine for the 
Presidency in 1884 he joined the Independent 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



movement, and, parting company with his Repub- 
lican associates, gave his hearty support to Grover 
Cleveland. He was a member of the Indepen- 
dent Convention held in New York soon after the 
nomination, and served on the committee on reso- 
lutions : and upon the organization of the Mas- 
sachusetts Committee of One Hundred he was 
made a member of its executive committee, in 
whose hands was placed the conduct of the " Mug- 
wump " campaign in this State. Subsequently, in 
August, he was made chairman of that committee, 
and as such took a leading part in that memora- 
ble canvass. In 1890 he was a member of the 




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GEO. FRED WILLIAMS. 



important debates. During his term he served on 
the committees on coinage, weights and measures, 
and led the debate upon the Democratic side on 
the Bland free coinage bill. In 1892 he was re- 
nominated for a second term, and again made an 
aggressive canvass, taking also a leading part as 
a campaign speaker in the State at large for the 
I >emocratic State and national ticket ; but, owing 
in part to the re-formation of his district in the 
redistricting of the State by the Legislature of 
1892, he was defeated. In the State campaign 
next following he bore his part as a pulilic speaker, 
presenting the issues, State and national, of his 
party, with frankness and candor, and fearlessly 
attacking the platforms and policies of iiis oppo- 
nents ; and in 1895 he was made the Democratic 
candidate for governor, being nominated by ac- 
clamation at the State convention in October. 
Mr. Williams has delixered a number of formal 
addresses, notably the Fourth of July oration in 
:8S6 by in\-itation of the ISoston city government, 
and an address before the faculty and students of 
Dartmouth College on the centennial anniversary 
of the inauguration of Washington in 1889. Soon 
after his admission to the bar he published a vol- 
ume of " Massachusetts Citations " ( Boston : Little, 
Brown, tV Co. ), and subsequentlv edited volumes 
ten to seventeen of the "Annual United States 
Digest." He is a member of the Massachu- 
setts Reform Club, for several years serving on 
its executive committee, and has served as sec- 
retary and member of the executive committee 
of the Dartmouth Alumni .\ssociation of Boston. 
In Dedham, where he still resides, he was for 
three years a member of the school committee, 
and has participated in other ways in town affairs. 
Mr. \A'illiams is unmarried. 



lower house of the Legislature, and in that body 
was among the leaders on the Democratic side. 
In 1890 he was nominated for Congress by Dem- 
ocrats and Independents in the Ninth Congres- 
sional District, and after a spirited canvass, in 
which the then foremost national issues were fear- 
lessly and aggressively discussed by him in fre- 
quent speeches on the stump, was elected over the 
Hon. John W. Chandler, the Republican candi- 
date, renominated. He served in the Fift_v-second 
Congress, 1891-93, recognized as among the ablest 
of the younger members, capable and thorough in 
committee work, and commanding the attention of 
the House in frequent participation in its most 



WILLIAMS, Henry Dudley, of Boston, of 
the art firm of Williams & Everett, was born in 
Roxburv (now of Boston), June 26, 1833, son of 
Dudley and Isabel (Everett) Williams. He is a 
descendant, in the sixth generation, of Robert 
Williams, from Norwich, England, who settled in 
Roxbury in 1638. In the annals of old Roxbury 
the name of Williams figures largely, and many 
of the name still cling to its soil. Mr. Williams 
received his early education in the Roxbury 
public schools, and was a pupil of the old Wash- 
ington School in the time of Masters Hyde and 
Reed. He was fitted for college at Lawrence 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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Acadciiu, (Irolim, aiul graduated finni lliowu 
I'liiversity in 1855, receiving the degree of A.M. 
.\fter leaving college, he entered his father'.s art 
store in Itoston, one of the oldest in the city, 
then as now conducted under the name of 
Williams & Elverett, with which he has since been 
identified. He was early admitted to partnership, 
and for several years the firm consisted only of 
father and son ; and since the death of the senior, 
in 1886. Mr. Williams has been the sole member 
of the firm. 'I'he firm name, how^ever, first 
adopted in 1853, and under which the house has 
long been well known for its honorable connec- 
tion with the growth and development of art in 
lioston, has been retained throughout unchanged. 
.Since the Doggett Brothers and S. .S. Williams 
liegan business in 18 io there have been but five 
changes in organization, and five in location. 
The present store on Boylston Street, opposite 
the Public Garden, with its suite of picture gal- 
leries, has been occupied since 1885. It was built 
for the firm, the interior design in the English 
Renaissance by the architect George A. C'lough, 
and the decorations by the artist Frank Hill 
Smith. The firm has introduced the work of 
manv of the most famous of American artists, — 
Hunt, Rimmer, Healey, Fuller, Hinckley, Inness, 
and others in the notable list ; and it was the 
first to bring French paintings into the ]5oston 
market. It was among the earliest, also, to es- 
tablish direct relations with leading European 
artists, dealers, and e.xperts. It has always made 
a specialty of picture and mirror frames, and for 
this work has a fully organized factory, employ- 
ing from thirty to fifty workmen. In his business 
e.xperiences Mr. Williams has been a diligent stu- 
dent of art, especially of painting. By travel and 
bv stud\' in European galleries he has made iiim- 
self familiar with the works of the masters of all 
schools. By frequent visits to studios and exhi- 
l)itions he has become thoroughlv acquainted with 
modern art in all its fancies and phases, and has 
kept in touch with all its latest develo|3ment ; and 
he is recognized at home and abroad as a most 
intelligent expert. It has always been a princi- 
ple of the house to sell only genuine pictures, 
and its guarantee is known as thoroughly trust- 
worthy, — an important point in these days of 
c|uestionabie art and bogus masters, old and mod- 
ern. Dining all his business career Mr. Williams 
has been much interested in education. Elected 
soon after his graduation to a membership on the 



Board of Trustees of Tufts (.'ollege, he was early 
placed u])on the executive committee, and has 
ever since been an active and progressive mem- 
ber of that board, earnestly interested in all the 
changes of organizations and systems which 
within the past twenty years have lifted this young 
institution from obscurity to a prominent place 
among the colleges of New England. For a 
while, also, he served as a trustee of Dean Acad- 
emy, Franklin, but finally resigned that office, 
that he might give more time to the college. Mr. 
Williams has given much time and thought to 
various religious and philanthropic matters, and 




H. D. WILLIAMS. 

has held many positions of trust and responsi- 
bility in that branch of the Christian church with 
which he has been connected. In politics he has 
always been a Republican ; but he has not been 
prominent in political affairs, preferring private 
life to public oflice. He is a member of the Art 
and I'niversitv clubs of Boston. 



WILLIAMS. Most Rev. Joh.m J., of Boston, 
fourth Roman Catholic bishop and first arch- 
bishop of lioston, was born in Boston, .April 27, 
1S22, son of Michael and Ann 1 Egan ) Williams. 
His education was begun in a kindergarten school, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



and he was fitted for college by Father James 
Fitton. He entered St. Sulpice College, Mon- 
treal, when a lad of eleven, and studied there 
about eight years. Then he went to Paris, and 
while there studied in the Seminary of St. Sulpice. 
At the completion of these studies, in 1845, and 
ordained in Paris, he returned to Boston. Sta- 
tioned at the old cathedral, then on Franklin 
Street where the Cathedral Building now stands, 
he officiated there until 1852, when he was placed 
in charge of the chapel then on Beach Street, 
from which has grown the present large church 
of .St. lames on Harrison Avenue. He served 




JOHN J. WILLIAMS. 

in the latter office for three years, during which 
period the congregation so increased in numbers 
and importance that the chapel was early out- 
grown, and plans were made for the building of 
a church, the first St. James, on the corner of 
Albany and Harvard streets, the site of which is 
now covered by the Boston & Albany Railroad. 
In January, 1855, he was appointed rector of the 
cathedral, and remained in that station until 1857, 
when he was made rector of the new^ Church of 
St. James, which he had been instrumental in 
founding. The same year he was made vicar- 
general, and during the last years of the episco- 
pate of Bishop Fitzpatrick, when the latter was 



abroad in search of health, he administered the 
diocese. On January 19, 1866, he was appointed 
coadjutor of the bishop with the right of succes- 
sion, being named Bishop of Tripoli in furlibns in- 
pdcUu7n. Bishop Fitzpatrick dying the following 
February, he was formally consecrated bishop of 
Boston on the iith of March. Soon after his 
elevation he assisted at the Plenary Council at 
Baltimore, and in 1869-70 he was at the (Ecu- 
menical Council held in Rome. In 1875, when 
Boston was raised to a metropolitan see, he was 
made the first archbishop, appointed on the 12th 
of February. The ceremony of conferring the pal- 
lium of an archbishop upon him was performed 
on the 2d of May in the then unfinished new 
cathedral at the junction of Washington and 
Union Park streets, which was temporarily fitted 
for the occasion. This brilliant and solemn ser- 
vice was in the presence of all the bishops of the 
ecclesiastical province of New York, the clergy of 
Boston and neighboring" dioceses, and a great 
congregation of si.x thousand persons. Bishop 
McNeirney, of Albany, celebrated the high mass. 
Bishop Goesbriand, of Burlington, preached the 
sermon, and the pallium, which had been brought 
from Rome by an ablegate of the pope, Mons. 
Cwsar Roncetti, accompanied by his secretary. 
Dr. Ubalbi, and by a nobleman of the Papal 
(iuard, Count Marefoschi, was conferred by the 
late Cardinal McCloskey, of New \'ork. While 
zealously performing all the duties of his various 
offices. Archbishop Williams has done much for 
the advancement of numerous good works in Bos- 
ton. He was instrumental in the establishment 
of the House of the Good Shepherd, the Redemp- 
torist and Oblate Fathers, the Little Sisters of the 
Poor, and the Infant Asylum. He also reorgan- 
ized and enlarged the Home for Destitute Chil- 
dren, founded the Catholic Union, led the move- 
ment for the building of the present great cathe- 
dral, which was begun April 27, 1866, on his 
forty- fourth birthday, and dedicated December 8, 
1875, the year of his elevation to the archbishop- 
ric, and was one of the founders of the St. John 
Diocesan Seminary in the Brighton District of 
Boston, conducted by the Sulpician Fathers for 
fitting candidates for the priesthood. 



WINSLOW, JosEi'H WiNSLow, M.D., of East- 
hampton, is a native of Vermont, born in the town 
of Barnard, March 8, 1820, son of George Re.\ 



MEN OK I'ROGRKSS. 



937 



anil Lucy (Clarkj Winslow. He is a descL-nclaiit 
of Edward Winslow of Droitwich, England ; and 
his first American ancestor was Kenelm \A'inslow, 



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WINHJATK. (_'haki.i> Kdi^ak Lewis, of Boston, 
managing editor of the Boston Journal, is a native 
of New Hampshire, born in Exeter, February 14, 
1861, son of S. Dana and Oriana (Mitchell) Win- 
gate. His great-grandfather, the Hon. Paine 
Wingate, was a New Hampshire statesman, repre- 
senting that province in the Colonial Confedera- 
tion, and serving as senator in the first con- 
gresses of the United States. He was educated 
in rhillips (Exeter) Academy, graduating there- 
from in 1879, and at Harvard College, where he 
graduated in the class of 1883. It was his inten- 
tion, as soon as his studies were completed, to 
enter newspaper life ; and, when a student in the 
academy, he helped his brother during the summer 
vacations in editing the Exeter Gazette. At Har- 
vard he helped found the Harvard Echo (later 
Crimson), the first daily paper ever started at the 
college, and remained its news editor until he 
graduated. He also acted during his senior year 
as Harvard reporter of the Boston Jonrnal. After 
graduating, he was at once engaged on the Boston 
Journal staff. Among other journalistic duties 
he " covered " the World's Fair at New Orleans 



J. W, WINSLOW. 



brother of Governor Edward Winslow, who landed 
in Plymouth in 1621. After receiving a thorough 
preliminarv education, he began the study of med- 
icine with the late Professor Oilman Kimball of 
Lowell, Mass., and for whom he became demon- 
strator of anatomy. Subsequently, he spent some 
time at the LInited States Marine Hospital, acting 
a part of the time as house surgeon, and gradu- 
ated at the Berkshire Medical College, with high- 
est honors, in 1845. He began practice in New 
Hartford, Conn., but soon after removed to En- 
field, Mass., where he was established for fourteen 
years. Then. renio\ ing to Easthampton, he has 
since continued there in an active and extensive 
practice. He was county coroner for many years, 
and upon the abolition of that office was made the 
medical examiner for his district, which position 
he still holds. In politics he is a Republican. 
Doctor \Mnslow was married May 13, 1857, to 
Miss Emily Bement Smith, of Enfield. They 
have had one son and one daughter: Dr. Edward 
Smith Winslow, who is now connected with his 
father in practice ; and Susie Ellen (now Mrs. 
E. H. Sawyer, of Easthampton). 




C. E. L. WINGATE. 



(1884) for his paper, and met Lieutenant Greely's 
arctic expedition on its return from the North. 
In 1880 he was made dramatic editor of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Journal, and in 1892 promoted to his present posi- 
tion of managing editor. \\'hile filling these re- 
sponsible positions, he has written the regular 
weekly Boston letter to the Critic of New York 
for several years, and has been an occasional con- 
tributor to the magazines. He has written a 
novel " Can Such Things Be ? " first published in 
a magazine and then in book form (1888) : a num- 
ber of historical articles, and some fiction for the 
Cosmopolitan, Lippituotf s, and other periodicals ; 
a " History of the Wingate Family " and " The 
Playgoers' Year Book." He belongs to but one 
club, — the Newspaper Club, of which he was 
one of the founders (1884), the first vice-president, 
and afterward president (1893). In politics he is 
Republican. He was married September g, 1885, 
to Miss Mabel Nickerson, of Boston. They have 
three children : Mabel, Josephine, and Dana J. P. 
Wingate. Mr. Wingate resides in Cambridge. 



afl^airs. He was commander of the Roxbury 
Horse Guards for three years, commander of the 
First Battalion of Cavalry for a similar term, and 



YOUNG, Major Charles Albert, of Boston, 
deputy superintendent of the Street Department, 
Sanitary Division of the city, is a native of New 
Hampshire, born in Barrington, September 22, 
1842, son of William Hale and Sarah (Daniels) 
Young. He received his education in public and 
private schools in his native town, and remained 
at home on the farm until he was twenty years of 
age. Then he came to Boston, and entered busi- 
ness, in which he was successful from the begin- 
ning. He has been for a long period superin- 
tendent of the Odorless Excavating Company 
(established in 1859), manufacturers of sanitary 
pumps and apparatus for odorless excavation of 
vaults and cesspools, with shops at South Boston. 
He was appointed to his present position by 
Mayor Curtis in January, 1895. Major Young 
has long been prominently identified with military 




CHARLES A. YOUNG. 

of the ( )ld Guard of Massachusetts for some 
years. He belongs to many organizations, social 
and political, and maintains a warm interest in all 
of them. In the Dorchester District, where he 
resides, he was the originator and first president 
of the Harvard Improvement Association of Dor- 
chester. In politics he is a steadfast Republican. 
Major Young was married in 1868 to Miss 
Hannah Merrell Cooke, of Boston. They have 
two sons ; Frederick Hale (now twenty-three years 
of age) and Clifi^ord Harrison (aged twenty 3'ears). 



PART XI. 



ADAMS, Charles Francis, 2d. of Quincy 
and Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, mayor of 
Quincy for i8g6, was born in Quincy, August 2. 
1866, son of John Quincy and Fanny (Crownin- 
shield) Adams. He is of the distinguished 
American Adams family. — great-great-grandson 
of President John Adams, great-grandson of 
President John Quincy Adams, and grandson of 
Charles Francis Adams. He was educated in the 
Adams Academy, Quincy, the Hopkinton School. 
Boston, and at Harvard College, graduating in 
the class of 1888, and fitted for his profession at 
the Harvard La\^ School, from which he was 
graduated in 1892. In college he was president 




C. F. ADAMS. 2d. 



1893, and was first engaged in the Boston office 
of Sigourney Butler. Later he became a partner 
of Judge Everett C. Bumpus, and in 1894 opened 
an office by himself, engaging in general practice 
and making a specialty of the management of 
trust estates. He also became interested in 
banking and business corporations, and he is at 
the present time a director of the American Loan 
and Trust Company, of the Electric Corporation, 
and of the American Electric Heating Company ; 
a trustee of the Quincy Savings Bank, of the Bos- 
ton Ground Rent Trust, and of the Adams Real 
Estate Trust ; and trustee for various individuals. 
He is connected with the management of the 
National Sailors' Home as a trustee. In politics 
he is a Democrat. He has taken an active inter- 
est in Quincy municipal affairs, serving three 
terms in the City Council, and was elected ma3'or 
of the city for 1896 by a decisive vote. Mr. 
Adams is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and con- 
nected with the leading clubs, being commodore 
of the Quincy Yacht Club, vice commodore of the 
Eastern Yacht Club, and member of the Hull and 
Corinthian Yacht clubs. He is a member also of 
the Somerset Club, Boston. He is unmarried. 



(if his class, and first marshal on Class Day; and 
was also president of the Hasty Pudding Club. 
He w'as admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 



ADAMS, Melvin Ohio, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born in Ashburnham, 
Xovember 7, 1850, son of Joseph and Dolly 
I Whitney) Adams. His parents were also natives 
of Ashburnham, and connected with old Massa- 
chusetts families. His early education was ac- 
quired in the public schools of his native town, 
after which he attended Appleton .\cademy. New 
Ipswich, N.H., where he fitted for college. He 
entered Dartmouth, and graduated in the class of 
1S71. After graduation he taught school for 
some time at Fitchburg, and while teaching also 
began the study of law with the Hon. Amasa Nor- 
cross, e.\-Congressman of that city. In 1874 he 
came to Boston, and entered the Boston Univer- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



sit}^ Law School. Graduating thert- in the class 
of 1875, he was at once admitted to the .Suffolk 
bar, and began practice. Soon after he was ap- 
pointed assistant district attorney, and held that 
position until 1886, a period of ten years, acquir- 
ing a familiarity with the methods of the govern- 
ment in dealing with criminal cases and an expe- 
rience which brought him early into a leading 
position among the younger members of the bar. 
After resigning the assistant district attorneyship 
he returned to general practice, associated with 
Augustus Russ. This relation continued until 
the death of Mr. Russ in 1892, since which time 



Union, and numerous other clubs of Boston. 
Mr. Adams was married in Fitchburg in 1875 
to Miss Mary Colony. They have one son : 
Kane .Vdanis. 




MELVIN O. ADAMS. 

he has practised alone. He has been connected 
with many important cases, among the number 
being the famous Borden murder case of Fall 
River, in which, as associate counsel in the de- 
fence of Miss Borden, he increased his reputation 
as an able and skilful jury lawyer. In politics he 
is a Republican, and during the administration of 
Governor Brackett, in 1890, served on the gov- 
ernor's staff, with the rank of colonel. He has 
been for some years connected with the man- 
agement of the Boston, Revere Beach, cS: Lynn 
Railroad, and is now president of that corpora- 
tion. He is president of the Dartmouth Club of 
Boston, and member of the Unitarian, University, 



ALLEN. Fkaxk Dkwkv, of lioston and Lvnn, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in \^'orces- 
ter, August 16, 1850, son of Charles Francis and 
Olive (Dewey) Allen. He was educated in the 
Worcester public schools, and at Yale, graduat- 
uig in the class of 1873. While at college, he was 
a member of the university crew, and belonged 
to the several college societies, including the 
famous "Scroll and Key." He began his law 
studies in Worcester in the office of Peter C. 
Bacon. Then, coming to Boston, he took the reg- 
ular course of the Boston University Law School, 
graduating LL.B. in 1875, and spent three years 
in further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde, & 
Dickinson, the last year acting as managing clerk 
for the firm. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar 
on January 8, 1878, and at once engaged in ac- 
tive practice, establishing his office in Boston. 
In April, 1890, he was appointed by President 
Harrison United States district attorney for the 
District of Massachusetts, w-hich position he ably 
filled until 1894. In the discharge of the duties 
of this office he was alert, zealous, indefatigable 
in his attention to details, and at the close of the 
term of Attorney-general Miller was especially 
complimented by that official for his work. 
Among the numerous notable causes which he 
conducted while in the district attorneyship were 
cases under the anti-trust statute and the famous 
Maverick National Bank cases. In the latter he 
personally investigated and marshalled the facts 
alleged as violations of the law, and himself 
drafted the greater part of the elaborate indict- 
ments ; and the \erdict which he secured won 
him the praise of the entire press of the citv. 
One of his earliest triumphs, soon after his ap- 
pointment, was in a perjury case in the matter of 
a pension claim, in which General Benjamin F. 
Butler was counsel for the defence. After his 
retirement from the district attorneyship he re- 
turned to general practice, in which he is at pres- 
ent actively and successfully engaged. Mr. Allen 
has served two terms in the Massachusetts Leg- 
islature, 1881-82, as a representative for Lynn, 
of which city he became a resident upon his mar- 
riage, the day after his admission to the bar ; and 



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he was for ihiee leinis, 1886-87-88, a member of 
tlie tlvecutive Council for the Fifth Councillor 
District. In the House he was active and influ- 
ential on the floor, and served on the committees 
on the judiciary, on banks and banking, on re- 
districting the State, and on the special commit- 
tee to investigate the charges against Joseph M. 
l>ay, judge of probate of Barnstable Countw In 
the E.xecutive Council he was a member of the 
committee on pardons, two of his three years 
clerk of that committee. In politics he is an ar- 
dent Republican, and has done effective work 
for his party in committees, conventions, and on 




FRANK D. ALLEN. 

the stump. In 1885-86-87 he was a member of 
the Republican State Committee, representing the 
First F.sse.K Senatorial District, and served on 
the e.xecutive committee of that body. He is 
president of the Massachusetts Temperance 
Home, which he organized, a member of the Bap- 
tist Social Union of Boston, and of the Vale 
.\lumni of Boston and vicinity, of which he was 
president in 1892. In Lynn he is president of 
the Lynn Gas and Electric Company, and con- 
nected with other institutions. He was married 
January 9, 1878, to Miss Lucy Rhodes, youngest 
daughter of Exerett M. and Eliza M. Rhodes, of 
I.vnn. 



A.MES, Oliver, of Easton and Boston, manu- 
facturer and capitalist, was born in Easton, Feb- 
ruary 4, 1831 ; died there October 22, 1895. He 
was the second son of Oakes .Ames, the builder 
of the Union Bacific Railroad, and E\eline (Gil- 
more) .Ames, and grandson of the founder of the 
great shovel works of Oliver .Ames & Sons. He 
was educated in the public schools of his native 
town, at the academies of North Easton, North 
.Attleborough, and Leicester, and at Brown Uni- 
versity, taking at the latter a special course in 
logic, history, rhetoric, moral philosophy and po- 
litical economy. Before entering college, he served 
an apprenticeship of five years in his father's fac- 
tory, mastering all the mechanical details of the 
business, and upon fmishing his studies at Brown, 
at the age of twenty-two, returned to the works 
to complete his training. During this period he 
worked for a time at his bench for mechanic's 
wages, his hours at the shop being from seven in 
the morning to si.x at night, and won a reputation 
among his fellow-workmen as a thorough crafts- 
man. After perfecting himself in the various de- 
partments of the factory, he turned his attention 
to the machinery, and shortly introduced various 
improvements, adding new devices to the ma- 
chines in use, and inventing numerous new ones, 
for which medals were subsequently awarded at 
industrial exliibitions. .At length, graduating from 
the shop, he became travelling agent for the 
firm, and in that capacity travelled extensively 
through the country. In 1863, upon the death 
of his grandfather, he was admitted to the firm of 
Oliver .Ames's Sons, and for several years there- 
after personally superintended the internal work- 
ings of the immense establishment, and had 
charge of the orders and sales. In 1873. when 
his father died, the numerous financial trusts held 
by the latter devolved upon him as executor of 
the estate, valued at about six millions, and he 
became concerned in a fiduciary capacity with 
numerous large corporations, banks, and other 
monetary institutions. This estate not only in- 
volved many and diversified interests in various 
parts of the country, but was burdened with a 
hea\y debt ; and his able management of the 
property', resulting in the settlement in full of 
every obligation, the payment of a million or more 
of legacies, every bequest which his father had 
implied as well as formally willed, and the divi- 
sion of a large surplus among the heirs, brought 
him a wide reputation as a financier and the con- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



fidence of leading business men of tiie country. 
Among his notable achievements in this work 
was the development of the Central Branch of the 
Union Pacific Railroad in Kansas, the prospects 
of which at the time he took it in hand were of 
the darkest, the hundred miles of track then in 
operation barely paying running expenses, the 
capital stock of the company having not even a 
quotable value, and the mortgage bonds, with 
coupons unpaid for five successive years, selling 
at 30 per cent. Satisfied, after a thorough inspec- 
tion of the road, in 1877, of its possibilities of 
success, he interested capital, himself making the 
largest subscription recorded, and prosecuted the 
work of upbuilding with vigor. The track was 
rapidly extended to a total length of three hun- 
dred and si.\ty miles, branches were built, and 
business was fostered ; and within three years the 
property had so increased in value that Mr. Ames 
sold to Jay Gould and associates five-eighths of the 
entire capital stock at $250 a share. Mr. Ames 
first entered public life as a member of the State 
Senate, to which he was elected in 1880 for the 
Bristol District, and re-elected in 1881. During 




OLIVER AMES. 

his two terms he served on the committee on rail- 
roads, and in his second term was a member also 
of the committee on education. He was instru- 



mental in securing the passage of the Cottage 
City incorporation bill. In 1882 he received the 
Republican nomination for lieutenant governor on 
the ticket headed by the Hon. Robert R. Bishop 
for governor, and was elected with General Ben- 
jamin F. Butler, the opposing candidate for the 
governorship, the latter defeating Mr, Bishop. In 
1883 he was renominated and re-elected with the 
Hon, George D. Robinson, who that year headed 
the Republican ticket, and defeated General But- 
ler ; and again in 1884 and 1885, serving through 
1885 and 1886. In 1886, upon the retirement of 
Governor Robinson, he was advanced to the head 
of the Republican ticket, and through repeated 
re-elections served as governor for three terms 
(1887-89). His administration was especially 
marked by the beginning of the State House E.x- 
tension, which was upon his recommendation : 
and his last official act as governor was in the lay- 
ing of the corner-stone of the new building on 
the 2 1 St of December, i88g. His connection 
with large concerns, in which he was an impor- 
tant factor, continued until his death. He was 
for many years president of the Siou.x City & 
Pacific Railroad ; a director of the Union Pa- 
cific, the Central Branch of the Union Pacific of 
Kansas, the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe', the 
Chicago, Iowa, &: Nebraska, the Iowa Falls 
& Sioux City, the Cedar Rapids &: Missouri 
Ri\'er, the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley, the Hast- 
ings &: Dakota, the Atchison & Denver, the 
W'aterville & Washington, the Republican Valley, 
the Solomon \'alley, the Atchison, Colorado, & 
Pacific, the New Orleans, Mobile, & Texas, the 
Boston, Hoosac Tunnel, & Western, the Toledo 
& St, Louis, and other railroads ; president of 
the Brayton Petroleum Motor Company ; director 
of the Turner Falls Water Power Company, the 
Maingona Coal Company of Iowa, and the Mis- 
souri \'alley Land Company: a director of the 
Commonwealth National Bank of Boston, the Eas- 
ton National Bank, and the Bristol County Na- 
tional Bank of Taunton ; a trustee of several sav- 
ings-banks ; and actively interested in numerous 
other financial and manufacturing corporations. 
He was also connected with a number of histori- 
cal, scientific, and benevolent societies, and was a 
member of the leading Boston clubs. In 1886 he 
was president of the Boston Art Club, and in 1885 
and 1886 president of the Merchants' Club of 
Boston. In his younger days he served in tiie 
Massachusetts VoUmteer Militia, successivelv as 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



94: 



second lieutenant, major, lieutenant colonel, re- 
signing in i860, after a service of seven years. 
In his native town he was a foremost citizen, 
served twelve years on the School Board, and did 
much for the improvement and welfare of the 
town and its people. In 1S81 he erected in Eas- 
ton, in company with his brother, Oakes A. Ames, 
to the memory of their father, the Oakes Ames 
Memorial Hall, a building of red sandstone, gran- 
ite, and brick, which, with the Oliver Ames Library 
Building near by, built in memory of the elder 
Oliver Ames, is an ornament to the place. 
This was presented to the town, and formally 
dedicated " to the use and for the benefit of the 
people of Easton " on November 17, 1881, upon 
which occasion the governor, the Senate, and 
many members of the House of Representatives, 
with a large number of prominent business and 
professional men, were present, and speeches 
were made by Governor Long, the Rev. Edward 
E. Hale, e.x-Senator Boutwell, and others of dis- 
tinction. In religious faith Mr. Ames was a 
Unitarian, but his substantial help was given to 
various other religious organizations in his town. 
He was especially fond of music and the tine arts, 
and his collection of paintings and statuary was 
choice and valuable. Mr. Ames was married 
March 14, i860, in Nantucket, to Miss Anna 
Coffin Ray, daughter of Obed and .-Vnna W. Ray, 
and adopted daughter of William Hadwen, of Nan- 
tucket. They had two sons and four daughters : 
\\'illiam Hadwen, Evelyn, .\nna Lee, Susan 
Evelyn, Lilian, and Oakes Ames. The family 
residence in Easton was Mr. Ames"s summer 
seat, his town house being on Commonwealth 
Avenue in Boston, one of the largest dwellings 
and most elaborate in architectural design in the 
Back Bay District. 



literature and languages in the then noted French 
Academy in New York City, conducted by the 
Brothers Peuquet. In that connection he con- 



ANGIER, THE Rev. Luther Horne, D.D., of 
Boston, was born in Southborough, January 26. 
iSio, son of Calvin and .\nnie (Parker) .\ngier. 
He is of Huguenot descent, his ancestors refu- 
gees, it is supposed, from France to Kent County, 
England, and thence to Massachusetts. His early 
education was acquired in the common school in 
his native town ; and he was fitted for college at 
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. He 
entered Amherst College, and graduated in the 
class of 1833. Shortly after his graduation he re- 
ceived an appointment as instructor in English 




L. H. ANGIER. 

tinued three years, when he joined the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, New York, one of the thirteen 
that constituted the first class that entered that 
institution in 1836, and graduated therefrom 1839. 
He was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1840; 
and in the fifty-si.x years from that time to the 
present he has occupied pastorates in Bufl:'alo, 
N.Y., Port Gibson, Miss, (in the latter place also 
successfully filling the position of principal of an 
academy), Concord, Rockport, Edgartown, Litch- 
field (N.H.), South Boston, Holbrook, Turner's 
Falls, and Holyoke. At the present time (1895), 
at the age of eighty-five, he is one of the preachers 
at Cornell University ; and his services for the pul- 
pit are in constant demand. During this long 
period of pulpit work he has engaged in much 
literary work, and has achieved wide reputation 
as a lecturer, having delivered his most noted 
lecture on '-The Struggles and Triumphs of En- 
thusiasm " over two hundred times between New 
Brunswick, Canada, and Natchez, Miss. He is 
just twenty-eight days younger than Gladstone, to 
whom he is said to bear a striking resemblance, 
and, like him, is remarkable for vigor and fresh- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ness with the weight of years. He yet preaches 
with ease and strength, earnestness and power. 
From February to July, 1894, his eighty-fifth year, 
he served as acting pastor of the Presljyterian 
church in \^'indsor, N.Y., taking the pulpit left 
vacant by the death of his brother, the Rev. M. B. 
Angier, on the 25th of February that year, preach- 
ing regularly, performing other pastoral duties, 
and manifesting a keen interest in the affairs of 
the town ; thence going to .Saratoga, where he 
has spent his summer vacations, with few breaks, 
for si.xty years, preached there ; and before the 
close of the summer filled the pulpit of the Pres- 
byterian church in Holyoke several Sundays. On 
the 19th of April. 1895, he joined the Sons of the 
American Revolution in celebrating the one hun- 
dred and twentieth anniversary of the battle of 
Lexington, and on that occasion made a notable 
after-dinner speech. F)r. Angier has been the in- 
structor and adviser of several young men who 
have become successful preachers, notably the 
Rev. George A. Gordon, now pastor of the r)ld 
South Church, Boston, who, when a young man of 
eighteen, and engaged in daily labor in South 
Boston when Dr. Angier was settled there, made 
the latter's acquaintance, and was by him and his 
estimable wife encouraged to pursue theological 
studies. Young Gordon then became an inmate of 
] )r. .\ngier's family, and was fitted for the Bangor 
Theological Seminary, which he entered in 1874. 
Dr. Angier married in 1839 .Miss Annie Louisa 
Lanman, seventh daughter of the Hon. James 
Lanman, of Norwich, Conn. They had no chil- 
dren. Mrs. Angier died in February, 1893. She 
was a woman of fine literary culture and rare 
accomplishments. She was the author of numer- 
ous poems, a volume of which was published in 
1883. Her funeral was conducted by Dr. Gor- 
don, of the Old .South Church, who in his re- 
marks referred to her influence over himself in 
his youth, saying that he " w^ould never forget the 
voice that first made him believe in himself, and 
that first convinced him that he had a mission 
to his fellow-men," nor fail to revere "the hand 
that cleared a path for him to education," and 
" the insistent sympathy that followed him all 
through the years of struggle." 



ancient Governor Bradstreet house, son of Otis 
and Lucinda Alden (Loring) Bailey. His father, 
also a native of .Andover, born April 14, 1806, was 
a descendant in the seventh generation of James 
Bailey, who, born in F^ngland about 1612, came to 
New England, and settled in Rowley about 1640. 
John Bailey, of the second generation, perished in 
1690, in the e.xpedition against Canada; and 
Samuel Bailey, Jr., of the fifth generation, was 
killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. His mother, 
born in Du.xburv, August 5, 1809, was a descend- 
ant in the seventh generation of Thomas Loring, 
a native of .\xminster in Devonshire. England, 




BAILEY, HoLLis Russell, of Cambridge, 
member of the .Suft'olk bar. was born in .\ndover, 
now North .\ndo\er, Februarv 24, 1852, in the 



MOLLIS R, BAILEY^ 

who settled in Hingham about 1635. Her grand- 
mother was Alethea Alden, a descendant of John 
Alden. Hollis R. was educated in the public 
schools of North Andover, the Punchard High 
School of Andover, Phillips (Andover) Academx-. 
and Harvard College, graduating A.B. in 1877 
and A.M. in 1879. .\t Phillips he had the Latin 
oration in the graduating exercises (1873). Much 
of his early youth was passed in farm work and 
in the management, to a considerable extent, of a 
farm devoted to raising hay, market produce, 
and milk. While at the university he devoted 
his time not given to his studies to work as a 
pri\ ate tutor for students. He was also a proctor 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



945 



in 1878 and 1S79. After graduating from the 
college, he entered the Harvard Law School, 
where he was graduated LL.H. in 1878. He fur- 
ther read in the Boston law office of Hyde, Dick- 
inson, & Howe from August, 1879, to March, 
1880, when he began practice, having been ad- 
mitted to the bar the previous month, occupying 
offices at No. 30 Court Street with William R. 
Richards and Richard H. Dana. During the fol- 
lowing summer he served as private secretary to 
the Hon. Horace Gray, then chief justice of the 
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From 
the time of his admission to the bar he has been 
actively engaged in practice in all the branche? of 
the law and in all the courts of the State, with 
occasional cases of importance in New Hampshire 
and Rhode Island, having his office since 1891 at 
No. 53 State Street. In 188 1 he assisted in pre- 
paring the Index to the Public Statutes of Massa- 
chusetts, and he has from time to time contributed 
articles to the Harvard Law Rcvinv. Mr. Bailey 
was a member of the Everett Athena;um in 1874, 
and later of the Cambridge Chapter of the Phi 
Beta Kappa Society. He is now a member of the 
Boston Bar Association, the New England Free 
Trade League, the Bostonian Society, the Colonial 
Club of Cambridge, and the Library Hall Associa- 
tion, Cambridge. In 1895 he was chosen presi- 
dent of the Bailey-Bayley Family Association. In 
politics he was until 1884 a Republican, and since 
that time has been a Democrat. In religious faith 
he is a Lhiitarian, a member of the First Parish 
in Cambridge. He was married February 12, 
1885, to Mary Persis Bell, daughter of e.\-Gov- 
ernor Charles H. Bell, of Exeter. N.H. They 
have one child : Gladys Loring Bailey (born 
July II, 1887.) ^Ir. Bailey was a resident of 
North Andover until 1880, after that date of Bos- 
ton until 1890, and since 1890 of Cambridge, his 
home, since 1S93, being on Buckingham Street. 



B.\IR1), John Caldwell, of Boston, merchanl, 
was born in Boston, August 16, 1852, son of 
James and Sarah (Howard) Baird. His father 
was of Scotch descent, and his mother of English. 
He was educated in public schools in Boston and 
at Cosgrove Academy. Immediately after leaving 
school, he entered the stained-glass business, and 
he has continued in that line ever since, a period 
of twenty-seven years. He began in the then 
small establishment of James M. Cook, which 



later came under the firm name of Cook, Redding, 
&: Co., and since 1883 has been under that of 
Redding, Baird, Ot Co. During his connection 
with the partnership the business has been devel- 
oped from small l)eginnings to extensive propor- 
tions, the products of the house going to foreign 
countries as well as throughout the United States ; 
and it has attained a leading position, largely 
through his artistic ability and the knowledge of 
the trade which he has acquired. He has tra\'- 
elled extensivelv in Europe in the interest of his 
house and for study and observation, and has also 
visited the West Indies, India, and Africa. Mr. 




JOHN C. BAlRij. 

Baird is interested in military affairs as a member 
of the Ancient and Honorable .Artillery Company, 
and a fine member of tlie Cadets. He is con- 
nected with the Royal .Arcanum, a trustee of War- 
ren Council, also with the Home Circle, and is 
a member of the Bostonian Society-, the Quincy 
School Association, and the Boston .\rt, .Archi- 
tectural, -Athletic, and Bostoniana clubs. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. He is active in mu- 
nicipal reform movements, and is at present a 
member of the executive committee of the Citi- 
zens' Municipal LTnion. He was married June 18, 
1888, to Miss Isabel V. Stewart, of Farmington, 
Me. Thev have one son : Stewart Baird. 



946 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



BALDWIN, William Henrv, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the Boston Young Men's Christian 
Union, was born in Brighton (now of Boston), 
October 20, 1826, son of Henry and Mary 
(Brackett) Baldwin. His father, born in Phillip- 
ston, Worcester County, in 1790, coming to Bos- 
ton when a lad to engage in business, became in 
course of time a wholesale grocer, during the lat- 
ter part of his Hfe in partnership with Daniel 
Weld, under the firm name of Weld & Baldwin. 
He died in 1833. Mr. Baldwin's mother was a 
native of East Sudbury (now Wayland), born in 
1795. He was educated in Brighton public and 
private schools, and at a local academy kept by 
Jonas Wilder, finishing in the High School, from 
which he graduated in 1843. He began business 
life as a clerk in a dry-goods and clothing store in 
Brighton, then known as Kelly & Springs. After 
four years' experience in that place he obtained 
a position in the prominent Boston house of James 
M. Beebe iS: Co.. importers and jobbers of dry 
goods, where he remained till 1846, when — 
changes being made in the firm, and that of Can- 
nett, Balch, & Co., the senior partner of which iiati 
been of the old firm, being organized — he left to 
become a salesman for the new house. He con- 
tinued in that capacity till 1850, when he engaged 
in business on his own account, forming in April 
the firm of Baldwin, Ba.\ter, i!^: Co. (his partners 
being John J. Ba.xter and Cadwallader Curry), im- 
porters and jobbers of woollens. This partner- 
ship held till the death of Mr. Ba.xter in 1858, 
and thereafter the business was continued by the 
surviving partners, under the firm name of Bald- 
win & Curry, till 1865. Then, disposing of his in- 
terest, Mr. Baldwin engaged in the dry-goods com- 
mission business, which he followed till 1868, 
when he retired to devote his whole time and 
energies to the work of the Boston Young Men's 
Christian Union, having been chosen president of 
the Board of Government of that institution, that 
year reorganized. 'I'he Union had then been in 
existence for seventeen years, having been insti- 
tuted in 185 I and incorporated the following year, 
but its work had been temporarily suspended in 
consequence of the interruption caused by the 
Civil War ; and the establishment of the new 
Board of Government, with the choice of Mr. 
Baldwin at its head, was the result of an energetic 
and ably directed movement of several of its life 
members and friends for its re\ival on a broad 
scale. Mr. Baldwin addressed himself heartilv and 



enthusiastically to the work of its upbuilding ; and 
its development into the notable Boston institution 
of to-day is largely due to his able and skilful man- 
agement during his nearly twenty-eight years of 
leadership. Founded on an unsectarian basis, it 
has always been so conducted, young men of all 
creeds being admitted to membership and made 
welcome. Upon the reorganization, rooms were 
first taken at No. 12 West Street; but larger 
quarters were soon demanded, and removal was 
made to No. 300 Washington Street (nearly op- 
posite West Street). The membership rapidly in- 
creasing and tile wcirk of the institution broaden- 




WM. H. BALDWIN, 

ing, in the spring of 1874 a public appeal was 
made for funds with which to purchase land and 
erect a building for its accommodation ; and this 
met with such speedy success that within a few 
months plans for the structure were perfected. 
I'he corner-stone was formally laid September 16, 
the following year : and on March 15, 1S76, the 
main portion of the building, then No. 18 (now 
No. 48, the street having been renumbered) Boyl- 
ston Street, was completed, and dedicated to the 
uses of the Union. Six years later, in 1882, the 
need of still larger accommodations having become 
pressing, another successful appeal for funds was 
made to its friends ; and a substantial extension 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



947 



was added, which was dedicated with fitting cere- 
monies on tlie 28th of May, 1883. The building 
now- covers over eleven thousand feet. It in- 
cludes several halls, reading, writing, sitting room, 
parlor, and room for games, a library containing 
a carefully selected collection of over 13,000 vol- 
umes, and a light and spacious gymnasium, one 
of the largest and best ec|uipped in the citw The 
work which the L'nion at present carries on, under 
Mr. Baldwin's direction, aided by an active and 
efficient Board of Directors, covers a broad field, 
— religious, ethical, educational, social, and physi- 
cal culture. Regular lectures are provided, even- 
ing classes in various branches of instruction, 
frequent entertainments, " J'ractical Talks," and 
public religious services conducted by clergymen 
and laymen of the several denominations. Much 
benevolent work is also done in the city at large, 
such as the Union's "Country Week" charity, — 
the sending of poor children into the country for 
summer vacations, — " Rides for Invalids," the 
"Christmas Festival for Poor Children," and the 
finding of employment for members and others, 
through its "Employment Bureau." Its member- 
ship is now more than five thousand, the largest 
in its history; over one thousand persons are en- 
rolled m the various evening classes ; and the 
gymnasium has a membership of about one thou- 
sand. The rooms are open every day and even- 
ing in the year from 8 a.m. to 10 p.ir. The insti- 
tution has the beginning of a Permanent Fund 
under the care of a Board know n as the " Board 
of Trustees of the Permanent Fund of the Boston 
Young Men's Christian L^nion," consisting of 
Samuel Wells, chairman, William Endicott, Jr., 
treasurer, William H. Baldwin, Kdwin L. Sprague, 
William L. Richardson. While directing the 
Union work, Mr. Baldwin is actixe in numerous 
other philanthropic and educational organizations. 
He is president of the Children's Mission to the 
Children of the Destitute, a member of the Board 
of Directors of the Massachusetts Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a trustee of the 
Boston Lying-in Hospital, a trustee of the Frank- 
lin Savings Bank, and an e.v president and mem- 
ber of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. For 
twenty-five years he was superintendent of the 
Sunday-schools of the Church of the Unity and 
the Church of the Disciples. He is a life member 
of the American l^nitarian Association, a membei' 
of the Bostonian Society, of the Boston Memorial 
Association, of the Law and Order League, of the 



Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Associa- 
tion, of the American Peace Society, of the Bos- 
ton Civil Service Reform .\ssociation, of the Bos- 
ton Citizens' Association, of the Boston Old 
School Boys' Association, of the Boston Leather 
Associates (an honorary member), of the Unita- 
rian Club of Boston, of the Municipal League of 
Boston, and of the Republican Club of Massa- 
chusetts. In politics he is an ardent Republican, 
and has always taken a warm interest in munici- 
pal as well as in State and national affairs. He 
has, however, declined to hold public office, 
beyond that of member of the Boston School 
Committee, upon which he served for several 
years. During the Civil War he was an active 
member of the War Relief Committee of old 
Ward Eleven, Boston, which cared for many fami- 
lies of soldiers at the front. Mr. Baldwin was 
married in Boston, June 17, i85i,to Miss Mary 
Frances Augusta Chaffee, daughter of Jonathan 
and Nancy (Aldrich) Chaffee, of Boston. They 
had a family of nine children, all of whom are 
living : Mary Chaffee, Maria Josephine, Harry 
Heath, Frank F"enno, Fannie Aldrich, William 
Henry, Jr., George Storer, Robert Coll}-er, and 
Richard Brackett Baldwin. Mrs. Baldwin died 
January 9, 1892. 



BENNETT, Edmu.vd H.\tch, of Taunton and 
Boston, dean of the Boston University Law 
School, is a native of \'erniont, born in Manches- 
ter, .\pril 6, 182-1, son of Milo Lyman and Ade- 
line (Hatch) Bennett. His father, born in Sharon, 
L'onn., in 1790, graduated at Wale in 181 1, was 
associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ver- 
mont for upward of twenty years, and, removing 
in later life to Taunton, died there in 1868. Ed- 
mund H. was educated at the Burr Seminary in 
his native town, at the academy in Burlington, 
and at the Vermont University, graduating in 
1843. He studied law with his father, and was 
admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1847. 
Coming to Boston a few months later, he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar July 3, 1848, and began 
practice in that city. Shortly after he established 
his home in Taunton, and engaged in an exten- 
sive practice at the Bristol bar, while maintaining 
an office also in Boston. In 1858 he was ap- 
pointed judge f)f probate and insolvency for Bris- 
tol County, and retained that office until 1883. 
when he resigned. From 1865 to 1867 he was 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



mayor of Taunton, and he has for many years 
been identified with its affairs in various ways. 
In 1889, upon the occasion of the two hundred 
and fiftietii anniversary of the settlement of the 
town, he delivered the historical address. Judge 
Bennett has done much and notable work in the 
literature of the law, and has been a teacher of 
its principles for upward of a quarter of a centurv. 
From 1865 to 187 i he was a lecturer at the Har- 
vard Law -School, and he has been professor and 
dean of the Boston University Law School since. 
He has edited a large number of important legal 
works, the list including : all of the law works of 




EDMUND H. BENNETT. 

Judge Story; English Law and Equity Reports, 
thirty volumes : (/ushing's Massachusetts Reports, 
volumes IX. and XII. inclusive; Massachusetts 
Digest; Brigham on Infancy; Blackwell on Ta.x 
Titles ; Leading Criminal Cases, two volumes ; 
(ireenleaf's Reports, eight volumes ; Goddard on 
Easements ; Benjamin on Sales ; Pomeroy's Con- 
stitutional Law; Indermaur's Principles of Com- 
mon Law ; and Fire Insurance Cases, five vol- 
umes. He lias also been coeditor of the American 
Laio Register, and a frequent contributor to the 
Albany Law Jounial, the Boston La7v Reporter, 
and other legal periodicals. He received the 
honorarv degree of LL.D. from the Vermont Uni- 



versity in 1872. In politics originally a Whig, 
Judge Bennett has been a Republican since the 
formation of that party. He was married in 
'I'aunton. lune 23, 1853, to Miss Sally Crocker, 
daughter of the late Hon. Samuel L. Crocker, of 
Taunton. They have a son and daughter now 
living : Samuel C. Bennett, professor and assistant 
dean of the Boston University Law School ; and 
Mrs. Mary B. Conant, wife of Dr. William M. 
Conant. 

HIjAKE. Francis, of \\'eston, inventor of the 
Blake Transmitter, and of numerous other valu- 
able electrical contrivances, was born in Need- 
ham, now Wellesley Hills, December 25, 1850, 
son of Francis and Caroline Burling (Trumbull) 
Blake. He is of the eighth generation from 
William and Agnes Blake, who came to America 
from Somersetshire, England, before 1636, and 
settled in that part of Dorchester which became 
the town of Milton. William Blake was a dis- 
tinguished leader in colonial aft'airs, and his name 
has been kept in honorable prominence by his 
descendants to the present day. The grandfather 
of Mr. Blake, the first Francis, was for many 
years a prominent member of the Worcester 
County bar, and served in the State Senate ; and 
his father, the second Francis, was a Boston mer- 
chant in early life, and from 1862 to 1874 served 
as United States appraiser at the port of Boston. 
His mother was a daughter of (ieorge .Augustus 
TruuibuU, of Worcester, a kinsman of the famous 
General Jonathan Trumbull, private secretary to 
(ieneral W'ashington. Mr. Blake was educated 
in the public schools. When ne;ir the end of his 
course in the Brookline High School, in 1866, his 
uncle Commodore George Smith Blake, United 
States Navy, secured his appointment to the 
United States Coast Survey, in which service he 
acquired a scientific training which led him to 
his later successes in civil life. He spent twelve 
years in this department, during which time his 
name became connected with man\' of the most 
important achievements of the corps. His first 
field-work was on a hydrographic survey of the 
Susquehanna River, near Havre de Grace, Mary- 
land ; and this was followed by similar service 
on the west coast of F'lorida and the north coast 
of Cuba. In October, 1868, he was ordered to 
astronomical duty at the Harvard College Ob- 
servatory in connection with the transcontinental 
longitude determination between Cambridge and 



MEN OP" PROGRESS. 



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San l''rancisco, in \vhit:li work, for the purpose of 
cleterinininL;: the velocity of telegraphic time sig- 
nals, a metallic circuit of seven thousand miles, 
with tiiirteen repeaters, was used ; and it was 
found that a signal sent from the observatory to 
San Francisco was received back in eight-tenths 
of a second. He was ne.xt ordered, in October 
of the following year, to determine the astronomi- 
cal latitude and longitude of Cedar Falls, la., 
and St. Louis, Mo., and for the successful accom- 
plishment of this work was promoted to the rank 
of sub-assistant. In 1869 he spent some months 
in Europe in determining the astronomical dif- 
ference of longitude between Brest, France, and 
the Cambridge Observatory, by means of time- 
signals sent through the French cable. In No- 
vember, 1S70, he was detached from the Coast 
Survey, and appointed astronomer of the Darien 
Exploring E.xpedition, under the command of 
Commander Selfridge, United States Navy, for 
the e.xamination of the Atrato and Tuyra River 
routes for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Da- 
rien. Mr. Blake's part of the work included the 
determination of astronomical latitudes and longi- 
tudes of several points on the Gulf and Pacific 
Coasts and in the interior, as well as a determi- 
nation of the difference in longitude between As- 
pinwall and Panama ; and, upon the close of his 
connection with the expedition. Commander Self- 
ridge wrote to the superintendent, under date of 
March 9, 187 1, "It gives me great pleasure to 
bear witness to the zeal, ability, and ingenuit}' 
with which Mr. Blake has labored, and to recom- 
mend him to your favorable consideration." Tiie 
following year, in March, he was ordered to 
Europe for astronomical duty in connection with 
the third and final determination of the difference 
of longitude between Greenwich, Paris, and Cam- 
bridge. In this great work, which was carried 
on under the general direction of Professor J. K. 
Hilgard, then assistant in charge of the Coast 
Survey Office, and later superintendent of the 
Coast Survey, he was engaged for more than a 
year. He made all of the European obser\-a- 
tions, being stationed successively at Brest, 
France, at the Imperial Observatory, Paris, and 
at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Then, 
returning to the United States, he was stationed 
at Cambridge and Washington for the determina- 
tion of differences of personal equation. On tiie 
ist of April, 1873, Mr. Blake was promoted to 
the rank of assistant, his work having met the 



warmest approval of iiis superiors, the superin- 
tendent of the Coast Survey, in a letter to the 
secretary in 187 1, declaring that '-his observa- 
tions have invariably ijorne the severest test in 
regard to accuracy"; and the assistant, Charles 
C). Boutelle, at the close of Mr. Blake's astronom- 
ical work in the Shenandoah Valley, writing to 
iiim, " Tite symmetrical precision of tiie latitude 
observations made by you at Maryland Heights, 
Clark and Bull Run stations, has never been ex- 
celled in the Coast Survey." In 1874 he was 
ordered to duty in the preparation for publica- 
tion of the results of transatlantic longitude 











FRANCIS BLAKE. 

work, which involved a rediscussion of the result 
of the transatlantic longitude determinations in 
1 866 and 1870, as well as an original discussion 
of the final determination of 1872. This work 
occupied more than two years, and its results are 
embodied in Appendix No. 18, United States 
Coast Survey Report, 1874. Mr. Blake's obser- 
vations of 1872 gave a new result for the dif- 
ference of longitude between the Royal Observ- 
atory of Greenwich and the Imperial Observatory 
at Paris, — 9 minutes, 20.97 seconds. The pre- 
viously accepted value was 9 minutes, 20.63 sec- 
onds, which left a difference of 0.34 seconds, or 
1 1 1 feet, to be accounted for. Subsequent obser- 



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MEN OK FKOGKKSS. 



vations by European astronomers have confirmed 
his results, and the finally accepted value is 9 
minutes, 20.95 seconds. In 1877 Mr. Blake rep- 
resented the Coast Survey at a conference of the 
commission appointed to fix the boundary line 
between New York and Pennsylvania ; and this 
service was followed by geodetic duty in connec- 
tion with a resurvey of Boston Harbor, under the 
direction of the State Board of Harbor Commis- 
sioners, ills last field-work. His resignation, 
dated April 5, 1878, on the ground of the press- 
ure of private afifairs, was acknowledged by C. P. 
Patterson, the superintendent, in tlie following 
flattering letter : " I accept it with the greatest 
reluctance, and beg to express thus officially my 
sense of your high abilities and character, — abili- 
ties trained to aspire to the highest honors of 
scientific position, and character to inspire con- 
fidence and esteem. So loath am I to sever en- 
tirely your official connection with the survey that 
I must request you to allow me to retain your 
name upon the list of the survey as an ' extra 
observer,' under which title Professor B. Peirce, 
Professor Lovering, Dr. Gould, Professor Win- 
lock, and others had their names classed for 
many years. This will, of course, be merely hon- 
orary ; but it gives me a ' quasi ' authority to com- 
municate with you in a semi-official way as excep- 
tional occasion may suggest." Mr. Blake was at 
his home in Weston during the greater part of 
the last two years of his service in the Coast Sur- 
vey, engaged in the reduction of his European 
field-work connected with the determination of 
the differences of longitude between the astro- 
nomical observatories at Greenwich, Paris, Cam- 
bridge, and Washington ; and in his leisure mo- 
ments he devoted himself to experimental physics. 
In this occupation he became an enthusiastic 
amateur mechanic, and, at the time of his resig- 
nation from the survey, he was in possession of 
a well-equipped mechanical laboratory and a self- 
acquired ability to perform a variety of mechani- 
cal operations. Under these conditions what had 
been a pastime developed into a serious pur- 
suit ; and almost immediately after his resignation 
he began a series of experiments which shortly 
brought forth the renowned Blake Transmitter, 
first put in use by the American Bell Telephone 
Company in November, 1878. 'I'his invention 
was of peculiar value at that time, as the Bell 
Company was just beginning litigation with a 
strong rival companv which had entered the field 



with a transmitting telephone superior to the orig- 
inal form of the Bell instrument. Being superior 
to the infringing instrument, the Blake Trans- 
mitter enabled the Bell Company to hold its own 
in the sharp business competition which con- 
tinued, until by a judicial decision it was assured 
a monopoly of the telephone business during the 
life of the patents. At the present time there are 
upward of 215.000 Blake Transmitters in use in 
the United States, and a large number in foreign 
countries. Mr. Blake has continued his interest 
in electrical research, and the records in the Pat- 
ent Office show that twenty patents have been 
granted him since his first invention. Since No- 
vember, 1878, he has been a director of the 
American Bell Telephone Company. He is con- 
nected with numerous scientific societies, educa- 
tional institutions, and lending Boston clubs. He 
was elected a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of .Science in 1874, fellow 
of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 
1881, member of the National Conference of 
Electricians, 1884, member of the American In- 
stitute of Electrical Engineers, 1889, member of 
the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, 1889, member of the Boston So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers, 1890. He is also a 
member of the Boston Society of the Archaeolog- 
ical Institute of America, and member of the Bos- 
tonian Society. He has been for many years 
chairman of the committee to visit the Jefferson 
Physical Laboratory, appointed by the Board of 
Overseers of Harvard University. He is actively 
interested in photography, and for several years 
served as vice-president of the Boston Camera 
Club, of which he is now an honorary member. 
His life in Weston began on June 24, 1873, the 
day of his marriage to Miss Elizabeth L. Hub- 
bard, daughter of Charles T. Hubbard. His 
beautiful estate, lying in the south-eastern part of 
the picturesque town, to which he has given the 
name of " Keewaydin," has since been his home, 
and was the birthplace of his two children : Agnes 
(born January 2, 1876) and Benjamin Sewall 
Blake (born Eebruary 14, 1877). 



1!()LSTER, Solomon Alonzo, of Boston, 
justice of the municipal court for the Roxbury 
District, is a native of Maine, born in Paris, 
Oxford County, December 10. 1835. son of 
Gideon and Charlotte (Hall) Bolster. He is a 



MEN OK PROGRESS. 



95' 



descendant of Isaac Holster, who came from Eng- 
land and settled in Uxbridge, Mass., in 1732 ; and 
his great-grandfather Isaac, 2d, served in the 
Revolutionary War, first as a lieutenant and after- 
ward holding a captaincy. He was educated in 
the public schools and at the O.xford Normal 
Institute in his native town. His law studies 
were pursued in the office of his cousin, \\'illiam 
W. Bolster, in Dixfield, Me., and at the Harvard 
Law School, where he graduated witli the regular 
degree of LL.B. in 1859; and he was admitted 
that year in Paris to the Maine bar. Shortly 
after he was admitted to the Missouri bar at 




S. A. BOLSTER. 

Palmyra, Mo., and to the Suffolk bar April 24, 
1862. In September of the latter year he en- 
listed for nine months' service in the t'ivil War. 
joining the Twenty-third Regiment, Maine Vol- 
unteers, on November 15 being commissioned 
second lieutenant of his company. L'pon his re- 
turn he resumed his practice in the Ro.xbury Dis- 
trict of Boston, and early acquired an established 
position in the profession. He was appointed to 
the bench, as justice of the Roxbury District 
Municipal Court, in .\pril, 1885, to succeed 
Henry W. Fuller, and in that capacity has added 
to his reputation by his able and impartial admin- 
istration. After the war he became connected 



with the Massachusetts militia, in which he 
served for many years through various grades. 
He was first appointed, June 29, 1867, judge ad- 
vocate with the rank of captain in the First 
Brigade: on March 22, 1870, he was commis- 
sioned assistant inspector-general with the rank of 
major; and on August 15, 1876, assi.stant adju- 
tant-general with the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
Judge Bolster is a member of Post 26, Grand 
.\rmy of the Republic, of the order of the Loyal 
Legion, and of the Pine Tree State Club. He is 
a past master of Washington Lodge, past high 
priest of Mount Verriver Chapter, past master of 
Roxbury Council, and past commander of Joseph 
Warren Commandery ; also thirty-second degree 
Mason in Scottish Rites. He has been district 
deputy of the Fourth Masonic District, and dis- 
trict deputy high priest of the First District, and 
is a member of the Grand Chapter. He was 
married in Cambridge, October 30, 1864, to Miss 
Sarah J. Gardner. Their children are : Percy G. 
(born August 20, 1865), Wilfred (born September 
13, 1866), May M. (born July 20, 18721, Stanley 
M. (born March 21, 1874). and Roy H. Bolster 
(born April 6, 1877). 



BRIDGHAM, Percy Albert, of Boston, 
member of the Suffolk bar. and of the Penobscot 
County bar, Maine, is a native of Maine, born in 
F.ast Eddington, November 5, 1850, son of Albert 
and Martha C. (Maddocks) Bridgham. He was 
educated in the public schools of Bangor, Me., 
and studied law in the office of Chief Justice 
Peters in Bangor, and with A. J. Robinson in Bos- 
ton. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Novem- 
ber 8, 1875, and began practice in Boston. Pre- 
vious to his admission he served as assistant 
register of deeds of Penobscot County, Maine, for 
four years (1869-72). He was counsel for the 
receivers of the Mercantile Savings Institution in 
Boston from 1878 to 1880, and during that period 
succes.sfully managed the foreclosure and settle- 
ment of many hundred mortgaged estates. He 
opened an office in Bangor, Me., while still retain- 
ing his Boston office, in 1895. He has conducted 
the '"legal column" of the Boston Daily Globe 
since 1887, and in 1890 he published a volume 
under the title of " One thousand Legal Questions 
.\nswered by the People's Lawyer." While resid- 
ing in Bangor, he served as clerk of the Bangor 
Common Council from i86g to 1872 ; and. after 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



liis removal to Massachusetts, served one term, 
through 1879, in the Common Council of Somer- 
ville. He is division adjutant of the United Boys' 




PERCY A. BRIDGHAM. 

Brigades, a religious militarv Sunday-school or- 
ganization for Massachusetts. 



BRUCE, George Anson, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, president of the State 
Senate in 1884, is a native of New Hampshire, 
born in the town of Mt. X'ernon, November 19, 
1839, son of Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield; 
Bruce. He is a lineal descendant of George 
Bruce, one of the earliest settlers in \\'oburn, 
Mass., being settled there in 1659. His father 
was a prominent man of affairs in his town and 
county, having held the offices of town clerk of 
Mt. Vernon for several years, selectman, repre- 
sentative in the Legislature, and county treasurer. 
George A. acquired his early education in the 
local schools, and fitted for college at the McCol- 
lom Institute in Mt. Vernon. Entering Dart- 
mouth, he graduated there, ranking higli in his 
class, in 1861. Soon after leaving college, he 
began the study of law in the office of Daniel S. 
and George F. Richardson in Lowell; but, a few 



enlisted in the service of his country for the Civil 
War. Starting as first lieutenant in the Thir- 
teenth New Hampshire Regiment, iie was made 
in Januar)', 1863. assistant adjutant-general of 
the Third Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army 
Corps, and shortly after assistant adjutant-general 
and judge advocate of the First Division, Twenty- 
fourth Corps, under General Charles Devens. 
He was promoted to a captaincy in 1864 for 
service at Petersburg, to the rank of major later 
the same year for gallant conduct at the capture 
of Fort Harrison, and to lieutenant colonel in 
1865 for distinguished services in connection with 
the capture of Richmond ; and he was mustered 
out July 3, 1865, witii a brilliant record as a faith- 
ful and brave soldier. After his retirement from 
the army he resumed his law^ studies with the 
Messrs. Richardson in Lowell, retaining his resi- 
dence in Mt. Vernon, N.H., and in October, 1866, 
was admitted to the Middlese.x bar. Meanwhile 
he had served a term in the New Hampshire 
Legislature, having been elected a representative 
for Mt. Vernon in the spring of that year. In 
January, 1867, he opened an office in Boston, and 




CEO. A. BRUCE. 



was soon successfully engaged in a prosperous 
practice. In 1874 he established his residence in 



lonths later, he temporarily closed his books, and Somerville, and at once became identified with the 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



953 



municipal affairs of that tlien young city. Ho 
was elected to the fjoard of Aldermen in 1S75, 
and the same year appointed associate justice of 
the police court; in 1878 was made mayor of the 
city, and re-elected in 1S79 and i88o; and in 
1882-83-84 was a member of the State Senate 
for the First Middlesex District. In the Legisla- 
ture he was a leader from the start, ser\ing on 
the committees on the judiciary (chairman), mili- 
tary affairs, and Hoosac Tunnel, also taking a 
foremost part in important debates in the Senate 
sessions ; and his election to the presidency of the 
Senate in 1884 was by a flattering vote. Since 
his retirement from public station Mr. Bruce has 
devoted himself mainly to corporation matters, 
and has frequently appeared before legislative 
committees as attorney for large interests, in 
which he has met with marked success. In 
politics he is an ardent Republican, and has 
long been influential in the councils of his party 
in the State. He is a member of the Loyal 
Legion. Mr. Bruce was married in Groton, Janu- 
ary 26, 1870, to Miss Clara M. Hall, daughter of 
Joseph F. and Sarah (Longley) Hall of that town. 
They have one daughter : Clara A. Bruce. 



ford Desk and furniture Company, the Star 
I'urniture Company, the Diamond Furniture Com- 
pany, the West End Furniture Companv, — and 



CARLSON, Carl Enoch, of Boston, real 
estate dealer, is a native of Sweden, born in the 
province of Holland, July 24, 1858, son of Carl 
and Fredericka ( Hard) Carlson. His mother was 
descended from a titled family. His father was a 
builder and architect. He was educated in his 
native place, and there early learned and followed 
the trade of a machinist. Coming to this country 
when he had attained his majority, he first settled 
in Pennsylvania. Six years after, in 1885, he 
went to Rockford, where his brother, the late 
Professor M. E. Carlson (formerly a professor in 
the Royal Conservatory of Sweden, and later at 
the head of the musical department in Gustavus 
Adolphus College, of St. Peter, Minn.), was then 
living ; and he was there for some time success- 
fully engaged in the real estate, loan, and insur- 
ance business, through which he acquired a hand- 
some property. He became an owner in the 
Rock River Subdivision, a territory comprising 
one hundred and twenty acres of planted ground, 
and treasurer of the Rock River Planing Mill 
Company, whose building is on this land : also an 
owner of stock and a director in a number of 
furniture manufacturing companies, — the Rock- 



I 




C. E. CARLSON. 



in several other manufacturing concerns, among 
them the Skandia Shoe Company and the Rock- 
ford Paint Manufacturing Company. He is now 
president of the Alpine Heights Furniture Com- 
pany of Chicago. Mr. Carlson has made his home 
in Boston since January, 1892. In politics he is a 
Republican. 

CHANDLER, Alfred Dupoxt, of Brookline, 
member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, 
May 18, 1847, son of Theophilus Parsons and 
Elizabeth Julia (Schlatter; Chandler. On the 
paternal side he is descended in the eighth gen- 
eration from Edmund Chandler, who settled in 
Duxbury in 1633, and was a representative from 
Duxbury in 1639. in 1643, ^"d '" '645. His 
maternal grandfather, William Schlatter, was an 
eminent Philadelphia merchant in the early part 
of this century. His parents removed to Brook- 
line when he was a y-ear old, and that has since 
been his home. He was educated in the Brook- 
line public schools and at Harvard, graduating in 
the class of 1868. His law studies were begun 
with his father, one of the ablest members of the 



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I\IEN OF PROGRESS. 



b,ir in liis tiiiiL-, and continued in tiie I!ost(in 
offices of Abbott iS: Jones and of Richard H. 
Dana, and with Porter, Lowrey, & Soren in New 
York City. He was admitted to the Middlesex 
bar at Cambridge, December 13, 1869, and on 
April 17, 1877, to the Supreme Court of the 
United .States. His preference is for chamber 
practice ; but on occasion he is heard in town 
meetings, before legislative committees, and in 
the higher courts. His attention is given mainly 
to corporation law, private and municipal. He 
has been active in the discussion and practical 
working of municipal administration in ISrookline, 




ALFRED D. CHANDLER. 

and has aided other New England towns. He 
has appeared in admiralty, in tariff, and in patent 
cases, and has helped to perfect inventions and to 
exploit patents for patentees. He was the peti- 
tioners' counsel in the Ebenezer .Smith will case, 
involving nearly half a million of dollars, in 
1878-79, his closing argument in the Probate 
Court occupying over live hours. As a solicitor 
for land companies, he has conducted several 
important suits which appear in the Massachu- 
setts Reports. He was the plaintiff's solicitor in 
the leading case of Pierce ?■. Drew, on the consti- 
tutionality of the Massachusetts telegraph act. 
Corporation receivership questions in the United 



States courts ha\e recpiirecl much of his time. 
He draughted the bill for the creation of national 
savings-banks, known as Mr. W'indom's bill, and 
offered by Mr. W'indoni in the United States 
Senate, March i, 1880. Mr. Chandler's argument 
thereon at Washington, May 4, 1880, before the 
committee on finance of the Senate, was printed 
at the committee's request. His published argu- 
ments before committees of the State Legislature 
on the annexation cpiestion, in 1880; on creating 
a tribunal to decide that a public necessity for a 
railroad exists before property can be taken for 
its construction, in 1882. resulting in Chapter 265 
of the Acts of 1882 : and on Nationalism and the 
municipal control of public lighting, in 1889, — are 
leading contributions upon those subjects. The 
construction of the Riverdale I\irk between Brook- 
line and Boston is due mainly to Mr. Chandler's 
continued efforts in surmounting legal and practi- 
cal difficulties in the way. He has been the pro- 
moter of or had an influential hand in directing 
the largest public improvements of late years in 
?!rookline. He served as chairman of the Board 
of Selectmen, Surveyors of Highways, Board of 
Health, and Overseers of the Poor, in Brook- 
line, in 1884-85-86, and as a trustee of the 
Brookline Public Library in 1874-75-76. The 
annual Brookline Town Reports, the most com- 
plete of any in the country, now follow the model 
established by his direction in 1885. The report 
of that year gives an elaborate exposition of 
municipal financiering, written by him. He was 
one of the earliest importers and users of the 
bicycle in .America ; and through his appeal, sus- 
tained by the Treasury Department at Washing- 
ton in 1877, bicycles were first made subject to 
the duty of and classed as carriages. His little 
book, " A Bicycle Tour in England and Wales," 
published in Boston and London in 1881, is 
mentioned in the select list of bibliographv in 
Baedeker's "Great liritain." He has been a con- 
stant contributor to the local press on a variety 
of questions touching municipal administration. 
In politics he is a Republican, and has served as 
president of the Brookline Republican Club. He 
is a member of the American Bar Association, of 
the Boston Bar Association, of the .American 
Economic Association, and of the Exchange Club 
of Boston, of which he was an active founder. 
He was married in Brookline, December 22, 1882, 
to Miss Mary M. Poor, daughter of Henry V. and 
ALirv W. (Pierce) Poor. Thev have six children. 



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955 



(.'HANDLER, Parkkr L'i.i'.avki.ani), of lios- 
ton, member of the Suffolk l);ir, was Ijoru in 
Boston, December 7, 184S, son of Peleg W. and 
Martha Ann (Cleaveland) Chandler. On the 
paternal side lie is a lineal descendant of Kclmund 
Chandler, who came from Eni:;land in 1633, and 
settled in Du.xbury. His maternal grandmother 
on his father's side was a Parsons, of the Chief 
Justice Parsons line. He is from three genera- 
tions of lawyers, — his paternal grandfather, a 
graduate of Prown University, his maternal grand- 
father, a graduate of Harvard, and his father, 
a graduate of Bowdoin. His mother was a 




p. C. CHANDLER. 

daughter of Professor Parker Cleaveland, H.C. 
1799, and for years the leading geologist of the 
United States at Bowdoin College. Mr. Chand- 
ler was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
School, and graduated from Williams in the class 
of 1872. He studied law at the Harvard Law 
School, graduating in 1874, and in the office of 
his father, who had long been one of the fore- 
most counsellors- at-law in Massachusetts, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1875. He has since 
practised in Boston and New York, almost ex- 
clusively engaged in corporation matters. He 
was managing counsel in the famous contest, 
covering seven years, of the Drawhaugh J'ele- 



phonc Company r'.f. the .American Bell Telephone 
Company ; was the representative of Cyrus W. 
Field, in the New York & New England Railroad 
litigation of 1888; and he has for some years 
been counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 
Company, the five Boston gas companies, and of 
several electrical corporations. Mr. Chandler has 
followed in his father's footsteps as an adviser in 
affairs of State as well as of law, keeping in touch 
with politics and social life. He was one of the 
originators of the Bristow movement within the 
Republican party in 1876, which was the earliest 
to advance civil service reform. Later, in the 
campaign for the Republican presidential nomina- 
tion, in 1880, he was manager for Senator John 
Sherman ; and during the hot ]5utler campaigns 
in Massachusetts he had charge of the Citizens' 
reform movement in Boston, and at that time 
drew the original drafts for the present registra- 
tion laws of the State. He has also given much 
time to the study of the science of municipal 
government, and has written for the press on 
political questions. With all his activity in poli- 
tics, he has never aspired to public office. Mr. 
Chandler is a member of numerous clubs in Bos- 
ton and New York, among them the l^niversity 
clubs of both cities, and the Union, Algonquin, 
and Athletic clubs of Boston. He is unmarried. 



CHAPIN, Nahu.m, of Boston, distiller, is a na- 
tive of Yermont, born in the town of Jamaica, 
Windham County, July 16, 1820, son of Harvey 
and Matte (Rossa) Chapin. His parents re- 
mo\ed to Massachusetts, settling in Waltham, 
when he was a child of four years. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at Smith's Acad- 
emy, Waltham, which he attended four years. 
After leaving the academy, he was apprenticed to 
learn the machinist's trade in the works of the 
Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, and 
four years later he became overseer of the shops. 
After three years in that position he removed to 
Charlestown, and established there a provision 
and produce business, in which he was success- 
fully engaged for twenty years. In i860, forming 
the firm of Richardson & Chapin, he entered the 
distilling business, which he has since followed, 
building up extensive w^orks in the C'harlestown 
District, with headquarters in the city proper. In 
1877 the firm name was changed to Chapin, 'Frull, 
& Co., as at present. Mr. Chapin early became 



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identified with (^harlestown local affairs and an 
influential citizen. He served in the Common 
Council from 1856 to i860: in the Board of 




He is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fel- 
lows orders, and is an active member of the old 
City Guard of Charlestown. In religious faith he 
is a Universalist, a member of the standing com- 
mittee of the First Universalist Church of Charles- 
town. He was married in Waltham in 1841, to 
Miss Lucy Farwell, daughter of Zaccheus and 
Harriet F"arwell. They have had four children, of 
whom two, George Francis and Lucy F. F. Chapin, 
only are now living. Of the other two, John Henry 
and Nahum Harvey Chapin, the elder, Nahum H.. 
died at the age of thirty-nine years. 



COBB, Henrv Eddy, of Boston, banker and 
broker, is a native of Connecticut, born in Hart- 
ford, June 21, 1839, son of Andrew B. and Lydia 
M. (Eddy) Cobb. He is descended on the pater- 
nal side from John Cobb of Romney, England, 
born in 1324, whose first descendant in this coun- 
try was Elder Henry Cobb, settling at Barnstable 
in 1634. On the maternal side he is also of old 
Pilgrim stock, from Samuel Eddy, of Middle- 
borough in 1624. His great-grandfather, Captain 



NAHUM CHAPIN. 

Aldermen in 186 1 and 1872 ; as an assessor from 
1867 to 1874, when Charlestown was annexed 
to Boston, continuing on the Pioston board till 
1879, and as one of the commissioners to carry 
into effect the act providing for annexation ; and 
for nearly a quarter of a century he was in active 
service on the Charlestown and Boston school 
boards. He also served in the State Legislature 
as a representative for the Charlestown District in 
1877-78. During his long service on the school 
Committee he accomplished a number of notable 
reforms. He was influential in ciianging the sys- 
tem of furnishing materials for the several school 
departments, the establishment of the important 
committee of supplies was upon his order, and his 
experience and practical knowledge rendered him 
a valuable member in various ways. Besides his 
regular business, Mr. Chapin is interested in local 
banking institutions, being a director of the P!un- 
ker Hill National Bank and a trustee of the War- 
ren Institution for Savings; and he was for many 
years a director of the ?sliddlesex Horse Railroad 
Company, subsequently of the Boston Consoli- 
dated Street Railway, and of other corporations. 




HENRY E. COBB. 



Joshua Eddy, served with Washington thr 
Revolution. He was educated in public 
finishinjr in the Newton High School. 



ough the 
schools. 
He left 



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school at the age of fourteen to take the place of 
boy in the Newton Bank. Two years later he 
entered the employ of Potter, Nute, White, & J5ag- 
ley, wholesale boot and shoe dealers in Boston, 
and continued there for twelve years. Then, in 
1867, he formed a copartnership with R. L. Day, 
under the firm name of R. L. Day & Cobb, 
bankers and brokers and stock auctioneers, and 
became the auctioneer of the firm, holding semi- 
weekly sales in the old Mechanics' Exchange on 
State Street. In 1S74 he entered the firm of 
Brewster, Bassett, & Co., successors of the old 
banking house of Brewster, Sweet, & Co. ; and 
later the present house of Brewster, Cobb, & Esta- 
brook, of which he is now the head, was formed. 
For several years he represented the house on the 
floor of the Stock E.xchange ; and he was for 
some time vice-president of that body, presiding 
at the afternoon sessions. In Newton, where he 
still resides, Mr. Cobb has served in the Board of 
Aldermen two years and for a longer period on 
the School Committee. He is interested in 
church matters, as a member of the Eliot Congre- 
gational Church of Newton, and is one of the 
officers of the American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions. He is a Freemason, mem- 
ber of the W'inslow Lewis Lodge, and of the 
Royal Arch Chapter at Newton. He is president 
of the Claflin Guard Veteran Association, and a 
trustee of the New England Conservatory of 
Music ; and a member of the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion, of the Congregational Club, and of the New- 
ton Club, an ex-president of the latter, having 
held that position for four years. In politics he is 
a Republican. Mr. Cobb was married May 11, 
1864, to Miss Hattie M. Cooley, of Norwich, 
Conn., a lineal descendant of Elder Brewster, of 
Plymouth. Their children are : Morton E., Lucy 
Elv, and Helen Minerva Cobb. 



tion continued for twenty years, or from 1870 till 
1890, when Mr. Stowell retired, and Mr. Cook 
purchased the business in connection with his 



COOK, Ch.\rles Sydney, of Boston, jeweller, 
senior partner of A. Stowell & Co., was born in 
New Bedford, March 14, 1848, son of Abijah 
Doane and Esther Luther (Baker) Cook. On 
the paternal side his first ancestor in this 
country, Josias Cook, came over in the " May- 
flower" in 1620. Coming to Boston in 1864 at 
the age of fifteen, Mr. Cook entered the employ 
of Alexander Stowell, the first years working for 
his board only. At the age of twenty-two he was 
admitted as a partner in the firm. This associa- 




CHARLES S. COOK. 

present partner, A. T. Maynard. Business of the 
house takes him frequently to Europe, and he has 
been abroad twelve times during the past sixteen 
years. He is also president of the D. S. Mc- 
Donald Company, of Boston. In politics Mr. 
Cook was by birth and education a Republican, 
and is an Independent by conviction, classed as a 
"Mugwump." He voted for Cleveland in the 
election of 1892. He is a Freemason, member 
of Bethesda Blue Lodge of Boston, Brighton 
District, and a member of the Boston Art and 
Athletic clubs. He was married January 12, 
1874, to Miss Helen Frances Clark, of Boston. 
They have two sons : Charles Sydney. Jr., and 
.\rthur Doane Cook. 



CROSBY, William Lincoln of IJoston, is a 
native of Maine, born in Calais in 1859, son of 
William and Sarah ( Persons) Crosby. He is de- 
scended from one of the early New England 
families, branches of which are settled in Maine, 
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New \ork. 
His ancestrv is traced back in England to 13 10, 



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and, in this country dates from tlie settlement 
of Simon Crosby in Cambridge in 1635. ^^''• 
Crosby was educated in the pubHc schools, and, 
graduating from the Bangor High School at the 
age of sixteen, successfully passed the examina- 
tions for Harvard College, but, choosing to start 
at once upon a business career, entered an insur- 
ance office. He remained in the insurance 
business about three years, and then became 
corresponding clerk for the IJrown & Sharpe 
Manufacturing Company of Providence, R.I., one 
of the leading manufacturing concerns of the 
world in its special lines. In the latter position 




W. L. CROSBY. 

he gained an experience that was invaluable to 
him ; but, not satisfied that he had yet found the 
particular vocation for which he was best adapted, 
he tried newspaper work for a year, and then 
book-keeping. For some time he was chief book- 
keeper for Parker & Wood, Boston, one of the 
largest agricultural goods houses in New England. 
The duties of this position, requiring a thorough 
comprehension of the details of a large and diver- 
sified business, brought to the front his natural 
abilities as an executive and manager, and in 
1886 he became the business manager of Lew- 
ando"s French dyeing and cleansing establishment. 
I'nder his management the business of this old- 



time house, fifty years established, more than 
doubled in proportions : and " Lewando's " has 
become the largest and foremost institution of its 
kind in the United States, with extensive works at 
Watertown and in New York City, main offices in 
Boston and New York, sub-offices in the various 
sections and suburbs of those cities, and branches 
in Cambridge, Lynn, Providence, Newport, Phila- 
delphia, Baltimore, and other cities. It now has 
a thousand agents and more throughout the coun- 
try, and employs hundreds of persons in its works 
and offices, including skilled workers from France, 
England, Germany, and Sweden. Mr. Crosby 
exercises direct control over all branches of the 
business : and its development to the present pro- 
portions and wide-reaching extent is due wholly 
to his qualities as a man of modern business ideas, 
with the executive force and ability to carry them 
out. He is a member of the .Athletic Club. Mr. 
Crosby is unmarried. 



CUMMINGS, John, of Woburn and Boston, 
banker, was born in Woburn, October 19, 18 12. 
He is of Scotch descent, and his ancestors were 
early settlers of Watertown. His great-grand- 
father, a native of Andover, moved to Woburn in 
1756, and bought the estate on which Mr. Cum- 
mings now lives. He acquired his education in 
part at the Warren Academy of Woburn and at a 
school at South Reading, but largely through self- 
teaching. Entering business at an early age, he 
engaged in the tanning and currying industry, be- 
coming one of the leading tanners in his section. 
He was associated at different periods with John 
B. Alley, Charles Choate, Leonard B. Harrington, 
and Leonard Harrington, well known in the trade. 
In :S68 he became president of the Shawmut 
National Bank of Boston, and has held that posi- 
tion continuously to the present time, making him 
now one of the oldest bank presidents in Boston. 
During the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, 
in T876, he was a member of the Centennial 
Board of Finance, which redeemed that enterprise 
from failure, and carried it through to triumphant 
success. He has served in both branches of the 
State Legislature as representative for Woburn, 
and senator for the Sixth Middlesex District ; and 
has proved a useful and influential citizen in other 
walks. He has been a member of the executive 
committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology since the establishment of that committee, 



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959 



and was treasurer of the corporation for seventeen home. He was educated in tiie Jjoston public 
years; and, upon his retirement from the latter schools, with a supplementary course at IJryant 
position in 18S9, his name, by formal vote of the & Stratton's Commercial College. His business 

career was begun when he was still in his teens, 
with his brother Bernard, then engaged in the 
wine and spirits trade. After a number of years 
spent in that business, in which he prospered, he 
retired, and engaged in banking and brokerage, 
which he has since successfully followed, operat- 
ing principally in gas securities and real estate. 
He has also been identified with the West End 
Land Company, the Charles River Embankment 
Company, and other land improvements in Jioston 
and its immediate neighborhood ; and he is an 
owner of valuable real estate. He is a director 
of the Mechanics' National Bank of Boston, in the 
reorganization of which, some years ago, he took 
part : and a director of the Bay State Gas Company, 
He was prominent in the organization of the Bos- 
ton Cas Syndicate which acquired the leading gas 
companies in the city in 1886, and he has since 
been largely interested in the gas business. In 
politics Mr. Cunniff is a Democrat, and for many 
years was an acti\'e force in city and State politi- 




JOHN CUMMINGS. 

corporation, was applied in perpetuity to the 
laboratories of mining, engineering, and metal- 
lurgy, in recognition of his services. Mr. Cum- 
mings has had somewhat similar public relations 
for many years with the Boston Society of Na- 
tional History and the State Agricultural College 
at Amherst ; and he has served some time also as 
a director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind 
and of the Massachusetts Institution for Feeble- 
minded \'outh. His scientific tastes, notably in 
the development of natural history, were displayed 
early in life, and have been closely cultivated 
through his long and active business career, while 
he has always been devoted to agriculture, in later 
years especially interested in the application of 
scientific principles to the working of the soil. 




M. M. CUNNIFF. 



CUNNIFF, Michael Matthews, of Boston, 
banker and broker, was born in Boscommon, 
Ireland, in 1850, son of Michael and Ellen (Ken- 
nedy) Cunniff, His parents came to America cal matters. He held the chairmanship of the 
when he was an infant of three months, and set- Democratic city committee for several terms, was 
tied in Boston, which city has since been his later chairman of the executive committee of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Democratic State Committee ; and he has been a 
member of the State Committee for seventeen 
years. In 1888 he was a member of the Gover- 
nor's Council, for the Fourth Suffolk District, and, 
renominated for a second term, declined to stand. 
He is prominent in the Independent Order of 
Foresters, having held the office of chief ranger ; 
is a leading member also of the Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks ; an honorary member of 
the Kearsarge Veterans ; member of the Charita- 
ble Irish Society of Boston, and of the Suffolk, 
Eastern, and Massachusetts yacht clubs. Mr. 
Cunniff was married in Boston, June 30, 1890, to 
Miss Josephine McLaughlin, daughter of the late 
Francis McLaughlin, a Boston merchant and man- 
ufacturer. They have two children : Michael M., 
Jr., and Josephine Cunniff. v 



DRIVER, William Raymond, of Beverly, 
treasurer of the American Bell Telephone Com- 
pany, was born in Beverly, January 2, 1839, son 
of David and Emma Elizabeth (Raymond) Driver. 
He is of English ancestry, his first ancestor in 





WM. R. DRIVER. 

America coming in 1630. His later ancestors 
were chiefly seafaring men. He was educated in 
the public schools of his native place. His busi- 



ness career was begun in a retail dry-goods and 
drug store. Subsequently he was employed in 
a wholesale woollens store in Boston, and at a 
later period in the Suffolk Savings Bank. He 
was chosen treasurer of the American Bell Tele- 
phone Company in 1880, upon its organization, 
and has held this position from that time to the 
present. Colonel Driver served in the Civil War, 
from the opening of hostilities in 1861 — enlist- 
ing on the iSth of April of that year — to the 
close, being discharged September 19, 1865, and 
passed through the several grades in the volun- 
teer service to brevet lieutenant colonel. He was 
present at all of the battles of the army of the Poto- 
mac except that of Ball's Bluft". He is a member 
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
United States, of the Military Historical Society 
of Massachusetts, of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public ; and of the Union and Algonquin clubs, 
Itoston. In Beverly, where he still resides, he is 
a trustee of the Public Library and a commis- 
sioner of sinking funds. In politics Colonel 
Driver is an Independent. He was married Jan- 
uary 14, 1869, to Miss Ellen Salisbury Brown, of 
Beverly. Their children are : Eleanor Salisbury, 
now wife of William G. Rantoul, and William 
Raymond Driver, Jr. 



EVANS, Brick Shepherd, of Boston, real 
estate dealer and broker, was born in Allenstown, 
N.H., September 11, 1821, son of Robert and 
Sarah R. (Goss) Evans, died in Boston, Decem- 
ber 6, 1895. He was reared on a farm, and edu- 
cated in the country schools. Coming to Boston 
at the age of sixteen to seek his fortune, he began 
as a clerk in a diy-goods store, became a successful 
retail merchant, and later, entering the real estate 
field, became one of the most prominent of real 
estate dealers and brokers in Boston, extending 
his operations and investments into other parts of 
New England and the West. His first employ- 
ment was with a dry-goods dealer ha\-ing a shop 
on Cambridge Street, and he remained there for 
five years. He started in business for himself 
when he reached his majorit)', opening a shop on 
Court Street, near Sudbury Street. Subsequently 
he moved to Hanover Street, at that time the 
centre of retail trade, and there did a flourishing 
lousiness for several years. As a real estate 
dealer, he was a shrewd operator and far-seeing 
investor from the start. He watched with much 



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961 



interest the growth of the city in various direc- 
tions, and, carefully noting the earliest indications 
of changes in the business sections, directed his 




BRICE S. EVANS. 

in\-estnients accordingly, so in time becoming a 
large owner of valuable realty in the best parts of 
Boston. His name was well known in Boston 
real estate circles for half a century, and in con- 
nection especially wMth large transactions. He 
bought sagaciously, and was an authority on all 
matters pertaining to investments in realty, his 
judgment being relied on as accurate and trust- 
worthy. He did a large business as a real estate 
auctioneer, and much valuable residential and 
business property was sold by him in this way. 
He was one of the earliest members of the Real 
Estate Exchange. Mr. Evans was activelv inter- 
ested in temperance and other reforms. He ar- 
ranged the mass meeting at Faneuil Hall upon the 
"Travis incident," engaged the speakers, and was 
the temporary chairman of the committee of ten 
(five at Faneuil Hall and five at Tremont Temple) 
which afterward became the Committee of One 
Hundred ; and he carried on for many years the 
famous Allenstown .\ugust Grove Meetings, when 
Ihiiusands from the surrounding places listened to 
noted preachers from other parts of the country. 
In these annual religious gatherings he was 



greatly interested, and he contributed nuich the 
larger part of the funds to meet the expense in- 
volved. It was through his influence, also, that 
clergymen of distinction were each year brought 
to take part in the work. He retained the ances- 
tral home where he was born, in Allenstown, as 
his country seat, and by a generous outlay made 
it one of the most delightful places in central 
New Hampshire. Here the ministers attending 
the August grove meetings were hospitably en- 
tertained, and his neighbors were always wel- 
come. He never lost his interest in his native 
State, and he was held in high esteem by the 
people of Allenstown and the Suncook Valley. In 
religious faith Mr. Evans was a Baptist, connected 
with the First Baptist Church on Commonwealth 
Avenue. He was a member of the Boston Baptist 
Social Union, one of the founders of the Boston 
Industrial Temporary Home, and interested in 
various other charitable or philanthropical insti- 
tutions. Mr. Evans was married in Boston, Janu- 
ary I, 1845, to Miss Sarah M. Cummings, daugh- 
ter of Charles Cummings, a contractor and 
builder of Boston. They had a family of five 
sons and four daughters. Three of the sons are 
associated with the firm of Brice S. Evans & Co., 
— Edgar B., Charles R., and Herbert S. ; another, 
Percival A., is an architect ; and the other, 
Arthur W., is in the shoe business. The daugh- 
ters were Estelle M., now the wife of William G. 
Preston, the architect ; Isadore, widow of Lieu- 
tenant Frank \\". Nichols, United States navy ; 
Minerva S., residing at home, and Gertrude ^^'are 
Evans (deceased). Mrs. Evans died in 1886. 



FAIRBANKS, Lorenzo Savles, of Boston, 
member of the Sufl:olk bar, was born in Pepperell, 
March 16, 1825, son of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) 
Fairbanks. He is a descendant in the eighth 
generation of Jonathan Fairbanks, who came from 
Yorkshire, England, about the year 1633, and in 
1636 settled in Dedliam, where he built the house 
still standing, a cherished landmark in Dedham. 
and one of the oldest houses in New England. 
In this house John Fairbanks, the great-grand- 
father of Lorenzo S., was born. His father was 
also a native of Dedham, born in 1797, and 
thence moved to Pepperell in 1822, where he 
lived till 1825, when he moved a second time, to 
New Boston, N.H. The mother of Lorenzo S. 
was a daughter of Ebenezer Tufts, of Roxbury, 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



N.H., an intellectual woman, of strong character, 
of great energy and executive ability. His edu- 
cation was begun in the district schools in New- 
Boston ; and, attracting attention there as a 
scholar, he was stimulated to push for higher attain- 
ments. Half a dozen of his schoolmates preparing 
for college, he was ambitious to follow in their 
steps ; and, knowing that he must himself meet the 
cost of a collegiate training, for it was beyond the 
means of his father, — an industrious manufacturer 
of doors, blinds, window sashes, and clock cases, 
but moderately prosperous, — he set about clearing 
the way. Entering a country store in New Bos- 



^SH iKKJltr' 



i-/. 




L. S. FAIRBANKS. 

ton as a clerk, he spent three years there acquir- 
ing means for beginning a course of preparatory 
study, and then attended Hancock Academy for a 
term. Continuing his studies in the Townsend 
(Vt.) Academy, and later at the Black River 
Academy at Ludlow, \i.. he was finally fitted for 
college ; but, instead of then entering, he further 
studied at home without a teacher, mastering the 
course of the freshman year, and in the autumn of 
1849 entered Dartmouth in the sophomore class. 
While in college, he was president of the Alpha 
Delta Phi Society and of the Social Friends, a 
public literary society ; and at graduation was ad- 
mitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He grad- 



uated in 1852 with high rank, and in the com- 
mencement e.xercises delivered the closing oration. 
His law studies were pursued in New York City, 
and he was admitted to the New York bar in the 
autumn of 1853. He at once began practice 
there, and during his first two years was retained 
in a number of notable cases, among them being 
the celebrated Chemical Bank forgery cases, and 
the so-called " Martha Washington false pretence 
case," which grew out of the burning of the 
steamer " Martha Washington " on the Mississippi 
River in 1852, twelve persons being indicted for 
obtaining money under false pretences from New- 
York insurance companies on pretended ship- 
ments of merchandise on the steamer, it being 
alleged that no goods were shipped and that the 
vessel was burned to obtain the insurance. In 
the latter case Mr. Fairbanks w-as counsel for 
eleven of the twelve defendants, and succeeded in 
having the indictments quashed. After four 
years of practice in New- ^'ork he decided to move 
to the West ; but, the financial condition of the 
country at the time making the outlook there un- 
promising, he went to Philadelphia, where he took 
charge of a commercial school which was in a 
languishing condition. Entering upon this new- 
business with zeal and energy, within six months 
the institution w-as freed from debt ; and at the end 
of three years, during a large part of which time 
he was a partner in the enterprise, it was fixed on 
a firm foundation and steadily prosperous. Sub- 
sequently he started a commercial school of his 
own : and during his conduct of it, for a period of 
fi\e years, it was, w-ith one exception, the largest 
school of its kind in the country. While in 
charge of this school, he published an elaborate 
treatise on book-keeping, w-hich is still in the 
market, and subsequently a practical work on 
commercial arithmetic, embodying new features. 
Mr. Fairbaiiks came to Boston in 1874, and re- 
sumed his regular profession, engaging in a 
general practice. He has the reputation of being 
a safe and conservative counsellor, and in the 
cases he has tried has been eminently successful. 
Some years ago he gave considerable attention 
to the study of electrical science, and invented 
several interesting electrical devices, including 
telephones, for the manufacture of which he 
organized a company ; but, upon the decision of 
the United States Supreme Court in support of 
the Bell patent, his company suspended operations 
to await the expiration of the fundamental patents. 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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In 1877 lie added to his list of publications a 
work on the "Marriage and Divorce Laws of Mas- 
sachusetts," and brought out a second edition in 
1882. For the past three years he has been en- 
gaged in compiling a general genealogy of the 
Fairbanks family, for publication. Mr. Fairbanks 
was married in New York in 1856 to Sarah Eliza- 
beth Heath, daughter of Samuel S. and Rebecca 
(Pearl) Heath, of Bradford. They had three 
daughters, two of whom are living, one of them 
married and havintr three children. 



FLYNN, Edward James, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, June i6, 
1859, son of Maurice and Mary (McSweeny) Flynn. 
He is of Irish ancestry. He was educated in the 
Boston public schools, attending the Eliot Gram- 
mar and English High, and at Boston College, 
graduating from the latter, valedictorian of the 
class, in 1881, with the regular degree of A.B., 
and receiving the degree of A.M. three years 
later. In college he was president of two leading 
societies. He studied law in the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School, and after graduation there, in 
1884, with the degree of LL.B., took a special 
course in the Harvard Law School. In January 
the same year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, 
and began practice in Boston, early building up 
an extensive and lucrative business. He became 
interested in political matters when a law student, 
and in the autumn following his graduation was 
elected to the lower house of the Legislature 
for the Sixth Suffolk District. Twice returned, 
he served in the legislatures of 1885, 1886, and 
1888, a leading member on the Democratic side 
from the start, active in debate and prominent in 
committee work, serving on the committees on pro- 
bate and insolvency, election laws, the judiciary, 
and constitutional amendments. He was an elo- 
quent speaker and identified with numerous im- 
portant measures. He was an earnest advocate 
of annual elections and of the abolition of the 
poll tax ; led the opposition to the passage of the 
Metropolitan Police Bill for the city of Boston, 
and was recognized as an able and fearless leader. 
During the years 1886, 1887, and 1888 he was 
also a director of the East Boston ferries ; and he 
was lire marshal of the city of Boston till the 
abolition of that office by the Legislature, filling 
the position with marked ability. In 1S89 he was 
elected a member of the Executive Council, and 



through repeated re-elections served in that body 
in 1889 (with Governor Ames), 1890 (with Gover- 
nor Brackett), and 189 1 (with Governor Russell), 
the only Democratic member, and the youngest 
man who ever sat in the Governor's Council. He 
was also the youngest man who has ever served as 
an East Boston Ferry director. In the election of 
1895 he was a candidate on the Democratic State 
ticket for secretary of state. He was for a num- 
ber of years connected with the Boston Demo- 
cratic city committee, and is now vice-president of 
the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachu- 
setts. He served as president of the Boston 




EDWARD J. FLYNN. 

College Alumni Association for two years, July, 
1890-92. He is now president of the Charitable 
Irish Society, the oldest organization of its kind 
in this part of the country ; and is a member of 
the Knights of Columbus and of the Boston 
Catholic Union. Mr. Flynn was married October 
18, 1893, to Miss Mary I. Harvey, of Waltham. 
They have one child: Edward J. Flynn, Jr. 



FRENCH, Asa, of Kraintree and Boston, mem- 
ber of the bar, is a native of Braintree, born 
October 21, 1829, son of Jonathan and Sarah 
(Brackettj P"rench. His ancestors lived in Brain- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



tree from its early settlement. He received 
his early education in the public schools, fitted 
for college at Leicester Academy, and graduated 
at Yale in the class of 185 1. He studied law in 
the Albany and Harvard Law schools, graduating 
from the latter with the regular degree in 1853. 
He was admitted to the New York bar that year ; 
and soon after, coming to Boston, and further 
reading in the offices of David A. Simmons and 
Harvey Jewell, he was admitted to the Suffolk 
bar, April 26, 1S54. Although practising in Bos- 
ton with a large clientage, he has been especially 
identified with the bar of Norfolk C'ountv, the 




% 



ASA FRENCH. 

place of his residence. In 1S70 he was appointed 
district attorney for the South-eastern District of 
Massachusetts, consisting of the counties of Nor- 
folk and Plymouth ; and he held this office by suc- 
cessive elections till 1882, when he resigned. 
Previous to his resignation he was offered by Gov- 
ernor Long a seat on the bench of the Superior 
Court, which he declined. In 18S2, under the 
act of Congress of June 5, that year, re-establish- 
ing the " Court of Commissioners of Alabama 
Claims," he was appointed one of the judges of 
that court. He was for many years a member 
of the State Board of Commissioners on Inland 
Fisheries. He has served one term (1886) as 



a representative in the State Legislature. In 
1883 he was appointed by President Arthur one 
of the \isitors to West Point for that year. In 
Braintree he has held numerous positions of trust. 
He is now president of the Board of Trustees of 
the Thayer Public Library and the Thayer Acad- 
emy, institutions established through the gener- 
osity of the late General Sylvanus Thayer, the 
former endowed by him in 1870, and the latter 
provided by his will, and having now an invested 
fund of about $300,000 bequeathed by him to 
trustees for the establishment of a school free to 
all citizens of the original town of Braintree, com- 
prising the present city of Quincy and the towns 
of Braintree, Randolph, and Holbrook. for the 
education of their children. Mr. French is a 
member of the Boston and Norfolk Bar associa- 
tions and the Harvard Law Association ; also of 
the University Club of Boston. Mr. P'rench was 
married in June. 1S55, to Miss Ellen Clizbe, of 
Amsterdam, N.Y., who died in September of the 
same year. He married, second, in October, 
1858, Miss Sophia B. Palmer, daughter of the late 
Simeon Palmer, of Boston. She died December 
25, i8gi. To this union were born five children : 
Asa Palmer, Emmelyn L., Saban Hayward (de- 
ceased), Harriet C, and Mary Sophia Palmer. 



FRIES, WuLF Chris iiAX Julius, of Boston, 
musician, is a native of Germany, born in Garbeck- 
Holstein, January 10, 1825, son of Johann Carl 
Ludolph and Anna (Stuhr) Fries. His father was 
a teacher and an amateur musician, and gave him 
his first instruction on the violoncello when he 
was so small that he was obliged to stand and 
play the instrument in the bass fashion. He at- 
tended his father's school, receiving there his 
early general education, until he was eleven years 
old, when he went to Ploen, in Holstein, to receive 
systematic instruction in music. There he was 
tried at various instruments, and learned to play 
acceptably the French horn, the violin, the viola, 
bass-viol, and the trombone. After several 
years at Ploen, he went with his brother August, 
a good violinist, to Bergen, Norway, in 1842, 
under engagement to a Mr. Schlossbauer, a fine 
violinist, who furnished the city with music. Not 
being treated well by their master, they were soon 
released through process of law, and found places 
in the onh' theatre in the town. August to play 
the violin, and W'ulf the 'cello. While here en- 



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gaged, they gave occasional concerts togetiier, ;uul 
helped musicians coming to Bergen to concertize. 
In this way they came in contact with such artists 
as Ole Bull and Kellerman, the famous 'cellist ; 
and from hearing them W'ulf became decided as 
to his special instrument, wisely selecting the 
'cello. The brothers came to America in 1847 ; 
and W'ulf chose Boston as his home, where he has 
ever since lived. He early became famous as a 
'cellist, and in course of time did much to raise 
the standard of orchestration. His first engage- 
ment in Boston was as 'cellist at the old National 
Theatre on Portland Street. Soon after he also 




WULF C. J. FRIES. 

joined the Germania, playing the trombone, and 
was an original member of the Germania Serenade 
Band. In 1S49 his brother, who had remained in 
New York, joined him in Boston, and formed the 
.Mendelssohn Quintette Club, composed of August 
Fries, Gerloff, Eduard Lehmann, Oscar Greiner, 
and Wulf Fries, which during its long career 
achieved a great fame through its tours in this 
country. At about this time Mr. Fries also joined 
the old Musical Fund Society, an outgrowth of 
the Boston Academy of Music, which had flour- 
ished from 1833 to 1847 ; and he became a regu- 
lar performer in the concerts of the Harvard 
Musical Association and the Handel and Haydn 



Society. He lias since appeared in man)- 
chamber concerts in Boston, and has also taken 
part in a large number of special concerts. In 
1873. after twenty-three j^ears with the Mendels- 
sohn Quintette Club, becoming tired of travelling, 
he joined the Beethoven (Quintette Club, then 
formed for concerts near his home. When 
Rubinstein came to Boston, in 1873, he was called 
upon to play trios with him and Wieniawski ; and 
in later years he has taken part in concerts with 
Dr. Hans von Biilovv, and with his friend Ernst 
Perabo he has played all the Beethoven sonatas, 
trios, etc. In religious faith Mr. Fries is of the 
Lutheran Church. He was married first in Bos- 
ton, July 7, 185 1, to Miss Louisa Ann Mary 
Gann, daughter of James P. and Mary M. G. H. 
( Ryder) Gann, of England, and of this union were 
two children : James Christian Charles and Wulf 
Fries, Jr. (deceased). His second marriage was 
near Bergen, Norway, September 16, 1857. to Miss 
Magdalene Greve, daughter of Johan Fritzner and 
Henrietta (Neven) Greve, of Norway. The chil- 
dren by this union are : Louisa Henriette and 
.Vnna Magdalene Fries. Mr. Fries has resided 
for many years in the Roxbury District, Boston. 



GALLOLTPE, Charles William, of fJoston 
and Swampscott, was born in Beverly, September 
5, 1825. son of Isaac and Annis (Allen) Galloupe. 
He is a direct descendant on both sides of the 
first settlers of Massachusetts Bay, and in his line 
of descent the intermarriages have been made al- 
ways with descendants only of the original Puri- 
tan immigrants. His earliest paternal ancestor in 
New England was John Gallop, for whom (iai- 
lop's Island in Boston Harbor was named, who 
came from England, with his four children, John, 
Samuel, Nathaniel, and Joan, in the ship " Mary 
and John," which reached Natascott (now Hull) 
on May 30, 1C30. John Gallop descended from 
John Gallop, who '■ came out of the North in 
1465,'' and settled in County Dorset. England, 
where his descendants still reside upon the estate 
which has been owned and occupied by the family 
for more than four centuries. The first marriage 
which took place in the family after their arrival 
in America was that of Mr. Galloupe's ancestor, 
Captain John (Jallop, 2d (who was killed in the 
Narragansett Swamp fight in 1675), "'^o married 
Hannah Lake, daughter of Madame Margaret 
(Reed) Lake, a sister of the wife of Governor 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



John Winthrop, Jr., ;ind a step-daughter of the 
famous Rev. Hugh Peters, the private chaplain of 
Oliver Cromwell. John Gallop probably fir.st 
settled at Natascott on the hill which still 
bears his name : and, when Winthrop came, he 
Joined him, and removed to Boston, where he 
established himself permanently. He built his 
house upon the " Sea bancke," now North Street 
(on the map of the " Book of Possessions " num- 
bered 34); and to the territory e.xtending from the 
" Creek," now Blackstone Street, to the Chelsea 
Ferry was given the name of "Gallop's Point." 
He built and commanded one of the first vessels 
built here, which in 1632 was chartered by Gov- 
ernor Winthrop, with Gallop in charge, to " pur- 
sue and capture the notorious pirate, Di.xey Bull." 
In 1633 he brought the ship "Griffin" of Ihree 
hundred tons into the harbor at low water, as 
Winthrop relates in his " Diary," " a new way by 
Lovell's Island, now called Griffin's Gap. She 
brought about two hundred passengers," of which 
Gallop's wife, it is said, was one. Three years 
later he had an encounter with the Indians in 
Narragansett Bay, an interesting account of which 
was written by Increase Mather in 1677, and 
which is called in Cooper's " Naval History of the 
United States" "the first naval battle in Amer- 
ica." He died in 1649, and his will is among the 
earliest in the colony on record. Mr. Galloupe's 
first maternal ancestor in America was William 
Allen, born in Manchester, England, in 1602, who 
came over with Roger Conant about 1622, and 
accompanied Conant to Cape Ann in 1625. In 
1626 he was first connected with what is now 
known as Manchester-by-the-sea. In 1636 fifty 
acres of land were granted him by the colony ; and 
in 1640 he, with others, petitioned the " Honorable 
Court" for "Power to erect a Villiage there," 
which was granted, and the " Villiage " was 
named Manchester, probably in commemoration 
of their home in England. Jacob Allen, the ma- 
ternal great-grandfather of Mr. Galloupe, was one 
of the minute-men who marched from Manchester 
on the day of the battle of Le.xington ; and both 
his grandfather, Isaac Allen, and his great-grand- 
father, were in the battle of Bunker Hill, and 
served in the first army under General Washing- 
ton. Enos Gallop, his paternal grandfather, en- 
listed in the army of the Revolution when but 
seventeen years of age, and served during the war. 
Both of the grandfathers were granted pensions 
by Congress. Mr. Galloupe received the usual 



educational training aftorded boys of his position 
in his day, beginning at the " mistress school," 
passing through the district or "master's" school, 
and taking a course at the academy ; and at the 
age of fifteen he was regarded as amply equipped 
for business life. Accordingl)', he then entered 
the local dry-goods store of Elbridge Fisk, on 
Cabot Street, Beverly, and began work as a clerk. 
.After two years' experience in that place, and 
finding his native town too limited a field for his 
ambition, he armed himself with letters of recom- 
mendation from the minister and the selectmen 
of the town, and set out for Boston. There, ob- 




C. W. GALLOUPE. 

taining a situation as a salesman with Carney & 
Sleeper, then one of the wealthiest and most 
prominent firms of wholesale clothiers, he so ap- 
plied himself to the business that he gained the 
approbation of both partners ; and, after a clerk- 
ship of slightly more than two years, was, when 
but twenty years old, upon the retirement of 
Carney & Sleeper from the business, made an 
equal partner with Joseph J. Whiting and M. 
Kehoe, Jr., in the firm which succeeded them, 
Messrs. Carney and Sleeper forming a special co- 
partnership of five years, and contributing an 
ample amount of capital for its successful continu- 
ation. At the end of the five years, in 185 1, 



MEN OF PKOGRKSS. 



967 



when tlie special partnership tenniiiatecl hy limita- 
tion, a new tirm was formed under tiie name of 
Whiting, Kehoe. & Galloupe. Up to 1856 tlie 
house was establislied on Nortii, formerly Ann 
Street. That year removal was made to a new 
granite building, completed especially for the 
firm, on Federal Street, near Milk Street, which 
had become the centre of the dry-goods jobbing 
and commission trade; and here a most success- 
ful business was carried on till another change of 
locality and larger facilities were deemed neces- 
sary, when a new granite building, also especially 
fitted up for the firm by its owners, on Franklin 
Street was occupied. The partnership formed in 
1851 expired in 1859; and, Mr. Kehoe then with- 
drawing, Joseph \\'. Bliss, Albert T. Whiting, Otis 
H. Pierce, and James McKenna were admitted, 
and the firm name became Whiting, Galloupe, 
Bliss, & Co. Under this organization a prosper- 
ous business was done with all parts of the coun- 
try, and also, after the opening of the Civil War, 
with the United States government, through the 
supply of the army and navy and the Indian de- 
partments with clothing by contract. In 1862 
Mr. Galloupe and Mr. Joseph J. Whiting in their 
turn withdrew from the active conduct of affairs, 
establishing by a special partnership, as Messrs. 
Carney and Sleeper had done sixteen years be- 
fore, their former partners as their successors, 
under the firm name of Bliss, Whiting, Pierce, & 
McKenna, contributing an abundance of capital 
for the prosecution of the large business which 
had de\eloped. After their retirement Mr. Gal- 
loupe and Mr. Whiting, associating themselves 
with Charles A. Putnam, cashier of the Washing- 
ton Bank, established a banking house on State 
Street, under the firm name of Whiting, (ialloupe, 
& Putnam, and were soon engaged in a large and 
successful business. In 1863 the firm was ap- 
pointed by the United States government one of 
the agents of the five-twenty loan, and through its 
extensive connections with the leading banks and 
bankers in all of the large cities of the country, 
it attained a prominent and respected position. 
Mr. Whiting died suddenly in 1864, and, deprived 
of the companionship of his warm friend and 
partner of twenty years, Mr. Galloupe found busi- 
ness no longer attractive; and, continuing a short 
time under the firm name of Galloupe & Putnam, 
he retired, establishing in his place his brother-in- 
law, Edward L. Giddings, who formed a partner- 
ship with William H. Tower under the firm name 



of Tower, Giddings, & Co. In his com|)aratively 
short business career Mr. (ialloupe had been asso- 
ciated with an unusual number of men who at- 
tained public prominence; Andrew Carney, the 
founder of that beneficent institution, the Car- 
ney Hospital, South Boston, and distinguished 
throughout his active life for his many charitable 
contributions ; Jacob Sleeper, the munificent phil- 
anthropist, whose generous gifts and personal sup- 
port advanced the quick development of Boston 
University ; Albert T. Whiting, for a long term 
chairman of the State Board of Police in Boston ; 
Alanson W. Beard, ex-collector of the port of Bos- 
ton, who was for some time in Mr. Galloupe's 
employ ; as was also Sydney Gushing, ex-alder- 
man of Boston. During the Civil War, Mr. 
Galloupe, having offered his services to the gov- 
ernment in connection with the War Depart- 
ment, in Boston, after his retirement from the 
clothing trade, was appointed to take charge of 
the clothing and equipment contracts ; and in this 
capacity he served without compensation for more 
than a year, being honorably retired when there 
was no longer any occasion for his services, with 
the thanks of the War Department in writing, 
through the officer in command in Boston. In 
May, 1866, accompanied by his family, he sailed 
for England, and for the next fifteen months trav- 
elled extensively through Europe. In 1872 he 
joined the old Trinity parish, then in Summer 
Street, and in April of that year he was appointed 
a member of the general building committee cre- 
ated the previous March, charged with the build- 
ing of the new Trinity Church on Copley .Square. 
The entire management was placed by the gen- 
eral committee in the hands of an executive com- 
mittee of three, of whom he was one (Charles H. 
Parker, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., and Charles W. 
Galloupe), with full powers; and from that time 
to the completion of the church and its consecra- 
tion February g, 1877, a period of five years, his 
time and attention were entirely devoted to this 
work. He also became a warm and intimate 
friend of Phillips Brooks, and the closest personal 
relations existed between them from the time of 
his connection with the parish to the death of the 
beloved bishop. In 1880 he sailed again with his 
family for Europe, and spent a year in \'ienna. 
Mr. Galloupe was married April 13, 1848, to Miss 
Sarah Augusta Kittredge, eldest daughter of Dr. 
Ingalls and Augusta Kittredge, a descendant of 
Roger Conant. Their living children are : Sarah 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Kittredge and Wilhelmina. The eldest daughter. 
Sarah, married March 21, 1866, the Hon. Elhs 
W. Morton, for some tune assistant United States 
district attorney, and afterward member of the 
Legislature, serving in both branches, who died 
September 24. 1874, leaving one son, Galloupe 
Morton; in 1892 she married F. F. Hunt of New 
York, where she now resides. Wilhelmina married 
in 1S79 Dr. Samuel J. Mixter, of Boston. Mr. 
Galloupe's winter residence is in Boston, and his 
summer seat in Swampscott is well known as 
"Galloupe's Point." 



GR.WES, Abbott Fuller, of Boston, artist, 
was born in Weymouth, April 15, 1859, son of 
James Griswold and Eliza Nichols (Fuller) Graves. 



GILMAN, EnwiN C, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, .\ugust 29, 1851, 
son of Samuel and Jeanette (Rae) Gilman. He 
was educated in the public schools, and studied 
law in the offices of Moses Williams and Clement 
K. Fay. Admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 
1878, he opened his office in Boston. He was 
successfully engaged in general practice until 
1885, when he became the attorney of the Lamson 
Consolidated Store Ser\ice Company ; and since 




EDWIN C. OILMAN. 

that time he has been devoted almost exclusively 
to the management of its legal business. Mr. 
Gilman married Miss Anna B. Hunt, of Salem. 




ABBOTT ORAVES. 

On the paternal side he is of an old English family, 
directly descended from early settlers in New Eng- 
land, coming from England ; and on the maternal 
side he is a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, first 
physician of the Plymouth Colony. His mother 
was of Hingham. His maternal great-grand- 
mother, Sally DeCarteret, was born in old 
North Square, Boston, then the "court end." 
He was educated in the public schools of his 
native town, and at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, graduating from the School of Design. 
His talent for drawing was displayed in his boy- 
hood, and he early determined upon art as his 
profession. After his graduation from the In- 
stitute he went to Europe, and studied under 
George Jeannin. the celebrated flower painter, 
in 1884-85 ; and upon his return he was engaged 
as an instructor in the Cowles Art School. In 
1887 he again went abroad, and spent the follow- 
ing three years under Ferdinand Cornion. in paint- 
ing the figure. His progress was rapid and 
marked, his first medal being awarded him in 
1887. He was an exhibitor in the Paris Salon of 
1888-89, showing "Poppies and Rose Fields of 
Perigny," and later was represented in some of 



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969 



the most iidtable Aiiil-i ic;in exhibitions, receiving 
medals in 1890 and in 1892, two the latter year. 
He attained distinction first in flower painting, 
and subsequently broadened his field, including 
notable figure work. Among his best known 
paintings are " Rose Fields of Perigny," now in 
the Marlboro, New York City ; " Flowers of 
N'enice," in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis; "The 
Chrysanthemum Show," owned by John Shepard, 
of Boston ; '• The Silent Partner," owned by Fran- 
cis Wilson, the comedian; "Making Things 
Shine," owned by Eugene Tompkins, of the ISos- 
ton Theatre ; and " Making Friends," owned by 
A. M. Palmer, of New York. Mr. Graves di- 
vides his time between Boston and Maine, his 
winter studio being in the Studio Building in the 
city, and his summer studio in the old Herrick 
homestead, a pleasant, old-fashioned house in 
picturesque Kennebunkport. During the winter 
season he has classes in both oil and water color, 
his pupils having a separate studio from his own. 
In the summer he does much outdoor painting. 
He is an indefatigable worker, and his work 
is thorough. He is a member of the Paint and 
Clay Club, of the Boston Society of Water-color 
Painters, of the Boston .Art Student's Associ- 
ation, and of the Kennebunk River Club. He 
is also connected with the Masonic order, a 
member of Wyoming Lodge. He was married 
September 30, 1S86, to Miss Montie Mayo 
.\ldrich, daughter of Louis Aldrich, the actor. 
They have a daughter: FLnid Craves, born in 
Paris, France. 



he held until 18S3, when he started in business for 
himself. Becoming associated with A. .\. Blair, he 
established the printing house of Blair \- Hallett, 
at No. 85 Water Street, which soon became well 
known in the comnumity. Karly outgrowing the 
Water Street quarters, the firm removed to No. 
197 Devonshire Street, \wth largely increased facil- 
ities. In February. 1889, the partnership was dis- 
solved ; and Mr. Hallett established a new printing- 
office, fitted with new and impro\ed machinery, at 
No. 1 1 1 Arch Street. Within a short time these 
rooms were outgrown, his business steadily in- 
creasing; and in ( )cli)ber, 1892, removal was made 




HALLF.rr, Ali!ERI', of Boston, printer, was 
born in Yarmouthport, August 3, 185 1, son of 
Calvin and Elizabeth (Lewis) Hallett. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native place. 
At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice in 
the printing-office of the Yarmouth Register, and 
remained there for about eight years, acquiring a 
thorough knowledge of the business. Then he 
came to Boston to enter a broader field. Shortly 
after he removed to Fall River, where he continued 
at his trade for about two years. Thence he went 
to New Bedford, and was there employed for a 
similar period. Then, returning to Boston, he en- 
gaged with the Wright & Potter Printing Company, 
State Printers. Beginning as a compositor on their 
finest grade of work, he was soon promoted to the 
foremanship of the job department, which position 



ALBERT HALLETT. 

to the present quarters at No. 185 Franklin Street, 
the plant considerably enlarged, and a commodi- 
ous, model printing house established for success- 
ful work in the finest grades and varieties of job 
printing. Mr. Hallett also owns several patents 
for reproducing imitation typewriter letters, and 
holds licenses in most of the large cities in the 
country. Mr. Hallett is an Odd Fellow, member 
of the Paul Revere Lodge ; and he is connected 
with the Excelsior Council of the Royal Arcanum. 
In politics he is a Republican. He was married 
in Fall River, March i, 1877, to Miss Mary How- 
land Wady. They have one son : Waldo D. 
Hallett. 



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MEN OF PKOGKKSS. 



HAMLIN, Charles Sumner, of P.oston. As- 
sistant Secretary of the United States Treasury in 
the second administration of President Cleveland, 
was born in Boston, August 30, 1861, son of 
Edward Sumner and Anna Gertrude Hamlin. He 
is a direct descendant of Major Eleazer Hamlin, 
of Westford, Mass., who led a regiment in the 
Revolutionary War, and is a cousin of the late 
Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President of the United 
States under the administration of President 
Abraham Lincoln. He was fitted for college at 
the Roxbury Latin School, Roxbury District, 
Boston ; graduated from Harvard in the class of 



^4iijw > 




C. S. HAMLIN, 

1S83, and from the Harvard Law School in 1886, 
with the degree of LL.B. and A.M. Admitted to 
the Suffolk bar that year, he at once engaged in 
the active practice of his profession in Boston. 
Subsequently he formed a partnership with 
Marcus Morton, grandson of Judge, afterward 
Governor Morton, and son of Chief Justice 
Morton of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, 
under the firm name of Morton & Hamlin. 
Mr. Hamlin became an early student of economic 
questions, especially devoting himself to the sub- 
ject of the tariff; and in the national campaign of 
1888 he was a frequent contributor to the press 
and a speaker on the stump in behalf of tariff 



reform, displaying a happy faculty in presenting 
his arguments in a clear and attractive fashion. 
In subsequent campaigns his work covered a 
more extended field, and he was recognized as 
one of the foremost of the younger leaders of the 
Democratic party of Massachusetts. In 1892 his 
name was placed on the Democratic State ticket 
as candidate for secretary of state, the convention 
nominating him by acclamation. During the years 
189 1 and 1892 he served on the Massachusetts 
Democratic State Committee as chairman of the 
finance committee. He is a member of the New 
England Free Trade League, of the Young Men's 
Democratic Club of Massachusetts, of the Massa- 
chusetts Reform Club, of the Civil Service League, 
and of the New York Reform Club. His appoint- 
ment to the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treas- 
ury was from President Cleveland, in April, 1893. 
He has general charge of the United States 
Custom Service, the Revenue Cutter Service, the 
United States Special Agents, the Light-house 
Board, the United States Secret Service, and the 
general system of accounting in the United States 
Treasury. 

HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentvvorth, of Cam- 
bridge, author, essayist, speaker, reformer, was 
born in Cambridge, December 22, 1823, son of 
Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) Higginson. He is 
in the seventh generation from the Rev. Francis 
Higginson, one of the earliest settlers at Salem, 
coming from England in 1629, "teacher" of 
the First Church in Salem, 1629-30. and author 
of " New England's Plantations." His paternal 
grandfather, Stephen Higginson, born in Salem, 
was a merchant, for ten years immediately before 
the Revolution a successful shipmaster, a delegate 
to the Continental Congress, and navy agent at 
Boston from 1797 to 1801, and the reputed author 
of the '• Laco " political letters. His father, 
Stephen, 2d, was also a merchant, and a noted 
philanthropist in Boston, and from 181S to 1834 
held the position of steward, or bursar, of Harvard 
College. His mother was the daughter of Cap- 
tain Thomas Storrow, a British ofificer, and Anne 
Appleton, of Portsmouth, N.H. Thomas Went- 
worth was educated in Cambridge, at the prepara- 
tory school of William Wells, where James Russell 
Lowell and William W. Story were among his 
schoolmates, and at Harvard, where he was 
graduated with honors in 1841, before the age of 
eighteen, the voungest in his class and the second 



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971 



ill rank. I'he next six yeais were spent in teaching 
and in further study. He had been expected to 
foHow the law as a profession ; but instead of that 
he spent two years as resident graduate at Har- 
vard and two years at the Harvard Divinity 
School, graduating in 1847. He was shortly after 
ordained as pastor of the First Religious Society, 
Unitarian, of Newburyport, and was settled there 
for about two years and a half, when he was 
obliged to leave the church on account of his 
pronounced anti-slavery views, which he never 
hesitated boldly to express whenever occasion 
offered. The same year, 1850, he was nominated 
as a Free Soil candidate for Congress. In 1852 
he became the first pastor of the Free Church in 
Worcester, a wholly non-sectarian and reformatory 
organization, and was settled there until 1858, 
when he retired from the ministry to devote him- 
self exclusively to literary pursuits. During the 
entire period covered by his career as a preacher 
he was among the most active in the anti-slavery 
movement. He was the head of a company of 
self-enlisted men who organized to protect \\'en- 
dell Phillips from the attack of mobs. He took a 
conspicuous part in the attempted rescue of the 
fugitive slave, Anthony Ikirns, in 1S54, and, a 
constable being killed in the riot which ensued 
about the old County Court House, Court Scjuare, 
was, with Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, and 
others, indicted for murder ; but, through the able 
defence of John A. Andrew, John P. Hale, and 
others of defendants' counsel, the indictments 
were quashed. Later he was active in the strife 
in Kansas ; was appointed brigadier-general on 
the staff of James H. Lane in the Free State 
forces, was a friend of John Brown, organized an 
expedition into Virginia to rescue some of John 
Brown's companions, which was unsuccessful, and 
performed other aggressive acts. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he was active in recruiting com- 
panies for the service; and in September, 1862, 
he became captain of Company B of the Fifty-first 
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. A fortnight 
later, on November 10, he was commissioned 
colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, 
subsequently renamed the Thirty-third United 
States Colored Troops, which was the first regi- 
ment of freed slaves mustered into the United 
States service. The regiment captured Jackson- 
ville, Fla., in 1863, and performed other gallant 
deeds ; but Colonel Higginson, being severely 
wounded in a skirmish at Wiltown Blufif, S.C., in 



.\ugust, 1863, was obliged in October, the follow- 
ing year, to resign its command on account of 
disability. Upon his retirement from the army 
Colonel Higginson settled in Newport, R.L, and 
engaged in literary work. He resided there 
twelve years, during that period producing a num- 
ber of his most notable books, chief among them 
" Malbone : An Oldport Romance,'' published in 
1869: ■' Army Life in a Black Regiment '" (trans- 
lated into French by Mme. de Gasparin), in 1870 : 
" Oldport Days " (1873) ; and " Young Folks' His- 
tory of the United States" (1875), the latter hav- 
ing an extraordinary circulation, which continues 




T. W. HIGGINSON. 

to this clay, and being subsequently translated 
into French, Cerman, and Italian. He removed 
from Newport in 1878 to Cambridge, where he 
has since lived. Soon after taking up his resi- 
dence in Cambridge, he was elected to the lower 
house of the Legislature, and returned for a 
second term, served through the sessions of 1880 
and 1 88 1, at the same time holding the first place 
on the staff of Governor Long. In the House he 
took an active part in debate, and served as chair- 
man on the committees on education, on expedit- 
ing the business of the house, and on constitu- 
tional amendments, .\fter his legislative service 
he was for two years, 1881-83, a member of the 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



State Hoard of Education. Althouj^h alwaj's in- 
dependent in politics, he affiliated witli tiie Repul> 
lican party until 18S4, when, upon the nomination 
of Blaine by the Republicans and of Cleveland 
by the Democrats, he parted company with his 
old political associates, and gave his hearty sup- 
port to Cleveland. In 1888 he was the Demo- 
cratic candidate indorsed by Independents for 
Congress in his district ; but, after a brilliant and 
spirited canvass, he was defeated, the district 
being strongly Republican, though he ran ahead 
of his ticket. He has been a hearty and constant 
supporter of civil service reform from the begin- 
ning of the movement, an earnest advocate of 
woman suffrage, and a helper in all movements 
for the higher education and advancement of 
woman. As a literary worker. Colonel Higginson 
has long held first rank. His first essays were 
published in the earliest volumes of the Atlantic 
Mtvithly, during the editorship of Lowell, the most 
striking of which was on " Saints and their 
Bodies," treating in a fresh and captivating style 
the subject of physical developments and its re- 
lation to moral and intellectual health. A few- 
years before, in 1853, he had published his first 
volume, a compilation with Samuel Longfellow, of 
poetry for the seaside. His list of publications, 
besides those already mentioned, include " Atlantic 
Essays" (1871), "The Sympathy of Religions" 
(1872), " Voung Folks' Book of American Explor- 
ers " (1877), " Short Studies of American Authors " 
(1879), "Common Sense about Women" (trans- 
lated into German) (1881), "Life of Margaret 
Fuller Ossoli " (1884), " Larger History of the 
United States" (1885), "The Monarch of 
Dreams" (translated into French and German) 
(1886), "Hints on Writing and Speech-making" 
(1887), "Women and Men," a volume of essays 
contributed to Harper s Bazar (1888), " Travellers 
and Outlaws" (1888), "The Afternoon Land- 
scape," a volume of poems (i88g), "Life of 
Francis Higginson " (i8gi), "The New \\'orld 
and the New Book" (1892), ■•Concerning All of 
Li's" (1892). He has also translated the "Com- 
plete \^'orks of Epictetus " (1865), reprinted in 
two volumes (1892), and edited the " Har\ard 
Memorial Biographies," two volumes published in 
1866, " Brief Biographies of European Statesmen," 
in four volumes (1875-77), ^"<^ the history of 
Massachusetts Regiments in the Civil War, for the 
State. He has frequently appeared upon the 
lecture platform, and is one of the most popular of 



public speakers. As an orator, he is specially 
effective. He belongs to many literary and other 
societies, is president of the American Free Re- 
ligious Association, of the Round Table Club of 
Boston, and has been president of the Harvard Phi 
Beta Kappa Society, and also of the Associated 
Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. Colonel Higginson 
was first married in 1857 to Mary Elizabeth, a niece 
of William Ellery Channing. She was for many 
years an invalid, and died in Newport in 1877. 
He married second, in 1879, Mary Potter 
Thacher, daughter of Peter Thacher, Esq., and 
niece of the first wife of the poet Longfellow, 
with whom he published in 1 893 a volume of 
poems, entitled " Such as They Are." They 
have one daughter : Margaret Waldo. 



HUDSON, John Elbridge, of Boston, presi- 
dent of the American Bell Telephone Company, 
was born in Lynn. August 3, 1839, son of John 
and Elizabeth C. (Hilliard) Hudson. He is a de- 
scendant on the paternal side of Thomas Hudson 
(of the family of Henry Hudson, the navigator), 
who came from England about 1630, and settled 
in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ; and on the 
maternal side is from early New England families. 
His maternal great-grandfather was the Rev. 
Samuel Hilliard, a pioneer in Universalism, and 
a soldier of the Revolution, serving at Bunker 
Hill and at the battle of Bennington ; and his 
mother's maternal grandparents were the Rev. 
Dr. Hall, Orthodox minister of the town of Sutton 
for si.xty years, and Elizabeth (Prescott) Hall, 
daughter of Dr. John and Rebecca (Bulkley) 
Prescott, of Concord. His early education was 
acquired in the Lynn public schools, and he fitted 
himself for college. Entering Harvard, he was 
graduated in the class of 1862, valedictorian, 
siiDtina ciiin latulc. As a student, he was especially 
proficient in Greek, the best Greek scholar in his 
class ; and before he received his degree lie was 
appointed to a (Jreek tutorship in the college 
upon the recommendation of Professor William 
W. Goodwin. He held this tutorship for three 
years, and with such success that he was urged to 
continue and follow the profession of a classical 
scholar. But he was drawn more directly to the 
law, and accordingly entered the Harvard Law 
School. His studies there finished with his grad- 
uation in 1865, he further read in the Boston law 
office of Chandler, Shattuck, & Thaver, and on 



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973 



October 25. 1866. was duly lulmitted to tlic 
Suffolk bar. He continued with ('handler, Slial- 
tuck, & Thayer, acting as clerk of the firm and as 
an assistant in its legal work, largely devoted to 
corporation matters, till February, 1870, when, 
upon the withdrawal of Mr. Shattuck, he was ad- 
mitted to partnership, the firm name becoming 
Chandler, Thayer, & Hudson. Four years later 
the name was changed to Chandler, ^^^are, <.S: Hud- 
son, Mr. Thayer withdrawing, having been made 
Royall Professor of the Harvard Law School, and 
Darwin F". Ware taking his place ; and it so re- 
mained till 1878, when the firm was dissolved. 




JOHN E. HUDSON. 

Thereafter Mr. Hudson continued in general 
practice alone till 1880, when he became general 
counsel of the .\merican ISell Telephone Com- 
pany, that year formed, and devoted himself ex- 
clusively to its interests. In the early stages of 
the development of the company he displayed 
exceptional administrative ability, and his advice 
was much relied on by the executive department. 
In 1885 he was appointed general manager of 
the company; in 1887 he was elected vice-presi- 
dent, while still holding the positions of manager 
and general counsel ; the same year was made 
president of the .\merican Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company for long distance service ; and in 



18S9 he was elected president of the .Vmeriean 
]iell, from which time he has been at the head 
of its immense business. During his direction of 
affairs as manager and president, the operations 
of the company have been increased from about 
two hundred and fifty million exchange connec- 
tions in 1885 toward seven hundred million in 
1895 ; and a notable triumph has been achieved 
in the development and perfection of the long- 
distance service, now extended to the great com- 
mercial centres of the country. The first "long 
line " was built from New York to Philadelphia, 
and was immediately extended from New York to 
Boston. The system was rapidly developed until 
a line between New York and Chicago was 
opened for business in October, 1893, the line 
being continued in the following winter to Boston, 
where it was formally opened on the 7th of F'ebru- 
ary, when Governor Russell talked from the Bos- 
ton office with officials in the Chicago office, over 
wires extending above twelve hundred miles. 
I'^uther extensions in various directions immedi- 
ately followed : and in the report of the directors 
in 1S94 it was announced that it was then possi- 
ble to talk from the Boston office north and east 
to Augusta, Me., north to Concord, N.H., and to 
Buffalo, N.Y., west to Chicago, and south to 
Washington, over a territory embracing more 
than one-half of the population of the United 
States. Mr. Hudson has contributed somewhat 
to the law reviews: and in 1879 he edited, jointly 
with George Fred Williams, the tenth volume of 
the United States Digest. He is a member of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 
American Antiquarian Society, British Association 
for the Advancement of Science, New England 
Historic and Genealogical Society, Colonial Soci- 
ety of Massachusetts, Bostonian Society, Ameri- 
can Institute of Electrical Engineers, Selden Soci- 
ety, the Bar Association of the City of Boston, 
the Virginia Historical Society, and also of the 
Boston Art, the St. Botolph, and the University 
clubs. He was married August 21, 187 i, to Miss 
Eunice W. Healey, daughter of Wells and Eliza- 
beth (Pickering) Healey. of Hampton Falls, N.H. 



IH MPHREY, William Fr.\nlis, of Boston, 
was born in Dorchester, July 28, 1839, son of 
Micah and Celia (Marsh) Humphrey. His father, 
a native of Cohasset, was a ship-master, sailing 
out of lioston. and traced his descent to fohn 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Humphrey, a deputy governor of Massachusetts 
Bay Company, and Susan, his wife, the daughter 
of the Earl of Lincohi. His mother belonged to 
the Marshs of Hingham. A happy childhood 
was spent in the old Humphrey mansion at L)or- 
chester, and he was educated in the Dorchester 
public schools. His preparation for college was 
terminated by the financial crisis of 1857, when 
he entered business life in the employment of the 
Boston & Sandwich Glass Compan);. After six- 
months, his health failing, he made a winter 
voyage on one of his father's ships to the 
West Indies : and, returning the following spring. 




W. F. HUMPHREY. 

he entered the office of A. A. Fraser .S: Co. on 
State Street. After a few months a return of ill- 
health necessitated another voyage to the West 
Indies. Thriving at sea, he determined to follow 
it as an occupation. Rising rapidly in rank, he 
became captain of the ship "Dolphin" in 1861. 
One of his earhest voyages was to Christinestadt, 
in Northern Russia, with the first cargo of cotton 
that ever entered that port. After making several 
voyages to Europe and South America, Captain 
Humphrey purchased in 1865 an interest in the 
ship " Horatio Harris " (then building in Med- 
ford), in connection with James Sturgis and James 
(). Curtis, the builder; and on her completion he 



took command, sailing first to San Francisco, and 
thence to Bolivia for a cargo of guano, which 
he discharged in Edinburgh, from whicii latter 
port he returned home with restored health, and 
retired from the seas. His ne.xt venture was in 
manufacturing, in Lewiston, Me., in which he 
continued for about two years. In 1872 he re- 
turned to Boston, and engaged in the shipping 
business as partner of Samuel \\'eltch, under 
the firm name of Weltch, Humphrey, & Co., 
which he followed successfully until 1887, when 
he became treasurer of the Boston Tow-boat 
Company, the position he now holds. He is a 
director of the Philadelphia Steamship Company 
and of the Boston & Bangor Steamship Company. 
He is a member of the Boston Marine Society 
(which was chartered in 1742), and served as its 
president for several years. While in Edinburgh, 
he became a Freemason, and was entered under 
the .Scottish rites. In politics he has occupied the 
independent position of voting for the best man 
and purest government, regardless of party preju- 
dice. Mr. Humphrey was married in 1868 to 
Mary Lilley Campbell, daughter of Benjamin F. 
Campbell, who died in 1888, leaving two children, 
Celia Campbell (born 1872) and Campbell Humph- 
rey (born in 1879). In October, 1892, he married 
Ellen Lizette Fowler, widow of M. Field Fowler, 
and daughter of John Gilbert, who traces her de- 
scent back to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the past, sin- 
gularly enough, combining the two family names. 
Mr. Humphrey has been a resident of Brookline 
for the last fifteen years, and is much interested 
in the growth and development of that beautiful 
suburb. 

HUNT, Henry W.\rren, of Dorchester (Bos- 
ton I, real estate operator, is a native of Dorchester, 
born December 23, 1844, son of Charles and Lou- 
isa Minot (Wilson) Hunt. He is of the early New 
England Minot and Billings families, and lives 
on an estate that has been in his family since 
1631. ,\ncestors of his were in every war that 
has been fought since the early settlement of the 
country ; and among numerous interesting histor- 
ical treasures which he possesses are the weapons 
and other articles used by those of his family who 
were in the Revolution, with the continental 
money with which they were paid for their ser- 
vice. His father was a man of prominence in Dor- 
chester town affairs, serving at different times as 
selectman, postmaster, engineer of the fire depart- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



975 



ment, and in other local offices. Henry A\'. was 
educated in the 1 )orchester schools, graduatinj; 
about the year 1859. Subsequently, desiring to 
enter the na\y, he studied at the Nautical School 
in Boston, and graduated in 1862, at the head of 
his class. When the Civil War broke out, he was 
too young for a commission, although success- 
fully passing examination ; and, accordingly, he 
volunteered, and served on land and sea. He 
participated in a number of spirited naval and 
land operations, and on one occasion received 
honorary mention from General Foster for daring 
work in helping to pick up torpedoes. He also 
received a complimentary letter from Admiral 
Flusser. Meanwhile his father had established 
stores in \arious parts of the interior of the 
South ; and after the close of the war he went 
there to manage a number of these enterprises, 
penetrating into some of the roughest sections of 
the Southern country, then in an unsettled and 
turbulent condition. After remaining South about 
twT) years, he returned to Massachusetts, and 
became interested in large business enterprises in 
company with prominent men of affairs, among 
them General JJenjamin F. lUitler, in which he 
was engaged for the next twenty years. In 
1875-76, when plans were forming for the Cen- 
tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, he was selected 
by the Massachusetts State Commissioners to ar- 
range an e.xhibit representing the great marine in- 
terests of the State, — a task for which he was ex- 
ceptionally qualified, having an intimate acquaint- 
ance with their \arious features. As a result of 
his efforts, a most notable and unic|ue collection 
was brought together, including models of the 
ocean and river craft used for purposes of com- 
merce, the fisheries, war, and pleasure, from the 
settlement of the colonies to modern times, — 
models of a single scull skiff to a ship of the line, 
of merchant vessels of a century ago and the 
swift clipper ships of the forties and fifties, of 
historic war -ships, the old-style frigates, the 
"Constitution," the "Ohio,'' with an Ericsson 
monitor and the " Kearsarge," of whaling ships 
and ancient and modern fishing vessels, of the 
first American steamer that ever weathered the 
passage of Cape Horn, of apparatus for life-sav- 
ing, of a great variety of beautiful yachts, — the 
whole constituting the most complete and exten- 
sive marine exhibit ever made at an international 
exhibition. Captain Hunt had charge of the ex- 
hibit at Philadelphia : and he also took a leading 



part in the arrangement for the international re- 
gatta, introducing among other striking features a 
whale-boat race between crews composed of vet- 
eran New liedford whalers, \^■hile in Philadelphia, 
he became especially acquainted with the Russian 
and Brazilian commissioners ; and at the close of 
the exhibition, during which he made himself use- 
ful to them in various ways, he accompanied the 
Russians on a tour through the principal cities of 
the country. Suljsequently the Emperor r)om 
Pedro offered him a position in the Brazilian 
navy, and shortly after he received a similar offer 
from the Russian government. Accepting the lat- 




HENRY W. HUNT. 

ter, he went to Russia toward the close of 1876; 
and in recognition of the civilities he had shown 
the Russian commissioners in America, and ser- 
vices rendered by him, was decorated there by the 
czar with a gold medal representing the order of 
Saint Stanislaus. He remained in Russia several 
months, travelling extensively in the country, and 
then returned to the United States in May, 1878, 
as one of two special agents of the Russian gov- 
ernment accredited with powers to assist in exam- 
ining and selecting fast-sailing steam-craft to be 
fitted as cruisers for the Russian service, in antici- 
pation of war with England, at that time believed 
to be imminent. Their advent and proceedings 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



made a great commotion in American newspaper 
offices, and were the occasion of many sensational 
reports. Captain Hunt's interest in marine mat- 
ters lias been constant ; and this has been notably 
displayed in his work in behalf of the National 
Museum at Washington, toward the upbuilding of 
which he has been a valued contributor. Among 
other letters on the subject he has received the 
following from Professor Spencer Baird of the 
Smithsonian Institution : — 

United States National Museum, 

Washington, January 22, 1885. 
Captain H. W. HuNr, Neponset, Mass.: 

Sir, — I desire to call your attention to the extent and 
importance of the section of naval arcliitecture in the 
United States National Museum. In this department there 
has already been arranged a large collection of builders' 
models and rigged models of American and foreign vessels, 
especially of those used in the fisheries of the world. At 
the time of the Centennial Exhibition I was much inter- 
ested in the collection gathered and displayed under your 
direction in the Massachusetts section. I should be very 
glad to have your co-operation in our efforts to bring to- 
gether a complete and e.xhaustive display of materials relat- 
ing to this department, whether obtained in the United 
States or in foreign countries. Whatever you may secure 
for us will be fully credited to your agency on the records 
of the United States National Museum. 

Very respectfully yours, 

S. F. Bairii, 
Director Unitcii States A'atioital Muscutn. 

Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, July 20, 18S2. 

Dear Sir, — Being aware of your experience and interest 
in all matters connected with nautical affairs, and especially 
with the subject of the ocean fi.sheries, I beg that during 
your forthcoming visit to pAirope you will continue to 
render, as in the past, your valued services to the National 
Museum by securing such objects for display therein as 
you may collect from time to time. The specimens already 
contributed by you are of very great importance, and will 
occupy a conspicuous place in the National Museum. .Vny 
models of boats, vessels, apparatus illustrative of improve- 
ments in the operations of the fisheries, devices for capt- 
uring and utilizing the fish, etc., — in short, all models whose 
subjects bear in the smallest degree upon the fishery in- 
dustry "ill be very highly valued. 

Very respectfully yours, 

Si'ENCKR Baird, 
Captain H. W. lluN'r, United States Fish Commissioner. 

Neponset, Mass, 

In 1885, when again abroad, he bore a letter 
from William E. Chandler, then Secretary of the 
Navy, under date of February g, as follows : — 

Captain Henry W. Hint: 

Sir, — During your proposed visit to Europe this Depart- 
ment will be glad to receive from you any information 
which you may obtain concerning ships, and all articles 



connected with their construction and use, also to receive 
your observations thereon. At the time of the Centennial 
Ivxhibition in Philadelphia, in 1876, your nautical exhibit 
in the Massachusetts section was highly commended; and 
further researches and efforts of yours in the same direction 
cannot fail to be of value. Wishing you all possible suc- 
cess in your mission, I am. 

Very respectfully, 

WlI.I.lAM E. ( IIANIII.EK, 

Secretary of tlie Xa-'V. 

In later years Captain Hunt has been engaged 
in large real estate operations. During the period 
between iSgo and 1S95 his conveyances included 
nearly a hundred valuable pieces of property in 
Norfolk County alone. These were mainly to 
large investors and holders of trust funds. In 
1895, having acquired the interests of various 
owners of a tract of land in Squantum, with a 
deep water front of two and a half miles and an 
area of over seven hundred and seventy acres, he 
carried through a deal with the New York, New 
Haven, & Hartford Railroad Company by which 
this tract becomes a freight terminal for the svs- 
tem. The same year he began the development 
of Harbor Bluffs, Hyannis, one of the largest and 
most beautiful tracts of shore property on the 
south shore of Cape Cod. Captain Hunt is an 
experienced yachtsman, having been familiar with 
yachts from boyhood, and has long been promi- 
nently connected with local yacht clubs. He now 
owns the fast schooner yacht '■ Breeze." He is a 
member of the Massachusetts Yacht Club, vice- 
president of the Hyannis Yacht Club, member of 
the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Associa- 
tion, of the Quincy Historical Society, of the Barn- 
stable County Agricultural Society, and of the 
Minot Club. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
is unmarried. 



HYDE, William Andrew, of Boston and 
\\'oburn, first assistant appraiser of the port of 
Boston, was born in Boston, August 6, 1857, son 
of James and Hannah (Manning) Hyde. His 
father's ancestors were of Hertford, England, and 
in the time of Cromwell went to Baltimore, Ire- 
land, to escape persecution, later coming to this 
country with Lord Baltimore, His mother's went 
from London to Baltimore, Ireland, for the same 
reason, with the Cardigans ; and the two families 
intermarried there. Both families were devout 
Catholics, and their descendants have always 
held fast to that faith. j\lr. Hyde was educated 
in the Boston public schools and at Columbia St. 



MEN OF I'ROGRESS. 



977 



Mary's, gr 
his tastes 
began in 



la* 



adiKUing in 1878. Although a student. JENNEV, Wii.i.iam '1-iiatciikr. of Hoston, mer- 

ed him to a mercantile career. He chant, was born in Boston, September 15, 1867, 
the dry-goods commission business son of Francis H. and Martha C. (Thatcher) 

Jenney. He is descended from early settlers in 
New England. His great-grandfather was com- 
mander of several vessels at different times during 
the Revolution ; and his grandfather and father 
were merchants closely identified in their day with 
the business interests of Boston. He was edu- 
cated in Hoston private schools, by tutors, and at 
boarding-school. Leaving school at the age of 
seventeen, he travelled round the world, spending 
*|^ Jl' a year through the South Sea Islands, Southern 

jSI^^^ Asia, and .Australia. Upon his return, at the age 

"^^^ of twenty, he entered the employ of C. M. Clapp 

& Co., rubber goods, and remained there until 
June, 1892, when he started in business for him- 
self as a partner in the Enterprise Rubber Com- 
pany. Beginning in a small way. on Essex Street, 
by good management his business steadily in- 
creased ; and he now has large warehouses on 
Congress Street and a branch house in New York 
City. Mr. Jenney is an ardent Democrat in poli- 
tics, and is active in party management, being a 





WM. A, HYDE. 



with I'arker, Wilder. 1!^ Co., where he remained 
for some time. .Subsequently he engaged in 
electrical enterprises, and in 1890-91 was con- 
nected with the Boston Electric Light Company. 
On July 7, 1894, he was made superintendent of 
LTnited States Bonded Warehouses in Boston, 
and on February 15, 1895, was appointed by 
President Cleveland to his present position of 
first assistant appraiser of the port of Boston. 
Mr. Hyde is a Democrat in national and State 
politics, and has been secretary of the executive 
committee of the \"oang Men's Democratic Club 
of Massachusetts, having previously held the posi- 
tion of e.xecutive clerk of the committee (1892- 
93). He is president of the Young Men's Auxili- 
ary, Archdiocese of Boston, a member of the 
Catholic I'nion of 15oston, of the American His- 
torical Society, the Charitable Irish Society of 
Boston, and secretary of Baldwin Council, Royal 
Arcanum. He is not a club or society man, but 
spends his leisure time in his libi'ary with his 
books. He is a regular writer for several of the 
leading Catholic newspapers and magazines. He 
resides in Woburn. .Mr. Hyde is unmarried. 




WM. T. JENNEY. 



member of the executive committee of the State 
Democratic Committee, to which organization he 
has been three times elected ; and also a member 



978 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



of the executive committee of the Young Men's 
Democratic Club of Massachusetts. He is a 
member of the Algonquin, Exchange, and several 
dining clubs of Boston, and the Reform Club of 
New York. He was married, June 23, 1892, to 
Miss Marv G. Tufts, of Medford. 



JORDAN, Eben Dyer, of Boston, merchant, 
founder of the great dry-goods house of Jordan, 
Marsh, &; Co.. was born in Danville, Cumberland 
County, Me., October 13, 1822: died in Boston, 
November 15, 1895. His father was Benjamin 
Jordan, also a native of Danville, born in 1788, a 
farmer, and his mother Lydia (Wright) Jordan, 
both of sturdy New England stock. He was in 
the seventh generation from the Rev. Robert Jor- 
dan, who came from England to this country 
about the year 1640, and for a long period held a 
leading position among the settlers in the region 
adjacent to Cape Elizabeth, having been, as the 
early history of the district now Maine shows, a 
man able successfully to conduct large enterprises 
and to administer important trusts in a new com- 
munity. Eben D. was one of a large family of 
children early left fatherless ; and, his mother being 
unable to maintain them all on the pittance left 
by his father, the lad was placed with a neighbor- 
ing farmer's family. There he lived, working in- 
dustriously on the farm, and attending the dis- 
trict school through the brief summer and winter 
terms, till he had nearly reached the age of four- 
teen, when he resolved to leave the country for the 
broader field of the city. Starting with his small 
savings in his pocket, he made his way to Portland, 
and thence reached Boston by boat with few 
possessions and little cash, but with sound health, 
strong muscles, good habits, ambition, and a de- 
termination to get on. He was willing to turn his 
hand to anything that he could do : and the first 
opportunity offering being work on a farm at Mt. 
Pleasant, Roxbury, he promptly embraced it, con- 
fident that a more promising opening would ap- 
pear in time. He remained on the Roxbury farm, 
receiving as wages four dollars a month and board, 
nearly two years ; and then the chance for which 
he had been looking came in a place in a dry- 
goods store in Boston on Hanover Street, at that 
time kept by William P. Tenney & Co. After 
two 5'ears' experience there, getting a fair knowl- 
edge of the small retail business, he went into 
another store in the same line of trade, kept by a 



Mr, Pratt, on a salary of two hundred and seventy- 
five dollars a year. At the age of nineteen his 
energy, assiduity, and quick business sense at- 
tracted the attention of Joshua Stetson, then a 
leading Boston dry-goods merchant ; and through 
the latter's aid he was enabled to engage in 
business on his own account in a little store on 
the corner of Hanover and Mechanic Streets. 
His rent here was at the rate of two hundred 
dollars a year, and the first year his receipts 
reached >8,ooo. ,\t that time, before the advent 
of the railroad, steamers from Maine and the 
Provinces arrived earlv in the morning; and, in 




EBEN D. JORDAN, 

order to capture the trade of their passengers, the 
young merchant had his store open at four o'clock, 
and did a thriving business before breakfast. He 
was enterprising also in other ways, and the store 
became soon one of the most popular on the street. 
.\.t the end of two years he repaid Mr. Stetson, 
and at the end of four years he had increased his 
annual sales from S8,ooo the first year to 5ioo,ooo. 
When he reached the age of twenty-five, being 
desirous of obtaining a practical knowledge of 
methods of buying goods in larger markets, and of 
the broader lines of trade, he sold out his store, 
and took a position in the widely known and suc- 
cessful house of James M. Beebe & Co. Bv hard 



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work, application, and diligent study, lie acquired 
within two years' time a thorough familiarity with 
the principles of the dry-goods business on a large 
scale, and of the system which Mr. Beebe had 
been for a quarter of a century perfecting ; and, 
thus equipped, he at once entered upon a new 
career as a Boston merchant. In 185 i he formed 
a partnership with Benjamin L. Marsh, under the 
firm name of Jordan, Marsh, & Co., and began 
the upbuilding of the great establishment through 
which his name has for many years been widely 
known. The new house began business in a 
store on Milk Street, near Pearl Street, as whole- 
sale dry-goods jobbers, with a reputation for ability, 
energy, and integrity; and it was not long before 
it had built up a permanent and profitable trade. 
Mr. Jordan introduced the cash system into the 
jobbing business, instituted other reforms, and 
improved the methods of trade for the benefit 
of customers. In ordt-r to meet the competition 
of the importers in the trade who had large 
credit abroad, he also early went to Europe, 
and personally established correspondents in Eng- 
land and elsewhere, and obtained all the credit 
desired. The house steadily progressed and in- 
creased its resources, within a few years enlarging 
its salesrooms and manufacturing departments, 
and, through its spirit of enterprise constantly 
maintained, increased its profits and strength- 
ened its name. In 1857, the "panic year," 
which the firm successfully weathered, it was 
established on I'earl Street; and in 186 1 it 
bought the retail store on Washington Street, at 
the corner of Avon .Street, then occupying the 
ground floor of the building, extending to Central 
Court (now built over in the extension of the es- 
tablishment), and added the retail to the whole- 
sale business: in 1863 it moved its wholesale 
department to the Washington Street building, 
which it entireK' occupied ; in subsequent vears 
additional c|uarters were taken ; and in 1884 
thirteen thousand feet of store space was added to 
its already great retail establishment, making it 
the largest dry-goods store in this country, and 
one of the three largest in the world. During his 
entire career as a Boston merchant Mr. Jordan 
was one of the most public-spirited of citizens, 
ready to lead and advance every movement which 
commended itself to his judgment for the welfare 
of the city. In the Civil War period he was 
among the foremost in promoting patriotism and 
in furnishing substantial aid l<> the gtncrnment. 



When the first call for troops came, he informed 
his employees that the firm would pay the cost of 
outfits of all who should enlist, continue iheir 
salaries during their terms of enlistment, and re- 
tain their situations for them ; and forty-five men 
enlisted under the.se terms. He also took a deep 
interest in the work of the Sanitary Commission, 
and contributed liberally to its funds. At the 
time of the Chicago fire of 1872 he was a member 
of the Boston relief committee, and had an active 
part in despatching the relief trains : and after the 
great Boston fire of the same year he made a 
liberal contribution of $10,000 for the aid espe- 
cially of the injured firemen. He was a generous 
patron and supporter of the Great Peace Jubilees 
of 1869 and 1872, and was a ready contributor 
to numerous other public undertakings. During 
the latter part of his life he was an extensive 
traveller, and made frequent trips across the 
Atlantic. In the conduct of his immense business 
he was alert and thorough to the close of his life. 
He did much for the comfort and well-being 
of his upward of three thousand employees, and 
kindly relations always existed between them. In 
1886 he established a free evening school for the 
benefit of such of his employees as chose to avail 
themselves of this privilege to broaden their edu- 
cation; and two years before he invited twenty- 
five of them to accompany him on a seven weeks 
trip to England and France, meeting the entire 
expense himself. In politics he was a Democrat ; 
but he was not an active party man, and stead- 
fastly refused to take public place. Mr. Jordan 
was married in Boston, January 13, 1847, to Miss 
Julia M. Clark, daughter of James Clark, of Bos- 
ton. They had five children : Walter (deceased), 
lames Clark, Julia Maria (now Mrs. Duniaresq), 
Eben Dyer, Jr. (the present head of the house of 
Jordan, Marsh, & Co.), and Alice Jordan (now 
Mrs. .\rthur X. Foster, residing in England). 



KELLY, GiioRCK Rked, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Haverhill, June 30. 1859, son of 
Ezra and Samantha ( Reed) Kelly. He is of 
English ancestry, and descends on both sides 
from early settlers in New England. On the pa- 
ternal side he is a lineal descendant of John Kel- 
leigh, as the name was first spelled, who came 
from Newbury, England, in 1635, and settled in 
the new Newburv of Massachusetts, and whose 
descendants long lived there, later generations 



gSo 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



becoming identified with Haverhill. On the ma- 
ternal side lie traces back to Brianus de Rede, in 
the year 1139, of Morpeth on Weneback Rixer, 
Kent, England, whose son William was Bishop 
of Chichester. And among later ancestors were 
John Reed, maj-or of Norwich in 1388; \\'illiam 
Reed, professor of divinity ; Bartholomew Reed, 
mayor of London in 1502; Robert Lord, chief 
justice of the King's Bench. His first ancestor 
on the maternal side m \ew England was Edras 
Reed, settled in Boston, who was granted land 
in Mudd}- Ri\er, now Brookline, in 1635, and in 
1655 moved to Chelmsford, which was the home 




CEO. R. KELLY. 

of three generations of his descendants. Colonel 
William Reed, fourth from Edras, owned Reed's 
Eerry at Litchfield, N.H., when that was a fron- 
tier town. The maternal great-great-grandfather 
of Mr, Kelly's mother was John Wallace, of 
Scotch descent, who came from Colivane, County 
of Antrim, north of Ireland, in 17 19 to London- 
derry, N.H., and there married in 1721 Annis 
Barnet, they being the first couple married in 
Londonderry ; and her maternal grandfather, 
Judge James Wallace, was enrolled in the Revo- 
lutionary War at the age of seventeen, George 
R. Kelly received his earliest education in a pri- 
vate school kept by Miss Mehitable Damon, of 



Haverhill, well known in its day, and thence en- 
tered the public High .School, Later he spent 
a year at the Vermont Episcopal Listitute, a son 
of Bishop Hopkins of Vermont being liead mas- 
ter, and then returned to the Ha\erhill High 
.School, where he completed his preparation for 
college. .\t the age of seventeen he entered 
Harvard, and was graduated in 1880, taking his 
degree of .\.B. ci/iii laidlc June 30, his twenty-first 
birthday. After leaving college, he returned to 
Haverhill, and engaged in the manufacture of 
shoes until 18S3, when he came to Boston, and 
took the position of private secretary to the Hon. 
Robert Treat Paine. He continued in that ca- 
pacity through the year in which 'bXw Paine 
served in the Legislature, and then in December, 
1885, bought an equal interest in the firm of Wise, 
Rowan, & Co., importers of window glass, the 
firm name being changed to Wise, Rowan, & 
Kelly. On the finst of January, 1887, Mr. Wise 
retired, and the business was continued by the 
remaining partners till December, 1889, when 
Mr. Rowan retired, and Mr. Kellv took the busi- 
ness alone; and he has continued it since with- 
out a partner, under the firm name of George R. 
Kelly &: Co. He is the pioneer in handling 
.American window glass to any large extent in the 
New England States. In November, 1892, he 
arranged for the exclusive sale in New England 
of the product of the Chambers Glass Company 
of New Kensington, Penna., the largest and most 
modern factory of its kind in the world ; and 
since that time, up to whicii the foreign product 
had almost a monopolv of this market, tlie domes- 
tic article has been steadily pushing out the for- 
eign. While his importations of window glass 
from Belgium are still large, the amount is grad- 
uallv lessening each year : and other importers, 
both in Boston and New York, are now obliged 
to buy and sell the .\nierican product. Mr. 
Kelly's business life has absorbed nearly all his 
time : and with the exception of such minor of- 
fices as member of the School Committee of Ha- 
verhill in 1882, and delegate to the Democratic 
gubernatorial con\'entions in 1892 and 1893, he 
has held no public place. He is a member of the 
Eree Trade League, of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts, of the University 
Club, of the Essex County Club, Manchester, and 
of the Pi Eta Society of Harvard College, of which 
he was secretarv when in college. He was married 
January 19, 1882, to Miss Lillian Bassett Ricker, 



MKN OF PROGRESS. 



98 I 



eldest daughter of ISenjaniin and ('ardline 
( Metchen Ricker, of HriglUon. 



KNEISEL, Franz, of Boston, violinist, concert- 
master of the S3'mphony Orchestra, and leader of 
the Kneisel Quartette, is a native of Rouniania, 
born in Bucharest, January 26, 1S65, son of Mar- 
tin and Victoria Kneisel. His parents were both 
(lernian. He was educated in Bucharest, and 
received his first lessons on the violin, when a 
child, from his father, who was himself an excel- 
lent musician. Later he entered the Conservatory 
at Bucharest, and graduated with a brilliant record 
in 1880. Then he became a pupil of Griin at the 
\'ienna Conservatory, where he passed through 
the prescribed two years' course in one year, gain- 
ing the first prize, and at the end of the second 
year won the first prize for the third year's course, 
with a silver medal awarded by unanimous consent 
of the examiners, and an extra diploma, — a rare 
distinction. His talent was so marked throughout 
his term there that at one of the periodical exam- 
inations, where all the students have to play, 
Court Conductor Hellmesberger, also the director 
of the Conservatory, observed that there was no 
need of his playing for examination, for all knew 
what he could do, but, if he would favor them with 
a selection, they would be delighted to listen. 
And after his performance on this occasion Nico- 
laus Dumba, a wealthy music-lover of Vienna, 
presented him with a valuable violin, a make of 
the Italian master Grancino, which he used until 
some years ago, when he purchased a beautiful 
Guarnerius. In 1894, however, he was fortu- 
nate enough to come into possession of the 
famous Stradivarius of his teacher Griin, of 
Menna, which wonderful instrument he is now 
using exclusively. Upon his graduation from tlie 
Vienna Conservatory Mr. Kneisel made his pub- 
lic de'but November 14, 1882, in a concert of his 
own, and sprang at once into public favor. 
OfTered the position of solo violinist in the or- 
chestra of the Imperial Court Theatre, he served 
there for a year. I )uring that time he also played 
at the famous Vienna Philharmonic Concerts, on 
one occasion performing the difficult concerto of 
loachim with such success that the society sent 
him a letter of special commendation, with thanks 
for his effort. The next year he was concert- 
master and solo violinist of the Bilse Orchestra, 
and travelled with that well-known organization in 



v.irious parts of (lermanv and Holland, appearing 
in Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Stuttgart, Amster- 
dam, and other musical centres, and receiving 
warm praise from the leading musical critics. In 
the autumn of 1885 he sailed for America, having 
accepted the place of first violin and concert- 
master in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at that 
time under the leadership of W'ilhelm Gericke. 
Although then unknown to the Boston musical 
public, and unheralded, his performance of Beet- 
hoven's concerto on his first appearance in the 
Symphony Orchestra brought him instantly to the 
front ; and he has since been an established favor- 




FRANZ KNEISEL. 

ite, with Steadily widening fame. During the lat- 
ter part of the term of Mr. Nikisch as conductor 
he led the orchestra in several of its concerts in 
\Vestern cities, of which the most important were 
the Symphony concerts given in the Music Hall of 
the World's Fair, Chicago, winning upon every oc- 
casion the applause of audiences and the approval 
of critics. The Kneisel Quartette, which has 
become famous throughout the country as a musi- 
cal organization of great excellence and of the 
highest standard, was formed by him very soon 
after the beginning of his engagement with the 
Symphony Orchestra ; and its first concert was 
siiven at Chickering Hall in the month of Novem- 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



ber, 1885. During the ten years since it has 
gi\en nearly seventy concerts in Boston, appeared 
many times in all the leading cities of the country, 
and frequently at educational institutions, — in 
Cambridge, Wellesley, New Haven, Princeton, 
Oberlin, Cincinnati, and elsewhere, — receiving 
tlie unanimous approval of the critics in every 
place visited. During this period its membership 
has changed but little, Mr. Kneisel remaining con- 
tinuously at the head as leader and first violin ; 
Emanuel Fiedler playing second violin the first two 
years, when he was succeeded by Otto Roth ; Fritz 
Giese, violoncellist the first four years, Anton Hek- 
king the next three years, and Alwin Schroeder 
since ; and Louis Svecenski, viola, from the be- 
ginning. Mr. Kneisel has performed in public for 
the first time in this country the following works 
fur the violin : concertos by Brahms and Gold- 
mark, while among other works which he has 
played in all the musical centres of this country 
are concertos by .Spohr, Joachim, Mendelssohn, 
Paganini, and Viotti. Mr. Kneisel is a member of 
the Harvard Musical Association, the St. Botolph 
Club of Boston, and honorary member of the So- 
cial Club of Artists' " Schlaraffia " of Vienna and 
the Detroit Society of professional musicians. 
He was married to Miss Marianne Thoma, and 
has two children : Robert and ^'ictoria Kneisel. 



LAWRENCE, General Samuel Crocker, of 
Medford, manufacturer, first mayor of the city of 
Medford, was born in Medford, November 22, 
1832, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crocker) Law- 
rence. His first ancestor in America was John 
Lawrence, who came from England, and settled in 
Watertown in 1635. He obtained his early edu- 
cation in the public schools and at Lawrence 
Academy, Groton, and, entering Harvard, was 
graduated with honors in the class of 1855. 
Soon after leaving college, he went to Chicago, 
and there engaged in the banking business, as a 
partner in the firm of Bigelow & Lawrence. This 
business was successful and to his liking ; but at 
the end of two years, at the earnest request of his 
father, he returned to Medford, and became a 
partner in the latter's business, under the firm 
name of Daniel Lawrence & Sons, distillers. 
Here he has since remained, and for many years 
has been the sole proprietor of the works. He 
has also been successfully engaged in various 
other interests, especially in railroad matters and 



the management of important trusts. In [875 
when the old Eastern Railroad was on the verge 
of bankruptcy, he was elected president of the 
company, and through his able management the 
property was kept intact ; matters between the 
creditors and stockholders were so adjusted by 
means of an enabling act obtained from the Legis- 
lature that bankruptcy was avoided, and the valu- 
able leaseholds of tlie corporation were saved 
from disruption. General Lawrence entered the 
State militia when a young man, and, commis- 
sioned lieutenant in 1855, was promoted through 
the various grades to that of colonel of the Fifth 




S^ C LAWRENCE. 

Regiment in i860. W'hen the Civil War broke 
out, his regiment was one of the first in the coun- 
try to volunteer for service, being tendered by 
him to Governor Andrew^ on April 15, 1861. 
Under orders received just before midnight April 
t8, it reported for duty with full ranks the next 
morning, and, being sent to the front, fought with 
credit in the first battle of Bull Run, in which 
engagement Colonel Lawrence was wounded. In 
June, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-gen- 
eral in the Massachusetts militia, which rank he 
held till August, 1864, when he resigned. In 
1869 he was elected commander of the Ancient 
and Honorable .Artillery Company, and ser\-ed 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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the custoinaiy term. Hu lias boeii coniu-cted 
with the Masonic order since earl\- manhood, and 
has risen to high position in the organization, 
having served as grand commander of the Grand 
( ommandery of Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island the past year. He was made a master 
Mason in Hiram Lodge of West Cambridge (now 
Arlington) in 1854, and became a charter mem- 
ber of Mount Hermon Lodge, founded by him- 
self and associates in Medford. He was elected 
junior warden in 1858, shortly after senior war- 
den, and in 1862 worshipful master, in which 
position he continued till 1865. In 1870 he was 
elected grand senior warden of the Grand Lodge 
of Massachusetts, and he has served as one of the 
Ijoard of directors of that body since 1869. He 
became a member of St. Paul's Royal Arch Chap- 
ter in 1855, and a charter member of Mystic 
Royal Arch Chapter of Medford in 1864. In the 
latter chapter he has served as captain of the 
host, excellent scribe and king, and most e.xcellent 
high priest. In 1879 he was appointed district 
deputy grand high priest for the eighth capitular 
district of Massachusetts, in which office he 
served through 1880. He received the degree of 
royal and select master in Boston Council. The 
orders of knighthood were conferred on him in 
De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, of 
Boston in 1856 ; and he became a member of the 
Boston Commandery in 1858. He served one 
year as sword-bearer, two as generalissimo, and 
in [S73 became eminent commander. In 1875 
he was elected an honorary member of Joseph 
Warren Commandery of Boston, and later an hon- 
orary member of St. John's Commandery of Phila- 
delphia and of Apollo Commandery of Chicago. 
In 1875 he was elected deputy grand commander 
of the Grand Commandery of Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island: and since October, 1879, he has 
served as one of the trustees of its grand fund. 
He received the degrees of the Royal Order of 
Scotland in May. 1878, and became one of the 
original members of the Provincial Grand Lodge 
of the order for the United States of America, 
and a member of the mother body of the royal 
order in Scotland. At the same time he was ap- 
pointed junior grand warden of the Provincial 
Grand Lodge of H. R. M. for the I'nited States. 
He was invested with the degrees of the Ancient 
and Accepted Scottish Rite to the thirt\-lirst de- 
gree inclusive May g, 1862, with the thirty-second 
degree a week later, and with the thirty-third de- 



gree in December, 1864. He was a charter mem- 
ber of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, Giles F. 
\'ates Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Gourgas 
Chapter of Rose Croi.x, and of DeWitt Clinton 
Consistory, and was elected an honorary member 
of each of these bodies ; also an honorary member 
of Mount Calvary Chapter of Rose Croix, Lowell, 
and of Sutton Lodge of Perfection, Salem. From 
1862 to 1867 he served as deputy commander- 
in-chief of the Grand Consistory of Massachusetts. 
From 1 88 1 to 1883 he was grand master of the 
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and it was largely 
through his efforts that the heavy debt on the 
Masonic Temple in Boston was paid in full. He 
was made an active member of the Supreme 
Council, .Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction United States, in 
1866, and in 1888 was elected minister of state, 
which position he still holds. A feature of his 
Masonic labor has been the establishment of 
permanent charitable funds in every body with 
which he has been associated in working offices. 
He has given much attention to the literature of 
the order, and he possesses one of the most com- 
plete Masonic libraries in the country. General 
Lawrence has always been keenly mterested in 
the welfare of Medford ; and he has done much in 
\ arious ways, without ostentation, for its advance- 
ment. When the old town became a city, in 
1892, he was called to the chair as its first mayor 
by a spontaneous movement of the citizens ; and, 
although he had previously repeatedly declined 
other public positions offered him, he accepted 
this office as an especial honor. General Law- 
rence was married April 28, 1859, at Charles- 
town, to Caroline Rebecca Badger, daughter of the 
Rev. William and Rebecca Badger. They have 
two children : \\'illiam Badger and Louise Law- 



LOCKHART, Wii.m.'^.m L.\wson, of Boston, 
manufacturer of undertakers' goods, is a native 
of Nova Scotia, born in the town of Horton, 
July 20, 1829, son of David and Lucy (McNutt) 
Lockhart. He is of Scotch descent. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native place. 
He began work as a ship carpenter when yet 
a bov, and afterward became a house carpenter, 
working successfully at that trade for a number of 
years. He left home at the age of nineteen, and 
came to Boston, where he has since been estab- 
lished. He entered his present business in 1856, 



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MKN OF PROGRESS. 



at East Cambridge, and within a comparatively 
few years became one of the leading manufact- 
urers and wholesale dealers in caskets, coffins. 




f 



1 



seven years. In 1875 '^^^ engaged in the printing 
and publishing business on his own account, 
establishing himself on Bromfield Street ; and he 
has continued in this business and on this street 
since that date. He has been editor of the Biit- 
isli American and the Atnerican Citizen since 1887. 
In 1895 he was elected president of the Boston 
Daily Publishing Company, the proprietors of the 
Boston Daily Standan/. He is chiefly interested 
in patriotic, temperance, and charitable work, and 
in woman suffrage. In politics he is classed as 
a Prohibition-Republican. He has neither held 
nor sought public place, and is not connected with 
any of the numerous societies and clubs in Bos- 
ton. He was married June 25, 1878, to Miss 
Julia M. .Smith, of Port Huron, Mich. They have 




W. L. LOCKHART. 




and undertakers' goods in this part of the coun- 
try. His e.xtensive factory is still in East Cam- 
bridge, with warerooms in Boston. Mr. I^ockhart 
is a veteran yachtsman, and is a member of the 
Massachusetts, Hull, and Boston Yacht clubs. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He was married in 
1857 to Miss Lucy O. Smith, of Kennebunk, Me. 



LONG, RoiiERT James, of Boston, editor of 
the Britisli American and the American Citizen, is 
a native of Nova Scotia, born in the town of 
Liverpool, January 18, 1849, son of John and 
Mary (Firth) Long. He is of Scotch-Irish ances- 
try. He received his education in the common 
schools and through private tuition after business 
hours, being at work in his boyhood earning his 
living. His first work was in a newspaper office 
in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, which he entered at 
the age of thirteen. He remained there for five 
years, and then engaged in the general printing 
business as an employee in the establishment of 
Rand, Avery, &: Co., at that time on Cornhill. 
Boston. His work here covered a period of 




R. J. LONG. 

had fi\e children : \\'esle\- R.. Robert J., George 
R. (deceased). Cedric B.. and Edelweis Searles 
Long. 



MASTERS, EzEKiF.L Woodworth, of Boston, 
master of dancing, was born in Nova Scotia, 
May 14, 1833, son of Ezekiel and Frances Eliza- 
beth (Hays) Masters. His paternal ancestors 
were English, and, being Loyalists in America, at 
the time of the Revolution fled to the province 
of Nova Scotia, where they took up large tracts of 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



98 = 



land, and turned their attention to farinin>;. His 
paternal grandfather settled in Cornwallis, near 
Grand Pre', the home of Evangeline, Gabriel 
Lajeunesse, and the rest of the " simple Acadian 
farmers." On the maternal side he traces his 
ancestry back to the Huguenots ; and to that 
strain is credited the desire of his parents that he 
should become a clergyman, — an idea that they 
were reluctantly obliged to abandon ; for he in- 
clined to a more active life. His early education 
was obtained in the schools of Nova Scotia, and 
later in Boston. Finding the course of study 
in the public schools here different from that 
which he had pursued in Nova Scotia, attendance 
at the public school was discontinued after a 
short time ; and he received private instruction as 
preparatory for a business career. Natural taste 
turned him toward mechanical pursuits, which he 
followed for several years. Later on the study 
of music led to the train of the twin sister, danc- 
ing ; and in 1850 he entered the school for dancing 
conducted by H. N. Huston, where he took a two 
years' course. The style of dancing practised 
here was that of the "old school"; and, having a 
desire for perfection, he next arranged for a course 
of lessons under Professor William Napoleon 
Bell. Within a few weeks the professor, admir- 
ing his proficiency as a dancer, offered him the 
position of assistant, promising that at the end of 
a three years" course he would make him the best 
teacher of dancing in the United States. The 
prospect was alluring, and soon led to contract to 
enter upon professional duties. At that time 
round dancing was a new feature, and the young 
disciple of Terpsichore entered upon the work of 
acquirement with zeal. The rotary work lent 
such a charm to practice that the small hours of 
the night often found him diligently employed 
in the study and practice of rhythmical motion. 
All the technicalities of the art of dancing were 
faithfully studied, and this necessitated the ac- 
quirement in part of the French language. Jete, 
coupe, Rond de Jambe, and Pas de Basque became 
loving terms to him as soon as their definitions 
were acquired. Subsequently the more classical 
work of fancy dancing was attained under the 
tutelage of some of the most celebrated masters 
of England and America. In 1858 Mr. Masters 
became principal of a school of his own ; and 
from that time to the present, with the exception 
of the Civil War period, he has maintained his 
school, which is recognized by many as the lead- 



ing school for dancing in New England. A feat- 
ure in his professional life has been composition ; 
and many of the exhibition dances now in general 
use by the dancing fraternity of this country are 
his invention, while many of the ordinary dances 
of society have originated with him or have been 
largely improved by him. The glide waltz, the 
redowa schottische, the Yorke, the waltz-lanciers, 
may be included in the list of his works. Realiz- 
ing the necessity of reform both in methods of 
teaching and style of society dancing, Mr. Masters 
in 1883 founded an organization known as the 
American National Association, composed of mas- 
ters of dancing of the United States and Canada. 
He filled the office of president for ten years ; 
and, declining re-election at the Chicago convention 
of the association in 1893, he was elected secre- 
tary, which position he still retains. This organi- 
zation is accomplishing nuich bv its efforts to 
make social dancing more uniform throughout the 
country. Mr. Masters has frequently delivered 
historical lectures on dancing and kindred sub- 
jects in different cities, and has also contributed 
articles on the same subjects to magazines and 




E. WOODWORTH MASTERS. 



periodicals. In 1883 he began the publication of 
the Galop, a paper devoted to the interests of 
dancing and the profession, of which he is at 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



present editor and proprietor. He is a member 
of a number of social orders, including the Sons 
of Temperance, the Manchester Unity of Odd 
Fellows, the Knights of Honor, and the Knights 
of Malta. In military life he has been a member 
of the Boston Fusiliers, from which he was drawn 
as a non-commissioned officer on the staff of 
Colonel Henry W. Wilson of the First Regiment, 
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and he organized 
the first regimental band for that corps in 1873, 
which band filled a contract for thirty-seven 
public concerts for the city of Boston during the 
summer seasons. The duties of his profession 
have prevented any participation in politics or 
public life, although well fitted for political work 
as an experienced speaker. He was married to 
his present wife (Clara A. W'hitten) in 1880, the 
ceremony taking place at Odd Fellows' Hall, 
Boston, on the night of his annual party of that 
year, the service being performed by the Rev. 
Minot J. Savage. He has five children : Ethel- 
ston Moore, Earle Woodworth, Deane Whitten, 
Grace Grayle, and Parke Hayes Masters. He 
has resided in Ro.xbury for several years, his 
academy being in Park Square, Boston. 



McLAUTHLIN, George Thomas, of Boston, 
manufacturer, was born in Duxbury, October 11, 
1826, son of Martin and Hannah (Reed) Mc- 
Lauthlin ; died in Boston, July 20, 1895. He 
was of Scotch-English ancestry. His first an- 
cestors in New England on the paternal side 
settled in Pembroke, the next town to Dux- 
bury, in the early part of the seventeenth cent- 
ury ; and through his mother he descended from 
the Reeds, who settled in Weymouth in 1635. 
His father's family name was originally Maglathlin, 
and underwent several changes before that of 
McLauthlin was finally adopted. His maternal 
grandfather was Colonel Jesse Reed, an inventor 
of distinction, whose inventions included the nail 
machine, which is to-day used in practically its 
original form wherever "cut nails" are made, also 
a line of machinery for making and preparing the 
nail plates for that machine, and various other 
mechanical devices, many of which are in general 
use. His father was a machinist. Mr. Mc- 
Lauthlin inherited his grandfather's inventive 
genius, and, with his brother, Martin P., was 
brought up by his father under strict industrial 
training. He attended the public schools of East 



Bridgewater, to which place his parents removed 
when he was a child of two years, and subse- 
quently took courses at the Adelphian Academy, 
meeting his board and other expenses from his own 
earnings. At sixteen years of age he undertook 
shoemaking, without instruction : and the next 
year began to employ help in his modest business. 
Thus, working mornings and evenings, w'hile at- 
tending school the greater part of the day, and 
longer hours between school terms, he earned the 
means through which he obtained his academic 
training. His eagerness for knowledge led him 
to continue his studies while at his work, the work- 




GEO. T. McLAUTHLIN. 

bench serving the purpose of a desk for the open 
books. At the age of eighteen he was unexpect- 
edly solicited to teach a public school, and, accept- 
ing the offer gladl}', followed teaching through 
four winters, first in Hanson, then in Pembroke, 
and the last two terms in the North Marshfield 
graded school, with exceptional success, mean- 
while continuing his shoemaking and studies. 
At the age of twenty he conceived the plan of 
running his shoe shop on the system of subdivision 
of work, giving each workman employed a special 
part of the work on each shoe ; and this, it is be- 
lieved, was the origin and beginning of the " gang 
system " in shoe manufacturing. In the execu- 



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tion of his plan he was joined by a schoohnate, 
James S. Barrell (who became in later years mas- 
ter of a Cambridge school), and they employed 
three other boys (each of whom afterward became 
a successful business man), the live boys consti- 
tuting the " gang." All soon became experts in 
their parts of the work, and the profitableness of 
the new system was quickly demonstrated. The 
rolling-machine, which was then slowly super- 
seding the lap-stone, and the shoe-jack in place of 
the knee-strap, were used in the shop. Upon at- 
taining his majority, Mr. McLauthlin, led by his 
mechanical taste, sought a wider field, and, enter- 
ing into partnership with his brother, Martin P., 
began, almost without means, the manufacture of 
shoe machinery at Marshfield. At that time this 
was a new industry in which few were engaged ; 
and shoemakers were slow to drop the old lap- 
stone for an inexpensive rolling-machine, or add 
to their modest " bench kit " of tools a cheap 
leather skiving and v.-elt-splitting machine, al- 
though these machines would save their cost in 
a short time. Consequentl)-, the new business at 
the beginning proved too limited for two ; and 
George T. soon after bought out his brother's in- 
terest. In 1850 he moved to Plymouth, and there 
added to his shoe machinery manufacture the 
making of water-wheels and general machinery. 
In this business he prospered, and through the ex- 
tensive introduction of his wheels, which early 
found market in nearly every State and Territory 
in the United States, in Canada, South America, 
Turkey, and Africa, became widely known as the 
"water-wheel man." In 1852 he opened a Boston 
office on State Street, and two years later moved 
his works to Boston, establishing them on Albany 
Street. In 1858 he removed to East Boston, leas- 
ing the machine works there of the East Boston 
Iron Company, which he added to his own. In 
186 1 his works were destroyed in the destructive 
fire of the Fourth of July that year caused by fire- 
crackers, when fifteen acres of property were 
burned over ; and before the fire had ceased he 
had purchased the works of William Adams & 
Co., at No. 120 Fulton Street, Boston. Here his 
factory has since been established, and his office 
from 1864. .\fter his purchase of those premises 
he added the manufacture of steam-engines, eleva- 
tors, and other machinery along the lines which 
had been followed by William Adams & Co. In 
1878 he made further additions, purchasing a con- 
siderable portion of the stock of portable engines 



of the J. C. Hoadley Company, and becoming the 
successor to its portable engine business. Mr. 
Hoadley was at the same time secured by him 
as consulting engineer, and was retained in that 
capacity until his death in 1886. Mr. McLauthlin 
was much engaged in labor-saving inventions, e.\- 
periments, and tests. His most extensive work 
in the latter class was a series of comparative 
model tests on water-wheels, begun in i860 and 
finished in 1868. Requiring a testing apparatus 
for absolute accuracy, he perfected an ingenious 
automatic affair which maintained the water at 
one exact level, accurately recorded the time of 
the test, recorded to a fraction the pounds of water 
used for each test, and the exact distance the 
weight was raised, — all during the time only that 
the wheel was in regular working operation. The 
operator had only to prepare the wheel, set the 
apparatus for the test, hoist the gate, and close it 
after the finish of the test. He could then take 
off the automatically noted records, and with 
slight mathematical calculations compared with 
those formerly necessary determine the result to 
within one-twentieth of one per cent, of absolute 
accuracy. Mr. McLauthlin was a director in 
various companies in which he held interests. 
He was married in 1854 to Miss Clara M. Holden, 
daughter of the late Freeman Holden, of Boston. 
She died in 1882. 



MIXTER, S.'iMUEL Jasox, M.D., of Boston, 
was born in Hardwick, May 10, 1855, son of 
William and Mary (Ruggles) Mi.xter. He was 
educated at Towers Park Latin School and the 
Brimmer School, Boston, and at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology, where he took a 
course in physics, and graduated in 1875. He 
studied medicine in the Harvard Medical School, 
graduating in 1879. After leaving the medical 
school, he spent a year in the Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital as house officer, and then, going 
abroad, further studied for two years in Vienna. 
He has since practised in Boston. He was for 
seven years demonstrator of anatomy in the Har- 
vard Medical School, and has served as surgeon 
to the Massachusetts General Hospital, surgeon 
to the Carney Hospital, and consulting surgeon to 
the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He 
is a member of the American Surgical Associa- 
tion, of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of 
the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, of 



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the Boston Society for Medical Sciences, of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of 
the M. P., St. Botolph, and Athletic clubs. Dr. 




S J, MIXTER. 

Mixter was married, August 12, 1879, to Miss 
^^'ilhelmina Galloupe, daughter of Charles W. and 
Sarah A. (Kittredge) Galloupe, of Boston. They 
have had five children : William Jason, Charles 
Galloupe, Roger Conant (deceased), George, and 
Samuel Mi.xter. 



NIELSON. Carl S., of Boston, builder, and 
operator in suburban real estate, is a native of 
Denmark, born in Aarhuus, June 12, 1856, son of 
Severine Sorenson and Niels (Jargen) Nielson. 
He was educated in the public schools of his 
native city. After leaving school, he served five 
years an indentured apprenticeship at bricklaying, 
and, receiving a diploma from an examining board 
created for that purpose, became a journeyman. 
During his apprenticeship he also studied archi- 
tecture and drafting as a building engineer. He 
came to this country in 1880, and at first worked 
at his trade of bricklaying for some of the leading 
builders in Boston, among them Woodbury & 
Leighton and Connery & Wentworth. In i88g 
he formed a partnership with A. E. Blanchard, of 



Everett, and began building extensively in that 
suburban city. They erected about two hundred 
and fifty dwellings for sale and to order, and 
during the same time built a large brick business 
block for W. F. Fitzgerald on Chelsea Street, a 
large school-house for the city on Beacham Street, 
three large business blocks on Broadway and 
F'erry Street, and several brick and wooden 
houses in Chelsea. The partnership was dis- 
solved in 1892 ; and since that time Mr. Nielson 
has continued the business alone, building a large 
number of houses in Everett. In 1892 he ex- 
tended his operations into the Dorchester District 
of Boston, purchasing there a tract of thirty-six 
acres, bounded by three streets and the New 
York & New England Railroad, and beginning on 
an extensive scale the lauilding of modern dwell- 
ings for the market. He then opened a Dor- 
chester ofiice on the corner of Norfolk Street and 
Mountain Avenue, and also a main office in the 
city proper at No. i Beacon Street. In 1S95 he 
acquired an interest in a car company, and was 
made president of the company. In politics Mr. 
Nielson generally acts with the Republican party, 




CARL S NIELSON. 



but takes no active part in political work. He 
belongs to no clubs or other organizations, finding 
his time fully occupied by his business and his 



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home. He was married March 31, 1877, to Miss 
Marie Jansen. They have an adopted daughter : 
Mena Nielsen. The family now reside in Dor- 
chester, where Mr. Nielsen has built his house 
within tiie large tract of land which he acquired 
for development in 1892. 



NILES, WiLLi.A^M Harmon, of Cambridge, pro- 
fessor of geology and physical geography in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley 
College, and Boston University, was born in 
Northampton, May 18, 1838. His father was the 
Rev. Asa Niles, and his mother, Mary A. (Marcy) 
Niles. He inherited from his father a quick, re- 
tentive memory, and from his mother a genuine 
love of nature. In boyliood he was fond of col- 
lecting and studying minerals and plants, and his 
subsequent career was clearly foreshadowed by 
his youthful recreations. His early education 
was received in the public schools of Worthington, 
where he then resided ; and later he went to We.s- 
leyan Academy at Wilbraham. His love for natu- 
ral science was there developed by the instruc- 
tions and encouragement of his uncle, Oliver 
Marcy, LL.I)., now professor at the North-western 
l^niversity. Acting under his advice, he went to 
Cambridge to become a student of the late Pro- 
fessor Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology, where he remained four years, and 
where he was intimately associated with young 
men who have since become distinguished in 
science. To extend his scientific education, he 
became a member of the junior class of the Shef- 
field Scientific School, Yale College, and gradu- 
ated Ph.B. in 1867. He received the honorary 
degree of A.M. from W'esleyan University, Mid- 
dletown, Conn., in 1870. He began teaching in 
public schools at seventeen years of age, and be- 
fore his graduation he frequently delivered pub- 
lic lectures. He was also early employed by the 
Massachusetts State Board of Education as in- 
structor in natural sciences, and as evening lect- 
urer at '■ State Teachers' Institutes," in which 
work he continued for ten successive years. In 
1867 he began giving courses of public lectures 
and lyceum lectures upon geological and geo- 
graphical subjects, sometimes speaking from sev- 
enty to one hundred times in a single season. He 
was repeatedly called to give full courses of ten 
or twelve lectures each. The Lowell Institute in 
Boston, the Peabodv Institution in Baltimore, 



and Wakefield, Mass., were among the places at 
wliich he was ilnis welcomed as a public speaker. 
Upon the lyceum courses in some towns he ap- 
peared nearly every season. In 1871 he was 
appointed professor of physical geography in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 
1878 became professor of geology and geography. 
In 1875 he was made an instructor of geology in 
Boston University, and four years later advanced 
to the professorship. In 1882 he became con- 
nected with Wellesley College as stated lecturer 
in geology; and in 1888 he was appointed pro- 
fessor in charge of the department of geology, 




WM. H. NILES. 

which had just been established. These three 
professorships are held by him at the present time. 
He is the president of the Boston Society of Natu- 
ral History, which position he has occupied since 
1892, and is the president of the New England 
Meteorological Society, and a trustee of the Pea- 
body Museum of Archa-ology. He is a fellow of 
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
a fellow of the (Geological Society of America, 
member of the National Geographical Society, 
member of the Society of American Naturalists, 
and corresponding member of the New York 
Academy of Sciences and of the Peabodv Acad- 
emy of Sciences, also a member of the Appalach- 



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ian Mountain Club, of which he was president in 
1879. Professor Niles has been a contributor to 
scientific literature, and among his published writ- 
ings the following titles appear : " Geological 
Formations of the Burlington Limestone,'" with 
Charles Wachsmuth, " Shells from the ' 'Pill ' in 
Boston Harbor," " Traces of Ancient Operations 
in the Oil Region of Pennsylvania," " Peculiar 
Phenomena observed in Quarrying," " Agency of 
Glaciers in the Excavations of Valleys and Lake 
Basins," " Expansions, Movements, and Fractures 
of Rocks," "Zones of Physical Features upon the 
Slopes of Mountains," and " Recent Floods in 
Germany." Much of his work is to be found in 
the printed Proceedings of the Boston Society of 
Natural History. He was married December 31, 
1868, to Miss Helen M. Plympton, youngest 
daughter of Dr. Sylvanus Plympton, of Cam- 
bridge. They have no children. 



PARTRIDGE, Horace, of Boston, merchant, 
was born in Walpole, May 27, 1822, son of 
Hervey and Rachel (Paine) Partridge. He is on 
the maternal side of the Paines of Maine, a 
cousin of Henry W. Paine, of Cambridge. His 
father was a blacksmith ; and his boyhood was 
passed in farm work and blacksmithing, with at- 
tendance at district schools during the winter 
months. From Walpole the family moved to 
Dedham when he was an infant. When he was 
twelve years old, they moved again to Newton 
Upper Falls, thence two years later to Mill Vil- 
lage, and within the next two years to South 
Royalston. In about 1840, when the survey of 
the route of the Vermont &: Massachusetts Rail- 
road was under way, he carried the chain for a 
time. Although he was a working boy, his busi- 
ness career may be said to have fairly begun 
at the age of twenty, when he was engaged in 
selling goods for an elder brother. At twenty-one 
he was "on the road," selling on his own account. 
While the Vermont & Massachusetts road was 
building, he supplied the families of the work- 
men with groceries, dry goods, shoes, and other 
merchandise, over a route between Gardner and 
Greenfield, making his headquarters at Athol. 
Prospering in this enterprise, he decided to try 
his fortune in Boston ; and, accordingly, in 1848 
he came to the city, and joined his brother, who 
was then engaged in the dry-goods business at 
No. 78 Federal Street. A year later he opened 



a place of his own, at No. 49 Hanover Street, 
and began a brisk trade as an auctioneer. From 
this he soon developed into a retail and whole- 
sale dealer in fancy goods and Yankee notions. 
He remained at No. 49 Hanover Street until that 
building was about to be razed. Then he moved 
to No. 125, the "Diamond Block." A few vears 
later, that block coming down, he made a third 
move to No. 105 ; and, that in turn after a while 
meeting the same fate, he moved once again, this 
time to No. 27. Here he was able to remain 
for twelve years, when, that building being 
doomed for the widening of the street, he was 




HORACE PARTRIDGE. 

obliged to make a fifth move. He then estab- 
lished himself at No. 51, and, soon after adding 
Nos. S3 and 55, became permanently fixed. His 
business steadily enlarged and extended until he 
became one of the largest dealers in his line. 
He was a pioneer in the Christmas toy and pres- 
ents trade, and earlv engaged in the importation 
of immense quantities of dolls and many branches 
of European toys as well as fancy goods. He con- 
tinued alone until his admittance to partnership 
of his son-in-law. Benjamin F. Hunt, Jr. Subse- 
quently also admitting his son, Frank P. Part- 
ridge, he established the firm name of Horace 
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has since been conducted. In 1885, when the 
Hanover Street quarters — the entire block Nos. 
51 to 55 — had become outgrown, contract was 
made witii tiie late Frederick L. Ames for the 
building then erected at Nos. 63 to 97 Lincoln 
Street, covering two hundred and ten feet on that 
street, two hundred and thirty feet on Essex 
Place, one hundred feet on Tufts Street, and one 
hundred and fifty feet on Essex Street, the firm 
taking a twenty years' lease of five lofts, twenty- 
seven thousand feet on each floor. Meanwhile a 
large retail store on Washington Street and Tem- 
ple Place was established, the original Hanover 
Street establishment being retained. Mr. Hunt, 
with Frederick R. Smith, was given charge of the 
Lincoln Street department, Mr. Partridge, the 
younger, the Washington Street store, while Mr. 
Partridge, senior, remained at the old stand from 
which these extensive branches had developed. 
Mr. Hunt also makes the foreign purchases for 
the house, going annually to Europe. Business 
in the commodious Lincoln Street store was car- 
ried on successfully till the lotli of March, 1893, 
when the largest conflagration that Boston had 
suffered since the "great fire" of 1872 occurred, 
in which this store was burned to the ground. 
Since that loss Mr. Partridge and his associates 
have contented themselves with the " old stand " 
on Hanover Street, and are determined not to 
experiment further on locations. The store con- 
ducted by Frank P. Partridge is now at No. 335 
Washington, and its principal trade is bicycles 
and lawn tennis outfits. In addition to the con- 
duct of his large business, Mr. Partridge has also 
invested considerably in suburban real estate. 
He has built and owned more than a hundred 
dwelling-houses, and he now has a goodly village 
of houses in Somerville which he leases or rents. 
He also leases and rents a number of public halls. 
He has built on North Avenue (now Massachu- 
setts Avenue), Cambridge, within a handsome 
lot, — precisely the size of the ground of the Lin- 
coln Street store, — a comfortable house for him- 
self, one for his son, and two for tenants ; and on 
an adjoining lot Mr. Hunt has built for his family. 
Mr. Partridge is devoted to fruit and flower cult- 
ure, and takes great pleasure and pride in the 
cultivation of his grounds and garden. He is a 
life member of the Massachusetts Horticultural 
Society, and possesses more than a hundred prize 
tickets received for his fruit and flower displays at 
its exhibitions. He is devoted to his business 



and to work, and for upward of forty years has 
averaged eighteen hours of work, either in his 
store or upon the grounds about his Cambridge 
home, a day. He says that he has never had any 
desire to join any organization for shortening the 
hours of labor. Among the more than four thou- 
sand hands which he has employed during his 
business career in Boston, many have served long 
terms with him. One clerk has been in his em- 
ploy for forty years and more, and half a dozen 
for a quarter of a century each. He has been a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
Company for thirty-five years ; and he has been 
as attentive to the duties of membership as to 
his business, never missing an artillery election, 
parade, or dinner. In politics he is a Democrat, 
but has never aspired to office or been drawn to 
the management of political machinery, taking no 
part in caucussing and fighting shy of caucuses. 
He was married, when he was engaged in selling 
goods "on the road," June 17, 1847, to Miss 
Martha Ann Stratton, daughter of Samuel and 
Livia (Rawson) Stratton, of the tow^n of CAW. 
They have had five children : Jenny Lind (now 
Mrs. Benjamin F. Hunt, Jr.), Frank Pierce (now 
in partnership with his father), Nellie Rosalie 
(now Mrs. William E. Nickerson), Lizzie Lucille, 
and Horace Partridge, Jr., both of whom died in 
infancy. 

PAUR, Emil, of Boston, conductor of the Bos- 
ton Symphony Orchestra, was born in Czerno- 
witz, Austria, July 29, 1855, son of Franz and 
Emilie (Rauh) Paur. His father was a musician, 
pupil of Czerny, a conductor, and also a teacher 
of music. He was educated in Vienna. His 
musical studies began early at home. He became 
a pupil at the Vienna Conservatory, studying 
there the violin with Hellmesberger and compo- 
sition with Dessoff, and soon attained a good 
name as an excellent pianist and violinist. He 
graduated from the Conservatory with high 
honors, receiving the first prize and the large 
medal, and secured the place of first violin in the 
orchestra of the Vienna Opera House. Soon dis- 
playing an e.xceptional talent for conducting, he 
was appointed to conduct a great performance of 
a new oratorio, " Die Sieben Todsiinden," in Ber- 
lin ; and after that he was given the position of 
court conductor at Cassel in 1876, when he was 
but twenty-one. His success there brought him a 
higher offer from Konigsberg, which he accepted ; 



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and shortly after, in 1880, he was made first con- 
ductor and director of the Abonnements Konzerte 
and the court theatre at Mannheim. He remained 
in Mannheim nine years, and in i8gi went to 
Leipzig as first conductor at the opera, where he 
was engaged when he was secured by Henry L. 
Higginson to succeed Mr. Nilcisch as the con- 
ductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. While 
at the Stadttheater he also conducted orchestra 
concerts in Leipzig with marked success. Mean- 
while he had become widely known as an accom- 
plished pianist, a master of the violin, and a com- 
poser for the violin, piano, and orchestra, and of 
numerous songs. He has been called by compe- 
tent critics one of the most thorough and conscien- 
tious conductors of the day, especially qualified, 
by his magnetism and generalship, for concert 
conducting. His de'but in Boston was made Oc- 
tober 13-14, 1893; and he has fully maintained 
the brilliant orchestra, of which he is at the head, 
at the high standard to which it was brought by 
his accomplished predecessors. Hs is a member 
of no organizations other than musical, shrinks 
from publicity, and is domestic in his habits. He 



she was a pupil of Leschetitzky at Vienna. They 
have two bovs : Hans and Kurt Paur. 




EMIL PAUR. 




is German with all his heart. Mr. Paur was mar- 
ried January 29, 1S82, to Marie Burger, a fine 
pianist, whom he first met in Mannheim, when 



FREDERICK H. PRINCE. 

PRINCE, Frederick Henry, of Boston, banker 
and broker, was born in Winchester, November 
30, i860. He is the youngest son of Frederick 
O. Prince, secretary of the National Democratic 
Committee for twenty-eight consecutive years, 
member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Con- 
vention in 1853, several terms a member of the 
General Court of Massachusetts, and mayor of 
Boston in 1S77, 1879, 1880, and 1881. He is of 
distinguished ancestry, descendant in the direct 
line of Elder John Prince (son of John Prince, 
rector of East Sheffield, England, in the latter part 
of the sixteenth century, when the Prince family 
were living in Shrewsbury on their estate "Abbey 
Foregate"), who joined the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony in 1633, settling in Hull, and of Thomas 
Prince (H.C. 1707), grandson of Elder John, who 
was the colleague of Dr. Samuel Sewall, minister, 
of the South Church in Boston from 17 17 till his 
death in 1758, a period of forty years. His great- 
grandfather, James Prince, was a leading merchant 
of his day in Boston, naval officer at the port of 
Boston by appointment of President Jefferson, and 
subsequently marshal for the District of Massachu- 



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setts under presidents Madison and Monroe. His 
mother was a daughter of Barnard Henry, of 
Phihidelphia, born at Gibraltar, where Mr. Henry- 
was United States consul for many years. He 
was educated in public and private schools, and 
entered Harvard in 1878. Leaving college in his 
junior year to engage in business, within five years 
he established the banking house of F. H. Prince 
>.\: Co. (1885), and engaged in large financial oper- 
ations. In 1889 he entered into negotiations with 
Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, and the Vanderbilts 
for the purchase of the Chicago .Stock Yards, and 
organized the syndicate of London and Boston 
bankers who subsequently acquired the property 
at a valuation of ji23,ooo,ooo. Subsequently he 
conceived the plan of uniting the Philadelphia 
& Reading, the Boston & Maine, and the New 
\'ork & New England Railroad systems under 
one management, the development of which was 
wide-reaching in its effects, and precipitated the 
consolidation of rival corporations. In the reor- 
ganization of the New York (S: New England 
Railroad at this time he became vice-president. 
He is a director of the Chicago Junction Railways 
and Union Stock Yards Company. Mr. Prince 
married in 1888 a daughter of George H. Nor- 
man, of Newport, R.I. 



QUINCY, JosiAH, of Boston, member of the 
Suffolk bar, mayor of Boston for 1896-97, was 
born in Quincy, son of Josiah Phillips and Helen 
Fanny (Huntington) ()uincy. He is of the dis- 
tinguished Quincy family, great-grandson of the 
Josiah Quincy who was the second mayor of Bos- 
ton, — holding the office for si.x years, 1823-29, 
after having served in Congress from 1805 to 
1 8 13, several terms in the State Senate, as 
speaker of the House of Representatives in 182 i- 
22, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention 
of 1820, judge of the municipal court of Boston, 
and, after his retirement from the mayoralty, pres- 
ident of Harvard College from 1829 to 1845, — 
and grandson of the Josiah (,)uincy who was 
mayor of ISoston from 1846 to 1849, having pre- 
viously been president of the Boston Common 
Council for five years and president of the State 
Senate one year (1842). His first ancestor in 
America was Edmund Quincy, from England in 
1628, who was one of the committee appointed 
to purchase from \\'illiam Bla.xton, the first Euro- 
pean settler in Shawmut, now Boston, his right 



to tile peninsula. Edmund subsequently settled 
on lands granted him at Mt. Wollaston, now 
(,)uincy, and died there December, 1635. He had 
two sons, Daniel and Edmund, from the younger of 
whom — Edmund — Mr. Quincy descends in the 
direct line through Edmund, his second son. Of 
Daniel's son John, John Quincy Adams was great- 
grandson and namesake. Edmund, son of Ed- 
mund second, left two sons, Edmund — a daugh- 
ter of whom married John Hancock — and 
Josiah. Josiah was a merchant and some time 
in public life. He built the homestead in 
(Quincy, until recent years occupied by his de- 




JOSIAH QUINCY. 

scendants, and now in the possession of the 
(,)uincy Historical Society. His third son, Josiah, 
was prominent among the patriots in Boston dur- 
ing the years immediately preceding the Revolu- 
tion, was a leading lawyer and orator, of counsel in 
the defence of Captain Preston and his soldiers 
concerned in the " Boston ^lassacre " of 1770, was 
conspicuous in the Old South Meeting-house 
gathering which was followed by the destruction 
of the "detested tea " in 1773, and died upon his 
way home from England, where he had gone to 
consult with friends of the patriots there, in 1775, 
at the youthful age of thirtv-one. His son Jo- 
siah was the second mayor of Boston, above re- 



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ferrud to ; the latter's son Josiah, the second 
Mayor Quincy of Boston ; and his son Josiah, — 
Josiah Phillips Quincy, — father of the present 
Josiah and third Mayor Quincy of Boston. Mr. 
Quincy's father was born in Boston, and is a 
member of the Suffolk bar, but has never been 
in practice. He is author of several dramas, one 
under the title of " Lyteria," published in 1855, 
and another entitled " Charicles," published in 
1856 ; and has written numerous political essays, 
discussing the " Protection of Majorities" (1876), 
double taxation, and other questions. Mr. 
Quincy's mother was a daughter of Judge Hun- 
tington, of the former Superior Court of Suffolk 
County. Mr. Quincy was fitted for college at the 
Adams Academy, Quincy, when Dr. Dimock was 
head-master, and graduated from Harvard in the 
class of 1880. After leaving college, he served 
for a year as instructor in the academy in which 
he had been a student, under Dr. VN'illiam Ever- 
ett who was at that time at its head. He then 
travelled in Europe, and upon his return entered 
the Harvard Law School, but took only a portion 
of the full course. In 18S3 he was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar, but he has never been in active 
practice. His interest in public matters was 
manifested when a college student, and in 18S1 
he became secretary of the Civil Service Reform 
League of Massachusetts. Two years later he 
became secretary of the Massachusetts Tariff 
Reform League. He first participated actively 
in politics in the national campaign of 1884, as 
a member of the Committee of One Hundred, 
which represented the Massachusetts Indepen- 
dents leading in the movement for Cleveland 
against Blaine ; and from that time he has been 
actively identified with the Democratic party. In 
1886 he was elected to the lower house of the 
Legislature for the Eifth Norfolk District, com- 
posed of the towns of Quincy and U'eymouth, and 
served two terms in that body ( 1887-88), retir- 
ing to accept in 1888 the Democratic nomination 
for Congress against the Hon. Elijah A. Morse, 
in a strong Republican district. Unsuccessful 
in that contest, he was returned the ne.xt year to 
the House of 1890, and was re-elected a member 
for 1 89 1. During his four years' service in the 
Legislature he was active on the floor and in com- 
mittee work, and in the sessions of 1890 and 
1 89 1 was the recognized leader on the Dem- 
ocratic side. He served on the committees on 
labor, rules, cities, election laws, and woman suf- 



frage, and also on two special investigating com- 
mittees. In 1890, the year in which Governor 
Russell was first elected, he was chosen secretary 
of the Democratic State Committee; in 1891 
became chairman of the executive committee, and 
in 1892 chairman of the full committee, which 
position he held till 1894. He was also one of 
the organizers and original members of the Voung 
Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, formed 
in 1888. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Na- 
tional Democratic Convention at Chicago, and 
was chosen by the delegation as the Massachu- 
setts member of the Democratic National Commit- 
tee. Subsequently made a member of the cam- 
paign committee of the national organization, at 
the headquarters in New York he had charge of 
the preparation and distribution of documents, 
and of the newspaper work connected with the 
campaign. In March, 1893, immediately after 
the inauguration of President Cleveland, he was 
offered the position of First Assistant Secretary 
of State, which place he accepted with the 
understanding that he should only be expected 
to hold it temporarily, being unwilling to remain 
long in Washington. In this capacity — Secretary 
Gresham desiring to confine himself entirely to 
diplomatic work — Mr. Quincy represented the 
department in the reorganization of the consular 
service to improve the service and bring it into 
harmony with the tariff' reform tendencies of the 
administration. After serving as Assistant Secre- 
tary for si.x months, he resigned, and, returning 
to Massachusetts, took an active part in the State 
campaign of 1893. In the winter of 1894 he 
was again in Washington, acting as counsel for 
the Argentine government in the preparation of 
its side of the boundary dispute between that 
country and Brazil, which was submitted to Pres- 
ident Cleveland as arbitrator. From the close of 
the campaign of 1894 till his nomination for the 
mayoralty in 1895, '^^ ^^^ '^^^ actively engaged 
in politics, devoting his attention mainly to street 
railway matters, having become a director of and 
counsel for the Quincy and Boston Street Rail- 
way Company and two smaller companies. He 
was, however, a frequent and effective speaker 
on the stump in the campaign of 1895. Mr. 
Quincy is a member of the Union Club, the Loyal 
Legion, and various other organizations. He is 
unmarried. He has resided in Boston through 
the winter seasons for many years, and been a 
legal resident of the city since 1S91. 



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995 



RICHARDS, Calvin Adams, of Itoston, mer- 
chant and street railway manager, was born in 
Dorchester, March 4, 182S, son of Isaiah I), and 
CaroHne (Capen) Richards; died in Boston, Febru- 
ary 15, 1892. He was educated in the public 
schools. Lea\ing school at the age of thirteen to 
assist his father in the latter's business, he early 
exhibited exceptional executive ability ; and, when 
he was yet quite a young man, his father came to 
depend upon him for assistance and counsel. He 
devoted his thoughts and attention entirely to 
business and to the care of his mother, who was 
in delicate health during the closing years of her 




C. A. RICHARDS. 

life, denying himself many of the pleasures of 
young men. I'hree brothers also joined his 
father in the business, and he remained with them 
till 1 86 1, when he opened a large establishment of 
his own on Washington Street : and here during 
the years of the Civil \^'ar and those immediately 
following he amassed a fortune. While connected 
with his father's business, he was elected to the 
Boston Common Council, where he served three 
terms, 1858-59 and 1861. In 1862 he was a mem- 
ber of the Board of Aldermen. The experience 
he gained in these branches of the city govern- 
ment, especially as a speaker on the floor, he 
valued ; and he was thereby led to public speak- 



ing, l)ecomiiig esjK'cially happy as an after-dinner 
speaker at dining club tables, being magnetic and 
having a rare wit. In 1873 Mr. Richards made 
an extended tour of Europe with his family : and 
upon his return in 1874 he was induced to re- 
linquish business cares somewhat, and take a 
place ill the directory of the Metropolitan Rail- 
road Company. In that body he soon made his 
executive power felt, and was urged to take the 
presidency of the company. This he did, and 
found the otifice no easy one. The railroad was 
on the verge of bankruptcy, and a powerful rival 
corporation had been allowed by the former man- 
agement aggressively to push its way. Mr. 
Richards's task was to restore his road to its 
former position, and how thoroughly he accom- 
plished it is known to all street railroad men famil- 
iar with the history of street railway development 
in American cities. \\'hen he entered the busi- 
ness, he knew nothing of street railroading: but he 
was quick to grasp its details, and speedily became 
master of the situation. Under his management 
the Metropolitan became the largest and one of 
the best managed street railways in the country, 
strong and lich; and his methods were copied by 
other street railway companies in this country and 
abroad. In all matters of importance in the 
interest of his road, or affecting it, before the 
Legislature or the city government, he personally 
appeared: and his arguments, with his strong per- 
sonal magnetism, shrewd common sense, and inti- 
mate knowledge of street railway affairs, were al- 
most always successful in winning his points and 
overcoming his opponents, often represented by 
some of the ablest attorneys of the profession. 
He labored zealously for the interests of the stock- 
holders of the road ; and he had the good will of 
his employees, although a firm antl strict master, 
holding all up to the line of duty, being found al- 
ways ready to hear and fully examine complaints 
and to deal fairly with those under him. In 1S85 
he was made president of the American Street 
Railway Association, composed of the executive 
forces of the leading street railroads in the L'nited 
States and Canada : and he took great interest in 
the annual conventions of the organization held 
in the different cities, in which he made himself 
a power by his foresight and wisdom. He was 
among the earliest to predict the use of electric 
power for street-cars, and was almost the first man 
publicly to discuss it, bringing the matter forward 
in a memorable speech at the annual banquet of 



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MEN OF rKO(;RESS. 



the American Street Railway Association given in 
tlie Fiftli Avenue Hotel, New York City, in 
October. 1884. In 1887, after the consolidation 
of all the street railways in Boston and the ab- 
sorption of the Metropolitan in the West End 
Street Railway Company, Mr. Richards became 
connected with the latter as general manager 
under President Whitney ; but after a few week's 
service he resigned. Upon his retirement as 
president of the Metropolitan Company, with its 
union with the West End, he was given a com- 
plimentary banquet by his associates, and on this 
occasion was presented with a massive bronze, the 
silver plate of which was thus inscribed : " Pre- 
sented to Calvin A. Richards, by the Metropolitan 
Railroad Company, in recognition of iiis valuable 
services as president, by vote of the directors, 
October 24, 1887." For a short time after his 
withdrawal from the West End management he 
was connected with the Boston Heating Company. 
Then he retired to private life. The closing act 
of his business life was the purchase and remodel- 
ling of the large office building, at No. 114 State 
Street, which bears his name. His death was the 
result of disease following an attack of '■ la 
grippe,'' immediately after the completion of the 
Richards Building in January, iSgo. He re- 
covered sufficiently from •' la grippe " to pass the 
summer at the Isles of Shoals, and had journeyed 
to the South in the spring of 1891, when he had a 
critical attack of "angina pectoris" on the train 
from St. Augustine to New York. Another attack 
of the same trouble was suffered at Richfield 
Springs, where he was taking the sulphur baths, 
in the autumn of 1891. Thereafter he steadily 
failed ; and his death finally occurred suddenly, in 
February following, at his home in Boston. His 
funeral was attended by an unusually large num- 
ber of prominent business and professional men ; 
and he was mourned as an able and successful 
business man, a firm friend, a good neighbor, a 
tender and loving husband and father. Mr. 
Richards was married February 17, 1852, to Miss 
Ann R. Babcock, daughter of Dexter Babcock, 
of the wholesale grocery firm of Babcock & 
Coolidge, Boston. They had two children : a son, 
who was instantly killed by lightning in 186^, and 
a daughter. 

RICHTER, George Henry, of Boston, mer- 
chant and manufacturer, is a native of New York 
State, born in \^'atertown. March 23, i860, son of 



Charles Christian and Margaret (Wourm) Richter. 
His parents were born in Germany, but came to 
this country before their marriage. They were 




GEO. H. RICHTER. 

married in Utica, N.Y., both having relatives 
there, and settled in Watertown, where Mr. Rich- 
ter. Sr., was some time employed as a mechanical 
expert, having a thorough knowledge of machinery 
and fine tool work. .Subsequently, in 1867, he 
mo\ed his family to I^owville, N.Y., and engaged 
there for himself, forming a partnership with a 
friend, in the manufacture of machinery. A few 
years later he established a hardware business. 
George Henry was the third youngest of six chil- 
dren, three of whom are living. He was educated 
in the public schools, at the I.owville Academy, 
the Cortland (N.Y.) Normal School, and through 
private instruction in several branches of study in 
which he was especially interested. He began 
his business career in his father's hardware store. 
.\fter spending some time there, during which 
period he became much interested in the local 
and district work of the Young Men's Christian 
,\ssociation, he received a call through the State 
committee to the general secretaryship of the 
Young Men's Christian Association at Hudson 
City, N.Y. This call he accepted, after further 
preparation for the work by special studies at 



MEN Ol' I'ROGRKSS. 



997 



Nevvburg, X.'S'. and L-nlcred upon his cliuies in 
September, iSSi. A year later a call was ex- 
tended to him from the St. Paul (Minn.) Young 
Men's Christian Association to become its gen- 
eral secretar}', which position, after going to St. 
Paul to look over the field, he accepted condition- 
ally. I'pon his return to fiudson, however, he 
was persuaded of his duty to remain there, and 
consequently declined the St. Paul offer. In 
18S3 he received and accepted a call to the as- 
sistant State secretar3-ship for New York State. 
with headquarters in New York City. In 1884 
he resigned this position to devote some time to 
reading and study. Having accomplished his ob- 
ject, he re-engaged in business, becoming con- 
nected with the Schlicht & Field Company in 
Rochester, N.Y., in the success of which firm's 
successors he is still interested as a customer and 
as their New England representative, although now 
in business for himself. While in the employ of 
this company, he went to Canada to introduce its 
office devices into the government departments at 
Ottawa and into the offices of the larger commercial 
houses. After two years of this work a Cana- 
dian stock company was organized in Toronto, 
of which he became vice-president. In 1886 he 
went to London, England, in charge of the e.xhibit 
of his company and of one other, during the 
Colonial Exhibition. He remained in London for 
the greater part of a year, and while there assisted 
in forming a successful English stock company, 
in which he became a stockholder. Returning to 
America, in April, 1887, he came to Boston, and 
began his present business, under the firm name 
of George H. Richter & Co. (the "Co." being 
nominal), as New England representative of the 
Schlicht & Field Company, as stated above, and 
dealer in other office devices, with office at No. 
171 Devonshire Street. His business steadily 
increased until now he occupies capacious quar- 
ters at No. 92 Franklin Street, with one of the most 
complete lines of modern office devices and fur- 
niture to be found in New England or perhaps 
in the United States. Since beginning business in 
Boston, Mr. Richter, being fertile in mechanical 
ideas, and having studied the needs in commercial 
and public offices, has invented several useful and 
practical office devices, for some of which patents 
have been granted and others are applied for. His 
aim is to produce the most perfect line of labor- 
saving office sj'stems in the world, and accord- 
ingly has connected with his business a paper 



working factory, a printing-office, a machine-shop, 
and a wood-working shop of his own, so that 
models, patterns, tools, and product can be made 
without depending on outside work. Mr. Richter 
has also been interested in a number of real estate 
matters. He held for a time more than a half in- 
terest in the fine development in the city of Spring- 
field, known as Forest Park Heights, and was the 
first president of the Forest Park Heights Com- 
pany. He is a member of the Boston Art Club, 
the Shakespeare Club, the Appalachian Moun- 
tain Club, the Newton Boat Club, the Congre- 
gational Club, and of several other kindred or- 
ganizations. He is treasurer of the Boston Train- 
ing School of Music, a director of the New 
England Evangelistic Association, vice-president 
of the American Invalid Aid Society, and is in- 
terested in various other philanthropic and public 
enterprises. Mr. Richter is unmarried. 



ROSNOSKY, LsAAC, of Boston, is a native of 
Prussia, born in W'ollsein, November 6, 1846, son 
of Henry and Selda (Phillips) Rosnosky. He at- 




ISAAC ROSNOSKY. 



tended the public schools of Wollsein until he was 
eleven years of age, when he was taken out to 
learn the tailoring; trade. He came to America in 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



1 86 1, and established his home in Boston. In 
1863 he entered the employ of Lewis H. Clark, 
manufacturer of clothing, and four years later be- 
came a partner in the business. On the first of 
July. 1S93, he retired with a competence. He 
has been for many years prominent in municipal 
and State politics, having served seven terms 
in the Boston Common Council and five terms 
in the State Legislature. His service as a coun- 
cilman covered the years 1878-79-81-84-85- 
89-90; and as a representative the years 1880- 
91-92-93-94. In the Common Council he was 
chairman of the committee on improved sewerage 
in 1879, which built that part of the great sewer 
which passes under South Bay ; and during his 
seven terms he served on nearly all the important 
committees in the city government. In 1881 he 
introduced an order to take water from Lake \\'in- 
nipiseogee, N.H., to increase the Boston water 
supply, at a cost, according to engineer's estimate, 
of $50,000,000. In the Legislature he served on 
the committees on finance, railroad, cities and 
towns, health, and woman suffrage. In 189 1 he 
was successful in getting passed a bill contrib- 
uting $10,000 to the Carney Hospital. Boston; 
and the same session he introduced a bill to 
anne.x Cambridge to Boston, by which the agita- 
tion of the project of "Greater Boston " was re- 
vived. In 1892 he introduced a bill to establish 
a commission to examine into the water supply of 
lioston, which was referred to the State Board of 
Health; and in 1893 the board recommended 
such a commission. In 1893 he secured a 
change in the statute legalizing all Jewish mar- 
riages and authorizing all Jewish rabbis to marry, 
and also the enactment providing that Jewish 
divorces shall not be legal unless passed on by 
the courts. Mr. Rosnosky has always been a 
stanch Democrat, and has taken active part in 
party work. He has attended as a delegate two 
national Democratic conventions, — the first, that 
held in Cincinnati in 1880, which nominated Han- 
cock, and the second, that of 188S at St. Louis, at 
which Grover Cleveland was nominated. He has 
been for twenty-one years president of the largest 
Jewish temple in New England : a director of the 
Hebrew Benevolent Society of Boston for four- 
teen years ; and has been president of District 
No. 1 of the Independent Order Benai Berith, the 
largest Jewish organization in the world, covering 
New York and the New England States, He is a 
member also of the I'ree Sons of Israel, and of 



Mt. Olivet Lodge, Freemasons. Mr. Rosnosky 
was married November 7, 1869. to Miss Henri- 
etta Vardono. They have had six children : 
Sadie (now Mrs. A. K. Cohen), Lillie. Walter. 
Morris, Ray, and Eva Rosnosky. 



ROWE, Georce HcjWARD MAi.ciii.jr, M.D., of 
Boston, superintendent of the Boston City Hos- 
pital, was born in Lowell, February i, 1841, son 
of Jonathan Philbrick and Maria Louise (Morri- 
son) Rowe. His paternal ancestry runs back to 
Richard Rowe, a London merchant, who in 1638 




G- H. M. ROWE. 

came to lioston with grants of land bestowed by 
Sir Ferdinando Gorges, governor of the colony. 
His mother inherited the Scotch blood of the 
exiles from the siege of Londonderry, who settled 
in New Hampshire ; and the patriotism of a later 
generation stood at Bunker Hill and Bennington. 
During his boyhood at Rollinsford, N.H., he 
studied at the time-honored academy at South 
Berwick, Me. He fitted for college at Phillips 
(Exeter) Academy, and was graduated at Dart- 
mouth College in 1864; in 1867 he was given 
the degree of A.M. Beginning to study medicine 
under the distinguished psychologist. Dr. John S. 
Butler, of Hartford, Conn., he subsequently took 



.MKN OF PROGRESS. 



999 



the full course at the Hai\ai-(1 Medical (_'ollege. 
and was graduated in i86S. Piiilanthropic and 
psychological interests led him, while a medical 
student, to become superintendent of the Massa- 
chusetts School for the Feeble-minded, then es- 
tablished by the humanitarian zeal of Dr. Samuel 
G. Howe. From the position of assistant super- 
intendent in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the 
Insane at Philadelphia he was called in 1870 to 
the same otifice at the Boston Lunatic Hospital, 
where he remained until elected in 1879 to his 
present position of superintendent and resident 
physician at the Boston City Hospital. His term 
of service there covers a longer period than that 
of any other medical superintendent of a general 
hospital in the United States, and he is a recog- 
nized authority on hospital management. A sci- 
entific interest in medical advancement, a saga- 
cious forecast of municipal needs, and a liberal 
policy have made his continued administration a 
factor in developing that institution into one oc- 
cupying a foremost place in size, scope, and com- 
pleteness of equipment. He has also been deeply 
interested in raising the training school for nurses 
to a high standard. He is a close student of san- 
itation and the relations of public health, is spe- 
cially conversant with hospital construction, and 
has contributed to the literature of these subjects. 
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
Society, of the American Medico-Psychological 
Association, the Boston Medico-Psychological So- 
ciety, the Boston Society for Medical Improve- 
ment, of many philanthropic organizations, and of 
the St. Botolph and University clubs. He is 
unmarried. 



obtain a college education. Init circumstances de- 
layed for some years the execution of this purpose. 
In the mean time he studied for short periods in 
the academies at Canajoharie, Ames, and Cort- 
land, N.\'., taught in district schools and in the 
academy at Onondaga Valley, N.Y., and worked 
at intervals on the home farm. Keeping his 
early purpose in mind, he had prepared for ad- 
mission to college, had continued the prescribed 
studies, and in particular had completed all the 
mathematics of the usual college course ; but it 
was not until 1848 that he saw his way clear to 
lake the next step. By the advice of Professor 




RUxMKLE, John Daniel, of Boston, Walker 
Professor of Mathematics in the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, was born in the town of 
Root, Montgomery County, N.\'., October 11, 
1822. His father was Daniel Runkle, whose an- 
cestors came from Germany, and settled in New 
York in the early part of the last century. His 
mother was Sarah Gordon, of Scotch descent. 
John Daniel was the eldest of six sons ; and 
during the early years of his life he attended the 
district school, and, when old enough, shared with 
his father the work on the home farm in summers. 
At the age of sixteen he attended for three 
months, in a neighboring village, a select school, 
in which he began the study of algebra and 
geometry. He had early formed the resolution to 



JOHN D. RUNKLE. 

Benjamin Peirce, he came to Cambridge, and en- 
tered the Lawrence Scientific School, which had 
been established in the preceding year. His 
work there was mainly in the departments of 
mathematics and astronomy. He was graduated 
in 1851 with the degree of S.B., and at the same 
time the honorary degree of A.M. was given him 
bv the university. In 1868 he received the de- 
gree of Ph.D. from Hamilton College, New York, 
and in 187 i that of LL.D. from Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, Connecticut. In the fall of 1849 he was ap- 
pointed assistant u|)on the .liiu-riatii liplwmciis and 
Xaiitical Almanuc, which had just been established 
by the L'uited States government, and continued 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



to hold that office for thirty-five years, until his 
resignation in 1884. In 1856 he devised and com- 
puted " New Tables for determining the Values of 
the Coefficients in the Perturbative Function of 
Planetary Motion," which was published by the 
Smithsonian Institution. In 1858 he originated 
the Mathematical M<iiif/ih\ a journal devoted to the 
interests of teachers and students of mathematics, 
and edited it through three volumes, when the 
outbreak of the Civil War necessitated its discon- 
tinuance. Early in the same year he became 
interested in plans which led to the establish- 
ment of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology by the Legislature, April 10, 186 1 ; and, 
when the School of Industrial Science was opened 
in the spring of 1865, he was appointed Walker 
Professor of Mathematics. In 1868, during the 
absence of President Rogers on account of illness, 
he was chosen acting president; and in 1870, 
upon the resignation of President Rogers, he was 
made president, which office he held until his 
resignation in 187S. During the ten years of 
Professor Runkle's presidency the facilities for 
instruction in the institute were largely increased. 
A laboratory, planned for the instruction of large 
classes of students, was added to the Department 
of Physics in 1869. A laboratory for the study 
of ores in quantity to determine values and most 
economical methods of treatment, the result of a 
visit of a party of professors and students to the 
mines of Colorado and Utah, was added to the 
Mining Department in 187 1. This first Summer 
School of Mines was devised and carried out by 
the president, who after the close went to San 
Francisco, and, with the aid of experienced min- 
ing engineers, selected the necessary machinery 
and apparatus, and had plans drawn for their 
proper location in the laboratory, which was com- 
pleted and opened to students in the fall. In 
1872 the Lowell School of Practical Design was 
established by the trustee of the Lowell Fund. 
The Steam Engineering Laboratory was founded 
in 1S73, and the Mineralogical Laboratory in 
1874. The Drill Hall and Gymnasium was built 
in the same year. In 1876 a Women's Chemi- 
cal Laboratory was equipped by the aid of the 
Women's Educational Association ; an Industrial 
Chemical Laboratory, an Organic Chemical Lab- 
oratory, were added to the Chemical Depart- 
ment, and the Microscopic and Spectroscopic 
Laboratory, the beginning of the Department of 
Biology. But the crowning work of this year was 



the founding of the Department and School of 
Mechanic Arts, to which President Runkle was 
led by the exhibit at Philadelphia in 1876 of the 
Russian system of Mechanic Arts teaching, the 
work of the Moscow Technical School. In the 
years which have followed, this method of instruc- 
tion has spread to nearly all parts of the United 
States, in industrial colleges, in technical and 
manual training schools, and is gradually work- 
ing its way into the public school system. In 
recognition of the adoption of this system the 
Czar sent to the Institute of Technology a com- 
plete set of the Moscow models which were ex- 
hibited at Philadelphia. Upon his resignation of 
the presidency on account of impaired health. 
Professor Runkle was granted a two years' leave 
of absence, which he spent abroad, visiting the 
leading scientific schools, seeking new suggestions 
and studying new methods. After his return some 
of the results of his studies were embodied m a 
paper on technical schools, which he read before 
the Society of Arts of the institute. He also read 
before the Society of Arts on October 12, 1882, 
an address in memory of William Barton Rogers, 
LL.D. Besides the publications already men- 
tioned. Professor Runkle is the author of " The 
Manual Element in Education," two papers pub- 
lished in the Reports of the Massachusetts Board 
of Education in 1876-77 and 1880-81 ;" Report 
on Industrial Education," read before the Ameri- 
can Institute of Instruction, 1883; "Analytic 
Geometry," 1888. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of Science, 
of the Boston Society of Natural History, of the 
New F2ngland Historic Genealogical Society, of 
the American Social Science Association, and of 
the Society of Arts, Institute of Technology. In 
politics he is a Republican. In 185 i he married 
Miss Sarah Willard Hodges, who died in 1856. 
In 1862 he married Miss Catharine Robbins 
Bird. Their children are : Catharine Bird. \\\\\- 
iam Bird (deceased), John Cornelius, Emma 
Rogers (deceased), Eleanor Winslow, and Gor- 
don Taylor Runkle. 



SAVAGE, Rev. Minot Judson, of Boston, 
pastor of the Church of the LTnity, is a native of 
Maine, born in Norridgewock, June 10, 1841, son 
of Joseph Lambert and Ann (Swett) Savage. His 
father, born in Woolwich, was a farmer, and at 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



lOOI 



one time was a man of large means, but lost it all 
through illness and other misfortunes. Minot J. 
was the youngest of four brothers, and was in 
such delicate health between the ages of eight and 
nineteen years that it was hardly expected that 
he could live to full manhood. He attended the 
village school and the High School, which was 
then taught by Bowdoin College men during the 
autumn vacations ; read much, being early a lover 
of books ; and pursued studies at home under the 
direction of his elder brothers, wlio had managed 
to work through Bowdoin, tiieir father not being 
able to give them much assistance. In this way 




MINOT J. SAVAGE. 

he was fitted for college ; but, when the time came 
to enter, he was unable to do so on account of 
combined poverty and ill-health. Then the ques- 
tion as to what he was to do confronted him. He 
had always looked forward to the ministry as his 
vocation, but felt that he ought to be prepared for 
it by a college education. That being impossible, 
he determined to push ahead, and take a theologi- 
cal course. Accordingly, he entered the Bangor 
Theological .Seminary, and successfully graduated 
in 1864. Then, having looked over the field, he 
decided not to settle in New England, but to 
break away from the old life, and see what he 
could do on his own account. Having a taste for 



missionary work, he took a commission from the 
American Home Missionary Society of New York, 
and on the 3d of September, 1864, sailed for 
California. A few days before sailing he was 
married to Miss Ella A. Dodge, whose father was 
a Congregational Orthodo.\ minister in the town 
of Harvard, this State; and the two made the 
voyage their wedding journey. Arriving in Cali- 
fornia, his ministry was at once begun in the town 
of San Mateo, on San Erancisco Bay, twenty 
miles south of San Erancisco, where he was sta- 
tioned for about a year and a half, preaching in a 
little school-house as a home missionary. At the 
end of that period he was called to an Orthodox 
church in Grass Valley, Nevada County, among 
the foothills of the Sierras, where he was settled 
for a similar term. Then, his parents being old 
and requiring his attention, changes having oc- 
cured in the old home, he returned East. While 
upon this visit he preached in the Park Street and 
Shawmut Congregational churches in Boston ; and 
the pastor of the latter church, the Rev. Dr. 
Edwin B. Webb, being absent, he was urged to 
supply his pulpit for the re.st of the year. But, 
desiring to make a home for his father and mother, 
he accepted instead a call to the Congregational 
church in Framingham. The church was rich, 
the town beautiful, the pastorate agreeable : but 
he was young and restless, anxious to do more 
and to see work growing under his hand. So after 
a settlement of about two years, — 1867-69, — 
declining longer to remain, he determined to re- 
turn to the broader field of the West. Committees 
from several Western places came on to hear him 
preach ; and he shortly received two calls, one 
from Indianapolis, Ind., and the other from Han- 
nibal, Mo., neither of which places had ever been 
visited by him. He accepted the call to the latter 
place mainlv for the reason that his brother was 
living near by. \\'hile he was there, the church at 
Hannibal was the largest Congregational church 
in the State. Mr. Savage remained at Hannibal 
three and one half years in successful work, 
strengthening the society and broadening his fame 
as a preacher. But during this time he began a 
more critical study of the Bible than he had previ- 
ously given, together with the study of science and 
the history of the growth of religion ; and, as a re- 
sult of these studies, he found himself coming to 
be less and less in accord with the Orthodox belief. 
On one occasion while at Hannibal he prepared 
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a paper on Darwinism, in which he defended as 
true the doctrine of evolution, making something of 
a stir among his brother ministers. While growing 
more and more liberal in his views, he continued in 
the Orthodox pulpit, preaching nothing which he 
did not believe, but omitting the preaching of a 
good many things which certain of his parishioners 
were an.xious that he should preach, till the spring 
of 1873, when he was convinced that he could no 
longer honestly remain in the Orthodo.x Church. 
His society, with the exception of two or three mem- 
bers, begged him to continue in its charge in spite 
of the fact that he had abandoned the Orthodox 
belief ; but he concluded that it was better to take 
a new field. In the following summer he received 
another call to Indianapolis, at the same time one 
to Springfield, 111., both Orthodox Congregational 
churches, and a third to the Third Unitarian 
Church in Chicago. With the call to Springfield 
came an offer from a leading man in that church 
of $1,000 additional salary out of his own pocket, 
the latter declaring that he wanted Mr. Savage 
to come because he knew he was not Orthodox. 
Feeling under some obligation to the church in 
Indianapolis on account of its previous call, Mr. 
Savage went there, and, meeting the leading men 
of the society, told them frankly that he was no 
longer Orthodox on a single point, in spite of 
which he was begged to accept their call. The 
call from the 'I'hird Unitarian Church of Chicago 
came to him the Monday following a sermon 
preached by him in an Orthodox pulpit in that 
city, which was heard l.iy a delegation from the 
Unitarian churcli. They met him in the hotel at 
which he was stopping, immediately made the 
offer, and he accepted it. He began his work 
there in September. 1873 ; and the first Sunday 
that he preached in his new pulpit was the first 
Sunday he had ever preached in any Unitarian 
church. In the spring of 1874 Mr. Savage came 
to Boston to attend the anniversary meetings of 
the American Unitarian Association. \\'hile here, 
he took part in various .Anniversary Week meet- 
ings of the Unitarians, spoke in Music Hall, and 
also preached on Sunday in the Church of the 
Unity ; and before he had reached home this 
church telegraphed him a call. He accepted, and 
at the close of his first year in Chicago removed 
to Boston, and began his work in the Church of 
the Unity pulpit, the first service of his settlement 
being on the third Sunday of September, 1874. 
He has remained here continuously for twentv-one 



years, making in that time his pulpit famous, and 
becoming known through his published sermons 
and books to thousands who have never seen his 
face nor heard his voice. He has the distinction 
of being the first man occupying a regular pulpit 
who has made an attempt in his own pulpit to 
reconstruct theological and religious thinking in 
accordance with the theory of evolution. His ser- 
mons have been published for twenty years regu- 
larly every week, at first for two years in the 
Commonwealth newspaper during the editorship of 
the late Charles W. Slack, then for two years in 
the Sunday Times, and for the past sixteen years 
in pamphlet form under the title of Unity Pulpit, 
by George H. Ellis, publisher. They are circu- 
lated throughout a wide field, going all over the 
world, having readers in almost every country. 
He preaches always extemporaneously. Mr. Sav- 
age has also contributed liberally to the religious 
and critical literature of the day ; and several of his 
works have been republished in England, and one 
has been translated into German. The list of his 
notable books include •' Christianity the Science 
of Manhood," published in 1873, "The Religion 
of Evolution" (1876), "Life Questions" (1879), 
"The Morals of Evolution" (1880), "Talks about 
Jesus" (1881), "Belief in God" (1882), "Beliefs 
about Man " (1882), " Beliefs about the Bible " 
(1883), "The Modern Sphinx" {1883), "Man, 
\\'oman and Child " (1884), " The Religious Life " 
(18S5), "Social Problems" (1886), "My Creed" 
(1887). "Religious Reconstruction" ( 1888), "Signs 
of the Times " (1889), " Helps for Daily Living " 
(1889). "Life" (1890), "Four Great Questions 
concerning God" (1891), "The Evolution of 
Christianity " (1892), " Is this a Good World?" 
(1893), "Jesus and Modern Life" (1893), "A 
Man " (1894). Among his miscellaneous publica- 
tions are a volume of poems, a novel " Bluft'ton : 
A Story of To-day," " The Minister's Handbook, 
for Christenings, Weddings and Funerals," and 
" Sacred Songs for Public Worship." .\ radical of 
the radicals, Mr. Savage holds a unique position 
among Unitarians, and through his published ser- 
mons and works commands a great audience be- 
yond denominational limits. Mr. Savage is a 
Freemason of the thirty-third degree, a member of 
St. Barnard Commandery. He belongs to various 
literary and social organizations, and was one of 
the original members of the Algonquin Club. He 
married, as above stated, August 29, 1864, Miss 
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Dodge, of Harvard, Mass. Their children are : 
Gertrude, Philip Henry, Helen Louise, and Max 
Sands Savage. 



SC'OKIELI). Henrv Burritt, of JSoston, man- 
ager of the furniture business of H. R. Plimp- 
ton & Co., is a native of Connecticut, born in 
Bridgeport, March 29, 1854, son of Cornelius and 
Betsy (Selleck) Scofield. His father was a 
manufacturer and an inventor, having devised 
many improvements in carriage construction, and 
originated and patented the sofa bed which was 




H. B. SCOFIELD. 

added to by H. R. Plimpton, and is now widely 
known as the Plimpton Sofa Bed. He was 
educated in the public schools of Bridgeport. 
At the age of eighteen, after some useful experi- 
ence in the office of the Bridgeport Daily Stan- 
dard, he entered the employment of H. R. & 
J. L. Plimpton, furniture dealers, in New York 
City. Here the real work of his life began. He 
was rapidly promoted until in March, 1875, he was 
called to the management of the Boston business 
of H. R. Plimpton it Co., then established at \o. 
S72 Washington Street. In Januar\' following 
the firm removed to the new Plimpton ISuild- 
ing, No. 1077 Washington Street. Later on Mr. 



i'limpton. failing in health, retired, thus leaving 
the large establishment in the sole management 
of Mr. Scofield. Under his direction the busi- 
ness has since grown to large proportions in both 
its retail and wholesale departments, the trade of 
the latter extending into all parts of the country 
and abroad. Mr. Scofield is a Freemason, mem- 
ber of Aberdour Lodge, and Lafayette Lodge of 
Perfection ; and is connected with the Royal 
Arcanum, the Ancient Order of United Work- 
men, and other organizations. He was married 
June 7, 1876, to Miss Emily L. Winters of 
New York. Their children are : Frank Plimi> 
ton, Harry Cornelius, Grace L., Joseph L., and 
Josephine L., the last two being twins, born in 
March, 1888. P'rank, the eldest son. is captain 
in the regiment of the English High School of 
Boston, class of 1896. 



SHAl'TUCK, Georce Otis, of Boston, mem- 
ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Andover, May 
2, 1829, son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shat- 
tuck. He is of sterling Puritan stock, his first 
ancestor in New England on the paternal side 
having been William Shattuck, an early settler of 
Watertown, where he died in 1672 ; and on the ma- 
ternal sjde being also from an early New England 
family. Both of his grandfathers were soldiers of 
the Re\olution, and his great-grandfather Bailey 
was killed at Bunker Hill. Mr. Shattuck was ed- 
ucated at Phillips (Andover) Academy and at 
Harvard College, where he graduated in the class 
of 1851. He began his law studies in the Boston 
office of Charles Greeley Loring, and spent two 
years at the Harvard Law School, graduating with 
his LL.B. in 1854. He was admitted to the .Suf- 
folk bar on February i, 1855, and shortly after 
began practice in Boston, in association with 
J. Randolph Coolidge. In May the following 
year he became associated with the late Peleg 
W. Chandler, at that time one of the leaders of 
the Suffolk bar. This relation continued until 
1S70, when he withdrew, and formed a partnership 
with William A. Munroe, under the firm name of 
Shattuck & Munroe, which still exists. In 187^ 
Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr.. was admitted to the 
firm, when its name was changed to Shattuck, 
Holmes, &: Munroe : and he remained a member 
until liis ai)])ointnirnt to the bench of the .Supreme 
Judicial Court in 1882. Upon his withdrawal the 
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Mr. Shattuck has been especially successful in the 
conduct of large commercial cases, notably of 
cases affecting the interests and rights of cor- 




SHERWIN, Thomas, of Boston, president of 
the New England Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
pany, was born in Boston, July ii, 1839. His 
father was the distinguished scholar and instruc- 
tor, Thomas Sherwin, long and widely known as 
principal of the English High School of Boston, 
which under his direction became one of the lead- 
ing educational institutions of the country. His 
mother was Mary King Gibbens, a daughter of 
Colonel Daniel L. Gibbens, of Boston. On his 
father's side Mr. Sherwin is descended from the 
New Hampshire family of that name. His 
grandfather, David Slierwin, served in Stark's 
Brigade during the Revolution, and was at the 
battle of Bennington. He fitted for college at 
the Dedham High and Boston Latin schools, and 
graduated at Harvard College in i860. During 
the college course he taught a winter school at 
Medfiekl, and for the year after graduation was 
master of the Houghton School in the town of 
ISolton. Upon the breaking out of the Civil 
War he enlisted, with other young men of Bolton, 
where he was then engaged in teaching, and the 
adjoining towns. A company was formed for 



GEO. O. SHATTUCK. 

porations, manufacturing, railroad, and business. 
Among many important matters which he has car- 
ried to successful issue may be mentioned the 
Sayles bleaching case in Rhode Island and the 
Sudbiuy River water cases. He was counsel for 
the trustees of the Andover Theological Seminary 
in the famous Andover "heresy" cases. He has 
long taken an active interest in public affairs, and 
has been identified with important political reform 
movements ; but with the exception of one term 
in the Boston Common Council, — 1862, — he has 
held no public place, declining all invitations, 
however urgent, preferring the station of a private 
citizen and the uninterrupted pursuit of his profes- 
sion. He has served as a member of the Board 
of Overseers of Harvard College since 1871. He 
is a member of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
ciety, of the American Unitarian Association, and 
of the Union and St. Botolph clubs of Boston. 
Mr. Shattuck was married October 15, 1857, to 
Miss Emily Copeland, daughter of Charles and 
Susan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury. They 
have one daughter: Susan, now the wife of Dr. 
Arthur T. Cabot, of Boston. 




THOMAS SHERWIN. 



service during the war, of which Mr. Sherwin was 
elected captain. He was later commissioned 
adjutant of the Twenty-second Massachusetts 



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Regiment, and took part in most of tiic battles of 
the Army of tiie I'otoniac witii tliat regiment, until 
tlie expiration of its term of service in 1864, re- 
ceiving promotions to the rank of major and lieu- 
tenant colonel. He received the commissions of 
colonel and brigadier-general of United States 
Volunteers by bre\et, for gallant service at Gettvs- 
burg and for meritorious service during the war. 
Mr. Sherwin resumed for a time the profession of 
teaching, and was for a year an instructor in the 
Boston English High School. In 1866 he was 
appointed deputy surveyor of customs at Boston, 
and held that position till 1875, when he was 
elected to the newly established office of city col- 
lector of Boston. In 1883 he became auditor of 
the American Bell Telephone Company, which 
office he now holds. He has been president of 
the New England Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
pany since 1885. General Sherwin is a member 
of the Union, St. Botolph, and other clubs. He 
was elected commander of the Massachusetts 
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion for the year 1892-93. He was married 
in 1870 to Miss Isabel Fiske Edwards, a daughter 
of the Hon. Thomas M. Edwards, of Keene, N.H. 
Their children are : Eleanor. Thomas Edwards, 
Mary King, Robert Waterston. Anne Isabel, and 
Edward Vassal Sherwin. 



SINCL.AIR, Charles .\., connected with the 
Boston and Maine Railroad interests, is a native 
of New Hampshire, born in ISethlehem, son of 
the Hon. John G. and Tamar M. (Clark) Sinclair. 
He was educated in Newbury. \'t., and at Exeter, 
N.H. His business career was begun as a clerk 
in a store in Lexington, Mich., in 1867 ; and he 
entered the railroad field in 1881. His first 
notable operation was in stock of the Worcester, 
Nashua, & Rochester Railroad, which he began 
ciuietly purchasing until early in 1884, when it 
was found that he had seemed the control of that 
property. He was elected a director of the road 
that year, and was subsequently made president ; 
and in October the following year the line was 
leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad. He then 
began, early in 1886, purchasing the stock of the 
Manchester & Lawrence Railroad, and, speedily 
securing control, was elected president of that 
corporation at the annual meeting in December. 
Subsequently, on June i, 1887, this line also was 
leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad, Mr. 



Sinclair retaining the presidency, which he still 
holds. His next move was on Eastern Railroad 
holdings: and early in 1889, after .some time 
spent in quietly buying stock, he succeeded in 
purchasing, with others, in the open market, the 
control of the road, whereupon he was elected at 
the annual meeting in December a director. On 
May 9 following the Eastern was consolidated 
with the Boston & Maine Railroad. Meanwhile 
he had, in company with others, built the Upper 
Coos and Hereford railroads (1887-88), and be- 
come a director of both of these roads ; and on 
the first of May, 1890, both roads were leased to 



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CHAS. A. SINCLAIR. 

the Maine Central Railroad, a majority of the 
stock of which is owned by the Boston & Maine 
corporation. On December 11, iSgo, Mr. Sin- 
clair was elected to the directory of the Boston 
& Maine Railroad, and a week later to that of the 
Maine Central. He served through one term in 
each, and in December, 1894, was again returned 
to the Boston & Maine directory. Besides his 
railroad interests, he is concerned in numerous 
other enterprises. He is the largest owner of the 
Morley Button Machine factory; the largest owner 
of the Portsmouth Shoe Company, which employs 
upward of twelve hundred hands : a director of the 
Frank Jones Brewing Company, Limited ; a di- 



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rector of the Massachusetts National Bank : and a 
proprietor of the Quincy House and the Moulton 
Cafe in Boston. He also owns the Portsmouth 
Times, the leading newspaper of New Hampshire. 
He has served in both branches of the New 
Hampshire Legislature, a member of the House 
in 1873, and twelve years after of the Senate, to 
which he was re-elected in 1888, and again in 
1890. He served on the staff of Governor 
Weston, with the rank of colonel, in 187 1 and 
1872. He was married November 27, 1873, to 
Miss Emma I. Jones, daughter of the Hon. Frank 
Jones, of Portsmouth. They have four children. 



SMITH, Rev. S.\muel Fk.^ncis, D.D., of New- 
ton, author of the national hymn, " America," was 
born in Boston, October 21, 1808, son of Samuel 
and Sarah (Bryant) Smith; died in Boston, No- 
vember 16, 1895. He attended the Boston pub- 
lic schools, winning a Franklin medal at the old 
Eliot School and a gold medal for a poem at the 
Latin School, and graduated from Harvard Col- 
lege in the famous class of 1829, which included 
among its exceptionally brilliant members Oliver 
\\'endell Holmes, James Freeman Clarke, and 
Benjamin Peirce. After leaving college, he took 
the regular course of the Andover Theological 
School, graduating in 1832, and soon after was 
licensed to preach. In 1834 he was ordained to 
the ministry of the Baptist church in Waterville, 
Me., and for the succeeding eight years was 
pastor of the Baptist church in that place. At 
the same time he held the professorship of modern 
languages in Waterville College (now Colby Uni- 
versity). In 1842 he became pastor of the First 
Baptist Church of Newton, and, removing to New- 
ton Centre, made that section his permanent home. 
The same year he was appointed editor of the 
Christian Review, published in Boston ; and for 
some time thereafter he successfully performed 
the double duties of pastor and editor. He re- 
mained in the Newton pastorate until 1854, when 
he witlidrew from regular pastoral work, to devote 
himself more fully to literary pursuits. His editor- 
ship of the Christian Re-t'iew continued till 1848 ; 
and in 1854 he became editor of the various pub- 
lications of the Baptist Missionary Union, which 
position he filled for fifteen years. His verse- 
making was begun when a boy of twelve, and very 
early took the form of hymns. His " My Country, 
'tis of thee," the most noted of his compositions. 



was written in 1832, when he was a theological 
student, one of a number of hymns and songs 
produced at that time, and subsequently published 
in the "Juvenile Lyre." It was written with no 
thought of producing a national lyric, and its 
great popularity in after years as a national hymn 
was a surprise as well as a pleasure to him. His 
own account of its birth and history is as follows. 
Lowell Mason, the celebrated Boston composer 
and introducer of music in the schools, had re- 
ceived from a gentleman, who had been sent from 
New York to Germany to study the school system 
of that country, a number of German music books 
used in the German schools, which were sent to 
Mr. Smith for e.\amination. '■ One dismal day in 
the month of February, 1832," he continues, 
" while I was a student at the Theological Semi- 
nary in Andover, I stood in front of one of the 
windows of the room in which I resided. In turn- 
ing over the leaves of one of the books, I at length 
came upon a tune which instantly impressed me as 
being one of great simplicity ; and I thought that 
with a great choir, either of children or older per- 
sons, such a tune would be very valuable, and that 
something good might come out of it. I just 
glanced at the German words at the foot of the 
page, and saw, without actually reading them, that 
they were patriotic. It occurred to me to write a 
patriotic hymn in English adapted to this tune. 
I reached out my left hand to a table that stood 
near me, and picked up a scrap of waste paper, — 
for I have a passion for writing on scraps of waste 
paper : there seems to be a kind of an inspiration 
in them, — and immediately began to write. In 
half an hour, as I think, — certainly, before I took 
my seat, — the words stood upon the paper sub- 
stantially as you have them to-day. I did not think 
very much of the words. I did not think I had writ- 
ten a national hymn. 1 had no intention of doing 
such a thing, but there it stood. I dropped it 
into my portfolio, and it passed out of my memory : 
and for a long time it did not come into my 
mind that I liad done any such thing. Some time 
afterward, while visiting Boston, I took with me a 
collection of hymns and songs which I had written 
for my friend Mason, — ' Murmur, Gentle Lyre,' 
was one of them, — and placed them in his hands. 
I think this little waif must have found its way 
into that collection ; but I was none the wiser for 
it, and never asked what he had done or was 
going to do with it. On the following Fourth of 
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where a celebration 1)\- cliildreii was goinj; (in, 1 
discovered tiiat Mr. Mason had put my h\-nin on 
the programme ; and at the close of the cerenionv 
the piece was sung." The hymn was put into a 
collection of songs for use in schools, published 
by Mr. Mason, and soon became known in other 
cities and countries. Subsequently it was repro- 
duced in various foreign languages. The same 
year, 1832, when at Andover, Dr. Smith wrote his 
famous missionary hymn, " The Morning Light is 
Breaking," which also has been translated into sev- 
eral languages ; and he translated from the German 
most of his pieces in the " Juvenile Lyre " published 




S, F. SMITH. 

that year. He wrote in all some si.v hundred 
sacred, patriotic, and miscellaneous poems, which 
were published in various collections, under the 
title of "Lyric Gems" (Boston, 1843), " Ihe 
Psalmist" (1843), and -'Rock of Ages" (i860, 
second edition 1877); 'T""^' hymns from hi.s pen 
are found in the hymn-books of nearly all Chris- 
tian denominations. He also published in 1848 
a "Life of Rev. Joseph Grafton," from 1879 '^o 
1883 "Missionary Sketches," in 1880 the "His- 
tory of Newton, Mass.," and in 1884 "Rambles 
in Mission Fields " : and he was a quite constant 
contributor to periodicals. He was an accom- 
plished linguist, being well acquainted with fifteen 



languages. 'l"he work of Christian missions oc- 
cupied the larger part of his later years ; and he 
made two journeys abroad, the first in 1875 and 
the second in 1880, visiting the chief missionary 
stations in Europe and Asia. He received the 
honorary degree of D.U. from Waterville College 
in 1854. Dr. Smith was married at Haverhill. 
September 16, 1834, to Miss Mary White Smith, 
grand-daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Smith, a minister 
in Haverhill for forty years. They had six chil- 
dren, three .sons and three daughters. The sons 
were : S. Francis, now a banker of Davenport, la. ; 
Ewing Underwood, a druggist in Chicago ; and 
Daniel Appleton White Smith, a missionary in 
Burmah, where he has charge of the school for 
native preachers ; and the daughters : Mary White 
(deceased), the wife of the Rev. H. M. Jones, of 
Cedar Falls, la. ; Sarah B., widow of J. D. Can- 
dee, late editor of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Stan- 
ilanl : and Carrie E., wife of Professor ]. F. 
Morton, of Andover. On April 3, 1895, Dr. Smith 
was given two public testimonials in Boston, one 
in the afternoon and one in the evening, in honor 
of his authorship of "America"; and on that day 
the hymn was sung by school children in all parts 
of the countrv, from Maine to California. 



STE.\RNS, William Saint Agnax, of Salem, 
member of the bar, was born in Salem, September 
27, 1822, son of Richard Sprague and Theresa 
(Saint Agnan) Stearns. His grandfather, \Mlliam 
Stearns, graduated at Harvard College in the 
class of 1776. His education was acquired in the 
Salem Latin School, at Dummer .Academy, and at 
Harvard College, graduating in the class of 1841. 
He studied law in the office of Emory Washburn 
in Worcester, and with Nathan Hazen at -Andover, 
and at the Dane Law School at Cambridge; and 
he was admitted to the Essex County bar at 
Ipswich in 1846. He began practice in Prince- 
ton, 111., where he remained tw-o years. Return- 
ing to Massachusetts, he practised for a year 
in South Reading, then for a while in Maiden, 
finally settling in Charlestown, where he continued 
in active practice, with an oftice also in Boston 
part of the time, till the annexation of Charles- 
town to Boston in 1874. During the last three 
vears of the corporate existence of Charlestown 
he was city solicitor, and ably performed the 
duties of that office. He was associated for a 
number of years with John Q. .\. Griffin ; and in 



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1868, two years after the death of Mr. Griffin, he 
formed a partnership with John Haskell Butler, 
which continued till January, 1892, when he re- 




W. S. A. STEARNS. 

tired from practice. He has since been devoted 
to his private affairs and his real estate in Maiden, 
Charlestown, Everett, Somerville, Salem, and Mar- 
blehead, the development of which he began some 
years ago, and which has much enhanced in \alue 
under his prudent management. Mr. Stearns was 
married in Maiden, May 10, 1849, to Miss H. Em- 
ily Whitman. His home in Salem is in the house 
built by his great-grandfather, Joseph Sprague, in 

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STEVENS, Herbert Elliott, of Boston, 
manager of the Mercantile Mutual Accident Asso- 
ciation, was born in North Bridgewater, July 27, 
1870, son of George W. and Sarah J. (Elliott) 
Stevens. He was educated in the public schools 
of Brockton and at a Boston commercial college. 
After leaving school, he became a page in the State 
Senate, serving through the sessions of 1888 and 
1889 ; and from that position he was promoted to 
the assistant clerkship of the Senate, in which 
station he served four years, — 1890-93. He be- 
came connected with the Preferred Accident In- 
surance Company of New York, N.Y., in 1893, as 



the New England manager, and is now secretary 
and general manager of the Mercantile Mutual 
Accident Association of Boston. He is promi- 
nently connected with the Odd Fellows, the 
Knights of Pythias, and the American Legion of 
Honor, and is a past commander of the Sons of 
Veterans. In politics he is an active Republican, 
and is connected with numerous party organiza- 
tions, among them the Plymouth County Repub- 
lican Campaign Committee, of which he was secre- 
tary until his resignation upon removing from the 
county, and the Plymouth, Norfolk, and Middle- 
se.x clubs. He is a member of the Highland Club 




H, E. STEVENS. 

of West Roxbur\', where he resides. Mr. Stevens 
was married September 15, 1 891, to Miss Marie 
\\'ales Nash, of Whitman. They have one son : 
Charles Dexter Stevens. 



TUCKER, Georce Fox, of New Bedford and 
Boston, member of the bar, was born in New 
Bedford, January 19, 1852, son of Charles Russell 
and Dorcas (Fry) Tucker. The family have 
been members of the Society of Friends, or 
Quakers, since 1660, since which period seven 
successive generations have lived either in New 
Bedford or in the adjoining town of Dartmouth. 



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He was educated at the Friends' Academy in New- 
Bedford, the Friends' School in I'roNidence, R.I., 
and at Brown University, graduating in 1873. 
He studied law in the office of (ieorge Marston 
and William W. Crape, New Bedford, and at the 
Boston University Law School, where he gradu- 
ated LL.B. in 1875. He was admitted to the 
Bristol County bar the following year, and began 
practice in New Bedford. He continued there 
till 1882, when he removed his office to Boston, 
and became associated with his former preceptor, 
the Hon. George Marston, who was at that time 
attorney-general of the Commonwealth. In 1892 
he was appointed reporter of the decisions of the 
Supreme Judicial Court. Mr. Tucker has pub- 
lished a number of legal works which have given 
him a wide reputation ui the profession. His 
first volume was "A Manual of Wills," published 
in 1884, a book of Massachusetts law accepted as 
an authority on the subject. This was shortly 
followed by a monograph on the " Monroe Doc- 
trine." In 1888 "A Manual of Business Corpo- 
rations" appeared, and in i88g "Notes on the 
United States Revised Statutes," brousrht out 




(Quaker llrmu, ' the scene of which is laid in New 
Bedfortl. In that city, where he has always re- 
sided, with the exception of two or three years, 
Mr. Tucker served on the School Committee in 
1 88 1 ; and he was a representative for the city 
in the State Legislature for 1890-91-92. In the 
latter body he served on the committees on bills 
HI the third reading, rules, and constitutional 
amendments. He has received the degree of 
Ph.D. from Brown University in recognition of his 
literary productions. He is a member of the St. 
Botolph, University, and Press clubs of Boston 
and of the Wamsutta Club of New Bedford. He 
is unmarried. 



GEORGE F. TUCKER. 



jointly with John M. Gould, which has had a cir- 
culation almost unprecedented in legal literature. 
He is also the author of a novel entitled " .\ 



WADE, Lkvi Cm [•■fori 1, of Boston, member 
of the Suffolk bar and second president of the 
Mexican Central Railroad, was born in Alle- 
gheny, Penna., January 16, 1843 ; died in New- 
ton, March 21, 1891. He was of early New Eng- 
land ancestry, his father Levi Wade, born in 
Woburn, being descended from early settlers in 
Medford, where they were large land-owners, and 
his mother, A. .\nnie ( Rogers) Wade, being a 
descendant of the Rev. John Rogers, of Ipswich, 
president of Har\ard College from April, 1682, 
to the date of his death. July 2, 1684. Mr. 
Wade's father was a successful merchant, and his 
mother was widely esteemed for her musical and 
literary attainments and her benevolent works. 
He was educated at home and in the public 
.schools until he reached the age of thirteen, and 
after that, until his nineteenth year, under private 
tutors and at the Lewisburg University, Pennsyl- 
vania, now Bucknell University, where he passed 
through the freshman, sophomore, and junior 
classes. Then he entered Yale College, and grad- 
uated in the class of 1866 with special honors. 
While in college, he was one of the editors of the 
)(?/(■ Literary Magazim-, and took several prizes 
in debate, declamation, and composition, .\fter 
his graduation he studied Greek and Hebrew ex- 
egesis for one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett and 
theology for a year under Dr. Alvah Hovey, of 
Newton. From 1868 to 1873 he taught school 
in Newton, and at the same time studied law. 
Admitted to the Suffolk bar September 11, 1873, 
he at once began professional work, employed in 
the law practice of J, W. Richardson. He re- 
mained with Mr. Richardson for two years, and 
then opened an office of his own. From 1877 to 
1880 he was associated with John Quincy Adams 



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MEN UK I'Ro(;ki:ss. 



Brackett, under the firm name of Wade & Brack- 
et! ; and after 1880 he confined himself excki- 
sively to railway law and management, becoming 
counsel for the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe', 
the Atlantic il- Pacific, the Sonora, and the Mexi- 
can Central Railway companies. He was one 
of the four projectors and original owners of the 
property now embraced in the Mexican Central 
Railway, and was president and general counsel 
of the corporation at the time of his death. He 
was also a director of the railroad companies 
above mentioned, and of the Cincinnati, San- 
dusky, & Cleveland Railroad. He served in the 




LEVI C. WADE. 

Massachusetts Legislature, as a representative 
for Newton, for four successive years (1876-79), 
the last year occupying the speakership of the 
House, the youngest man that has ever held that 
position in the Legislature of this State. Among 
other positions which he held was that of direc- 
tor of the General Theological Library. His 
death occurred at a time when he had large in- 
terests in hand, and was successfully developing 
the great railroad property of which he was the 
official head. Upon this event the directors of 
the Mexican Central caused to be spread upon 
the records a series of extended resolutions ex- 
pressing their " appreciation of his lovalty to this 



company, and his worth as a man." These reso- 
lutions relate that " at the commencement of the 
building of the Mexican Central Railroad, in 1880, 
Mr. Wade was its attorney, and in that position 
displayed remarkable skill and sagacity. In 1884, 
upon the retirement of Thomas Nickerson from 
the presidency, Mr. Wade was elected to fill the 
vacancy. He assumed the position under circum- 
stances discouraging and disheartening. The 
railroad was not earning the interest on its first 
mortgage bonds. The compan\' was heavily in 
debt, and its credit was gone. Mr. Wade, as its 
president, threw himself, with all his power and 
energy, into the reorganization of the securities. 
Upon this he worked incessantly, and succeeded 
in reorganizing the whole bonded debt. He built 
the Guadalajara branch, he finished the Tampico 
branch, and he completed his plans for the im- 
provement of Tampico Harbor. And, still more, 
he managed, on a most satisfactory basis for this 
company, a settlement in cash with the govern- 
ment of Mexico for all the subsidy due from the 
Mexican government to this corporation, — in 
amount over $14,000,000, — the last draft having 
been paid the day before his death. Passing in 
review his connection with this company, com- 
mencing with its organization as its attorney, and 
later as its president, he met every demand. He 
mastered and was successful in the details of rail- 
road work, he built branch roads, and he de- 
veloped and carried to success large schemes of 
finance. He adapted himself to all these with a 
quickness and accuracy seldom, if ever, equalled 
in the history of railroad management. Amid all 
the large work in which he was engaged, Mr. 
Wade was simple in his nature, courteous and 
gentlemanly in his manners, and easily ap- 
proached by the humblest person. He showed 
at all times the fullest integrity and honesty of 
purpose, and was as magnanimous as he was 
broad in his conduct of affairs. He was a man 
of large attainments and great general knowledge. 
His mind worked quickly, and he had wonderful 
power in grasping new subjects and carrying them 
to a successful issue. He worked assiduously 
for the company, but he never failed to recognize 
the touch of other interests affected by the com- 
pany. His whole life was based on religious con- 
viction. He believed, and went forward to carry 
out his belief. He wanted to do the right, and 
wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. 
His place in this company cannot easily be filled." 



MEN OK I'KOGRKSS. 



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Mr. Wade was married in Bath, Me., November 
i6, 1869, to Miss Margaret Rogers, daughter of 
the Hon. William and Lydia ( Elliot ) Rogers. They 
had four children : Arthur C. William R., Levi C, 
Ir., and Robert N. Wade. 



W'KLLS, Bknjamix Williams, of lioston, mer- 
chant, was born in Boston, October 15, 1861, son 
of P. Francis and Isabella (Reed) Wells. He is 
a descendant of Pierre Wells, an early settler of 
Truro, Mass., and on the maternal side of Andrew 
Reed, one of the first settlers of Boothbay, Me. 




BENJ. W. WELLS. 

His early education was acquired at Chauncy Hall 
School, and he was fitted for college at Hopkin- 
son's School. He graduated from Har\'ard in the 
class of 1884. He entered business life soon 
after graduation, and in 1886 became a member 
of the firm of E. Williams & Co., one of the oldest 
in Boston, — established in 1825, — engaged in the 
South American trade, and ship-owners. Subse- 
quently he also became interested in the Boston 
.\utomatic Fire Alarm Company, and is now 
treasurer of the corporation. He is actively con- 
cerned in political matters, being chairman of 
the Ward Eleven (Boston) Democratic committee, 
which position he has held for the past five years. 



and a member of the Democratic State Committee. 
He was one of the founders of the Young Men's 
Democratic Club of Massachusetts, and is now 
chairman of the executive committee, having pre- 
viously served for three years as secretary of the 
club. He is a firm believer in the future of Bos- 
ton, and is convinced that great good would be 
accomplished if more business men would give 
some attention to politics. Mr. Wells is a mem- 
ber of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and of 
the Athletic, Puritan, and Exchange clubs. He is 
unmarried. 

\\'H1TTIER, Chaulks, of Boston, manufact- 
urer, is a native of Maine, born in Vienna, Kenne- 
bec County, November 26, 1829, son of John 
Brodhead and Lucy (Graham) Whittier. His 
father, a farmer, was also a native of Vienna, born 
in 1800. His first ancestors in America were 
Thomas and Ruth (Green) Whittier, Thomas 
coming from England to New England in 1638, at 
the age of sixteen. From the same stock the 
poet Whittier descended. His mother was of 
an old Walpole (Mass.) family. Mr. \\'hittier 
was educated in the public schools of Roxbury 
and Boston, and at seventeen began a regular 
apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, in works 
where steam-engines, boilers, and general machin- 
ery were made, which covered three years. Dur- 
ing this service he also studied engineering, and 
for two years attended the drawing-school of the 
Lowell Institute in Boston. His apprenticeship 
completed, he continued with the firm with which 
he had learned his trade, as a journeyman, and 
the next few years travelled throughout the East- 
ern and Northern States, erecting steam-engines 
and machinery. In 1859 he was made superin- 
tendent of the works, and admitted to partnership 
in the firm, the firm name then becoming Camp- 
bell, Whittier, & Co. Fifteen years later the 
business was incorporated, with Mr. Whittier as 
president and manager, under the name of the 
Whittier Machine Company, by which it has since 
been known. Mr. A\'hittier was one of the earliest 
to engage in the development of the passenger 
and freight elevator, and many of the improve- 
ments in these machines, whereby their speed, 
safety, and comfort have been increased, were 
invented by him. He has received a number of 
medals from industrial exhibitions : the " first 
degree of merit, special," silver medal from the 
International Exhibition at Sydney, .\ustralia. 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



in 1S79. for his steam p;issenger L-lf\atiir .md 
engine, liie first of its kind shown in Austr;ilia ; :\ 
gold medal from the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association for his steam elevator 
exhibited at the Fourteenth Exhibition of this or- 
ganization in 1 881 ; a gold medal for his new 
hydro-electric elevator at the Sixteenth Exhibition 
of the Mechanic Association in 1887 ; bronze 
medal for the hydro-electric elevator at the Seven- 
teenth Exhibition of the same association in iSgi ; 
gold medal from the Middlesex Mechanics' Exhi- 
bition at Lowell, in 1867, for the Miller's patent 
elevator of his make ; and a diploma from the 



Massachusetts (haritalile Mechanic Association, 
and a member of the American Society of Me- 
chanical Engineers. He was also for a long 
period a member of the executive committee of 
the Board of Trustees of Tufts College : a trustee 
of Dean Academy, Franklin ; and a trustee and 
vice-president of the Eliot Savings IJank, Roxbury 
District, Boston. He was a member of the State 
Senate in 1884, serving as chairman of the com- 
mittee on manufactures and member of the 
committee on the treasury. In politics he is a 
Republican, and in religious faith a l^niversalist. 
He has been a member of the First L'niversalist 
Society of Roxbury for forty years. He married, 
June 7, 1855, Miss Eliza Isabel Campbell, daughter 
of Benjamin F. Campbell, of Roxburv. 




CHARLES WHITTIER. 

Augusta (Ga.) Exposition in 1891 for his direct- 
acting double-screw electric elevator. Mr. Whittier 
built the first engine that went up the railway on 
Mt. Washington, White Mountains, N.H. ; and this 
same engine the year before sawed the lumber 
that was used for the track-way. The present 
works of his company, at South Boston, are now 
equipped with extensive plants for machine-build- 
ing, especially adapted to the manufacture of 
steam, hydraulic, and electric elevators. His 
success in machine-making and in inventions is 
attributed to his close application, added to enthu- 
siasm for applied mechanics. Mr. Whittier has 
been for many years an acti\e member of the 



^\TNCH, John Francis, of Boston, boot and 
shoe merchant, was born in Acton, November 27, 
1838, third son of John and Mary (Russell) 
Winch. His early life was spent on his father's 
farm, and his education was obtained at the dis- 
trict school. At the age of sixteen he began busi- 
ness life as a clerk in a country store in \\'ayland, 
where he worked from early morning to late at 
night, acquiring a good training, .\fter a year in 
this occupation he returned home, and took an- 
other term at school. Then he went to Concord, 
and was employed for three years in a dry-goods 
store in that town. Thence he came to Bo.ston in 
1863, and entered the wholesale boot and shoe 
house of Henry Damon, with whom his brother, 
Joseph R. \\'inch, had begun his Boston career. 
He soon displayed marked aptitude for the busi- 
ness ; and in 1866, but three years after his first 
engagement, he was admitted to partnership by 
Mr. Damon, the firm name becoming Damon is: 
Co. In 1868 the partnership was dissolved; and 
he joined his brother in the house which the lat- 
ter founded, the firm name being changed from 
Hosmer & Winch to Hosmer & Winch Brothers, 
and later, upon the retirement of Mr. Hosmer. 
becoming Winch Brothers as it has since re- 
mained. Of the great business which the firm 
conducts he has had experience in every depart- 
ment, which has given him a firm grasp on all 
details ; and he has devoted especial attention to 
the management of the financial aftairs of the 
concern. In the musical world Mr. \\'inch is 
widely known as a vocalist, a rich baritone, hav- 
ing taken a part in concerts of high standard in 



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many of the leadinj; cities of the country. He 
sang in the choir of the Rev. Dr. Edward R. 
Hale's church in Boston for twentv-three years : 




ing this avocation with success in various towns of 
Middiese.x (Jounty. In 1858, when he was thirty- 
three years of age, he came to Ko.ston, and entered 
the employ of Henry Damon, a boot and shoe job- 
ijcr, with whom he remained four years. Then, in 
1862, forming a partnership with George Hosmer. 
under the firm name of Hosmer & Winch, he 
started in the business for himself. Through his 
practical knowledge of boot and shoe making and 
his energy, the business rapidly developed, and 
steady success followed. In 1868 his brother. 
John F. Winch, who as a partner of Henry Damon 
had achieved a marked success in the same line of 
business, was admitted to the partnership, the firm 
name becoming Hosmer & Winch Brothers. Mr. 
Hosmer retired in 1875, when the name became 
U'inch Brothers, as at present. Mr. Winch's first 
store was on Milk Street in the line now covered by 
the post-office. Thence the firm moved to Federal 
Street, wliere it was established when the " great 
fire of 1872 " swept through the heart of the busi- 
ness quarter of the city. The store and contents 
were totally destroyed, incurring a heavy loss, for 
the greater part of the insurance carried by the 



JOHN F. WINCH. 



and his services in other church choirs, as well as 
in concerts, have been in large demand for a long 
period. He was a charter member of the Apollo 
Club, Boston, and is still a member of that soci- 
ety. Mr. Winch was married in Boston, June 7, 
1869, to Miss Kate Rametti. They ha\e one 
daughter : Mabel Winch. 



\\ INCH, Joseph Rtsseli,, of Boston, boot and 
shoe merchant, was born in I'rinceton. .April 
14, 1825, son of John and Mary (Russell) Winch. 
He was the second in a family of three scms and 
four daughters. His father was a farmer, anil his 
boyhood was spent on a thrifty .\ew Kngland 
farm. He received his education in the district 
school. When he reached the age of twenty-one, 
he left home and went to W'ayland, where he con- 
tinued some time at farm work, and also served 
an apprenticeship in the boot and shoe making 
trade. Possessing natural musical talent, which 
he had carefully cultivated, he devoted his leisure 
time during this period and after he had finished 
his apprenticeship to teaching vocal music, follow- 




JOSEPH R. WINCH. 

house was in Boston companies, most of whom 
were unable to meet the drafts upon them : but 
iminediatelv after the fire the old I'.oston Lancers' 



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MEN OF PROGRESS. 



Armory on Sudbury Street was rented by the firm, 
and fitted for its business, wliich went on as be- 
fore with but few days' interruption. In 1874 the 
firm returned to Federal Street, having there two 
stores, Nos. 130 and 134. The rapid growth of 
the business necessitated repeated enlargements, 
— the adjoining store being added in 1878, — 
until now it occupies the entire six floors and 
basement of these buildings, giving a total floor 
space of more than an acre and a quarter. The 
business at the present time employs ninety-five 
persons, and is represented by five travelling sales- 
men : and the goods of the house — boots, shoes, 
and rubbers — are sold in all parts of the United 
States and Canada and in Europe. Mr. XA'inch 
continued his interest in music after his removal 
to P!oston. He was a charter member of the 
.\pollo Club, and has always been active in its be- 
half ; and his voice has been heard most accept- 
ably in the choirs of various Boston churches. 
He was married September 13, 1846. to Miss 
Mary E. Carver, of Wayland. They have one 
daughter: Mary Ella, who married September 13. 
1870, George Fred Winch. 



WINSOR, Justin, of Cambridge, librarian of 
Harvard College and historical writer, was born 
in IJoston, January 2, 183 1, son of Nathaniel and 
Ann T. H. W'insor. He was fitted for college at 
the Boston Latin School, and entered Har\ard in 
the class of 1853. He ne.xt went abroad, and 
completed his studies in Paris and at Heidelberg, 
Germany. In 1868 he was appointed superintend- 
ent of the Boston Public Library, and continued 
in charge of that institution for nearly ten years, 
resigning in 1877 to take the position of librarian 
of the Harvard College Library, in wiiicli he has 
since remained. He has held a leading place 
among American librarians for many years, and 
has contributed much to what is called library 
science, and has delivered addresses on this topic 
at the dedication of the library buildings of the 
University of Michigan, the North-western Lhiiver- 
sity, and elsewhere. He w'as one of the founders 
of the American Library Association, and presi- 
dent of the organization from 1876-86. He has 
served also as president of the American Histori- 
cal Association, and as corresponding secretary of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is at 
present its vice-president. He has been a prolific 
writer on historical subjects, particularly in the 



department of Americana, and has done much im- 
portant work as an editor. His list of publica- 
tions includes: the " History of Duxbury, Mass.,'' 
published in 1849; an address, "The Mayflower 
Town," made on the two hundred and fiftieth 
anniversary of the incorporation of the same 
town : " Bibliography of the Original C^uartos 
and Folios of Shakespeare" (1876); "Reader's 
Handbook of the American Revolution, 1761 
to 1783" (1879): "Was Shakespeare Shapleigh ? 
A Correspondence in Two Entanglements " 
(1886), a skit aimed at the Baconian theorv. 
He has published many pamphlets, among which 




JUSTIN WINSOR. 

may be mentioned : " Governor Bradford's Man- 
uscript History of Plymouth Plantation," " Ar- 
nold's Expedition against Quebec, 1775-76," 
" The Manuscript Sources of American History," 
"Notes on the Spurious Letters of Montcalm," 
" The Earliest Printed Books on New England," 
" The New England Indians, a Bibliographical 
Survey, 1630-1700," "The Perils of Historical 
Research." "The Rival Claimants for North 
America," "The Pageant of Saint Lusson," "The 
Cartographical History of the North-eastern 
Boundary Controversy." He was the editor of 
the " Memorial History of Boston." four vol- 
umes (1880-82), to which he contributed numer- 



MEN OF PROGRESS. 



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ous historical notes and other matter ; and of the 
"Narrative and Critical History of America," in 
eight volumes (1883-89), in the preparation of 
which he wrote a large part himself, and had the 
co-operation of a committee of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society. He has edited the " Harvard 
University Bulletin" since 1877, and "Biblio- 
graphical Contributions," also since 1877, to 
which publications he has contributed " Shakes- 
peare's Poems," " Pietas et Gratiilatio : Inquiry 
into the Authorship of Several Pieces," " Halli- 
welliana," " Bibliography of Ptolemy's Geog- 
raphy," "The Kohl Collection of Early Maps," 
and a " Calendar of the Sparks Manuscripts in 
Harvard College Library.'' He also edited the 
"Record of the 250th Anniversary of the Found- 
ing of Harvard College" (1887), and has deliv- 
ered three commemorative addresses before Har- 
vard University, one on the centennial of Wash- 
ington's inaugural, a second on the Columbian 
anniversary, and a third in honor of Prancis 
Parkman, at the time of that historian's death. 
They have all been printed. He has also written 
a "Life of Christopher Columbus," "From Car- 
tier to Fontenac,'' and "The Mississippi Basin." 
These volumes bring down to the peace of Paris, 
1763, a historv of North .\merica. with particular 
reference to the way in which the physiography of 
the continent has shaped its destiny. The series 
is to be continued. He received the honorary 
degree of LL.D. in 1886 from the L'niversity of 
Michigan, and the same degree from Williams 
College on the occasion of its centennial. Mr. 
Winsor was married in 1855 to Miss Caroline T. 
Barker, daughter of Ebenezer and Sally (Fuller) 
Barker. 

WOLF, Bernard Mark, of Boston, merciiant. 
was born in Boston, February 17, 1862, son of 
Jacob and Augusta (Prager) Wolf. He is of Ger- 
man ancestry. He was educated in the Boston 
public schools, passing through the Rice Training 
and the English High schools. He left school at 
the age of seventeen, and engaged with his father 
in the retail clothing trade. In 1882, when he 
was but twenty years of age, he was admitted as 
a partner in one of his father's stores, and a.s- 
sumed entire charge of it. In 1884 he withdrew 
from the firm, and started in business alone, as a 
manufacturer of clothing. In .August. 1886, lie 
re-entered the retail trade, opening iiis store at 
No. 60 Washinoton Street, on the corner of Han- 



over Street. Three years later he purchased the 
store on Portland and Hanover Streets, and added 
that to his growing business. After a while the 
strain of conducting both establishments became 
greater than he could bear; and in 1891 he dis- 
posed of the store on the Hanover and Washington 
Street corner, and withdrew from active work for 
a year and a half. Since that time he has given 
his entire attention to his remaining store, famil- 
iarly known as the Massachusetts Clothing Com- 
pany, " My Clothier." Mr. Wolf has served in 
the lower house of the Legislature one term, 
1892. In politics he is a stanch Democrat. He 




BERNARD M. WOLF. 

is an active member of the Young Men's Demo- 
cratic Club of Massachusetts, and has served on 
its executive conmiittee since 1892. He has been 
president of the Young Men's Hebrew Union, 
a director of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- 
tion, and director of the Moses Montefiore Home 
and Aid Society. He is a Freemason, member of 
Zetland Lodge : an Odd Fellow, belonging to the 
Bunker Hill Lodge and Encampment ; a member 
of the Bay State Lodge, Free Sons of Israel : a 
member of the Elysium Club and of the Megan- 
tic Fish and Game Club. He has been an exten- 
sive traveller in this country and in Europe. Mr. 
Wolf is unmarried. 



ADDENDA AND ERRATA. 



Arbott, S. a. I!.— pp. 9. 10. In 9th line, p. 10. the date 1876 should be 1867. 

Mr. Abbott resigned from the lloard of 'I'rustees of the Boston Public Library 

May I, 1895. 
Alger, A. B. — pp. 13. 14. Died May. ICS95. 

.\mory, Robert. — p. 704. In loth line dele the words "daughter of." 
Atwood, H. H. — pp. 706. 707. In 13th line, p. 707. instead of '-the youngest 

member," etc.. read "one of the youngest members"; in 23d line insert "the 

late" before "John .\ugust." 
R.vnsoN, 1". M. — pp. 100, loi. .\ppointed city solicitor of Boston by Mayor Curtis 

in 1895. 
Bailev. a. J. — pp. 17, 18. Appointed corporation counsel by Mayor Curtis in 1895. 
Bailev, D. p. — pp. 196, 197. Dele i3th-i5th lines, "For a year before," etc.. to 

end of the sentence: in i8th line, 2d col. p. 197. date should be 1867 instead 

of 1886: in 26th line, for "has been" read "was": in 34th line add "and 

Beauseau Commandery. ' 
Barrett, W. E. — pp. 19, 20. Elected to Congress for the Seventh Massachusetts 

District, November, 1894. 
Barrows, R. S. — p. 541. In iith line "eighty-three" should be "eighty-five." 
Bi.ACKMER, John'. — pp. 283-285. Died April, 1895. 
Brad\. Jamks, Jr. — pp. 371, 372. In 2d and 3d lines, p. 372, dele "and by 

President Cleveland in 1894"; in 5th line add "association" after "regiment." 
BfKKE, Francis. — p. 850. In the gth line, 2d col, after "Club" insert "of 

Brighton." He is also president of the Brighton Social Club. 
Burra(;e. .\r,i:ERr C. — p. 851. In last line, after •• H." insert comma. 
Chagnon. J. B. — pp. 629, 630. In the 17th line read " L'Assoniption " for "St. 

Assomption " : in ne.xt line read " Beique " for "Beigue." 
Copeland, Alfred M. — pp. 291, 292. In 17th line. 2d col., p. 291, date 1883 

should be 1879. 
Crocker, Geori;e G. — pp. 31, ^2. .\ppointed by Governor tireenhalge in July. 

1894, chairman of the Boston Transit Commission. 
Crocker, U. H. — pp. 34, 35. .\cld to his list of publications, "'The Cause of 

Hard Times,' published in 1895." 
Cros.sle\', .\rthur W". ~ p. 861. \o longer connected with the firm of Wright, 

Brown, & Crossley. In loth line, 2d col., in place of ".Senator M'illiam E. 

Chandler, of New Hampshire." read " W. E. Chandlee, of Washington." 
Cu.MMiNGs. Eustace. — p. 739. In 25th line, in place of "December, 1862," read 

" May, 1864." 
Dearborn, Alvah B. — pp. 559, 560. In 3d line " .Vlvira " should be "Elvira." 
Dever, John F. — pp. 745-747. Elected clerk of committees, City Council, Jan- 
uary, 1896. 
DvER, Benjamin F. — pp. 562, 563. In ist and 2d lines, in place of "insurance 

agent " read " secretary and general manager of the New England Mutual 

Accident Association of Boston." 



IOl8 ADDENDA AND ERRATA. 

Fay, J. M. — pp. 29S, 299. "Is." instead of "has been." a trustee of the Hampshire 
Bank. 

FncH, Robert G. — pp. 45. 46. Service as chairman of the Board of Fire Com- 
missioners closed in July, 1895, upon the establishment of a single-headed 
commission. 

Frothingham, O. B. — pp. 478, 479. Died November 27, 1895. 

Gargan. Thoma.s J. — p. 479. Appointed by Governor Greenhalge in July, 1894, a 
member of the Boston Transit Commission. 

Gkorge, Elijah. — pp. 50, 51. Dele "Algonquin and Abstract" in list of clubs. 

GiLMAN, Nicholas P. — pp. 51. 52. Retired from the editorship of the Literary 
World in July, 1895, upon removal to Meadville, Penna., where he is now 
Hackley professor of Sociology and Ethics in the Theological School there. 
Married June 20, 1895, to Mary Sherwood Stubbs, of Concord, N.H. 

Glasier, Alfred .A.. — pp. 763, 764. In 14th line, 2d col., p. 764, for "vice-presi- 
dent "' read " president " ; in ne.xt line for "Maryland Eclectic" read "Edison 
Electric Illuminating"; add to list of clubs " the Maryland Club of Baltimore." 

Greenhalge, Frederic T. — pp. 52, 53. Re-elected governor for second term in 
1894, and for third term in 1895. 

Hasi'on, Erasmus. — pp. 391, 392. Died March 13, 1895, 

HijGNER, Rich. — pp. 773, 774. In 17th line, p. 774, for "Adolf 11." read "2d 
Adolf." 

H0L.MES, A. R. — pp. 399, 400. Died November 11, 1894. 

Howe, 0.scar F. — pp. 776, 777. In 3d line read " 20 " for " 24." 

Houghton, H. O. — pp. 58. 59. Died .August 25, 1895. 

Hutchinson, George. — pp. 227, 228. In 2d line, ist col., p. 228. date 1891 
should be 1881. 

Knight, Horatio G. — pp. 408, 409. Died C)ctober 16, 1895. 

Larrahee. John. — pp. "409, 410. In 12th line, ist col., p. 410. date 1883 should 
be i886 ; also in the 15th line. 

Lawrence, William B. — pp. 410. 411. In 20th line, 1st col., p. 411, captain- 
general should be generalissimo; in 21st line "senior" should be "junior"; 
in 22d line insert " PSoston " before "Lafayette." 

LiBBEY, HosEA \\. — pp. 583, 584. Married second, November i, 1869, \'iolet G. 
Bancroft, of \\'orcester. The daughter, Vinnietta J., is of the second union. 

Lincoln, J. B. — pp. 150, 151. Died October, 1S95. 

Long, Charles L. — p. 320. Mayor of Springfield in 1895. 

Lord, Eliot. — p. 69. Retired from the editorship of the Etch///!:; Diivcllcr in 1895. 

McGlenen, H. a. — pp. 72, 73. Died March 24. 1894. 

Miles, C. Edwin. — pp. 593, 594. In 31st line, 2d col., p. 594, insert "eclectic" 
after "Massachusetts." 

Miner, Rev. A. A. — pp. 74, 75. Died June, 1895. 

Mott, J. Varnum. — p. 593- In loth line. 2d col., insert after "club" "supreme 
trustee and a " ; in irth and 12th lines dele "chairman of the trustees of the 
Twenty-five Associates." 

Munroe, William A. — p. 163. In 5th line, instead of "the," read "his"; in i8th 
and 19th lines, 2cl col., instead of "a trustee," read "president of the Board 
of Trustees," etc. 

Murray, M. J. — pp. 506, 507. In 12th line, 2d col., p. 507, date 1884 should 
be 1888. 

Needham, Daniel.-- pp. 76, 77. Died P"ebruary 20, 1895. 

NoYES, Charles J. — pp. 163, 164. Also admitted to the Middlesex County bar in 
Cambridge the year of his admittance to the bar in Providence, R.I. 



ADDENDA AND ERRATA. 

O'Mkaka. Siioi'iiEN. — pp. 77, 7cS. Retired from the management of the Boston 

Journal March i6, 1895; reinstated December 31, 1895. 
Page, Georcf. H. — p. 166. Married April 29, 1895, Miss Bessie A. Chase, daughter 

of the late Charles A. ("hase, of New Haven, Conn. 
Paine. Robert Treat. — pp. 79, 80. "Great-great-grandson," instead of "grand- 
son," of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
Posse, Karon Nils. — pp. gio, 911. Died December 18, 1895. 
Prince, Frederick O. — pp. 84, 85. Elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of 

the Boston Public Librarj- in October, 1895. 
PR(,)croR. T. W. — pp. 85, 86. "Assistant solicitor" instead of " citv solicitor" 

of Boston, 1891-94. Is now married. 
PiTEFER, Ldrinc W. — pp. 249, 250. Cliainiian of the Republican city committee of 

Brockton also in 1884-85. 
Rav.mond, John M. — pp. 250, 251. In 28th line word "grocery" should be 

" crockery." 
Rice, Alexander H. — pp. 88, 89. Died July 22, 1895. 
RoBMN, Stephen Herbert. — pp. 517, 518. Dele 2d-4tli lines, -of which the Rew 

Dr. Alonzo A. Miner is senior pastor." 
Savace, M. J. — pp. 1000-1003. Resigned from the Church of the Unity pulpit in 

January, 1896, to accept call to New York. 
Sawver, Edward. — pp. 683, 684. 685. Insert in 37th line, p. 685, "He is a 

member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Boston Society 

of Civil Engineers." 
SoHiER, William D. — pp. 178, 179. Became president of the Boston Joiinuil cor- 
poration in December, 1895. 
Spencer, A. W. — p. 180. Died July, 1895. 
Spofford, John C. — pp. 180-182. In 39th line, ist col., p. 181, insert "Hospital" 

after " Massachusetts." 
Spraoue, a. B. R. — pp. 346, 347. In 41st line, 2d col., p. 347. date 1876 should 

be 1877. 
S\\TFr. John L. — pp. 183, 1S4. Died February 19, 1895. 
Trask, J. L. R. — pp. 351, 352. In 33d line, 1st col., p. 352, the word "Springfield " 

should be " Boston." 
WHinTN(;TON, Hiram. — p. 6x6. One of the organizers of the Beacon i'rust Com- 
pany, incorporated 1893, and member of the executive committee since its 

formation. 
WoLCOir, Roger. — pp. 103, 104. Re-elected lieutenant governor of the State in 

November, 1895. 
Woods, E. H. — p. 105. Retired from the business management of the Boston 

Herald in 1895. 
WooLF. Benjamin E. — p. 106. Retired from the editorship of the Saturday Evening 

Gazette in 1894. Now musical critic of the Boston Heralil. 



lOig 



INDEX. 



PACK 

Alilidll, Jcliii I'. 447 

Ahlioll, I. i; 107 

Abbott. John II 701 

Abbott. .S. A. 1: 9 

.\brahani, F 44,S 

- .•Vtlaiii, Robert W. .... 361 

.Vdams, Charle.s K 361 

Adams, C. F., 2d 939 

.\dams, George S 537 

Adams, Melvin 939 

Adams, W. F 275 

Adams, \V. T 10 

Adams, \Vm. \V 702 

Adams. /.. lioylston 703 

Akarman, John \ 275 

Alden, Cieorge D 44S 

.\ldeii, George N 362 

.\ldrich, S. N loS 

Alger, A. 1! 13 

Allen, Charles A 276- 

AUen. F'rank 1) 940 

Allen, I,. K 619 

Allen, Montressor T 833 

Allen, (.)rrin 1* 277 

Allen, Thomas 610 

.\mes, F'red 1 14 

.Vmes. F. M 449 

.Vmes, Oliver ....... 941 

.\mory, Charles 11 537 

.\mory, Robert 704 

.■\ndersen. Christian I' S33 

Anderson, G. \V 538 

.-\ndersson. Andrew 539 

.Andrews, Kdward R 834 

.\ngell, George T 450 

.\ngier, i.. II 943 

.\nthony, Fklmund, Jr 363 

Anthony, S. Reed 834 

Appleton, F'rancis II 704 

.•Vppleton. Samuel 109 

Armstrong, George W 16 

Arnold. Henry 363 

.-Vshley, Charles .S 364 

.'\twood, George V. 540 

.\twood, H. H 706 

Austin, James \V 621 

.■\yers, George 1) 195 

Uabcock, J. H 110 

Babcock, lames F 835 

I'.abson, T. M no 



I'Ar.K 

Bacon, Chas. X 19^ 

Bacon, Kdwin M 836 

Bailey, A. J 17 

Bailey, Dudley 1' 196 

liailey, E. \V 452 

Bailey, HoUis R 944 

Bailey, Horace 1' 365 

Bailey. James A., Jr 453 

Baird, John C 94^ 

Baker, Herbert 1 S37 

Baker, John I S37 

Baker, William H 707 

Baldwin, John S 27S 

Baldwin, William H 946 

Ballou, M. R iS 

Bangs, E. A . 197 

Barbour, William S40 

Barnard, Fxlward H 340 

Barnes, Lewis E 365 

Barney, E. 1 366 

Barrett, Harry H [^^ 

Barrett, Wm. E iS 

Barrows, R. S 341 

Barry, David F 455 

Barta, L 622 

Bartlett, Clarence S 841 

Bartlett, Nathaniel C 198 

Bartlett. Ralph S 841 

Bartlett, Wilbert -S 70S 

Bartol, Cyrus A 20 

Barton, C. C 622 

Bassetl, J. M 279 

Batchelder. Henry F 708 

Bates, Edward C 2S0 

Bates. J. 1 623 

Bates. 1.. li 456 

Beach, H. 11. .\ 709 

Beal, John V 709 

Beal, Melvin 199 

Bean, J. W 542 

Beebe, Henry J 281 

Belden, V. Flngene 842 

Bennett, l^dmund H 947 

Bennett, Joseph 21 

Bennett, J. C 200 

Benson, F'rank W 542 

Bent, Charles M 281 

Bent. William H 366 

Bicknell, A. II 624 

Bigelow, George 1! 710 

Bigelow, Jonathan 21 



fAOK 

Bigelow. Melville M 23 

Bigelow, S. .\ Ill 

Bill. Gurdon 282 

Bill, .Nathan I) 283 

Binney, .-Arthur 457 

Bixby, V. M 367 

I'.lackmer, John 283 

Blake, Christopher 458 

Blake, Francis 94S 

Blake, George F., Jr 711 

-Hteke. Harrison G 543 

Blanchard, .S. E S43 

Blanchard, .S. .S 200 

Blaney, Osgood I' 712 

Bogan, Fred B 201 

Bolster. S. A 950 

Boothby, Alonzo 712 

Borden, Alanson 369 

Bouton, Eugene 369 

Boutwell, H. 1 45S 

Bowker. Wm. H 112 

Bowles. .Samuel 285 

Boyden, .\. () 625 

Boyle, K. J 626 

Boynton, J.J 713 

Boynton, \ 459 

Brackett, K. A 371 

Brackett, J. Q. A 24 

Brackett. W. D 627 

Bradstreet, Charles \V. ''3 

Brady. James, Jr. . . . 371 

Brady, J. B 460 

Bragdon, Horace K 843 

Bragg, Henry W 25 

Breck, Charles H. B 544 

Breck, Theodore F 714 

Breed. Francis W 461 

Breed, Richard S43 

Brick, F'rancis 286 

Bridgham, Percy A 951 

Bridgham, Robert C 202 

Brigham, H. H 544 

Brodbeck, Wm. N. 7' 5 

Brooks, F'rancis .\ 25 

Brooks. John F 461 

Brooks, I'hillips S45 

Brooks, W. A., Jr 546 

Brooks, Walter C 545 

Brooks, William H 287 

Brown, Charles D 716 

Brown, Charles F S46 



I022 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Brown, Daniel E 372- 

Brown, Daniel J 847 

Brown, George A 716- 

Brown, Orlando J 71S 

Browne, A. J 203 

Brovvnell, S. A 718 

Bruce, A. K 373 

Bruce, George A 952 

Bryant, R. \V 114 

Buckingham, George H. . . . 373 

Buckingham, J. D S48 

Buckner, James 849 

Bugbee, James M 462 

Bullock, A. G 2S7 

Bumpus, E. C S49 

Bunting, \Vm. M 26 

Burdett, E. W 114 

Burdett, J. 115 

Burke, Francis 850 

Bumhani, Albert S 203 

Burr, Everett D 546 

Burrage, Albert G 8 50 

Bush, J. Foster 547 

Butler, John Haskell . . . . 116 

Butler, \Vm. M 628 

Butterworth, Ilezekiah .... 27 

Calder, \. I' 851 

Callahan, John F 463 

Callender, Henry B 853 

Camp, .Samuel 628 

Campbell. Benjamin F 719 

Candage, R. G. F 852 

Capen, E. T 464 

Capen, .Samuel B 205 

Carlson, C. E 953 

Carmichael, Henry 853 

Carpenter, Frank E 288 

Carpenter, Fred B 464 

Carpenter, George 465 

Carpenter, William II 548 

Carr, .Samuel 720 

Carrie, William A 721 

Carvill, A. H 548 

Casas, W. B. de las 722 

Cavanaugh, M. A 723 

Chagnon, J. B 629 

Chalmers, A 466 

Chamberlain, L. E 206 

Chamberlain, R. H 2S9 

Chandler, Alfred D 953 

Chandler, P. C 955 

Chapin, Edward W 289 

Chapin, Nahum 955 

Charles, Salem D 117 

Chase, A. J 631 

Chase, Caleb 632 

Chase, E. A 374 

Cheney, B. P S54 

Cheney, B. P., Jr 855 

Chick, I. W 724 

Chisholm, W. P 375 



PAGE 

dJioate, Charles F 549 

Choate, Chas. F., Jr 206 

Choate, David 550 

Church, Benjamin T 551 

Church, Walter 856 

Churchill, W. W 551 

Claflin, F. H 725 

Clapp. Robert P 552 

Clark, Benjamin C 726 

Clark. Embury I' 290 

Clark, F. E 727 

Clark, F. E 85S 

Clark, James .S 729 

Clark, Julius .S 553 

Clarke, Albert 117 

Clarke, Augustus P 554 

Clement. E. H 28 

Cleveland, L. Sidney .... 556 

Clifford, Charles W 207 

Cobb, Henry E 956 

Cobb, J. Storer 118 

Codman, Charles R 29 

Coe, Henry F 119 

Coffin. A. V> 120 

Cole, John N 632 

Coleman, C. .'\ 85S 

Collins, A. C 729 

Collins, Lewis P 208 

Colvin, J. A 859 

Coney, Hubert M 730 

Converse, E. S 731 

Converse, J. W 633 

Cook, Charles C 733 

Cook, Charles Emerson . . . 209 

Cook, Charles S 957 

Cook, Geo 210 

Cook, Joseph 733 

Cook, W. H 376 

Copeland, Alfred M 291 

Corbett, P. B 467 

Corcoran, John W 30 

Cordley. F. R. 120 

Cort, John 735 

Cotter, James E 121 

Cowles, F. M 736 

Craig, Daniel H S59 

Craig, William F 210 

Cram, Benjamin M 737 

Crane, E. B 292 

Crane, Oliver 468 

Crapo, Wm. W 211 

Crathern, C. F. Hill 470 

Crawford, Fred E 470 

Crawford, George A '737 

Crocker, George G 31 

Crocker, Uriel 32 

Crocker, Uriel H 34 

Crockett, Edward S 738 

Cronan, John F S60 

Cro.sby, W. 1 957 

Crossley, Arthur W 861 

Cummings, Eustace 739 



PAGE 

Cummings, John 958 

Cummings, Prentiss 35 

Cumner, A. B 634 

Cunniff, M. M 959 

Cunningham, J- H 112 

Cunningham, Joseph T. . S61 

Currier, F. C 377 

Currier, Benjamin 11 739 

Curry, George E S62 

Curry, S. S 471 

Curtis, Edwin U 740 

Curtis, Nelson 741 

Cashing, A. M 635 

Gushing, J. S 557 

Gushing, .Sidney 123 

Cutler, C. S 636 

Cutting, Frank A 742 

Dallin, C. E 742 

Dame, Charles C 212 

Damrell, John S 36 

Daniels, John H 213 

Darling, Charles K 743 

I )arling, Edwin H 123 

Darling, Linus 473 

Davis. Charles G 55S 

Davis, Henry G 378 

1 )avis, Horatio 744 

Davis. R. T 379 

Davis, Samuel .\ 862 

Davison, A. T S63 

Dawes, Henry 1 864 

Dean, Josiah S 124 

Dean, W. L 637 

Dearborn, Alvah B 559 

Dearing, H. L 638 

Deming, Ed. 1) 745 

DeNormandie, James .... 560 

Derby, Philander 380 

Dever, John F 745 

Devitt, E. 1 37 

Dewey, Francis H 293 

Dewey, Henry S 560 

Dickinson. Charles A 473 

Dickinson, Henry S 380 

Dickinson, M. F., Jr 38 

Dillaway, W. E. I S65 

Dillon, David M 214 

Dodge, James H 39 

Dodge, J. L 639 

Dodge, Theodore A 39 

Dodge, Thomas H 293 

Dolan. W. A 747 

Donahoe, Patrick 125 

Donnelly, Charles F. ^. . . . 866 

Donovan, Edward J 127 

Donovan, James S67 

Douglass, D. de Forrest . . . 747 

Douglass, F. P 295 

Dowd, James J 215 

Downs, H. .^shton 3S2 

Dowslcy. John F 561 



INDF.X. 



102 



PACE 

Drake. 1,. .1 215 

Dresser, Geo 748 

Driver, \Vm. K 960 

Drury, Wm. H 867 

Dudley, Henry Watson .... 749 

Dudley, Sanf Orel H 216 

Dunbar, James R 868 

Dunklee, Joshua S J17 

Dunn, I'-dwartl II 474 

Dunning, K. S 869 

Durell, Thomas .M. . . . . 750 

Dutton, .S, 1 562 

Dyer, Benjamin K 562 

Dyer, Micah, Jr 12S 

Earle, Stephen C 296 

I'^aton. William \ 382 

Kdgerly, J. C 639 

Edmonds, Louis 640 

Edwards, F. W 750 

Elder, .Samuel J 40 

Eldredge, Clarence K 217 

Eliot, Charles W S69 

Ellis, George H 870 

Ellis, Ralph W 297 

Emery. Francis F 751 

Emery, Thomas J 129 

Emery, W. N 563 

Endicott, A. 1! 383 

Endicott, Charles 641 

Endicott, Henry 3S3 

Endicott, Wm. C 21S 

Enneking, John J 753 

Ernst, Geo. A. 42 

Estes, A. S. N 754 

Evans, Hrice S 960 

Evans, Edmond A 219 

Ewing, Cleorge C 384 

Ewing, W. D 220 

Faelten, Carl 564 

Fairbank, J. II 385 

Fairbanks, L. S 961 

Fallon, Joseph 1) 130 

Farnham, Luther 641 

Farrar, Henry T 297 

Fa.xon. Henry II 43 

Faxon. William 11 754 

Fay, J. M 298 

Fay, John S 643 

Fayerweather. j. -\ 3S6 

Fenno, J. li 755 

Ferguson, W. H 871 

Fessenden, Franklin G. ... 44 

Field, Walbridge .\ 44 

Fisk, Everett 565 

Fitch, Robert ('• 45 

Fitzgerald, John F 476 

Fitzpatrick, T. B 87 2 

Flagg, H. I'eabody 476 

Flaherty, John J 873 

Fletcher, Harold 644 



I'AGE 

Fletcher, II. II 477 

Flood, Thomas W 756 

Flower, B. O ijt 

Floyd, David, 2d ^66 

Floyd, Fred C: 566 

I'lynn, Edward J 963 

For.syth, James 15 645 

Foss, E. N S73 

Fourdrinier, C. W 757 

Kowle, .\. A 46 

Fo.vcroft, Frank 47 

Franklin, .-Mbert I) 757 

Eraser, John C 753 

Frechette, Clement 7 38 

Freeman, George K 567 

French, Asa 963 

French, A. J 220 

French, Charles E 386 

French, C. L 645 

Fries, Wulf C. J 964 

Frothingham, O. B 478 

Fry, Charles C 3S7 

Frye, James N 759 

Fuller, Granville A 221 

(!age, R. W 131 

Gallison, Ambrose John . . . 368 

Gallison, J. C 7(11 

(^alloupe, C. W 965 

Gammons, I. Wendall .... 479 

Gardner, Charles L 299 

(iardner, Harrison 569 

Gargan, Thomas J 479 

Garland, Joseph 761 

(larrett, Edmund H 874 

Gaston, WiUiam 48 

(Jaston, William A 48 

(laugengigl, L M 47 

Gauss, J. 1). H 222 

(ieiger, Albert 50 

George, Elijah 30 

Ciere, Henry S 300 

Gerrish, James R 132 

(biddings, Edward F 301 

Gilbert, Lewis .\ 646 

( iill, James D 301 

Gilnian, Edwin C 968 

Gilman, Nicholas I' 51 

Gilman, Raymond R 875 

Gilmore, Dwight 302 

Gilson, F. H 762 

Ginn, Edwin 135 

Glasier, .Mfred .\ 763 

Gleason, Charles ,S 647 

(ilidden. Charles J 3,87 

Goddard, Warren 222 

Croodell. Charles 1 480 

Goodell. J. W 569 

Goodrich, Henry A 223 

(ioodrich. John li 134 

Goodspeed. J. H 134 

Gordon. .\. J 875 



Gordon, James Logan 
Gordon, John A. . 
Gowing, Henry .•V. 
Grady, T. B. J. L. 
Grant, Charles E. 
Grave.s, .Vbbott 
Gray, drin T. . 
(Jray, Robt. S. . 
Green, (ieo. H. II 
Green, Samuel S. 
Greenhalge, F. T. . 
tireenleaf, Lyman B 
Griffin, S. B. . . 
Grime, George . . 
Grover. Thomas K. 
Grozier, E. .V. . . 
Gumbart, A. S. 
Guptill. 1. C. . . 



Hackett, O. J. . . . 
Hadlock, Harvey I). . 
Haile, William H. . 
Hall, Boardman 
Hall, Charies . . . 
Hall.Eben A. . . . 
Ilallett, Albert . . . 
Halsall. William F. . 
Ham, Alijion P. 
Hamilton, li. F. 
Hamilton, S. K. 
Hamlin, C. .S. . . 
Hammond, John C. . 
Hannum, Leander .M. 
Hanscom, Sanford . 
Harding, H. L. 
Harkins, James W., Jr. 
Harlow, Louis K. . . 
Harriman, Charles II. 
Ilarriman, H. P. . 

llaxriman, J. L. 

Harris, Elbridge N. . 
Harris, Francis A. 
Harris, Henry F. . 
Harris, Henry S. . 
Harris. James G. . . 
Harris. Nelson E. 
Harris, Robert O. 
Harris, W. O. . . . 
Harrison, Frank 
Hart, Thomas \. . 
Hartwell, Benjamin II. 
Ilasbrook, Charles E. 
Ilassam, John T. . . 
Hastings, B. F. . . 
I laston, Erasmus . . 
Hatch, William E. . 
I lawkins. R. F. 
Hawkins, Walter F. . 
Hayden, Charles H. 
Ilayden. J. o. . . . 
^Tlayes. B. F. . . . 



'AGK 

877 
764 

647 
r.48 

.503 
96S 

'35 
224 
388 
304 
5^ 
53 
306 
S7S 
570 
"36 
649 
650 

878 

'37 
306 

765 
307 
38S 
969 
481 

54 
766 
482 
970 

309 
482 

3S9 
483 
309 
S79 
65, 
65. 
767 
484 
767 
310 
571 
4S4 

485 
390 
486 

487 

54 

768 

769 

"38 
652 

39' 
--5 
3" 
392 
572 
39= 
770 



Haves. Norman 1'. 



1024 



INDEX. 



I'ACK 

llaynes, John (' 573 

Haynes, Stillnian 4S7 

Haynes, Tilly, 4SS 

Heath, D. C S79 

Heath, Newton E 881 

Heckman, John F 489 

llemenway, Alfred 139 

Henderson, Charles R 652 

Henderson, John I) 88 1 

Hendry, Geo. H 490 

Heymer, J, C 653 

Higgins, Francis E 311 

Higgins, Geo. C 393 

Higginson, T. W 970 

Hildreth. John 1 574 

Hill, Arthur II 312 

Hill, Don Gleason 394 

Hill, E. N 140 

Hill, Frank A 490 

Hill, Henry B 141 

Hill, HollisB 882 

Hill, William 395 

Hill, W. S 770 

Hilton, G. W 396 

Hoag, Charles E 771 

Hobart, Arthur 575 

Hodges, E. C 8S3 

Hodges, Win. A 397 

Hodgkins, David W 654 

Hogner, Rich 773 

Holbrook, Wm 655 

Holbrook, W. E 39S 

Hoklen, Joshua 1! 226 

Holmes, .-X. R 399 

Holmes, C. 1) 142 

Holmes, Charles J 656 

Holmes, H. M 657 

Holmes, O. W S83 

Holmes, (). W., Jr 55 

Holyoke, Charles F 774 

Holt, .S. 1 774 

Homer, John 775 

Homer, Thomas J 65S 

Hood, G. E 227 

Hopewell, John, Jr 143 

Hopkins, Fredk. S 886 

Hopkins, John 776 

Hopkins, W. .S. B 313 

Horr, Geo. E., Jr 144 

Horton, Edward A ^6 

Horton. E. .S 400 

Houghton, H. O sS 

Howe, Elmer P 144 

Howe, C)scar F^ 776 

Howell, J. F 314 

Howland, WiUard 145 

"^ — FFtKl.son, John F, 972 

Humphrey, W. F 973 

llum])hreys, Richard C. . . . 576 

Hunt, P'reeman 146 

Hunt, Henry W 974 

Huntress, Geo. 1 146 



|'\(:k 

Hutching.s, George .S 492 

Hutchinson, George 227 

Hutchinson, J. F' 493 

Hubbard, O. C 576 

Hyde. Henry .S 777 

Hyde, Wm. \ 976 

Irish, J. C 659 

Ivers, .Samuel 401 

Jackson. James F 659 

Jackson, William 59 

Jackson, William B 578 

Jackson, W. H 660 

Jaques, Alden P 402 

Jaynes, C. P 228 

Jefferson, Joseph 60 

Jenks, W. .S 578 

Jenney, Wm. T 977 

Jennings, .Andrew J 403 

Jennings, C. li 493 

Jewett, H. A 661 

Johnson, A. H 662 

Johnson, Benjamin N 147 

Johnson, E. F" 663 

Johnson, E. M 229 

Johnson, George W 404 

Johnson, Samuel .\ 406 

Johnson, W. 1, 663 

Jones, Arthur E 887 

Jones, Bradford F 229 

Jones, E. .\ 778 

Jones, Jerome, 62 

Jones, Leonard A 147 

Jones, Lombard C 579 

Jordan, Eben D 978 

Jordan, Henry G. . . . . . 887 

Joyner, Herbert C 778 

Keeler, C. P 148 

Keenan, Thomas F 888 

Keith, Ziba C 406 

Kelley, .Seth W 5S0 

Kellogg, F. T 494 

Kellogg, J. E., 230 

Kellogg, Warren F 888 

Kellough, Thomas 889 

Kelly, Edward A 780 

Kelly, George R 979 

Kemble, Edward 63 

■Kempton, David B 231 

Kendall, Edward 664 

Kent, Thomas (1 316 

Kimball, Henry .\ 317 

Kimball, John W 63 

Kimball, O. A 232 

Kingman, Hosea 407 

Kingsley, C. W 7S2 

Kitson, Henry H 495 

Kittredge, Charles F 149 

Klahre, Edwin 783 

Knapp, Ira i > 890 



1'ac;e 

Kneisel, F'ranz 981 

Knight, Clarence H 891 

Knight, Horatio G 40S 

Knowles, Morris 232 

Knowlton, D. .S 2^3 

KnowUon, M. P 318 

Kraus, Robert 580 

Kress, ( ieorge y^- 

Lancaster, .S. R 5S2 

Lane, Jona. .\ 65 

Lane, W. C 891 

Langtry, A. P 318 

I.ansil, Walter F. . . . . . . 496 

Lansil, W. H 497 

Lathrop, F^dward H 319 

^r^athrop, John 66 

Larrabee, B. F 783 

Larrabee, John 409 

Lawler, William P 7S4 

Lawley, George F 892 

Lawrence, .S. C 9S2 

Lawrence, William B 410 

Leach, James E 893 

Lee, William 67 

Lesh, John H 893 

Lewis, Edwin C 665 

Lewis, Isaac Newton .... 497 

Lewis, O. E 894 

Libbey, Hosea W 583 

Libby, C . A 5S4 

Lichtenfels, William G. ... 7S5 

Lincoln. J. 1! i 50 

Lincobi, Leontinc 665 

Lindsay, John .S 49S 

Litchfield, George .\ J51 

Livermore, Joseph P 151 

Lockhart, W. L 9S3 

Lockwood, John FI 584 

Long, Charles 1 320 

l.ong, R. J 984 

Longley, H. .A 320 

Lord, Eliot 69 

Lord, Henry G 499 

Lord, Lucien 411 

Loring, George F 500 

Lovell, C. E 666 

Lovell, John P 894 

Lowe, .Arthur H 234 

Lowell, John 70 

Lowell, John, Jr 153 

Lund, Rodney 585 

Lyford, F^dwin F 321 

Lyman, George H 586 

Macdonald, Loren B 501 

Mackintire, E. Aug 413 

McClellan, Arthur D 897 

McClintock, William E. • • ■ IS3 

McClure, Frederick .\ 322 

McCollester, John Q. A. . . . 786 

McDermott, Charles N. ... 501 



INDEX. 



102: 



PACK 

McDonnell. 'I'. II 412 

McDonough, John J 5S7 

McCiannon, T. G S9S 

M'Glenen, II. A 72 

Mclntire, Charles J 73 

McKenney, Wm. A 667 

McKnight, \V. H 323 

McLauthlin, George T gS6 

Manchester, F. C Sg6 

Mann, .Vlbert W 7S7 

Marden, F. G 323 

Harden, Oscar A 153 

Marion, H. E 667 

Marsh, Charles .S 324 

Marsh, Daniel J 325 

Marsh, Henry E 325 

Marsh, William C 326 

Marshall, Wyzeman 154 

Martin, G. .V 414 

Martin, John J 7SS 

Mason, Albert 70 

Mason, Edw. P 1 56 

Masters, E. Woodworth . . . 984 

Mattson, John S97 

Maynard, Elisha B 71 

Mead, lidwin D 899 

Mead, Julian .\ 414 

Meeham, Patrick 502 

Mellen, James H 326 

Mendum, Samuel \V 78S 

Merrill, Charles A 327 

Merrill, John F 415 

Metcalf, Erastus L 503 

Miles, C. Edwin 593 

Miller, A. E 790 

Miller, Edwin C 416 

Miller, Henry F i 57 

Millett, Joshua H 159 

Mills, Asa A 791 

Mills, Frederick 792 

Mills, Hiram F 417 

Mills, W. N 792 

Miner, A. A 94 

Minor, W. L 41S 

Mixter, .S. J 9S7 

Monk, Elisha C 419 

Monk, Hiram A 235 

Monty, Albert \V 901 

Moody, \V. H 160 

Moore, Beverly K 668 

~!!trmre, Ira nr;::^- 587 

Morgan, Ernest H 504 

Morrill, George H., Jr 669 

Morris, E. F 420 

Morris, M. A 58S 

Morrison, Thomas J 235 

Morse, Charles E 669 

Morse, Elijah A 421 

Morse, F. H 589 

Morse, George W 160 

Morse, Henry C 670 

Morse, Nathan R 590 



I'ACE 

Morse. Robert M. . ... 75 

Morton. Charles 592 

Morton, J. I) 505 

Morton, Marcus 162 

Moseley, .S. R 422 

Moulton, Edgar S 423 

Mo.vom, Philip .S 32S 

Mudge, Frank II. . . . . . . 593 

Munroe, William 793 

Munroe. William A 163 

Munsell, George N 670 

Munyan, Jona 236 

Murdock, William E 671 

Murphy. James R 506 

Murray. M. J 506 

Myers, J. J 671 

Nash. Melvin S 423 

Needham, Daniel 76 

Newhall, George H 237 

Newhall, J. A 673 

Newhall, John B 238 

Newman, F. .S 793 

Newman, Louis ¥ 329 

Nichols, Charles L 330 

Nichols, John W 307 

Nichols, Thomas P 794 

Nickerson, Sereno D 793 

Nickerson, W. 1 673 

Nielson, Carl .S 9S8 

Niles, W. H 23S 

Niles, Wm. II 9S9 

Niver, James B 239 

Norcross, O. W 331 

Norris, Howes 901 

Northend. William D 240 

Noyes, Charles J 163 

Noyes, David W 240 

Noyes, Rufus K 674 

Nutter, Isaac Newton .... 241 

O'Callaghan. Thomas .... 903 

Olmstead, John 332 

Olney, Richard 904 

O'Meara. Stephen 77 

( )rdway, Alfred 508 

Osborne, William II 165 

O.sgood, C. E 242 

Osgood, Charles S 242 

Osgood, G. L 796 

Packard, De Witt C 424 

Paddock, F. K 675 

Page, George H 166 

Page, Walter Gilmaii .... 796 

Paine, A. Elliot 425 

Paine, Charles J 7,S 

Paine, Robert Treat 79 

Parker, Bovvdoin S 509 

Parker, F. W 676 

Parker, Francis S 675 

Parker, Henry L 334 



I'Ar.K 

Parker, Herbert 335 

Parker, James 243 

Parker, W. A 905 

Parker. W. E 244 

Parkhill.S. J 906 

Parkhurst, W. E 245 

Parkman. Henry 59: 

Parks. John H 596 

Parsons, Charles H 335 

Partridge, Horace 990 

Pastene, J. N 677 

Pattee, Asa F 797 

Patterson, A. J 510 

Paul, Isaac F 166 

Paur, Emil ggi 

Pearson, Gardner W 246 

Pemberton, H. A 246 

Pennock, George B 799 

Perabo, Ernst 906 

Perin, George 1 512 

Perkins, Geo. .-\ 167 

Perrin. Willard T 597 

Perry, Ba.Kter E 168 

Perry, F. D 800 

Perry, Herbert B. . . . 801 

Peters, C. J goS 

Petteiigill. John W 168 

Pevey, Gilbert A. A 247 

PhiUips, II. M 80 

Phipps, Walter .A 677 

Pierce, Charles F 678 

Pierce, John C 426 

Pillsbury, .Albert E gog 

Pinkerton, A. S 336 

Plympton, Noah A 81 

Poole, A. P gio 

Pope, .\lbert A 82 

Pope, Ale.vander 802 

Porter, E. F 426 

Posse. Baron Nils gio 

Potter, Burton W 337 

Potter, H. Staples gi r 

Powers, Samuel 1 912 

Powers. Wilbur H 169 

Pratt, Charies B 338 

Pratt, George 11 513 

Pratt, Isaac, Jr 83 

Preble, William II 170 

Price, Charles H 248 

Prince, F. 84 

Prince, Frederick H. 992 

Proctor, Joseph 171 

I'roctor, Thomas E 678 

Proctor, T. W 85 

Puffer, I.oring W 24S 

I'ushee, J. C 679 

Putnam. Otis E 33g 

•Juincy, Josiah gg3 

Ramsay. W. \\' 598 

Ranney. .\. .A 86 



I026 



INDEX. 



pac;e 

Ransom. CM 513 

Rawson, Warren \V S03 

Rawson, W. \V 514 

Ray, Kdgar K 437 

Raymond. John M 250 

Raymond, Robert F 251 

Raymond, Walter 86 

Redford, Robert 913 

Reed, Charles A 599 

Reed, James 514 

Reno, Conrad 173 

Re.\ford, Everett L 515 

Reynolds, J. B 913 

Rhodes, Marcus M 42S 

Rhodes, S. H 87 

Rice, Alexander H 88 

Rice, John L 340 

Rice, Marshall 600 

Rich, Isaac B 914 

Rich, F. U S04 

Richards, C. A 995 

Richards, De.xter N 680 

Richards, WiUiam R 915 

Richardson, Charles S05 

Richardson, W. S 68 1 

-^=^chmond, George B 429 

Richter, George M 996 

Ricker, James W 89 

Riley, Thomas 916 

Risteen. F. .S 518 

Roberts, Everest W 519 

Roberts, John H 252 

Roberts, William W 254 

Robinson, A. A 90 

Robinson, I). Frank 430 

Robinson, Frank T 516 

Roblin, Stephen Herbert . . 517 

Roche, J. J 91 

Rogers, F. A 806 

— Rollins, James W 174 

Rosnosky, Isaac 997 

Ross, Cleorge Ivison 431 

Rotch, A. Lawrence 6S2 

Rowe, G. H. M 998 

Rowell, H. V. .. . ' S07 

Rowley, Clarence W 917 

Ruggles, II. E. . - 432 

Runkle, John D 999 

Russell, Charles A 519 

Russell, C. T., Jr 254 

Russell, Frederick W 433 

Russell. William E 91 

Russell, William G 93 

Ryan, John W 808 

St. Dennis, Nelson 601 

Salisbury, Stephen 34: 

Sampson. .A. N 918 

Sanborn, !I. W 602 

Sanders, William 255 

Sanford, Alpheus 255 

Saunders, Chas. H 175 



Saunders, Daniel . 
Savage, Minot J. . 
Sawyer, Edward . 
Sawyer, E. Thomas 
Schofield, William 
Scofield, II. B. . . 
Scott, Charles .S. . 
Scott, John Adams 
Searls, William P. 
Sears, ^V. B. . . 
Sedgwick, H. D. . 
Seip, Charles L. . 
Sergeant. Chas. S. 
Shattuck, George O 
Shaw, E. P. . . . 
Shaw, Levi W. 
.Shaw, Oliver 
Shedd, William E. 
.Sheldon. Joseph H. 
Shepard, John . 
Sherman, W. F. . 
Sherwin, Thomas . 
Sherwin, William U 
Shirley, A. L. . . 
Sibley, Willis E. . 
Sidney, A. W. . . 
.Simmons, John F. 
Simpson, Frank E. 
.Simpson, James R. 
Sinclair, Chas. A. 
.Slocum, Winfield S. 
Small, Josiah B. . 
Small, W. P. . . 
Smith, A. Vincent 
•Smith, De.xter . . 
Smith, Frank Hill 
Smith, J. M. . . 
Smith, S. F. . . 
Smyth. Julian K. . 
Sohier, Wm. D. . 
.Somers, Frank D. 
Sortwell, Alvin F. 
Sortwell. D. R. . 
Soule, Rufus A. . 
Southwick, H. L. 
Spanhoofd, A. W. 
Spaulding, T. G. . 
Spear, William E. 
Spsnceley, C. J. 
.Spencer, -A. W. 
Spofford, John C. 
Sprague, A. B. R. 
Sprague, E. L. . . 
Sprague, Henry H. 
Sprout, William B. 
Stanwood, Edward 
Stearns, .A. T. . . 
Stearns, Geo. M. . 
Stearns, W. S. A. 
Stedman, George . 
Stetson, George R. 
Stevens, A. J. . 



[■m;e i>.\r,E 

434 Stevens, Benjamin F 94 

1000 .Stevens, Charles G 264 

683 Stevens, George H S16 

920 Stevens, H. E looS 

602 Stevens, (Jliver C 604 

1003 Stiles, James A 435 

520 Stillings, E. ]i 92S 

176 Stodder, Charles F 687 

343 Stone, Andrew C 438 

S09 .Stone. Willmore B 347 

6S5 Stowe, L. S 348 

436 Strain, Daniel J 816 

177 Stratton, C. C 265 

1003 Stratton, Charles E 526 

810 .Strong. Homer C 527 

256 Sturtevant, Charles 605 

436 Sughrue, M. J 182 

257 ^toHivaftr-J^Jjarigdon .... 606 
257 Swan, William D 607 

94 Swift, H. W 95 

25S Swift. John L 1S3 

1004 Swift, Marcus G. B 817 

4J7 

811 Tapley, Amos P 529 

343 Taylor, Charles H 96 

603 Taylor, E. M 607 

259 Taylor, George S 349 

920 Taylor, OUver 266 

260 Taylor, Ransom C 929 

T005 Temple, Thomas F 184 

178 Terhune, W. L 529 

Si 3 Tewksbury, Robert H 930 

686 Thayer, Charles P S18 

920 Thayer, Charles N 687 

261 Thayer, John R 350 

814 Thomas. Charles H 819 

344 Thompson, J. J 688 

1006 Thompson, X. .A 185 

521 ^ l Oi n d ike i^S. Lothrop .... 97 

178 Tilden. Frank E 819 

Si 5 Tilton, J. (.) 820 

522 Tobey, E. S 689 

523 Tobey, George L 82 1 

262 Tolman, William 439 

524 Toppan, R. W 98 

921 Tower, L. L 821 

345 Towle, Geo. II 186 

179 Train, Charles R 689 

922 Train, Samuel P 823 

180 Trask, John L. R 351 

180 Treworgy, W. H 690 

346 Truell, Byron 267 

923 Tucker, George F looS 

926 Tucker, George H 440 

525 Tucker, Joseph 441 

927 Tucker, W.E 442 

526 Turner, Ross S23 

182 Tuttle, Albert H 60S 

1007 Tuttle, Lucius 6og 

928 

263 Underwood, Herbert S. ... 98 

604 Underwood, W. Orison .... 824 



INDEX. 



1027 



PACK 

I' phalli, R. I*" 2S~ 

I'sliev, Saimiel . . ... 691 

Vaughan, Francis W 692 

Veo, Charles H 6io 

Viiial, C. .\ 931 

Vhitoii, Frederic P 530 

Vose, James W 267 

Voshell, S. S 1S6 

Wade, Levi C 1009 

Wad.sworth, P 61 1 

Wagner, Jacob 531 

Wait, William Gushing . . 1S7 

Wales, George 693 

Wallace, A. B 353 

Wallace, Rodney 26S 

Walworth, J. J 188 

Wardwell, J. Otis 269 

Warnocli, .'Vdani iSg 

Warren, Albert C 611 

Warren, J. K 353 

Warren, William F 99 

Warriner, .S. C 354 

Washburn, George A 442 

Washburn, Nathan 694 

Waterman, Frank S 824 

Waterman, George H 825 

Waterman, Thomas 826 

Watts, C. A 931 

Webber, Geo. C . 694 

Wellman, A. M 612 

Wells, Benjamin W 101 1 

Wells, Daniel W 443 

Wells. Gideon 355 



PACK 

Wells, Samuel 100 

WentHorth, George I S27 

West, Charles \ 932 

We.st. II. n 828 

Wetherbee, Isaac J 270 

Wetmore, S. A 613 

Weymouth, G. W 271 

Wheatley, Frank G 830 

Wheeler, John W. ..... 444 

Whipple, Sherman L 190 

Whitaker, George M 532 

Whitcher, W. F 614 

Whitcoml), James 695 

Whitcomb, M. II 355 

White, F. E 933 

White, Horace C 615 

White, Jonathan 272 

Whiting, Fred E loi 

Whiting, William H 696 

Whitney, S. B 829 

Whittier, Charles loii 

Whittier, D. B 616 

Whittington, Hiram 616 

Wilder, Harvey B 356 

Wiggin, Charles E 444 

Wiggin, George W 273 

Wilbar, Joseph E 273 

Wilbur, E. P 696 

Willard, Jo.seph .A 102 

Williams, (ieorge Fred .... 933 

Williams, H. I) 934 

Williams, Henry W 191 

Williams. John J 935 

Willis, C. W 533 

Willis, George D 697 



I'A(;k 

Wilson, E. V 69S 

Wilson, Theodore I' 274 

Winch, John F 1012 

Winch, Joseph R 1013 

Wingate, C. E. L 937 

Winship, A. E 192 

Winslow, J. W 936 

Winslow, Samuel 357 

Winslow, .Samuel E 357 

Winsor, Justin 1014 

Wolcott, Roger 103 

Wolf, Bernard M 1015 

Wood, Albert 358 

Wood, Charles W 445 

Wood, E. M 533 

Wood, Frank 193 

Wood, Oliver B 359 

Woodbury, Charles Levi . . . 104 

Woods, K. II 105 

Woods, .S. A 193 

Woodworth, A. S S30 

Woolf, Benjamin E 106 

Worcester, John F S31 

Wyman, Isaac C 534 

Young, Charles .A 938 

Young, J. Harvey 535 

Young, I.. J 617 

Young, W. H. .\ 699 



Zeigler, .Mfred .\rthur 



699 



.'\ddenda and Errata 1017 



